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Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.

Please take it to heart and take action.

Brain train game may help protect against dementia for up to 20 years Adults who played a specific type of cognitive speed training were found to have a dramatically lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s, new research finds.

Brain train game may help protect against dementia for up to 20 years www.nbcnews.com/health/aging...
Adults who played a specific type of cognitive speed training were found to have a dramatically lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s, new research finds.

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund made $247 billion in 2025, driven by tech and banking rally Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund holds stakes in many of the world's biggest companies, including Apple, Nvidia and JPMorgan Chase.

Imagine if every Canadian had $500K of common wealth invested in the upside of global economic prosperity, like every Norwegian enjoys.

We are a nation of vast resources.

www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/n...

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion article titled “A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work,” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A subheading says evidence from programs around the world suggests basic income does not make recipients lazier. Below the headline is a photo of several women sitting outdoors at a table working.

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."

Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Actually it would be unusual for things to not be dark, chaotic, and terrifying as the machinations of a system based on a worldview that doesn't fit how the actual world works comes to its logical conclusion and as that systems experiences an age of consequences.

These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments.

One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

Imagine if, say, a single rock song, or a comic book, or a role playing game, or a video game, or horror movie, a chocolate bar, a toy, or, say, a person like a librarian or teacher, had an actual direct causal body count like this.... Imagine the furore, the witch hunt in the press, the outrage...

Made a new playlist

Fish With A Knife's Commissions Commissions Open! Click to see Fish With A Knife's commission menu.

Friendly reminder that I take #artcommissions and that I have a Ko-fi. Feel free to message me to talk prices before you even think about throwing money at me
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Price sheet for sketches, ranging from fairly rough with support lines, to fully colored. Each stage depicts a waist-up drawing of the same avian humanoid that resembles a cross between a hawk and a crow wearing a sleeveless robe or tunic. The fully colored version has feathers similar to that of a black-eared kite, which are a rusty brown with white feathers mixed in around the head and face. The tunic is a powder blue with a dark blue obi without a visible knot. Stage one is listed as "Rough $10 USD". Stage two is somewhat more refined but still has rough lines and is listed as "Cleaned $15 USD". Stage three has more clean bold lines with clear details and is listed "Refined $30 USD". Stage 4 is the fully colored version with shading and colored details, listed as "Full Color $$50 USD".

Slapping down some #art commissions and hoping for the best here. See me on Ko-fi or just send me a message here so we can talk about it~ ko-fi.com/fishwithakni...

Prime Minister Carney’s 1st 100 days, a must-watch video by the Breach. It is 6 minutes so I can’t post the whole thing, #cdnpoli

🔗: vm.tiktok.com/ZMS98KQHm/

Note to freelancers: I'm open to pitches for @nationalobserver.com! We pay pretty well, and we're flexible with timelines for assigned stories. I don't need a long pitch — think 2 paragraphs — but please give an idea of what your story is.

Some recently published freelance pieces:

A map of northern north america overlaid with the Environment Canada weather warnings for June 6 at 2:30pm MDT. There's a patch of southwestern BC from Vancouver Island to the Okanagan interior coloured grey. A huge stretch of the provinces is coloured red through northern BC, northern Alberta, Northern Saskatchewan, Northern and central-eastern Manitoba, Western Ontario, and north-central Quebec with serious air quality warnings. Parts of northern BC, northern Alberta, northern Ontario, southern Ontario including Toronto and Ottawa, southern Quebec including Montreal, and the Atlantic Provinces (New Brunswick and Labrador in particular) are coloured grey with air quality warnings. A small patch of Nova Scotia in the south-east of Canada on the Atlantic ocean is coloured yellow with a severe thunderstorm watch. All these air quality warnings are due to wildfire smoke.

So... every single weather warning on this map except the grey in the southwest corner of BC (early season +30C heat) and the yellow in Nova Scotia in the south east on the map (severe storm watch) is about wildfire smoke.

#CdnPoli #CdnWx #Wildfire

Kelowna Companies Won’t Run Pro-Choice Billboards | The Tyee The crowdfunded campaign aims to counter anti-abortion billboards in the region.

A UBC student has raised $3,000 to make a billboard that says “Abortion is safe, normal and common” to counter the anti-abortion billboard messaging that peppers the Okanagan region.

But she’s stumped on where to post her message. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. 🪧

Fluoride to be reintroduced in Calgary water starting next month | CBC News Fluoride will be reintroduced in Calgary’s drinking water starting June 30, about three-and-a-half years after Calgarians voted in favour of fluoridation in the October 2021 municipal election.

While RFK Jr. is fighting against fluoride in drinking water, the city of Calgary in Canada already made that mistake and is bringing it back this month. Back in 2011, Calgary voted to remove flouride, but childhood cavities rose and 10 years later in 2021, 62% of voters asked to bring it back.

Hard to think of a clear depiction of climate politics in Canada than provincial premiers calling for more pipelines and deregulation of oil and gas development as climate-amplified wildfires rage in their own provinces. #cdnpoli

Premiers united in belief that the best way to stand up to Trump is doing what they've always wanted to do anyways SASKATOON – As they gather with PM Mark Carney for the meeting of First Ministers, the Premiers of Canada’s provinces are steadfast in their belief that the best way to oppose Donald Trump’s tariffs a...

Premiers united in belief that the best way to stand up to Trump is doing what they’ve always wanted to do anyways

“First Ministers recognized the devastating impact the toxic illegal drug supply is having on Canadian communities…”
Continues on to a law & order response, no mention of the social supports needed to solve this crisis.

“First Ministers agreed that Canada must work urgently to get Canadian natural resources and commodities to domestic and international markets, such as critical minerals and decarbonized Canadian oil and gas by pipelines…”
Decarbonized oil and gas? What the…

First Ministers’ statement on building a strong Canadian economy and advancing major projects “First Ministers expressed their deep concern regarding the wildfire situations across Canada, including in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and pledged to continue to provide assistance and suppo...

First Ministers’ statement on building a strong Canadian economy and advancing major projects

Here's the moment MPP Sol Mamakwa for Kiiwetinoong was removed from the legislature. He was removed for saying the Premier is telling "untruths" about First Nations and Bill 5. "That is the truth,” he replied when he was asked to withdraw his comments.

Bill 5 must be scrapped.

#onpoli #bill5

How Carney Can Actually Reduce Violent Crime | The Tyee Instead of overreliance on policing and incarceration, Canada’s new PM should lead with these proven and effective actions.

If tougher prison sentences and more cops reduced violent crime, then U.S. cities would be the safest in the world — they are not.

#cdnpoli #canada

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Canada achieved #measles elimination status in 1998. Now, it could lose it. Canada has more measles cases right now than any other country in the Americas, by Alison Northcott www.cbc.ca/news/health/....

Opinion: We need to better equip young people to deal with toxic-drug overdoses A B.C. coroner’s inquest makes sensible recommendations that should have already been in place to address a crisis that disproportionately affects young adults

“People do drugs, especially young people. The least we can do is equip them with harm-reduction tools.

Because if there is a chilling lesson to retain from Sidney’s tragic story, it’s this: it could just as easily have been your kid in that dorm room.”

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

A Fresh Opportunity to Get Elections Right | The Tyee BC has launched a special committee on electoral reform. Twenty years ago, the BC Citizens’ Assembly made a bold recommendation.

B.C. has launched a special committee on electoral reform.

Twenty years ago, the BC Citizens’ Assembly made a bold recommendation. Antony Hodgson explains. #bcpoli

Impaired driving messaging needs to reach young men, says MADD Canada CEO, following deadly Toronto crash | CBC News The head of MADD Canada says it's important for key messaging in preventing impaired driving to reach young men, as a 19-year-old man faces a dozen charges, including multiple counts of impaired drivi...

Young men hard to reach about impaired driving risk, MADD says after deadly Toronto crash. Man, 19, faces a dozen charges after deadly crash on Highway 401 kills siblings aged 15, 13 and 6, by Sara Jabakhanji www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca ##alcohol #DUI

Democracy Is Under Siege Globally. Canada Is Being Tested | The Tyee How the well-honed playbook for whipping up authoritarian populism is being employed here and around the world.

Until MSM talks about the International Democracy Union & their membership, past & present, democracies around the globe will continue to be threatened by far-right fascism
They fact that only small, independent outlets even admit they're real is troubling
#cdnpoli
#USpoli
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Sanctioned for Misinformation, This Doctor Keeps Spreading It | The Tyee Roger Hodkinson admitted to professional misconduct. But persists in broadcasting falsities about vaccines.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta says it was unaware, until informed by The Tyee, that Dr. Roger Hodkinson continued to publicly make statements that were “inconsistent with accepted public health medicine guidelines.”

@charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli

Léger: Two-Thirds of Alberta Voters Reject Separatism New data shows most Albertans still reject independence, despite sharp discontent with Ottawa.

Léger Alberta poll: "Indicate how much you support or oppose the following proposals: Alberta becoming a U.S. state."

🔴80% Oppose
🟢17% Support

[Léger, May 9-12, 2025, n=1,000] ↓ www.338canada.ca/p/leger-two-...