Flannery Dean

The kindness and decency of their father in our community is so inspiring. Truly exceptional person.

7-month-old baby Rubi and her family among victims of Ethiopian Airlines disaster | CBC News One of the youngest victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash is seven-month-old Rubi Wangui Njuguna, who was heading from her family's home in Hamilton to Kenya to meet her grandfather for the first ti...

Thinking of this loving family from my community today. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

L'etat, c'est lui.

Vetting fitness classes by chance of being filmed. Stupidest planet.

If it's not made a crime to sell your personal data and location to third parties - organizations like ICE are going to keep buying and using it

I agree with that. It was unnecessary. There’s some much to dig into with this pair of complete shits and the entire rotten edifice that sustained them that it felt petty for the pinups to catch strays.

Oh yes. She is just a ghoul.

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

“Bringing down the royal family may be the least terrible consequence of everything Andrew has done”

Stay Classy www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Electing this guy twice is really bad. But the real reason the US cannot be trusted is that it has been unable to impeach him.

Seeking ‘change that makes things bigger,’ New Democrats begin voting for next leader More than 100,000 New Democrats start voting Monday to choose the federal party's next leader, as the high-stakes contest over the direction of Canada's left-wing electoral movement enters its final

Seeking ‘change that makes things bigger,’ New Democrats begin voting for next leader

Perhaps the biggest point of interest convergence between AI and fascism is the way they exhaust people's capacity to belief in the very concept of knowable truth www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...

And Canadian Universities are rapidly increasing their enmeshment with defence projects right now. All of it should give pause.

We've got some details for you in this story, including a compiled list of all the material I found removed through access to information requests. It's mostly graphic novels, but some results are unexpected. Profiles of artists. Retelling of bible stories. Cartooning instruction books. #AbLeg #AbEd

By the book: Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order | CBC News Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramati...

What books did Alberta schools *actually* pull off the shelves in response to a provincial order? It took a lot of work to find out. We still don't have a complete picture. And some schools are still pulling material.

Free speech advocates say it's ban unmatched in Canadian history. #AbLeg By me.

To paraphrase Kwame Ture, their bigotry is their problem. Their power to inflict their terrible ideas on the rest of us is our problem.

I think people believe the point of progressive politics is to try to convince malicious, bad-faith bigots to not be violent, instead of defanging their movements and making them politically irrelevant.

It's not about "saving the souls of the lost". It's about making sure their harm is mitigated.

Fantasies about what women were/are and I am certain any previous generation of women in my family would eat me alive in terms of strength, resolve, straight-up formidability

Screenshot from NY Mag feature on how much people make in NYC: "Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

Screenshot from NY Mag feature about how much people make in NYC: "Consultant $17,000,000 $9.5 million from consulting fees $7.5 million in stock in companies that went public The big-picture way that I make my money is consulting; that work covers my day-to-day. Separate from that, I had stock in a couple of companies that went public. Because I made money later in life, my tastes and needs are a lot simpler. I don't spend money on things like having multiple homes, or flying private, or watches, or boats. I make enough money that I do what I want and I don't think about it. I also don't believe in leaving my kids a crazy amount of money because everyone I know who has that is fucked up, so why would I do that to them?"

When people in the future ask what America was show them this

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All of the ways they worked after being widowed surprise me too. My great grandmother had kids and opened a boarding house to survive! My other great gran supported her family by having people guess her weight at a circus Stronger case for their amazing ingenuity!

I collect crafting books from the early 20th century and a great many include instructions for setting up a shop inside one’s home, how to price items, etc.

Women have always worked

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

I am the same. Genealogy experience has taught me how may generations of women worked. I would be hard pressed to find any that didn’t!

Both my grandmothers worked. And my great grandmothers and so did their mothers. This fiction is so stupid I want to scream

"You can just solve every problem with brute force" -- dumb guy who has never in his life had to do that bsky.app/profile/mmfa...

Listening to Ezra Klein (that’s on me) and hearing again how Anthropic is raising Claude to be virtuous like some guy is raising his infant son to be virtuous. Absurd yes but not just on LLM side — as if parenting is anything but a daily lesson in how little is in your control

This is an active duty RCAF officer:

"For Armstrong, who is in his mid-40s, 'the ideal woman is childlike' ... Armstrong posted in a separate comment: 'The moment a girl has her first period, she is at her peak marriagability.'" [sic]

Some kind of vomit illness has arrived at my doorstep. Begging Gaia to spare me, her most vomit prone daughter

I think this war could destroy his presidency--I've never felt this about any other issue. He and his gang of nihilist greedhead idiots have finally gotten themselves into something they can't get out of. But the cost will, on every level, be staggering.

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.