Elizabeth Godfrey

What a horrible day to be literate.

I maintain that we’re in an era of politics where people are desperate for an ounce of authenticity and well-meaning politicians are painfully slow on the uptake.

Really curious how Alberta plans to hire 3000 more teachers after dropping a nuclear bomb on labour rights and signaling that collective bargaining is entirely useless.

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

highkey, this subscription drive will basically determine if we turn a profit in our first year, and whether or not we can pay ourselves for all of our work this year. we've put thousands of hours into this and we're so close.

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4 Oct 25 - Free: Truth and Reconciliation Double Feature Documentary Screening | October 4th

The Downtown Core Neighbourhood Association in #yyc is co-presenting a free evening of Indigenous storytelling, with screening on Saturday of two films, and a conversation with the director.

You can find out more details and RSVP at the link here.

downtowncoreneighbourhood.ca/event/free-t...

Analysis | America’s best decade, according to data When pollsters asked Americans when America had the best economy, most moral society or best music, one variable best predicted their answers. It wasn’t race, gender or politics.

There is also ample survey data that people of any age identify the time period when things were best, e.g. the Good Ol Days, as whenever they were 10-15 years old.

They weren't the Good Ol Days, they're whenever you were a kid. That's what you miss: being a kid.

I am *begging* these dudes to put down their egos and just get a good therapist.

Fell down a rabbit hole re: tiktok evangelicals believing the rapture is happening on Sep 23rd or 24th.

So these folks really believe they will just all…disappear? Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Men gotta fix men. Men gotta stop being so fragile and develop themselves from the inside out. Very simple rules. Treat women as people instead of tools to a comfortable existence or advancement

Im surprised that people are surprised as to why there’s a huge political gender divide that we see today.
I got an answer: women gained power, men felt threatened that their place on top of the hierarchy and the intrinsic power that came with it is gone
The reason there is more racism is the same

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right? But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, "So, you've decided to join us"? Or when someone does something they've had trouble doing, say, "Why can't you do that all the time?" (Happened to me, too often.) Or any sentence containing the word "finally". If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don't complain about how it's not enough. Don't bring up previous stuff. Encourage it. Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

I didn’t think his net worth was ever that high. I’m sure he’s right in there, too.

I was thinking more along the lines of Frank Stronach

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

This is the reframe I didn’t know I needed. Thank you, legitimately.

Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."

Has anyone ever asked these “humanity is stagnant” billionaires like Musk and Thiel why quality of life and/or happiness is never considered a factor of human progress? Chasing societal collapse for faster tech advances isn’t going to make them feel better on the inside.

You don’t have to love Newsom. I certainly will not vote for him in a primary.

But trolling Trump works. Everyone should do it all the time.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

I wonder if the Feds announcing an investigation into unpaid work suddenly lit a fire under Air Canada

Here Comes the Sun: Bill McKibben on Solar’s Breakout Moment Why getting most of our power from solar and storage is no longer a distant hope but the fastest, cheapest, most common-sense way to power our world.

Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for this perspective:

Opponents argue renewables take up too much land.

The math tells a different story:

1 acre of corn for ethanol fuels an F-150 for ~25,000 miles.

1 acre of solar panels powers an F-150 Lightning for 700,000 miles.

That’s not even close.

Denial/freeze is the legitimate first phase in an acute crisis (followed by a discussion/decision phase, then action), but I don’t know how directly that translates to things on a societal level. Length is usually determined by an individuals previous experience in crisis situations.

Giving your baby hip dysplasia to own the libs

It’s a fake book literally made to be decor and I want off this timeline

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

Just got back from Europe, where gorgeous third spaces and generous public services abound. Americans are so terrified that The Undeserving might get something that they'd rather have nothing for anyone. Why THAT is the case is another question.

But probably racism.

“Another officer says, ‘They’re starting to resist more now,’ to which an officer replies: ‘We’re going to end up shooting some of them.’”