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How Privatized Cataract Surgery Helped Ontario’s Wealthiest—and Left Others Behind | The Local Why a routine surgery offers a window into the possible future of care in this province.

Required reading for anyone in Canada who pays taxes or uses health care. thelocal.to/cataract-sur... via @royinori.bsky.social

A screenshot from Severance showing the main characters standing outdoors in fur coats and hats, in a scene from the ORTBO (Outdoor Retreat and Team Building Occurrence), but the poster has shoddily pasted Ilya and Shane’s faces over two of them

what is the cottage if not a successful ORTBO #heatedrivalry

Easier is not usually better. This is the lie we've been sold by capitalism and colonialism. Use this thing, built with suffering and exploitation, to avoid pain. To avoid struggle. To avoid living. Dissociate through life: game, scroll, consume.

Every day, it breaks my heart seeing us like this

But turning to AI for any social use will always, *always* widen the connection gap between you and other humans. It causes social muscles to atrophy instead of growing stronger.

Those of us who see the dangers need to be offering much more support to those who are falling into it

People with more social trauma are the most likely to be enraptured by the perceived benefits of not having to put the work in to understand others and be understood by them. I completely get it, because it's *incredibly* hard work and they're unsupported

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

Landlord Quest by katbrush 2BR, 1BA, NO PETS!!!

my game Landlord Quest is finally out!!! I’m so proud of this little game and I hope you folks love it as much as I do.

Itch (Windows and ScummVM): katbrush.itch.io/landlordquest

Steam (Windows only): store.steampowered.com/app/3919720/...

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

actually I need to add catherine o’hara as the lone therapist of the town in the last of us

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

furthest ive been

N: Reykjavik
S: Mexico City
E: Vienna
W: Vancouver

describe yourself in four fictional characters

Born in the wrong generation You have gone nowhere. There is nowhere for you to go.

Now THAT'S how you write a fuckin short story.

samkriss.substack.com/p/born-in-th...

Today's the day

#deer 🦌

emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Happy birthday to Breonna Taylor. 💔

pride month is over

Me in the zoom call that could have been an email

#deer 🦌

The deer of rage and despair

#deer 🦌

Our new Prime Minister: "what if we tried austerity, that always works" (he steps into a bucket which flips up and lands on his head as he falls into a water fountain)

I'm glad the CMA speaks for me now about making sure trans youth get to live and thrive and become trans adults and elders

and

I wish I could trust them more to always say what needs to be said

I'm just sick of seeing healthcare workers and organizations being selectively vocal/brave about things rather than recognizing that injustices are in fact intertwined and doing healthcare in this world is a constant moral crisis that we can address on multiple fronts

I'm glad attempts to block trans care are being recognized as a moral crisis because they ARE and doctors HAVE to resist

AND. also. uhhhhhh can't help but think about how the Palestinian health care system has been getting razed to the ground and no one at the CMA says that's a moral crisis

"In a rare move, the Canadian Medical Association will file a constitutional challenge Wednesday alongside three Alberta doctors against the province’s legislation that limits access to medical treatment for transgender youth." [The Globe and Mail]

Canadian doctors who served in Gaza call for arms embargo, sanctions against Israel Canadian medical professionals who treated wounded Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are urging Ottawa to stop all military trade with Israel.

Canadian doctors who served in Gaza call for arms embargo, sanctions against Israel

“As a surgeon, I cannot treat a genocide. As doctors, we cannot stop a famine. So we demand that the Canadian government take meaningful action."

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Good morning from the 63 🫡

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.