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"Call for International Doctoral Students: Short-Term Research Visit at the Social Media Lab" socialmedialab.ca/2026/02/24/c...

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

Wikimedia Commons

And I don't love the searchability of Wikimedia Commons but they have so much content.

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Yep commons.flickr.org

Public Domain Image Archive Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.

Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️

What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images?

(free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)?

Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

a perversion is under way. grotesque series of lies by a traitor and convicted felon masquerading as 🇺🇸 leader on live tv. add to that child-sex trafficking predator, rapist, murderer and that begins to describe the macabre twilight zone spectacle. #SOTU

I blame the Americans. The fall of their empire sucks up all the oxygen and exhausts all the outrage. It also shifts the window of acceptability, because it lets us say “at least we’re not as bad as them”. But in 2026 that’s a terribly low bar. Canada is captured by the rich and their corps too.

Shawn Micallef: Toronto is facing its worst police corruption scandal in decades. Here are three things that need to happen soon The corruption revealed by Project South undermines the public trust that is the foundation of policing.

Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the egregious escalation in violent Toronto police corruption in one of the biggest daily newspapers in Canada. I wrote that they are bullies & the chief should be fired. I take none of that lightly. 1/3

Aka Facebook in Canada

If you don't live in Alberta, let me explain Alberta politics to you.

1. *long sigh*
2. *incoherent mumbling*
3. *muffled tears*
4. *long sigh*

Thank you for listening.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.

One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

Why is the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board investing your money in xAI? The CPPIB has invested nearly half a billion dollars in the artificial intelligence company behind Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok. It’s a big investment with an even bigger story: lnk.to/bigstory

I'm particularly impressed that when Ford reduced/froze tuition fees, he decided that the policy corollary was "let's cut student aid"

Now that tuition fees are going up again, the policy corollary is "let's cut student aid!"

Nothing if not consistent.

This is the most Encyclopedia Brown-ass shit I've ever seen in real life and I fucking love it.

Billionaires who lobbied Trump to halt Canadian bridge praise EZ-Bribe App DETROIT, MI - Billionaire Matthew Moroun, whose family recently lobbied the Trump administration to publicly threaten the Gordie Howe International Bridge which competes with their interests, has prai...

Billionaires who lobbied Trump to halt Canadian bridge praise EZ-Bribe App

Corb Lund wants to 'save the soul' of Alberta from coal On Tuesday, Elections Alberta approved a citizen's initiative petition spearheaded by Albertan country singer Corb Lund that would force the provincial government to ban coal in the Eastern Rockies.

"Well they can drill or they can mine,
On my smouldering bones,
This my prairie,
And this is my home."

How the guy who wrote that line presents a different vision of Albertans to a world that more often sees a caricature.

City looks to redesignate part of former Kortright Waterfowl Park lands ‘The work done today really is great news as we’re increasing our parkland for our growing community,’ said CAO Tara Baker

“Following public outcry, the city is looking to grant parkland designation to part of the former Kortright Waterfowl Park.” www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/c...

A collection of six ominous bird valentines set against a background of pink hearts. In the first one, a Canada Goose looks angry and hisses and the text says "Baby, I'll make you fall head over heels if you approach within 10m of my nest." In the second, an American white pelican opens its mouth to eat the reader and the text says "There are plenty of fish in the sea, but I want this one." In the third valentine, a Black Vulture looks suspiciously at the reader and the text says "I will love you until you die. And after that, I'll love you even more." A Southern Cassowary stands proudly against the heart-covered background. The text says "My wattles are red. My head is blue. My deadly reputation has been somewhat overblown, but I'd kill for you." In the fifth valentine, a Northern Giant-Petrel stands open-billed next to a large brown furry object, and the text says "Let's seal the deal by sharing a 3000 kg elephant seal carcass." In panel 6, a happy-looking Bearded Vulture holds a bone in its beak, and the text says "I love every part of you, especially your bones."

Ominous bird valentines.

RECAP: Mayor Touts City Resilience and Future Concerns at State of the City The 2025 State of the City event at the Delta Hotel and Conference Centre is one of the first big community events of the year gathering folks from the business community, area non-profits and gove…

Coming up early this morning is the annual State of the City address live and in-person at the Delta Hotel and Conference Centre.

Stay tune for live updates, and here's what happened last year in case you missed it: guelphpolitico.ca/2025/02/06/r...

Wingham ER closed Feb 11 at 10pm until Feb 12 at 7am

Last minute closure.

Imagine showing up here with a broken arm, difficulty breathing, with a child with a high fever - and there is no help for you at your local ER.

Sylvia Jones never speaks of ER closures.

Doug Ford has chosen this for you

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA.

Sounds like Hegseth!

www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

I'm now realizing that the New York Times has also removed the page that lists who is on their editorial board.

What is going on??

Seriously, is there a list somewhere of exactly WHO is on the Post editorial board? I can only find a list of editors of the opinion section.

The title an author info reads: PANCREATIC EXTRACTS IN THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES MELLITUS PRELIMINARY RePoRT By F. G. BANTING AND C. H. BisT, Depl. of Physiology J. B. COLLIP, Dept. of Path. Chemistry W. R. CAMPELL AND A. A. FLETCHER, Dept. of Medicine, Unisersity of Toronto, and Toronto General Hospital

Banting, Best, Collip, et al announced initial results on the use of insulin to treat diabetes #OTD in 1922.

They later sold their patent to the University of Toronto for $1 each, hoping this would keep the lifesaving medication cheap and accessible. 🧪