Jamie

Canadian govt officials dislike public access to info. Very simple.

“When women lack economic security, their choices are limited and so are the opportunities available to their children. …

Questions are often raised about cost. … Poverty is expensive. Our current approach is focused on responding to emergencies rather than preventing them.”

On this International Women’s Day, I cannot stop thinking about all the girls in Iran, in Sudan, in Gaza, and so may places — girls whose lives were snuffed out in conflicts they played no part in, before they could ever become women.

And I am thinking about their mothers.

And also,

That ship did get unstuck.

Every day I log online and think they should really have put more money in the education system so I wouldn't be so stupid as to log online everyday

Yep.

Hops on two feet. Education especially at k-12 as such expansive spillovers (externalities) that if someone had had any training in economics (cough) they’d know that it should be funded by revenues not tied to local property

Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.

What stage of the apocalypse is this?

polymarket.com/event/nuclea...

Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

It's like they threw a book about the Iraq war into a washing machine and they're just pulling out pages at random.

"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.