Alex Szaflarska

Ronald Reagan destroying countries from the grave. You’ve got to hand it to him, he’s got range.

Dang cancel culture.

Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane TORONTO - Eyewitnesses today confirmed reports that a pedestrian was walking in the road because a cyclist was riding on the sidewalk because a car was parked in the bike lane.

Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane

Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters Elderly woman with Alzheimer’s, medical workers and children among 6,000 Palestinians held

"Only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death.

“A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.” #VisionZero

Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them In Gaza, being a helpful, loving child can be a death sentence. Heba al-Ghussain’s nine-year-old son, Karam, was killed by an Israeli airstrike because he went to fetch water for the family, and her 10-year-old daughter, Lulu, was killed because she went to give Karam a hand. The siblings were waiting beside a water distribution station, holding jerry cans and buckets, when it was bombed last Sunday, killing six children and four adults and injuring 19 others, mostly children. Continue reading...

Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril

Tax rates on the ultra rich have been plummeting for decades, and they now pay less than the bottom half.

But it’s never enough. This is the Republican agenda. On display again tonight — as they pretend to care about the debt.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Israeli navy prepares to block Gaza-bound flotilla <article data-history-node-id="423638" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-navy-prepares-block-gaza-bound-flotilla" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-navy-prepares-block-gaza-bound-flotilla" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli navy prepares to block Gaza-bound flotilla</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="64" data-start="0">Israel’s navy is reportedly getting ready to intercept the Madleen flotilla as it heads towards Gaza on Sunday night, with military sources suggesting efforts are being made to avoid drawing widespread media attention.</p> <p data-end="400" data-start="288">The Israeli military says it has rehearsed multiple scenarios ahead of the planned operation to stop the vessel, the Israaeli daily Haaretz reported.</p> <p data-end="596" data-start="402">Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz earlier issued a warning to those on board, stating that he had ordered the army to use “any means necessary” to stop the flotilla from breaching the naval blockade.</p> <p data-end="834" data-start="598">“The State of Israel will not allow anyone to violate the naval blockade on Gaza, which aims to prevent the transfer of weapons to Hamas,” Katz said. He added, “Greta and her friends better turn back – because they will not reach Gaza.”</p> <p data-end="964" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="836">The flotilla’s organisers say their mission is humanitarian, aimed at challenging Israel’s ongoing siege of the coastal enclave.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israeli navy prepares to block Gaza-bound flotilla - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-navy-prepares-block-gaza-bound-flotilla

it doesn't work on jellyfish stings either so at some point you have to conclude there was just a very successful fetishist with a public health column

It's the provincial election dynamics all over again. Split votes in the centre and left, blue representing ridings where they don't represent the values of the majority.

Three green bell peppers cut to look like faces with wide open mouths.

♫ We’re Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ♫

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.

This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

I still wish the right split vs. the ctr/left amalgamated. I'd rather have multiple parties with different policy ideas who have to work together than to move toward a two party US-style system.
(This said, I do understand the importance of strategic voting within our current system.)

FIRST PERSON | My baby girl almost died. That's why national pharmacare will decide my vote | CBC News Scott MacMillan was relieved when doctors were able to save the life of his daughter, Rosemary, who was in diabetic ketoacidosis. But when the hospital staff asked about insurance, he was filled with ...

"Medicare saved my daughter. Pharmacare will keep her alive"

New Brunswick dad's story of why universal #pharmacare is essential to support workers, businesses and families in Canada. Beyond health care, it would provide more freedom to live and work.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli #cdnhealth

I don't think CNN knows what the word "surprising" means...

Not all progress is good.

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

Chilling but worth reading.
www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Kitchener brewery releases special brew in honour of World Down Syndrome Day | CBC News A Kitchener brewery has released a new brew for World Down Syndrome Day on Friday. The new brew was created in part by an employee of the brewery who has Down syndrome. A portion of the beer's sales w...

Happy World Down Syndrome Day!
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Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

Pierre Poilievre tweet that reads: Mark Carney has nothing but slogans. I have a plan to put Canada First.

This is almost like a George Carlin bit.

We wanted a Star Trek future, but we're getting a Star Wars future instead.

This is now the most embarrassing thing JD has done on a couch

The fuck what. Fuck the what.

"The dream of wealth...is really the dream of a better world in disguise. We want the security wealth brings, we want the freedom that comes with money...But if we fail to interrogate what sits underneath the desire to strike it rich, we risk...perpetuating the society that breeds this" loneliness.

A document header from The White House, Washington, dated 01/26/25. It is labeled 'FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE' and the headline reads: 'ICYMI: President Donald J. Trump's TRUTH on Columbia Sanctions.'"

How can you sanction a country you can't even spell.

Grumble grumble grumble

Rabbit prints in deep snow which come to a sharp stop at the point of wing and tail marks where a raptor of some kind has descended and borne it away

Rabbit: lalala I'm out for a little hop in the snow... wait

Boston, Massachusetts We were back in the city for the first time in a good while and not recognizing many of the new businesses or even the skyline itself a melancholy overrode the initial excitement of it. The criteria for my melancholy is not especially rigorous to state the obvious but I mentioned it to some friends later and we talked a bit about nostalgia for our youth and the pain of that but it wasn’t quite getting it right. I'm not pining for something that is unattainable like the past I'm frustrated by not having access to something that still exists which is the city. It's all still right there just without me inside of it. I thought of the old Bobcat Goldthwait joke: "I lost my job. Well I didn't lose it. I know where it is. There's just some other guy doing it now." The next day we walked around our perfectly nice suburban town and it was perfectly nice. I stopped to take a picture of a fire hydrant that’s in the process of being swallowed up by the overgrowth of brush on a quiet street by the river and thought of the end of the world. The criteria for me thinking about the end of the world is also not especially rigorous. It's not the same of course. Out here. Nowhere. It does not nourish me in the way the city does. Did. I need to be around people. Strangers. I long for the camaraderie of our shared indifference to one another. I wish for no one to care that I even exist. The community in that.

I need to be around people. Strangers.

I long for the camaraderie of our shared indifference to one another.

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