just throwing it out there for Nora,
I think I disagree with you on the importance of Ukraine for Canada/the world, but I still think your questions are reasonable @nolore.bsky.social

Jaw meets floor moment when after the Daily News I hear an ad for f-ing Aramco of all things. Didn't even know they advertise to the general public, but then, I avoid most ads @nolore.bsky.social

Moments ago, Premier Danielle Smith's government made a terrifying decision and introduced legislation to suspend the charter-protected rights of transgender young people in Alberta.

Now is the time to act. Visit www.stop-smith.ca to sign our petition denouncing this draconian erosion of freedom.

If the rules of the German Constitutional Court applied to SCOTUS, 5 justices would have run out their term, and 4 of them would also have hit the age limit. @strictscrutiny.bsky.social

I'm hearing so many horror stories about Nextdoor. I don't know... my Nextdoor feed is all "cat missing", "who can paint my fence?", and "I'm starting a local group to overcome the loneliness crisis." Maybe Nextdoor isn't the problem, but that many neighborhoods are just shitty? #nextdoor

I hear no one who won for Emilia Perez said anything about trans people at the Oscars
Well, this film can go right to the poison cabinet of history (as we say in German)

Apparently Trump has decided he can't fight the Axis of Evil, so he's gonna join it

Oh I love this

I just want to point out that calls to mingle more with people of a different political opinion are a sign of privilege. I'm less inclined to engage with people who might want me dead. Feeling that as a trans person now, but I'm sure e.g. black folks have long known
@davidplotz.bsky.social

Trump has signed 10 executive orders attacking trans people in his first 16 days in office. Do not ever let anyone tell you that it's Democrats who are obsessed with trans people.

“The largest wave of illegal immigration in history was European colonialism. And this one was an actual invasion.”
-- Hein de Haas

Migration researcher de Haas is not generally polemic, he's trying to inject scientifically gained statistics into a debate largely driven by political goals

A word we need to integrate into our daily speech:
*kakistocracy*
The opposite of meritocracy, rule of the most inept

Canada has a long history of global leadership on LGBTQI+ issues, inclusive of supporting queer and trans people fleeing contexts of criminalization and violence. As America pulls back its support, Canada has a moral obligation to step up. Sign our petition now: www.momentumcanada.net/pathways

Psh, how could you possibly call Elon a Nazi? He only:

- Did a Sieg Heil at the inauguration
- Obsesses over Western birth rates
- Had grandparents in the Canadian Nazi Party
- Endorsed Germany's far-right party, AfD
- Replatformed avowed white nationalists

You triggered libs.

Earlier this week I finally got all the mail that was held up in the Canada Post strike. 7 letters, representing about as many weeks, I guess - a letter I know was sent from Germany around Dec 10, a fundraiser for Christmas presents, and a bill with a deadline of Jan 6