The folks that say "It's not my job to protect you" are awfully happy to benefit from clean water and safe food and construction standards and all the other parts of living in a society that only exist because yes actually, it fucking is your job.

Hurl all the #UrgencyOfNormal ghouls into the fucking sun (for full article - ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…)

Utter awfulness. I can’t imagine how prevalent this type of plagiarism is if it’s happened multiple times to the same author.

I too, wish to claim I’m working real hard from the Caribbean if anyone is hiring… Scumbags all the way down.

Data can fuel stigma. If deaths fit the trends—older, ill, unvaccinated—they’re treated as explicable & dismissible. If they don’t fit—kids, vaccinated—they’re ALSO dismissed as inconvenient outliers. Either way, sympathy is scarce 8/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Any sentence really. —— I got a splinter today. Here’s why that’s bad news for Biden.

The airlines/pilots that dropped masks the second the ruling was announced are utter trash heaps. No one agreed to be stuck 1000s of feet in the air under those conditions.

It’s amazing how qanon nutjob theories have just completely invaded Florida politics to the point that politicians are willing to attack their largest industry.

Is there anyone who has showed up to a gas pump to seem ‘relatable’ that hasn’t come across as an alien from another planet?

Are we sure Florida just started banning math textbooks?

New: Andrea Horwath says if elected June 2, an #ndp govt would fully cover prescription contraception.   “For decades, people have paid a price for family planning,” said Horwath, noting vasectomies are already covered under OHIP, but not contraception. #onpoli

So to review: Online learning to prevent the spread of a deadly disease? Absolutely terrible, will destroy kids’ mental health. Online learning as an excuse to cut budgets? Absolutely critical, extremely important to kids’ learning. Glad we cleared that up.

Maybe the last day on the bird site. Going to have to get a proper news aggregator or something.