James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:

- NASA: @nasa 71K followers
- ESA: @esa 1.4 followers

There's an unfulfilled demand for public institutions to communicate on open and independent platforms.

#nasa #esa #space #mastodon #fediverse

Pardon?

Premier Doug Ford has just announced that his Ontario conservative government will open a "regional office" in #Ottawa.
It will be staffed by Sean Webster, the defeated Ontario PC Party candidate who lost last summer's Kanata-Carleton by-election to Liberal candidate Karen McCrimmon.

👉 Sean Webster, is a former Shoppers Drug Mart executive.

#SeanNeededAJob #gravytrain #onpoli #DougFord

Have you tried eating nachos about it?

2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.

4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.

891,488 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and worship Trump as God-King.

Naheend Nenshi quotes:

"Are the actions of the Alberta UCP malice or just plain incompetence?"

"The Alberta UCP is like a dog chasing a car that suddenly caught it - they have no idea what to do next."

I’m glad Kristi Noem is getting hate for killing a dog, as she should be, and I want to make sure folks know she’s terrible for lots of other reasons too

-Cutting lunch programs for low income kids
-Making SD hostile to trans people
-Banning abortion
-Racism

And much more. She’s vile.

I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...

But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

American neo-Nazis are stupider than you can even imagine.

Via Politico:

Economic advisers close to Donald #Trump are debating ways to devalue the U.S. dollar if he’s elected to a second term — a dramatic move that could boost U.S. exports but also reignite inflation and threaten the dollar’s position as the world’s dominant currency.

"New Highway 416 interchange in Barrhaven will be a 'game-changer'": Sutcliffe

I'd like to know what's going to change. We'll spend hundreds of millions for 10,000 people to think that they are getting home 30 seconds earlier.

Why couldn't this money be doesn't solving an actual problem? Maybe house some homeless. Maybe feed some starving people. Taking care of people in a bad situation - now that's a game changer.

Catering to people with 2 vehicles each of which is worth $80k along with a house worth $800k isn't changing the game. It's playing the game the exact same way.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/new-highway-416-interchange-in-barrhaven-will-be-a-game-changer-sutcliffe

POLL: How do you get your coffee?

One of the funnier things I’ve seen today.