James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

2 types of cats

#Caturday

X has taken its stance. Nazis on the platform are allowed. Pro-Hitler posts are allowed. Holocaust denial is allowed.

If you stay on a platform like that, you can't escape this creeping normalization. Even if you think you can.

"Oh, there goes another Holocaust denier. Just part of being online, I guess."

"Oh, another transphobe calling people dehumanizing slurs. Well that's the Internet for you."

Creeping normalization is like advertising. Even if you think it won't influence you, it will.

“You there, boy, who’s the CEO of OpenAI?”

‘The report finds that it would take about 1,500 years for someone in the bottom 99% to produce as much carbon as the richest billionaires do in a year.’

Please #Starmer have the balks to call #Sunak out on this.

Today, two-wheeled EVs "are actually displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars at present"

Also,
"If you commute on an e-bike 20km a day, five days a week, your charging cost would be about $20 – annually. "

https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870

"This province is 1000x better since I took over" - Premier Ford

#Ontario's patient ombudsman has received the highest number of complaints in the office’s history —including the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

#dougford #onpoli #bill60

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/billing-for-uninsured-services-and-access-to-primary-care-highlighted-in-over-4k-complaints-to-ontario-ombudsman-1.6645662

If you've ever wondered if anyone ever reads the Alt Text you add to your photos…

A few days I posted a photo which included a pun in the Alt Text and since then I've now received a bunch of notes about the joke. Which is delightful. Folks are reading 'em, so keep on writing the Alt Text.

The conger eel will hide in rough terrain to ambush lesser prey

The conga eel just does this stupid line dance until it dies

House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNBC's "Squawk Box" that he believes the founding fathers intended to keep government out of religion, not the other way around. "The separation of church and state is a misnomer, people misunderstand it," Johnson said. https://t.co/6ervfSb5hD

While Christine Elliott was #Ontario health minister (2018 - 2022), the province's annual payments to the private Clearpoint - Don Mills Surgical unit QUADRUPLED. Her current lobbyist registration says her goal is to "engage the provincial government in updating & increasing the base funding amount available to Clearpoint."

#dougford #bill60 #onpoli #ontario #profiteers

A public #Ontario hospital gets $508 for a cataract surgery but private hospital, Clearpoint Surgical, gets $1,264 to do the same job.

Good job, lobbyist Christine Elliott

#SARCASM #onpoli #bill60 #profiteers

"Donald Trump wouldn’t be a problem if he were just one man yelling into the wind. Donald Trump is a problem because millions of Americans back him — because millions of Americans can’t spot a con man, also want a politics of viciousness and cruelty, may happily turn on their neighbors and friends and family members."

~ Jill Filipovic

#Trump #fascism #democracy #violence
/1

https://jill.substack.com/p/hey-lets-not-elect-a-guy-who-sounds

What questions keep your characters up at night?

#WritingTips #AmWriting #writing #authodons

OFFS.

I just read a headline in my LA Times about how anti-vaxxers also don’t want to immunize their pets against rabies.

The stupidity, cruelty, and recklessness of that mindset is beyond jaw dropping.

Both humans and animals need protection. #ProLifeMyAss, you total deluded idiots who believe otherwise.

From comments I see people don't understand how taxes work.

If a top tax rate is 90% on 1 million dollars or pounds, you do not pay 90% on the entire million dollars or pounds, only on dollars or pounds you make ABOVE that million.

So if you make a million pus one, your tax is 90 cents or pence. NOT 900,000 dollars or pounds.

Also if you are a hedge fund manager who makes 1 billion a year, you "only" get to keep 100 million. That makes me so sad. The entire world weeps for you.

#taxes

"When [Christine Elliott] was Health Minister, Clearpoint Surgical, a private for-profit hospital, got a 278% increase in funding.
She didn't run again in 2022 so went directly from being a Minister who shovelled public money to a for-profit company, right onto their board (a la Mike Harris)
This should be illegal.

💥​ ...and, we should note: did your local PUBLIC hospital get a 278% increase in funding? No it did not."

- #Ontario Health Coalition Advocacy Group
#DougFord #Bill60 #onpoli