Chris Dennison 💉💉💉

@rwalker_yyc God Bless this Country, 20oz is the legal definition of a pint. Short pours are not legal under that name. ic.gc.ca/eic/site/mc-mc…

dog: [brings sticks inside] me: no that belongs outside me, at Christmas time: [brings entire tree inside] dog: what the actual shit is this

#Ableg News 🧵 This week was typical for the @UCPCaucus: HORRIBLE! 😡- An AHS Board Member Calls Smith Out! (Story #1) 😞- Five Stories About Alberta’s Health Care Crisis (#4-9) 📉 - Alberta Makes International News [For Bad Reasons] (#16) Here’s 16 Bad News UCP Stories!

In conversations w/ well-intentioned folks “disgusted” by visible poverty & now supporting violent policed responses, I’ve stopped trying to “teach.” A different tactic: Asking questions. Have seen how pondering/answering questions forces people to think more. Some examples:

@Finite_Elephant Hey the Rob, have you found your way over to a new place yet? I'm on my way over to Mastadon.

math twitter: log😅 = 💧log😄 💬27k 🔁360k ❤️9M

@dipbrat70 @TristinHopper I like your list far better. It has facts, those are nice.

@TristinHopper "Based on data from the 2021 Census of Population, the poverty rate in Canada was 8.1% in 2020, down from 14.5% in 2015. Poverty declined among all ages, but especially so for children. In 2020, the poverty rates of children aged 0 to 5 years (9.1%), 6 to 10 years (8.5%) and...

Paul Martin handed off a pretty good government to Stephen Harper, who then did the same to Justin Trudeau. But for whoever next takes the helm, it takes effort to think of something that isn't exponentially worse than it was in 2015.

A famous researcher predicts divorce with 91% accuracy. He invented a game to protect against the #1 relationship killer. Here it is (in 3 minutes):

.@elonmusk Trent Reznor and Jack White are out of here. But worry not dear overlord, you still have your fascist knights of dumbfuckery: Trump, Chachi, Kid Rock, and Kevin Sorbo.

I have a funny Trent Reznor story and I'd like to share it now in remembrance of him nuking his account. If he is still lurking somehow (Uncle T was a master lurker), I hope he's okay with me telling it.

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor is planning to quit Twitter: "We don't need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything." cos.lv/LyJe50LJ3nj

@paulisci Can't drive cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

A List of Things People Blamed on Rock 🧵

@Cordelia_K_ @DrJayDrNo Oof. This is dark, and so true.

It's one month since Danielle Smith was sworn in as Premier. Here are a few things she's done IN ONE MONTH. #ableg 🧵 1/15

@ZoeSchiffer Today, on 'Who wore it best'...🤔

@ZoeSchiffer @MuellerSheWrote

@thebax33 @Suzanne14344621 @ZoeSchiffer @MuellerSheWrote

🧵 Here’s the thing, when the Sask Party govt introduced their unconstitutional essential services legislation in 2007 they argued it was to insure health and safety of the public. When the SCC struck it down and declared the Right-to-Strike was constitutionally protected … 1/5

Free speech for me, not for thee.

heY I GuiZe, fReE SpeAcH Iz my tHinG

What do we have today? A ton of unexplained child illness in the first cold/flu season since we let COVID rip. Hmm. We have known since 2020 that COVID harms interferon production, a protein that your cells release to call the immune system for help when they are attacked. 8/19