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Social media is becoming incompatible with a healthy democratic system.

Free speech is not the freedom to violate consent. Young women's images are not public property, and their safety is not up for debate. I welcome that X is now acting to ensure full compliance with UK law – it must happen immediately. If we need to strengthen existing laws further, we are prepared to do that.

«When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others. It's the same thing when you are stupid» — Richard Feynman

Proud of my dear friend and mentor, @SimonMillson, whose contributions to the LGBT+ community across the UK and the Commonwealth long preceded their official recognition — now marked, fittingly, with an OBE by King Charles III in the New Year Honours

Meta blocks me from posting the link to this story but doesn't stop ads for unregulated drugs. Makes no sense.

“In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature…” Hamlet Act III Scene III William Shakespeare

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” J.R.R. Tolkien

The great Oscar Wilde died on this day in 1900: “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

Tragic news. RIP Colleen, a legendary curler and proud Atlantic Canadian

JFK's last words--Notecards for ending of his undelivered speech at Austin political dinner, which was to have been held on November 22, 1963:

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -John F. Kennedy

Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, which at the first are scare found to distaste, but with a little act upon the blood, burn like the mines of sulphur.

Canada polices country-of-origin labels for boots and berries but not for the policy advice that shapes our laws. Ottawa may think they're "buying" Canadian advice but the reality is much more complicated. Read more in The National Interest: app.cyberimpact.com/newsletter-vie…

Saw an absolutely divine performance last night of Dvořák’s Symphony No 9 by the @NACOrchCNA, majestically conducted by the inspired Xian Zhang

Carney urged by coalition of experts, public figures to bolster digital sovereignty, scrap strong borders bill theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

Snow leopard in Ladakh, India

The finance minister says Canada won’t put a hold on its digital services tax on big tech companies, set to take effect on June 30 ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/06/19/cha…

Wouldn’t it be nice if they lived forever? RIP Brian

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." ~ Robert Frost

“Today, Canada faces another critical moment. Democracy, pluralism, the rule of law, self-determination and freedom are values which Canadians hold dear, and ones which the government is determined to protect,” the King said. via @FT #cdnpoli on.ft.com/3Hgd16U