N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 5hThis whole thread, up and down. I am so sick of the "we'll justify absolutely anything including deliberate species extinction, radical acceleration of an already crisis-level climate problem, undermining laws that protect our *lives*, & massively increasing wealth inequality" mentality I'm seeing. 000
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 5hSo this month the Toronto Sun published a piece about the Allison Inquiry that called vaccines "a crime against humanity at worst" and demanded arrests, and the National Post published a piece deeming Avi Lewis not just an enemy but a danger to Jewish people, with a thinly coded appeal to violence. 913555
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 6hI could not be less interested in something 'created' by nobody. The whole point of art is human expression. The whole point of experiencing art is connecting with another human's ideas. I don't know what killed the souls of these people but it's really fucking grim. 1218
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 8hOn Sept. 30, 1958, Canadian children were treated to a new show. It featured a giant who told them to "look up!...waaaaaay up!" For the next 27 years, the show was a fixture on CBC and is beloved to this day. This is the story of The Friendly Giant! 📸 CBC 🧵 1/12 616341
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 8h'House leader Steven MacKinnon told reporters...that cabinet would not use the measures "if there are health hazards attached to them."' If that were true, then why introduce this new law in the first place? And why are they meeting regularly with pesticide lobbyists? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caCarney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides | CBC NewsThe federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed u... 031
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 15hThis is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels. 1227091
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 11hAll this and we need no more stories of men getting away with sexually assaulting women. We need more stories of men having the weight of justice slam down on them for assaulting women. #NOMORE 25313
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 23hLook, Ontario. Our healthcare system cannot withstand anymore funding cuts. People will die. And Ford will cut up the carcass of our once functional system and sell it off to the highest bidders, and then none of us except the millionaire class will ever be able to get healthcare again. 2910
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 23hAnd surveil your neighbourhood, your house, your kids, and you while they're at it. At what point do we get to say "enough of this utter shit" and make these companies STOP? FFS, we should be allowed to exist in this world without being subject to being recorded EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME. 😡 020
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 15183411487
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Worth highlighting the difference between worker deaths at Cargill and the silence on everyday practice in healthcare: when OHS failures kill nurses, no one cares. Hospital IPC owns OHS, controls diagnoses and treatment, does their own body counts - and buries their own mistakes. #polisky #cdnpolicalgaryherald.comProtecting HCWs and patients: An impossible fix, or an essential one?As of March 2022, 12 AHS HCWs had died from COVID-19. Presumably, this hasn’t stopped, but AHS stopped reporting them as of that date. 25422
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 29/09/2026books! free event with dozens of local authors! kwwritersalliance.com/booktoberfest/ 0105
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For real! Why I need this machine to check if I wrote something. Why doesn't the machine go choke on slop. 2264
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends. 523240729
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Don't roll your eyes, Canada. There have been efforts here, recently, to tie funding for universities to percentage of "successful" graduates employed within a certain amount of time and making a certain amount of money. 100
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hey #Ottawa -- if you're doing the mail-in voting thing for the upcoming election, remember that package has to be back in their hands by October 16th, over a week before the actual election date, or it won't be counted. If you know who you're voting for already, get those ballots in! #vote 156
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i hate how we *regressed* on this even though covid is still fucking everyone up (also being sick is gross why do you want that) 07128
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:science.orgNASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of fundingDecision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say 16650398
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What a surprise. /sarcasm/ “Since the provincial government has prioritized for-profit surgical and diagnostic delivery over the expansion of public sector capacity and improvement, wait times are generally increasing in Ontario.” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...ctvnews.caWait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: reportOutsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday. 165
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Missed this one when it came out. This country never 🤬learns. Every time we sell off our assets to the private sector it ends up costing us dearly. Harper sold off our only vaccine lab, and then we had a pandemic and thought "oops". This won't be any different. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...thetyee.caCarney Is Selling Off Canada’s Publicly Owned Tech Gem. Why? | The TyeeLeading the charge is Build Canada and a broligarchy of AI boosters. Second in a series. 022
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026*** Ontario Virus Update | Sep 27 *** Hospitalizations due to COVID increased from 39 to 44 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations increased from 31 to 34 and RSV jumped from 1 to 18. 🧵1/ #Ontario #Virus #COVID #Hospital #Wastewater 13323
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Screw these companies if they go this route. Start manufacturing generics. 😡 "...it's not sufficient for the administration for prices to be lower in the U.S. There's also a deep desire at the highest levels of the executive to raise prices outside the U.S, too." www.cbc.ca/news/health/...cbc.caTrump’s ‘most favoured nation’ drug pricing policy could raise costs for Canadians, experts warn | CBC NewsTo avoid triggering massive U.S. price cuts, pharmaceutical companies now incentivized to protect their larger U.S. profits by raising prices elsewhere, drug policy experts say. 110
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hadn't considered this aspect of climate change fallout, but I should have, given how much the frustration of failed harvests is affecting me as a hobby gardener. The all-out stress on farmers, whose livelihood depends on their harvests, must be astronomical. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...ctvnews.ca‘Pretty bleak’: Why this year’s delayed harvest is pushing farmers to a breaking pointCanadian farmers are known for their resiliency and the optimism they find in the saying “there is always next year.” But hope is drying up as producers face record-high fuel costs and drastic delays ... 161
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892863055
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“It’s not pervert glasses, it’s a tiny fuzzy pervert you wear around your neck because you trapped him in a tiny pervert cage. It’s not weird. He likes the cage, if you know what I mean. Now come over here and let him have a good look at you.” 11310128
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Marc Alessi @marc-alessi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For the next year, we can expect to see precipitation and other weather extremes unlike anything we’ve seen before. Why? When the oceans are warmer, thanks to climate change and the developing El Niño, they release vast amounts of moisture into the atmosphere, which act as extra fuel for any storm. 1165
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"I think everybody is getting used to this war. I don't know what has to happen for us to make it to the front pages. We are dying every single day in the middle of Europe... We are very, very exhausted." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caUkraine's winter warning to Canada: Help us keep the lights on | CBC NewsWith Russia intensifying attacks on Ukraine's power, water and sewage systems, Ukrainian lawmakers are asking Canada to help fund desperately needed electrical transformers before winter. Their warnin... 141
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I remember in 2020 we basically solved poverty for about six months, and a lot of rich people were immediately determined to make sure that could *never* happen again. 17024
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Missed this one last week, but glad to see more media talking to @mark-ungrin.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...ctvnews.ca‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcherUniversity of Calgary professor Mark Ungrin has dedicated years of research highlighting what he believes is of significant concern to all Canadians’ health. 083
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026PSA: #Ontario... asked the SDM pharmacist about COVID shots this morning and was told they haven't received any information and don't even know if shots will be available this year. This directly contradicts what the Ministry’s Ontario Public Drug Programs told me. Call/email your MPP today. 010
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can confirm. (Except for the concert part. Can't remember last time I went to one.) 030
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I haven't been sharing much lately but here is the after work swarm. 910218
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026No one could have foreseen this. 36822
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026:( www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...cbc.caRobin Williams's daughter Zelda slams deepfake video of her dad | CBC NewsZelda Williams has taken to social media to defend her father, the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, and debunk AI-generated deepfake videos that appear to show him discussing conspiracy theorie... 010
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/ 91121082094
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026How... does one get arrested for *trespassing* on *Parliament Hill*??? Everyone is allowed there. And there have *always* been protesters doing their thing there. Unless these grandmas and grandpas were being violent, this is ridiculous. 2102
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Not just us authors having our entire industry destroyed by gAI, I see. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caHow AI goods on Etsy are impacting knitters — and crafters at large | CBC NewsFashioning itself a “global marketplace” for unique and handmade goods, Etsy has long been a destination for small scale crafters to sell to a wider audience. But in recent months, some say AI-generat... 352
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 21/09/2026God this drives me nuts. "Student absenteeism is way up compared to before the pandemic. There's some research on possible explanations" Wow I wonder what could have changed *since the start of the pandemic* to lead to *more illnesses and absences*, it's a real fuckin' mysterythestar.comCancelled buses, mental health and sick days: Your Ontario school attendance questions answeredEducation reporters Kristin Rushowy and Isabel Teotonio will take on reader questions about Ontario’s new attendance rules and what they mean for students. 24512
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 74255049541
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Amplifying to warn others: 041
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Transit woes? Busted sidewalks? Closed rec centres? Long waiting lists for affordable and emergency housing? Parks without washrooms? Closed pools and beaches? Pot holes in roads? Want more of this? Then keep on supporting and voting for 2.5% caps like this. 96734
Reposted by N.P. Thompson 🍁Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 16/09/2026Them: There’s something going around again… Me: It’s Covid, it’s been Covid for 6 years. 1741996
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Looks like I'm not the only one who thinks that additional massive tax cuts for corporations is just going to make life for most Canadians worse. Have not come across the Alternative Federal Budget before (linked in article). Fascinating. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comTrickle down hasn’t worked for the last 40 years. Why does Carney want to try it again?Instead of ensuring our sovereignty, the Carney government is auctioning off more and more control over Canada’s economy to whichever foreign oligarch has the deepest pockets. If Canada wants to incre... 020