Reposted by Michael NabertBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026These were identical trips, loaded via identical referrer URLs. The difference was that in the browser where Air Canada knew that I was an extremely loyal and prolific customer, they had whacked me with a *44.8% premium* to punish me for my loyalty! 620336
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 20hIt feels like Alberta's no more than 6 months away from "Oh, your partner's having trouble breathing? Well for the low price of $2000 we can dispatch an ambulance to you right away, or you can go to the back of the queue and we'll be there some time within the next 24 hours at no expense to you." 1135
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Opposition to genocide is not hatred of a people, it is a principled stance against war crimes and a defence of human rights. The Carney government is escalating its support for Netanyahu's war crimes by criminalizing its own citizens' ethics. www.ijvcanada.org/tell-canada-... 13012
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The term "national interest" has no official definition in Canadian law. In practice, it means whatever the hell Mark Carney wants it to mean. It's the umbrella term under which the interests of capital are dishonestly branded in order to ram them down the throats of countless victims. 1/ 45925
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We can see the Carney government's true level of commitment to Truth and Reconciliation on display in their current plans to destroy records of tens of thousands of residential school survivor testimonies. shrlnk.ca/s/dT0J2JC5shrlnk.caCanada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies | The NarwhalThe 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. The women say survivors should choose what happens to their histories — both painful and ill... 12825
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you're curious to understand why AI companies might be publicly calling for regulation, and you understand perfectly well that they're incapable of altruism, this article provides incredibly valuable context. carlynbeccia.medium.com/the-last-tim...carlynbeccia.medium.comThe Last Time a Tech Monopoly Begged to Be RegulatedOne technology empire discovered that government oversight could be very good for business. Silicon Valley has been studying its playbook… 000
Reposted by Michael NabertMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Knowing you're killing the habitability of the planet and doing it anyway is far, far more evil than killing the habitability of the planet because you're too stupid to understand what you're doing. 310030
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Carney's not *selling* our airports, he's just offering concessions to *run* them" translated: Private capital controls them & enjoys all the profits for generations, but infrastructure or cleanup costs are still the public's problem & the door stays open for more public capital flowing into them. 37228
Reposted by Michael NabertConor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A THREAD... So (as I warned recently here: secure.sierraclub.ca/civicrm/mail... ) If we ARE getting closer to the EU ask: what are we bringing to them? Many EU member states have taken real action to remove U.S. tech, but our defence minister thinks Palantir is Canadian. We cut the digital...secure.sierraclub.caTrojan Horses for Canada & the EU | Airports Privatized | Damage Report of Investment Summit | SCC on CBC Radio | Strategic Plan 1157
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Mark Carney wants to invoke positive public sentiments about the EU, but without offering Canadians the significant improvements to their quality of life that mentioning EU membership implies. He hopes to smear some feel-good EU branding on an agenda that degrades the things EU members enjoy. 55113
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When Australia let foreign capital take the kind of control over their airports that Carney is proposing in Canada, Brisbane airport raised its per-passenger fees by more than two thirds, and travellers were squeezed for more than $1.6 billion in extra fees. shrlnk.ca/s/zJo0ZyYu 34630
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Today, expect our banker-in-chief to put Canadian public goods on the auction block for privatization by foreign capital behind closed doors away from public view. shrlnk.ca/s/2nA0eXcoshrlnk.caMark Carney’s investment summit could pave the way to a corporate carve-up of Canada ⋆ The BreachBay Street has been on a full court press for the government to privatize Canada’s public infrastructure. The Prime Minister might be ready to do it 03114
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This charismatic fox boldly strolled through a gate and into the middle of my back deck, stopping next to my picnic table no more than five feet away from me to look around before retreating as the cat beside me leaped to his feet and gave chase. #FeedCleanse Yellowknife backyard denizens 3429
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Our world could easily provide food, shelter, security & joy for billions for millennia to come. That possibility is being utterly destroyed so that a few sociopaths can temporarily enjoy hundred million dollar yachts. Their greatest weapon is deliberately manufactured mass public ignorance. 1165
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Deloitte is one of the world's biggest accounting firms, & I wouldn't trust them farther than I can throw a Volvo. I've seen too many reports by them that read like they started from the preferred conclusion and wrote backwards to invent justifications for it. ricochet.media/politics/pro...ricochet.mediaDeloitte used AI in $1.6M government report, but watchdog says it can’t investigateFollowing a complaint, the provincial accounting watchdog says it will not be investigating the firm's use of AI 0196
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 24/08/2026For goodness' sake, please please please read this great piece by Cory Doctorow that explains better than I do the best way to fight back against Trump. pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/e...pluralistic.netPluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 12518
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Tariffs are a blunt force economic weapon, a self inflicted wound that hurts your own citizens first in order to inconvenience foreign suppliers second. Trump's tariffs hurt Americans. Mark Carney plans to emulate that bad policy by responding with counter tariffs that will hurt Canadians. 🧵1/ 4178
Reposted by Michael NabertGarrett Garner-Wells @ggarnerwells.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“AI has arrived in American life and communities across the country as a giant turd mountain. No one wants it; it makes everything worse when it arrives; and it’s been pushed and backed and cheerled by the absolute worst people in modern American life.” 35014
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Carney says “lecturing from afar” on human rights is ineffective. He should know: men much like him have ensured it stayed ineffective. But tellingly, he proposes no alternative approach. There's no "here's what might work better." Carney's 🇨🇦 simply no longer tries. 🧵1/ www.cbc.ca/player/play/... 45221
Reposted by Michael NabertThe Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026AI companies are the fossil fuel industry's best friends. The data centers powering the boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered generators. And AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a substantial boost.futurism.comAI's Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper FindsAI is giving the fossil fuel industry a major leg up, a new paper has found, indicating its carbon footprint extends beyond data centers. 0128
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Brendan Myers was gregarious, gentle, generous and earnest, with an intense zest for life. He had a wonderfully unselfconscious laugh. He was incredibly loyal. He loved mythology and storytelling. He could be entirely serious while somehow not taking himself too seriously. 1/ www.brendanmyers.netbrendanmyers.netBrendan Myers, Writer and PhilosopherBrendan Myers is a writer and philosopher, author of twenty-four books, including Reclaiming Civilization, Flight of the Siren, and The Other Side of Virtue. 460
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Anyone who has ever run out of household budget before they run out of month already understands this important distinction very keenly. Once again, their public messaging tells us that the Carney government believes voters are idiots. Or that enough of them don't really care about the hungry. 83815
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It has never been easier to fake justifications for an atrocity with the click of a button. Want to bomb a harmless neighbour? This handy AI will populate their landscape with imaginary gulags & weapons using Google data faster than you can say false flag. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...digitaldigging.orgHow to plant a nuclear plant in IranThe question is: what on earth is Google doing? 0112
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 12/08/2026For anyone wondering what taking a few days away from social media might look like, here's a picture of 190 jars of jam. Cat for scale. A lot of work, but infinitely more satisfying than paying attention to Carney supporters insulting me for wanting a climate that will let my garden keep producing. 8475
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Clearly, the very best 3d chess elbows up approach to difficult trade negotations with Donald Trump's USA is to simply surrender in advance on multiple fronts while broadcasting that you definitely won't use whatever best leverage you have available. (IF you're a Carney supporter, apparently) 🧵1/ 75225
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Are you a fossil fuel lobbyist? If so, the Carney gov really wants to know what you think. Seriously, their door's always open. They're always happy to see you. If you're an environmental expert, though, they do. not. give. a. shit. what. you. think. 🧵 1/ environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/06/f...environmentaldefence.caFossil fuel lobbying skyrockets in first year of PM Carney’s government - Environmental DefenceEnvironmental Defence’s latest analysis of the federal Lobby Registry shows Big Oil has unprecedented access to the federal government. Ottawa | 411562
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Carney's claimed a new pipeline isn't about appeasing separatists. His supporters often claim he's only play acting as big oil's guy to somehow stymie or "call the bluff of" perpetual oil shills like Danielle Smith. But it looks like appeasement, sounds like appeasement & walks like appeasement. 1/ 67540
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Deliberately worsening the global climate crisis that's raging ever further out of control to temporarily benefit foreign oil industry shareholders is Mark Carney's personal definition of "in the national interest." This is ecocidal anti-leadership. 1/ environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p... 24425
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 03/08/2026While a cyclospora explosive diarrhea outbreak is repeatedly linked with a 20% cut to US CDC & food inspection staff, it's wild how many LPC apologists casually dismiss Carney cuts to wildfire monitoring & food inspection with a derisive "of course the unions complain about increasing efficiency." 35523
Reposted by Michael Nabert🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"Pathways is a non-binding pledge that enables expanded oil production, higher greenhouse gas emissions and billions in public subsidies for pipelines and carbon-capture infrastructure — This is not climate policy; it is greenwashing dressed up as national strategy."nationalobserver.comPathways is a costly climate fiction — and Canadians are paying for itThe 2025 Alberta–Carney agreement explicitly links pipeline construction to the Pathways project. Despite record profits — $37 billion for oilsands producers in 2023 — Canadians are being asked to fin... 615692
Reposted by Michael NabertT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"Healthcare is provincial, not federal." 1. The Canada Health Act is federal law. 2. The Canada Health Transfer is the single largest transfer of federal funds to the provinces. 3. Health is a responsibility shared between federal and provincial jurisdictions. 🔗s below. 414167
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 31/07/202630 universities colluded with cops & a UCP official to violently suppress constitutionally protected anti-genocide free expression on campuses and as soon as journalists began asking questions they started deleting the evidence. This rights-suppressing genocide support is too deplorable for words. 14128
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Carney "priorities." Ordinarily I'd take an hour to assemble a long string of links about every single thing this graphic says, which Carney supporters would simply dismiss anyway. This time I'll just put this out there share those depressing links when asked. But fuck this guy & his arson. 87945
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"We're not trying to appease separatists with this globally irresponsible climate arson. We just want to doom all of humanity to millennia of a brutal hothouse hellscape of violent scarcity entirely on its own merits because it's what we independently value!" isn't quite the defence he thinks it is. 36823
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The US State Department recently presented an AI-created map of Africa with every country wrong. Mark Carney is racing to embed AI tech, which cannot even reliably tell which country is which, deep into every aspect of what the Canadian federal government does with no effective guardrails. 13813
Reposted by Michael NabertThe Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 29/07/2026LNG Canada’s original plans for its Kitimat, B.C, plant included a commitment to operate "without routine flaring." That commitment was later removed from submissions to the BC Energy Regulator, and in 2025, almost 10 per cent of all gas transported to the terminal was burned off.thenarwhal.caLNG Canada dropped commitments to operate ‘without routine flaring’: docs | The NarwhalFor years, LNG Canada made environmental commitments in documents submitted to BC Energy Regulator (BCER). It removed them before the Kitimat facility launched 26353
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Whenever I say that I don't want Mark Carney to harm the environment or attack human rights or kowtow to tech billionaires, a whole bunch of his supporters show up to 1. insult me, 2. accuse me of being a conservative supporter, and 3. nothing else. There is no third thing. 1/ 85822
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"Because Trump" or the more euphemistic "because the world has changed" is the favourite thought-terminating cliché of Carney supporters. Offer any evidence-based criticism of any Carney policy & you will hear that these unusually dangerous times require it. But he's making us *more* vulnerable. 🧵1/ 616577
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think this one minute from a Futurama episode is actually the best short video about AI that I've seen to date. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCPh...youtube.comFuturama - BenderamaYouTube video by Voodoo God 0124
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Killing the carbon tax that he praised so much in his book is pure Carney: ✅ ecocidal ✅ a giant gift to the worst polluters ✅ a brutal body blow to the poorest and most vulnerable Canadians ✅ the opposite of the climate leadership he primed voters to expect pre-election shrlnk.ca/s/H1Iuvk9Ishrlnk.caEnd of carbon tax rebates a financial hit for Canada’s poorest, research showsRebates were tax-free payments that compensated consumers for the cost of carbon taxes 44427
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Excited vicinity of internet. Interacted with nature for several hours instead. Ten out of ten would recommend. 1100
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 24/07/2026To this PM, big oil matters, and your health very much does not. This colossal cut to health care will almost cover a new publicly funded pipeline & expanding fossil fuel infrastructure on a west coast port. Handouts to climate non-solution CCS will require further cuts. shrlnk.ca/s/7SgMK3Vsshrlnk.caPlanned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decadePlanned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer in the 2028-2029 fiscal year will likely result cuts of more than $50 billion for health care in Canada’s provinces and territories over the subseque... 44727
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Some men just want to watch the world burn. Apparently, Canadians elected one to the country's top job. Mark Carney's approach to the climate issue is apocalyptic. As climate impacts reach hardcore crisis levels, he's determined to make things even worse. 🧵1/ climatefactchecks.org/millions-aff... 36843
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The more I think about Max Fawcett gaslighting the country that "Mark Carney wants to make Canada more like Norway," the angrier I get at this particular bit of overtly partisan pure propaganda journalistic malpractice. Carney's policies are all about making Canada less like Norway in every way. 1/ 714055
Reposted by Michael NabertBen Holt @beanjammin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026We didn't stop producing asbestos because there wasn't a market for asbestos. We stopped producing asbestos because asbestos kills people and killing people is wrong. Fossil fuels kill people. Killing people is wrong. 44121
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Today's intense wildfires, floods, heatwaves and so on are barely a glimpse of what's to come, and it's not going to steadily get worse, it's going to nonlinearly get worse in sudden and unpredictable ways. Our world has changed, but neoliberal politics have not. 🧵1/ shrlnk.ca/s/rW1VHg3H 34221
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Nuclear's a poor choice for the economy, for human health, and a for the climate. But it's a very effective way to saddle the public with immense risks & costs in order to create immense private profits. Here's a Lancet study on some of those risks. 1/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 911959
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Only one fifth of burned forest areas over the last 4 decades were ever actively managed. You cannot have a "fuel-buildup from forest mismanagement" in vast areas of forest that *you were never managing to begin with.* Shut down this climate denier lie. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo...theclimatebrink.comCanada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest managementHigher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned 0133
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Cory Doctorow is a national treasure and one of the most important voices to listen to right now. 152
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 17/07/2026That red line is what the most intense El Niño of any of our lives looks like so far. While our "leaders" rush to make this crisis even worse. I cant even. 24318