StopTouchingYourPhone

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[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 68 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Heard it on my morning news program here in Canada. “I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, sir,” he chuckled. Sounded like he was making fun of an abuse victim. Like that time he mocked the disabled. Filthy predator.

That any media outlet is featuring his latest truth claim in an uncontested headline is wild. Look at the amount of commentary already produced that assumes his version of events is what's actually happening.

Already bad enough here in Ontario with Doug "I'm a big Republican" Ford's Ministerial Zoning Order addiction, gutting environmental protection agencies, trying to sell off the Greenbelt, using covid recovery bills to get his dirt done, etc.

Any rein we've been able to keep on the timbit would dissolve into nada if we allowed the US govt to run their game here. I can't even conceive of much worse they'd make the tar sands in Alberta. 90% of the fisheries would just be trawlers digging up seabeds. Plus the dizzying amount of toxic waste they're already legally dumping here and in Mexico?

Elbows up.

March '23 Trump gave a soundbite for his billionaire bosses about building "Freedom Cities." Clear-cutting national forests, then signing an order that makes the area exempt from regulation? Sounds about right.

If they're coming for all federally governed land, indigenous reservations will be on the menu as well (always are).

Not just nationwide either. Absolutely beautiful. Solidarity from Canada <3

Maybe OT, but there's comfort knowing most online accounts minimizing irl resistance (saying this is nothing, or not enough, or they're not doing it right, or I can do 6-7pm on Wednesday lmk, omg people have jobs, why aren't they angry at this other thing, and on and on) are working overtime.

Remember learning about the work that went into de-legitimizing the Women's Marches?

More than 4,000 miles away, organizations linked to the Russian government had assigned teams to the Women’s March. At desks in bland offices in St. Petersburg, using models derived from advertising and public relations, copywriters were testing out social media messages critical of the Women’s March movement, adopting the personas of fictional Americans.

They posted as Black women critical of white feminism, conservative women who felt excluded, and men who mocked participants as hairy-legged whiners. - NYT, Sept 22

The day after the World Said No to War, news article after article sold the story back to us that we didn't really DO anything because the USA was still bombing people. But everyone who was there remembers looking around and realizing no matter what the news tells us about our activism, we still care enough to show up for each other, and We Are Everywhere. With oppositional media framing everything as hopeless, depressing, alienating, etc, physically being with other people who give a fuck is not just good for politics, it's good for our mental health (or soul, if you're into that).

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reading some comments here, I want to leave a gentle reminder to my fellow redditfugees: the block user option is your friend. Curate your feed or get fed.

When you see an aggressively oppositional account dropping shittastic hot takes, of course you can always engage and Have The Conversation if you want. You know what happens after you reply: the person likely leaves a bot to mess with your good intentions, raise your blood pressure, make you depressed and waste your time. Or maybe you successfully Prove Them Wrong and they change the goalposts, or wander off to needle someone else.

We know by now, the more we engage, the more online space they get to fill with accelerationist Content.

So just click the account name, then click the block button, and you'll never see their viral brainrot again. Nobody needs to know; no need to announce it. If your freezepeach philosophy prevents that, maybe just upvote one of the replies you agree with and move on. If you're on mobile, you can tag the account through Voyager etc instead of blocking, if you prefer.

However you manage it, removing doomscroller ragebait from your Feed is worth doing.

Could be she set it to private. It's what I did when I left my last gig.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Probably trying to make a buck off blighted fetid fowl.

[T]he U.S. discards nearly 60 million tons—or 120 billion pounds—of food annually, amounting to about 40% of the national food supply. This equates to 325 pounds of waste per person, or the equivalent of each American throwing away 975 average-sized apples every year. Alarmingly, food waste is the largest component of municipal solid waste in landfills, making up 22% of the total. The environmental cost is staggering, with food waste generating methane emissions that significantly contribute to climate change. - forbes link from jan '25

In case anyone was wondering, signs of avian flu at the market: bloody legs; slimy, filmy meat.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't buy that Trump has anything to do with the logic behind this world-destabalizing shock and awe spectacle.

The conversation would be different if people stopped attributing authorship to him and acknowledged the massive decades-old machine using him as a mouthpiece.

But it sure makes people feel smart though. Gives them something to meme about while the people who planned this get the real dirt done. Maybe he'll misspell a country name next... Do another ad for Leon's dinkeys, Israeli beans or something. Stoopid Donald got poopy pance. lol.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yesterday, former President Donald Trump told a group of supporters that they won’t have to vote again if they elect him to the presidency. “You won’t have to do it anymore,” Trump said at the Turning Point Believers’ Summit in Florida. “It’ll be fixed; it’ll be fine; you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.” - The Atlantic, July '24

'When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.' - Maya Angelou

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Was there more than one in Somerville? If not, that's the protest they reference in the article. Maybe you'll see yourself or a neighbour in the pic.

Thank you for showing up for Rumeysa and your community. As you say, it's helpful, contradicting the constantly polarized image of society accelerationists force feed us.

To quote one of your better Yankee politicians:

“It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, sometime last month

 

Rumeysa Ozturk's lawyer believes she is being targeted over a school paper editorial she co-authored

snips from the article:

U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin [...] did not specify what specific activities were engaged in by Ozturk, a Fulbright Scholar and student in Tufts' doctoral program for Child Study and Human Development. Ozturk had been in the country on an F-1 visa to study.

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Ozturk co-authored an opinion piece a year ago in the school's student paper, the Tufts Daily, that criticized the school's response to calls by students to divest from companies with ties to Israel and to "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide."

"Based on patterns we are seeing across the country, her exercising her free speech rights appears to have played a role in her detention," said Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk's lawyer. Khanbabai called the claims against Ozturk "baseless" and said people should be "horrified at the way DHS spirited away Rumeysa in broad daylight."

Was looking for a little history of the company and found a decent brief read from Scientific American mag, 2013, just in case anyone wanted the same.

I’d forgotten how the FDA in the USA focused on regulating the medical equipment itself, and how the company basically just ignored all attempts to stop it.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[N]o matter how flawed the system, how cruel the circumstances, humanity will always shine through.

Even in the darkest places, within the most broken systems, humanity persists. Sometimes, it reveals itself in the smallest, most unexpected acts of kindness: a shared meal, a whispered prayer, a hand reaching out in the dark. We are defined by the love we extend, the courage we summon and the truths we are willing to tell.

idk this woman, but I'm so proud of her for using this media attention to do the right thing in a horrific situation.

The pictures of letters her cellmates gave her to get to their families, the moment where a wife sees her husband in the detention cells after being separated with no contact for weeks, the dehumanizing assembly line pregnancy tests.

It's a hard fucking read, but everyone should take 10-15 minutes and read the whole thing. This is basic knowledge of the system everyone in the world should be aware of, told by someone who has less to fear in reprisals than most of the folk who manage to escape.

 

Another person posted this in c/ontario

From the site:

Volunteers can be trained to perform a variety of duties, including sandbagging, debris removal, serving meals and more. Volunteers are contacted when needed to support emergency response efforts and will be assigned duties based on their skill level, interest and availability.

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To go with, a good read from the Tyee about Civil Defense Corps

[A] second Trump presidency is emphatically not like the first. In foreign policy, as in business, Trump does not deal with weaker counterparts — he dominates them. When engaging with countries that lack the leverage to push back, he is not transactional; he is predatory. His negotiations are not about mutual benefit but about extracting maximum advantage, imposing terms that serve his interests alone.

The shift from ally to adversary could happen overnight, as a protectionist United States looks at Canada’s vast energy reserves, fresh water and strategic Arctic position and sees weakness. Canadians must recognize that the luxury of assuming our security is someone else’s responsibility is over.

We must be strong enough to push back, resilient enough to survive cyberwarfare and economic coercion — including Tuesday's arbitrary imposition of illegal tariffs. We must be prepared to defend our sovereignty — not just with military spending, but with a population that is engaged, trained and ready.

Pause for a moment and imagine the skills or time you could bring — whether it’s first aid, co-ordination and logistics, communications, engineering, IT support, counselling and caregiving or any other expertise — to contribute to our collective security and resilience if called upon.

 

https://archive.ph/F26VK

Mayor Olivia Chow says she plans to ban U.S. companies from bidding on contracts with the City of Toronto.

At a press conference Thursday morning to talk about the procurement of new TTC streetcars, Chow provided an update on her administration’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Canadian goods.

She confirmed that the city will award all contracts valued at less than $353,000 to Canadian companies exclusively. She also promised to present a motion to her executive committee “barring any U.S. companies from future Toronto contracts.”

alternate CTV news link here

 

Thought I'd leave some links for new gardeners, or people itching for spring who just want to come check out seeds etc.

This weekend, Saturday and Sunday at Brickworks from 9-2 (free bus just north of Broadview station) - https://www.evergreen.ca/evergreen-brick-work/events/seedy-weekend-2025

March 22, Scadding Court from 10-2 (west end of the city) - https://torontourbangrowers.org/events/scadding-court-seedy-saturday-2025

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Other good resources for beginners:

General Planting almanac

North American Native Plant Society

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