Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦

"Americans are so very lucky. Wherever they go to bring 'freedom', they find oil."

Deliberate, they know exactly what they're doing.

"War is good for business.
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #34.
#startrek

USA- don't think your hopefulness about your "midterm elections" is going to do it.
The view from outside:
"You can’t sweeten a manure pile with perfume."
"On ne peut pas sucrer un tas de fumier avec du parfum." (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Today,just as in 1936,the Olympic Committee is helping a murderous fascist country normalize its crimes by providing it with a political stage through which to whitewash its image.Just as the 1936 Olympics forever stained the world's memory,the 2026 Paralympics in Milan and Cortina will do the same.

ANALYSIS | Hezbollah joins Iran's fight even as other allies melt into Axis of Reluctance | CBC News For decades, Iran has protected itself with a network of well-funded, heavily armed and deeply radicalized militant groups. But just when they are needed most, many of the main players are staying on ...

Total war means kill everyone.
"In the past, "a rough balance of power guaranteed some kind of fragile but mutual deterrence" between Israel and the U.S. on one side, and Iran and its axis on the other, he said. But after Oct. 7, 2023, Israel "rejected constraints.""
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

'For Iran,Ukraine was never the enemy—only a testing ground,” says a Ukrainian drone-industry insider. “They had no ideological quarrel with us.They came to learn how to fly,how to strike,how to defeat Western equipment.We warned about this for years.But no-one listened.” They are listening now.'

Not to be insensitive to costs. But car dependency is sad. And unnecessary if cities were properly planned for humans instead of car & oil companies.

You are a courageous person. I hope the police will charge and stop the actions of these people. Not that that is enough. Kind regards to you for your work.

Welcome to America.
𝗢𝘄𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹 (𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙣): An own goal occurs in sports when a player performs actions that result in scoring points for the opposition.

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

"Let the children come unto me, so I can kill them, if I've not sexually assaulted them first on an island" Matthew 19:14, Trump Bible.

"feeds are overflowing with scams.. Google searches are being filtered through AI making search results less accurate..You have to pay a subscription fee [to use basic features] keep storing your memories... when you complain are forced to argue with a chatbot."
www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-engl...

Call CBC Saskatoon and get on the air about it!?!?

Saskatoon will need a compromise to improve safety on Millar Avenue, stakeholders say | CBC News North Saskatoon Business Association executive director Keith Moen and Warrick Baijius, who represents pedestrian advocacy group Walking Saskatoon, discussed the issues in a sit-down interview with CB...

This is not an accurate framing of the Millar/51st conversation.

The only thing that stands to be compromised here is safety itself.

If business is "all about safety" they should support the changes without reservation.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/millar-avenue-saskatoon-safety-9.7114239

President Zelenskyy:

In three days, Middle Eastern countries have fired 800+ missiles for Patriot systems. Ukraine has never had so many missiles to defend against [Russian] strikes.

AI can't replace you, but it might seduce your boss into thinking it can. Which isn't just enshitification, it is dangerous. My 2 cents.

More anti-war remarks from UBC professor | CBC News

True in 2001, true in 2026.
"American foreign policy is "soaked in blood".. U.S. is "bloodthirsty" & "vengeful"..decisions in Washington & not international terrorism, represent the most dangerous threat to the global peace"
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The speech is here: casac.ca/sunera-thoba...

Canadians reach out to Spain online after Trump threatens to cut off trade | CBC News Some Canadians are feeling kinship with Spain and reaching out on social media after the European country was the latest victim of a tirade from U.S. President Donald Trump. "We're going to cut off al...

Americans- please control this man.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

You mean of American athletes voted by USAians.
Steffi Graf wld be the world's pick. 23 grand slam titles, first player, male or female, to win all four major singles championships and the Olympic gold medal in the same year, world No. 1 ranking for 377 weeks, all-time record for both women & men.

Cree word for ladybug is mooswa. Where I live that would be the original name.
Cree- largest First Nation in Canada.

Isn't the dude on the right, the dude who asked a Singaporean citizen repeatedly if he was a Chinese citizen in viral video?
Perhaps ask if he can point to Iran on a map and if he is a Ignoramistan citizen.

We call them ladybugs. Looks like ladybird is the UK name.

Ladybug

Someone please do a Kickstarter in time for summer for quieter pickle balls.

Everytime there's another war,
I think of my one surviving cousin family in the Rhineland- he born in 1942; of my Belgian % Dutch relatives, 100% wiped out 1914-17 (none left); that we keep doing this to each other. Humans create such horrid nightmares.
Soldiers- never thank-yous for your service.

Billboard ad for public transit visible from a freeway filled with cars and congestion, that says “You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”

One of the best of all time.

“You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”

Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth

Iran lost more than 500,000 people in the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988. Iran has an history as a people at least 3000 years old.
Identity and experience. It probably means quite a bit when under attack.

Any good jokes?
We know you high falutin' leaders tell jokes bc you're always smiling and laughing.

When in doubt on Bluesky, light humour in responses you don't have to make is advised. Blueskyers are an erudite bunch who discuss serious things, but don't take themselves too too seriously.