Chris Rider (he/him)

Covering sessions daily at the Commission on the Status of Women this week, one question keeps coming up for me: How can responsible media better amplify the institutions trying to address global crises? Too often we are not meeting the moment — we are being entertained by it. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & @DrTed...• 6h Global military expenditure just hit $2.7 trillion - in a single year. According to @UN estimates, ending world hunger by 2030 would require $93 billion annually. That means we spend almost 30 times more every year on killing each other than on making sure everyone eats.

This is Director of WHO. And that’s exactly the point I’m trying to make all day every day this week.

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’

‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’

‘Hello’ is not related to either.

Goodbye.

The Pathways Alliance CCS project is crucial to the new AB-CAD pipeline agreement, and Canada can't just abandon its duty to assess the impacts of "the "world's largest carbon capture project" (their own words), when the AER has already said NO to doing an assessment. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

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Sometimes I remember back to the skepticism everyone felt at the close of the summer transfer window.

With some hindsight and the chance to compare the hit/miss ratio versus Victor Orta, all I can say is wow - they did a great job!

Right now, key federal funding for nature protection is set to expire on March 31, which would halt progress. When we allow ecosystems to degrade, the costs don’t disappear. They show up later, and are far higher.🫰Check out our new blog post
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Sure, let's just go ahead and put the fox in charge of the hen house. What could possibly go wrong?!

Yeah, I would have travelled pretty much anywhere within Canada to go, but not to the US. Sad to have to miss it.

I mean, it was a terrible game Josey, but I don't think we're that bad!

Morons in every crowd, but I think we have a responsibility to call it out when they're in ours.

Shameful behaviour by some of our so- called fans.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

I remember those days too. Everything felt possible and it seemed like nothing could possibly go wrong....

Then some stuff happened in between and now I expect everything to go wrong until it doesn't!

I've been following Leeds United way too long to not expect everything to fall apart! Habits not going to die any time soon!

Knock on wood immediately, please!!!

I do think about this occasionally.

This is truly amazing. I love it!

Naheed Nenshi needs to step up — or step down The former mayor of Calgary was supposed to bring the Alberta NDP back to political power. Instead, they're further away from it than they've been in a decade.

My latest: Naheed Nenshi has been a monumental disappointment as Alberta NDP leader — and it could actually get worse from here. #abpoli #cdnpoli

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This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Beautiful part of the world!

That's a whole lot of snow!! Are you out east?

Very on brand for an American to use his whiteness to escape accountability

Not sure how I feel about the Americans taking advantage of the fact that their white uniforms apparently make them invisible to the referees

“Smith’s address last night is worse than advocacy for separatism. It’s an agenda to destroy Canadian federalism from within. To rely on stoking fear and xenophobia, to attack society’s most vulnerable, to dismantle the grand bargains that make Canada the best country in the world.”

1. Pointing out that the Iranian regime's actions are horrific does not in any way subtract from the horror of the Israeli government's genocide in Gaza, or from other atrocities. There are, unfortunately, plenty here who seem to believe we should be partisan in our denunciations. They are wrong. 🧵

Fair play to them!

I'd take anything with us 17th or above, so this would be amazing!

The amazing thing about these reform flag people is the way it's shown how compassionate and progressive the #lufc Bluesky community is as a whole.

I love it!

"World Champions"!!! 😂🙃

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.