Sasja Smolders

Charlie Kirk on mass shooting victims: 'We cannot allow them to emotionally hijack the narrative'

The trolley problem graphic where one side is several people tied to the train tracks except the other side has no one on the tracks. A man is standing holding a lever trying to decide which track the trolley should take. The text reads “You can pull the lever, but to do so you must wear a mask at the grocery store.”

'I lost my legal right to vote': Booths closed early — or didn't open at all — in some Nunavik villages | CBC News CBC has heard from residents in at least five Nunavik villages who say booths closed hours early, or didn't open at all.

Inuit communities and Inuit voices and votes matter. Ottawa shouldn't just be about photo op cameos and Northern sovereignty speechifying.

people only become left handed if the mirror baby crawls out when nobody is looking and pushes the normal baby into the mirror dimension. it’s a sign of bad parenting

doctor who playing toxic? oh we’re so fucking back

Words to live by.

Andor offers an escapist fantasy where liberal politicians resist fascism

“biological sex” should refer only to having sex in a lab, knocking over microscopes and shit, contaminating every surface while scientists watch you and take notes

I made this political ad and will make more in the future to support grassroots socialist political campaigns globally!

Luckily, I want these tits gone MORE than I'm afraid of surgery. Which says a lot about how much I want them gone.

The bonkers thing about having my top surgery date become an actual tangible thing is that only now is the CONCEPT of surgery absolutely terrifying.

I've broken several bones, and had 2nd degree burns cover 20% of my body, but I've never needed stitches or general anesthesia.

Picture of Mayor Ken Sim with the stat "He oversaw an increase of 23% in homeless deaths since he took office. Over 450 people died in the last year alone"

He promised 100 cops and 100 nurses.

He delivered 200 cops.

Homelessness went up. Homeless people dying increased by 23%.

Only supportive housing (which he just cancelled) reduces crime and people living on the street in the long term

I wake up in the morning. I sit at my computer. The internet screams at me that the world is on fire. I am overwhelmed by the deluge of bad news and faceplant in front of the computer.

I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase

This is so important! One of my cats always hides in her open carrier when the fire alarm goes off (which is often because my building is shit). Evacuating her is very easy.

Try to make the carrier your cat's favorite option to hide in when things get stressful.

I understand, capitalism means you sometimes have to go out while sick and contagious. But just because you have "not-c*vid" (confirmed by a single unreliable negative rapid test, or just *vibes*) doesn't give you free reign to get everyone else sick.

It's WILD to me that people who used to publicly dunk on anti-maskers now won't even wear one when they go out in public with cold and flu symptoms.

Highly recommend the new Scott Pilgrim anime - I feel like it expands the source material in such a satisfying way!

A handheld CO2 monitor, reading 1164ppm in a movie theater.

The same CO2 monitor, reading 1499ppm. The movie end credits are blurry in the background.

I took these readings before and after a morning matinee at Landmark Cinema in New Westminster, and the theater was less than half full.

1499ppm is not great, especially during flu season (and during a Covid wave)

Hillary Clinton Calls Many Trump Backers ‘Deplorables,’ and G.O.P. Pounces

Trump Takes Veterans Day Speech in a Very Different Direction

NYT covering Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” remark vs NYT covering Donald Trump’s “vermin” remark.

a student sitting at their desk, but they have pairs of eyes all over their body

eyes are watching
eyes are watching
eyes are watching

If Daft Punk can wear a mask for 28 years surely you can wear one to buy tomatoes

Just saw an advertisement for an “equine hospital,” and I’m sorry, if you’re not going to call it a horsepital, what even is the point.

A digital drawing of a silver tabby cat.

I've only had Procreate for a couple weeks now, and I'm still learning, but I'm so so so proud of this drawing I made of my cat Wanda today!

"a book can't make you gay, we should not censor gay books" is a bad political argument. books probably can't make you gay but they should fucking try

You’re either disabled or pre-disabled. Currently vulnerable or becoming more vulnerable. This was true before COVID and is more salient now. And at all stages of this process, we would all benefit from a culture that pursues risk mitigation, community care, accessibility, and disability justice.

I wish abled people understood that the next step to "only vulnerable people with comorbidities die of covid, you'll be fine."

Is something like "only people who had covid might die of flu this year, you'll be fine."

Just no understanding that you can become vulnerable, and be written off in turn.

As a socialist, I want everyone, even Nazis, to have accessible Healthcare

As an antifascist, I want the nazis to need to use it