Finally made it to the blue skies place. Lovely. Found some previous & new friends. As I find more compadres from here will add them. Username now adds an 's' thats not part of @LilacFire.bsky.social Post nubila phoebus.

La cyberintimidation, les hypertrucages sexuels et les fonctionnalités addictives des réseaux sociaux ont des conséquences dramatiques sur les enfants. Notre Loi sur les médias sociaux sécuritaires fera de leur sécurité une priorité dès la conception des services.

It's interesting that the biggest objection is having to identify yourself, be responsible for your words. Conservatives are losing their shit on this point. They employ a lot of bot farms dedicated to spreading #Disinformation

It would really help a lot if users of social media platforms were required to put their country of origin in their ID. If they try to lie about it, then they don't get an account. @MarcMillerVM

Online harms—from cyberbullying to sexual deepfakes or addictive features —are causing real and lasting harm to children. We can’t let them down. Our Safe Social Media Act will ensure platforms put children’s safety first in the design of their services.

Women have been saying for years that there is a growing backlash against gender equality, and every time the conversation comes up we’re told we’re imagining it. Now the United Nations is saying it. According to a UN report, nearly 1 in 4 countries reported setbacks in women’s rights and gender equality. Hundreds of millions of women and girls are living in conflict zones, violence against women remains widespread, and UN officials are warning about a growing backlash against women’s rights worldwide. The part that stands out to me isn’t even the statistics. It’s that women have been raising concerns about misogyny, online hostility toward women, violence, and attacks on reproductive rights for years, only to be dismissed as overreacting. If the UN Secretary-General is warning about the “mainstreaming of misogyny,” maybe it’s time to stop pretending these concerns came out of nowhere. Do you think women’s rights are genuinely facing setbacks, or do you think organizations like the UN are exaggerating the problem?

Every time you think you've found the most bizarre historical treatment, you discover another chapter and realise the competition is fierce.

Of your lies and you.

You damn idiots, Alberta was founded on May 8th. Holy shit you guys are dumb.

🟥 Umm... 👀 1. He's now campaigning to be Premier of Alberta?? 2. He's back to wearing pink lipstick again?? 3. Is there an actual audience here, or he's filming in his basement again?? 🤔 I suspect the latter. This guy. 😆🤦🏻‍♂️

Poilievre #unfit for public office. Public Trust requires integrity, honesty, ethics. PP b.s's, twists facts, cuz hasn't actual facts to smear opponents. #PierrePoilievreIsBroken & was voted out by #Carleton riding. To invalidate Voter's rights is Trumpy. #Canada deserves better

We all said it at the time: manufactured to halt LPC popularity during the early stages of the pandemic (they were polling at 45%, CPC in the 20s).

Anti-Trudeau WE Charity scandal was... not quite the scandal you were told.

@MikeBartner - Mr. Trudeau is a private citizen who can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants without your approval

Since Harper the conservatives have fielded nothing but losers. PP was never leading against PM Trudeau, PM Trudeau was losing against constant misinformation and COVID stupidity.

RT @harryt59_harry: Justin Trudeau brought the liberals from 3rd place to a majority. Pierre Poilievre had a 25 point lead & ended up losin…

I've met and worked on many such souls and I haven't met one that wasn't a bit different than his non service peers.....quieter, calmer, more deliberate, and very much dialed into his person as they often have only one. Willing to forgo his flight instinct and trust instead. I would wish for all of them to have a retirement such as this and a long ear for a pal.

There is a new field in this universe, and standing in it, at last at ease, is an old soldier. His name is Hector. He is a Cavalry Black, a big Irish-bred gelding the better part of seventeen hands, and for seventeen years he served with the Household Cavalry in London, on State and Ceremonial duty, which is a polite phrase for the hardest thing you can ask of a horse. Understand what that means. A horse is a flight animal. Every instinct in it, refined across millions of years of being prey, says one word in the face of sudden noise and pressing crowds: run. Hector was trained, over years, to do the opposite. To stand. To carry a rider in a steel breastplate down the Mall through a wall of sound, past the bands and the cheering and the saluting guns of the King's Troop, and not move a muscle. To hold himself still on a state occasion while every nerve in his body screamed at him to bolt, and to do it again, and again, faultlessly, because the man on his back and the crowd at his shoulder were trusting half a tonne of flight animal to master its own nature on command. He walked behind a gun carriage at a state funeral once, at the slow march, the drum beating the step, a nation watching through its tears, and he never put a hoof wrong. He is retired now. The shoes are off. The clipped parade coat has been let go woolly and unmilitary, the first sign the people who tend old service horses look for that one is finally letting down. He shares a green field with a small unbothered donkey called Nelson, because a horse should never be alone, and the black charger who stood behind kings and the donkey who has never had a worry in his life are now inseparable. When his old groom visits, Hector lifts his head and nickers across the field before the man has said a word. And here is the part that undoes everyone who knows what they are seeing. One afternoon they found Hector lying flat out on his side in the grass, dead still, and a heart stopped, the way every horseman's does at that sight, because a horse down and flat looks like the worst news there is. Then an ear flicked at a fly, and the breath went out of them in relief. He was simply, deeply asleep. A horse only sleeps like that when it feels entirely safe, because flat on the ground is the one place a prey animal cannot flee from, and most never dare it. For seventeen years Hector stood, awake to every danger, holding everyone else's nerve so they could rely on him. Now, in a quiet field, he has decided it is finally safe to lie down and close his eyes. He gave his courage to the rest of us for seventeen years. He has earned the grass. He is taking it lying down, in the sun, with the donkey keeping watch.

As a dad, I share parents’ concerns about keeping kids safe online. At CHEO today, I sat down with doctors, researchers, and young people to discuss our bill to make the online experience safer for children and ensure platforms are safe by design.

Pierre, looks like whatever you’re doing isn’t working. Seriously, silence and getting proper security clearance may be your best strategy going forward.

This “recession” may bite you in the ass if it turns out it’s not recession. Instilling fear in the economy and cheering for a recession is unacceptable of a Leader, Calling it a “Full Blown Recession” is irresponsible.