But I'm Le Tired™️

Just trying to Vibe in this Economy

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

🇨🇦 CANADIANS: this is straight-up foreign interference in our country.

American billionaires and Big Oil just dumped nearly $6 MILLION into the Fraser Institute:

- Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation: $1.67 MILLION
- Aurea Foundation: $1.64 MILLION
- Exxon Mobil: $120,000
…and more.

They fund the think tank. The think tank shapes the narrative. And suddenly Canadian policy starts sounding suspiciously American.

How many of our “independent” voices are actually on foreign payroll?

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

seeing a lot of "higher gas prices won't affect me because I don't drive very much" and unfortunately it is my sad duty to inform you that your food does not teleport to the grocery store

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

I am genuinely sick of seeing this nonsense. If you didn’t pass basic physiology, please, just shut the f up about optimizing your health.

Let’s talk biology: Vitamin C and B-complex vitamins are water-soluble... the second you shove 25 grams of C into your veins, your kidneys start working overtime to flush it out. You aren’t 'loading your system'; you are literally paying to produce the most expensive urine on the planet...!

And don’t get me started on the NAD+ IVs. It’s an expensive biochemical fairy tale. NAD+ is a large, fragile molecule. It gets chewed up by enzymes in your bloodstream long before it ever touches a cell membrane, let alone enters the cell to 'recharge' your mitochondria.

It makes me so angry because it’s not just a harmless trend, it’s a grift that prays on people who don't know the difference between a real medical intervention and a wellness scam.

[Diane Yap @RealDianeYap]

Whe I was a kid, my mom’s road rage meant she was screaming at other drivers when I was the only one who could hear her. I told her to stop yelling at me and she seemed puzzled. “I’m not yelling at you, I’m yelling at the other drivers”

“Okay, but I’m the only one who can hear you.”

Poorly controlled emotions are like that: those closest to you bear the brunt while the source of your problem never knows.

Express your emotions to those you reasonably expect to care or do something differently to help you not feel that way. Practice stoicism and self-calming methods for the rest.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

I’m a chemist. And I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there.

The biggest health myth in the world isn’t about vaccines. Or GMOs. Or fluoride.

It’s the root of all of them.
It’s called chemophobia - and it’s killing science.

Fear of “chemicals” now drives vaccine rejection, GMO bans, food hysteria, and entire political movements.

From tampons to tap water, people have been taught to fear chemistry - the very thing that keeps us alive.

Chemophobia tells us:
“Natural is good.”
“Synthetic is bad.”

That’s a lie.

Botulinum toxin is 100% natural and one of the deadliest molecules known.

Aspirin is synthetic and life-saving.

We’ve gone from banning harmful substances for good reason…to banning safe, well-tested molecules for emotional reasons.

You’ve seen the slogans:

“If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.”
“Paraben-free.”
“Clean beauty.”

They sound empowering. But they’re not science - they’re marketing.

And they’re making the world dumber, poorer, and sicker.

Your body doesn’t care if a molecule comes from a plant or a lab.
Vitamin C is vitamin C.

Formaldehyde is formaldehyde and your body makes more of it every day than any vaccine ever could.

Dose matters. Source doesn’t.
This fear isn’t harmless.

It shapes public policy.
It blocks innovation.
It raises food prices.
It slows down cancer treatments.

Chemophobia is now mainstream and it’s costing lives.

Scientists aren’t losing because we’re wrong.

We’re losing because fear spreads faster than facts.

Because influencers sell fear for clicks.

Because lawyers monetize doubt.

And because scientists are too tired to fight back.

So here’s my message, as a chemist and as a citizen:

🧪 Learn how toxicology works.
📣 Call out chemical fear-mongering.
✅ Support policies based on evidence, not emotion.

Chemistry isn’t the enemy.
It’s the reason you have clean water, safe food, and modern medicine.

If we let fear win, we lose all of it.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING!!!!
Israel is bombing Gaza again!
Will anyone stop these maniacs?
Where are the ministers and heads of state who were celebrating “peace” just last week?

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Every motherfucking thing this gentleman said. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

In an age of widespread cognitive atrophy, nothing is more punk rock than the love of learning for its own sake. Brain-destroying tech is being peddled by those who seek to make a nation of illiterates. They don’t want you to read, and that is why you must never stop.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Jon Ossoff is damn good at this. 🙌💪👏👊🇺🇸👇

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

At least thirty ballistic missiles smashed Israel last night, right through the paper dome. Israeli citizens filming it are "hunted down" according to Ben Gvir. Western broadcasters are cowardly complying with the complete ban on airing the footage they have. You're being LIED to

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Science education isn’t just for scientists.

It’s how we protect ourselves from being fooled.

Because here’s the truth:

The internet is full of graphs, charts, and scary headlines.

And people fall for them - every day.

“More vaccines, more autism.”
“More organic food, more autism.”
“Chemical W causes problem XYZ.”

Looks convincing.
Feels persuasive.
Totally wrong.

Why?

Because correlation is not causation.

Just because two things rise together doesn’t mean one caused the other.

Ice cream sales and shark attacks?
Both go up in summer. That’s it.

No conspiracy.
No hidden danger.

Without science education, we mistake patterns for proof.

We chase shadows.
We make bad decisions.

Science doesn’t tell us what to think.
It teaches us how to think.

And right now, that’s more essential than ever.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

a fanatical Zionist angrily asks Norman Finkelstein how can possibly supports the "evil terrorist Houthi anti-Semites". Here is his response:

[Piyush Mittal 🇺🇸🇺🇦🟧🌊🌈 @piyushmittal]

These are the billionaires Trump and Republicans want to give more tax cuts to

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Dodds says the govt is committed to a two state solution but wont recognise a Palestinian state now

You cant say you believe in a 2SS but only recognise one state. This govt uses the 2SS as cover to perpetually deny Palestinians their rights in the one state that actually exists

[Mx. Punky @MxPunky]

We all recognize that the point of running the government into the ground is simply to then privatize all those functions to the benefit of the owning class, right???

Failure *is* the plan.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

Read/copy/repost if you can
From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284: "I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."

[Clay Thompson. @harryt59_harry]

I've been a political junkie since the first Trudeau, and I have never witnessed anything so desperate and pathetic in my lifetime.
It's one thing to say it on the campaign trail but an official letter from the opposition? Never before.
This is just sad. Not leadership.

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Something stinks on Canada’s largest Reddit forum.

It just banned journalist @_llebrun.

His crime? Asking why his scoop on an anti-LGBTQ activist ambushing Trudeau in B.C. was removed.

He’s not the first to notice something seriously fishy over there:

[Alan Levinovitz @AlanLevinovitz]

When people believe the promises of a powerful guru, they will ignore all evidence that challenges their beliefs.

Let me illustrate with the craziest guru story you'll ever hear.

Meet Hulda Clark, PhD. She promised her followers the cure to all diseases. Literally.