Winston Smith 🇨🇦

Pro-democracy. Pro-human rights. Citizen of Earth since 1984. 🌎🍁

[Winston Smith 🇨🇦 @_WinstonS_]

My sister is a sufferer of schizophrenia and you are an utterly despicable human being for using the term like this.

My family — particularly my mother and two young nephews — have suffered in ways you can't even begin to imagine.

Ironically, I began following you after a tech-industry controversy that I felt you covered with immense grace, humility, and above-all... class.

What happened to you, Theo?

[Shafiur Rahman @shafiur]

Ko Tinmaung, a Toronto-based Rohingya activist, has been released after more than 96 hours in Israeli detention following Israel’s hijacking of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the abduction of its civilian participants.

His testimony is horrifying.

He says he was beaten in a dark room by more than five people, kicked, punched, tasered in multiple places, and handcuffed so tightly that the restraints cut into his wrists and restricted blood flow. He says he still needs treatment for concussion-like injuries.

He also says he witnessed other detainees with broken ribs, head wounds, blood from their ears, eye injuries, broken noses and broken teeth. Most gravely, he alleges sexual assaults, including people being tasered on their genitals.

Tinmaung’s testimony also exposes the racial dimension of Israeli violence. He says he was mocked as “Ahmed”, assaulted further, laughed at because of his skin colour, and treated as if his passport had no value because he was brown.

This was a civilian-led humanitarian mission carrying food, aid and basic supplies to Gaza. So where is Canada? Where are the human rights organisations? Where are the global leadership councils, the moral authorities, the professional defenders of accountability?

Silence now is not neutrality. It is complicity.

(Video courtesy https://t.co/WdpDXCJTFR)

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

As high-profile websites vanish, it’s a reminder that the web has no built-in archival layer.

But some publishers are now blocking the Wayback Machine.

What’s at stake if the web stops being archived? Our new FAQ explains: preserving the public record matters. 🌐📚 https://t.co/fifJnv3xiu

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

On this day in 2006, Capt. Nichola Goddard was killed in Afghanistan. She was the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat.
She was posthumously awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.
Two schools and a Coast Guard patrol vessel are named for her.

📸 Sally Goddard

[Winston Smith 🇨🇦 @_WinstonS_]

@CraigBaird I should add that the "fought ... for American freedom" bit is sort of tongue in cheek. It's there because Americans like to use this jingoistic propaganda phrase to describe the sacrifices of their veterans — even when those sacrifices have nothing to do with American freedom.

[Winston Smith 🇨🇦 @_WinstonS_]

@CraigBaird I created this meme some time ago to highlight the sacrifices we and other NATO allies made when the U.S. invoked article 5. It also contrasts those sacrifices with the reality of the Trump family's life-long singular focus on themselves.

Thanks for sharing her story.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Everybody should follow @AmberWoods100. She's got the facts on Jeffrey Epstein, supports the survivors, and she's fearless AF

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

lol no fucking way

[Winston Smith 🇨🇦 @_WinstonS_]

Are you going to answer the previous question honestly now and concede the point like an adult, or just pretend it didn't happen? I mean, are you actually the "Director" of an advocacy organization, or are you a child Arnie?

Which is it?

And no, according to science (anthropology) a tribe or group of tribes is not a "race". Furthermore, they aren't being given this privilege simply because of their "race" anyways, stupid.

I mean, I know your brain can't handle complexity and nuance, but please try to follow along. Otherwise, you might publicly humiliate yourself further. Like now.

How about this instead — Go outside, enjoy the sun and stop being a miserable, cowardly, little race-baiting troll?

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

A sitting member of Congress brutally beat his wife. He threw boiling water at her. He burned her.

In front of their young daughter.

The House of Representatives needs to immediately expel Rep @MaxMillerOH (R-OH).

No man who throws boiling water on his wife in front of their daughter is fit for office.

#ExpelMaxMiller #ExpelMiller

https://t.co/EdtSkcg3VZ

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

You can start by apologizing to your daughter Vivian

[Winston Smith 🇨🇦 @_WinstonS_]

@thevelvetmonke @TfTHacker Huh? I was responding to your comment about "graph structure, backlinks, and semantic relationships".

Markdown is already readable, and you're very obviously an LLM.

[Winston Smith 🇨🇦 @_WinstonS_]

@thevelvetmonke @TfTHacker Naw. A reasonably competent programmer paired with an LLM could do what was needed. These aren't complex data formats.
If something as popular as Obs dropped off the earth there'd be utils for extraction/conversion in days, if not hours. YMMV with more obscure plugins though.

[Space Ape @EatDaBugs]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. A FOREIGN PRIME MINISTER just told American media YOUR war isn't over, and casually floated sending YOUR sons into Iran to grab uranium.

NETANYAHU: "It's not over."

"You go in and you take it out."

REPORTER: With what? Special forces from Israel? From the United States?

"I'm not going to talk about military means, but what President Trump has said to me, I want to go in there."

"I think it can be done physically."

REPORTER: How long?

"I'm not going to give a timetable."

So a foreign leader sets the mission, dodges the means, refuses a timeline, and YOUR kids fight it. YOUR taxes fund it. YOUR dollar inflates for it.

This is Israel dictating YOUR foreign policy. Reject it. 🟧🦍

[Winston Smith 🇨🇦 @_WinstonS_]

@gator_gum Make racists afraid again.

[Winston Smith 🇨🇦 @_WinstonS_]

You continue to insult my intelligence by trying to find ways around answering the question like an honest person.

Once again your example is not analogous. But you know that, you're just afraid to engage honestly. It's so obvious. Your intellectual cowardice is palpable.

If you think Indians being ruled by Indians is the same as First Nations being ruled by former Europeans I literally don't know what to tell you.

Except maybe... stay in school, child.

[Winston Smith 🇨🇦 @_WinstonS_]

@PKSubban1 You're a great man, PK.

[Lincoln Square @LincolnSquareHQ]

Happy Mother’s Day to Renée Good. Today, we honor her memory, her courage, & the ultimate sacrifice she made. She should be here with her babies today, but her legacy lives on in the people she loved, the lives she touched, & the continued fight for a more compassionate & just world. 💐

[J Hunter🍁 @MrJoKeR604]

The correlation between Albertans complaining about Ottawa doing nothing for them and Albertans not wanting to do the census is hilarious.

[Gino Hard @GinoHard_]

P.K. Subban has fulfilled his $10 million commitment to Montreal Children’s Hospital — the largest donation by an athlete in Canadian history ❤️

A decade-long promise kept, with approximately 100,000 children helped. Respect 🫡