For a large organization, maybe. For small scale organizing where the group is obeying laws, it probably isn’t worth the effort. Adding technical hurdles for little or no benefit weakens the group.

They’re Canadian, AFAICT.

Edit: to be clear: the Globe and Mail belongs in the Canadian Alternatives part of the list.

The Globe and Mail is owned by a private holding company that is, in turn, owned by the Thomson family, which Wikipedia describes as Canadian.

Current polls suggest Poilievre is one of the first casualties of Trump’s tariff threats. Which is hilarious.

+1 for AntennaPod. I haven’t found a great podcast player, but AntennaPod is the best I’ve seen.

Why the fuck is this candidate for the leadership of the Liberal party using Trump’s Putin supplied right wing grievance political talking points?

To get elected. That’s her job. As much as I like it, the carbon tax is a third rail - saying she’ll ditch it is an effective way to get elected.

Canadians are worried about pocket book issues right now. Politicians are right to focus on those. Presumably they’ll stay the course on trans issues when they make it in (as much as they are now). But centering a campaign on that would be a recipe for family.

For a small group that isn’t planning to break laws, this can be a pain in the butt. If the group is organizing a public protest or boycott, this is a barrier to entry for other participants.

An alternative is open communications: as a group, agree not to break any laws, agree not to joke about breaking laws, and then use whatever works for everybody.

If you are planning to break laws, give’r.

I’m a software developer. I’ve done a bunch of volunteering with protest/political groups. They rarely need my software skills

Instead: join a group, listen, figure out what they need, and do that.

Are they bad at organizing? Take minutes and set dates.

Are they trying to take donations? Offer to set up the bank account and track expenses.

Do they need a place to meet? Offer to schedule a room at the local library.

The mission art is amazing.

What do you mean “ex-believer”? I still use Linux every day.

The article mentions a number of troubling ways boys are doing worse than girls. Rates of suicide are much higher. There’s a gap in educational attainment:

On average, across every subject at GCSE, boys’ results are half a grade lower than girls’. At A-level, girls outperform boys by an average of more than a grade and a half across their best three subjects. Boys are also twice as likely as girls to be excluded from school, while in British universities, female students outnumber males by three to two.

In decades past, we rightly built programs to ensure that girls received a good schooling and were prepared for post secondary education. Boys need similar programs.

“Our education system is not working for boys,” the report warns. “From the day they start primary school, to the day they leave higher education, the progress of boys lags behind girls.” One of Sir Keir Starmer’s government “milestones” is to ensure that 75 per cent of reception-age children are ready for school. The figure is currently 67 per cent, but this conceals a huge gender gap: 75 per cent of girls are school-ready, compared with just 60 per cent of boys.

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Suicide is the biggest cause of death among young men. “Between the ages of 15 and 19, for every girl that took their own life, almost three and a half boys did likewise,” the report notes. “A man in the East Midlands is six times more likely to take [his] own life than a woman in London.”

How do you keep finding yourself on submarines? I’ve been around for a long time, and I’ve never been on a sub. I’ve never even been close enough to ask one about its ideology. Multiple subs? Damn.

This is one of those problems where I don’t really care about the exact nature of the solution, just that it’s addressed. Individuals hoarding wealth and power to the detriment of society is bullshit.

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“Open” is “.com” 2.0.

A true classic.

It’s a tax on assets and net worth.

Typically taxes are on income, but the stupidly wealthy pay accountants to do weird financial tricks so it looks like they don’t have income, even though they have incredible lifestyles and wield outsized influence thanks to their money. A wealth tax theoretically sidesteps that crap.

It’s right there in the first four words:

This Black History Month,

News sites typically try to associate stories with current events. Black History Month is scheduled, so it’s really easy to commission or pitch something like this.

I agree with your point, but it has more to do with how news organizations expect their readers to act than anything else.

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