Yinlock
@yinlock.bsky.social
he/him. i'm bitter and ornery but still believe in people, somehow. i also post about video games sometimes
Free Palestine.
Free Palestine.
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Yinlock
@yinlock.bsky.social
· Dec 1
good quote from the ethicist there. "until equal opportunity to live with dignity is assured, death with dignity is not a real choice"
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A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News
For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
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Do you notice how basically nothing in British politics makes sense, unless key players and major commentators are absolutely deranged? And then it makes *way too much* sense, everything slots together just fine. Because it’s elite radicalisation, they have driven themselves and each other crazy.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Do you notice how basically nothing in British politics makes sense, unless key players and major commentators are absolutely deranged? And then it makes *way too much* sense, everything slots together just fine. Because it’s elite radicalisation, they have driven themselves and each other crazy.
Yeah giving conservatives everything they want in exchange for nothing is not convincing me he's good at politics.
Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yeah giving conservatives everything they want in exchange for nothing is not convincing me he's good at politics.
i have EXTREMELY bad news about what the US Military actually does
December 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
i have EXTREMELY bad news about what the US Military actually does
but like, this would be a war crime during a war also. the issue isn't if it's technically a war crime or not, the issue is that innocent people got killed for no reason.
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
but like, this would be a war crime during a war also. the issue isn't if it's technically a war crime or not, the issue is that innocent people got killed for no reason.
a bold new healthcare vision: what if we cherry-pick specific examples to frame all disabled people as liars and cheats
this has never once been done before
this has never once been done before
I do think the only workable solution is occasionally making a high profile, dramatic example of people who get caught flagrantly abusing the system which helps generate social opprobrium for rule breakers.
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 AM
a bold new healthcare vision: what if we cherry-pick specific examples to frame all disabled people as liars and cheats
this has never once been done before
this has never once been done before
I love Super Robot Wars
TARGET: GODZILLA! #srwy #srw #superrobotwars
YouTube video by RevoSKL
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I love Super Robot Wars
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
is there a name for the very specific range of cold inside the house where you instinctively do a shitty It's Cold Dance while rubbing your hands together
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
is there a name for the very specific range of cold inside the house where you instinctively do a shitty It's Cold Dance while rubbing your hands together
from the guy revamping the economy to cater to US tech interests and who was just begging Trump's forgiveness because a conservative was mean to him
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government announces that Canada is realigning Canada's economy away from the United States.
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
from the guy revamping the economy to cater to US tech interests and who was just begging Trump's forgiveness because a conservative was mean to him
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septuagenarian silent sociopaths with skin of weathered leather & blurry profile pics of ugly tabby cats & bios that begin “my dad killed Nazis” invariably relish in dehumanizing Muslims & trans ppl et al.
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
septuagenarian silent sociopaths with skin of weathered leather & blurry profile pics of ugly tabby cats & bios that begin “my dad killed Nazis” invariably relish in dehumanizing Muslims & trans ppl et al.
posts like this always make me think of this evergreen dril tweet
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
posts like this always make me think of this evergreen dril tweet
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It's also worth noting that romanticizing the rule of law means adopting a wholly false perspective around what the law is, who it targets, who it privileges, and how it functions—or I suppose it could just be an embrace of that hierarchy, which is also... a problem.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It's also worth noting that romanticizing the rule of law means adopting a wholly false perspective around what the law is, who it targets, who it privileges, and how it functions—or I suppose it could just be an embrace of that hierarchy, which is also... a problem.
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Both Liberals and Conservatives right now are like "fuck yeah our leader is playing 4d chess" and neither will ever admit their leader is being a fucking idiot.
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Both Liberals and Conservatives right now are like "fuck yeah our leader is playing 4d chess" and neither will ever admit their leader is being a fucking idiot.
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I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
i'm starting to think this carney guy isn't actually some kind of genius financial guru but is, in fact, just a greedy dipshit crook
Lose-lose.
"If I am right, the pipeline will either die — which will give Smith and the separatists an important new grievance — or be pushed through in a way that is toxic to Carney’s existing coalition and unfair to the formidable Indigenous people of northern BC"
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
"If I am right, the pipeline will either die — which will give Smith and the separatists an important new grievance — or be pushed through in a way that is toxic to Carney’s existing coalition and unfair to the formidable Indigenous people of northern BC"
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Stephen Maher: Mark Carney’s in a bigger mess than he thinks with this pipeline
Before the ink on the agreement has had time to dry, there are questions around the ability of Carney and his colleagues to get it built
www.thestar.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
i'm starting to think this carney guy isn't actually some kind of genius financial guru but is, in fact, just a greedy dipshit crook
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Desperately clung-to hypothesis: Carney is acting purely in the interest of average Canadians and is a 4D chess playing genius.
Alternative hypothesis: Carney is a banker and just here to enrich extractive, tech, and defense industries.
Which is consistent with basically all observation to date? 🤔
Alternative hypothesis: Carney is a banker and just here to enrich extractive, tech, and defense industries.
Which is consistent with basically all observation to date? 🤔
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Desperately clung-to hypothesis: Carney is acting purely in the interest of average Canadians and is a 4D chess playing genius.
Alternative hypothesis: Carney is a banker and just here to enrich extractive, tech, and defense industries.
Which is consistent with basically all observation to date? 🤔
Alternative hypothesis: Carney is a banker and just here to enrich extractive, tech, and defense industries.
Which is consistent with basically all observation to date? 🤔
PSA: do not give Mark Kelly your money. I know he's the "good guy" of the current controversy and has an innate aura of Respectability due to military propaganda but he is a big ol Zionist who sucks. Taking AIPAC cash, championing the Iron Dome, the works.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
PSA: do not give Mark Kelly your money. I know he's the "good guy" of the current controversy and has an innate aura of Respectability due to military propaganda but he is a big ol Zionist who sucks. Taking AIPAC cash, championing the Iron Dome, the works.
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Also, Mark Kelly gave Netanyahu a standing ovation and condemned the ICC. Fuck him.
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Also, Mark Kelly gave Netanyahu a standing ovation and condemned the ICC. Fuck him.
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there is no end to the war in ukraine other than a negotiated peace. you can dislike the specific peace being discussed but if you actually believe that ukraine is going to march on moscow and that that would result in anything but nuclear armageddon you're a fucking insane, bloodthirsty shithead
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
there is no end to the war in ukraine other than a negotiated peace. you can dislike the specific peace being discussed but if you actually believe that ukraine is going to march on moscow and that that would result in anything but nuclear armageddon you're a fucking insane, bloodthirsty shithead
Has anyone bothered asking Ukrainians what they want?
The media needs to stop calling it a peace plan. It's a Republican surrender plan for Europe. Why? Because Republicans have embraced fascist plutocracy and Europe isn't.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
Trump’s signals to Zelensky and Europe: Accept this plan or you’re on your own | CNN
The 28-point plan hammered out by US and Russian envoys and put to Ukraine this week came with a deadline and an implicit threat: Sign up or face the risk of being abandoned.
www.cnn.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Has anyone bothered asking Ukrainians what they want?
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If you're keeping score this week, Carney is:
* Negotiating backroom deals on pipelines with Alberta and without BC or Indigenous folks.
* Undermining anti-greenwashing laws.
* Making deals with the UAE despite their role in Sudan.
* Cutting funding for infectious disease work in Africa.
* Negotiating backroom deals on pipelines with Alberta and without BC or Indigenous folks.
* Undermining anti-greenwashing laws.
* Making deals with the UAE despite their role in Sudan.
* Cutting funding for infectious disease work in Africa.
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you're keeping score this week, Carney is:
* Negotiating backroom deals on pipelines with Alberta and without BC or Indigenous folks.
* Undermining anti-greenwashing laws.
* Making deals with the UAE despite their role in Sudan.
* Cutting funding for infectious disease work in Africa.
* Negotiating backroom deals on pipelines with Alberta and without BC or Indigenous folks.
* Undermining anti-greenwashing laws.
* Making deals with the UAE despite their role in Sudan.
* Cutting funding for infectious disease work in Africa.
the liberal Chosen One
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
the liberal Chosen One