Pierre Poilievre calls industry advocacy groups “money-sucking” and “useless.”

So why does he meet with them and accept their donations at his fundraisers?

Find out: https://theijf.org/poilievre-capp-fundraisers

#Canada #News #cdnpoli

Bronze Age frescoes from Akrotiri on Aegean island of Thera (modern-day Santorini) provide some of most famous images from ancient Greek world.

Around 1600 BC, Thera suffered a devastating earthquake which destroyed town, and this catastrophe was soon followed by a volcanic eruption which covered settlement of Akrotiri in metres-thick layers of pumice and volcanic ash. As a result, vibrant frescoes which were on the walls of almost all buildings in the town have been remarkably well preserved.

I just tried Blue Sky. It’s like people escaping the Spanish Inquisition raving over McDonald’s.

#BlueSky #Mastodon #fedi

Steep Pyramid Steps from the Pyramid of the Magician, Uxmal, Mexico.

The Pyramid stands at a height of 40m and it's construction was completed in several phases, over three centuries during the Terminal Classic Period (6th-10th Century AD).

📷© Bernard Dupont

#archaeohistories

I like having Bluesky because it is a non-Twitter, non-Facebook space where I can hear from all my friends who are unable or unwilling to use Mastodon (a site with real barriers to entry). I haven't talked to a lot of those folks much since 2022 and I missed them.

I have intricate arguments why Bluesky is the wrong technical model for a distributed social network. But if a person has already decided *for nontechnical reasons* that they aren't using Mastodon, those arguments mean nothing to them