https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/alberta-referendum-live-results-9.7385074
Surprise! Most Albertans want to stay in #Canada
Obviously
That it is even asked is a joke. And counts as a "win" for all the Russian/ American divide and conquer psyop, that the question had to even be asked. Sleaze thrives on attention. So now comes the endless lies about the #referendum to keep the #MapleMAGA idiots engaged and controlled
Abdul #ElSayed
Watch this clip and how he deftly dismantles #bigotry
He makes the parallel between the heckler questioning his loyalties because he is Muslim, with #JFK dealing with the same #religiousBigotry about JFK being Catholic
El-Sayed could go far. He's good at this
They're still setting up
"Who is the best leader in the world?"
" #Zelensky"
"Why?"
"Competency, rising to the occasion under difficult pressure, and charisma"
"Can you give me an example"
Addendum: but never forget the cost. This isn't a movie. Ukrainians pay for this daily with their lives. We must go all in helping Ukraine. They are so brave because they have to be. And let us be brave for them, not least because if #Ukraine loses we're next
6/5
#UkraineWar
I don't know why, but it all reminds me of this image
There's too much despondency and defeatism in the world. It's so fucking weak. Those who intend malice depend upon us just rolling over
Don't. All of their nasty games, just brush it off
Be like Ukraine:
Fight, you damn motherfuckers
We need to fight
Fight, always, never give up, never give in
5/5
The immediate fallout is that Ukraine is fucking fed up:
" #Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Is Done Holding Back on Russian #OilRefineries"
Amongst the first targets of their reenergized campaign? The export terminals Trump needs for his precious Russian #diesel 😂
4/x
And there is the #Starlink situation. Starlink cut off Ukraine, impacting their #drone operations. The #US govt said #Musk did it, Musk said the US govt did it. The blame game is a diversion, these plutocrat assholes work together
(Apparently Starlink is restored now)
"White House Denies Restricting Starlink in Ukraine"
"Musk Says US Government Controls Ukraine’s #Starshield Limits"
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/87085
3/x
The drama is that Trump is being hammered by #diesel prices due to his stupid war with #Iran. So he setup a deal with #Putin for some diesel. #Meloni is right wing but on the outs with #Trump: "outcome of this move is questionable, while the risks are clear: legitimizing #Moscow while its bombs continue to fall on Ukrainian cities, generating new revenue to finance the war, and implicitly weakening the leverage of #sanctions"
2/x
Piers Morgan sucks but this is an important clip with #Zelensky
"We are losing a strong partner"
Of course we have all known this for some time now
But the diplomatic way is to keep the drama under wraps and keep a facade of the cheerful smile. In the hopes that private dialogue might reverse things
Therefore, when this is said openly, a public break, that means the calculus has shifted that this is an irredeemable situation
1/x
Naomi Whitehead at age 16 in 1926 (some sources say 20 in 1930)
2nd picture: taken last month at her birthday party. She's 116 years old. Oldest living American, second oldest person in the world
She was widowed in 1979 after nearly 50 years of marriage. That was nearly 50 years ago
She was born in 1910, married her husband Sylvester in 1930, and they had three sons
She took assisted living 15 years ago at age 101, after her last living son Parrish died at age 78
#Zelensky: "When our strikes reached #Yandex’s #datacenters, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many #socialMedia platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer #bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were"
@katzentratschen @dictor @geoffl
so what did we learn here?
1. AI fakes have us all twisted and trusting nothing
2. pedants can be wrong. and social media does need to abide by the standards of legal dispensations
3.
@katzentratschen @dictor @geoffl
next another poster comes in with a whole portfolio of versions of the image and shows me how the version i used was just sort of touched up with AI. so i took one of the images, ran it through three freebie AI image checkers. they all report high probability not AI. so that version of the image gets restored to the top post
3/x
@katzentratschen @dictor @geoffl
next, the poster responds i should be more careful. i say no, this is informal social media not a doctoral dissertation. etc, etc. we go back and forth in the usual pathetic social media slapfight and i get the block. fine. one less pedant to deal with (see below, if you're interested, but you shouldn't be unless you like popcorn)
2/x
@katzentratschen @dictor @geoffl
"fun" times ahead! welcome to our world of fakes, pedants, and the devils in the details. a mildly entertaining/ annoying read:
so someone shows me a screenshot of an #openai tester page showing the following image is #AI (from my original post)
well not good enough, i want to verify
i go to openai myself, upload, and yes: this is AI
so i remove the image and thank the poster sincerely. i don't want to post AI
1/x
Have you ever apologized in your life?
No you have not
Not like #YujiNishida after he hit a line judge by accident with a bad serve
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/02/yuji-nishida-japan-volleyball-sliding-apology
