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I love you all but we need a city-wide refresher on civics 101 so ahead of the mayoral election, here's an explainer on what the mayor, premier and prime minister are responsible for (so that you can rail accordingly). thestar.com/gift-redeem?t=ea…

First time a Canadian PM has made an official visit to the territory “Mark Carney, announced today that he will travel to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, France, on September 20…to meet with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron” Hollande the last French leader to visit in 2014

Views over a Salt Marsh 🍁

In 2020, a student heard about object permanence in his undergrad psychology course. Object permanence is an early developmental stage when children come to understand that an object is still there, even when they can’t see it. It is acquired around the age of 18 months. Without it, we’d be profoundly disabled. Dogs have object permanence - if they didn’t, they would not chase after balls. That student made a TikTok video, claiming that object permanence was actually a symptom of his ADHD. He said when he couldn’t see things anymore, it was like they did not exist for him. Others picked it up and more videos appeared. It spread. Blog posts were written which described fairly typical forgetfulness, and called it object permanence. Walk into a room and forget what you came for? Perhaps you lack object permanence, and therefore have ADHD. The more it was talked about, the wider it spread. Infographics appeared. Losing your keys could, apparently, be a sign of poor object permanence. By 2025, parents were telling me that their teens had poor object permanence, and that’s why they couldn’t keep up with friends. By 2026, author and influencer Alex Partridge wrote in his bestselling book that object permanence was a symptom of ADHD. Object permanence went from one undergraduate’s TikTok video to mainstream acceptance within a few years. Most people now have no idea where it came from, or what the original concept of object permanence was. It’s become part of ADHD. And that’s how new ideas are emerging and gaining credibility in neurodivergence. No science, no scrutiny - all it takes is a TikTok post and a catchy name. Owen Chevalier tracked the evolution of object permanence in his paper, referenced below. Are there other terms like this that you’ve noticed emerging? Chevalier, O. (2024). "It starts on TikTok": Looping effects and the impact of social media on psychiatric terms. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 31(2).

UNICEF just confirmed children in Gaza are better fed than the rest of the Middle East. The “Gaza Famine” was always a hoax.

Stop the Ford government from revoking public access to information - Sign the Petition! c.org/hvW9M2K4zx via @CdnChange We signed..your turn🙏🏻🙏🏻

This hatefest has gone on year after year with no consequences. It is time @cityoftoronto stand up to hate and obtain an injunction to stop this bigotry.

Iranian women are dancing in the streets—without hair coverings—after hearing that Israel killed the tyrant Khamenei. So many Western leaders should feel ashamed at their cowardly response this morning. We will all remember.

Radical online content derails students hungry for info on Middle East conflict, study finds timesofisrael.com/radical-on…

“What I endured lasted from the very beginning to the very end.” Released hostage Arbel Yehud was sexually abused “almost every single day” by her Palestinian Islamic Jihad captors during her 482 days in captivity. LISTEN. BELIEVE. SHARE.

I have immense respect and admiration for holocaust/WWII historians. They do so much good work, and preserving/educating properly about that period of history is so important (and unfortunately topical). However, this rhetoric I’m seeing today is only showing me that these big organizations are run by genocidal zionists who are just using this holocaust for the gains of an apartheid state. The holocaust affected anyone that was “undesirable” in Hitler’s eyes. I’m appalled and disheartened to see that we’re playing hierarchies with the victims. They were all equally targeted. Never forget, never again needs to MEAN something.

This is really something. Trump has signed an executive order basically pledging Article 5-esque security guarantees to Qatar.