I should've just blocked you. Will fix.
🌅Solarpunk, Stockdale Paradox & Spicy (neurologically, anyway). Respecter of all humans; living in the neocon hell of Alberta🌾. 😫
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I should've just blocked you. Will fix.
Trump DOJ has deleted a National Institute of Justice study showing that “white supremacist & far-right violence in the USA outpaces all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”Per Wayback Machine it was there on 9/12 Fascists erase violent history for one reason—to repeat history.
#HopeCore - cause we ALL need it! vt.tiktok.com/ZSDBGoF4w/
Google is free! (Most all Canadians already have enough first-hand stories of Americans who know nothing about Canada, so thanks, but I'm full up and can't add you.)
It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
Hey, look! @abdanielsmith.bsky.social is making 30's-style "papers, please" easier: we're going to have to provide proof of citizenship/immigration status to renew drivers licences! I'm sure this will lead to no abuses WHATSOEVER! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Pink Pony Club from the mother's perspective - please listen, this is beautiful: youtu.be/qhvV-p6hpvQ?...
So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do. This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won. 11/end
You know what time it is…24 hours to keep Spark Space open! This week is special because Spark is hosting hundreds of high school students for their exams—for the first time in two years. The space is providing electricity. YOU cover that cost! 33/350 chuffed.org/project/spar...
Three times in one week. These are dark times, my friends.
Absolute 🔥🔥🔥! Gift link, & it's short: READ THIS!
Let's keep this new American Puritanism out of Canada! Please sign 👇
I am tired of the circumstances of my life being determined by men on the brink of non-existence who think they’ll never die if they have enough power.
Around the 1970s, billionaires did the math and realized that it was cheaper to buy the entire political system, an army of judges to rule in their favor, and the media ecosystem than it was to pay their taxes.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Things are going swimmingly in 'Berta. NA leader in measles cases, only province to charge for COVID vaccine, a separatist Trump sycophant for a Premier, repeated attacks against people w/ disabilities, book bans, billions & billions in waste, a $6.3B deficit... www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
There's a REASON the right keeps telling you violent crime is surging when it's NOT. youtu.be/xxq_dkdEZ9w?...
INCREDIBLE thread about the bioterror possibilities of social media & "this one weird trick". You don't even need to make the toxins anymore!
"Panic! It's the Mongols!" ("We Didn't Start the Fire" - but make it bardcore 😂) youtu.be/drDs-Y5DNH8?...
wishing the best for stovey for people new to Bluesky, when this place was much smaller, stovey made it her personal mission to like every post. EVERY post. manually. just to be nice. we need more stovey in the world. not less.
Sarah Taber, spot-on as always: youtube.com/shorts/THHLR...
people keep mentioning more blankets, but, like, the easiest solution is just to unplug the bed
I need an anthropologist to do some deep ethnography here. Gimme that thick description and Lévi-Strauss. I need at least 9k words not including footnotes thx
This place sounds like where Star Trek writers go for tech inspo. 🤣
The employee behind the front counter has the thousand yard stare of a man who deals with the sort of people who come in to a surplus store screaming that they need a working power supply for the Antikythra Mechanism, and then when he finds one say that it’s overpriced.
Truly a GREAT thread!
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Def not so great as protection, but as source control, when everyone is doing it? Def way better than a kick in the teeth. Not useless at all.
Except: we were there, & saw "mask mandates - cases down" & "no mandate - cases up" with zero mandates as to what kind of mask. & Anecdotal cases of "hairdresser had COVID, but masked, & no customers contracted it."
If you feel unsafe because people are at their limit with the genocide, and are trying to wield the little power they have over the few people, including you, who can do something. Doing something about it seems like to be a viable solution to your safety concerns?
"Oh, but you see: I follow a philosophy of *case-inclusive realism*" 🤦♀️ bsky.app/profile/tast...
The genius machine *SEPTUPLED*-down on there being 3 B's in "blueberry". 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
PP skipped tonight's BRC By-Election Candidate Forum. He had other priorities in Calgary. vt.tiktok.com/ZSSVASHj7/
“This Is Orchestrated Killing”: MSF Calls for Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Aid Sites to Be Shut Down www.democracynow.org/2025/8/7/hea...
Not disagreeing that we should generally reward honesty and disincentivize lying. I will say, though, we are in a fascist era and there will be (and already are) a lot of powerful folks asking a lot questions they have no moral right to ask. And truthful answers there can be dangerous.
If disrespect was sincerely not meant, then they'd be stopping and apologising since THEY'RE VERY MUCH SUCCEEDING AT BEING DISRESPECTFUL, SEXIST ASSHOLES!
I suddenly feel much better about never having gotten into Pepys! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
It’s no exaggeration to say that Luke Farritor—and all the other little DOGE goblins—are quite literally mass murderers guilty of crimes against humanity. The shuttering of USAid is going to have a body count in the millions
How disgusting is it to see a 🇨🇦Canadian company bidding to do work for the 🇺🇸American Gestapo? 🙄
The openly-declared intention is to throw a lot of people out of work & that will eventually lead to social chaos or breakdown. How this isn't obvious to everyone, idk, but I'm cool to stay on this side of history, thanks.
If genocide isn't your redline, then you have no redlines. The Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed temporarily as tens of thousands of Australians made their voices heard against Israel's genocide in Gaza. #FreePalestine #3E
People kept saying Canada would be crushed by Trumps tariffs, and we should just give up. Now it looks like by Canada electing a smart, capable leader, look at the results. This is why Canada shouldn't flinch on Trumps bad deal.
All surviving former IDF Chiefs of Staff, Mossad directors, Shin Bet Chiefs and Police Commissioners have issued a joint statement warning Israel that Netanyahu is leading the nation to unprecedented defeat. (Restart Israel)
Check this OUT! Beautiful!!
You cannot make a deal with a criminal who changes his mind every day. We Canadians have had enough. Nothing will change until he and his regime are dragged out of office. Until then, we need to walk away.
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The math of genocide, or: how to starve an entire people by allowing (a few) trucks in: youtube.com/shorts/yfiPd...
Minorities, yes, but also LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, etc who moved there from rural communities they were born into precisely because they kept being told they "didn't belong". There is no satisfying these bigots! 🤬
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
In other words, noncombatants have been dying not because of any need to accomplish any military objective, but dying to preserve (criminal defendant) Bibi’s hold on power.
What could possibly go wrong? (😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱)
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
LMAO!!
Yeah: move it OUT OF THE US, def, but idc where - whoever's *actually* best-suited. Trump will be angered no matter who it goes to (yay!) - we don't need the target on *our* backs.
Trumpy will lose his shit if this happens. Just. Do. It.
Absolutely the fuck NOT! Did NO-ONE actually *read* 1984?!
As “non AI-contaminated” training datasets become the next gold rush, corporations will infiltrate & steal every layer of human-to-human interaction. Need to stop this now. Refuse these products (ai watches, glasses).
AI optimism lets you openly long for a return to slavery in polite company and also in denial to yourself that you are a bad person.
Olga Cherevko: “If you look at Gaza now…people have been deprived of everything that sustains life: shelter materials, fuel, cooking gas, hygiene materials, everything that one needs to feel dignified, to have some sort of semblance of normality." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
Please sign this petition - which is NOT limited to US residents! End the new American concentration camps!
He's a Trump appointee (Senate-confirmed). Pretty sure thinking we should be doormats was a job requirement. 🤷♀️
You might think I am hyperbolical and overly profane in my rhetoric… but this is the fucking Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies. This is how desperate the circumstances are.
"The only reason people think bombing Gaza into oblivion is hurting children is propaganda!"
It's from Gabrielle Blair, aka designmom -- I can't find the screenshotted version but here's her Substack version of the thread.
There was a thread a few years ago on Twitter, basically a dude vowing to do anything to protect his family and god responding with things like "wash your hands" "get vaccinated" learn to use a thermometer when cooking meat" Not sure if I screenshot it, but it lives in my head rent free
Reminds me of one of my favorite Brothers Karamazov quotes: "Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all... 1/2
Oh man, the woman in the comments going "how would my husband even know if there was an intruder in the middle of the night? He never woke up hearing any of our babies." 😬
lots of "by any means necessary" guys amped up by the possibility that the necessary means might be "risking horrifically violent death at the hands of militias and/or the state" but strangely unwilling to consider that they might be "doing the dishes" or "making common cause with winemoms"
"look upon my AuDHD, ye mighty, and despair!" no spoons beside remain.
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Not Boomer to object to the new, highly-addictive substance of our times.
let gaza live
The "vibe" in "vibe-coding" is clearly "slot machine" & these tech bros are HOOKED. 🎰🎰🎰
The famine has reached the stage where these videos are about to become horrifyingly common and widespread. This is entirely the result of US/UK/German foreign policy.
Thank you @briannaabbott.bsky.social for this wonderful piece, and highlighting what the MIT MAESTRO study means to our participants! I love that my quote was about HOPE. I KNOW that this is a solvable problem. We need to work together to fix it! www.wsj.com/health/chron...
in the richest country in the world, 600,000 people are unhoused while 17 million homes sit empty. and Americans are so indoctrinated that they have normalized this absurdity.
Canadians had best not be smug. Most of our press and social media is already owned by the billionaire class. Our politics may not be as extreme or blatant but the far right continues to grow here and has already made disturbing noises against publicly funded and mainstream news.
James Doohan wasn’t just Scotty on Star Trek, he was also a Canadian who served his country and landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. He then went on to become a gifted actor, trained by fellow Canadian Lorne Greene. This is his story. 🧵 1/12
Wait, WHAT?!?!
(Narrator:) "He did not, of course, take a break from AI assistance or hire a human." 🤦♀️
By Day 10, it straight-up tells him to hire a human, LOL:
There was a time when you could describe Gaza as an "open-air prison," and people would scoff at the ludicrous hyperbole, and now we're at "Gaza is an open-air death camp" and that's just ... true.
It's a 5-phase system INTENDED to get people/govs/orgs fucking MOVING before it gets to that point. Not as a delaying "oh, see it's not so bad yet" as Israel supporters have been using it. 🤬
Famine (since the 90's, I think) has a technical definition that includes - for a pop size of Gaza - literally hundreds of people dying of malnutrition every day. www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...
The UTTER, FUCKING SHAMELESSNESS of Dani Smith never ceases to amaze me.😲😲😲 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“Our grandfathers had it easier because women weren’t allowed to open bank accounts or have credit cards” - yeah so what you’re saying is, you cannot cope with a slightly more level playing field and you need women to be a perpetual underclass so that you can succeed.
Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.
Pro tip: an event that doesn’t result in an immediate change of policy isn’t “performative.” The bar you are setting for your activism is fucking impossible; that’s how you kill activism.
If you die from blood clots from Covid (increased risk for 6 m-1 year) you didn’t die from Covid. If you have cardiovascular disease from Covid that kills you three months later, not Covid. What did most people die from during the AIDS epidemic? Pneumonia. We don’t call it the pneumonia epidemic.
The evolution from roads designed for cars, to streets designed for people. It’s never been about whether or not there’s “enough room” — It’s ALWAYS been about our priorities. Nice graphic via @bikeyface.bsky.social. #multimodal
As an Albertan: can confirm - though I still wonder if you're seeing genuinely more AB plates, or if they're just not declining as much. Either way: feel free to give them hell!
"Admin will struggle with hiring & retention" - you say that like it's a bad thing?
Christians: I'm sorry, but I'm just assuming your religion is racism & imperialism until you - individually - clarify otherwise. 🤷♀️
Taking away a BIBLE, saying "no right to religion". I'm guessing the evangelicals will cheer, as always? 🤬
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
