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You should go on strike

@alvincarpenter.bsky.social
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Strikes are popular. Every time there isn't a strike happening someone should be saying "I miss strikes, do you know when the next strike is?"

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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 1h
The "save millions" is really incidental - not having a fascist tech baron being able to shut off your government email/computer is the real reason to do it.
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Canada could save millions by developing its own operating system instead of relying on Microsoft Windows
A national, open-source operating system could help reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S. while improving security and saving a surprising amount of money.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 2h
It's in part the consequence of political deskilling where people think the only power they have is voting, so voting *correctly* is the only political question worth fighting over.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 3h
In 2024, Meta unveiled a new invite-only program called Facebook Content Monetization, designed to streamline earnings for creators. Many creators that were invited promoted white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideologies, and 29 accounts had histories of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.
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Meta Has Paid Far Right Accounts for Their Posts Ahead of the Midterms
An invite-only program for content creators has accounts promoting white supremacy, anti-LGBTQ, and neo-Nazi rhetoric.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 3h
Anarchist from Colony is about Korean anarchists who attempted an assassination of young Hirohito, but also is somehow a romcom and it works. Second half is court drama. It's on Tubi.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 3h
Them going from "Dalton Trumbo is right, wars are shit, we want the rights to his movie" to "to secure peace is to prepare for war! Don't tread on me!" Gadsden flag album cover in the middle of Iraq War I should have been a bigger alarm going off.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 4h
It has to be impossible with an LLM though. They don't/can't do anything approaching thinking.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 4h
"The law is always morally correct, our governments only pass laws in our interests" is stuff you figure out to be laughably untrue by around grade 7. Try to catch up.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4h
Hit dog will holler.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 5h
So I'm saying don't surrender control, calling Pritzker leftist is doing their work for them.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 5h
Otherwise you let fascists increasingly narrow the window of what's acceptable to discuss and push for.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 6h
Sure and conservatives were left leaning in Nazi Germany. The thing is we don't and shouldn't limit our understanding and articulation of the political spectrum to the overton window in one of the most reactionary countries today.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 6h
When the spectrum includes electeds openly saying they are socialist, a billionaire capitalist is not far left.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 6h
Celebrate after AI crashes.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 6h
Words have meanings. Leftist does not mean left of Republican but still capitalist.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 15h
New from me. I wrote about the immigration questions on Alberta’s referendum ballot. www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/14/s...
CALGARY-Why are there immigration questions for Alberta's Oct. 19 referendum on separating from Canada? The answer is that immigration is the cornerstone of global far-right movements integrated into the Alberta separatist push. Immigration acts as a cognitive baseline and the connective tissue intended to argue separatism through a specific lens, and that lens is a fascist and racist one.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
First bike lane removal truck blocked.
People blocking a construction vehicle
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The Asheville Blade @avlblade.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The police, y'all.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I am so so tired of speculative investment driving the tech/business agenda. This is about the 4th major round in my professional lifetime of unsustainable nonsense taking up all the oxygen and leaving a trail of wreckage.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 13/10/2026
Little domino labeled "Hangman Adam Page says "workers' rights" in a promo"

leading to a big domino labeled "The Houthis have caught, and compromised to a permanent end, Danhausen"
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ms.Rachel is more metal than Metallica
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sure, fine them enough that we just own it anyways, or send the a bill for the decades of tax breaks.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Buying is the compromise option. Expropriation without compensation pls and thx.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
'It fits important patterns: #climate denialism in service to fossil fuel companies; callous disregard for human suffering; and federal abdication of responsibility for the general welfare.' truthout.org/articles/ext...
truthout.org
Extreme Weather Disasters Cost Hundreds of Billions. Let’s Make Polluters Pay.
As the Trump administration guts disaster aid, it’s time for an extreme weather superfund paid for by fossil fuel firms.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Siraya, an Indigenous language declared extinct in the 19th century, is now being taught in 26 schools in Taiwan. Siraya activist Uma Talavan & her husband Edgar Macapili spent over 20 years reconstructing the language. buff.ly/2roj7FB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Siraya language, deemed ‘extinct’ over a century ago, finds its voice again in Taiwan
TAINAN, Taiwan — Since she was old enough to understand it, Uma Talavan has known she belongs to the Indigenous Siraya people.  She knew almost nothing of her ethnicity, however, the identity of…
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Do you like: Sammo Hung, made up stuff about Taoism, sorcery battles, hopping vampires, Sammo Hung naked, plus Sammo Hung fighting his own possesed hand? Then Encounters of the Spooky Kind is your movie.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026
And with that we have our first dead AI startup
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
 A set of two cartoon screenshots showing a mouse - Winslow T. Oddfellow - opening a door and then promptly leaving, often used as a popular internet meme to signify discomfort or information overload.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Gotta tell them AI is going to perfect painless penis reconstructive surgery (with option for cybernetic super penis), so if they don't slam their dick in their car door then they are denying AI's potential.
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Photo of Amy Klobuchar with BROW FURROWED in a Dark Souls title overlay
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In the Cheers episode "Grease," Rebecca claimed she witnessed Frasier dance around the bar in his underwear when they brought back Classic Coke. Classic Coke debuted in July 1985. Rebecca started at Cheers in September 1987.
Simpsons screenshot: "Genius at Work" nerd at the Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Meet and Greet.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 12/10/2026
I'm going to use that video of the data center on fire as my virtual Yule log.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Gillo Pontecorvo for directing anti-colonial movies Burn! and Battle of Algiers. Algiers pissed off French colonizers so much the movie ended up banned in France.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
100%, but just look at the train wrecks in places like BC, Brazil, the US. Fascism is not a politics of calm and stability, and liberals tend not to respond very well themselves.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That's going to be true of pretty much everywhere as fascism continues to rise and (not enough) people push back.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And the last paragraph is, once again, "Nigel Farage is right" The complete and utter refutation of this racist narrative is required, but once again we won't see it because there's a broad political consensus in this country on the notion that everything is our fault
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Back to kissing Trump's ass. www.narcity.com/carney-zelen...
narcity.com
Carney: Trump's 'energy ceasefire' could 'de-escalate' war in Ukraine
Carney talks to Trump and Zelenskyy about energy
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I don't think I'll ever watch this video, because there's no way it could ever live up to the hilarity of just the thumbnail and title for me. I'm in tears 🤣
A video asking 'Could a Victorian Child Survive Taco Bell?' and the thumbnail is a presumable Victorian boy on one side, and a taco bell burrito on the other side.
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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All Canadians should be eligible for a free shingles vaccine Canada may not have a national health care system, but we should still have coherent national policies on essential issues like vaccination, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: All Canadians should be eligible for a free shingles vaccine
Canada may not have a national health care system, but we should still have coherent national policies on essential issues like vaccination
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ᵀᴴᴱꀤNGᒪOᖇIOᑌᔕ¹🇨🇦 @inglorious.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Every hospital in Gaza was bombed. Every school flattened. Whole towns of houses and markets reduced to bloodied rubble. Water treatment plants destroyed. Cemetaries and parks bulldozed. Israel ravaged civilian infrastructure; you support them. You're an especially vile kind of cunt, Mark Carney.
The Houthi attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and in particular the strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, are abhorrent.

There can be no justification for attacks on civilian infrastructure. No political or military objective can justify the deliberate targeting of innocent people.

Canada condemns these reckless acts of violence in the strongest possible terms. We extend our deepest condolences to the families of those killed and wish a full recovery to those injured.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Question you maybe don't have an answer for: how many of the electeds and top staffers are still active on twitter? Having their brains at least partially cooked by Elon would explain some things.
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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 11/10/2026
This month’s sticker design for Patreon!
Medieval style rendering of Godzilla in front of a cloud of smoke and fire, with text written in red gothic letters that says “Go ahead and destroy the data centers, Godzilla. Make the people happy.”
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Happy La Parka dancing to Thriller month to those that celebrate.
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La Parka entrance
YouTube video by markmizzles
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 10,1954
P1- A BURGLAR STEPS THROUGH THE SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WINDOW 
P2- THE BURGLAR SEES SLUGGO ASLEEP IN HIS BED, AND HE SEES THE CONDITIONS SLUGGO IS LIVING IN
P3- THE BURGLAR FEELING SORRY FOR SLUGGO, PLACES SOME COINS INTO SLUGGO’S PIGGYBANK AS HE STEPS OUT THE WINDOW AND LEAVES
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/10/2026
Heard someone suggest a reason that kids drink and do drugs less these days is because so many more are properly medicated for Adhd and autism and it's been stuck in my head since
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Big thumbs up to the consultant class who enabled this "strategic" move incl former Notley staffer Cheryl Oates.
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kidd bandit @kiddbanditpro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
jumping triple side kick / liu kang bicycle kicks inspired by donnie yen
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