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S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD

@ashleighweeden.bsky.social
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*maybe not here quite so much, as I tend to my grief and growth* Dr. Weeden. She/Her. Rural Futurist. Feminist. Curious/Furious. Place, power, policy. Obsessed with questions like "why?" and "so what?"

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S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD @ashleighweeden.bsky.social · 18h
If we've ever spent more than 10 seconds together, you'll know my brain works in stories & I believe it's the most important skill I've got. My pals at the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation have asked me to share why on Nov 12th - snag your free seat below: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-power-...
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The Power of Storytelling for Shaping Purpose and Presence
Learn to craft stories that align your purpose, values and presence to amplify your impact in rural research and practice.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 18h
As you sift through the news and through the opinions about the possible outbreak of plague in Russia, please keep in mind, please try to keep in mind, that New York has declared a statewide disaster emergency over the current outbreak of measles in that state.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19h
nothing is more LinkedIn-pilled than assessing the ROI of fun
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026
Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...
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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
will you people shut the fuck up
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'There is an urgent need for an Emergency Debate to allow Parliamentarians to respond to the attacks on the truth of what happened in residential schools,' says NDP MP Leah Gazan.
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Gazan calls for emergency debate on residential school denialism
NDP MP Leah Gazan is calling for an emergency debate in the House of Commons over residential school denialism.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was so clear that one of the first things Carney was doing was killing free contraception and diabetes meds. #CdnPoli
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket.
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Tyler @handle.invalid · 03/10/2026
This is the crux of the problem. 'AI' is not a single, coherent, tractable tech, but a series of elaborate constructions and workarounds meant to give and sustain the illusion of human-like intention. The specific tech used is irrelevant and variable as long as it accomplishes that
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Nicola Searle, an innovation scholar…argued that universities’ biggest research-security vulnerability is their financial position. Institutions facing severe financial pressures and job cuts are more exposed to risk.” www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Universities face ‘struggle’ to vet China funding after MI5 warning - Research Professional News
Security service intervention prompts call for more intelligence sharing to help universities with research security
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Robert Lepage, PhD., P.Eng. @rtmlepage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In order to monetize the endangering of orcas, Mark Carney is creating a new training program so that unemployed orcas can now work with the economy, instead of against it. With this new program, orcas will be trained to tow LNG tankers down the straight. They will be paid in fish. Win-win!
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Behold, a column by the @theglobeandmail.com's Tony Keller that cries out for a debunking. Allow me. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: This was the week Canada stopped shooting its oil patch in the foot
We’re finally witnessing our country act with some sense of its own self-interest
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S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD @ashleighweeden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the (many) reasons I loathe the current zest for “rewilding”.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 02/10/2026
Beyond the monetary value of carbon credits sits something more complex: every restoration project involves trade-offs, and somebody carries them.
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Mangrove restoration is becoming big business, but benefits don’t always reach local people
Beyond the monetary value of carbon credits sits something more complex: every restoration project involves trade-offs, and somebody carries them.
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 02/10/2026
In less than a year, a private company is set to destroy the largest cache of records detailing the widespread abuse of Indigenous children at residential schools in Canada.
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‘Almost too much to contemplate’
Unease stirs as clock ticks down on destruction of records documenting residential school abuses
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Pam Palmater @pampalmater.com · 01/10/2026
It was an honour to host Turtle Island Talks and hear from Phyllis Webstad whose story inspired Orange Shirt Day; Niigaan Sinclair who discussed residential school denialism; and Michelle Good who reflected on the path forward. Listen on the Indigiverse on SiriusXM! can.siriusxm.com/player/show/...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is foul. A reader reached out and told me the first google result when you search "kamloops unmarked graves discovery" is residential school denial. I did the search myself, and I found the same thing. The first non-sponsored result is the Fraser Institute's residential school denial.
Google search result for "kamloops unmarked graves discovery" has, as its first non-sponsored post, a publication from the Fraser Institute.

It reads: "No evidence of 'mass graves' or 'genocide' in residential ..."

"Feb 12, 2024 — ... Kamloops narrative are either false or highly exaggerated. No unmarked graves have been discovered at Kamloops or elsewhere-not one. As of ... Read more"Another screenshot shows the only result before the Fraser Institute result is a sponsored post from Angus Reid, affirming that the Fraser Institute result is the first non-sponsored one.Screenshot shows the intial response Google provides to the search "kamloops unmarked graves discovery"

All you can see on this first screenshot is the AI overview (barf) and the sponsored result from Angus Reid. However, as the other screenshots show, that Angus Reid result is followed by the first non-sponsored result: residential school denial from the Fraser Institute.
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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A necessary read
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 01/10/2026
AI is already being used to deny disabled people medically necessary care, and anywhere it costs money to include us is likely next. I've spent most of 2026 on public opinion research with TechTonic Justice about how to fight back, and we're unveiling it tomorrow, Friday, at 1PM ET
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Webinar Invite: Winning Against AI & Economic Injustice | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
For almost all of 2026 I have been facing a medical crisis. As many of you know all too well, attempting to navigate the American health car
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S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD @ashleighweeden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Magpie behaviour is gonna be our undoing, I swear. This is why civil servants who understand *their actual job* are so important. The job, often, is to say “no” to a LOT of stuff - the gig requires one to be the clearest head in the room, not the one promoting whatever the current Tamagotchi is...
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blair @blairaf.com · 01/10/2026
The operational backbone of Canadian government & academia exists on Microsoft Google AWS infrastructure but instead of a serious conversation about building foundations for public interest digital infra we are much more fixated on the hot shiny AI toys
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S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD @ashleighweeden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the true joys of my life is that it includes regular, big, meandering AND productive time with Bianca (who 2016 me would absolutely if she knew this was gonna be happening). She’s a real one.
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Dr. Tanya Lentz, R.Psych. @pednpsy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today is a good day to remember that just because someone can give a good speech, it does not mean they support good things. It means they are good at speeches. Look to people’s actions.
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 30/09/2026
Fat bears > skinny celebrities
Photo of Backpack, the winner of Alaska’s fat bear week, standing next to water and looking majestically chonky.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Guys I'm listening to the Q&A of the pipeline announcement and the first question (with three mins left in the video!!) about anything other than the economics of the pipeline came from POSTMEDIA POSTMEDIA was the first to ask about Indigenous consultation. What is everyone else DOING bro?????
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 30/09/2026
Making common cause in slowness. Operating actively against the industrialized clock of never-ending productivity is part of disability justice. It’s also a way to protect the time and space necessary to reconsider and reconfigure relations. medium.com/@biancawylie...
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tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster
responding with slowness in relations
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Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This one is a special one. Slow, real world research is quite possibly why, at the end of the day, I'm a writer.
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 01/10/2026
Blessings upon her
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As @jameswsthomson.com noted already, the sheer audacity of Carney to begin his oil pipeline announcement by mentioning a wildfire that almost levelled the town. WHAT IS EXACERBATING THE WILDFIRES MARK???? MARK???
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here’s AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak last week saying the major projects office — which Carney touted as doing sufficient consultation ahead of naming this oil pipeline in the “national interest” — “don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to First Nations.” TRC day was yesterday.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Repeat after me: there is no connection between this and the recent Chair of Brookfield (PM Carney) permitting a ton more fracking which will use this pipeline network.
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Enbridge completes sale of its Canadian natural gas gathering & processing business to Brookfield Infrastructure | | Torys LLP
<p>Enbridge in its C$4.31 billion sale of its Canadian natural gas gathering and processing&nbsp;business in the Montney, Peace River Arch, Horn River and Liard basins in British Columbia and Alberta ...
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's an irrelevant fact: In July of 2018 Brookfield Infrastructure bought Enbridge’s Western Canadian natural gas gathering and processing business for C$4.31 billion.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TFW you realize you quote-posted the wrong story. (I blame it on being muddy-headed from a cold.) This is the actual story that the #GiftLink 🎁 below in my post is about.
A post from Justin Ling with the following text: 
I spent the summer trying to understand what makes Mark Carney's government tick. What I found is a C-Suite obsessed with efficiency — which is trying to ignore what's deeply broken. 

The photo accompanying the story is Mark Carney in a dark suit looking coldly determined.

The headline reads: Justin Ling: Who does Mark Carney really listen to? I asked insiders
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Pam Palmater @pampalmater.com · 01/10/2026
Msit No'kmaq (All My Relations) is a short docu-series co-directed & produced by the Office of Senator Prosper in collab w/ Kilam Media about Bill S-2 & why we must remove the second-generation cut-off. #bills2 #humanrights #firstnations #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RB1...
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EP01: Continuing the Fight Against Extinction
YouTube video by End the Cut Off
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 01/10/2026
Local woman wakes up, screams into the void again, makes oatmeal.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD @ashleighweeden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lotta hand-wringing by urban types about “foreign direct investment” - and I’m here like Wylie Coyote with a huge sign saying “please, for the love of everything, learn our own history” because you only need to look at about 500 years of resource economics to see how “strip it and ship it” works.
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S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD @ashleighweeden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I swear to Dolly, my epitaph will read “government is not business” or “the job of good public stewardship is to make exploitation and extraction by private capital harder, not easier” (admittedly that second one doesn’t roll off the tongue).
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 01/10/2026
I spent the summer trying to understand what makes Mark Carney's government tick. What I found is a C-Suite obsessed with efficiency — which is trying to ignore what's deeply broken. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: Who does Mark Carney really listen to? I asked the insiders
It’s become clear that the prime minister would much rather circumvent problems than fix them.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Brenda Peters RN(NP), PhD 🇨🇦 @brenda-peters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grateful for @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social persistence in speaking truth. Wish we would listen/learn/change "My point: emergencies are always the justification for taking Indigenous lands. So, I wasn’t surprised to see fed govt’s new BillC-39, the Building🇨🇦Strong Act, suddenly proposed in Parliament"
winnipegfreepress.com
Opinion: Opinion: Building Canada Strong Act just another way of sidestepping Indigenous rights
In 1846, Britain faced an emergency influenced by the Irish famine, so leaders repealed the country’s “Corn Laws” and restrictions on imported food and grain, transitioning to a system of free trade.
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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Honouring Alfred Kirkness, a hero who fought and made possible for everyone to remember children lost at Brandon Residential School - today’s #nationaldayfortruthandreconciliation column www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2026/0...
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Opinion: Hero fought to remember children lost at residential school
The story of the gravesites of students who attended the Brandon Indian Residential School underneath the Turtle Crossing Campground is truly a Manitoba tragedy.
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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Keep your eyes on Ottawa, on old plans to take Indigenous lands are being dresses up in new clothes. See @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social in the Freep: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Opinion: Opinion: Building Canada Strong Act just another way of sidestepping Indigenous rights
In 1846, Britain faced an emergency influenced by the Irish famine, so leaders repealed the country’s “Corn Laws” and restrictions on imported food and grain, transitioning to a system of free trade.
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Proofs ✅ Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism will be available wherever you buy books, September 9. You can pre-order now: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-.... Royalties going to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
edmontonjournal.com/... "Albertans should worry about their access to health care. As a physician in the public system, listening to the conversations among my colleagues, I fear my children will not have the care they will actually need." Please take a moment to read 👇
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Opinion: Who pays for Alberta’s dual-practice health care?  
Who pays for the system required to make dual practice possible, and who bears the risks when it fails?  
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S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD @ashleighweeden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I really don't think the federal government should be taking on any more 'digital transformation' until they can fix these three things (not in priority, but def my current pet peeves): the Canadian Common CV, the death notification/administration process, and simplifying tax filings of all types.
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