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Ash 🍁

@ashleyactually.bsky.social
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occasional writer, full time cat mom, bookworm, tv/movie consumer, playlist maker, rpg/ttrpg fan (She/They) 🏳️‍🌈

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
at a certain point, there's nothing to gain by boosting the words of random rape apologists. you're just exposing more people—including survivors—to that harmful rhetoric
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Ash 🍁 @ashleyactually.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*deep sigh from the very bottom of my soul*
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The thing about Aaron Sorkin is I don’t think he’s without talent he just needs to be paired with a director who is a bigger name that can take or leave what he writes and edit out the stuff that you roll your eyes at, lots of talented writers are like that. Stephen King adaptations are like that.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What a surprise. /sarcasm/ “Since the provincial government has prioritized for-profit surgical and diagnostic delivery over the expansion of public sector capacity and improvement, wait times are generally increasing in Ontario.” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday.
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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Graeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?
No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this.
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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PWHL HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA Hockey Night in Canada is returning. But it’ll be Professional Women’s Hockey League games on Saturday nights. Details here: www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...
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CBC/Radio-Canada announces return of Hockey Night in Canada in PWHL partnership | CBC Sports
CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada is returning for a 90th season this fall after all. But instead of six-plus months of NHL action, the longest-running sports program in the world will air eight prime time...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Years of expensive construction, which will muck up car traffic, to make everything worse
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CEO: I have invented the off button.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a real article from a real newspaper who employs real journalists and who actually needs your views www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Banksy-funded migrant rescue boat detained in Italy after saving 37 people
Artist calls impounding of MV Louise Michel ‘vile and unacceptable’ after rescue of 17 unaccompanied children
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As I'm sure many others have pointed out, this website is an AI scraper. This news is 6 years old. The company scrapes real news articles and rewrites them with an LLM, then republishes them for clicks.
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Van Rootselaar was egged on by a chat bot to kill 8 and injure dozens more at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in B.C. Canada. Tumbler Ridge victims and their families have filed more than dozen of lawsuits against OpenAI in federal court in California. No one is above the law. #Canada
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
superintendent chalmers pointing at the door asking good lord what is happening in there, but the doorframe is taken up by elizabeth holme’s face
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
good lord what is happening in there www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
sfgate.com
Elizabeth Holmes documentary gets an R rating for graphic nudity
Director Nathan Fielder was apparently invited by Holmes to live in a guest room at her Calif. home.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an individual did this, we'd treat it as a crime. We should treat this as a crime too, and hold OpenAI liable for what its models, under its supervision, did. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.
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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Canada’s Low Electrification Rate Threatens Its Future Prosperity Canada = 18% France = 26% Japan = 30.5% Brazil = 25% Turkey = 24% Indonesia: 19.6% If the future is electric, Canada is not highly electrified...or likely to be by 2050. #cdnpoli energi.media/markham-on-e...
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Canada’s Low Electrification Rate Threatens Its Future Prosperity Canada’s Low Electrification Rate Threatens Its Future Prosperity Thoughtful Journalism
The world is electrifying. Canada’s slow shift from fossil fuels to electric technologies could leave its economy less competitive by the 2030s.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Extremely tired of articles that put all the onus of an AI’s bad actions on the AI itself instead of the human beings who made the garbage and should be held accountable!!!
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying. I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Living in American has become that part of “American Life” where Madonna started rapping.
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Massive meat recall on beef, pork and more: USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a massive meat recall on more than 167,000 pounds of of raw pork, beef, and goat products that officials said were produced without the benefit of f…
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jacobs by Marc Jacobs
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Many liberals on here share the same views as Ted Cruz, it seems. Some of y'all are even using the same ableist language as him
Tweet from Ted Cruz sharing the Boston Globe click bait piece with. Quote that says "wow I honestly did not know that there was a single place on the planet in 2026 that still had an idiotic mask mandate
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The thing about Joyce Carol Oates is she posts like a monkey with a gun. She'll get off five good posts where you're like "Yeah! You tell 'em!" but then the seventh post will have to be an apology for the sixth post accidentally supporting race science or something.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 23/09/2026
RIP to Chris Christie’s 2028 campaign, murdered by an octogenarian mere hours after launch
Joyce Carol Oates • @JoyceCarolOates
really, this is a serious question: why on earth would Chris Christie imagine that anyone, anywhere, ever would want him to run for President? what sparks such a delusion? granted, his wife might enjoy having him out of the house & on the campaign trail; but better just get an inexpensive hobby instead.
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New Jersey thinks not, x.com/ianjaeger29/st...
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
incredible
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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 23/09/2026
The Democratic party’s anti-trans heel turn could have drastic consequences beyond November’s midterms. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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Democratic candidates’ transphobia spells disaster for trans people | Xtra Magazine
The Democratic party’s anti-trans heel turn could have drastic consequences beyond November’s midterms
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026
Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a real "opportunity for the funniest thing to happen" moment.
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Liam Robertson @liamrobertson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The actual clip of him saying this is so awesome. Absolutely brutal and from the sounds of it, deservedly so.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/09/2026
New reporting from @globalnews.ca: “The gunman accused of opening fire at police outside an Ontario synagogue left the army after expressing conspiracy theories about COVID-19”
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Belleville gunman spouted COVID-19 conspiracies while in army, say sources | Globalnews.ca
The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
2 things, in ascending order of importance: 1) Polls are Possibility but they don't vote; don't stop working. 2) El-Sayed has Massive support in a mid-west rust-belt state while vocally supporting transgender kids & adults/directly Dismissing claims that trans people are "dangerous." Learn from that
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Arrested for trespassing? In a publicly accessible part of Parliament Hill? For a passive protest? I think we need an explanation here.
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026
SCOOP: Meta execs announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses for you to do things like make a restaurant reservation or a haircut appointment. In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media learned.
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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Smart to anger a lot of people right before the midterms
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 21/09/2026
Callina Liang as Chun-Li on set of the ‘STREET FIGHTER’ movie.
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