Reposted by alyssa 🌾infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 12hthe year is 2035. I tune in to Mayor Farkas’s 24/7 multi-camera livestream. he’s explaining how the city has doubled the number of oxygen tank dispensaries to help people breathe during the fires. Council no longer has the authority to vote on land use amendments. average rent is $8000 a month. 1124
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not tracking the alcohol content in my homemade wine because, a) it's none of my business, and b) if there's one place Jesus should be taking the wheel, it's there 031
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026never listen to anyone on the internet who says "you're doing activism wrong" 030
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 08/10/2026The Liberals and Conservatives just voted together to attack labour, environmental, and Indigenous rights to fast-track corporate mega projects. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...ctvnews.caConservatives vote with Liberals as Bill C-39 heads to committeeA key piece of the Carney government’s economic agenda, Bill C-39, passed its first vote in the House of Commons Thursday when Conservatives voted with the majority Liberals to send the bill for study... 35431199
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Just how unrepresentative is Canada's democracy right now? Here is how much support the premiers and PM have from among all registered voters. If you're wondering why politicians seem so out of line from the average person, here is why. 2164
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026god we really live on the whims of the opinions of like 5 boomers in this province 060
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026CleanUpYourMess.ca just launched our new website! It features stories from ordinary Albertans affected by the oil & gas cleanup crisis, and actions YOU can take right now to stop tens of billions in industry's cleanup costs from being pushed onto the public! #ABPoli #ABLeg @cuym-alberta.bsky.socialcleanupyourmess.caHome | Clean Up Your MessAlberta landowners & allies fighting for an industry cleanup of oil and gas wells. 315692
Reposted by alyssa 🌾🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Alberta suffering from one major crisis after another. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...ctvnews.caAlberta’s gopher museum shut down until further noticeAn Alberta oddity – a museum that prides itself on dioramas featuring taxidermized rodents – has shut its doors until further notice. 87022
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Same! We barely watch TV anymore and the movies we watch these days are like from the 30s. Everything just was really bad? Even "good" shows. I'm not even a snob. I like trash! 010
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Alberta going after immigrants when we have millions of dollars we could be recouping elsewhere. 02314
Reposted by alyssa 🌾The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Really isn't a corner of the earth where we're not destroying the planet but instead of doing anything about it were debating about which bathrooms people can use 16327102
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 06/10/2026Edmonton people, if you need another reason to come to my book launch on Oct. 13, where I will be joined on stage by the incomparable @daniparadis.bsky.social, we have procured a life-sized cardboard cutout of the premier. Tickets: the-aviary.net/events/jerem... 58524
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Watched A Nightmare on Elm Street real young and it definitely fucked up my sleep for a while. 010
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Fascinating to me that the folks on threads are capable of hating Danielle Smith for doing, largely, exactly the same thing they praise Mark Carney for doing on the climate crisis lol 1113521
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest. 6601201
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 30/09/2026Some very normal stuff from the former editor in chief of the Canadian Jewish News 5469
Reposted by alyssa 🌾mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 49103231829
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In light of the report highlighting how the UCP sacrificed the lives and health of meat-packing plant workers for Cargill's profits, the racist referenda scapegoating immigrants for the UCP's incompetence must be cancelled, and the government must issue an apology to the workers and their families.thetyee.caAlberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The TyeeA shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk. 25128
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026How Alberta’s COVID-19 Response Failed Cargill Workers www.parklandinstitute.ca/cargillparklandinstitute.caEssential and Expendable: How Alberta’s COVID-19 Response Failed Cargill WorkersNew Parkland Institute report: Six years on, the first independent investigation on Cargill’s tragic COVID-19 outbreak shows how the provincial government’s flawed response failed workers, communities... 0127
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Low key don't understand how you can be someone who loves city infrastructure and mobility and look at photos like this and think it's not relevant and doesn't matter when it comes to the fight for safe transportation. 011
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 0254
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is a lot of white privilege in mobility advocacy. I think many of us need to check ourselves when we are thinking transportation issues exist in a vacuum. 021
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026literally name a single not annoying person, bet you can't 000
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Carney 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. 482467549
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026was walking my bike past a gaggle of children on the ped bridge across crowchild and a bunch of them yelled out "have an amazing bike ride!" 🥹 omg, kids never learn to drive plz 040
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Liberals literally only care about aesthetics while doing exactly what trump would do. As long as they seem “smart and articulate” while doing the worst austerity we’ve seen in decades, their supporters will lap it up. 042
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Like every cop, Batman doesn't live in the community where he works, but rather commutes from out of town and parks his stupid car on the sidewalk. 211724
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026once a month they should let you put the q-tip forbiddeningly deep into your ear with no consequences 030
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 18/09/2026NEW: For @macleans.bsky.social, I wrote about how Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is fusing corporate and state power to help build what I call the New Authoritarianism. macleans.ca/politics/dan...macleans.caDanielle Smith Is Putting Alberta Up for Sale - Macleans.caThe corporate lobbyist-turned-premier is letting the private sector run the government 617294
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Drivers: famously good at noticing reflective stuff 1202
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026Share if you agree 189103543310
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Neovagina Evangelion @gammarae.design · 16/09/2026Got blocked for replying this but let me make this clear, if you hand it to Stephen Harper for anything you are absolute fucking scum or have the political memory of a golf ball. Here's a recap: > He threatened to ban gay union using notwidthstanding(Cdn bypass to Charter of Rights) 1/ 56819
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This entire investment summit has been a huge selling off and privatization party and it's infuriating that most of the mainstream news I've heard of this just repeats Carney's words of "investment". We are so fucked. 241
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026(Unpopular opinion) we should not expect certain fresh fruits and vegetables in the winter. 8677
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026How do we know this as fact since we haven't tried building bike lanes all over the place? Maybe it's something we should try! 151
Reposted by alyssa 🌾Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 09/09/2026NEW: Saddle Lake Cree Nation calls Alberta trans health-care laws a violation of Treaty rights, announces path to work around the legislation 6466203
alyssa 🌾 @basement-wine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Like, I like fall, I think it's pretty. But a part of me is very sad that summer is over and I have to start thinking about layers when I go outside. 010
