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Bill Arnal

@billarnal.bsky.social
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Malcontent, ne'er-do-well, lotus-eater

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/08/2026
Reporting live from the Canadian Department of “What the Fuck Are You People Doing?”
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
abcnews.go.com
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
WAR-TORN PORTLAND
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
You gotta give ‘em hop.
A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This is my message to David Lametti - newly appointed ambassador to the UN. There is no such thing as a bystander int the face of genocide. His claims that Canada waits for all the evidence before doing anything is a falsehood. substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
On Genocide, Canada Doesn’t Get to Be a Bystander
Some lives matter.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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nora "nora.jewelry is now open" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 05/09/2025
thinking about this this morning and the version of me that was carrying the scrupulosity and the undiagnosed, untreated adhd
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I’ve been reading Manufacturing Consent this week and OOF does it ever validate so much of what I experienced during my years spent working in national mainstream media! The model is painfully accurate, and I’d argue it’s been exacerbated today by digital adtech monopolies and mass layoffs.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?
teenvogue.com
Nazis Destroyed This Amazing LGBTQ Library in Germany
It was also one of the first facilities to provide gender affirmation surgeries.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 19/08/2025
I really feel like most of this wouldn't be happening if Black people wouldn't have expressed so much public joy over the last few years.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
When the French 🇫🇷 government misbehaves the French call up Macron’s new favourite restaurant, tell the owner to double the fire 🔥 insurance, wait a month, and burn it down. We need that energy or we will not survive monopoly man.
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Bill Arnal @billarnal.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
unfaircanada.com
unfaircanada.com
Home | Unfair Canada
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CUPE SCFP @cupescfp.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms cupe.ca/88-canadians...
cupe.ca
88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms
New polling conducted by Abacus Data confirms that nearly 9 in 10 Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants’ fight for fair pay – and they want the federal government to back off and let them neg...
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company 🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company 🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company 🇺🇸 Air Canada is a majority-owned American company
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Meanwhile their workers have been living in RVs and going to food banks to try and make ends meet
Union reps say junior crew members are living in RVs and forced to rely on food banks to make ends meet according to new outlet 604 Now
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 12/08/2025
Roe vs. Wade (abortion) Obergefell (gay marriage) HIPAA (medical record privacy) All of these depend upon right to privacy laws which stem from the 14th amendment. All of these connect to each other and are being systematically torn apart. All of our fates are connected.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 11/08/2025
Everybody still going this can't be a REAL dictatorship like those poor third world countries the US destabilized can stay the hell away from me. The more the regime goes after, the more it smacks of your privilege that you feel safer than you are.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Paul L. @paul9876.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The US will never gain back any respect in the world. It's like shitting yourself at work. No matter how high in the company you rise, you will always be that guy who shit himself at work.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Heinous.
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Bill Arnal @billarnal.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
We need to be building up alternate media networks. The pundits/talking heads on the main networks and in Canada's American owned newspaper chain continue to miss the urgency of the moment. Everywhere I go I meet ordinary working Canadians who follow @meidastouch.bsky.social
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Bill Arnal @billarnal.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Anyone who attempts wit by playing on the phrase “oh Canada” reveals that they know nothing about this country except the first two words of the national anthem. You should be embarrassed.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Solidarity. www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
cp24.com
Canada Post workers vote to reject latest contract offer
Unionized workers at Canada Post have voted to reject its latest contract offer, the Crown corporation says.
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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Good. Now, stop playing these games, get back to the table, and bargain in good faith. Stop getting the government to your dirty work.
Canada Post news release: Majority of CUPW-represented employees reject Canada Post’s final offers


Media <media@canadapost.postescanada.ca>
5:24 PM
to Media

AUGUST 1, 2025

 

Majority of CUPW-represented employees reject Canada Post’s final offers

Corporation evaluating next steps following vote outcome

 

OTTAWA – The Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) has informed Canada Post that a majority of employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have voted to reject the Corporation’s final offers to both the Urban and RSMC (Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers) bargaining units. This means negotiations between the parties remain unresolved.    

 

While we are disappointed in the results, we want to thank employees for participating in the process. We would also like to thank the CIRB for administering the vote. 

 

This result does not lessen the urgent need to modernize and protect this vital national service. However, it does mean the uncertainty that has been significantly impacting our business – and the many Canadians and Canadian businesses who depend on Canada Post – will continue. We are evaluating our next steps. 

 

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For more information:

Media Relations

613-734-8888

media@canadapost.ca
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Bill Arnal @billarnal.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The enshitification of everyday life via the forced use of completely unnecessary tech is really quite something. I’m sitting at an actual bar in the airport, with people behind it, and had to order my drink online.
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Bill Arnal @billarnal.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I’m planning to devote my retirement (next year!) to Irish music and French wine, because the alternative (Irish wine and French music) is unthinkable.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 31/07/2025
“When am I ever gonna need to learn about a humanities course?” - says a nation of illiterate, impoverished sociopaths
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Really can't get over how all the biggest names in tech are moving towards a world where ai bots watch and comment on ai generated content to please investors. No sci fi writter could have conceived of something so asinine
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“I’m finally admitting that Israel has gone too far and Palestinian advocates are being mean to me.” Well bro, they lost their jobs, or their friends, or their family, or their community for coming to the conclusion it took you two years to, while you supported the above things happening to them.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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