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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if you’re a dude thinking “i’ve never done anything disgusting” (citations needed) then you’ve more than likely sat there quietly while your friend did something disgusting or bragged about doing something disgusting. you cannot absolve yourself.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The good men, the friends and lovers even, say to me later "well why didn't you just tell that creep off" as though I wouldn't be accused of starting shit, as though they'd stand up for me and not interrogate me to make the creep comfortable instead. Experience tells me most men will do the latter.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Kim Moir @kmoir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Me every time an Ottawa municipal candidate brags about low property taxes. *taps the sign*
Venn diagram of stable services low density and low taxes in municipal government - it does not exist.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For years they've been saying you can't just ignore how AI is going to change all of our work habits and lifestyles but I have kind of just ignored it and it hasn't changed them lol
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit
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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The thing about AI as an artist is, we were here first. We’ve outlived other tech trends that were supposed to radically reform the landscape (NFTs, etc), and one day we will live to fight against another life altering attempt to kneecap artists It will always be, and we will always fight back
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
the moderate democratic position on Gaza is that if Israel’s opponents do not comport themselves perfectly, if they don’t dance flawlessly through the rhetorical minefields every day, then it’s dead children forever.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
Always keep this in mind when people tell you that abolition is just a roundabout way to excuse abusers.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/08/2026
One of the reasons I'm feeling so tetchy about some of the claims being made in the Tillie Walden / Rachel Cleves account is that the notion that the first person who compiles the information owns it is not something I'm willing to accede to for multiple reasons.
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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Line 1 rider were stuck again this morning. For the people who rely on transit to get to work, school, appointments and home, “stuck” isn’t a minor inconvenience. It means being late for work, late to drop off your kids or late to get to an appointment. Ottawa needs a transit system that works.
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boringbi.bsky.social @boringbi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Well, this was fun at first but I simply can't take it anymore
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 20/07/2026
Look the rotted carcass of manhood in its bloated, pustulent eye, and see that this is what you all have put on a pedestal and worshipped for all this time. Hating women, raping women---this is what men encourage each other to do, what men excuse, what men build their culture on.
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ford’s dystopia: refuse to raise social assistance rates, eliminate rent control, shut down supervised consumption sites, don’t build any affordable housing … then arrest people when they have nowhere else to go.
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dgbaumgart @dgbaumgart.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Like, the fundamental thing with "AI" - it all starts with a massive and ongoing act of theft (or infringement, if you like). It's a few billionaire, or trillionaire, owned tech companies stealing everything we ever did then selling it back as a worse version of the work we all do.
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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It’s one thing to acknowledge and attribute responsibility to past decisions; it’s another to suggest today’s challenges are somehow owned solely by others. This term of Council - with Mayor Sutcliffe as its head - hasn’t just inherited problems. It has made choices that shaped where we are now. 2/
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Horizon Ottawa @horizonottawa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Every time we hear about "efficiencies" we know that's code for cuts. Today, we got some proof. Sutcliffe pitched New Ways to Bus as improvements, but according to the AG's interviews, "decisions were mainly driven by budget considerations". www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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City auditor blasts OC Transpo bus scheduling | CBC News
Ottawa’s auditor general has released a scathing report into how OC Transpo is planning and scheduling its bus system, saying last year's "New Ways to Bus" changes were based on outdated data and driv...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time
"Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses." One star out of five.
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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The Museum of Nature in downtown Ottawa. A castle-like building opened in 1912. Renovated and expanded recently, a glass tower was added over the main entrance, where it now houses an illuminated moon. See comments for print info!
The Canadian Museum of Nature in downtown Ottawa. A castle-like building at night, illuminated by street lights, trees in the foreground. A moon hangs in the glass tower above the entrance.
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When people are not properly cared for, the whole community suffers. We have all seen the dramatic uptick in public drug use and discarded needles and pipes, since the supervised consumption site at Somerset West CHC was forced to close by the Ford government. ottawacitizen.com/news/discard...
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What's behind an increase in discarded needles and drug paraphernalia in Ottawa?
Reports of discarded needles are on the rise in Ottawa, and the closure of supervised consumption sites have some fearing it'll get worse.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I hate the people running this province but I care deeply about the people in it. Grateful for the brilliant minds behind this activism. (Somerset and Preston bus stop in Ottawa)
Image of a bus shelter in Ottawa with a sign on the window that reads "Douglas R. Ford commemorative unsupervised consumption site."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
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meg @nutmargaret.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
love letters 💌(2/2)
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Crispycrise @crispycrise.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
When I hear people voice this defense of rape unthinkingly I always feel that they mean exactly what they say - why would she (be doing some kind of normal activity)? Rape is intended as punishment/ terror for leading a normal, public facing life - these questions bind and reinforce that that logic
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/03/2026
i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either
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Las 🐺🪽 @featherfangart.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
| No Love Is Wasted | ⚔️💮 #originalart
a digital illustration of two gauntlets/hands, a dark one with golden details and white/lighter one, both inspired by renaissance 15th/16th century armor. their fingers are slightly reaching out for each other. both hands are wrapped in a red ribbon that says 'No Love, however brief, is wasted.' In between there are white periwinkles as a symbol for fond memories
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The closure of the supervised consumption site at the Somerset West CHC has created an absolute crisis in Ottawa’s Chinatown — @catmckenney.bsky.social and I wrote about it last summer. Expect to see more public drug use, everywhere. Shame on the Ford govt. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/mcke...
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McKenney, Troster: Tory ideology created an overdose crisis in Ottawa's Chinatown
Housing, addiction treatment, outreach services, mental health resources and harm reduction are needed to tackle the current crisis.
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 10/03/2026
The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
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Las 🐺🪽 @featherfangart.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
(1/2) "And I heard your voice As clear as day And you told me I should concentrate" Did I go insane? Yep. But hey... I've wanted to draw that fifth page since last year's March. #fenhawke
Fenris from Dragon Age 2 (Blue Wraith version) arrives at Skyhold, Varric and Tristan (the kid) see him. Varric's not the happiest to see him.Varric's trying to convice Fenris not to do something stupid like murdering Inquisitor in front of bunch of Orlesian nobles. Cullen's in a protecc mode. Inquisitor hears Fenris outFenris tells Inquisitor he needs him to open the Fade for him. Jimbo (my Trevelyan) is a little bamboozled. Varric's freaking out off the camera. Trevelyan offers Fenris a 'safe' passage by keeping a rift open
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/02/2026
If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?
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meg @nutmargaret.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
❄️ #ohshc
Tamaki hugging Haruhi from behind in winter clothes
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babajesp @jespki.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Obviously have to repost my fenhawke illus on here too 🙂‍↕️ #dragonage #fenris #hawke #fenhawke #da2
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Marty Tina G. ⚢ @geezmarty.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
[from 2024] act 1 avebela much to think about #dragonage
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Whether Blake Lively is a good or likeable person is not on trial. Whether women should be allowed to report sexual harassment in their workplaces without facing retaliation is what’s on trial
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
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Horizon Ottawa @horizonottawa.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Here's a visualization of how Watson and Sutcliffe's austerity impacted our bus fleet since 2010. This was never a sustainable path and now we're left with too few buses on the best of days, let alone enough to cover for an LRT service disruption.
Chart showing Ottawa's bus fleet size decline since 2010, while the population increases
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
An oft-repeated statistic says men apply for a job when they have 60% of the qualifications while women wait till they have 100%. Pretty sure that stat was debunked, but … Several men seem to think that being Mayor is a suitable starter job for someone with no municipal experience. It’s not.
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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
(from www.instagram.com/nobodyssweet...)
constructivist-inspired banner in red and cream with black lettering bearing the legend STOP FORCING AI INTO FUCKING EVERYTHING - nobody asked for it everyone hates it
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
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berserk @worstplace.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
when all the lies are told and forgot, the truth will be there yet.
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