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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hi! So our eSims are keeping a whole hospital going in Gaza, and countless of students who are studying for exams right now. Our funds are about to run out because the usage of those eSims are especially high. <3 #ConnectingGaza

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Ruby (ft. Jimin) @lapsedbard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CANADIANS, this petition to regulate data centers in Canada is open until September 24, please sign! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-7550 - Petitions

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

thanks everyone who's bought or asked their library to buy my book. if you haven't yet, @arsenalpulp.bsky.social has a great Pride sale on til the end of June: 30% off + free shipping on all 2SLGBTQIA+ titles, both in print & forthcoming (with a min. order of $30 or more)*coupon code is PRIDE

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Symposium 2026 OPEN CALL DEADLINE TO APPLY EXTENDED: 24th May We invite proposals from #artists and #academics exploring Trans+ #research and #practice. Hosted at Birkbeck University of London. More information: tvce.cargo.site/existing-oth... 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #EduSky #EdChat #Trans #LGBTQ

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 06/04/2026

SOURCE CALLOUT 🏳️‍⚧️ ✨ (Please share!) I'm working on a large print feature for later this year that asks a big question: What does it look like when we let trans people thrive? I'm looking to talk to a few everyday trans people from across Canada about what that idea means to them. (Thread...)

A graphic that reads: Source request: What does it look like when we let trans people thrive? When public systems support trans people? When health care is free and accessible, and spaces are affirming? What are the solutions for making trans lives better? What could trans utopia look like?

I am looking for specific stories of trans people from all walks of life across Canada who’ve been given space to not only survive, but thrive. People who are interested in speaking about how certain policies, systems, or resources have made their lives easier and better as trans people. Is this you or someone you know? Pop me an email at:
mel.woods@xtramagazine.com

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 31/03/2026

This Trans Day of Visibility, I want cis people to understand that we don't need "validation." We need *action.* Write to your representatives; call out transphobic language; write letters to the editor; campaign for gender-inclusive washrooms at your office, school, or business. *Do something.*🏳️‍⚧️

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

just $20 left of the match! donate to keep Palestinians in Gaza connected!

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Are you a trans person in the US looking to relocate from a high-risk state to a lower risk state? Did you know there’s a $10,000 no-interest loan you can apply for to help you do that? Link here and more info in thread below hfls.org/move-to-thri...

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Move to Thrive Interest-Free Loan | HFLS | Hebrew Free Loan Society | Learn More

“Move to Thrive” interest-free loans offer support to LGBTQ+ families navigating moving costs.

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

we are more than half way there!! yay!! 😍

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Roberto Faria @betofaria.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... If you’re Canadian please sign it. If you’re not, please share ❤️

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Petition e-7195 - Petitions

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The Senate cannot ignore the dangers of Bill C-12 or ignore the amendments recommended by its own SOCI committee. Be the body of ‘sober second thought’. Amend to remove parts 5 - 8. We don’t want Trump-style immigration policies here. act.gp/4cR60qN

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/02/2026

Tim Walz isn't declaring an eviction moratorium in Minnesota, so many families affected by ICE are at risk of eviction in a few days. Please donate to the rent funds at keepMNhoused.com if you have some scratch.

keepmnhoused.com

Stand With Minnesota

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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NeuroBody™️💫 ♎️ 10/9 @blkginger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

…if you can’t handle writing a proposal about your idea…how you gonna write a book? You do not have to write a book if you don’t want to write…

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This is a reminder that ICE is still in Minnesota, that people still can’t leave their homes, and that funds are starting to run dry. Please donate if you can. Places like food shelves are struggling to meet the community’s needs.

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Stand With Minnesota

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 21/02/2026

there is a lot still to go on this fundraiser and these women need your help. deporting a married trans woman to the US right now is not going to end well for anyone. if you can help, please help.

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Friends! The ICE siege of Minneapolis is not over, and YOU can help keep 200 families safe and housed for another month! These are trusted folks who have already helped 10% of all Central Minneapolis households pay rent. Please pitch in: gofund.me/d4acb0e6c

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Donate to March Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families, organized by Central Neighborhood Care and Resistance

The neighbors of Central Minneapolis have stood strong for mo… Central Neighborhood Care and Resistance needs your support for March Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 29/12/2025

Crips for eSIMs is still sending and topping up eSIMs for people in Gaza - the project is in the red right now (including our UK team). Please share widely - US / Canada / UK specific links in the description: chuffed.org/project/crip...

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Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I'm not trying to tell anyone what tactics they should agree or disagree with, I have my opinions but I don't think that's a *useful* argument to have when this stuff becomes Discourse. But if your standard is "no crime," you let legislators dictate protest legitimacy. Guess who is legislating.

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

2026 was the year that we took our power back from the billionaires & supremacists. The year that we rediscovered the practice of revolutionary & radical love. That we stopped trying to punish ourselves into being better people. 2026 was the year we embraced the end so we could find the beginning.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17/12/2025

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

Moser tells Rolling Stone that to even claim LLMs "hallucinate" fictional publications misunderstands the threat they pose to our comprehension of the world, because the term "implies that it's different from the normal, correct perception of reality" But the chatbots are "always hallucinating," he says. "It's not a malfunction.
A predictive model predicts some text, and maybe it's accurate, maybe it isn't, but the process is the same either way. To put it another way: LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth."

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Anti-immigration policies have been mainstreamed by the Liberals and the Conservatives, while no one planned for the economy to absorb population decline. Guess what happens next!

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 12/12/2025

Founded in 1973, @arquives.ca has grown into one of the largest 2SLGBTQIA+ archives in the world. Beginning in 2026, they will offer two research fellowships: The Brian King Research Fellowship and The Alan Miller Research Fellowship. More info: arquives.ca/2026-researc...

The ArQuives Call for Fellowship Applicants

The Brian King Research Fellowship supports scholars and artists located outside of Toronto who seek to use The ArQuives' collections.

The Alan Miller Research Fellowship is open to anyone worldwide conducting innovative research using The ArQuives' collections.

Applications are open to Canadian and international scholars, graduate students, artists, cultural producers, and other independent researchers with an established research agenda who wish to conduct research at The ArQuives.

Application deadline Sunday, February 1, 2026 @ 11:59 pm PST Visit arquives.ca for more info.

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christopher linoleum @scribblechris.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It's wild to me how quickly genAI has rotted so much of people's ability to research, to read closely, to corroborate fact, to think critically (or even think at all). Being an artist, my primary concern with genAI has been its impact on the arts, but the broader effects are really starting to show

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natalie 🍀✨🐞 @floodkiss.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

bill c12 is canada's worst anti-migrant bill in DECADES has been passed in the house of commons and is now in the senate (final stages before becoming law) please email senators! migrantrights.ca/actionslist/... sc from link and from @harshawalia.bsky.social #stopbillc12

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet. He directly cites today's MOU:

Statement by Steven Guilbeault

This afternoon, it is with great sadness that I submitted my resignation to the Prime Minister as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in
Quebec. As you know, I chose to enter politics to champion the fight against climate change
and the protection of the environment. Over the past ten years, our country has made historic progress in reducing climate pollution, protecting nature and the environment, while our economy continued to grow. I believe I have contributed to these advancements, and I remain deeply proud
of the achievements I have helped bring forward:
• Standing up to tech giants and major polluters • Implementing Canada's first emissions reduction plan, slowing their growth and
placing them on a downward trajectory
• Establishing the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
• Modernizing the Canadian Environmental Protection Act • Developing the country's first national climate adaptation strategy to protect our
communities
• Eliminating harmful single-use plastics • Implementing the most ambitious nature conservation plan in the country's
history
• Continuing the modernization of the Official Languages Act • Making historic investments in arts and culture, including during the COVID-19
crisis and in the most recent budget Changes in our relationship with the United States have led to profound disruptions
affecting the global order, diplomatic relations, and the economy. I understand and share the Prime Minister's efforts to ensure our country

First, there was no consultation with the Indigenous nations of the West Coast of British Columbia or with the provincial government, who would be greatly affected by
this agreement. Furthermore, a pipeline to the West Coast would have major environmental impacts, particularly as it could cross the Great Bear Rainforest, contribute to a significant increase in climate pollution, and move Canada further away from its greenhouse gas
reduction targets. Lifting the tanker ban on the West Coast would also significantly increase the risk of accidents in the region. This moratorium was established in 1972 following a unanimous vote in the House of Commons, notably because navigation in the Hecate Strait is highly dangerous. Its removal would also hinder the creation of a marine conservation area in the Great Bear Sea, a project our government has been actively developing with Indigenous partners and the government of British Columbia for
several years, protecting more than 100,000 km of this ecologically sensitive region. We cannot hope to decarbonize our economy without decarbonizing the electricity
sector. The proposal to exempt Alberta from the Clean Electricity Regulations in exchange for stricter industrial carbon pricing rules and the Pathways project is, in my view, a
serious mistake. As shown in the analysis submitted to the House of Commons, without this regulation, the electricity sector-which has halved its pollution over the past 20 years-would return to an upward emissions trajectory. This regulation also saves lives by reducing air pollution, generates over $3 billion in healthcare savings, and ultimately reduces
greenhouse gas emissions by 182 million tonnes.

Finally, over the past few months, several elements of the climate action plan I worked on as Minister of the Environment have been, or are about to be, dismantled: the consumer carbon pricing, the Zero Emission Vehicle standard, the oil and gas sector emissions cap, the framework to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, and the Clean Electricity Regulations. In my view, these measures remain essential to our climate
action plan. I want to express my sincere gratitude to the citizens of Laurier-Sainte-Marie for the trust they have placed in me since 2019. I will continue to represent them as their
Liberal Member of Parliament with dedication. I also thank the Prime Minister for the honor of serving in his cabinet and as his
lieutenant in Quebec. When I entered politics, it was because I had a deep conviction that I could make a difference in fighting climate change and protecting our environment. My commitment to leaving a better world for the future of our children and our planet
remains unchanged.

Steven Guilbeault
Member of Parliament for Laurier-Sainte-Marie

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/11/2025

The dismantling of USAID and cuts to foreign aid will result in hundreds of thousands of additional deaths from HIV. This administration has done more to ensure more deaths as a result of HIV this year than the Reagan administration ever caused.

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S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD @ashleighweeden.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

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AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why

Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

this guy constantly manages to do shit like this and displace it in the media and discourse with something that goes with a laugh track somehow bsky.app/profile/newy...

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg

Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

TRANS PIZZA DAY!!! gofund.me/ef6323e0b Let’s send some pizza!!!! TAG/DM YOUR FAVE PIZZA PLACE- Help us crowd source your favourite, trusted, and QT friendly pizza place and we will reach out and arrange pizza day. DONATE TO /PROMOTE GOFUNDME: Send enough for a pizza or two, dipping sauce/soda!

The front landing page of the trans pizza day go fund me page. There is a picture of pizza and the text in this caption

See caption for text about trans pizza day! IT'S PIZZA TIME!
ABOUT TRANS PIZZA DAY: l've been connecting trans folks with free yummy pizza every year on Trans Day of Remembrance since 2017. I started doing this after I was gifted a pizza from a stranger for TDOR during a particularly hard year in 2016. It really helped me.
Over the years, YOU have helped so many others.
Together, we have sent hundreds and hundreds of pizzas (thousands?) over 8 years.... pizzas that have helped so many others! Community is incredible and together we have kept us/trans folks safe(r) and fed and connected during a day that can be so isolating and hard.
WE KEEP US SAFE:
With Wendy, and through feedback and brilliant suggestions from many of you, we are continuing to figure out safety again this year. Due to increased threats to trans folks' safety this year, it doesn't feel safe to be gathering data on trans people using Google/Meta platforms, though I'm happy to say we've had such gentleness and kindness over the years and never had an issue. Regardless, this year we will be doing things differently to ensure that we KEEP EVERYONE SAFE!

See caption for text about trans pizza day! Here's how it will go this year:
TAG/DM YOUR FAVE PIZZA PLACE NAMES*- Help us crowd source your favourite, trusted, and QT friendly pizza place and we will reach out and arrange pizza day. We will send pizza money in advance to the safe(r) pizza places we've crowd sourced who have agreed to participate. They will each have a certain number of pizzas they can give out.
I WANT TO EAT PIZZA: Heres what to do
GET YOUR PIZZA PASSWORD - On Trans Pizza Day on November 20, you can email us at our new Trans Pizza Day email address and get a pizza password to give to your local pizzeria to get your free pizza. Just call/order from the trust list of places and give them the pizza password.
Voila! Up to $40 CAD of pizza on its way to you!
Please do not share this password publicly in order to keep community safe.

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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Episode 10 is out! In this episode, I talk to Kelly Hayes, the brilliant journalist and organizer whose writing and podcast so many of us rely on to make sense of the world. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

My solidarity with trans people isn’t at odds with Reproductive Justice — it’s integral to it. I will keep using inclusive language. I will keep including trans people in my work. Our liberation is bound together. Are you coming along?

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help... “Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”

Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support. Donate today: https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need

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But Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The questions are all very leading, but each answer can be up to two thousand characters, so feel free to tell AI Minister Solomon -exactly- how you feel about Canada's relationship with AI. In polite, but excruciating detailed terms, of course; you don't want to be summarily discarded as a troll.

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