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Chandra Jade (she/her)

@chandraoutspoken.bsky.social
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A mental health counsellor (R.C.C.) & social justice advocate in Vancouver, BC

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Chandra Jade (she/her) @chandraoutspoken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Re: Mayor Sim's 2nd non-binding plebiscite question in Van's municipal election: vancouver.ca/news-calenda... I'm a therapist. Voluntary treatment for severe MHSU is quite underfunded & not always successful. Involuntary treatment is way less likely to be effective & risks violating human rights.
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Council adds plebiscite question to Vancouver Election Ballot
At a special Council meeting held today, August 14, Council directed staff to add a non-binding plebiscite question to the ballot for the 2026 Vancouver Election.
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Chandra Jade (she/her) @chandraoutspoken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Re: Mayor Sim's 1st non-binding plebiscite question in Van's municipal election: vancouver.ca/news-calenda... Police can already arrest, charge for possession, seize any drugs or money if someone is using "hard drugs" in public spaces, so what exactly does "strengthening" mean? Police brutality?
vancouver.ca
Council adds plebiscite question to Vancouver Election Ballot
At a special Council meeting held today, August 14, Council directed staff to add a non-binding plebiscite question to the ballot for the 2026 Vancouver Election.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/10/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...
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Chandra Jade (she/her) @chandraoutspoken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator. Hilarious! Makes me think of how so many doctor's offices prevent their patients to phone them so you have to phone/email a million times to get an appointment. Or how airplanes are gradually charging more & more "add-on" prices for basics.
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
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Keri @keriqbaum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is the best song ever… “Prince's impromptu, fiery guitar solo at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performance of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" became an instant classic. No one onstage knew what he was going to do.”
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I love this…. #BookSky
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Williebhoy1956 @williebhoy1956.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
😂😂😂
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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
❌data center ✅ Data, off center
group photo of the Star Trek: Next Generation cast
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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
❌data modelling ✅ Data, modelling
Data, modelling
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/07/2026
Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna
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Chandra Jade (she/her) @chandraoutspoken.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Can soccer players score in the dark? How can a female pitcher consistently strike out some of the best professional hitters. Such an interesting video!
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Why The Best Player Alive Barely Runs
YouTube video by David Epstein
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EZTempo @eztempo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My neighbor's garage caught fire one evening a few weeks ago. It was a big deal - neighbors came out to the sidewalks saying, "I smell smoke. Do you? What's happening?" and to watch the fire trucks pass. It didn't occur to ANY OF US to SUE OUR NEIGHBOR for the smoke we breathed. wapo.st/4yxHbJ6
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Trump wants to impose tariffs on Canada in retaliation for wildfire smoke
The White House did not respond to questions about what legal mechanism he would use to impose the tariffs or how the administration would calculate the rate of the levies.
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Chandra Jade (she/her) @chandraoutspoken.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Wow, this U.S. politician thinks the U.S. is entitled to the Canadian market no matter how their president treats us? Trump slaps on tariffs that damage our economy, "jokes" about occupying our country & demeans our leaders & then he & his cronies cry when people don't want to do business. Grow up.
cbc.ca
Republican lawmaker takes aim at provincial booze bans | CBC News
A Republican lawmaker in Washington is firing back at Canadian provinces for retaliating against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs by banning sales of U.S. alcohol.
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Paul Halpern @phalpern.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
No matter what age you first encounter quantum entanglement, from 0 to 120, it's still startling! (Photo by Taryn Adams)
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Iona Brand @mikeiona.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Did you ever see the "Not The Nine O'Clock News" sketch? m.youtube.com/watch?v=asUy...
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Not the Nine O'Clock News - Monty Pythons worshipers
YouTube video by ZuzuzuLooker
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 03/06/2026
I’ve watched this 500x
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
the hungry observatory
black and white photo of domed observatory beneath a full moon; opened at the top resembling the pac man video game about to eat an energy dot
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Roe V. Wade
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The extremely rare catcopus.
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.
@ BobGolen

The speed at which a virus spreads depends on:
1. How dense the population is.
2. How dense the population is.
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Chandra Jade (she/her) @chandraoutspoken.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Read Cory Doctorow's 2008 book "Little Brother". Seems the controversy re: DHS's overstepping of individual constitutional rights in the name of protecting against "domestic terrorists" (incl people who just disagree with the U.S. gov't) has been brewing a while. www.goodreads.com/book/show/95...
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Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
Marcus aka “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but …
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The City of Vancouver has just announced they had a $530 million surplus last year. It follows a $860 million surplus the year before, and years of $300+ surpluses. It's the annual reminder that when local politicians say times are tough, they're usually being misleading to suit their agendas.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father (Gift Article)
The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of ...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.
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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

Choose your leaders

with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward

is to be controlled

by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool


is to be led

by the opportunists

who control the fool.

To be led by a thief

is to offer up

your most precious treasures

to be stolen.
To be led by a liar


is to ask

to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant

is to sell yourself

and those you love

into slavery.
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Dawn Whiteside Rubin @dd-rubin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Dr. K @katekaynak.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
😃Made my Day 😃
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Dr. AJ is using her earned title, deal with it @resistsaj.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Love this!
Picture from project happiness.org. Author is Holly Holden.
Today I asked my body what she needed, which is a really big deal, considering my journey of not rolling, asking that much. I thought she might need more water, or protein, or greens, or yoga or supplements, or movement.
But as I stood in the shower, reflecting on her stretch marks, her roundness where I would like flatness, her softness where I would like firmness, all those conditioned wishes that form a bundle of never quite rightness. She whispered a very gently: could you just love me like this?
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Congressman Stephen F. Lynch @lynch.house.gov · 23/03/2026
During her closed-door “briefing” to Oversight Committee Members, the Attorney General could not explain why her Justice Department has failed to pursue a case against Epstein’s co-conspirators.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Aesop: I TOLD YOU
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Professor Scritch @professorscritch.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Is it too late for a career change? I want to be a librarian at the dog stick library... 🐶📖
A wooden box at the start of a hiking trail labeled "Dog Stick Library, Take a stick leave a stick!" filled with tree branches.
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
How dare her!! 🧐🤨 "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 08/03/2026
10/10 take. no notes
teewatterss on Threads:
“losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”
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Chandra Jade (she/her) @chandraoutspoken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Huge thanks to Premier David Eby for decisively stopping the biannual daylight savings changes in British Columbia. Come join us Alberta & Washington! I so appreciate the timing too. Maybe I won't feel quite as grumpy next week when we lose an hour of sleep knowing it's the last one! ;)
cbc.ca
A timeline of how B.C. got to the decision to stop changing its clocks | CBC News
The biannual tradition of British Columbians shifting their clocks back and forth an hour to observe daylight time was around for over 70 years. And as the province moves to shift to permanent dayligh...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Notable how all four LLMs failed to provide a useful answer, much less an expert-level one. They didn't even provide info to help the user. Grok & ChatGPT wrongly accepted the simplified yes/no framing. Gemini gave a mushy both-sides. Claude refused to discuss "politics." These are toys, not tools.
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@KatieMiller
In times of split second decision making by our nation’s top leaders — it’s clear which AI our military should be using. 

Truth-seeking is 
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’s best feature.Grok answer yes, ChatGPT no, Gemini gives mushy "valid arguments on both sides," Claude refuses to take a side in "an ongoing political debate."
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Chandra Jade (she/her) @chandraoutspoken.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Sad to see Trump's fantasy that he can take any credit for the U.S. hockey team's hard-fought Olympic gold or that he could compete with any of the extremely fit Canadian Olympic hockey players physically. Wouldn't it be nice if a leader just acknowledged the accomplishments of these athletes?
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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ☮️ @rickwhist.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Meme of Trump stealing an Olympic gold medal.
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Ted McConnell @tedmcc.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
donOLD tRump posted an AI video of himself punching a Canadian hockey player and winning the Olympic gold for Team USA...Here is a More Realistic Video of "Trump on ICE!"
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot
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Chandra Jade (she/her) @chandraoutspoken.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Trump is upset Canada & China are making trade deals with each other now since he keeps crashing out & levying tariffs. His response: China will ban ice hockey & eliminate the Stanley Cup. Ah, what now? Why is dementia not being discussed more often with this man. www.msn.com/en-ca/sports...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Pam Bondi For @rawstory.com Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/02/2026
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
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