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Chris Wardman

@chriswardman.bsky.social
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Hippie/punk. Vespa-ist. Former TO person self-exiled to Denman Island BC. Musician. Producer (Tragically Hip, Chalk Circle, Rusty, Watchmen, Art Bergmann...) Blue Peter guitarist/writer (bluepeterband.com), occasional artists muse.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 3h
"One guy on a bike punched my Uber, so I now loudly repeat the Conservatives' bullshit talking points." Of course. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
thestar.com
Rosie DiManno: Why the bike-lane battle is leaving me deflated
The entitlement of cycling crusaders knows no bounds, writes Rosie DiManno.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 2h
While US administration and State department officials meet with Alberta separatist leaders Hoekstra warns us not to meddle in US affairs
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 21h
Another thing is drivers in this town & province didn’t have to lift a finger of protest to get the bike lanes removed. The other side must expend endless time & money & their bodies in the streets.
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Ben @liquidgelcaps.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Raises serious questions" oh my fucking god this guy
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I saw an early screening of the 4-hour Elon Musk documentary, and he's calling it a "hit piece" because it's a damning compendium of some of his most egregious manipulation and cruelty. My question is whether the Ellisons will spike it before it ever gets to HBO. spitfirenews.com/p/elon-musk-...
spitfirenews.com
What the 4-hour Elon Musk documentary reveals
Plus, a post-screening Q&A with Ashley St. Clair.
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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ilhan Omar: 'Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced'
"I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.

I will not be silenced."
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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 12/10/2026
“Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them ‘whores’ misogynists.”
variety.com
Dan Levy Calls Out Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue and Says ‘More Men Need to Be Standing Up’: ‘Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist on Live National Television’
"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis' "Saturday Night Live" monologue, saying that "more men need to be standing up."
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint 🖤✨ avec Marlon Brando, 'Sur les quais', Elia Kazan
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Antifish @alltingsconsidered.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Are they really? Or are you trying really hard to generate negative stories about America's most popular elected official because he's socialist?
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it is 3am in San Jose, California. the nuclear red phone is going off
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is your reminder not to let those joyless fucks convince you that human experience, knowledge, intellect, and art can be reduced to a pre-chewed paste of stolen labor.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
404media.co
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Da Underfunded Ouroboros @trufflehog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know asking for things to stop getting worse is a crazy request but could things at least stop getting dumber?
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Chris Wardman @chriswardman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Watchmen won a Slaight Family Heritage Polaris Prize for the McLaren Furnace Room album I produced for them 34-ish years ago and they thanked me on stage! So cool.
Cover of the Watchmen album “McLaren Furnace Room”.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After banning CNN, MS NOW & Politico from the White House, he installs State-Run television, just like they have in so many other countries... Sieg Heil, ya'll. #38Days 🌊
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The meme I started is being replicated and now is using Seattle area coffee shops. So proud
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, the man ICE shot on Sunday, was sent to a detention center *with a bullet still in his back.* He was reportedly given no pain medication and only sent to a hospital after losing feeling in the left side of his body. ICE’s cruelty knows no bounds.
nbcnews.com
Venezuelan man shot by ICE in Texas says he’s in pain and still has bullet in his back
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez spoke from detention as lawmakers and advocates said he’s the victim of an ICE shooting and i
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 21/09/2026
A theatre in Barcelona has been banned from promoting a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own on Instagram and Facebook because the work includes “social topics.”* www.theguardian.com/technology/2... * "any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform"
theguardian.com
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just joining the Russian economic sphere I guess.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
washingtonpost.com
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
QAnon terrorist Lauren Boebert is accused of having sexual affairs with 3 of her staffers, 2 women and one man and paying a former staffer $200K to keep them quiet. Another lifelong hateful homophobic bigot who promotes Christian family values proven to be a closeted fraudulent hypocrite.
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today.
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026
So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
techpolicy.press
What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Covered this and our battleground state polling on What’s the Plan today. It’s hard to overstate just how stupid this consultant advice is. It’s as if they want Dems to lose.
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Albumism @albumism.com · 17/09/2026
DJ Shadow released his debut album ‘Endtroducing.....’ 30 years ago on September 16, 1996 album.ink/DJShadowEnd96
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Celebrating 30 Years of DJ Shadow’s Debut Album ‘Endtroducing.....’ (1996)
DJ Shadow’s debut album ‘Endtroducing…..’ was originally released in the UK on September 16, 1996 and in the US November 19, 1996.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For everyone saying they want to “protect women”, it’s not trans women hurting us www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
New report reveals prevalence of physical and sexual violence in US
Study finds more than half of US adults have experienced physical violence and nearly half sexual violence
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*may include warehouse workers who didn’t meet quota
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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping. momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 12/09/2026
Every time a Democrat gets asked asked about “boys in girls sports” OR Hasan Piker, they should bring up this.
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New: President Donald Trump's broad rollbacks of federal greenhouse gas rules since January 2025 have altered the trajectory of US energy use and helped set back cuts to planet-warming pollution by about a decade. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Trump's Climate Rollbacks Will Keep US Emissions Higher for Longer
Combined with earlier EPA deregulatory moves, this week’s repeal of power plant rules is set to alter the nation’s emissions trajectory.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI: “if anything the goat fucked *me*”
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran isn’t neutral—receipts confirm he’s complicit. This isn't about antisemitism—but about enabling Palestinian genocide. Even now, Kanye ‘pro Hitler’ West is playing at the same venues Macklemore was just cancelled from for saying Free Palestine.😐 www.qasimrashid.com/p/ed-sheeran...
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Ed Sheeran Isn’t Neutral, He’s Complicit in Genocide
The cancellation of Macklemore is more than a free speech issue, it’s a litmus test of basic morality
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