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Collette (they/them)

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Non-profit marketer, web writer, Brazilian Portuguese learner, interested in local governance. I play drums in a band. Treaty 4 / Regina SK. Views are my own.

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Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 4h
🎁 link Fucking AI, jfc 🙄 claude, google maps, all trails, and other “tools” nearly killed the lad
nytimes.com
Hiker, 16, Is Rescued From ‘Widowmaker’ Ledge After Using Chatbot to Plan Route (Gift Article)
Bryce Vincent Gowryluk used Claude, Anthropic’s A.I. chatbot, to help him chart a course for the top of Crown Mountain, north of Vancouver, British Columbia. Things did not go as planned.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 5h
Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old Spanish woman whose dramatic eviction last month sparked ​mass housing protests that led to an early election, has died, the Madrid tenants' union said on Wednesday, as ‌thousands demonstrated over her death. RIP Maricarmen 🙏🏽🕊️🌟🌺 www.reuters.com/world/evicte...
reuters.com
Spanish woman whose eviction ignited housing protests dies at 87
Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old Spanish woman whose dramatic eviction last month sparked ​mass housing protests that led to an early election, has died, the Madrid tenants' union said on Wednesday...
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 6h
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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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 6h
Elon Musk is South African because Saskatchewan wasn’t white enough for his grandfather in 1950.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 07/10/2026
“Andrew Tate allegedly had some seriously disturbing material on his devices ... including extreme porn depicting sex acts with a horse and an eel ... according to newly filed court docs obtained by TMZ”
tmz.com
Andrew Tate Allegedly Had Bestiality Porn With Horse and Eel, Videos of Minors
Andrew Tate allegedly had some seriously disturbing material on his devices ... including extreme porn depicting sex acts with a horse and an eel ... according to newly filed court docs obtained by TM...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paramount has closed its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Billionaire David Ellison now controls: —CNN —CBS —HBO —Paramount —Warner Bros —Discovery —Skydance —Showtime —DC Studios —Nickelodeon —Cartoon Network —Food Network —MTV —Comedy Central —HGTV —TBS —TLC
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 06/10/2026
HAHAHAHHAHAHA "On Monday, Williams took to her Instagram Stories, posting a screenshot of DHS’ statement alongside her own suggestion: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat dick.”"
rollingstone.com
Hayley Williams Responds to DHS' Suggestion to Thank Officers After ICE Comments: 'Nazi Bitches'
Hayley Williams has drawn the ire of President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alberta's most recent former environment minister now works for....an oil and gas company. Mais bien sur.
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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Family vlogging is one of the internet’s most lucrative genres - but the children involved never get to consent to be used for content. Tariq Nafi reports on the business of broadcasting childhood. Full report ▶️ youtu.be/R1raeeFin4I
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Geordie @geordiedent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If we’re talking historically, Canada Post is still up by billions. If we’re talking today, it still applies. The union and CCPA have outlined about 10 different changes, all ignored by gov, that would make the corporation profitable.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/09/2026
hearing mark carney talk about how privatizing airports will free up money to invest in regional airports, transport links, broadband infrastructure makes me think of how nationalizing the pipeline was supposed to deliver revenues to pay for climate measures
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know the bar is so low it's in hell but these are the moments of healthy masculinity that warm my heart. It's okay to be afraid of needles! It's okay to need some comfort! It's okay to get that comfort from another straight dude! At a time when empathy is seen as a weakness, this is really nice
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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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Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the AI data centre being built outside Regina ends up being as big as promised, it will use as much power as four Reginas. Simon Enoch from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives breaks it all down on the QCIB: youtu.be/O1u24Kg0LoI?... #yqrcc
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QCIB Oct 01 2026 - This Is Fine! with Simon Enoch
YouTube video by PD City Hall — Paul Dechene
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fuck Mike Smith. The man has been accused multiple times of sexual assault. This is not the first time he's been brought up on charges. Dropped charges or even acquittals do not mean innocence. Society wants us to believe that women are born liars, but I refuse to swallow that propaganda.
ctvnews.ca
Sexual assault charge against ‘Trailer Park Boys’ actor Mike Smith dismissed
A sexual assault charge against actor Mike Smith was dismissed on Thursday as his trial was set to begin in Dartmouth provincial court.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The National Post attack on NDP Leader Avi Lewis crosses the line into threat. They invoke the same religious code words used by extremists who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin. It is unacceptable to use religious intimidation to shut down debate on Gaza. charlieangus.substack.com/p/national-p...
charlieangus.substack.com
NATIONAL POST CROSSES LINE ON THREAT AGAINST LEWIS
A recent editorial on NDP leader Avi Lewis crossed the line into an extremist hate threat. It needs to be called out.
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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It has been over 11 years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its 93 calls to action. Since then, 14 of them have been completed. That is just 15%. In over a decade. www.indigenouswatchdog.org/2026/09/01/t...
indigenouswatchdog.org
TRC Calls To Action Status: September 1, 2026 - Indigenous Watchdog
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Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If true, it'd be pretty fucking ironic considering we know that American money is pouring into the Alberta separatist movement — and into the Ottawa convoy before that.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 30/09/2026
Poilievre has already been struggling to be heard amid the unravelling of the Canada-U.S. relationship. An eighth departure suggests he’s struggling to be heard within his own unwieldy caucus, too. Read the latest from Star columnist Susan Delacourt: mrf.lu/20RpQ
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
As data breaches go, this is pretty sizable, significant, and also bafflingly bad in terms of time it took to discover and that the stolen data was unencrypted. News of this breach comes weeks after a huge theft of FBI agents' personal data. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260930...
techcrunch.com
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
techcrunch.com
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Alexander Quon @alexanderquon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brandon Taylor Moore, the Saskatoon man sentenced to house arrest for inciting hatred against Jewish people, literally ran out court today. youtu.be/2Ah3PhSPiIU?...
youtu.be
Saskatoon man ordered to delete antisemitic posts that reached 180,000 X followers
YouTube video by CBC News Saskatchewan
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 30/09/2026
Wait, he signed an executive order to literally “replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” (“AI”) with “Super Intelligence” (“SI”)” ?? www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President
Donald J. Trump Inaugurates The Era of Super Intelligence
The White House
September 29, 2026

USHERING IN SUPER INTELLIGENCE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to replace the term "Artificial Intelligence" ("Al") with "Super Intelligence" ("SI") in the executive branch to recognize the continuously advancing technological frontier and the limitless promise it offers the American people.
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Piper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴‍☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's very important that none of us share her name. Not even in "awareness" of what has been done to her. Not in sharing images of her doxxing. She's Jane Doe unless *she* chooses not to be. Then, we pursue vengeance against all rapists & their enablers until none of them are fucking left.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
these guys are so deluded - just huffing their own farts
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 28/09/2026
“Staff in (for-profit) facilities are performing lower complexity procedures at the expense of those more complex procedures. So that is a concerning finding regarding wait times,” said CCPA report author @alonghurst.bsky.social #onpoli @policyalternatives.ca theprovince.com/news/canada/...
theprovince.com
Wait times increased for some surgeries outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Wait times for surgery and medical imaging in Ontario have increased since the government began outsourcing to private for-profit clinics.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 28/09/2026
“This tragedy occurred in a political environment that prioritized economic growth over the health and safety of a vulnerable group of workers. The result was a large-scale, tragic outbreak, the scope of which was preventable,” reads a new Parkland Institute report. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
thetyee.ca
Alberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The Tyee
A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“…how is it possible that we’re still begging for the same scraps of humanity?”
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Collette (they/them) @collette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No we are not. Leave our geese alone!
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Laura likes to read a lot @lrrzmdrgl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here are their names and a wonderful soul created a website to keep track of them. thecornell7.org Also, since we are talking about college rapists Brock Turner now goes by Allen Turner and lives in Ohio
Photo of the Cornell seven rapists: Matthew Ingalls, Diego Sarabia, Winston 
Lee, ScottKertzschmar, Scott Norris, Gillio Lopez, and Jonathan Newwell 
A website to keep track of them: thecornell7.org
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TMZ reports that Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, has been fired from his job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation
tmz.com
Cornell Student Diego Sarabia Loses Wells Fargo Job Amid Alleged Sexual Assault Case
Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, is suddenly out of a job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation of the alleged 2024 incident ... TMZ has learned...
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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 28/09/2026
The original video for this performance is stunning. youtu.be/x6_mbnsh6VU
youtu.be
GENER8ION - STORM starring Yung Lean
YouTube video by GENER8ION
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Given the recent headlines, I’m surprised this hasn’t happened until now. Florida’s Attorney General has asked for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and ChatGPT, claiming the company doesn't have the ability to properly regulate its own technology.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
As the Africa Space Expo closes in Abidjan, African innovators are showing what the continent can build.
aljazeera.com
Africa's space ambitions are moving from policy to practice
As the Africa Space Expo closes in Abidjan, African innovators are showing what the continent can build.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SURPRISE! (not suprised) "In addition to the Darlington SMR’s financing challenges and empty order book, and the abandonment of the “advanced” SMR projects in New Brunswick, the most spectacular SMR failure is a project designed and championed by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories."
theenergymix.com
RIP SMRs: Is It the End of the Line for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors?
In early September, the organization behind Canada's push for small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) quietly signalled their demise, researcher and author Susan O'Donnell writes in analysis for The Ene...
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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In my latest for CBC, I wrote about a new Statistics Canada wastewater report showing stark differences in drug use across Canadian cities: - Meth and cocaine were highest in Prince Albert; - Halifax had low meth but high cocaine; - Fentanyl remained far higher in Metro Vancouver than elsewhere.
cbc.ca
From fentanyl to meth: Canada's drug picture changes city by city | CBC News
New StatCan data shows sharply different drug-use patterns across eight Canadian cities, with methamphetamine elevated in parts of the Prairies and Moncton, cocaine comparatively high in Halifax and f...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 27/09/2026
First poll in the wake of Pierre Poilievre's AI rap video shows NDP within 4 pts of displacing Conservatives as 2nd party
cultmtl.com
New poll finds support for Conservatives and NDP just 4 points apart
According to a new EKOS study, the Conservatives and the NDP are now polling at just four points apart, at 22% and 18%, respectively.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Useful context for Alberta’s anti-inmigrant referendum questions. We are not being “flooded” with newcomers. And scapegoating immigrants for longstanding structural problems with our public health care system, in particular, is gutter politics. #cdnpoli #abpoli #notothenine.
ca.finance.yahoo.com
Canada's population growth slows to lowest level in 80 years
The population is also aging with the median age now at 40.9 years
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"We believe there is an important conversation to be had about ensuring that investments in addiction and recovery reach the front lines, particularly culturally grounded services serving urban Indigenous populations." Alberta loses another recovery program. #abpoli #cdnpoli
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