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Writer, editor, film classification researcher (censorship, children's rights). Recent romance novel: Ocean's Lure bit.ly/3llHbIV Nova Scotian by choice. Fond memories of London, Ontario. he/him Accounts posting AI art are blocked.

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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 4h
These people are supposedly "the wealthiest, most powerful and most intelligent" people on the planet, and they can't even spell 'United' correctly in an executive order talking about renaming "Artificial Intelligence" to "Super Intelligence". We are ruled by literally mentally ret*rded people.
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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 12h
Humans are messy and imperfect and emotional and funny and they pour that into their art. Why would anyone want to outsource that to the planet-killing plagarism machine?
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus Christ dude
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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Samoht @sam0ht.bsky.social · 23h
The hilarious thing is that unintentionally inviting hordes of strangers over was one of the FIRST things that went wrong with Facebook after it got big, so they're really back where they started with this www.cbsnews.com/news/faceboo...
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Facebook blunder invites 15,000 to teen's 16th birthday party; 100 cops show up, too
German teen neglected to mark the invitation private, 15,000 accepted, 1,600 showed up
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 23h
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
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Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 29/09/2026
A new poll shows the older a respondent was, the less likely they were to say they'd date a bi person, regardless of sexuality.  📩 Subscribe to understand the data: www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the…
A new poll has found while nearly half of Britons have a positive opinion about bisexual people, a majority of women wouldn't date bi men.

Marking Bisexual Visibility Day, a new YouGov poll found that nearly half (48%) of Britons have a positive opinion about the bi community, with only 8% having an explicitly negative view. 41% said they were neutral. 
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Opinionated Terran @opinionated-terran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The idea that children can represent themselves in Immigration proceedings is so insane and evil, and a perfect encapsulation of the moral depravity and overall illegitimacy of the Republican worldview in totum
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social @somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HEM: "But you'll ruin that young man's life if you report him for sexual assault." ME: Correct. I'd prefer if he didn't get to become a Supreme Court Judge or run for President.
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Karen Gillan Points Up: Yes, That
ALT: Karen Gillan Points Up: Yes, That
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The obvious questions regarding the Kindertransport is: why it was privately run and didn’t permit Jewish parents to accompany their children? There is continuity between the British govt’s refusal to accept hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees and its present-day refusal to accept refugees
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 28/09/2026
Brad Bradford disputing @nationalobserver.com’s reporting: “There’s no rewards … there’s nothing” Audio recording from Brad Bradford’s campaign meeting: “There are going to be rewards … it’s a gamification of the system”
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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah it was never just about us trans people.😞 This is a co-ordinated evangelical Christian attack on the LGBTQ+ community World wide... and of course women's rights. Religion will always make women vote like turkeys for Christmas.😭
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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the child sexual abuse case is getting the attention it deserves, but don’t miss Paxton’s office downgrading a murder-for-hire case to a misdemeanor and a four-day jail sentence www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s plea deal for a child sex abuse case
Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
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It's not that long ago that we had alternatives to driving everywhere.
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Somewhat Grumpy Press 🇨🇦 @somewhatgrumpypress.com · 28/09/2026
We'll be at Booktoberfest next Saturday. somewhatgrumpypress.com/2026/09/28/b... #booksky #halifax
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Booktoberfest 2026
The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia is once again sponsoring Booktoberfest, a literary event featuring the latest works from Nova Scotia writers and publishers. The event is at the Halifax…
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make.
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On re-reading this flash-fiction contest entry a few years later, it's obvious why I didn't place... my assigned genre was suspense, and this is science-fiction. Still, not a bad #shortstory, if I say so myself. covell.ca/nyc-tenement/
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NYC Tenement Feb/02/1935
This story was originally written as a flash fiction contest entry. It had to be in the suspense genre, set on a fire escape, include a mattress, and be written in 48 hours. The entry did not place…
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The archive outsourced online access, spending huge sums to prevent right-click saving of public images, and breaking links. Then the third-party went bankrupt, so now there's no access to images. What were they thinking?
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The whole speech is good, but this part in particular is particularly relevant now. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/publ...
A screenshot of a section of the linked speech by former President Harry Truman:

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform and abandon parts of our program. These, my friends, are Trojan horse suggestions. I have been in politics for over 30 years, and I know what I am talking about, and I believe I know something about the business. One thing I am sure of: never, never throw away a winning program.
This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party.
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Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Video clip posted by Aaron Rupar earlier today: Trump: "We have the best, uhh, I guess you could say poverty. They talk poverty. We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country."
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No way I can compete with the major poetry publishers who get collections stocked by bricks-and-mortar bookshops But I do have word of mouth and all you wonderful people here on Bluesky, pushing the numbers of readers of Whatever You Do, Just Don't far beyond the sales of the big boys. Thank you!
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The British government gave authorisation to the US to use RAF Fairford to ​carry out strikes on Iranian missile sites that are attacking ships in the Strait ⁠of Hormuz. Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned that any base used in strikes would be ​a legitimate target.” www.reuters.com/world/uk/sec...
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Men arrested in major incident at UK air base used by US
British police said on Sunday they ‌had arrested several men on suspicion of explosives offences and Army bomb disposal experts were examining a number of vehicles in a "major incident" near an air ba...
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You have to ask what the fuck the Parades Commission thought would happen when they approved this march. Because how things are panning out cannot possibly be a surprise to anyone. It's shaping into a huge PR win for the Orange Order and a no-good-options choice for the Secretary of State.
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Drumcree: Protests as controversial Orange Order march due to go ahead for first time since 1997
The march down the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road, which in the 1990s sparked some of the most serious disorder in Northern Ireland's history, will go ahead after a series of courtroom challenges.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Only in America do they deny children free lunch while forcing them to read about Jesus feeding the hungry.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
27 September 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Myriam Bloch, was born in Metz. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 20 December 1943 in a transport of 850 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 505 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection. -- Children at Auschwitz: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
A vintage photo of a young gile standing and holding a toy. The girl is smiling and dressed in a light-colored outfit with curly hair.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Andrew Burke @ajlburke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interesting analysis of drug use in various Canadian towns and cities based on wastewater. Vancouver is into Fentanyl, Prairies and NB are into meth, while Montreal and Toronto rave it up with MDMA. Halifax? We do lots of cocaine, it turns out. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices
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New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer. The GOP war on women is bigger than you thought. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer
Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And then we get to the front-page quote... "They're almost, in a certain sense, given more freedom than actual citizens of the country" Why? ...Because they're not imprisoned when they arrive🤷‍♀️ That's it - that's their "more freedom" than British citizens! 20/
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Of course we do, but let's put that into our own legislation in a sensible way, not in a crazy way where people could arrive here - they could be murderers (we don't know) - and then they're just allowed to roam the streets. 

They're almost, in a certain sense, given more freedom than actual citizens of the country. And who has to pay the price? It is the residents of Piddington.
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
43 years ago, on the 26th of September 1983, the Soviet nuclear early warning system reported a missile launch from the United States. Russian lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov judged the warning to be a false alarm and disobeyed military protocol, preventing a retaliatory attack. #otd 🗃️
Young Stanislav Petrov
Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov poses for a headshot in his Air Defense Forces uniform. He wears badges of distinction and a stoic expression, exhibiting the same calmness and focus that may have saved the human race in 1983.
© Juliet Butler/Alamy
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bring cookies to the job interview. Hand em out. It'll be a hit. Then demand the job in exchange for the antidote.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/09/2026
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023
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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Them: What's on your mind? Me: A long list of things I'm not supposed to say out loud.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Ellie Jay @elliejaywrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stealing this from whichever bookshop the internet at large stole it from. There's a shortage of my books. Quick, grab one now! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writing #5amwritersclub
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"The fee ensures drivers who pay little or no fuel tax at the pump still contribute to road repairs." CBC perpetuating the myth that road maintenance is paid by gas taxes.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
(The Western Standard used AI to generate an image of the word "removed," because I guess using MS Paint is too hard?)
Removed

Removed Image courtesy of ChatGPT ws Western Standard News Services X
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"Fez Mian, says he'll snap a picture of a burger as it comes out of the kitchen and run it through an AI application like ChatGPT, prompting it to enhance the texture and freshness of menu items." I guess that's cheaper than using better and fresher items. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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AI-generated food imagery at restaurants has some customers losing their appetites | CBC News
Diners have taken to social media to share photos of overly-shiny sandwiches and circular shrimp, lamenting the suspected use of AI. But some in the restaurant business say it's helped them reduce cos...
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Friday, October 2, I'll be doing an online reading of my #romance novel Ocean's Lure, set in Cape Breton, and my forthcoming romance novel, Cover Charm, set in Halifax (with a road trip to Ontario). Register at link #booksky. somewhatgrumpypress.com/oceans-lure-...
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Ocean’s Lure
Upcoming virtual reading Tim R Covell will read from his romance novels Ocean’s Lure and Cover Charm (forthcoming), and chat about his writing process. Friday, October 2, 2026, at 8 PM Atlant…
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"Very Online conservative Christians really think that portraying Christ as a lion, a carnivorous beast with notoriously smelly urine who sleeps 23 hours a day and steals meat from hyaenas, is beautiful sacred art. But having Christ portrayed by a woman is sacrilege." www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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On Misogyny, Aslan, And A Moral Panic
Conservative Christians really think that portraying Christ as Aslan the lion, a carnivorous beast, is sacred art. But having Christ portrayed by a woman is sacrilege.
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