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Damian Moppett

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h
i have no sympathy for trump voters who regret their vote. he came down that escalator in 2015 and said mexicans were rapists. that was after saying the first black president of this country was illegally installed. if you voted for him after that, you endorsed it all. go fuck off, forever.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10h
hollywood releasing a bunch of movies about how an insane, radicalized cabal of billionaires are trying to gobble up the world economy approximately 3 weeks after said insane cabal gobbles up the entertainment industry is what historians call a "whoopsy doodle" moment
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 15h
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23h
News story tonight suggests that Trump may lose big in the midterms because of tariffs & starting wars, but in particular because he failed to bring grocery prices down. So fascism, racism, blatant corruption/criminality, Russian collusion, treason, Epstein, and on and on…but it’s mostly groceries?
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 14h
Will you be in or near Albany later this month? If so, I'd love to see you there. hellahuman.org/sonja-drimme...
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EVENT: SONJA DRIMMER, “A TROJAN HORSE AT THE UNIVERSITY GATES: HOW AI EXPLOTS THE HUMANITIES AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT” - HELLA
Friday, October 30, 2026 at 3pmUniversity at Albany Uptown Campus, Lecture Center 06, Albany, NY Join the United University Professions UAlbany Chapter for their […]
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goof_off_artiste746393@yahoomail.com @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The main project of the US now is a line-item vindication of the most histrionic and paranoid stuff ever said by Jello Biafra
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Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 08/10/2026
Oh, I gotchu, and from from Vancouver's independent Pulp Fiction Books (@pfbvan.bsky.social) to boot!
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Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here’s a gift link to the Globe and Mail investigation about American interference in the Alberta referendum, and the separatist operatives (one of whom is a UCP President) who went to the United States to offer them our water and oil. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/64d9ad7...
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
Nosferatu, 1922 starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/8298177...
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This shit sucks so much www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 06/10/2026
You know they do this to pre-emptively stop the Democrats from doing this. "See? We told you they'd attack Trump! See? We told you it's a witch hunt!" The sad part is that it works on Democrats. Prepare yourself for "look forward, move on, heal the country" bullshit.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I fully expect a defeated Trump would treat the country like the Kennedy Center: If it’s not going to be mine, I’d rather destroy it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Convenience, efficiency, profitability, and easiness have long been the four horsemen of the tech apocalypse.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let’s test this
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 03/10/2026
Some U.S. figures openly back Alberta’s separation or annexation. The White House says it made no commitments. In short: separatists promise Alberta sovereignty while offering Washington oil and water, and importing Republican campaign tech that exposed nearly 3 million voters’ data.
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Pacific Link pipeline and RBT2 will drive the southern resident orcas to extinction, and $1.2 trillion wouldn't change that.
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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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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" [especially to the dim-witted] -- Arthur C Clarke [modification by me]
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we need to be subjected to anymore tedious interviews on CBC’s Q with uninteresting musicians? give me a plumber or an electrician, just someone who’s interesting and passionate about a variety of subjects. These musicians are not interesting at all. Save Q from this death by banality.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 29/09/2026
Today in "decisions in kerning"
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I read this as they’re all saying the same thing: they’re saying MARK HALPERIN
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 24/09/2026
Top tip: whenever reading an alarmist article about AI, swap "AI" with "abacus". "The abacus has broken through security." "Amodei says that the abacus will become self-aware imminently." "Analysts project that all middle-class jobs will be replaced by the abacus...real soon."
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The NDP has lots of leadership rules too. And sometimes, rules suddenly change. Remember Anjali Appadurai? While the Conservative base might be extremely volatile, the idea that MLAs would stage a coup immediately after going from the brink of disaster to government is, um, a stretch.
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 23/09/2026
David Suzuki says Mark Carney is driving Canada 'into a ditch' with shift on climate (Canada)
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David Suzuki says Mark Carney is driving Canada 'into a ditch' with shift on climate - Canada News
David Suzuki said that when Prime Minister Mark Carney was first elected last year, he celebrated. Having met and interviewed the prime minister before, the national environmentalist icon said he knew Carney understood the challenges of climate change.
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Don’t look back, you can never look back.
Guy from Sum 41: Am I really getting kicked but of an Eagles concert?
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 18/09/2026
Canadians! Sign the official parliament petition for regulating Data Centers in Canada www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7550 - Petitions
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Every American will be delicious for 15 minutes." -Zombie Andy Warhol
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A chatbot told him 6 times to not do one
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steviebaby🫡 @steviebaby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
what if people did this but for trans kids in their community
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At the end of the day, beyond the hatefulness, he's really just a spectacularly dumb guy. Like I'm not sure he's achieved object permanence yet. He has to be reminded which hole the food goes in. His internal monologue is the sound of one hand clapping. He calls electrical sockets "finger zappers."
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is it plausible that lots of AIs carrying out billions of human instructions to achieve seemingly benign goals by taking complex and unforeseeable steps could *do stuff that causes enormous amounts of damage*, even if the result is not literal human extinction? Well, clearly yes.
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If i was the government of Canada, i would not go near changing the operational situation of an airport. People fucking hate flying and are generally pretty indifferent to airports. Now the Liberals are going to own the shitty experiences of everyone who flies through a major airport in Cansda.
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Don't look up @zone6bgardener.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In regards to Carney’s fundraising event in Toronto: having Harper is three things: 1) Inviting a fossil fuel shill to wrap up your event is bad optics. 2) continues to illuminate us to the fact that Carney’s primary goal is to eat the lunch of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
YVR is the best airport in North America, one of the best in the world. What exactly is the urgency to “fix” his? We have serious shit to fix in this country that a rush to sell off assets doesn’t solve. news.yvr.ca/yvr-recogniz...
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YVR recognized as Best Airport in North America for record 15th year, 10th Best Airport in the World
Skytrax Award recognition as voted by millions of travellers follows record-breaking year for both cargo and passenger volumesVancouver International Airport (YVR) has once again been named Best Airpo...
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SGURD YADSEUT SOGGULS SIT
YADSEUT SOGGULS SIT
SLUGGO AND NANCY STAND IN FRONT OF THE DRUGSTORE 
SLUGGO ENJOYS READING SIGNS BACKWARDS 
SLUGGO:SGURD
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026
Extraordinary reporting: "Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family."
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump has not once called on Putin to stop bombing civilian population centers, which he targets daily. Witkoff & Kushner never said that to Putin. We cut off Patriots to Ukraine for air defense. But now he demands Ukraine stop bombing refineries while Russia murders civilians.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Same energy
The “Guy in a Bear Suit” moment from The Shining
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The US Ambassador to Canada can go drink his boss's liquid shit.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
“How do you cover a profligate liar?” is the media question of our time and somehow the answer has been “exactly the same as you cover a consistent truth teller.”
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Call on Ottawa to take down the name of Trump Avenue. We don't name streets in honour of mobsters and sexual predators. Contact the mayor: mark.sutcliffe@ottawa.ca Tell him to stand with Canada. youtube.com/shorts/WasM_...
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HELL NO TO TRUMP AVENUE !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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