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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 21/06/2026

So I’m gonna tell you a little bit about some damn thing with rats

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[YTP] OOPS, ALL RATS! (SUPERCUT)

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 1h

if you showed this to someone from 2004, they would knock you over the head with a pipe wrench, steal your laptop, and win the first edition of the DARPA Grand Challenge.

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DARPA Grand Challenge - Wikipedia

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 2h

they’re playing ska as bumper music for the baseball playoffs, we are so back,

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 4h

I can reproduce this and have reported the search result to Google

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 6h

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 5h

hopefully that was the most demotivating thing that happens to me for a while.

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Glen Korstrom @glenkorstrom.bsky.social · 9h

I looked into the business of Indigenous art in the lead-up to tomorrow's Truth and Reconciliation Day. Auctioneers say demand, values are strong. Corporate interest in commissioning art is on the rise. Digital art is increasingly common. #Indigenous #art

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Demand fuels soaring values for Indigenous art

From ancestral stories to FIFA medals, the modern boom in Indigenous art is real

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 10h

This is a fantastic idea. www.purplerow.com/colorado-roc...

As Theurmer Jr writes:

The Park Service already has an appropriate site for a baseball game at a historic site it oversees in California. A game was recently played at the Manzanar National Historic Site where thousands of Japanese Americans were interned during WWII.

In 2024, the Little Tokyo Giantsplayed the Lodi JACL Templars, the first time the field had been used since the Manzanar camp was closed in 1945.

With that in mind, if MLB is committed to bringing baseball to Wyoming, let me recommend building a field and playing a game at the site of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center between Cody and Powell. During World War II when Japanese Americans were confined there, Heart Mountain’s team met Gila River in 1944. The all-star teams played 13 games over 15 days to determine the winner.

It would be great to see MLB call attention to the Center and the history it preserves.

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 10h

this is a monumental ruling on Canadian drug policy…

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 12h

Thinking about this old quote in the context of certain people - professors, nyt contributors, etc - who see casual misgendering as a reasonable response to a lack of respect for their claimed epistemic authority

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12h

I can't believe these are street legal

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 23h

my cat when she’s done snuggling under the blankets:

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 29/09/2026

what if i want to automate sorting through incoming emails so i can spend more time cooking what then

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Postmedia delenda est @olenargy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everything’s coming up Frankie Graves today.

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 28/09/2026

It’s sort of grimly fascinating how two rights – compensating all residential school survivors through a class action, and preventing nonconsensual disclosure of testimony – still add up to a wrong – potentially erasing irreplaceable documentation of what the TRC rightly called a genocide.

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 28/09/2026

i just don’t understand what people get out of behaving so cruelly to strangers.

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

...you guys ever get the impression things aren't actually that bad and we're just under DPRK-tier propaganda to crush morale?

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 28/09/2026

If we’re going to talk about the sociological aspects of LLMs on non-white non-English communication, I think it’s worth reading up on how Indigenous technologists view the challenges and opportunities for broader language revitalization efforts.

mila.quebec

First Languages AI Reality | Mila

The FLAIR initiative aims to develop a method for the rapid creation of customized ASR models for Indigenous languages.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 28/09/2026

POV you posted about AI with she/her in bio

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Civil War- No trains for 13 years First train runs at 160 km/h excuse me, I didn’t appreciate your game Syrian Railways

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 28/09/2026

TIL Madeline L’Engle’s grandfather was the cofounder of Barnett Bank

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Bion Barnett - Wikipedia

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This isn't an "I'm better than you" this is a "oh thank god I can be an independent adult despite how shit society is towards neurodivergent people" - and some of us, last year, have seen that maybe that one differentiator is becoming something machines can learn how to do. Of course we're scared.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

let's zoom in on this for a second, because a lot of people are being derisive, so: for many actual people, the available options are (1) real career doing weird niche symbol manipulation well enough that employers are incentivized to provide actual autism accommodations (2) washing dishes somewhere

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Fairford Five after being released on bail

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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An age-old story.

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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Canada should be able to support legitimate investigations without making secure systems easier to attack, and without making Canadian companies less competitive globally as more countries look for trusted, sovereign infrastructure,” #CdnPoli #BillC-22 #Security #Sovereignty

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Tailscale, Windscribe co-sign open letter asking feds to further amend Bill C-22 | BetaKit

Canadian and European tech companies still have concerns over Canada's federal “lawful access” bill.

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 28/09/2026

woke up and immediately got to snuggle a cat, so that’s about the best possible start to my week

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

100% Make fun of them, insult them, mock them, call them weird-ass nazi loser fuckheads in KKKosplay They aren't worthy of your fear

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rimidar @rimidar.au · 28/09/2026

Executive order regarding the furry pilot menace

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 28/09/2026

Lorne Doerkson and Emily Lowan both issued statements condemning the white nationalist march on Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve the same day it happened. What are David Eby and his surrogates up to? Well.

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yael @yael.gay · 28/09/2026

Blessed are You, o Lord our G-d, who commanded us to throw candy at children

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 27/09/2026

It's interesting that Lorne Doerkson is the first (only?) B.C. party leader to condemn this cfjctoday.com/2026/09/27/a...

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Apparent white nationalist gathering spotted on Tkʼemlúps reserve Sunday

TK'EMLUPS - A post on social media appears to show a group of masked individuals gathered on the Tkemlps te Se...

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Cozysters 🫶🎢 - Coming Soon! @cozysters.com · 27/09/2026

Cozysters official trailer, now available on the @smol.farm YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1cn...

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Trailer - Cozysters

YouTube video by smol farm

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, everybody should transition! Oh yes, sure, get a heat pump too

A push alert from the chronicle that says

‘Everybody should transition'
Bay Area officials are banning new gas water heaters. Have they made the switch in their homes?

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 27/09/2026

fully understanding that the landscape is not the same for every person in the world, but there’s a WHOLE lotta people online who’d benefit from a guided assisted multi-day hike. Nothing to push the body too hard, and it can be with friends or trusted community. but gettin’ out is a vital activity

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The town where my Opa's family came from was very welcoming when we laid Stolpersteine for them. The excuse for this—victims' families might object because people can walk on victims' names—is bullshit. These get laid because victims' families pay for them. If they object, it doesn't happen.

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German town sparks outrage as far-right and conservatives rally against Holocaust memorial plaques

A city council in eastern Germany has halted the installation of memorial plaques honoring Holocaust victims, sparking outrage.

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 27/09/2026

he doesn’t look anything like deion sanders

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 27/09/2026

calmly explaining to my manager that he’s velocity-blind and needs to update his priors during my perf review

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 27/09/2026

I’m bandwagoning the Buffalo Bills this season because they honoured Canada for the home opener. They turned the ball over within the first 16 seconds of today’s game. #NFL

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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero)

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 27/09/2026

you didn’t need to call a snap election to make bad policy like stacking a provincial gas tax holiday atop the federal gas tax holiday #bcpoli

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 27/09/2026

i don’t think i’ll ever get sick of living someplace with four distinct seasons.

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