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aislin 🍉

@gatheredstitches.bsky.social
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they/she; law nerd doing civil liberties, human rights, privacy and tech law; also textile art; on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ land; diaspóra na hÉireann; recon neopagan; chronically (ch)ill formerly @theothergarden on that other place

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HAR JOURNALIST @harjournalist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Nikki Stanton and Morgan McAslan will both be back with #VanRiseFC next season. Stanton⬇️ “I can say that right…” 👀
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Note that any book with an LGBTQ+ theme is automatically considered sexually explicit and removed.
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mïku smeets🥯🦝🚈 @mikusmeets.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
this is what makes bluesky the "canada" of social media whites believe it's less terrible than twitter, when it's actually just more quietly terrible and smug
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Matthew De George @sportsdoctormd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
No no no. That Muller goal should stand under the "cool shit always counts" bylaw. Look it up
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 07/08/2025
Just recorded with @theprogressreport.ca on the scoop related to Calgary police surveillance –– look for it early next week. Meantime, check out the story, which includes the 1,566 pages of documents and a freedom of information request you can submit yourself! drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
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Calgary police "image recognition" software identifies individuals in photos & videos posted online
Documents show that two years after being caught using Clearview AI facial recognition software, Calgary police signed contracts for AI software that scours photos and videos for individuals. Have pol...
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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 29/07/2025
They put this into place without a proper way for local escalation; the end result of a a long line of decisions not wanting to have to deal with pesky customers nor with pesky employees. These companies will eventually die.
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50 Plus Döner @50plusdoner.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Possible 50 Plus Conspiracy brain
The domino falling meme

The small domino says "Alphonso Davies' family signing him up for Vancouver Whitecaps youth team"

The big domino says "Alphonso Davies' family signing him up for Vancouver Whitecaps youth team"
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aislin 🍉 @gatheredstitches.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
i might actually cry
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Lying by an officer should be a one-strike-you're-fired situation, and the officers who did so should all be prosecuted. I won't hold my breath. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Justice department drops cases against LA protesters after officers caught making false claims
Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissals
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/07/2025
Please make him go through discovery.
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aislin 🍉 @gatheredstitches.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
forced to work born to do a chaotic one-person nonbinary drag show in which i lip sync to the entirely of the afghan whigs' "gentlemen" album with a bold red lip
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aislin 🍉 @gatheredstitches.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
people are still going to be relitigating the 2024 US election on bsky dot app in 2035 unless the servers melt first i guess
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I’m Jamal from Gaza. I lost everything home, safety, and almost my future but I haven’t lost hope. I’m trying to rebuild our life one step at a time. If you can donate or share, please do. Your repost might save us. gofund.me/a625d5ba
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isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is sidestepping questions on how the budget for a five-million-dollar task force aimed at cracking down on the Downtown Eastside was approved. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Vancouver mayor can’t answer how $5M for ‘Task Force Barrage’ was approved
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is sidestepping questions on how the budget for a five-million-dollar task force aimed at cracking down on the Downtown Eastside was approved.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The only thing the tech industry creates anymore is fake hype cycles to artificially inflate their stock price. And in the meantime we all get inflicted with their bullshit as everyone is told "it's the next big thing and you don't want to miss out!"
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"Your health records will be on the block chain." "Everyone will live in the Metaverse." "All art will be NFTs." "Generative AI will replace the need for humans." We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Random facts about Canada— Canadian law allows for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed anywhere in the world to be prosecuted in Canada. Canada allows private individuals to initiate prosecutions for criminal offences, forcing public prosecutors to either discontinue or continue it.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital. They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces. They call it “scientifically illiterate” and “biologically nonsensical” 1/3
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This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical.
We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting:
i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected.
Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth.
iii. Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country.
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Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Good: * Poilievre isn't Prime Minister. * Poilevre lost his own seat. Bad: * Everything has shifted substantially rightward. * 40% of popular vote and +20 seats for Cons. * Basically a two-party parliament of centre right and far right. * Left leaning parties wiped out.
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aislin 🍉 @gatheredstitches.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
i am so profoundly ready for this election to be over
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Toronto Police Association's members and Executive are subject to the Police Services Act, which prohibits the endorsement of political candidates. The Police Board affirmed this position in 2010. This post — which is an egregious abuse of power — shouldn't be above the law.
Text from a tweet from the Toronto Police Association. It reads, "We asked the leading contenders for Prime Minister for their position on the policing and public safety issues that matter the most to our members and the communities we serve.

As you head to the ballot box next week, consider these responses. It is clear to us there is only one Party that has maintained a strong position on public safety issues and proactively supported police services.

While our vote is with @PierrePoilievre and the @CPC_HQ, we will work with whoever leads the next government and we will hold them accountable as we continue to advocate for our members and the public."
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Here my colleague Gabe Winant asks "Who governs the University?" We should all be asking this question. These institutions are landlords, healthcare providers, employers, police forces, and educators. They should be democratically governed. chicagomaroon.com/47073/viewpo...
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Who Governs the University?
With authoritarian threats looming, our campus needs democracy.
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sexy baba yaga @beardynoise.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
insane that the man who fucked a couch murdered one of the holiest men on earth
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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
the extent to which conservatives are CODDLED in the academy in a way that no one else is. the coddling of the american conservative. and then when they have to face the same pressures as literally anyone else, how they scream and cry and sob about how unfair it all is. yeah, I'm out of sympathy.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The important thing here is that some brave people said NO and they WALKED AWAY
Department of Homeland Security agents were denied entry into two South Los Angeles elementary schools earlier this week, according to a district spokesperson.

The incidents happened on Monday at Lillian Elementary School and Russell Elementary School. A message sent to the community attending both schools stated that the agents "identified themselves as representatives of a federal agency" before administrators turned them away.
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Serenity "🜔🝆🜌🜂" Dee 🍜 @sapphixy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I'm an economist who has a background in monetary theory and US banking history and I was trained by a financial historian and Jesus fucking Harold Christ "scary" doesn't cover it; this is setting the stage for large scale obliteration of wealth *obliteration*, not transfer
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
off the top of my head, this includes any non-US person working in journalism, several law fields, human rights, science, healthcare, and a significant portion of academia, coming to the US for work, study, or plain leisure
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Intelligencer @intelligencer.com · 10/04/2025
In a new social-media campaign from the American government, the federal agency ICE promised to prevent ‘illegal’ ‘ideas’ from entering the country.
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ICE Threatens to Stop ‘Ideas’ at the Border
In a new social-media campaign from the American government, the federal agency ICE promised to prevent ‘illegal’ ‘ideas’ from entering the country.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Of course, they’re not actually looking for antisemitism. They’re looking for brown immigrants who are critics of the United States and Israel’s policy and actions towards Palestine and they believe they’ve landed on a palatable reason to purge a lot of brown people from the United States.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We have every reason to believe that *they* are committing crimes against presumptively innocent people whom they have no intention of giving a fair trial. We have more reason to believe that about them than they have ever produced about people whom we should be thinking of as their victims.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I cannot stress enough that these people are liars. They lie in legal-sounding ways to give their actions a patina of legitimacy. It is conscious, and it is insidious and you have to reject it every time you see it.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is no different than parroting claims that we are being invaded. That word has a legal meaning. Unlawful entry is not invasion.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation. -You cannot legally deport people without due process. -You cannot legally deport citizens. -They are defining down deportation to break the law.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Trying to provide as much as I can without sensationalizing this, but one other important detail: records show that he was transferred out of MA TODAY, the day AFTER they told the court he was no longer in the state and deleted the bond records in ECAS. I've got hackles up I didn't even know I owned
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I have spoken with multiple field offices and emailed ICE counsel as well as the office of the Chief Immigration Judge. From what I am putting together an extremely new disturbing pattern has developed recently of ICE somehow *deleting* cases from the imm court's ECAS system & *no one knows how*
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/04/2025
When are the people who said nothing while student protestors were attacked for their free speech last year going to admit they made a catastrophic mistake? That would actually be useful. Weaken their rhetorical tools. Admit you made a huge fucking mistake
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 06/04/2025
How two Irish protesters are facing deportation from Germany over pro-Palestine demonstrations
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How two Irish protesters are facing deportation from Germany over pro-Palestine demonstrations
Bert Murray (31) and Shane O’Brien (29) are fighting efforts to remove them. But why have Berlin authorities gone so far?
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
our “we are making lists of jews” t-shirt raising many questions already answered by the shirt
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@Betar_USA

We have started identifying names of Diaspora Jews we will recommend be banned from the State of Israel. We are living in very dangerous times worldwide and Betar International is building lists of Jews unwelcome. We are glad kapo Norman Finkelstein has been banned. Betar confirms we have added names to our ban list!
Americans, Canadians, Latin American, French and British Jews have been added.
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tarkus @nerftarkus.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
the icp would run America a million times better than the current admin.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Yep. And "accept" here can mean anything from "work with" to "support from a distance" to "keep at arm's length but not burn bridges with" to "ignore instead of repudiating."
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I like to wait until at least half the polling stations are in before formally declaring a victory in any byelection. We're almost at that point, so I won't call anything yet. But it's very hard to see any result other than Maloney and Orr being Vancouver's next two city councillors.
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