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Old lady gamer. Former curator (Anthropology & Art History). Canadian with an unhealthy level of interest in US politics. The Real Spinster of BC. Cat lady with no cats. 📍Living on Coast Salish land.

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A super concerning meeting of white nationalists in advance of Truth and Reconciliation day 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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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
white nationalists doing hate crime on the highway overpass in Dufferin neighbourhood of Kamloops now
A bunch of fucking losers dressed in black with white masks, standing on an overpass with a black banner that says “GOT BONES?”
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Brazil Movie: Extreme Facelift Scene
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hell to the fucking no it doesn't.
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GenderQueeries 🇨🇦 @genderqueeries.ca · 25/09/2026
BC Conservative leader "I think SOGI has to be removed" youtu.be/pc1yln77BTY?...
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New leader of B.C. Conservatives looks ahead to provincial election
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are so dependent on American reporters who were able to get the chat logs leaked to them BC’s AG apparently didn’t know what was in those chats until the Mother Jones report today
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
HERE. WE. GO.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 17/09/2026
I once again ask why does every single police officer need a computer in every single police cruiser giving them instant access to every single Canadians' private information? There is no oversight. They are literally using this information to stalk women and sharing this information with assassins
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Water Not Coal has released a copy of a letter with concerns about Elections Alberta, including... - 2 directors being fired without cause - Multiple changes to how their petition was being verified mid process - A service manager & 4 supervisors quitting with concerns the process was compromised.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that he views public assets as belonging to the government is the problem. They don't belong to the government. They belong to the public. They belong to us. Not the Liberals, not Parliament, not him. Us. He's a caretaker, not an owner.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Most people don't know that the best way to make a service more efficient is to bring in a layer of upper management devoted solely to extracting a profit from it. It takes a doctorate in economics to figure that one out.
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Government to open up Canada's 4 largest airports to private investment, Carney says | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will open up Canada's four largest airports to private investment, but that Ottawa will maintain ultimate ownership.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 07/09/2026
This is a wild thread Newly elected AfD state parliamentarians in Saxony-Anhalt include two people linked to a recent raid on a banned neo-Nazi group, guy who forged his high school diploma and a former stasi officer Like, are German political parties not familiar with oppo? x.com/Jakob_D04/st...
O Translated from German Show original 2. Sebastian Koch: Neo-Nazi past, NPD Midsummer Celebration. Just recently, a raid due to suspicion of continuing the banned "Artgemeinschaft." He described his earlier Neo-Nazi period as a "phase." First votes: 41.5%. Rate this translation:Jakob @Jakob_D04 • 4h Ø Translated from German Show original 3. Simon Lansmann (AfD): His property is said to have been the site of a celebration in the context of the banned "Artgemeinschaft." Raid 2026. First votes: 41.6 %.Jakob @Jakob_D04 • 4h C Translated from German Show original 5. Phillipp-Anders Rau: Prior convictions for theft & forged high school diploma (university spot obtained by deception), cocaine addiction, porn productions, later private insolvency: 48.1% first votesJakob @Jakob_D04 • 4h O Translated from German Show original 1. Frank-Ronald Bischoff: 78 years old, 12 years as a full-time Stasi officer. Additionally, allegations regarding job offers during his nomination. First votes: 37.9%.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 07/09/2026
This rock in Leipzig marks the spot where the General German Workers' Association — the world’s first labour party — was founded 163 years ago in 1863 It was the world’s first party organized to build political power for working-class people Happy Labour Day, Canada
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So basically… The National Observer found a bunch of websites designed to confuse voters as poison AI that had possible linkages to Keith Wilson’s “Let Alberta Decide”… And when they asked for comment those websites suddenly went offline. Cool. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
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A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Foreign interference, MAGA-style. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
nationalobserver.com
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
She’s very concerned about the foreign influence campaigns she deliberately invited into our political discourse. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Smith acknowledges foreign influence campaigns targeting Alberta referendum
About 80 per cent of the suspect online material has been linked to a Russian-based, pro-Kremlin content farm
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Put another way, the entire adult userbase is going to have to upload their IDs to sketchy third-party companies and link their identities to their online activity to stop a few dozen kids from accessing a platform that is mainly left-leaning news and commentary. What problem is this solving?
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 10/07/2026
NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...
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‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the right
Canada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 08/07/2026
Perhaps no man in the history of our nation has ever spent as much money on making himself appear likeable than Pierre Poilievre
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 05/07/2026
US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra welcomed Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich to his July 4 party in Ottawa tonight Lich is currently serving a house arrest sentence in relation to a criminal conviction over her role in the convoy's three-week occupation of Canada's capital city
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It was an honour and a pleasure to attend the 4th of July American Independence Day celebrations at the Ambassador's residence in Ottawa. I had the opportunity to speak with Ambassador Hoekstra and thank him, the President, and the American people for their heartfelt support throughout the Freedom Convoy and ever since. @ChrisBarber1975

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026
well I guess I should put this in the article I'm writing for tomorrow that I had tentatively titled 'The Trans Kids Sports Case Is Not About Sports'
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 01/07/2026
“What AI is actually doing is upgrading the institution on the other side of you — giving the side that already had more lawyers, more time and more money the power to produce more pressure, faster, for almost nothing,” Jason Ward writes. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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AI Isn’t Replacing Lawyers. But It’s Supercharging Institutions | The Tyee
Canadians receiving insurance denials, eviction notices and collection demands need solutions to address a worsening disadvantage.
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
BREAKING: Trump’s rule change for the Office of Management and Budget will not only require agencies to ensure grants advance the president’s priorities, it will also kill up to 5,000 clinical trials — including 1,000 cancer treatment studies fight2win.standupforscience.net @standupforscience.net
TRUMP'S NEW FEDERAL GRANT GUIDELINES COULD KILL
5,000 CRITICAL
HENCAL
STUDIES
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davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🆕 from me: Landlords in the House: Advocates see a bias in Parliament against renters #cdnpoli globalnews.ca/news/1191847...
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Landlords in the House: Advocates see a bias in Parliament against renters - National | Globalnews.ca
A Global News analysis of the financial disclosures of MPs as well as questions to a select number of politicians has found that every person in Carney's ministry are homeowners.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 23/06/2026
The only way to prevent future radicalization, and more terror attacks, is to break this toxic internet addiction and to push lonely young men back into a shared society. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: I’ve studied the ‘incel’ culture that fuelled the Montreal shooting and solutions are hard to find
Incel culture is toxic but difficult to solve
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Chronin @chronin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social Our ancestors did not die fighting fascists with graves lining Europe to tolerate fascist injustices south of our border. Our ancestors knew the stakes training in the UK then, we better damn well know the stakes of injustice now. DO SOMETHING.
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Trump DOJ’s first-ever Antifa case sends protesters to decades in prison
Critics fear prosecution of nearly two dozen people serves as ‘template’ to go after antifascist protesters
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
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Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/05/2026
Danielle Smith is angling to be Canada's Nigel Farage. I break down years of her absurd fantasies about an independent Alberta, and the role she played in whipping up separatist fever. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: Danielle Smith is brewing Canada’s own Brexit problem
Alberta premier is flirting with Brexit-like falsehoods.
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Love Romances comic #104 from 1963 agrees.
Comic cover from the early 1960s. The image shows a young woman in a red dress carrying a small clutch purse and a bag of groceries walking towards a young man and woman together laughing.  Theres a car with a number of people around it and a building in the background. The title of the comic is "Please don't let me be a spinster." The young woman in red has a thought bubble saying "I used to date too laughing and loving like other girls! But now I walk alone my yearning arms embracing only groceries."
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Not good. The Carney government cannot wish-cast foreign interference away. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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EXCLUSIVE: RCMP says no current clandestine activities in Canada linked to government of India
RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme says based on the information before him, there are no longer clandestine activities or transnational repression taking place in Canada that is linked to the government o...
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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a woman dressed as wonder woman is standing with her arms crossed .
ALT: a woman dressed as wonder woman is standing with her arms crossed .
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disordered @disorderedyyc.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Two-tier health care, in violation of the Canada Health Act, is now a reality in Alberta. You can pay your surgeon to jump the public wait list and get your surgery ahead of everyone else. Instead of fixing public health care, Danielle Smith is destroying it. #ableg #abpoli
Hello,

You are receiving this message because you are currently on the publicly funded cataract surgery waitlist at Mitchell Eye Centre.

We are writing to share an informational update regarding a recent change to Alberta’s health care rules that may provide an additional option for some patients awaiting cataract surgery.

For more information, you can review the Government of Alberta’s overview here:
As a result of this change, some patients may now choose to pay privately for cataract surgery rather than remaining on the public waitlist. This option is entirely voluntary. Your place on the publicly funded waitlist does not change unless you choose to pursue private surgery.

This information is being shared so that patients are aware of all available options.

If you would like information about privately funded cataract surgery, please contact our surgical coordinator directly:

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Once contacted, our team will follow up to provide information and answer any questions you may have.

If you prefer to remain on the publicly funded waitlist, no action is required at this time.

Thank you for your patience while awaiting care, and for trusting Mitchell Eye Centre with your eye care.

Sincerely,
Mitchell Eye Centre
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
During the visit of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to Vancouver in 1991, I served her (or rather her secretary who handled the money) in the gift shop when they made a quiet impromptu visit to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🇨🇦’s political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senate’s sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respect voter privacy, sunset Bill C-4! openmedia.org/C4Sunset-bsky @openmedia.org
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Protect Canadian democracy: Sunset C-4!
🇨🇦’s political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senate’s sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respec...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/03/2026
1/ The initial response to the war is in: Canadians are not on side with the illegal US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Nearly half of us — including a supermajority of NDP and Liberal voters — are firmly opposed.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/03/2026
"Trump has no plan for Iran. Just blow shit up, kill some people, and hope for the best. It is the war of a Mad King."
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“Massive” war launched by a man with no plan. Again.
Donald Trump is repeating George W. Bush's catastrophic mistakes.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“Antifa” is a sentiment and an organizing principle. There is no membership. He’d have better luck trying to find people who joined Paw Patrol.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We've asked Ken Sim for a response to this, along with a question as to why he said in a statement that Lenny Zhou was "taking responsibility for sharing information that was not accurate." I'll let you know when or if we hear back.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
Fuuuuuuck. Larry Ellison will control tiktok, CBS, and CNN. Bari Weiss will run the latter. Oligarchy nightmare.
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
📢 Please share! The 2026 Canadian Youth Climate Action Awards are now open! This is a great opportunity to recognize youth-led climate projects making a real difference in our communities. 🗓️ Apply by March 16, 2025 🏆 First prize: $7,500 🔗 More info: www.pivotgreen.ca/2026cycaa
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"
ft.com
How tech turned against women
As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly
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Critical Criminology @critcrim.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Part of memorial for people killed by ICE. At Hootsuite offices in Vancouver. Against ICE and its corporate partners. #ICEOut #ACAB
Memorial posters.
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@FrankeJames 🇨🇦 @frankejames.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
@Hootsuite.com promised to cut ties with ICE in 2020. Now they’re seeking billion-dollar contracts to help ICE monitor social media. 🚩 As a B Corp, they should protect rights—not build surveillance tools. Tell them to drop the deal: #NoTechForICE openmedia.org/NoTech4Ice-b... @openmedia.org
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Tell Hootsuite: No Tech for ICE!
Hootsuite.com promised to cut ties with ICE in 2020. Now they’re seeking billion-dollar contracts to help ICE monitor social media. 🚩 As a B Corp, they should protect rights—not build surveillance too...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 12/01/2026
The @ndp.ca (or other parties) could do more than delete X They could push for rules requiring government accounts only operate on platforms that meet higher standards around moderation, security and transparency Lead by example. Governments implicitly endorse these platforms with their presence
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
You've just opened a star trek-themed restaurant. What are you calling it? "Bean me up, Scotty" (it's a vegetarian place).
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