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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦

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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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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Real Spinsters of Surrey, BC.
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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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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Correct. He pretty much*is* "immune from any kind of legal limit" up until some actual authority decides that he isn't. It not like he hasn't been committing crimes throughout his presidency.
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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 · 27/09/2026
Out, damned fucking spot.
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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 · 26/09/2026
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Tim Curry in Rocky Horror: Not Easy
Alt: Tim Curry in Rocky Horror: It's Not Easy having a good time.
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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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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This scapegoating is especially insidious because many of the structural problems in the healthcare system are due to years of conservative underfunding and tinkering specifically to make the public system worse in order to make privatization more attractive.
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Cute Puss In Boots Cat with Googly Eyes
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welcome to the madness!
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What an absolute prick.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
HERE. WE. GO.
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The Simpsons: Homer and Santa's Little Helper Drooling
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The problem with that is they choose a liberal party and turn it into a conservative one.
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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...
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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 · 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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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I worked summers in the mines around Sparwood in the 80s and I spent part of one night shift riding shotgun in this truck while it was still in operation. It is mind blowingly big...like driving around a townhouse.
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Fun fact, I've ridden in that truck for part of a shift back in the 80s while it was still in commission. It is so much bigger than it looks in photos.
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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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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
And yet the MAGA contingent will continue to want investigations into girls' genitals if they want to participate in sports.
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Not revenue...profit, which will be very low after we take out operating costs.
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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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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I love this for them.
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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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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Hangs up phone.
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Shall I call the Pope?
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Read the rest of the thread that Stephanie quoted above, if you haven't already. Luke give a good rundown of what he's discovered about this bias rating process so far.
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is nothing like Ground news. It's one guy in his basement determining his bias ratings using one or two sources.
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And China is a "People's Republic" and North Korea is a "Democratic People's Republic" . Right?! Don't get distracted by the labels and look at the actual governance practices.
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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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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Jesse Marsch to team: "you are Canadian heroes!"
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Marsch to team: "You are Canadian heroes."
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
GOAL!!
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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
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Charlie don't Serf 🍁 🇨🇦 @grayalys.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
lol...that *is* the model year of my Honda Civic.
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