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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world.

Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight.

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job!

Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.

If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

CBC News reports that Canada is quietly installing AI surveillance cameras across the county. This comes as the government is passing sweeping surveillance legislation. #cdnpoli

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Mathieu C @oursmathieu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

En politique québécoise, être «un parti montréalais» qui a ses principaux appuis dans la métropole, c'est une tare grave, montrant que tu es déconnecté «du vrai monde». Mais être un parti qui fait campagne pour séduire spécifiquement quinze personnes fâchées du trafic à Québec, c'est super ok.

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Un Bourguignon @unbourguignon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

La fasciste TERF JKR essaye à tout prix de faire disparaitre le rapport très gênant pour elle de la surface du globe et d'Internet. N'hésitez pas à le récupérer et à le diffuser autour de vous, aussi en le rendant disponible à d'autres endroits. Cc @amnestyuk.bsky.social @amnestyfrance.bsky.social

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amy forest @amyforest.pds.pub.moe · 29/04/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Maybe I'm in the minority here but if people who support AI are being shamed into silence then it's working. The shame is working as intended. The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to hurt the feelings of folks who need to have their feelings hurt. Let them experience introspection for once

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Even though the rest of us vastly outnumber them, the gentry get depicted as the norm, so "anti-woke" is spun as some popular backlash rather than just elite panic at even the barest hint of a challenge to their power. The lesson, for next time, is not to hold back.

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Jonas Goonface @jonasgoonface.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

no future ✌️

"even if the squat was to be raided tomorrow, I'd still do the dishes today. Even if construction is completed tomorrow, I'd still do my monkey business tonight. I act on the values, whims, hates and loves that make me ME. The future isn't my master. Now is for fighting and fixing and fucking. Now needs us. Even if the world was to end tomorrow I would still plant a tree today."

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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.

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max. @maxidango.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

some old puma sisters(+leona) art bcs of the gits cameo

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Sarah @mixuen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Armouring of a Magical Sister 🎀⚜️

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 31/07/2026

The ghouls who run EA deserve to burn aftermath.site/ea-saudi-arabi...

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Marilou @mariloupage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Allez voir ce fil !

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

any response to transphobia that falls short of open hostility is support, as has been the case in the defense of the most politically vulnerable population at any other point in history. politeless and decorum are dark alleys where disenfranchised people are hurt and killed out of your sight

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Mark Carney just allowed war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to fly through Canada despite a warrant for his arrest and the country being a signatory to the Rome Statute. We have aided and embedded one of history's greatest monsters

@CJPME
🚨 For the 3rd time in 7 months, Netanyahu has entered Canadian airspace en route to the United States.

As a signatory to the Rome Statute, Canada is obliged to enforce the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu. Instead,
@MarkJCarney
is allowing him to circumvent justice and avoid any consequences for his war crimes and crimes against humanity.

According to protocol, foreign state flights must seek permission before entering Canadian airspace, which should be submitted at least 72 hours in advance.

Why does Carney continue to give safe passage to this war criminal? Canada should deny diplomatic clearance and close the airspace to ICC fugitives.

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 29/07/2026

CEOs are literally vampires, killing people to enrich themselves

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Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio 🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i think it's important for people to remember that puberty blockers *were* the "moderate, compromise" position.

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Actually | DO think twelve year olds should get hrt. That's the normal age to start puberty. so why does it have to be different for trans kids?

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I come back to this tumblr post again and again

Tumblr post by sunderwight: The current AI situation is like if the people who were pushing NFTs had successfully gotten everyone to start referring to any and all digital transactions as an NFT, thus allowing them to pretend that things like online shopping, downloadable video games, bank transfers, etc were closely related to convincing middle-aged would-be techies to invest serious money in ugly digital paintings, and hold the former examples up in defense of the latter any time someone pointed out that the whole NFT thing was a racket. What do you mean NFTs are bad, don't you want disabled people to be able to use their phones to have medication delivered to their doorstep? Wow. Horrible of you, really.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/07/2026

he’s gutting the public sector, he’s holding back on pharmacare deals, he tried to pull money out of daycare, he’s letting two-tier healthcare gain a foothold in alberta, and now he’s coming for public healthcare funding too

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 21/07/2026

happy 10th birthday to this perfect post

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The Discourse Lover
@Trillburne

SOCIALIST: late capitalism has created a moral rot that pervades our entire society
NEOLIBERAL: but imagine if we monetized the rot

4:02 PM · Jul 6, 2016

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Lilith Treah 🏳️‍⚧️ @riveroceansea.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I am black I am marginalized transgender woman who has no one my parent disown me kick me out block me they do not want me to be trans I am dying from not get enough help I need teeth out had bad infection please let my life matter ko-fi.com/lilith89720/...

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Transgender Pride Flag Waving

ALT: Transgender Pride Flag Waving

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's because she's a democratic socialist and Carney is a neoliberal banker. He doesn't want home prices to drop or more people to be housed. There has to be a permanent and growing underclass of poverty to keep the ultra wealthy as rich as possible

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Dollop of Mayo 🫠 @dollop-of-mayo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

the thing about politics is everything is politics this distresses certain extremely comfortable people and that's funny

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

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Ellie Dawn 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥺😏💜 @awkward.gay · 18/07/2026

When any number of trans women gather

The "we're just normal men" meme.
Top text: we're just normal women.
Bottom text: were just innocent women

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Rachel @rachelcinema.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Comptons-nous chanceux cependant ; il n'y a plus de TVQ sur les barres tendres et la crème glacée.

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We are being advised not to go out due to smoke, whole communities are being wiped out by fire, Republicans complain about 'Canadian' smoke while taking money from the oil & tech industries that backed a convicted felon. The AI industry & the oil industry are not the future.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

microsoft is in full damage control mode following last week's layoffs. its main strategy so far? namedrop sequels to popular series at every turn. but despite what execs like asha sharma might want you to think, those series were made by people, and now they'll never be the same

Todd Howard just shared plans for the Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Starfield franchises. These worlds have earned a special place with hundreds of millions of people over many years. I'm looking forward to what's next, including the partnership with Obsidian on a new Fallout game and closer collaboration with ZeniMax Online Studios on The Elder Scrolls. The achievements of these franchises are remarkable: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has crossed 65 million units sold, becoming one of the 10 best-selling games of all time, Fallout 4 has also crossed 35 million units sold, joining the top 25, and Starfield will soon reach over 1 billion hours played.
This statement sucks so bad that it makes my blood boil. Look what the franchises did, all by themselves! Look what they’ve accomplished, of their own volition, thanks to their own intrinsic goodness! So many big numbers, which translate to giant heaps of cash in the bank accounts of execs and shareholders! Never mind the people who spent decades painstakingly crafting the many games, stories, and other creative endeavors that corporate ghouls now so happily flatten into “franchises,” erasing themes, meaning, and human beings in favor of empty iconography.

This is how the people running the show at Xbox—and countless companies besides—view games, not to mention everything else in their robotic, colorless lives. Numbers and lines trending ever upward. Fuel for platitudes and faux-inspirational nonsense directed at the LinkedIn hivemind, of which they all paradoxically believe they’re the main character. Another stepping stone toward the next bigger, better thing. No ultimate destination, no camaraderie, no soul. Just an endless ladder that leads to the void regardless of which way you climb.

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

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Chantal Poulin 🌎❤️✊️ @chantalpoulin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Chaque année, le CN voyou empoisonne la population d'Hochelaga au Roundup, un pesticide interdit par la Ville de Montréal, à quelques mètres des habitations et sans jamais prévenir qui que ce soit. Fermer les fenêtres serait la moindre des choses à permettre quand on répand un produit dangereux!

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Chantal Poulin 🌎❤️✊️ @chantalpoulin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Gens de Montréal, SVP, aidez-nous à faire cesser l'empoisonnement des résidents d'Hochelaga qui ont déjà assez de polluants à gérer avec le port et les raffineries! On a le droit de respirer un air sain dans l'est!

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

A photo of the wildfires in canada. Fire rages through forest area with vright orange flame and dark gray smoke.

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 17/07/2026

AKA: A Canadian (Toronto) corporation is earning $125M USD ($175M CAD) to rat out every single person living in the USA to state-sanctioned thugs — without any probable cause to even investigate so-called “voter fraud”. This is what complicity in crimes against humanity looks like. Shame.

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Hungry Wako @hungrywako.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

That's called Landlord white, and it will go out of fashion when we drive them all into the ocean.

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Anishinabek Nation @anishinabeknation.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

(1/3) The Anishinabek Nation stands in solidarity with Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, which has experienced devastation from the recent wildfires. We are accepting donations on their behalf to help them navigate this crisis. If you can, please donate via e-transfer to: an7gc@anishinabek.ca

The Anishinabek Nation stands in solidarity with Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, which has experienced devastation from the recent wildfires, displacing all citizens from their homes and community.

In the spirit of Ngo Dwe Waangazid Anishinaabe (One Anishinaabe Family), the Anishinabek Nation is accepting donations on behalf of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation to help the community navigate through this crisis. If you are able to, please donate via e-transfer to: an7gc@anishinabek.ca

Donations can also be made by credit card through PayPal or Canada Helps with further information at https://an7gc.ca/donate/

100% of donations are dedicated to supporting Namaygoosisagagun emergency response and community recovery efforts.

Other ways to help:
▪️Share this post to spread this message
▪️Offer thoughts and prayers of healing for those affected by the wildfires
▪️Reach out to surrounding food banks and inquire what support they require (i.e., food, feminine products, essential supplies, clothing, shelter, etc.)

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’m sorry but “dehumanizing politicians is the first step towards justifying their elimination” do you think we’re about to just kill politicians at birth??? You choose to be a politician and you choose to be a shit one. You can stop being a politician it’s not like being, oh idk, TRANS

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

100%. Don’t let TERFs colonize the narrative here. Most studies show that lesbians are far more likely to be trans accepting than almost any other group. It’s just, as queer ppl, we’re more likely to be in proximity to a lesbian transphobe than a straight one.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

People need to wake up yesterday about how neoliberalism is cooking us alive while being entirely dependent on exploitation of the global south

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"The Earth is not dying, it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses." - Utah Phillips

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Montréal rally in the news: "The group calls these layoffs illegal, because they took place in the middle of negotiating their first collective agreement. They are still hopeful these jobs can be saved." www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

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Montreal video game developers protest recent Microsoft layoffs

Video game developers working at Bethesda Game Studios spent their lunch break voicing their displeasure with Microsoft’s latest round of cuts.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The fact that Carney is posting this today shows that he genuinely doesn't give a single solitary shit about the climate crisis that is BURNING SWATHS OF CANADA AS WE SPEAK

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We'll keep on pointing at this comic by @skutchdraws.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social until it's embarrassing for tech bros to call you a luddite for hating AI! More of Failure to Launch in the link bsky.app/profile/iron...

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" A simpleton looking peasant yells as they smash the wooden machine.

The standard narrative goes that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. (But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.)

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight.

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

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Hungry Wako @hungrywako.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Convo relativement calme et saine avec ma marraine aujourd'hui (pour une fois), jusqu'à ce qu'elle ce mette a chialer contre des bédouins qui prie devant nos églises a montréal. ??? Yo, TVA c'est dangereux. Sa fait des ravages c'est pas croyable.

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