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Ian Capstick

@iancapstick.bsky.social
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Ethical tech exec, certified horticulturist and quilter. Queer. Likely topics: social justice, Indigenous rights, sewing, theme parks and gardens.🌱 Happy to help you & your plants, open for horticultural info/help by message or DM!

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Absolute icon. apnews.com/article/juer...
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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Oh Canada? Are any of our officials doing the same?
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
He should keep the word queer out of his transphobic mouth.
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Sarah Hatton @sarahhattonartist.com · 26/11/2025
Circle 6 (Bee Works). Honeybees, resin on panel, 2014. I arranged thousands of dead honey bees in symbolic patterns to bring awareness to the plight of worldwide honey bee decline. www.sarahhattonartist.com/bees #bees #sciart #canadianart #artists #savethebees #CanadaSky 🇨🇦
A dizzying optical illusion created by thousands of dead honey bees arranged in a mathematical pattern against a white background.Close up of a dizzying optical illusion created by thousands of dead honey bees arranged in a mathematical pattern against a white background.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Ça va être tout un voyage...
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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
So I'm just catching up on things, you're telling me that the guy who has had literally one job in his entire life - federal MP - just up and forgot to move the most important amendment the opposition leader moves? Yeah, Pierre Poilievre won't be leader long. He's rattled.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/11/2025
If you are posting on or engaging with content on X, you are working as a volunteer laborer helping this specific man earn money and political influence. Any person, group or organisation that is still there and helping keep you there: you have to make them get out, not give them reason to stay
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Also symbolic of how they treat artists in Ottawa: Imagine what the $4M would have bought in local art, displayed at a human scale throughout the area. Oh and this outcome was predicted at the time by artists in Ottawa.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
100% your fault if you misfile your taxes though 🤪
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Montréal this weekend: 2 major bridges closed, tunnel closed, 30K marathon runners blocking streets, and Monday impeding transit strike + trucker protests slowing traffic from 5-9am. Finally going to try that café 10 min from my house I've never been to 😂 #ClassicMontreal
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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We all breathed a sigh of relief when the country rejected the Maple MAGA politics of Pierre Poilievre. So why does this bill feel like it was written by him? This divisive piece of legislation has already passed its second reading—we need to voice our concerns NOW. act.gp/4mmDEG0
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Tell Carney: We don’t want Trump-style borders & surveillance state!
Sign this petition to defend our human rights and privacy
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Says the guy who single handedly moved the Overton window in Canadian politics *to the right* in his tenure as the social democratic leader?! That's a bit rich. Oh no wait: the rich is ... who Tom catered to as leader, business elites and Outremont snobs. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Tom Mulcair: Mark Carney’s Liberals are swinging right with no guardrail left
In the Jack Layton era, the NDP saw itself as the ‘conscience of Parliament.’ Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair says that conscience is mostly a memory now; and the Liberals are having a 'grand old time ...
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Jim St. Leger @jimstleger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
BWI has an art display that celebrates America’s earliest civil rights leaders. I found this quilt pretty amazing. It celebrates Frederick Douglass and more.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is a really,really big deal: and puts into snap focus how devastating the cuts to the global fight against AIDS are.
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Hello Halifax! Your local library now has two copies of my book! Go check it out, literally
screenshot of a library webpage's entry for my book
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/07/2025
This is a useful provocation. Doxxing actions taking collectively should be about abuses of power and real infliction of harm in a social context, not just what's unpopular (or, let's be real, entertaining) to a bunch of folks online.
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 17/07/2025
"It would generate a total of 650 megawatts of on-site natural gas power, with a grid backup, as required by the Alberta Energy Systems Operator." It's not a great location for a sovereign data center, it sounds like just an excuse to develop more natural gas extraction 🤷 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Indigenous-led data centre in Alberta slated for development amid AI infrastructure boom | CBC News
Woodland Cree First Nation is in the process of acquiring an abandoned power plant site for its data centre. If successful, it would be one of the first Indigenous-led data centres in the province.
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Pabàmàdiz @karynpugliese.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I asked PCO about media for PM Carney's summit with First Nations. I was told: "Information regarding media access, if any, will be communicated in due course." So, no public access & no media access planned yet from the government. But chiefs? They want to talk. # Indigenous #cdnpoli.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
"The majority of Canadians, the poll found, go between 10 and 15 per cent." Pardon me!? Folks are really out there tipping this little? 😳
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Well that's very cool: Montreal's Aire commune helping Ottawa making better use of their urban space! Bravo! @arieltroster.com
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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
4/Reminder: human rights are equal and indivisible. That includes freedom of speech. The censorship of @abeba.bsky.social‬ for calling out Big Tech’s role in war and genocide, gave me the serious ick. That silenceing speaks volumes. 😒 genevasolutions.news/science-tech...
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UN AI summit accused of censoring criticism of Israel and big tech over Gaza war - Geneva Solutions
A prominent AI scientist says she was pressured by the organisers of the UN’s flagship conference on AI to censor parts of her presentation that criticised Israel over its war in Gaza and the role of tech giants – hours before taking the stage.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Early summer check in! How are your gardens coming along? Let me know if you've got questions, pests, problems or want to update me on something we worked on? 🌱 Send an image, detailed description or questions and I can lend a hand... #gardening #garden
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Scenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon until Oct. 12. “We’ve been colonized by condiments.”
Scenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon: KlikScenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon: Jerry CansScenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon: Send Message
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
As I get older, I become increasingly convinced that we should replace measuring GDP per capita with a robust quarterly "how are the vibes?" survey.
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Cosette Cornelius-Bates @cosymakes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
All flourishing is mutual. -Robin Wall Kimmerer #quiltynook #applique #bannermaking #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #robinwallkimmerer
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Paging @garymarcus.bsky.social ... This is what passes for critical thinking on AI in Canada's capital. Help! 😭
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Patti Sonntag @pattisonntag.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A former deputy PM. A $2B pandemic federal contract. And a courtroom battle over alleged unregistered lobbying. My latest for the IJF:
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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Truth.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Québec landlords pressured successive governments into removing even the most modest controls. Rent is up 71% in Montreal since 2019. 1900 households without a place to live tomorrow.
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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The ATIP on this will be fun.
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Ollie Williams @ollienwt.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Parks Canada just called to ask if we can delete the word "heck" from an article in which an employee, promoting a mushroom-spotting contest, says: "I had an opportunity arise to create my own project. I was like, heck yeah, it’s gonna be mushrooms.” That request is not going to fly.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
SDG 3 includes the promise made by Member States to achieve the end of AIDS by 2030 (target 3.3). We are not on track to do this in Canada. Maybe if we call HIV prevention "critical infrastructure" if could be funded properly?
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 25/06/2025
“Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.” —Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain would have turned 69 today.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"Zohran Mamdani's campaign framed itself as aspiring to build a city people can afford to live in... where people are consumed by the things they want to make, the art they came here to create, the businesses they dream of starting." Affordable = livable. #EconSky 🔗 the.ink/p/what-zohra...
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What Zohran can teach Democrats
Some notes after last night
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution
Fossil-fuel companies use captured carbon dioxide to extract more fossil fuels, leading to a net increase in atmospheric CO2
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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Wrong - we need to prioritize using critical minerals for the transition off of fossil fuels, not weapons: Carney says Canada will meet new NATO spending target by developing critical minerals www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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Carney says Canada will meet new NATO spending target by developing critical minerals
Canada is committed to increasing its defence spending but has questions about the “timeline” for hitting a new, higher NATO spending target, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Tuesday, as alli...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff. When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything. RTs appreciated here.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Montreal too.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Lenacapavir was approved by the FDA yesterday. Yay? I guess. It's a twice yearly injection to prevent H.I.V. infection, a regimen called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, will be sold at a list price of $28,218 in the USA. 🫠
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ah, Montreal on an early summer hot humid day. The tantalizing, competing smells of hot garbage and lilacs!
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Lenacapavir was approved by the FDA yesterday. Yay? I guess. It's a twice yearly injection to prevent H.I.V. infection, a regimen called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, will be sold at a list price of $28,218 in the USA. 🫠
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's clear Canada's borders need to be open to trans folks from affected US states, and that the Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement must be scrapped immediately. Will our neoliberal government do it? Oh hell no, they will need to be forced by the courts. #transrights #cdnpoli
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Thanks for all the love for the decision tree app to help guide banner and sign making. I'll be iterating on it, please feel free to send feedback. iancapstick.github.io/bannerapp/ba... #NoKings
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Banner Planner v1.0 - Make Your Message Heard
Free tool to help activists create perfect banners based on budget, skills, and timeline. Get custom recommendations for materials and techniques.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“No Kings” is such a great name for these protests. It works in today’s Trumpian terms (mar a lago etc wannabe oligarch rejection) but also gets to the core of American birth/protest 1776. Genius.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Seeing what's happening in the USA and globally, created this small tool based on a bunch of years making banners and signs 🏳️‍🌈✊ Banner Planner v1.0: Sizes, materials, making methods based on the budget, situation and people you have contributing to make signs. iancapstick.github.io/bannerapp/ba...
iancapstick.github.io
Banner Planner v1.0 - Make Your Message Heard
Free tool to help activists create perfect banners based on budget, skills, and timeline. Get custom recommendations for materials and techniques.
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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Seeing what's happening in the USA and globally, created this small tool based on a bunch of years making banners and signs 🏳️‍🌈✊ Banner Planner v1.0: Sizes, materials, making methods based on the budget, situation and people you have contributing to make signs. iancapstick.github.io/bannerapp/ba...
iancapstick.github.io
Banner Planner v1.0 - Make Your Message Heard
Free tool to help activists create perfect banners based on budget, skills, and timeline. Get custom recommendations for materials and techniques.
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