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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁

@ihoplad.bsky.social
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In Ontario but pining for Nova Scotia and pinting for England. he/him 🇨🇦🇬🇧citizen. Antifa means you're against fascism...that's a good thing. My cat is hunting me. Making the move here from twitter where I have the same profile name.

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 17h
Danielle Smith is a weak leader for the province and within her own separatist party. A proud Canadian would never allow a separatist to remain in their party.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/09/2026
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
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Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...
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Toronto Blue Jays @bluejaysbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Living legend. One of one. Max Scherzer 🐐👏
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The PM's statement that Canada is mapping out scenarios for US military violence is a game changer. There is no pretending that things will somehow go back to normal as long as the White House believes it can threaten violence against neighbours. charlieangus.substack.com/p/a-reminder...
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A REMINDER OF WHAT IS AT STAKE
Recent polls show that as many as 72% of Canadians believe that a military invasion from the United States is a real possibility.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dude was like, “my time has come!” IG: @ramiosss ~ Latvia www.instagram.com/ramiosss?stk...
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 21/09/2026
Not leaving.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen." -Lenin. Canada is living through an unprecedented transformation of our global relationships. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-week-o...
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THE WEEK OF DECADES
Canada is not going back. No matter how rough it gets, we are going ahead.
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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At Toronto’s TIFF, Dame Helen Mirren responds to the question, “What in Canadian culture is worth defending and fighting for?” En français with English subtitles. (Video: @_rozann_/Instagram)
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17/09/2026
Found near Caen, France, close to where Canadian forces fought during Operation Totalise in August 1944, this helmet is a powerful reminder of the Canadians who gave their lives for Europe. Today, it has began its journey back home.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Me in 2050: …and that’s how Macklemore became a civil rights icon. My son, Dale Jr.: Wow his music must’ve been incredible. Me: Dale Jr.: Like so many good songs. Me: Dale Jr.: Was he the A Change Is Gonna Come Guy? Me: Dale Jr.: Me:
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“A beaver reshapes the environment. It creates stability. It builds systems that others depend on.” 🇨🇦 What a great comment from a viewer of The OShow youtu.be/jevkyswzNLk?si…
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Novocastrum @novocastrianufc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😀 #NUFC
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy shit this kid absolutely DECIMATES Flock at her local Santa Clarita public council meeting. Just 🔥 leaves burning wreckage in her wake. What a fucking badass.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The last time the Americans tried to claim Lake Ontario in 1813, we intentionally lured them into Fort York and then blew up our entire gunpowder magazine to kill as many Americans as possible. A foundation part of Toronto history is "blowing our own fort to smithereens rather than being American"
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Kyle Ruggles 🇨🇦 @kyleruggles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Jack White is already paying tribute to Dolly Parton with a cover of Jolene in London
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Leigh Sprague @leighsprague.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Nice chest protector today on Rays catcher Liam Hicks, who is from Toronto.
screenshot from game broadcast showing Rays' catcher Liam Hicks' Canadian flag chest protector
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
C'mon folks we can do way better than this. Sign the petition to make Pete Hoekstra persona non grata in Canada. Sign here if you are a Canadian citizen. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Over 29,000 Canadians call for U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra to be expelled | CBC News
A petition set to be presented in the House of Commons this fall calls on the government to declare U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra persona non grata and remove him from Canada.
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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Saw the show of the summer last night. Hometown show in Toronto for Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars. Brilliant, warm, passionate, political, and hopeful...everything you'd expect from all 3. I loved it. Everyone there loved it too. ❤️
Marquee sign listing Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars at their hometown, Toronto show on August 7thPhoto of members of all three bands on stage at the end of the night
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, as a child. Off panel, someone says to her, “Enjoy your youth!”
The second panel shows child Sarah again, now frowning. The person off panel continues, saying “After you’re 30 you’ll be old and your life will basically be over.”
Before the last two panels there is text that reads “LIFE AFTER I TURNED 30.”
The third panel shows adult Sarah opening a door.
The fourth panel shows the door opens to a beautiful field with flowers, a rainbow, and a pond. Sarah says “Wait what.”
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"[ICE] is not law enforcement. [It] is a militia with a badge." - David Myers, retired commander, San Diego Sheriff's Office
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I'm a former cop. ICE isn't law enforcement, it's a militia.
ICE shootings in Houston and in Biddeford, Maine, are the predictable output of a federal agency that lacks training, oversight and a settled mission.
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Connie Chen 陳穎慈 @conniechiiiwa.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ready for the SF Art Book Fair! 😅📚
Navy blue tote bag with white text reading “IF YOU GO HOME WITH SOMEBODY, & THEY DONT HAVE BOOKS, DONT FUCK ‘EM.” JOHN WATERS
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Disney is laying off hundreds of people at its wildly successful Pixar Studios. But Disney also plans to spend $8 billion this year to buy back its own stock. Corporations don’t care about workers, they just focus on making executives richer.
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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I love keeping up with the big news stories back in Nova Scotia. I think it's probably true that the more banal the news is, the better the actual place is.
Screenshot of a news story in the Halifax Herald announcing the opening of a new Taco Bell location in downtown Halifax.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ah, the sepia-stained days of summer when the smoke from burning forests blows into town. Oakville, Ontario.
Picture of a parking lot with cars and tress and a very yellowish, smoky sky above.
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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Actually flawless.
A four panel comic strip by Twonks featuring a round headed figure demanding a pizza at a restaurant then proclaiming “wow look what I made” when the waiter brings him the pizza
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 3-1 HOWLER
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
NAOMI KLEIN
@think_and_exist
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Mash @itismashagain.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I didn’t realize until now the Dallas police officer was shoving Ibrahim Hassan, one of the great African football players. America is filled with small men in positions of little power who wield that power with maximum ignorance. Toxic masculinity is America’s brand.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham…” —Frederick Douglass, 1852
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Gary Gifford @garygifford.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The would be a pretty funny bit of satire, except it's not satire.
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 15/06/2026
What to know about alpha-gal syndrome, the life-threatening meat allergy caused by tick bites (Washington)
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What to know about alpha-gal syndrome, the life-threatening meat allergy caused by tick bites - World News
It's common knowledge that ticks can spread infections that cause serious illnesses, including Lyme disease. Now health officials are trying to raise awareness of a lesser-known problem: a life-threatening allergy to meat triggered by tick bites.
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Every Bite Counts @sandybeach805.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I’m a Toronto baseball fan for today. 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If you're a regular user of GO Transit trains, this article will probably anger and frighten you. It feels like a major GO Transit train accident is a matter of when, not if. www.oakvillenews.org/local-news/w...
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When GO trains break ‘cardinal rules,’ Ontario keeps investigations secret
Leaked documents show Metrolinx quietly self-investigates nearly every time trains speed, run stop signals, or enter work zones
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
One day we will look back on the murder of “60 Minutes” as one of the travesties of Trump’s reign. In the meantime, thank you Scott Pelley for telling the truth. Thank you, former “60 Minutes” producers, correspondents, and staff, for telling the truth. And now, we should boycott CBS.
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Read Scott Pelley’s full statement on firing from CBS News’ ‘60 Minutes’
“The collapse of values at the top has become untenable,” the award-winning journalist said. “The leadership of 60 Minut
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Please do not buy my books from Amazon. If you are outside the UK and cannot find an independent bookshop who stocks them, please purchase them from @blackwells.bsky.social who do free international delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Fuck Amazon. Fuck The Man in all his increasingly evil digicorporate forms. Fuck art-killing cowardice and greed and AI. Independent is the only way for me from now on and I intend to do everything I can to direct people who want to read my work to independent bookshops. If you are an independent bookshop please let me know of your existence here. Let’s work together on this.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Sign the Petition
Stop the Steelport AI Data Centre in Hamilton, Ontario
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🔥 Ronny Chieng at Harvard: “F*ck A.I. — the mission of your generation is to destroy it… shortcuts to skip to the end aren’t always good. The journey is the point of all this.”
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Stop the Steelport AI Data Centre in Hamilton, Ontario
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If you're Canadian, hearing this American pronunciation of "eh" may be the last straw that leads to all out war between 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸 Come on Little Caesars, at least hire a Canadian to read your ad that's aimed at us. Yeah, no, not sorry.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Isn't the idea of click-bait headlines that make you want to read the article? Also, congrats on coming up with perhaps the most meaningless headline ever.
Picture of a video game still and a supposed click-bait headline that reads, "Kylie Jenner calls The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 'one of the best games ever'"
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
For those who missed it, the asshat parking awards were given out yesterday and this was one of the nominees.
Picture of a car parked in a busy parking lot directly on top of diagonal yellow lines and the words NO PARKING
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This law is as authoritarian and undemocratic as anything Trump has ever pushed. Members of the Conservative party and ONLY the Conservative party are now 100% shielded from any Freedom Of Information requests from the public or reporters. And it's retroactive, too. Some real Innocent Guy shit.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Doug Ford was ordered by the courts to release his phone records related to the Greenbelt scandal. Instead of complying, he's changing the law to hide them. This is what our Premier is focused on. Covering his tracks. app.sosha.ai/s/JiDpZEqa
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Release Doug's Texts
What Is He Covering Up?
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 22/04/2026
Incarcerated people stopped believing they deserved soap and toilet paper when the government controlled the news they could watch, writes @joinjeremy.org's Jeremy Busby. People on the outside may stop believing they deserve democracy.
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A lesson on media consolidation and censorship from a Texas prison
How Trump steering CNN and HBO to his allies can drastically alter the public discourse
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Local Resister @projectspacetime.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Yet another reason for 47 to withdraw us from NATO. As we’re all well aware he only takes orders from either Putin or Netanyahu.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
My 10 steps for Canadians to resist the threat of tyranny. charlieangus.substack.com/p/10-steps-t...
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10 Steps to Resist Fascism and Defend Democracy
Wherever I go in Canada, people ask me “What if?” questions.
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