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Janet MacLean 🍁

@janetm.bsky.social
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Writer-producer type. The Border, Murdoch movies. @jemma111 on the dead bird app.

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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Uh, what now …?
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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some Canadian kids created a board game called American Dictator and it's hillarious. www.youtube.com/shorts/dgCja...
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Sorry to interrupt family game night with the collapse of democracy
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 25/09/2026
How a web of institutes and academics — with ties to a U.S. non-profit and outsized influence on the United Conservative Party government — helped turn separatism from fringe idea to the mainstream. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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How the US Atlas Network Built Alberta Separatism | The Tyee
A global cabal of libertarian and right-wing organizations has fuelled the province’s independence movement.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ahem - The Good Fight? The Comeback?
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There aren’t many of us.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Moscow, Riyadh, Lithuania, rogue AI - the world’s on fire and there’s a Bozo in charge.
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Post Mo Thóoooooooin (DAVE!) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“We don’t think that it’s going to get fixed fast. We actually think that Trump’s the spearhead,” Mr. Colledge said. “But I think deep down we’re like, ‘Mmmm, you elected him.’”
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now Annie Dillard? After Dolly and Gloria? All our saints are leaving us.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sigh - looks like I’m a Buffalo Bills fan now.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labour Day and support unions!
Chart shows that income inequality rises and falls inversely to union membership.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem. My God, what a loss. 💔 A full life dedicated to women's rights. Her fingerprints across so many victories. She is needed now more than ever and we must do everything we can to continue her legacy. I could never read the dedication of her memoir without weeping. I mean, oooof 😭
This book is dedicated to Dr John Sharpe of London who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion, a 22-year-old American on her way to India.

knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said "you must promise me two things. first, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life."

Dear Dr Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death I've done the best I could with my life. This book is for you. 
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Can’t feed starving children but lots of money to ratfuck democratic elections
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Call 1-800-434-1235 ext 4 to report your outrage with an r.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Okay MapQuest - let’s see what you’ve got.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Our undercover insurgents have gone a bit far with the wigs.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and now Yayoi Kusama. That is one amazing afterworld dinner party.
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Karen K. Burrows @karenkburrows.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A friend had a couple of books sent through Dolly's Imagination Library and it may not surprise you to know that Dolly also wrote all the authors lovely notes congratulating them on having their book chosen and writing something meaningful for young children.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not Dolly Parton. This really is the darkest timeline.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Honestly I was more afraid of a bad deal that would turn us into resource colony for decades to come.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ford cancelled Ontario’s emissions standards tests in 2019 because of course he did.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We didn’t save the cheerleader.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I hate that Google AI, which seems unavoidable, forces me to abandon it mid-conversation. It feels rude - I’m Canadian dammit!
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Canadian beekeepers need our help. Buy Canadian honey! www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Canadian beekeepers say businesses could fail as honey imports hit by U.S. tariffs
Workers say honey prices could fall by as much as 40%
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham’s legacy is a rapist on the Supreme Court. He was Trump’s attack dog and very bloody effective.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Wikipedia is under attack. It needs our support. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...
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Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Fuck
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In Texas right now ICE protesters are receiving 50-year sentences for belonging to Antifa, an organization that doesn’t exist.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Most CPC voters seem to believe that all the major news media are conspiring to deny the reality they've gleaned from 4Chan.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🫡
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🍥bot @y0.bot · 04/06/2026
Good job, thanks Claude. Fwd this to Dario for me would ya
Claude Haiku response: 
"The core complaint: You’re bearing the externalities (higher electricity bills, water scarcity, local disruption) while AI companies and investors capture the upside. It’s extractive design at infrastructure scale."
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Welcome to Toronto where we spend our days seething in impotent fury because our city is too fucking timid, compromised, or powerless to fight a corrupt vindictive premier and do-nothing feds. Come on Toronto Liberal Caucus - earn your mandate and prove me wrong.
slack.in
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
My question is: how much have Federal Liberal MPs, including the so-far mealy-mouthed Toronto Caucus, been lobbied by this group too?
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Greater Toronto has more people than the province of Alberta. Maybe we need a separatist movement so the federal government will pay attention to our concerns - like housing our homeless or stopping jets from destroying our waterfront or restoring control over our schools.
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Premiere Smith’s illegitimate attempt to end run the system after the system failed to produce her desired chaos is a master class in ratfucking. Here’s how the question is structured: Should Alberta stay in Canada? Yes - Alberta should leave No - Alberta should stay
“Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?”

“Yes - Alberta should begin the process of holding a binding referendum on separation”

“No - Alberta should not begin the prose of holding a binding referendum on separation - Alberta stays on Canada”

“Not sure”
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/05/2026
Per Financial Times, while in Beijing, Trump proposed to Xi the idea that US, China and Russia should co-operate against the International Criminal Court.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This is such a wonderful program that my daughter got to enjoy in elementary school. It seems like every day Ford takes something precious from this city.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The most rigorous, precise, brilliant piece I have read on Albertan separatism. www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-rie...
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Clarke Ries: How two Alberta judges shot separatist delusions to death
(And, not for nothing, they probably just wrecked Quebec separatism, too.)
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Just think what we could do in Toronto if we weren’t in thrall to a corrupt provincial government.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
When local Liberal MPs say they’re in the dark about plans too, they are lying. Their own agency is sitting on secret reports. Ask your Toronto liberal MP to stop lying to you.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
To think that, for a few days there, there was actually hope the Ontario Liberals would nominate someone who could beat Doug Ford. But no, they’d rather beat up on progressives.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The lake-filling that jets will require will seriously damage water quality in the Inner Harbour, leading to stagnation and concentrating pollution.
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John Espley 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💉🚀🔭📚 @johnespley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Need to fire the grifters on the Toronto Port Authority. Starting with the chair Jane McKenna who was appointed by Doug Ford.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I want to point out how deeply this impacts Indigenous Peoples, as we are disproportionately represented within prisons. Book programs brought Indigenous voices to our incarcerated relatives. They are cutting us off from one another and it is on purpose.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
corrupt party votes to protect corruption
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
When Doug Ford became Premier, his personal wealth was <$5M, all inherited from his daddy. Somehow, although he says he works 24/7, this has risen almost 10-fold since he became Premier. It is beyond outrageous that journalists and politicians don’t question him on this every single day.
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Brian Downey @briandowney.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is more important & consequential than the private jet! The Ford government has filed a motion in the legislature that tees it up to bypass public hearings on the controversial freedom-of-information system restrictions it's proposed — & potentially make them law this week!
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is a huge story. Ford has to be stopped.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The thing I hate most about AI - besides putting us all out of work and ending life as we know it - is its stupidly upbeat, bothsidesing, not-this-thating, intolerably smug ‘voice’. I just want to punch it in the face.
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Janet MacLean 🍁 @janetm.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
City reporter fired after asking Ford government tough questions. www.policorner.ca/p/scoop-the-...
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SCOOP: The firing CityNews won’t explain
Gone from air, and gone from the web.
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