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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 16/09/2026

wait, something seems off. Computer, enhance!

Zoomed in crop of 1613 depiction of Samuel de Champlain and a few other colonizers in 1609 shooting guns at a group of naked people who have bows and arrows. Champlain's face is replaced with that of Mark Carney.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 16/09/2026

nope, not racist at all, just a "man of his time"

1612 Champlain map of Eastern Canada, includes a bit of the Eastern part of lake Erie along with many labels indicating names for local Indigenous Peoples along with stereotypical depictions of them, naked with bow and arrows, shields, and oars

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 15/09/2026

I think I just watched Wab's soul leave his body in real time 😬

Screenshot of a group of Manitoba politicians and business people grouped together in a hallway, behind them is a picture of a large mining truck infront of the northern lights. Wab Kinew is in the centre with an odd grimaced expression on his face.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 15/09/2026

Make Colonization Great Again

The painting "American Progress" by John Gast, 1872, altered with Mark Carney's face on the head of a "beautiful and charming female ... floating westward through the air, bearing on her forehead the "Star of Empire" . . . In her right hand she carries a book ... the emblem of education and ... national enlightenment, while with the left hand she unfolds and stretches the slender wires of the telegraph, that are to flash intelligence throughout the land."

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 09/09/2026

Behold! Manifest Destiny, eh

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 09/09/2026

hey what's that image at :53 seconds - Conservative policy vs Grit policy eh, hey where did the liberal party come from I wonder?

Old advertisement seemingly from the conservative party of canada that has a man asking "fellow workingmen, which do you prefer?" He's holding two placards, one called "conservative policy" that sounds good, another called "grit policy" that sounds bad.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

Ok back to Ontario, whatever, just fucking leave it alone alright

1784 "Map of the United States of North America". Very detailed and authentic looking, looks sort of close to today's maps and includes the boundaries of the newly created USA

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

"Catarakui" works too. Just make up your damn mind you colonial scum

1755 map of the eastern half of North America. It is very detailed with countless names of places and details about them. Includes coloured boundaries of colonial claims to territory

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

Fine, lake Ontario it is, can we just leave it like this? I'm getting tired

1718 map of most of what is now the USA, and the southwestern part of Ontario which is called "parie du Canada ou Nouvelle France". Lac Ontario is listen along with many other lakes, rivers, and mountains across the continent but they aren't very accurately shaped or scaled.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

No not Frontignac! Also, wtf is going on with those beavers? Industrious lil fellas

1715 map of the East Coast of North America. Lake Ontario is called "Frontignac Lake", and there is a rediculous depiction of many beavers gathering wood in work teams and building a dam by timber in their arms and also hauling round disks with their tails.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

or "Cadarachqui" Lake, that works too, let's do that

1701 map of the Great lakes including many Haudenosaunee villages and an outline of the Beaver Hunting Territory included in the Nanfan treaty

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

or not? Cadragqua lake sounds rad as hell

1700 map of Haudenosaunee homelands in what is now called upstate New York. Lake Ontario is called "CADRAGQUA LAKE"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

No? Ok fine, Lac Ontario it is, fuck it.

1678 map, mostly of modern day Quebec, includes "Lac Ontario" and many drawings of animals, names of French land holdings, and also Haudenosanee villages around Lake Ontario

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

oooooo "Lake of Irocoisiensis or Irocoisen", now we're talkin', let's change them back to that plz

1676 map of New England and New York. The Great lakes look unrecognizable and out of scale along with everything else not on the eastern seaboard

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

No? How's "Lac Frontenac"? That's kinda catchy, I like it

1675 map of the Great Lakes Region. The Lakes looks a little more accurate than other maps at the time, but Lake Ontario is called "Lac Frontenac".

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

oh shit there's more lakes, and they are all really big. we need new names now, hows "Ontario" or "Lac de St. Louys"? The latter one sounds great, I bet it'll stick

1656 French map of the Eastern Part of Canada. Some of its looks more like modern maps, but the placement of SW Ontario is out of scale and and the map looks stranger and emptier the further west it goes

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

yep, that's a big lake. we should just call it that, big ass lake

1639 Dutch map of part of the east coast of North America, includes Lake ontario called "Grand Lac"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

oh hey they "found" Lake Ontario: "grand lac contenant 300. heux de long". @mapquest.com we should just use the original colonial name if we're gonna change it again

1612 Champlain map of Eastern Canada, includes a bit of the Eastern part of lake Ontario along with many labels indicating names for local Indigenous Peoples along with naked depictions of them with bow and arrows, shields, and oars

Modern Mapquest Map of Lake Ontario with the caption: "Lake grand contenant 300. heux de long"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

hey guys i think we found some big lakes, they are 9000 miles north west of the St Laurenti river

1569 Mercator map of the world, shows most of the continents but North and South America are very oddly shaped. Has lots of details about most places except the Western hemisphere which is very blank

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

theres gotta be some big ol lakes here on this parte incognita

1565 map of "LA NVOVA FRANCIA". It has many imagined figures of what life is like in the "new world", including fantastical creatures and people hanging out under gazebos or hunting bears

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

On this 1550 German map the title translates to "cartography is my passion" (I think)

1550 German map of North and South America. They look like misshapen blobs, and include words such as "Canibali" in what is now called Brazil with what appears to be body parts in a bush of some kind

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 28/08/2026

For example, one of the first "maps" of "Canada" 1546 - the "Dauphin Map of the world" My favorite part is the Indigenous people wearing nothing but literal animal pelts, worshiping some dude in a big chair. The animals also look hilarious

A 1546 map of a half-moon shaped North America that has depictions of ridiculous looking animals and Indigenous People wearing nothing but literal animal pelts.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 07/07/2026

oh I can't wait to listen to this

Meme of Willy Wonka giving a condescending look. The caption says: "Canada won't be a digital colony? Please, tell me more about how colonization works"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 06/07/2026

FYI there's already pipelines in Ontario so thanks for raising awareness about that, great job neb-gis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...

Screenshot of CER Interactive Pipeline Map which shows pipelines across Canada that are regulated by the Canada Energy Regulator. The left panel shows "Number of Incident in View", and below it states in bright red "49"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 16/06/2026

this C-22 fight is so awkward, it's like an endless meme of Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point

meme of an awkward looking white guy with the headline "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 10/04/2026

"What it really gives you is sovereignty — your indigenous capability to take the data that you collect, and to own it... You can take the data that you collect, analyze it in your nation without anyone interfering"

meme of a man with glasses captioned "Canada", looking at a butterfly captioned "F-35 Data Centre", asking "Is this Indigenous data sovereignty?"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 23/03/2026

it's almost like there's a pattern here...

first panel shows a masked person bound in rope with the label "big tech" while a blond man reaches over to lift the mask. The second panel shows the blond man taking off to mask to reveal the person bound in rope with the label "big oil"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 12/01/2026

"The telephone revolutionized communication, but only after vast networks of wires, switches and operators connected households and businesses. Electricity changed every facet of daily life, enabled by a massive buildout of power plants and transmission lines..." www.brookfield.com/views-news/i...

The painting "American Progress" by John Gast, 1872, described as: "... beautiful and charming female ... floating westward through the air, bearing on her forehead the "Star of Empire" . . . In her right hand she carries a book ... the emblem of education and ... national enlightenment, while with the left hand she unfolds and stretches the slender wires of the telegraph, that are to flash intelligence throughout the land."

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 09/12/2025

"The entrepreneurs of the AI apocalypse have discovered a perfect formula... The future becomes a hostage to present accumulation, and we’re told we should be grateful for such responsible custodians." sounds familiar

meme of two astronauts in space looking at a planet, one behind the other. The American in front asks "Wait, it's all just colonialism?", the Haudenosaunee one behind points a gun at the back of the American's head saying "Always has been"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 08/12/2025

wtf Bluesky if I suddenly stop posting this is probably why

Age Assurance prompt from Bluesky that says: "It looks like you haven't added your birthdate. You must provide an accurate date of birth to use Bluesky." A big blue button says "Add your birthdate"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 27/11/2025

please buy our oil and gas powered magic beans

a screenshot from a news conference of Danielle Smith, headlines say "MOU exempts Alberta from aspects of federal law to make pipeline happen - with conditions" "MOU: What's in it? Construction and financing of world's larged carbon capture and storage project" "Construction of thousands of megawatts of AI computing power" "Federal government to not implement the Oil and Gas Emissions Cap" "'This will allow us to see some substantial investments' says Smith of energy framework

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 25/09/2025

"The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... They did the meme i.imgflip.com/a77178.jpg

A meme from the TV show community: a person says "I can excuse genocide but I draw the line at being held accountable for it"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 24/05/2025

anywho, if you find yourself agreeing with people like this, um... please don't www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

An image of 3 tipis at dusk, one of them lit up, behind the text "Doomer Optimism Campout"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 12/04/2025

Full text here of this thread here: jeff.doctor/blog/fascism...

A still from the movie "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2", pictured is an angry and determined looking security guard riding on a Segway towards the camera

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 21/03/2025

Thanks for asking the important questions and the shout out. I can relate to the deep exhaustion of Chelsea and Shaun...

Meme of two men with nooses around their necks on a gallows, one turning to another person on the gallows out of frame, asking "First time?" - Caption reads "Indigenous People when Canadians face threats to their sovereignty"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 20/03/2025

"Mr. Davis wholeheartedly believes Mr. Musk will bring about humanity’s progress, according to interviews with 22 friends, former colleagues and government officials." bsky.app/profile/kate... The fun thing about Canadians being excited about this "progress" is that Manifest Destiny includes Canada

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 18/02/2025

"We all know that our country could be so much more than it is. We have the land, the talent, the know-how, and the energy to be the most abundant nation on earth. And our people have a spirit that could take them anywhere they wanted to go." - — Build Canada Team that doesn't sound familiar at all

"Train tracks slice across a flat, grassy landscape with log cabins to our left and a river and mountains to our right in this horizontal lithograph. The scene is printed with vivid colors and is packed with tiny details. A train engine puffing black smoke pulls five cars from the bottom right corner away into the distance, angling to our left before disappearing on the horizon, which comes about three quarters of the way up the composition. Writing across the tops of the first three cars reads, “Through line New York San Francisco” in all caps. The open windows on the fourth car are crowded with riders. Tucked into the lower left corner, eleven log-built structures are mostly clustered closely together. Children play and run around the open door of the building closest to us, which is labeled “Public School.” Other people in long skirts or suits, some in hats, stand waving near the tracks. Four men in long-sleeved shirts or jackets and long pants, all with hats, chop down trees or hold shovels in a wooded area in the lower left corner. Four wagons, three of them covered and drawn by ox, move away from the town. All of the people in the town and on the train appear to have pale, peachy skin. The black smoke pouring from the train engine turns to slate gray where it blankets the ground to our right. Two people with brown skin, long black hair, feathered headdresses, and yellow and red clothing sit on horseback and are nearly swallowed by the smoke. A glassy, blue river winds into the distance to our left. One person is in a canoe on the river, which is lined by pines and other trees. White clouds kick up against the snowy mountain peaks that span the right half of the horizon against an otherwise bright blue sky. The margin around the scene is foxed, speckled brown against the white paper. Printed below the image, in all caps, the title reads, Across the Continent. “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66574.html

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 03/02/2025

the worse part about posting is knowing people are like, "why aren't you responding to my emails, bro" to which I respond:

Image of a cat screaming with the header: "Why is the Cat Screaming?" Below the cat lists: 1. "Why wouldn't the cat scream". 2. "If you were smart, you'd be doing the same thing"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 17/01/2025

lol we have Gemini turned off in my workplace yet I can still do this in google docs:

A Google Gemini prompt window with the user querying: "does water freeze at 27 degrees Fahrenheit". Gemini returns the answer as "No, water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit". Below a disclaimer says "This is a creative writing aid, and is not intended to be factual"

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 16/01/2025

well this is fun, I can't use my workplace e-mail anymore without pressing "continue" on the button that activates their "AI" assistant. Is this even legal? This feels like a forced consent button. Anyone have any workarounds? I really don't want to press "continue".

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 14/01/2025

Microsoft's take on Manifest Destiny:

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 23/12/2024

i dunno what's up with the bear in the reflection, is it like the bear's evil twin or something? this does not make me merry

A generative "AI" image of an arctic landscape with aurora borealis in the sky and a polar bear on the ice. The bear is reflected in the water below but the face is distorted and looks weird

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