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Jeff Samsonow

@jeffsamsonow.bsky.social
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Your friendly neighbourhood mediocre-man and pandemic buzzkill.😷 he/him in #yeg on Treaty 6. same @ on🦣

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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 47m
Quebec sovereignty immediately plunges to 0% popularity.
montrealgazette.com
Elon Musk says Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate from Canada
“They would be better off." the billionaire owner of X said.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21h
If everyone had food, water, housing, education and healthcare … we would all be better off. When basic needs are met, people flourish. Health and happiness improves. We could easily provide for everyone by demanding the billionaire class pay their fair share.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As Alberta begins its big push for privatized healthcare, Ontario shows us how this will play out. "It does not help with wait time. It does not help with giving people access. It costs more." www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 05/10/2026
the differences in sports across the pond is always interesting. look how the brits do bowling. totally different than how we do it
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Naive and misleading are the sovereignty vibes these days.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just saw that too. A true CanCon icon.
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GameTimeArt @gametimeart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sass Jordan passed away? *sigh* Jezus.. RIP
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm old enough to remember people going to jail for hacking government websites. Now we build them data centres.
ctvnews.ca
AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, research firm says
An artificial intelligence research firm said on Wednesday AI agents tried to hack into a Canadian government website, casting the effort as a failed hacking attempt, while Canada said there were no indications its systems were compromised.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'll spot them being thrown the question without likely knowing the details, but we'll see what their next responses are. Even allowing EPS officers to privatize their time is a bad idea.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The National Post attack on NDP Leader Avi Lewis crosses the line into threat. They invoke the same religious code words used by extremists who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin. It is unacceptable to use religious intimidation to shut down debate on Gaza. charlieangus.substack.com/p/national-p...
charlieangus.substack.com
NATIONAL POST CROSSES LINE ON THREAT AGAINST LEWIS
A recent editorial on NDP leader Avi Lewis crossed the line into an extremist hate threat. It needs to be called out.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not The Beaverton or The Onion: www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Attention shoppers: I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me.
CBC story with the headline "50-storey towers, new security approach part of developer’s plans for Edmonton City Centre" and an excerpt that reads: "Let’s just try this: at every entrance, at every pedway, we are going to put four security guards and a police officer there, a metal detector and a bag scan,” he is heard saying in the video recorded of the session on Monday.
“If you look like you should not belong at the City Centre mall, you’re not working there, providing services or spending money, you’re not coming in.”
When asked by reporters Tuesday about his plans for security measures, Lam said those plans are still being determined and might change. He added plans could include more cameras and securing the open northwest parkade."
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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this day I’m thinking of all residential school survivors - my aunties and uncles and grandparents and in particular but also Phyllis Webstad, the founder of the Orange Shirt Society whose memoir I wrote the foreword for - check it out!
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Finding an organization or mutual aid closer to the lands you call home works really well too, that link above is not the only option. 🧡
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still looking for a way to recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation? We settlers can consider giving one day’s pay (or what you can afford) to an Indigenous-led organization today.
onedayspay.ca
One Day's Pay | Take Action Today: Support Indigenous Causes
Support Indigenous-led initiatives through donations on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Join us in honoring culture, history, and community resilience.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The point is all men are on that spectrum. Which means a single issue, or crime, or general garbage behaviour, is not about you or me. If you don't react every time people criticize politicians or superstar athletes or accountants, consider a similar reaction to when people rightfully criticize men.
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 30/09/2026
A beautiful day in Amiskwaciwâskahikan.
Photo of trees at the Alberta legislature with yellow leaves and blue sky. Photo of orange marigolds and pink and red geraniums at the Alberta legislature. Photo ot metal sculpture/ polish centennial monument at the Alberta legislature. Photo of the high level bridge and river valley in Edmonton  with bright blue sky and a few clouds.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What a small, yet meaningful, act of truth and reconciliation it would be for the federal government to recognize there is nothing but hate behind residential school denialism.
ctvnews.ca
Minister won't commit to criminalizing residential school denialism
The Indigenous services minister was noncommittal when asked about criminalizing residential school denialism after a group linked to white nationalism reportedly staged a demonstration in the B.C. interior over the weekend.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn’t the 1950s, when the Ku Klux Klan marched openly in broad daylight. And yet, in a way, it is. We can scroll past this, or we can come together and denounce it, loudly, all of us, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike.
indigenousinsider.substack.com
“Got Bones?” Masked White Supremacists Descend on Tk’emlúps, Three Days Before Truth and Reconciliation Day
They hid their faces but wanted to be seen. Residential school denialism is out of control, and it’s time Canada called it what it is: hate.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here are some of the events happening in Edmonton for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
edmonton.ca
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation | City of Edmonton
September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which honours residential school survivors and the children who were never returned home, as well as their families and communities.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It should not be controversial to say: it is not okay that 3,200 children died in residential schools.
orlaghokelly.substack.com
Reclaiming Truth before Reconciliation
Truth means zero tolerance for Residential School Denialism
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This really aligns with the vibes I got from the trailer.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I felt the same way after just the side effects of a few of the Covid vaccines. I know I'm going to be wrecked whenever I get sick again, I won't have any real memory of how it goes. Hope your sickness passes quickly and as symptomless as possible. 🙏🏻
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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 30/09/2026
The Alberta chapter of the Canadian Bar Association has published an analysis of Premier Smith's nine referendum questions. They find that most of these proposals would invite immediate court challenges, and several of them are not legally clear at all.
cbaalberta-referendum-analysis.com
CBA Alberta Referendum Analysis
CBA Alberta Referendum Analysis
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And imagine if the media turned this kind of scrutiny and skepticism against police, politicians, and powerful interests instead of vulnerable victims of gang rape? What a world we could have
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeesh. I really wouldn't have thought you could file a lawsuit in small claims (for not property or contracts). That really sounds ridiculous to go through.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The HC5 guy, or did they do something new today I'm going to shake my head at?
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And in a province with SLAPP legislation to boot. Mess on mess. Glad you're out of it now, and jeez that stinks.
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brightshadow (regular) @cuil.world · 29/09/2026
*handing a chatbot my drivers license, bank account and routing numbers, and social security number* I trust you because you are represented as a talking plushie
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Potentially big change here for at least one part of Canada's drug laws.
thetyee.ca
DULF Wins Constitutional Challenge, Judge Applauds Their Work | The Tyee
Compassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will avoid prison and Canada told to update its drug laws.
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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 29/09/2026
If youre playing a video on your phone at full blast, the rest of the bus should be allowed to watch it
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hot take: If health, housing and environment aren't our most important issues, we're never really solving "economy".
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a world. What an F'n world.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wake up babe, new AI data centre application dropped.
engaged.edmonton.ca
LDA26-0225 Edmonton Energy & Technology Park AI Data Centre Amendment
You are invited to learn more about the application and share feedback online.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ontario is cutting healthcare jobs, so things must be going so well in your hospitals to not need those extra nurses and healthcare aides. Send those folks out west, please! www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The funny thing is that it gets shattered every few years. This is, I think, the third time in the last decade we've found a (Norway) rat.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
True. There were some signs of rats at Calgary recycling plans a few years ago. Maybe they're moving north!
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i love robots, such as C3PeeAss and R2DeezNutz
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But we took care of that.
static.klipy.com
Flamethrower in Hazmat Suit
Alt: Flamethrower in Hazmat Suit
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just gonna say in 24 hours I have not seen a single apology at any level by anyone who used the article as an excuse to bash Covid cautious people or queer people as a whole. I have not seen a word from people who gleefully referred to disabled people as “wreckers”. Not one single oops.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is legitimately international news.
theguardian.com
Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Alberta Rat Patrol is on the case!
dailyhive.com
Dead rat found at a home in a small central Alberta town | Daily Hive | News
A dead Norway rat has been found at a residence in a small central Alberta town, sparking an investigation by the Rat Control Program.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Disabled people make society uncomfortable. Left or right…. It doesn’t matter. People want to believe it can’t happen to them. That if they become disabled there will be a magic “fix”. We challenge their denial, so they deny us solidarity and support. That’s ableism.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Only the lucky few that David reaches out to will learn the truth.
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The context is not helping.
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