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Real human with interests that is working on sharing less IRL info in this social media go round.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5h
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 1h
Auto transcription (I was curious, sharing for access. Agree this is fantastic.)
Screenshot of a transcript. It says: “Exactly right, but I want to say a couple things. One thing about cities that I found in this reporting: cities are very unfairly labeled as these problem centers by Donald Trump and others. And one thing is worth remembering: if you look at the population of well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities, look at youth homeless. A pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country. Okay, in the fraction of youth homeless who are LGBTQ, whatever, pretty high. So there are a lot of families in this country who fail the first duty of family, which is to love your kids more than any other thing, and there's a lot of families in this country that look at some verse in some book, and their child's face, and choose theSecond screenshot says: “verse in the book over their child's face, and drive their children out of Nebraska or out of Florida or out of Idaho, and those kids come to San Francisco, and those kids come to New York, and those kids go to Chicago, and we have friends giving dinners with them. You live in L.A. You are surrounded by people who have those kind of stories, and so cities. Every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, "Ah, look at these cities.” But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 3h
If you go up to the box office and say "one adult for the movie where the whale eats a guy, please" they have to give it to you. There's no law that says you have to say Whalefall or whatever it's called.
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 5h
Ford got caught handing out millions to well-connected insiders and Conservative donors. Now he's adding paperwork to make it look better. But the hidden truth is that the minister's office still picks the winners. Until that changes, expect more of the same.
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Ford government says it’s tightened rules for next round of skills development funding
A year after the auditor general excoriated Premier Doug Ford's Skills Development Fund, his government says the program increasingly targets "high paid" manufacturing and construction jobs.
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JC @jerc.bsky.social · 6h
Can we compromise and give you a dummy phone rhat gets screened for content before getting shared on Whatever? Maybe a ScalziCam? 😆 (Hope it all goes well.)
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 10h
Happy birthday to Mario Lemieux, born on this day in 1965 in Montreal! One of the greatest NHL players ever, he won 2 Stanley Cups, 2 Conn Smythe, 6 Art Ross, 4 Ted Lindsays, the Calder, 3 Harts, a Canada Cup and an Olympic Gold Medal. In 915 games, he had 1,723 points. 📸 NHL
A photograph of Mario Lemieux, wearing a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey with the number 66 and a captain's "C" patch, playing hockey on the ice. He is in action, holding a stick, and wearing full gear including gloves and a helmet. In the background, other players and a blurred crowd are visible in an indoor rink.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today I got to see this painting in person in Florence. It’s one of my favourite paintings in the world. It’s called Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. If you don’t mind I’d like to tell you a bit about it.
Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi) at the Uffizi gallery in Florence showing a woman violently beheading a man
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Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Will heartily endorse this post as a former forensic engineer. Online shopping especially shipping direct from overseas is frequently not certified for use in Canada. That may sound like useless red tape, but it’s core safety matters that are engaged.
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JC @jerc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The amount of money Desantis and Trump have cost Disney and the @torontobluejays.bsky.social must be massive. I had big plans for a Florida trip pre Trump and have resigned myself to the idea that I will probably not go there again in my lifetime.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/10/2026
Just a girl and her* airplane 🥰 * actually it is emphatically the Canadian Aviation Museum’s airplane but they do let me fly it a lot
Me standing on the wing of a yellow De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk, on a sunny afternoon. I’m wearing a flight suit and aviators and trying to look cool, which may or may not be effective, but the lighting is really good at least
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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JC @jerc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@helenlohara.bsky.social @chrishewitt.bsky.social Was this a podcast topic recently? It sounds familiar but I don’t quite remember why. 🤔
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We did it. We successfully saw works by all four Ninja Turtles in one day.
Michelangelo's famous marble masterpiece, the David, which is housed at the Academia gallery in FlorenceThe Annunciation painting by Leonardo da Vinci, which is housed in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence.Madonna del Cardellino (Madonna of the Goldfinch) by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), housed in the Uffizi in FlorenceDonatello’s iconic bronze sculpture of David, housed in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That unlocks a bunch of perks including a unique armour set.
An article for CBC News' The National reading "Michael J. Fox Promoted to Highest Order of Canada Level" with a screenshot of Fox receiving a medal.
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Andi for Ward 10 @andiforward10.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If political candidates can’t be bothered to show actual effort in their campaigns, then can we expect them to actually show up and work for their communities? #topoli #Toronto #election #vote
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Like displaying heads on pikes
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Ale @alepresser.com · 02/10/2026
The black ink was running low when the second cat was made.
Two calico cats with theirs backs to the camera. One is white, orange and black, and the other is white, orange and gray.
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My wife, father-in-law and I were just talking in our household. About 125 years of living in central Toronto between us and none of us have ever been mugged. Between us, we've lost laptops twice, phones twice and wallets half a dozen times in Toronto and they've always ended up returned to us.
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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
happy pumpkin season! (art from 2014)
a black and white scratchboard drawing. Alternative poster for "It's the great pumpkin, Charlie brown"
It depicts a vast pumpkin patch in which Linus is standing holding a sign. He is looking up at the full moon. In front of the full moon we can see Snoopy in his aviator costume on his doghouse. 
All the way in the distance, there is a house and we can see three children in halloween costumes coming out the door.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 10/09/2026
Opinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back
woodcut of a guillotine
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/10/2026
I will be forever grateful to @tristanelwell.bsky.social for his Starter Villain cover art. The moment we all saw it we were all, "Oh, we're gonna sell a LOT of this one." And we were right! Authors, please use Tristan for all your cover art needs.
The cover of Starter Villain, which features a delightful business cat.
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is new: boomer on boomer and hit-and-run. Demographics ensure that we will be seeing a lot more of it lloydalter.substack.com/p/we-may-soo...
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We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop.
As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As @jameswsthomson.com noted already, the sheer audacity of Carney to begin his oil pipeline announcement by mentioning a wildfire that almost levelled the town. WHAT IS EXACERBATING THE WILDFIRES MARK???? MARK???
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/
A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."
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JC @jerc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I enter dozens of contests a day and have stopped entering the ones where the prize is a trip to the US. Ben the NHL ones if I enter it’s with crossed fingers and a “well I hope a Canadian team makes it deep into the playoffs”
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Steven L Clark @steven-l-clark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Rare Beer Was Once a Collector’s Dream. Now, It’s a Liability.
A group of former hipsters sit around a San Francisco apartment in bow ties, newsboy caps, and suspenders. They listen to 2012 indie folk music. Someone jokingly calls it a “lost ‘Portlandia’ episode....
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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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JC @jerc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think the hackers were called DOGE, no? /sarcasm
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just do not use muse
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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We rightly give Home Office ministers a hard time here for many things, but in their defence, not one of them has ever ordered the Identity & Passport Service to mail out passports in envelopes that might as well be printed with the words ‘Important identity document enclosed: please steal’.
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JC @jerc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was going to make a joke about the maintenance costs then realized I have no idea whether a multi necked guitar requires maintenance? (Other than the normal tuning and string changes)
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 30/09/2026
Fascinating UofT School of Cities project on the correlation between neighbourhood characteristics and mayoral vote over the last few decades. Looking at the strongest positive correlations for Olivia Chow voting areas in 2023 sure tells a tale. schoolofcities.github.io/place-and-po...
A data visualization showing Pearson correlation coefficients between neighborhood characteristics from the 2021 census and voting for Olivia Chow in the 2023 election, with blue bars indicating positive correlations and red indicating negative correlations.
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JC @jerc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Currently eating MB’s at the airport. On my way to Newfoundland. 😆
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today, we remember the parents, children, siblings and elders tragically lost to the horrendous acts of cultural genocide committed in government-sanctioned residential schools. May we all walk the path to reconciliation together with a commitment to respect and healing.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On Sept. 30, 1958, Canadian children were treated to a new show. It featured a giant who told them to "look up!...waaaaaay up!" For the next 27 years, the show was a fixture on CBC and is beloved to this day. This is the story of The Friendly Giant! 📸 CBC 🧵 1/12
Bob Homme as The Friendly Giant, wearing a rustic, beige tunic with brown accents, holding a small xylophone and two violins, with a colorful giraffe puppet with a harmonica and a chicken puppet on his shoulders, set against a plain blue background.
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JC @jerc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I enjoy the pairing of these posts in my timeline. bsky.app/profile/dmac...
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. First observed in 2013 as Orange Shirt Day, it is a day for public commemoration, learning and reflection on the history and intergenerational trauma of the Residential School System in Canada.
Poster announcing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — September 30 — orange background with white Indigenous-style artwork showing a jumping whale, flower, dotted waves and night symbols, with the Government of Canada wordmark at the bottom.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026
To be fair, the single most publicly-accessed example of "AI" in the world can't find its ass with a flashlight and it's right on top of the search listings, where the most accurate search result used to be. Every LLM suffers from token drift over time so it's only a question of WHEN they're wrong.
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Jordan St.John @saintsgambit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'Doomed brand badly misunderstands its appeal, throws away money.'
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As we approach the end of the month it's a good time for me to beg/schill/entice folks to support my Patreon.com/LardeSouza I post larger versions of new work there and loads of stuff from my Larchives every month. Also occasional NSFW pin ups and jokes.
sugar skull art of Elivrasexy bird lady cartoon: I'm too sexy for my tweetcartoon bikini cheesecake pin up with a literal wedge of cheese for a head
Hey! Gouda looking!cartoon: a pair of robots playing stringed instruments. One looks like b-9 from Lost in Space but dressed for a Ren Faire and holding a lute
The other looks like Robby from Forbidden Planet, wearing sandals, shorts and a hawaiian shirt and holding a Vulcan lyre. They are both standing on a pock marked lunar surface against a sky of stars
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me: [chanting] pouch, pouch- Other artists: pouch, POUCH Rico: [pounding his drawing table] POUCH, POUCH, POUCH!
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