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Jon Scop

@jscop.bsky.social
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Immigration and refugee lawyer in the states, librarian in Canada, now a retired dual citizen, moved by justice, music and wilderness, trying to find hope in an ailing and dystopian world.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 7h
Thinking also of Katalin Karakó, I wonder how many Nobel laureates, particularly female ones, have had careers in which they were denied tenure, had their work defunded, labs closed, forced out of academic positions, etc.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 18h
Yes, and it was still disturbing to have a couple of holier-than-thou tankie FB friends "correct" me when i dared criticize Trump's version, in the early days of that stupidity.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Picasso 1936, Stage curtain.'The Minotaur’s body dressed as Harlequin’ painted for Rolland’s play ‘Le 14 Juillet’, on display in Toulouse
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am so proud of my MP Jenny Kwan, and so disgusted with Carney's right-wing party.
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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I got one too. No address, no postage paid, but only our postie has mailbox keys. Is that even legal?
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Funny how that works. (Not funny at all, of course.)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Openly bragging about ethnic cleansing. That's how you know they're the Good Guys.
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Felted Hearts (COMMS OPEN) @felthearts4.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Been reading up on the BC Greens plans vs the BC NDP and it's no contest. This is just a sample, there's more. Source: bcballot.ca/platforms/bc... #cdnpoli #BCpoli #BCGreens
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good to know that about him, and no dilemmas for me because i've always thought his film scores sucked.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies. And we reject it." -- FDR
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truth
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Still a perpetual outsider after 21 yrs. From that perspective: Lockstep party conformity. Different ideas? Too bad unless you convince a leader. So we have no AOCs, Bernies, Mamdanis. They can deviate from the party line. In Canada? Nope. Case in point: Nathan Cullen's positions as MP v. as MLA.
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veery @veery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
yes you could say i’m a centrist
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's clearly a massive office in D.C. now, hundreds of young men solely dedicated to dreaming up things that will make life as difficult as possible for as many people as possible, for absolutely no reason except that they find it fun.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Modern update: www.facebook.com/reel/1143133...
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But unfortunately, victorious Dems will probably not do that, instead talking only of grocery prices.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I keep waiting for an announcement of a candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona. Always skewed heavily against Cons, so no need for "strategic voting." People here are pissed at the BCNDP and wanting change.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Club Saanich @thesaanichdaily.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Emily Lowan gets it. ##bcpoli ##cdnpoli
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a fine group, I’m sure, but an appeal to “your therapist” as your anti-AI message assumes access to the very thing people are so desperately lacking. Care is expensive and isolation is ordinary. Capitalism leaves people desperate for connection, then sells them a simulation of it.
An ad on a subway for an anti-AI action group:

YOU WON'T TELL YOUR THERAPIST.
BUT YOU'LL TELL AI?
STOP THE AI DRIFT.
Learn more at itsnotyouits.ai
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
Men—we need to talk: •Timothy Hudson raped & killed his stepsister—he got pretrial release •7 men at Cornell drugged, trafficked, & raped a woman—they faced no consequences •An American man annihilates his entire family—every 5 days Women are not safe around men www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
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Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted by Mark Carney last week after voting in favour of Jenny Kwan’s Bill C-233, the No More Loopholes Act. When will the Liberals stop punishing MPs for doing their job—and finally act to close this loophole?
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The # of ppl who suddenly have a lot of opinions about the policies of a small town lesbian bar they’ve never even considered patronizing echoes the # w strong opinions about women’s sports who have never bought a ticket to a girls’/women’s game/match/event that didn’t feature their own daughter.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 27/09/2026
First poll in the wake of Pierre Poilievre's AI rap video shows NDP within 4 pts of displacing Conservatives as 2nd party
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New poll finds support for Conservatives and NDP just 4 points apart
According to a new EKOS study, the Conservatives and the NDP are now polling at just four points apart, at 22% and 18%, respectively.
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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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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026
"we can't uninvent this" we can't uninvent my car either but it still doesn't go anywhere without gas in the tank
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sure, buddy. He's with CHF BC, supposedly the org. representing co-ops, which we pay dues to. Yet CHF's official position is that Vancouver forcing well-run co-ops on city land to charge themselves exorbitant housing charges is just fine. So we'll leave, & developers can move in. No thanks.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sure, buddy. He's with CHF BC, supposedly the org. representing co-ops, which we pay dues to. Yet CHF's official position is that Vancouver forcing well-run co-ops on city land to charge themselves exorbitant housing charges is just fine. So we'll leave, & developers can move in. No thanks.
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BC Green Party @bcgreens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
⚡️CANDIDATE ANNOUNCEMENT: Maureen Curran for New Westminster - Coquitlam! bcgreens.ca/candidates-2...
BC Greens - Candidate Announcement - Maureen Curran for New Westminster-Coquitlam!
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
"morally clear values and leaders willing to stand up for them" When Politico management violated union agreements by replacing workers with half-cooked AI, it argued the software shouldn't be held to ANY journalistic standards because it technically was built by programmers, not journalists
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The real answer is "we hope it will make the economy number go up and ideally we can lay off a bunch of teachers" but it would be interesting to see him try to justify it
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No surprise.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interacting with a flexible, accordion-like kinetic paper sculpture crafted by Chinese artist Li Hongbo using stacked paper sheets in a honeycomb structure. youtube.com/shorts/hLpe9...
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
IN MINNESOTA.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Slightly off-topic, but is there any hope of enticing your awesome older sister Sonia Furstenau to come back and represent us?
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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Borowtz Hitler Estate Sues Trump for Stealing Arch Design open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Hitler Estate Sues Trump for Stealing Arch Design
“It is our duty as trustees of the Adolf Hitler Estate to ensure that the Fuhrer’s intellectual property rights are vigorously protected.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good point. Also not lost on me that Carney is using this for pipelines and not public housing. The government *can* push ahead with things, it just doesn't want to for good things.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Holy shit. Must be seen to be believed.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I guess we'll bring back the good ol' days soon, and they can throw me in jail.
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Did you read Special Topics? Incredible book.
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
David Eby just called a snap election, right on top of local municipal elections. #bcelection2026
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