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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 21h

“oi me beans” sent me over.

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Alix Markman @markwoman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Possibly the darkest piece I’ve written to date. Trigger warning for multiple mentions of SA.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The iced coffee thing is born out of the same impulse as “but what was she wearing,” “he had preexisting conditions,” “well, didn’t they know [traditional clothing] is unprofessional?” Anything to shift blame from systemic failures to a group of people already conveniently scapegoated.

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O @omagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social said, Mamdani just pushed the button.

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Katie Weekley @katieweekley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o...

A sense of what A.I. is takes shape in our minds through repeated use. It's like a helpful assistant, albeit one that may forget things that it seemed to know about us yesterday, or completely reverse the advice it gave us a moment ago, or occasionally hallucinate a citation that doesn't exist. Why would anyone fear a helpful, if forgetful, intern?

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This guy from #BritishColumbia decided to create a way for locals to buy fresh fruit and vegetables directly from farms at wholesale prices #Canada Each family contributes $100 a month to get produce at less than half the cost of grocery stores. Credit to andyyjiang

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Katie Weekley @katieweekley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"To understand a data center is that it’s a device for burning natural gas, the latest excuse (after Ukraine and Iran) for the fuel that Big Oil is counting on to keep its business model afloat even as the world turns away from internal combustion cars." billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-two-ho...

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The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formation

Is There Suddenly an Opening for AI and Climate Sense?

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026

Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space.

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Aaron of the Martins 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronmartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Associate member of the EU? Yes please. 🇨🇦🇪🇺

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ARTE @artefr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

« C'est comme ça », chantait-elle mais aujourd'hui on aimerait que ce soit tout sauf comme ça… Au revoir Catherine Ringer 🖤

Photo de la chanteuse Catherine Ringer en train de chanter sur scène, derrière elle une fumée bleutée.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this

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Susan Solomon @susansolomon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My role as an older person is to remind people how far we have come…Everything we do matters—how we behave in an elevator, how we raise our children, how we treat our partners, how we participate in our government. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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‘Everything We Do Matters’

Gloria Steinem on what older people can teach America

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is exactly how I feel. Also you can go, "I don't like this one, have it back!" I have 50 books (the limit) out at all times because (belting it out like Julie Dawn Cole)🎵 I want it now!

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JP Larocque @jplarocque.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We celebrate Dolly as the exception, but she doesn't have to be one. She invited all of us to be better, kinder, and more accepting. We don't have to embrace a culture of inhumanity, or give in to divisive rhetoric, or idolize greed. We can transform our pain into something other than cruelty.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Brenda Bailey, MLA @brendavancouver.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Another country wants to dictate to us who we can and cannot trade with and that is unacceptable. We will never become the economic 51st state. We will continue diversifying our trade, growing our economy and defending British Columbians against this economic war.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“Carney’s official statement deserves to be read in full, slowly, with a beer, because underneath the diplomatic wallpaper it’s the most quietly savage document a G7 leader’s put out in years. It reads like a bank manager foreclosing on a bloke’s entire self-image & the bank manager is enjoying it.”

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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had no idea CBC had an app for learning French that uses real shows and stuff to help with learning it. One way to ensure Canada protects French is if we all make an effort to truly be bilingual — and we can make Quebec feel like we understand their struggle too. “Mauril” app from CBC:

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David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We have a plan to stand on our own two feet, find new trade partners and protect this beautiful country.

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Prairiesunshine @scottishox2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#WabKinew said it best with his accurate prediction 🤷‍♂️ "You can't make a good deal with a bad person"

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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A corporate death penalty is a legal process that forces a corporation to dissolve or cease to exist.

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Bring back the corporate death penalty

We have a mechanism to punish corporations that harm us. We should use it

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22/08/2026

1/5 The Prime Minister was right to walk away from the negotiating table last night. I believe Canadians are united in this crucial moment, on this crucial point: no deal is better than a bad deal.

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don’t think generative ai would even exist if it weren’t for capitalism. Been thinking about that a lot. It’s an unwanted tech for taking money from artists in exchange for utter slop and it’s completely reliant on the public’s lack of art education.

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 14/08/2026

"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Every time you check out a library book instead of ordering from Amazon, ask a friend instead of an LLM, cook a meal instead of ordering from an app, or go for a walk instead of scrolling social media, you interrupt the cash flows of insane CEOs. Do it! Ruin their day!

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JP Larocque @jplarocque.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Reboot culture is as much an ideological choice as a financial one. Placing a limit on stories told places a limit on ideas, on human imagination and critical thought. We don’t believe in endless possibilities because we become used to predictable outcomes.

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Nate Federman @natefederman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Every week I do a #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread and the majority of the stuff I talk about are ideas I’ve picked up from other writers while doing the job. THE BEST BITS OF WISDOM I’VE HEARD, get turned into notes that I tack to the wall of my office. So I thought I’d share them with you. 🧵1

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 31/07/2026

Large crowds busked yesterday evening in Dublin in honor of Glen Hansard 🙏🏻🎶 RIP via conorpope on IG

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is very poetic and someone should write a song about it

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A Very Bad Thing to Do….

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 14/07/2026

Joan Sebastian Guerrero should still be alive. This is the second time in a week that ICE agents have killed someone who — by their own admission — was not the subject of their operation. Now Sebastian is dead, his killing witnessed by his three-year-old daughter wearing her Bluey pajamas.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...

A.I. is vacuuming up so much of our land, talent, semiconductor chips, building materials and, above all, so much of our money that it is beginning to crowd out the rest of the economy.

In other words, A.I. isn’t merely compensating for the weakness in the rest of the economy. It is, at least in part, causing it.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

AI should be more like Weird Al (Yankovic)—ask permission from original creators, actually do a good job, pay royalties.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“…the top 1% by wealth are responsible for about 40% of all “ownership”-based emissions – that is, the emissions produced by businesses and associated with privately owned financial and physical assets – which themselves make up 60% of global carbon output.” Tax them, & their carbon. #ClimateCrisis

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Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says

Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Don’t do it! What I made for my students… bsky.app/profile/nsou...

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Forcing employees to use AI that doesn't work for the sake of efficiency--which incentives employees to waste company resources to pretend they are using it--is some real Catch-22 (the novel) shit. The book should be required reading in schools. It's like the skeleton key for our absurd times.

"Tokenmaxxing," the idea held by some tech company executives that if employees are not maximizing their use of Al tools at work they are not being productive enough, has become common in the industry, with some bosses bragging about how they are spending more money on Al tool usage costs than actual human employees. This has resulted in a situation where some employees are running scripts that make it seem like they are using Al tools a lot to game metrics and appease their bosses, but the Al tools are not doing anything productive and are burning money and resources with no benefit to productivity.
One Amazon employee said they "cheated" their way up Amazon's internal Al usage leaderboard after they were told in a performance review that they're not using Al enough at work. They told me it was trivial to do so. I'm not providing exact details of how this employee cheated in order to protect their anonymity, but essentially employees can automatically prompt the Al tools with an endless series of tasks that have nothing to do with their job.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hey! I wrote about Malta's rise as a top LGBTQ+ destination from my Maltese-Canadian perspective. It's been a delightful surprise & I dig into Malta's evolution from a pious, very Catholic place, being terrified going to my first Maltese gay bar, to the welcoming place it is today. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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What it feels like watching Malta transform into a leading LGBTQ+ destination

As a Maltese Canadian, I had assumed my country of origin stopped evolving. Imagine my surprise when turned into a top LGBTQ+-welcoming destination

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

AI as a labor issue: "Nothing in the world of AI is immaterial or magical. Every seemingly immediate and flawless response is the result of a long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure and, above all, people."

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Katie Weekley @katieweekley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Today was a stellar writing day. Wrote a chapter in my book which means I've finished a section, then my act in a script I'm working on with a co-writer. How to harness this magic again?

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Jason Filiatrault @feelcanadian.com · 22/05/2026

I'm just so pissed off and annoyed that I have to take time out of my life to go stand in line to check a box saying I don't want to have to check some future box about whether or not Alberta should be a part of Canada when polls show that 70% OF THE FUCKING PROVINCE DOESN'T WANT TO SEPARATE.

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