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Kelly Smith 🍁

@kellymjsmith.bsky.social
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Proud Canadian. 🇨🇦 Quilter, writer, tea and chocolate lover, and amateur genealogist. Feminist, atheist, flaming progressive. Reader of SF, spec fic, and non-fiction. Member of ACES and DRII. Work in business continuity and disaster recovery. She/her.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 11h
#NotAllMen” is a self-assessment that misses what men don’t know they don’t know. Misogyny is so baked into everyday life that many men don’t recognize their part in it. We can’t fix what we can’t name. If you’re a man, take this questionnaire—and share it with the men in your life. link below
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 4h
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 3h
🎶🎶🎶🎶 Still mad- punching Hello Kitty Gonna kick her ass from Rome to Carson City Funko — cost twenty fitty Wanna know her fate? Take a listen to my ditty All the merch from neckerchiefs to knee socks Gonna chase her down and stuff her in a catbox…! 🎶🎶🎶
Hello Human Child In Piles
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 4h
🎶🎶🎶 But at night it’s a different world Oh my god she’s a human girl They try to explain it but they can’t… Was born under a power plant And they say, oh isn’t it a pity That her head is eggshell white In the Summer in the City What’s the deal with Hello Kitty 🎶🎶
Hello Kitty
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 4h
🎶🎶 Hot town, punching Hello Kitty So adorable-even bleeds real pretty Head’s big but her body’s itty-bitty Should I punch her more? Gonna ask the committee Staggering ‘round, kitty Walkin half dead Walkin into traffic-squashed like a flatbread… 🎶🎶🎶
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 3h
So many great Kids in the Hall sketches in this thread!
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 4h
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 11h
OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
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OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11h
Look, I’m not saying the Pope should bring back the Spanish Inquisition for everyone, but maybe in some special cases? As a little treat for the rest of us?
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 7h
I got both together and my arms hurt for a week. But the heat and redness told me they were making antibodies, so yay!
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 8h
I had that happen twice. I complained about my Bose headphones breaking and they sent me a new, upgraded pair! And once I complimented a TV show and they sent me a whole package of swag. Old Twitter was amazing that way.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10h
That’ll be three Hail Marys for identifying with this post…
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 9h
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Montana Locals Protest Daily Wire's Pro-ICE Film Inspired By Renee Good
Daily Wire's new pro-ICE movie production has attracted local protesters in Livingston, Montana.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13h
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 8h
Never thought I'd agree so often with a pope!
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 9h
Yes, every time thr "don't be political you'll lose half your audience" writer advice discourse cycle comes around, I'm always like "Jesus if they're still half my audience I'm doing something wrong"
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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 11h
Annie literally wrote the book on WMD warfare - we all need to watch this carefully - Jim Sciutto
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Wilson’s World @wilsonsworld.bsky.social · 10h
Fasten your seat belts kids… A lab worker has died from pneumonic plague in Russia. Yes, the PLAUGE. Moscow Times is an outlet based in Amsterdam & considered by most, outside of Russia, to be reliable media.
Text Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From
Plague
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 9h
cooking: Definitely whistle: Nope draw: Pencil portraits paint: Watercolor and acrylic swim: Yes english: Yes dance: Bellydance sing: Not as well as I used to drive: Yes, but don't enjoy it gifting: Love it, if not obliged write: Yes, professionally guitar: No, but I have one speaking: Sure
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 9h
We're having fun down at How-To-Halloween. Come check out our booth and see all the cool things you can make at our space!
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Maritime Tartan Co @maritimetartanns.bsky.social · 15h
One of the most viewed tartan items on our website are the Stuart Muted products by Patrick King Woolen Co and on our website! www.maritimetartancompany.ca Maritime Tartan Co
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Kat 🕊️ @smith83k.bsky.social · 15h
Axe-wielding FlyDubai co-pilot had been flagged over extremism concerns apnews.com/article/flyd...
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Axe-wielding FlyDubai co-pilot had been flagged over extremism concerns
The United Arab Emirates says the co-pilot on a FlyDubai flight that nearly crashed with 182 people on board attacked the captain with the cockpit’s crash axe in a “terrorist attack.”
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Kat 🕊️ @smith83k.bsky.social · 15h
Florida's dengue outbreak is now the largest in the continental US in decades apnews.com/article/deng...
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Florida's dengue outbreak is now the largest in the continental US in decades
Florida is experiencing its largest dengue outbreak in decades, with over 250 locally acquired cases reported this year.
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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 15h
How Danielle Smith frames autonomous trucks doing oilsands jobs that used to pay six-figure salaries: "[Companies] have managed to .. increase production w/o the kind of dramatic pressure we saw in the past of a large number of people moving here, not able to find homes." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada's ready if new West Coast pipeline prompts another oil boom, say PM, Alberta premier | CBC News
It's been a relatively quiet decade in Alberta's oilsands, but the federal and provincial governments believe a new West Coast pipeline coupled with policy shifts might help turn up the volume. Prime ...
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 15h
Meddling in another country's internal affairs should be a crime. (But then the US has been doing it for decades with no consequences, so what's new?)
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Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this! "This is Alabama" colleagues interviewed the Gee's Bend quilters. @al.com youtu.be/A1gNfkJKVBs?...
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Meet the incredible women of Gee's Bend, Alabama
YouTube video by This Is Alabama
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 02/10/2026
I WANT TO SEE EVERY DEMOCRAT SIGN ONTO THIS! Group of progressive lawmakers unveil bill to ban federal automatic license plate readers share.google/WmLKrP9BvCVs...
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Progressives unveil legislation cracking down on Flock cameras
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) unveiled legislation Friday to ban federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers (ALP…
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're in the Lansing area tomorrow, join @lansingmakers.bsky.social (and many other groups!) at How-to Halloween at Impression5 Science Center! The theme this year is Star Trek. how-tohalloween.com
How-to Halloween! Free outdoor festivities! Interactive attractions, trick or treating, make and takes, creative vendors, live entertainment, killer car show, costume contests, zombie walk, ghost tour. Special indoor programming - regular admission fee to enter i5 and REOlds Museum. Saturday, October 3, 2026. 11am-5pm. Riverside parking lot, 200 Museum Drive, Lansing, Michigan.
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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Want to know what an advanced AI model looks like? It’s mostly matrices of numbers. And we don’t really know how it works. But we do know this. It’s a bunch of calculations and numbers. It has no soul, no consciousness, no feelings. Anyone who says otherwise is in an AI cult.
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 02/10/2026
ah yes, human a la mode qwantz.com/index.php?co...
T-Rex: What's the average number of arms per human being? Two?

T-Rex: Because if you agreed when I said "two", you are an UTTER FOOL!!T-Rex: Humans sometimes lose limbs in accidents, misadventures, or irresponsible bets, so the average number of arms per human is actually LESS than two! FRIG, right?
Dromiceiomimus: Frig!
T-Rex: Exactly!
Utahraptor: We were thinking of the median: the middle number in a sorted set!
T-Rex: Yep!

Utahraptor: Or maybe the mode - the most common number across an entire set.
T-Rex: Also plausible.
Utahraptor: Well, you have certainly shown us an interesting if somewhat counterintuitive fact about averages!Narrator: LATER, SCIENCE CONSTRUCTS A PERFECTLY AVERAGE HUMAN:
Off panel: As you can see, as expected, it has slightly less than two arms, legs, eyes, ears, nostrils, and gonads.
T-Rex: I CAN see that!
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I started volunteering at the local makerspace and it's full of wonderful, cool, creative people and it's my favorite part of my week! Welcome back!
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is he the worst person ever born? Maybe not, but I'd place him in the top 10.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026
World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months
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World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months
Fervo Energy completed its first power plant in less than two years. The next phases promise to connect to the grid even quicker.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 01/10/2026
The Geran-5 jet-powered drone is Russia's latest attempt to destroy civilian life in Kyiv and force Ukraine to capitulate, as Russian offensives stall and Moscow's forces lose ground on the battlefield.
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Ukraine's interceptor tech outpaced by Russia’s jet-powered Geran-5 drones
The jet-black Russian munition slammed into the Presidium building of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences, an iconic Tsarist-era structure right in the center of Kyiv, setting the building on fire....
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This series of quotes is certainly.... Well it's certainly something...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026
Too many proposals to regulate AI treat data privacy, children's safety, worker rights, and market concentration as separate issues. My National AI Charter policy changes the entire market structure, forcing AI companies to shut down their dangerous models BEFORE harm occurs.
A graphic titled "A National AI Charter Could Stop Dangerous AI Before Harm Occurs" lists several points: 

1. End to Big Tech Monopolies
2. Ban on Mass Surveillance
3. Ban on AI Theft
4. Ban on Labor Exploitation
5. Ban on Rogue AI
6. Ban on AI That Can Create Catastrophic Risks
7. Ban on Exploitative AI
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Execution is barbaric. We need actual mental health support so that people like Christa, who was a victim of extreme sexual abuse as a child, can heal emotionally. Caging and killing people instead of healing them is barbaric.
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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A) Fox News is literally posting a bullet points of positive things Ms Rachel does B) They chose a picture of Ms Rachel that makes it look like she is talking down to them like a misbehaving toddler. Which they are.
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes, exactly. I think the same can be said for many, if not most, incarcerated people. But mental health care costs money and locking them up makes money, so capitalists choose the latter.
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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 01/10/2026
wake up horror writer friends, a new prompt dropped
A news alert from the Washington Post: Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 01/10/2026
Bill C-39 doubles down on habitat offsets, in which companies can "build" new habitat elsewhere to compensate for what they destroy in building a mine, a port, a pipeline or other project. The practice is highly contested by scientists. “This is our worst fear,” said biologist Misty MacDuffee.
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Offsetting for habitat loss almost never works. Ottawa wants more of it
New policy proposed in Bill C-39 will allow developers to buy credits or pay fees to compensate for the habitats they destroy.
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mapquest obviously wasn't a thing when I was a child, but I was always in charge of navigating via the CAA TripTiks.
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Andy Hollandbeck @logophilius.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The silver lining of having Pete Hegseth around is that it makes explaining "toxic masculinity" fairly easy. It's whatever he would do.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who is Our Favourite Canadian: PRELIMINARY ROUND Many Canadians have left their mark on our history, but who is our favourite? Polls each day, follow along to learn about the people who have shaped Canada's history. (To vote, go into the thread and click like on the person you are voting for)
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've read a lot of "literary" work that reads like AI slop. That would be far easier to outsource than romance which actually makes you *feel* things. AI cannot induce emotions (other than rage.)
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
apnews.com/article/rene...
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Renee Good's family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis
Renee Good’s family has sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials, alleging wrongful death and other violations of federal law in the 37-year-old woman’s killing by an immigration off...
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who is Our Favourite Canadian: PRELIMINARY ROUND Many Canadians have left their mark on our history, but who is our favourite? Polls each day, follow along to learn about the people who have shaped Canada's history. (To vote, go into the thread and click like on the person you are voting for)
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Um... That's a rather large storm system. Have they always been this massive?
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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It is completely barbaric. Canada abolished it years ago.
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Teeklin @teeklin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Would be really cool if the left could rally around this woman with crowdfunding like the right always does Kinda sucks that a white lady on video calling some little kids the N word can raise $1 million dollars when she gets fired, but true heroes on the left are often ruined when they fight back
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