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@kevinharding.ca
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Public policy nerd, co-op believer, photographer, wannabe polyglot. I talk a lot about co-ops, policy, laws, legislation, economies, and more. 📍 Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish land 【EN/FR/廣東話/中文】 Views here are my own and do not represent my employer.

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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 18/03/2026
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social While I have a lot of sympathy for businesses stuck in a tough market, I also have concern that this restaurant industry rep in one breath complains about minimum wage and in the next breath complains about a lack of workers.
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Maple Geekette🩷💜💙 @maplegeekette.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Boosting
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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This view never gets old
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 10/03/2026
I will happily buy one of these off someone.
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Lionel Hutz @lionelhutzesq.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Petty on the nose that international women’s day is only 23 hours long
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 08/03/2026
I am pleased that this is the last time (hopefully) I will wake up and look at my watch and then my phone and wonder which, if either, is correct because time changed overnight.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 28/02/2026
We said this last September. The attack on Iran will not be the last imperialist military adventure of the Trump regime. If he can consolidate enough power to do so, Trump will behave towards Latin America and even Europe the way Putin does towards Ukraine. With horrific consequences for all.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
holy moly www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.
Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 24/02/2026
Can I please ask all politicians and BC politics journalists to understand that the BC Merit Commissioner did not do background checks and also had no responsibility for hiring into the political offices? Appointment of "special advisers" or political staff was never subject to Merit Comm.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
the year is 2026. the most important person in politics is the guy from Home Alone, the most important person in media is the guy from Fear Factor, and the most important person in technology is the owner of MechaHitler. what we need now, more than ever, is to defeat the left
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 20/02/2026
NEW POST: Danielle Smith is no separatist; she's much, much worse emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
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Danielle Smith is no separatist; she's much, much worse
In a televised address last night Danielle Smith launched a xenophobic assault on immigration and proposed a set of referendum questions for next Fall advocating a constitutional agenda that would red...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"Not me! I can keep posting on Twitter without absorbing any of these negative effects because I'm just built different than everyone else. Better."
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 18/02/2026
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social West End definitely flurries, was just at Smithe and Hornby, there too
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🖋️Sign the open letter! 🖋️ Dear Government of Canada, Canada has already begun to see the promise of employee ownership trusts. What the market needs now is certainty. Sign the open letter to make the EOT incentive permanent. www.employee-ownership.ca/advocate/ #CdnPoli #CdnEcon #EconSky
Summary of OPEN LETTER:

Dear Government of Canada,

Canada has already begun to see the promise of EOTs. What the market needs now is certainty.

Sign the open letter to make the EOT incentive permanent.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 17/02/2026
The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
Hey. 

This is a message out there to all of you who, in trying to create a tribute to our children, choose to use AI.

When you feed these images into AI, you're feeding their data set. That means they will now use little pieces of Abel and Maya and the others the next time someone asks for the image of a 12 year old. 

While most companies are trying their best, some of them aren't; a few weeks back, Grok was freely and cheerily offering up images of naked, underage children. This is horrifying.

I know that some people out there are trying to create clickbait images, but not you. You're trying to show your respect and love, but could we ask you do it in a different way? There are actual provided images of most of the victims out there; sharing those is equally as powerful and less dicey, morally. The RCMP even created a composite for you. 

Thanks.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Paying property taxes on a fully paid-off home makes ownership feel temporary.
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Your home burning down because no one paid for the fire department
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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14/02/2026
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 14/02/2026
This is alarming.
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Arlene Dickinson 🇨🇦🐉 @arlenedickinson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.” — Viktor E. Frankl
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 13/02/2026
My concern is that too many people are going to use LLMs to tell them how they think. Voluntarily giving up agency.
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
My cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The art of politics is not to do what people think. If it was, there literally wouldn’t be any politics. The art of politics is to convert public opinion in the direction of your policies. Not so subordinate your policies to opinion.
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 11/02/2026
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Trent is a gem and you're a gem this morning. Thank you for the care in your interview.
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 10/02/2026
@iwriteok.bsky.social Canadian Tire is far more than used tires. It's like a hardware, sporting goods, home goods, and more store. It's also full of shit.
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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · 06/02/2026
who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 05/02/2026
I do think this is something to consider anticipating.
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 05/02/2026
Oh, I encourage this development.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for President Donald Trump's spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines, said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the pre...
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Someone made an entire feature length movie of these, and America could do the same with police brutality videos
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Over and over again, we see the collapse of checks and balances - so now Trump can help himself to the US treasury.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/02/2026
Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS:

TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION

"Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 30/01/2026
This is actually funny.
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 30/01/2026
If your reservation shows "CRJ" as the aircraft type and Trump actually means this, your flight is cancelled. So too are many Airbus A200....
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 30/01/2026
So Trump decertified all Bombardier aircraft by executive post? Man, tomorrow's gonna be fun if you're travelling.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Protected speech made my agents murder these people, says federal official
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 29/01/2026
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social thanks for playing this song today.
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 29/01/2026
Ah, bless you Bruce Springsteen.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Again, there is no legislative fix for the magnitude of the authoritarian crimes being committed daily. Everyone is just pretending at this point: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/01/2026
it is incredible how everyone just moved on from the fact the US kidnapped another country’s president and is now effectively the puppet master of the government it left in power
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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MrTom 🎃 @mrtom.uk · 27/01/2026
Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!
The "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" meme. The Facebook post is from 27th January 2020
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kevin @kevinharding.ca · 27/01/2026
Actual hero
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Alibonbonn @alibonbonn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I never forgave tankie leftists for running their mouth on the Hong Kong movement in 2019. I hope seeing MAGA repeating the same rhetoric about Minnesotans today as they did back them chills their bones with shame.
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