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KT Couture

@ktcouture.bsky.social
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She/her. Transplanted to Southern Alberta, trying to make the most of it in this wild political timeline 🥲 Silversmith and hand engraver, lover of my ranch critters and old junky vehicles 💃🏻

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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Thanks for this!! 🙌🏻
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It randomly comes up in my Facebook marketplace FYP 😂 I’ve never searched it, but it shows itself. Random people who are asking for 2 days notice with the order 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
~5 Manipulation Tactics Premier Danielle Smith Uses These tactics appeared in Danielle Smith's May 5th speech to Albertans.
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5 Manipulation Tactics Premier Danielle Smith Uses
1. Victimhood Framing
She paints Alberta as a victim of Ottawa - saying billions are taken, jobs are lost, and opportunities are stolen.
> Why it's manipulative: It makes people feel attacked, even when the situation is more complex. It turns federal policies into personal betrayals, which increases anger and fear.
2. Scapegoating the Federal Government
She blames almost every problem - economy, jobs, investment, inflation - on Ottawa,
> Why it's manipulative: It simplifies complex issues and deflects attention from what her own government could be doing better. It makes one easy enemy, the feds.
3. Us vs. Them Language
She divides Canadians into good Albertans vs. out-of-touch eastern elites, freedom-loving citizens vs, interfering bureaucrats.
> Why it's manipulative: It creates tribal loyalty, making people suspicious of outsiders or those who disagree.  It makes unity look like weakness and division look like a strength.
4. Emotional Extremes
She uses strong emotional words like 'attacks', 'crippling , 'ravaged,' and 'hostile.
> Why it's manipulative: This ramps up fear and urgency, When people are scared or angry, they stop questioning - and follow the strongest voice in the room.
5. Pretending to Be the Only Reasonable Voice
She says she respects both separatists and federalists and just wants "a fair deal." She seems moderate - while planting radical ideas (like separation) as "understandable."
> Why it's manipulative: It disguises hardline rhetoric as balanced. It allows her to push extreme positions without taking full responsibility.
These tactics appeared in Danielle Smith's May 5th speech to Albertans.
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
lol buddy is pretty bold telling on himself so loudly 🙄
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Why are his lips always so reddd. I always have a visceral reaction to seeing this man’s face, and I think it’s the lips that do it 🤢
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Nor should we. The US doesn't get to fuck up its own supply management and then demand Canada to fix it for them.
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Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎(Parody) @abdanielsmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ If you received a text message from “ERG National Research”, this is a phishing scam to validate your phone number and location. Do NOT reply! Block the number and report. Share for reach. Read: www.canadianresearchinsightscouncil.ca/alert-erg-na... #abpoli #cdnpoli #Election2025
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Haha thank you 😂😂 Have a great day!
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I was *just now* able to log in to the app! Everything seems normal / nothing has disappeared on my end anyway :)
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Not just you. Neither the app nor online banking are working for me. I was considering going into town to try to make a deposit manually, but now I think I’ll wait so I don’t potentially waste my time if the whole system is down anyway 🙃
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 08/02/2025
Local woman wakes up, replaces the DOGE teen staffers with Roblox kids who have roughly the same qualifications but mostly haven’t turned evil yet, makes oatmeal.
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
When we say Pierre Poilievre will be a shitty PM, this is what we are talking about. Corruption at the level of Alberta (and Ontario bc let's not forget the piggies at the taxpayer table there). Millions of dollars in sole sourced contracts to cronies and donors. open.substack.com/pub/womenofa...
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Was Danielle Smith's playoff run worth over $600 million in AHS contracts?
The former opposition leader's accusations against an entitled government's cronyism are still ringing in my ears.
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
retrokid.ca put out licensed Wok with Yan merch in the last year! I bought one of the aprons 💃🏻🥂
retrokid.ca
Retrokid™ - Show off your childhood
Exclusive collections of retro apparel celebrating your most fondest memories from your childhood. Officially licensed tees, hoodies, and sweats, designs and printed in Canada.
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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Not sure how to articulate what it feels like to be standing on the precipice of your country’s financial ruin because a bunch of Americans were mad they aren’t allowed to use racial slurs anymore.
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Imagine taking the time out of your day and wasting the fuel to do something like that…
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 16/01/2025
In current Google search trends in Canada, the fastest-rising related topic to "Danielle Smith" is "treason" and the fastest-rising related query is "recall Danielle Smith."
Screenshot of Google Trends website showing "Treason" as the fastest-rising related topic to the search term "Danielle Smith" and "recall Danielle Smith" as the fastest-rising related query.
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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
If Mark Carney is chosen leader of the Libs, the next federal election will be between - A former Governor of the Bank of Canada & the Bank of England, who prevented the cdn economy from crashing in 2008 & Poilievre who told us to buy bitcoin because he watched a Youtube video, then bitcoin crashed
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Good summary of the Christy Clark disaster. Hopefully this is the end of her Liberal leadership pursuit but knowing how ambitious politicians operate, who are also not terribly smart, it probably isn’t. open.substack.com/pub/scrimsha...
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Christy Clark’s CBC Calamity
On Clark’s Dishonest Disaster
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
As someone who lived under her profuse corruption in BC, hard pass. Even doing a whataboutism piece about the potential is a hard pass for me.
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
That’s tough 😔
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Last piece of 2024 off my bench - a sparkly western bright cut scarf slide I made for myself with my horse brand in the centre. Fabricated from 20ga sterling silver sheet, this is a 3D ‘shadow box’ piece that lets light in through the sides.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I deal wth heartbreaking cases of refugees who can't get admitted to Canada. And then I learn that this shit bird from the Jan 6 mob is snowboarding in Canada instead of reporting for jail. He wants us to grant asylum. Boot his arse back to the States. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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He faces jail time in the U.S. after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Instead, he’s snowboarding in Canada
Antony Vo, from Indiana, has travelled across Canada as he awaits a pardon from President-elect Donald Trump for participating in the Capitol riots four years ago.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
If Trudeau really is resigning this week, then lots of you are gonna need to find a new hobby because hating that man was your whole identity.
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Thank you! I just checked and knocked another $0.01/kwh off my rate! Everything helps 😊
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Fact. He did that. He’ll do it again. And he’ll do it while not “building the homes” or “bringing home the jobs”. Poilievre’s voting record is right there. He isn’t going to magically become someone else.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/12/2024
It looks like the Toronto Sun made extensive revisions to a Joe Warmington column about Justin Trudeau getting ambushed at a ski hill New version adds quotes from Emily Duggan rationalizing her actions, cuts 344 words criticizing her for swearing at Trudeau in front of his kids
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas from my herd of littles to yours! 🎄✨
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This colour choice feels pretty tradwifey to me
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Thank you so much! 🥰✨
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Thank you! They are Highland steers 🙂
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
lol what
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
It’s the ghost of whiplash past, and migraine for me 💃🏻
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Cute little bangle bracelet off my bench this week. 18 gauge sterling silver, western bright cut hand engraved.
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Sam G 🇨🇦 @itssamg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Call me crazy but I’d rather have a Prime Minister who attends a Taylor Swift concert than one who attends the Freedom Convoy
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Haha the driveway is the easy part, it’s the parking areas / barn yard that take the longest. I’m so lucky to have a truck with a plow, but it still takes forever.
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Blah. Sorry about your luck 😩
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I spent 3 hours plowing today 😩❄️
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The roundest magpie I’ve ever seen, trying to steal a little heat from one of my boys ❄️
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I swapped the location of the icons on my phone so I stop absent-mindedly going to the bad place 😂
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Gah he’s such a pos 🙃
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Happy Happy Birthday! 💃🏻✨
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Disinformers and bigots operate in bad faith and are not a useful or necessary part of any serious conversation (or any fun one!). To claim we need them here to avoid an ~echo chamber~ is just arguing to further pollute our information ecosystem, ruin good-faith conversations and hurt people!
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Happy Birthday! 💃🏻
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’m sorry for your loss ❤️‍🩹
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Recently-completed custom little tree rearview mirror hanger. All designed, hand cut, and hand engraved by me 😊
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Yikes is it me or does he look embarrassed to be there?!
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Thanks, friend! It was such a cool experience - and it was a total fluke haha ✨
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KT Couture @ktcouture.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Did a little ghosty Halloween photoshoot a couple of weeks ago with my crew 👻🎃 Photos by Wild Rose Imagery
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