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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Without truth, there can be no reconciliation. It’s a humble but essential place to start. We must uphold DRIPA, and begin to forge a real path to coexistence that benefits all British Columbians, new and old, for today’s generation and for all generations to come.

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The BC Greens are calling on the government to tell the truth, apologize to the Cowichan and Gitxaała for letting these racist fearmongering narratives spin out of control, and get back to the table with Indigenous peoples—Nation to Nation.

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First Nations have not once taken anyone’s private property, but the banks “repossess” tens of thousands of Canadians’ homes every year.

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The economic insecurity people are feeling is real. Politicians have no plan or will to address the roots of this affordability crisis. Instead, this new boogeyman is a convenient distraction from the growing pile of broken promises.

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Establishment politicians have done nothing to set the record straight. To the contrary, they’ve let these falsehoods fester and take on a life of their own.

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reactionary forces are taking the low road, stoking fears that Indigenous people are coming for their homes. But they aren’t, and have continually gone on record to say so.

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First Nations are just that — nations. Canada and British Columbia have failed to negotiate in good faith to mend our fraught relationships.

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why are Indigenous people now being subjected to levels of overt hostility and racism unseen in decades? One chief recently told me he was denied entry into a store for being “Indian”.

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The genocide continues, and our situation is extremely bad. We lost our source of income and everything we own. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Even $5 makes a difference for food, clothing, treatment, and education. Please help my family 🫂🧡 Vetted by Molly Shah ✅ tinyurl.com/2etna36k

A collage of three photos of Ziyad for his first day of school. With a black backpack and a blue shirt on the first two photos. And accompanied by his sister in the last picture.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026

The whole thing here.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026

It's absolutely disgusting the type of people Cunningham attracts to the game and the abuse they shower on Black players. I really hope the Aces win on Thursday and make it her last game in the WNBA.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026

The WNBA is really failing its players. After Sophie Cunningham flopped and fouled A'ja Wilson, a fan yelled insults at A'ja and she yelled back at him. The fan was ejected but A'ja got assessed a technical.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 28/09/2026

She just got out of the hospital for a blood infection in her leg :( they said it was streptococcus which never made sense. Hoping to get her to the hospital soon. Hope you’re doing okay now! 💜

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 28/09/2026

Hi friends - mom update 💜 She’s not doing well at all. I’m usually able to visit Grace for 2 days every once in awhile, but this weekend my mom had to call me to come home because her leg is suddenly so bad that she can’t put any weight on it without excruciating pain. Any help is so appreciated

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 26/09/2026

Hey, AI wastes billions of gallons of water, but have you seen all of that water wasted on food crops

The data center with the highest known water consumption, Google's development in Council Bluffs, Iowa, consumes about 1.3 billion gallons a year. That sounds massive, but so is the amount of water used to irrigate Iowas corn crops. If Google had bought a cornfield four to six times as large as the data center's plot, or about eight square miles (roughly 0.04 percent of the total

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 26/09/2026

Don’t worry everyone, there are no confirmed cases of THIS specific data center poisoning people AND they’ve got plenty of fresh water, so pfffft why even bother caring

Screenshot of The Atlantic article mentioned in this thread: THE DATA-CENTER DEBATE IS DIVORCED FROM THE FACTS
All those scary numbers aren't what they
seem.
By Andy Masley
SEPTEMBER 19, 2026

In June, a Massachusetts city near where I grew up blocked a data center, in large part out of concern over the amount of water the development would use and pollute. Data centers do need a lot of water to cool their equipment, and—as with most industrial building projects constructing these developments can introduce chemical additives into the local wastewater. But there are no confirmed cases of this data-center pollution harming people, and this city specifically has abundant fresh water.
Elias Wachtel: The data-center
panic is overblown

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 26/09/2026

Tldr; You’re all stupid because your city could be getting more tax revenue to do fuck all with except approve more data centers and destroying local environments is a risk from any project. Nothing to see here.

But the panic about the harms of these projects has well outpaced the evidence.
In my years researching and reporting on Al and the environment, with support from a grant from Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), I've noticed that misconceptions abound.
This panic, moreover, is leading communities to forgo massive amounts of tax revenue-largely because of threats that are inflated, confused, and sometimes nonexistent. The trade-offs are real.
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As for the concern that data centers add toxic "forever chemicals," known as
PFAS, to local water sources, this seems to involve some confusion over how centers use water to cool the machinery.
Some systems use fluorinated fluids classified as PFAS to help cool servers and prevent fires, but these are designed as closed loops that stay contained in equipment. There's always the threat of a leak, but contaminating local waterways is a risk of any major industrial project.

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