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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
OH so it’s like this everywhere at every level cool cool cool
Screenshot of news blurb that reads: 

“Elsewhere, Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the incumbent, in the first round of Brazil's general election. "I have no illusions that [Mr Bolsonaro] isn't corrupt," Ana-Maria, a 65-year-old businesswoman, told our
correspondent. "But I don't want to continue with what we have now." Voters like her may get something more radical than they bargained for.”
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
cbc.ca
Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s just like Gramsci said: “The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of right wing reactionaries cosplaying as community advocates”.
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I saw American Doctor tonight and had Refaat’s words in my head and heart and I nearly posted “If I Must Die,” his most famous poem, but “Drenched” feels more appropriate this evening.
Drenched 
by Refaat Alareer

On the shores of the Mediterranean,
I saw humanity drenched in salt,
Face down,
Dead,
Eyes gouged, 
Hands up to the sky, praying,
Or trembling in fear,
I could not tell.
The sea, harsher than the heart of an Arab, Dances,
Soaked with blood.
Only the pebbles wept. 
Only the pebbles.
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not” 
grace the rot
Israel breeds.
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
quick q, is it “taking control” to sell off public assets for private investment or
Screenshot of Apple News headline that reads “Canada taking control of its future, mark carney tells new investment gathering”
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The CryptKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
posted in the lefty folk group chat
Karl Marks, the communist manifesto, Dolly Parton, 9-5
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Me every time I hear dom con lol
static.klipy.com
Sterling Archer: Hey! Phrasing!
Alt: A gif of Sterling Archer in Archer turning his head and saying: Hey! Phrasing!
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Matt Jelly @mattjelly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's remarkable how many #HamOnt politicians are starting their campaigns with "I will prevent 60 affordable housing units from being built!"
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
lol at the governments of Ontario and Canada both paying millions for ad campaigns telling me I’m safer because they’re prioritizing police and prisons while I can’t breathe the air outside my house
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Matt Jelly @mattjelly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
[Emerges from the smoke, coughing] I don't want my tax dollars paying for a pipeline
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
but firesmoke.ca
A topo map of most of Canada and some of the US showing the coverage of smoke today. Increased smokiness/decreased air quality are displayed on a grade from light yellow (moderate) to dark brown (very very bad), most of the map has some colour.
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I just could not be less interested in hearing about the “trade offs” of data centres from lobbyists who don’t live in cancer zones lobbying for a data centre in my backyard cancer zone
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Poverty isn't a personal failure. It's the predictable outcome of austerity, precarious work, gutted social programs, and a housing system built for profit. As homelessness grows across Canada, governments are escalating a war on the poor instead of addressing its causes, says @johncke.bsky.social.
canadiandimension.com
The war on the poor is escalating
We are now living in a period when poverty, homelessness, and social abandonment have reached crisis levels and the need for a united working-class challenge to this state of affairs is more important...
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
did sam levinson become a born again christian over the last four years
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 24/02/2026
drink less water. clench your jaw. worsen your posture. this is the time of monsters
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/05/2026
every photo of this guy looks like one of those bunker holograms from death stranding
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/05/2026
i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
people really out here noticing the effects of decades of austerity, seemingly for the very first time, and immediately being certain that this is the fault of 3-5 local progressive electeds and not decades of austerity and 3-5 once in a lifetime recessions lol
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Damn, who could have predicted this
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/03/2026
I think the most frustrating thing about *gestures generally at all the fascism* is the Very Serious People who insist that we cannot, in fact, do better than this and mock those of us who think there's no such thing as a disposable human life.
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“Donald Trump cant be trusted EXCEPT on foreign policy” is a real position people are tripping all over themselves to take, huh
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
lol ONDP leadership and federal conservatives getting on that federal liberal choo choo train
Astronaut meme with one looking at the earth saying “wait, it’s fundamentally all one barely discernible political ideology?” And the other with a gun pointed at them saying “always has been”
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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
lol chairman of the International Leopard Enabler Union shocked to find that the leopard he enabled would eat his face and destabilize his portfolio
CBC News headline: “Stephen Harper says Canada must urgently reduce its dependence on the US

Former prime minister says Canada should consider hitting US goods with tariffs as trade war drags on” Screenshot of article text: “Former prime minister Stephen Harper said late Wednesday that Canada must urgently pivot in the face of an erratic U.S. president and reduce its dependence on the American market to protect its sovereignty and the continued functioning of the economy.

Speaking at a gala in Ottawa to mark the 20 years since he formed a Conservative govern-ment, Harper said while he has "largely stayed silent" on U.S. aggression up until now, he teels compelled to speak out about what he described as an existential threat.

He said the U.S. has become "hostile" and its leader, President Donald Trump, is openly questioning Canadian sovereignty, launching threats and betraying trade deals, which poses a "serious challenge" that demands a muscular response.

While Canadians are "understandingly shocked, bewildered and angry" by what Trump and his enablers have done in recent months, Harper said the country must put emotion aside and focus on policy.”
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
this sure is the time of monsters (right wing reactionaries disguised as community advocates)
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 02/02/2026
Nonce Chomsky
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
some people getting reeeeeeeal close to saying the quiet part (that they couldn’t care any less if homeless people die) real loud and with their whole chests on this here Carly Rae Jepson’s internet, rather than letting it continue to be The Implication
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Sasquatch McGillicuddy @antilinguist.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
#HamOnt Neo Nazi sighting. If you see something, say something. These scum were posting Aryan White Nationalist recruitment posters. Email for Nazis: ns13_88@protonmail.com @mayorandreahorwath.bsky.social @hamiltonpolice.bsky.social you have a nazi problem www.instagram.com/stories/h.a....
Neo Nazi scum in #HamOnt Hamilton, Ontario. Neo Nazi walking around Hamilton Ontario putting up recruitment posters for a Neo Nazi Gang.
White male, approximately 40 years old, patchy neck beard/goatee, large round black lens aviator sunglasses, shoulder length brown hair, huge forehead, almost non existent chin. Brown large pattern flannel jacket. Smokes cigarettes. Black undershirt with thin chain necklaces.Neo Nazi scum in Hamilton, Ontario. 
White male. Approximately 35 years old, snaggle teeth with big gap between two front ones. Wet, dark sunken blue eyes like Smeagol. Bulbous flat nose. Wearing a black windbreaker, and a black beanie rolled up. Brown hair, distinct emo bangs. Seen around Strathcona area putting up Nazi recruitment posters. Punch on site. Sorta looks like a really ugly, inbred Danny Gonzales from YouTube.
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Canada's role in the imperial machine has often been to provide the window-dressing. It dragged the UN into the Korean War. It legitimized the Vietnam War by sitting on the Geneva Convention's ICC. It tirelessly demonized imperial enemies during the war on terror. But empire cares less these days.
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
empire wants a war, drop those elbows to the floor
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 03/01/2026
It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/01/2026
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
LA Times: Elon Musk company bot apologizesNewsweek: Elon Musk's Grok ApologizesInternational Business Times: Grok Issues ApologiesThe Hill: Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologizes
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
what are we doing here
Black and white dog lying on her back on a couch, looking at the camera with her right paw in her mouth.
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
the doctor is in
Black and white dog with ridiculously large ears looking at the camera with a torn open stuffy and stuffing strewn about around her
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
living with the pattern recognition of a herding dog for the first time and good god is my brain ever tired trying to keep up
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
losing him shattered my heart in a thousand pieces but today I patched together a couple of them so we could welcome another sweet sweet creature
Black and white dog standing on the end of a couch looking attentively at the camera and standing beside a bookshelf Black and white dog, with massive ears, sleeping curled up on a couch Black and white dog curled up in my lap looking to the right, with huge ears
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/11/2025
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture.
You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
computer - enhance!
Screenshot of headline from Hamilton Spectator of an article entitled “opinion: Hamilton’s growing list of rental bylaws could carry a heavy price tag for taxpayers” A screenshot zooming in on the byline, which shows the article is written by Daniel Chin, the president of the Hamilton and District Apartment Association
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
and yet every level of government refuses to develop serious climate policy
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lies!rae @lieslrae.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
people love to say “post pandemic” but the reality is that we’re actually “post public health”
Screenshot that reads “why has Canada lost its measles-free status - and could the US be next? 

With more than 5,000 positive cases of measles, Canada lost its measles elimination status”
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
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Aysha 🔜 Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
it's literally an authoritarian project to ruthlessly stamp out all human kindness
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Opposing fascism with centrism is like suggesting cutting the baby in half—it gives fascists the ability to appeal to legitimate grievances (like how nobody can afford anything) by offering false solutions to real problems. Full-throated struggle for liberation is the only coherent alternative.
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