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Mary Gillis

@marygillis.bsky.social
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Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase writer/editor at The Beaverton she/her | Vancouver B.C. Articles: www.thebeaverton.com/author/mary-gi… If you wanna criticize me, pay here first: ko-fi.com/marygillis

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 47m
elect me president and i will fully fund and expand the USPS to include online social network where you can connect with people and business for free. i’ll pay human beings to moderate it. i will also give you free postal banking too, and i can do it because EVERYONE HAS A POST OFFICE
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1h
“The most basic notions of privacy — not to mention human decency — tell us that human beings have a right to not have their every interaction recorded and uploaded to a server…”
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WashU Expert: Amazon’s smart glasses raise privacy concerns
Amazon’s introduction of smart glasses for its delivery drivers raises significant questions about privacy, workplace surveillance and the normalization of continuously recording technology, says Wash...
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 2h
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SCENE:
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 4h
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 2h
First past the post not beating the allegations www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Polls have consistently shown that sovereignty is a low priority of Quebecers, with one Léger poll showing that 70 per cent of Quebecers would not support separating from Canada.
But the electoral math told a different story.
In a a remarkable feat made possible by the first-past-the-post electoral system, the PQ formed a minority government with as little as 28 per cent of the popular vote - the lowest voter share to achieve that in Quebec's history, and one that is certain to add fuel to the debate about electoral reform.
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Carney has never taken the U.S. threat seriously: "share of fed. contract dollars heading south went from one-fifth in the 16 months before Carney took office to nearly a third under his watch.... IBM & Microsoft charged Ottawa more than $1 billion each for software license fees & IT..." #CDNpoli
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3h
Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵
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Starbucks retreats from green goals amid drive for $2bn in cost cuts
Early corporate champion of climate action scales back or reviews targets to halve emissions, waste and water use
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 9h
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 2h
Looking for recommendations for books with the MOST DISTILLED AUTUMNAL VIBES POSSIBLE!!!
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 2h
Experienced political hands tend to dismiss concern over things like snap elections as abstract and likely to fade during the campaign, but sometimes those concerns are well-founded.
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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 3h
NEW: Canada's Department of National Defence has already more than doubled the value of its new contracts with American tech giants this year. Mark Carney pledged to cut back on contracts with American tech giants as part of a “Buy Canadian” strategy. www.readthemaple.com/national-def...
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National Defence Has Doubled New Contracts With U.S. Tech Giants
DND has signed new contracts worth a total of $67.7 million with Microsoft, Amazon, Google and their Canadian subsidiaries.
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Penny Daflos @pennydaflos.bsky.social · 14h
Back to work after a little time off Anything happen while I was gone?? LaughCry.gif Anyway, here’s my first story on BC’s provincial election Worth your read if you’re eligible to cast a ballot! www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Bickering and students: Strategies and demographics behind B.C. election candidates
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Lucy Maloney @lucymaloney.bsky.social · 14h
Last year I tried to make Vancouver’s streets car-free for Halloween, but ABC blocked it due to their "zero means zero" budget freeze. If I’m reelected, I’ll bring this back. Kids deserve a safe, fun Halloween!
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 14h
If we had a federal government that wasn't firmly up the ass of Big AI, they'd make it a crime for an AI to put people in mortal danger by sending them into wilderness areas with fictional instructions. If a human kept doing this, they'd probably go to jail, even under existing laws.
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 15h
This is the whole ballgame. It’s ugly, mindless theft.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You’re laughing? A coyote runs into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and you’re laughing
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h
Can we fast forward to the eagle and liver part.
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Sam Altman Thinks He's the Prometheus of Silicon Valley
In a new interview, Altman compares AI to fire and OpenAI to the Greek god that gifted the power to humanity.
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 16h
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 15h
Something's gotta change. In BC, we have a situation where the Greens are polling at 15% and they could end up with just 2 seats. Mixed Member Prop Rep - keep your MP but vote for Party as well, add List MP Seats, minimum threshold of 10% province/nationwide. #cdnpoli
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026
We can't do anything because right now, the only ones hurt are women, and we can't risk any harm befalling an actual human being.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026
Why can't we love the rapist men? Forgive the rapist men? Don't you know that punishing rapist men won't fix the rape they committed? Don't you know we can't ever have a solitary single consequence for a man who committed rape? Haven't the rapist men who were slapped on the wrist suffered enough?
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Lola Sebastian @lola.nebula.tv · 19h
I have a few thoughts. www.patreon.com/LolaSebastia...
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What the fuck are we doing with Jacob Geller? | Lola Sebastian
On September 30, 2026, just days after the 2024 Cornell University rape controversy dominated the news cycle, it was substantiated that vide
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normal erik @erik-real.bsky.social · 16h
this is a very thoughtful and nuanced piece. i think this paragraph is especially important to keep in mind. a lot of people are talking about geller as if he has spent the last ten years doing his best to atone for what he did, or asking if ten years of "good work" can outweigh one rape.
Regardless of whether or not you believe that rapists should not have to disclose their histories of sexual violence to their co-workers, I don't think Geller should have agreed to collaborate with me - especially for a video about James Franco - knowing that I've often written about living as a survivor of sexual violence (which I assume he knew because he knew of me and it was the subject of my most popular essay). I feel as though I was a small link in a larger chain of survivors used - deliberately or not - as props in a greater project of image rehabilitation. Every collaboration Geller did with an outspoken victim of sexual assault helped to legitimize his public image, and it seems none of us were given the choice of making an informed decision whether or not to support that project. While it's possible that Geller has deconstructed, his actions don't align with the argument that he's spent the last decade "accounting."
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 16h
and there's jon, first-year coach of the saints. he's lobbying the refs, let's see if we can lip-read what he's saying ... it ... it looks like "they practiced that." it seems he's accusing his opponent of practicing their plays beforehand. team practice is allowed by rule, but oh boy. he is furious
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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 16h
Praying away the climate-collapse
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How may I help you?
Macro photo of a very plump apple green caterpillar facing us head on, reared-up, its six forelegs clasped expectantly.

It is a late instar larva of Antheraea polyphemus.
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BC Green Party @bcgreens.bsky.social · 18h
⚡POLICY DROP: Protect our Forests! bcgreens.ca/announce-pla...
Platform Announcement: Protect our Forests
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Believing in it while contributing to it with new pipelines is sociopathic.
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James @james.tarnation.lol · 28/11/2025
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 19h
[youth pastor voice] I know one guy who thought his story was a limited series
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Unofficial CBC News Mirror @cbcnews-mirror.bsky.social · 18h
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This couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Madconald | CBC Radio
A Milwaukee couple was awarded a $575,000 US settlement from the city after armed police officers showed up at their homes 55 times in two years responding to bogus reports of violent crimes.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 18h
Oh look, another Goldman Sachs guy.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h
(pockets $550 Million Golden Parachute and $197 million in stock sales)
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David Zaslav Urges WB Staff to Move Forward as He Bids Farewell Ahead of Paramount Merger Closing
Warner Bros. Discovery Chief David Zaslav said goodbye to staffers in a video message on the eve of the company's merger with Skydance.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 21h
all the pieces like "why a wealth tax doesnt work" miss the point. sometimes you just want to throw your drink in someone's face.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.
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Marly @verbsrproudest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My cats are looking at me with little sneers like, "Your algebra can't help you now."
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
HOW CAN YOU MAKE DRACULA WITHOUT THE COWBOY THE COWBOY IS STRUCTURAL!
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Jack Boot @jackboot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sometimes my wife catches me in the kitchen whispering a version of the argument we just had but with me winning.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 20h
For all the talk of Ai replacing creatives, the reason this "Tiffany Sloan" is stealing other comedians' jokes is because Ai can't write jokes. LLMs are built on anticipating what word or piece of information you're looking for and comedy is built on surprise. Also, Christ what a weird fetish...
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Vancouver Is Awesome @viawesome.bsky.social · 22h
Heavy fog in Metro Vancouver forecast this week
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Heavy fog in Metro Vancouver forecast this week
The fog could be thicker and moister than usual, meteorologist says.
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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 23h
I always think of William Goldman’s great dialogue from CHINATOWN: “Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?”
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ceej @ceej.online · 22h
we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 05/10/2026
New piece up at @thewalrus.ca, looking at the "T-word". What should Canada do about Canadians looking to America for help in trying to break up the country? thewalrus.ca/is-it-treaso...
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Is It Treason to Ask America to Help Break Up Canada? | The Walrus
The growing relationship between Alberta separatists and US political actors demands a response
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“A preliminary count showed 21,824 people cast ballots at polling places around the city—an increase of almost 200 per cent from the first day of advance voting in 2022, a spokesperson for the City of Vancouver told CTV News” From @lisa-steacy.bsky.social: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Record turnout on first advance voting day in Vancouver municipal election
Vancouver voters turned out in record numbers on the first day of advance voting in the municipal election Saturday, according to officials.
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gavin newsom with a creepy dead eyed smilethe smiler from Transmetropolitan
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