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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

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She/Her Writer, podcaster, educator, & mom. Ed developer at USask. Host of Better Me Podcast - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bette… VIEWS ALL MINE AND DO NOT REFLECT MY EMPLOYER

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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 2h
My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 6h
It's a few months old (and long), but a very good post by @stevekamb.com. I use that Ian Malcom line frequently when talking about AI." And I'm with Steve when he says, "Instead of trying to get better at AI, I’m doubling down on the stuff that makes me human." stevekamb.substack.com/p/ai-algorit...
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AI, Algorithms, and 3 Fiction Writers Walk into a Bar...
How Frank Herbert, C.S. Lewis, and Brandon Sanderson shaped my perspective on the upcoming A.I. tsunami
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 6h
While conservatives starve health care of needed resources (easier for them to then make the argument for more private care), please: 1. Get vaccinated for flu and COVID so you or anyone you may infect doesn't end up in the ER because of it. (1/2)
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Rev Barb @revbarb.bsky.social · 7h
www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/ar...
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STC hosts powwow for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
SaskTel Centre was filled with the sound of drumming and music, as people danced at the ‘Every Child Matters Powwow,’ hosted by the Saskatoon Tribal Council.
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fewer than 1.3 million people in Sask. It's not about power for homes, but power for data centres & money for donors. We need the money to go to solar and wind power. "2,600 megawatts could power the equivalent of 2.6 million homes."
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 27/09/2026
Imagine if the AG went after AI firms for IP infringement, computer fraud and abuse, civil rights act violations, consumer harms, and other offenses with half the energy they put into denying us trans folks access to health care :/
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 27/09/2026
Sexual assault is a violent crime—not a mistake deserving a slap on the wrist. When offenders receive light sentences or prosecutors decline charges despite sufficient evidence, the message to survivors is devastating: your trauma matters less than his future. #Pinks 📨✨ — Pinks Global
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This torture facility comes in tandem a fast-tracked process that rests on not believing children & their families when they allege that they've been hurt by human traffickers. The same heinous crew that protects the Epstein files is finding new ways to use deportations to protect child rapists.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All of the older, now establishment Hollywood figures who are embracing this technology are basically pulling up the ladder behind them as they head into their sunset years
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Great post by author Kirsten Miller (The Change, and other must reads) and link to the Cornell campus paper's editorial about the horrendous sexual assault case Cornell University did pretty much nothing about. watchyourback.substack.com/p/hell-hath-...
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HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN WHOSE DAUGHTER WILL NEVER GO TO CORNELL
Watch Your Back: Looking Out for America’s Women and Girls
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These privileged frat bros gang raped a girl and invited others to join in for SEVEN HOURS. The story was buried, only two were expelled, and we are only hearing about it now because the victim is suing. Cornell, the police, and the system protected them. The Cornell Seven:
Pictures and names of the seven Cornell students accused of sexually abusing a woman for seven hours.
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machappy2024.bsky.social @machappy2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/09/2026
If Tennessee executes Christa Pike next week, she'd be the first woman executed by the state in more than 200 years — for a crime she committed when she was 18 nearly three decades ago. Governor Lee must spare her life before it's too late.
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Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote an op-ed about this in the late 90s. In it I argued that there was no way that Hitler would have signed on to it if it existed at that time. A country's refusal to sign on shouldn't prevent their war criminals from being held accountable for their actions.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disappointing to not see the Nurse family on here, but maybe cousins don't count for this. bleacherreport.com/articles/254...
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Ranking the 20 Best Sports Families of All Time
Between the Manning brothers, the Williams sisters and plenty of father and son/daughter combos, there have been a number of iconic families throughout sports history.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lucille Ball is the Godmother of #StarTrek. As head of Desilu Studios, she overrode her own board of directors to finance the show & convinced network executives to greenlight a second pilot after the first one failed. That second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before," first aired #OTD in 1966. 🖖
A digital portrait of Lucille Désirée Ball (1911–1989), the legendary Emmy-winning actress, studio mogul, and "Godmother of Star Trek" whose decisive studio leadership famously saved the franchise from cancellation. This artwork is an AI-adjusted version of an original piece by artist Jamie Fay—which initially depicted her in Captain Janeway’s uniform—now modified to show her in an Original Series Starfleet uniform. Ball sits confidently in a prominent command chair on a starship bridge, legs elegantly crossed at the knee and hands resting on the armrests. She wears a form-fitting, gold command-division tunic featuring a classic black collar, rank braids on the cuffs, and the iconic Starfleet delta insignia pinned to her chest, paired with sharp black trousers and low-heeled black boots. Her signature red hair is styled into an elegant upward coiffure, framing a poised, contemplative expression as she gazes slightly away from the viewer. The background features a sweeping, cinematic view of a colorful interstellar nebula glowing with purple, green, and blue cosmic stardust. The overall composition blends mid-century Hollywood glamour with classic sci-fi iconography, evoking an empowering, authoritative mood that celebrates her immense historical impact on television history.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One reason why the National Book Awards didn’t have a lot of nonwhite nominees in the mid century was because immigration law kept out most nonwhite people until 1965, and Black people were under segregation. What we see now is at least partly the result of greater competition.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Shaheen: "He seemed to say Russian children have also been displaced & kidnapped, & that's just not true. It's Ukrainian children the Russians have taken back to Russia. They've taken them from their families, thousands of them. It is very clear who is violating intl law here, & it's not Ukraine."
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What I see: Man can't see distress on own child's face and care about him, needs robot to tell him he's Bad Actually.
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Meta's new AI agent wanted my passport info. Not to help me. To train on me. Actually, it wanted everything: bank accounts, email inboxes, ID info. No surprise coming from Meta. But always worth reminding readers that AI automations come with major privacy risks. www.wired.com/story/metas-...
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Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
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planetmoon.bsky.social @planetmoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes! 👇🏼 Municipal is just as important as provincial and federal elections. Check out school trustees! Educate yourselves, do your research, care for your community! Vote wisely. 🇨🇦
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"We are committed stewards of our natural heritage." (Plans a new oil pipeline, dismantles climate action) "We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but the means to a just society. We believe that our prosperity grows when it is shared." (Privatizes, cuts taxes for corporations)
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carney to the EU: "We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but the means to a just society. We are committed stewards of our natural heritage. We believe that our prosperity grows when it is shared." I wish the Carney we hear in speeches was the Carney who governs Canada.
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Given the amount of horrible people running the country, why do they have to go after innocent people just trying to live their lives? These politicians are the dangerous ones.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Carney and Trump singing from the same AI songsheet is disturbing to say the least. "The tone of Canadians is: let’s get on with it, let’s build, let’s control our future, let’s be positive, let’s come together,” Carney said. Is that really the tone of Canadians though🤔
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just one more reason to ❤️ Hacks
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Interesting development, but I wish news organizations would stop referring to it as a "trade war." More than one U.S. official has made comments about Canada needing to accept that we should be the 51st state. The tariffs/bans on Canadian goods are meant to cripple Canada until we bend the knee.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump EPA says it is eliminating rule that limits planet-warming pollution from coal and gas-fired power plants.
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
They're linked. The obsession by the tech bros and everyone who heeds and acts on their call for AI to be used by everyone for everything immediately or you'll be "left behind," significantly adding to CO2 levels while using needed water. This may be the way that AI ultimately destroys humanity.
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I went in there once while on a field-trip for a college course. We were promptly kicked out because "this is an office building. People are working here." It is something to see if you're allowed to.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2026
The fans in Austin let him have it
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Ted Cruz pushed his college sports bill on ESPN—and was booed mercilessly
Heckling the Texas senator is one of the only things fans seem to agree on.
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CPAC TV @cpac.ca · 11/09/2026
“Yes, Canada is a generous, open country and Canadians are tolerant and kind. But never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness.” — Jean Chrétien, speaking at 9/11 commemoration in Gander, N.L.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
On 9/11, the people of Gander stepped up. They showed the very best of Canada.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I will go back to drive thru before I hire a bot to edit the bot slop so it sounds like what bot thinks a human sounds.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A third of today's Americans are too young to have any memory of 9/11. For them, the 9/11 Memorial is making a new digital learning experience available starting tomorrow. We said we'd never forget—and part of that charge is making sure the next generation remembers too. 911memorial.org/DLE
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I see a lot of people actively losing their minds about the AI stuff and I'm honestly starting to feel bad for them. But it's blinding them to the real problems. These things are not your girlfriend, but they're probably going to smash-and-grab passwords and attack bank or government data.
The observation that the most alarmist claims about A.I.’s impact seem to come from the individuals most connected to Rationalism should anger us. This exaggerated grimness makes it easy to overlook the more immediate harms created by these technologies, such as their potential use in cybersecurity attacks, excess resource consumption, impact on our cognitive fitness, role in undermining education and amplification of soul-deadening slop.

This style of anxious talk also allows the A.I. companies to portray themselves as the reluctant “stewards” of an inevitable technology, which is a framing they can use to deflect blame for damage caused by their own products.
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Tired of commentators saying @bluejays.com problem is lack of home runs. BS. The @milwaukeebrewers.bsky.social have the fewest home runs and the BEST record. Stop putting pressure on Vladi and others to hit homers. The pressure and injuries are the problem. #mlb
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Shirley Jennings 🇨🇦 📎 @canteach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump was NOT there www.forbes.com/sites/lisett...
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A Timeline Of Trump’s Misleading 9/11 Claims
Trump has made numerous false claims about 9/11, including that he watched “thousands” of Muslims cheer when the Twin Towers came down.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
8 September 1915 | Italian Jewish woman, Milena Modigliani, was born in Livorno. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Milan on 30 January 1944 with her son Paolo. They were both murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
Black-and-white photograph of a woman standing in a courtyard, holding a bundled baby. She is dressed in formal clothing, including a hat, and smiles confidently at the camera. Behind her, laundry hangs from clotheslines stretched between balconies, and another figure stands on one of the balconies, partially obscured by the shadows. The building's structure and plants add depth to the scene, reflecting an everyday moment in a residential area.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I want to go on record saying that dogs should never die in movies. Ever!!!!!!!! Stop it!!!!!!!!!!!
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If their business model entirely depends on content created by others who don't give permission for its use, they don't have a business, they have a graft. The limits on fair use shouldn't be more strict for teachers than for business.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On 9/11 2001, the US closed its airspace after unfathomable terrorist attacks. Flights bound for the US were forced to divert, with many opting to land in Canada. Under Operation Yellow Ribbon, the small town of Gander, NL and the surrounding communities accepted 38 planes. buff.ly/Ugvm4vL
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NEW Heritage Minute: Gander and 9/11
“There’s only one thing to do here – we’re going to ask people to open their doors.” It was the day in which Gander and surrounding communities welcomed the world to its doorstep. *Join our mailing…
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Average Americans get wrong is that they think Canadians stopped visiting and alcohol was pulled from shelves because of economics. Canadians don't want to visit or buy American goods because of "51st state," "Lake America," and tariffs that are an attempt to bring Canada to its knees.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Brad Wuetherick @bwuetherick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google continues trying really hard to ensure people hate them as a company, and stop using their tools. This is ridiculous!
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