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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

@mctoonish.bsky.social
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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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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 17h
Just a reminder. "There is a strong scientific basis for updated, annual COVID-19 vaccines, rooted in two primary biological factors: waning immunity and rapid viral evolution." www.cdc.gov/covid/vaccin...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Basics
Learn how COVID-19 vaccines help our bodies develop immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 17h
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 19h
There's some very good stuff here, but how about giving students (and hopefully staff) the right to opt-out of using GenAI without penalty?
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19h
If I ran a website that gave teens advice on how to commit suicide I would go to jail
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Rev Barb @revbarb.bsky.social · 21h
www.sasktoday.ca/regina-today...
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Bell's massive AI expansion heads back to Sherwood council
A project already worth billions is back before the RM of Sherwood, with council set to hear public input.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Who's really paying the price for those killer Amazon Prime Day deals?
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every American (and every Canadian who thinks we should just make nice with the U.S. administration) needs to read this piece from the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Spit on our sacrifice’: Canadian veterans fume after Trump and allies take jibes at military
Military families say Trump officials ‘owe us an apology’ after disparaging remarks by JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and others
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's the walk-up song for Davis Schnieder of the Blue Jays.
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pink Pony Club
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
CALL ARIZONA U.S. Senators! Let them know they are attacking community members who are protecting their land. Demand federal agents leave tribal land.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Canadians will officially never recoup the costs of ***TMX*** and the government is going to drive the orcas to extinction for ANOTHER oil pipeline. Isn’t Carney supposed to be a great economic brain or something?? Why are we killing the whales for nothing?!
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Important note on the Senate: The Dems need 52 seats because they can't trust Fetterman. But maybe Murkowski would sit as an independent.
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There are far more reasons throughout the world's holy books to stop the full-steam-ahead push for AI than there are against people who are trans, yet here we are.
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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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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Federal tax breaks mean giving taxpayer dollars to those the admin favors over services for regular Americans. They raise the deficit, then the admin makes more cuts: www.wired.com/story/rural-...
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Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,  data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.
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🏳️‍⚧️🧡 Legally Drew 🧡🇨🇦 @djruuh.ca · 04/10/2026
Trans rights should not be subject to the whims of premiers armed with the NWC.
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Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Donald Trump and ICE in charge of thousands of children’s well-being
Screengrab from article. Text reads: Since the day he took office Donald Trump has been going out of his way to endanger migrant children and leave them at risk of falling into horrific cycles of trafficking and other abuse,” Wyden said. “I’m extremely concerned that the new ICE detention facility planned for construction in Louisiana will be another black box location for the Trump administration to disappear migrant children with no oversight and no accountability.”

Congressman Troy Carter of Louisiana’s Second District told the Queen Zone in a statement: “I agree with Senator Wyden’s concerns
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🎸💔 Canadian rock singer Sass Jordan has passed away at 63. The Montreal-raised Juno winner gave us Tell Somebody, Racine and Make You a Believer, leaving a remarkable legacy in Canadian music. CBC remembers a powerhouse voice whose music defined an era. What's your favourite Sass Jordan song?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 OCTOBER 5 DEADLINE #BlueWaveIn30Days If you live in one of these states, Monday is the voter registration deadline: • Arizona • Arkansas • Florida • Georgia • Indiana • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • Montana • Ohio • Tennessee • Texas Check your registration. IWillVote.com
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026
Calling alleged rape “bad decisions” isn’t a defense of due process. It’s victim-blaming dressed up as an op-ed. If anyone thinks the Cornell 7 are experiencing an unfair rush to judgment, imagine if they were Black men. There would be another Trump-style Central Park Five ad. Or worse.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just want to point out that none of the Cornell 7 are trans. Oh, and neither was Brock Turner. Nor is a certain Supreme Court Justice. Or President. If anyone in the U.S. Gov would like to point out trans rapists in the Epstein Files, release them w/ perpetrators' names NOT redacted.
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Senseidai2547❌👑 @senseidai.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is why women don't come forward after being sexually assaulted-there's more support for the attacker than the victim.
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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let’s all remember to listen, support & stand with each other. Sometimes words aren’t required. Sometimes perfection isn’t necessary. Sometimes we simply need to be there with a look or a hug. #Pinks 🩷
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 02/10/2026
Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
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Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
Vancouver, BC – Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced more than one billion dollars in federal funding to keep the ocean safe from the consequences of his own actions.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
vote411.org
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Order of Canada Investiture Ceremony - Michael J. Fox #Canada www.cpac.ca/public-recor...
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Order of Canada Investiture Ceremony
In a ceremony at Rideau Hall, Governor General Louise Arbour presides over a presentation of Canadian honours. Feed courtesy of Rogers tv
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Rev Barb @revbarb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.sasktoday.ca/provincial-n...
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NDP critic says province’s Bell AI data centre update shows ‘lack of respect’
NDP Energy Critic Sally Housser still critical of government for a lack of consultations.
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Will it be recorded?
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2026
“I hope the judge sees I’m a person. I’m just a girl trying to have a life like everybody else.” Our client Dakota and all trans and intersex people in Kansas deserve to go about their days without this bill's punitive dehumanization.
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Trans people, anguished by Kansas driver's license law, go to court
Plaintiffs are expected to testify this week about the negative effects of carrying identification that doesn't match how they look and feel.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.
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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Disgraceful.
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
2. If you don't already, as numbers of cases of either increase, wear a mask. 3. Sick? Stay home if you have sick days at work. Don't go to family gatherings or movies, etc., and if you do, wear a mask. And no, you don't run a fever from "allergies" and it's unlikely it's "hay fever" in Dec. (2/2)
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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
He got the clip he wanted of him saying Smith perjured himself. It won't matter that Smith didn't.
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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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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That's horrifying. Can her estate do anything about it?
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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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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Students don't want it. Communities that are having data centres pushed on them don't want it. Canadian artists of all mediums don't want it. Those of us who care about the future of the planet don't want it. Billionaires want it. CEOs who think they can save on labour want it. Stop the hard push
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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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