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Stephanie

@myone.bsky.social
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No one of importance. North Vancouver. Mostly reading, rarely writing. She/Her. I follow stuff about my neighbourhood, books, pottery, politics (primarily Canadian), cute animals, mental health, parenting, and bike/pedestrian safety.

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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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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great reminders.
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just found out all the different coloured heart emojis mean different things. Definitely not memorizing that, and will continue to send whichever one matches my current socks.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“This bill explicitly gives government the power to end legal strikes when a minister decides that a strike is or could become contrary to the national interest — and the national interest is defined solely by the opinion of the minister,” warns top labour leader Bea Bruske. Holy shit. This is bad.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From my new essay about the new social contract AI/AGI is actually meant to force us to sign: catvalente.substack.com/p/grand-thef...
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M.J. @sportsandplants.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seriously, and I mean this, all of our rights are being eroded away under the perceived threat of trump Neither of these two things needed to happen. Progress at the cost of everything isn’t worth it
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/09/2026
Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
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Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than just admitting that they blew a fortune on glorified chatbots.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 20/08/2026
“We really have to get off fossil fuels.” Wildfires this summer have displaced many in Canada — and even burned down entire communities. Fire scientist Mike Flannigan spoke with us on data he’s collected about wildfires in B.C. — and what we can do in both the short- and long-term.
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I couldn't make it to this, but from what I heard, @shelleyluce4ns.bsky.social came out by far as the most knowledgeable and balanced candidate.
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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Correction: WAS illegal. One of the first things #MarkCarney did after the election was wipe out the anti- #Greenwashing laws many good folks worked hard to get on the books. Now you know why. it's what a banker PM does when he's getting ready to lie to a whole country #cdnpoli #ClimateChange
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 12/08/2026
Five former chairs of a watchdog committee say the Species at Risk Act will become “meaningless” and “merely paper protection” if the government follows through on proposed changes to the act. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
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Scientists Warn Carney’s Changes Will Bring ‘Wilful Extinction’ | The Tyee
Proposed amendments to make building ports and pipelines easier could destroy entire species.
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 11/08/2026
‘Pouring fuel into flames’: Carney-Smith plan for West Coast pipeline would run through wildfire fraught parts of BC Indigenous communities, working class and environment pay the price of short-sighted policy decisions, experts say pressprogress.ca/pouring-fuel...
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‘Pouring fuel into flames’: Carney-Smith plan for West Coast pipeline would run through wildfire fraught parts of BC
Indigenous communities, working class and environment pay the price of short-sighted policy decisions, experts say
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Woke up with my eyes stinging from smoke and feeling cranky about it, so signed up to volunteer for the Green Party.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Climate change is a killer hellscape that we will not get out of with mere 'personal responsibility.' We deserve systemic responses and we deserve elected officials that make it happen.
A screengrab of the weather network showing it's +32C, feels like +42C in Ottawa today with a tornardo risk in some severe storms
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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I’ve posted a long FAQ with everything you need to know about a kids’ social media ban. Key takeaway: it is an ineffective and harmful policy that raises privacy concerns for tens of millions of Canadians through mandated age verification requirements.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About a Kids' Social Media Ban (But Were Rightly Afraid to Ask): A FAQ on Age Verification and Mandated ID for Everyone - Michael Geist
The government is expected to table the Digital Safety Act on Wednesday with reports that it will include a ban on social media for those under 16, framed as a “temporary” measure that platforms can…
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If PM @mark-carney.bsky.social wants to know what I am for, here it is: I want Canada to become a leader in the green energy transition. I want other countries to look at us with envy at how we can not only survive, but thrive on renewables. nationalpost.com/news/we-dont...
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'We don’t want to hear what people are against,' Carney tells Vancouver audience after pipeline criticism
Carney said there is momentum behind his nation-building agenda after receiving criticism from British Columbia Premier David Eby.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Liberals’ pipeline is dividing Canada—and causing some Liberal MPs to run for the hills. And while Carney doubles down on new fossil fuel projects, he’s backsliding on the rights of Indigenous peoples while lining the pockets of the billionaire class, (1/2)
NDP MPs Leah Gazan and Gord Johns letter to the Liberal Environment Minister on Prime Minister Carney's backsliding on the climate emergency.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Do you have racists in your family who think DRIPA or landback means Indigenous people are stealing white people's homes? Well good news the government has put together a handy easy to use website to explain why that's silly dripafacts.ca
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DRIPA Facts: What they're not telling you
A sourced, plain-language fact-check of British Columbia's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026
This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 06/03/2026
Despite the claims from the usual austerity-minded commentators that the sky is falling and spending needs to be slashed, B.C. has a revenue problem, not an expense problem, writes @alonghurst.bsky.social. #bcpoli
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BC Should End Costly Deals with Private Health Staffing Agencies | The Tyee
Growing use of the contractors has pushed up costs and hurt morale.
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This was joyful and now I'm not going to look at anything else on the internet all day.
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?" A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen. 1/??
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
once again posting The Chart
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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I’m just a Canadian, looking at her fellow Canadians, begging them to connect the dots between rising anti immigrant sentiment and what is happening in the states.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Anyway. Get a library card. Cancel things you know no longer serves your world view, really do it and subscribe to newsletters you trust. I feel for this world. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be.
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/09/2025
We do not want to live in a society where every single person has become totally numb to witnessing horrifying violence. Claiming that everyone needs to “toughen up” by exposing themselves to horrifically violent imagery is *simply doing fascism’s work for it.*
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
In case anyone is looking for a non-JKR fantasy series for their kids, I very much recommend the Nevermoor series by Jessica Townsend. It's not complete yet (book 4 of 9 just came out), but it's a fun read.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Yes, and what do *we* mean when *we* say “we’ve never been so polarized,” anyway? What if instead we said “It’s been a long time since the reality of injustice has been made so unavoidably present to otherwise comfortable people”? www.the-reframe.com/polarization...
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Polarization And Strife
We’ve never been less polarized as a country than we are right now. I’ll explain.
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This poster starts strong and just keeps getting better.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Perhaps if we just started treating brown and asian people with the respect they deserve and focus globally on the #1 enemy which is climate change, and fight it, so many people would not have to die? Just a thought.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/06/2025
made this in case you need to remember this as much as i do:
“to be truly radical
is to make hope
possible rather than 
despair convincing”
-raymond williams
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Saw Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat for the first time this weekend at Metro Theatre in Vancouver. Hilarious. Read the synopsis in advance to prepare and thought, wow the brothers are a bit much. Watched the show and was like, oh yes, I see now. I would have thrown him in a pit as well.
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thinking about April Fools Day and how I can't come up with a single prank you could do on me that would be benign enough that I wouldn't take it as a very personal betrayal resulting in a permanent decrease in trust. I think this sort of thing may be why I've been described as "no fun."
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They-Ra @xanindigo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
using emotional manipulation to try and make me do a thing is a great way to make me not do that thing. even if it's a thing i previously wanted to do. even if you're a cartoon owl.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...
Nobody wants an emergency, but perhaps we should want some of the remarkable things that can happen during them. On the top of my list of those things is how in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane, a fire, an earthquake,  people take care of each other and work together without the kind of vetting and fretting whether they agree entirely about politics or religion or other matters. We are in an unprecedented emergency in the United States with fallout that poses threats to environments, economies, human rights and even survival beyond our borders, and we could use some of that energy. As political scientist Erica Chenoweth said in Saturday's Meditations in an Emergency interview, "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." 
Right now the courts are doing important business as they render verdict after verdict against Trump and Musk thanks to lawsuits brought by states, federal employees, and others with standing. Some of the Democrats in office are being amazing, and others in the opposition party are being waffles, milquetoasts, cookies that crumble, and other  refined-carbohydrate items. As is now clear, the administrative branch of the federal government of the United States is engaging in a coup attempt against the legislative and judicial branches, against the law and constitution itself, and against your rights and mine and the security and stability of the world. They can be defeated and at a minimum held in check, and the sooner they are the more limited the damage. But as Chenoweth points out, it's up to us. Are we up to it?
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Starting to realize how much of my 90s education was just terror-based cautionary tales. Apparently watching videos of firecracker injuries before Halloween wasn't a universal experience? And not everyone's sex ed included a live birth video in grade 7?
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Starting to realize that if I want to do fun things, I have to plan the fun things instead of waiting for other people to plan the fun things. AND - bonus - that when I am the planner, the likelihood of me finding the things fun is actually much higher.
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
You always think there will be some joy in "I told you so," but a result that is both extremely predictable and undesirable just makes me grumpy that I listened to whoever said, "No, it'll be fine."
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Spent a week in Quebec City. Fantastic, but so strange. Canada, but foreign. Like a parallel universe where the French beat the British back in the day. Highly recommend.
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Stephanie @myone.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
The older I get, the more I realize that one of my core values is just art. To look at, listen, read. People can create beautiful things and it's one of our best qualities. But also doing art is nice, even if your art is terrible. The process itself is good and human and valuable.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
Liberal Party watches in horror as French centrists fail to turn fear of right-wing maniacs into unending political power for themselves www.thebeaverton.com/2024/07/libe...
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Liberal Party watches in horror as French centrists fail to turn fear of right-wing maniacs into unending political power for themselves
“How can people who are terrified not vote for the bland comfort of centrism? Bland comfort is literally the only thing we offer.”
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