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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 7h

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 2h

It's 2026 and doctors are recommending handwashing as a way to prevent inhaling airborne viruses.

three panel comic:

panel 1: guy on bike with stick in his hand and the caption says: I'm a doctor

panel 2: guy on bike putting stick into his wheel spokes with the caption: Protect yourself from airborne viruses with lasting health consequences by washing your hands

panel 3: guy on ground in pain holding his knee because his bike crashed with the caption: Why is my ER full

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 1h

K.D. Kirchmeir's Shadow Road duology. I'd classify it as younger YA, and "hopeful dystopian", and I adored it (especially the second book). He's also Canadian. :)

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Just dug up my instruction thread on how to set up Chrome to automatically do that -AI thing for you. It definitely helps (and gets rid of that stupid AI bit at the top of the page), but you probably still want to do the date thing if it's really important. bsky.app/profile/nptw...

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 6h

I am now using the date parameters on critical searches just to avoid any possible AI contamination. Doesn't matter so much for some things, but when I need health or food safety info or garden care info, I'm not risking anything from after about 2020. Earlier, even, if it's really important.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 7h

"Sure, billions died, nobody knows how to do anything anymore, and we precipitated a mass extinction event, but for a short time, you could make *exactly* the image you wanted for posting on your social media feed. We had to get on board or be left behind, after all."

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 7h

This is terrifying, and governments are not paying enough attention. AI-everything is only going to make it worse and more and more major cities are going to be affected. There will be water wars. www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

ctvnews.ca

This city is on track to run out of water by 2030. For many residents, that day is already here

Shazia knows what life will be like in a major city that’s run out of water because she’s already living that reality — and it’s unbearable.

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It's me @justmeinottawa.bsky.social · 18h

It’s this shit that makes me despair for how gullible and collectively stupid we are. Look, 2.5% increases! Don’t look at the intentionally messy shit show of other numbers I’m gunna jack to try and make up the the difference. And people hear 2.5% once before voting and that’s all they need

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It's me @justmeinottawa.bsky.social · 18h

Another elected dumbfuck who wants it to be a requirement to own a car to live. In 2026, with gas prices, insurance rates, auto tariffs, more auto tariffs coming in January to publicly say this shit, is such gutter stupidity it should be disqualifying

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 17h

Oh, wow... are they *still* doing that? 30+ years ago, a friend of mine was one. It was apparently a contract requirement for all Roughrider cheerleaders that they had to do a sunshine girl photo shoot and she wasn't happy about it even then.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 17h

Hey, so apparently it's Prime Day or something & I'm supposed to be pushing my books, so here goes: I have books. They are awesome & have enchanted crows. And you can find them all on #Kobo: www.kobo.com/en/series/th... (You can also buy direct via Itchio & my Payhip shop. Links in bio.) #BookSky

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Rakuten Kobo

Search results for "The Arcanium" at Rakuten Kobo. Read free previews and reviews from booklovers. Shop eBooks and audiobooks at Rakuten Kobo.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Same. Suspect kids will riot if I don't. Same kids who insist it's "shorts weather" the second the temperature goes above 10 degrees in the spring insist they will absolutely positively freeze to death if the house temperature drops below 19 in the fall. (It's currently 17 in here.)

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bit nippy in the house this morning, Ottawa. May be forced to cave and turn the furnace on. 🥶

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The easy way to stop there being new art for you to steal is to make it financially impossible for anybody to earn a living making art. Every branch we all sit on sawn through. Nobody asked for the branches to be sawn through. But they came and sawed through them for us all the same. Twats.

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The LNG industry is an economic loser for Canada that deepens our economy’s structural problems rather than resolving them. It’s also an active front in the private equity takeover of this country that Mark Carney is orchestrating, writes @nickgottlieb.bsky.social.

canadiandimension.com

Who is Carney’s industrial policy really for?

There’s no doubt that the Carney government’s combination of foreign policy pressure, public statements, loan guarantees, direct finance, and aggressive mobilization of private investment in support o...

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

5 Things Everyone Else Has Watched Except Me 1. Xena: Warrior Princess 2. Battlestar Gallactica (either version) 3. Game of Thrones 4. Firefly 5. Supernatural

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Things that *infuriate* me. I don't think there is a woman out there who hasn't been brushed off when seeking medical attention and told it's "just anxiety". 😡 www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

ctvnews.ca

Why heart attacks in women are often missed in Canadian emergency rooms

For years, the way doctors diagnose heart attacks has largely relied on research and testing standards developed using data that came mostly from men.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have learned to adjust the date parameters when I'm really looking for something with Duck Duck Go, just to avoid anything that could possibly be AI crap.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ahhh!!! Exciting! Do you have the original edition or the fancy new Canadian edition with the chapter opening art?

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you want to know what’s better than remaining “curious and vigilant” about using chatbots for researching election information? Not using them in the first place.

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🔊 Listen Now: Midterm voting is underway. Some voters are relying on AI to make a decision

Weekend Edition Sunday on NPR One | 4:37

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wow! That's awesome. Congratulations! :)

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Standing at the window with a cup of tea, looking at the sunrise (lovely colours this morning), and then I noticed them, high in the sky: the river of crows is back. 'Tis that time of year again. 🖤🐦‍⬛ These crows were the inspiration behind my debut novel.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There were so many "episodes" coded into them and you never knew what little animated Shipwrecked Dude was going to be getting up to when your screensaver kicked in.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For no reason at all this morning, I am suddenly remembering (and feeling very nostalgic for) those screensavers from the late 90s/early 2000s. Those things were like mini-soap operas. There was one that had fish swimming around, but my fav was this one with a guy who was shipwrecked on an island.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just out of curiosity, does "AI-Everything" Carney have any say in how CPP or federal government pension funds get invested? If those funds end up taking on the *huge* risk for this industry, I will be royally pissed. pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/01/a...

pivot-to-ai.com

Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers

Anthropic is planning an IPO and filed their draft S-1 prospectus in June! They were circulating that draft S-1 around their investors last month. And it leaked to Reuters, who wrote it up. [Reuter…

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OMG. Can you imagine having to listen to this 24/7? 😱

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, I guess that answers that question, then. A shell company to hide the debt and make it look profitable. Because of course. (And, wow, this is a damning article and I can't believe we're going to do this again.) corporateknights.com/energy/how-c...

corporateknights.com

How creative accounting made Trans Mountain look profitable | Corporate Knights

In 2025, Canada's government-owned pipeline abruptly switched from losing money to posting profits. The secret? Hide the debt.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Genuine question: does anyone know whether taxpayers have ever even recouped the costs of the last pipeline we built for Alberta? Last I heard, Trans Mountain cost us 6 times what they said it would and still hadn't broken even. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

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Canada’s first-ever project of national interest under PM Carney revealed

The Canadian government is designating a proposal for a new oil pipeline to the West Coast the first-ever project of national interest under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Building Canada Act.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm at the point where I'm wondering if there any people left out there who actually want *books* anymore. And I am so angry that these big companies keep violating copyright to do this kind of shit and there are never any consequences for it. I am so fucking tired of all of it.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This whole thread, up and down. I am so sick of the "we'll justify absolutely anything including deliberate species extinction, radical acceleration of an already crisis-level climate problem, undermining laws that protect our *lives*, & massively increasing wealth inequality" mentality I'm seeing.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So this month the Toronto Sun published a piece about the Allison Inquiry that called vaccines "a crime against humanity at worst" and demanded arrests, and the National Post published a piece deeming Avi Lewis not just an enemy but a danger to Jewish people, with a thinly coded appeal to violence.

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I could not be less interested in something 'created' by nobody. The whole point of art is human expression. The whole point of experiencing art is connecting with another human's ideas. I don't know what killed the souls of these people but it's really fucking grim.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On Sept. 30, 1958, Canadian children were treated to a new show. It featured a giant who told them to "look up!...waaaaaay up!" For the next 27 years, the show was a fixture on CBC and is beloved to this day. This is the story of The Friendly Giant! 📸 CBC 🧵 1/12

Bob Homme as The Friendly Giant, wearing a rustic, beige tunic with brown accents, holding a small xylophone and two violins, with a colorful giraffe puppet with a harmonica and a chicken puppet on his shoulders, set against a plain blue background.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'House leader Steven MacKinnon told reporters...that cabinet would not use the measures "if there are health hazards attached to them."' If that were true, then why introduce this new law in the first place? And why are they meeting regularly with pesticide lobbyists? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Carney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides | CBC News

The federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed u...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All this and we need no more stories of men getting away with sexually assaulting women. We need more stories of men having the weight of justice slam down on them for assaulting women. #NOMORE

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

taps sign again

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EXACTLY. And part of that should involve *all the strings* being attached to federal transfer payments for healthcare. Right now, provincial premiers are siphoning a lot of that money off for other things and NOT putting it into healthcare systems at all! I want to see every penny accounted for.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(Typo. That should be 36 thousand, not 36 thousand thousand. Someone here posted a bill showing a $3000 per month payment for their family's health insurance a number of years ago. And then there were so many horror stories in the comments. And we're not listening, and our kids will pay the price.)

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you have ANY idea how much Americans have to pay PER MONTH for their health care? I don't have an extra $36,000K a year lying around to buy health insurance for my family. And then pay again at point-of-service, and then STILL have to pay more afterwards. Can YOU pay that much?

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look, Ontario. Our healthcare system cannot withstand anymore funding cuts. People will die. And Ford will cut up the carcass of our once functional system and sell it off to the highest bidders, and then none of us except the millionaire class will ever be able to get healthcare again.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And surveil your neighbourhood, your house, your kids, and you while they're at it. At what point do we get to say "enough of this utter shit" and make these companies STOP? FFS, we should be allowed to exist in this world without being subject to being recorded EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME. 😡

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worth highlighting the difference between worker deaths at Cargill and the silence on everyday practice in healthcare: when OHS failures kill nurses, no one cares. Hospital IPC owns OHS, controls diagnoses and treatment, does their own body counts - and buries their own mistakes. #polisky #cdnpoli

calgaryherald.com

Protecting HCWs and patients: An impossible fix, or an essential one?

As of March 2022, 12 AHS HCWs had died from COVID-19. Presumably, this hasn’t stopped, but AHS stopped reporting them as of that date.

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