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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Today, I'll be the queer menace conservatives warned would happen

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

vt.tiktok.com/ZSy4NvvQD/ Mass shootings are state sponsored terrorism. Great poetry makes you draw new conclusions.

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

If you're lucky enough to be able bodied, remember this is temporary.

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The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

You know, what with the current situation, it would be neat if there was a book about how people leverage martyrdom for political gain. As it happens, I wrote a book just like that. You can read it for free. collections.dartmouth.edu/ebooks/field...

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This! Had a motorcyclist try to hit my gf and I in a crosswalk earlier this year and then he yelled at us when we tried to tell him we were crossing legally.

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Halifax Regional Municipality @hfxgov.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that applications have opened for Neighbourhood Placemaking. The application period will remain open until Thursday, Oct. 30. Details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/ap...

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

@hfxgov.bsky.social Question - Industry and businesses use more water than households. Before an individual conservation order is in place, we should have mandatory work-from-home orders and inspections of businesses. I can't if-yellow-let-mellow at work! I've been conserving at home since June :/

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This killed me 🤣😅😭🤣

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

A #poem to capture a lovely day with friends. It felt good to write from joy instead of pain or rage. I'm thankful I'm allowed to sit on the shore and swim as I please. #Palestinians in #Gaza are often murdered for this. #Israel kills kids #cdnpoli olivandjasper.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/d...

a photo of a lake with sand on the close shore and evergreens on the far shore, all bathed in sunlight. The water is rippled. The sky is blue with white clouds being blown to the horizon. A person's shadow comes from the right and there's a couple forgotten objects in the sand. A poem is written over the left top of the photo, mostly clouds.
The poem in the image:
A checkerboard of white and blue,
and the sometimes gusting wind—
this early summer's day by the lake,
picturesque and chill,
was warmed by friends, new and old,
with far more tea to spill.

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Hey #halisky a keffiyeh stands for the liberation of Palestinians. A swastika (now) stands for Jewish hate. Hope this helps the random person who told me wearing the keffiyeh was basically the same as wearing a swastika. I do not hate Jewish people. I do hate Zionists.

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

As a Canadian living on stolen land in Mi'kma'ki, traditional and current home of the Mikmaw people, I've lived with this kernel of, 'how can I say anything about Israel-Palestine when I'm a colonizer, too?' but *part* of #Reconciliation is doing everything we can to stop Israel's genocide #cdnpoli

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I'm slowly but surely working my way through @simkern.bsky.social's book 'Genocide Bad' and just learned about Israel's 'Hannibal Directive'. I'm floored. What chance do Palestinians have of self determination under a government that plans to shoot it's own citizens. #freepalestine #freeisrael

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Your daily reminder that, our government is silently allowing 1 million children to die. Their stomachs are currently eating themselves. Minor wounds are death sentences by malnutrition. If we want to stop this, we must deploy NOW. #cdnpoli #freepalestine #gaza

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Until the genocide is ended, Canada needs to deploy troops to protect Palestinians and aid workers. I grew up being taught we're the Peacekeepers, but our dollars funded Israel's war machine. We are responsible for the deaths of 2 million people, including 1 million children. #cdnpoli #canada

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Hey, just in case you didn't know, Israel is mass murdering 2 million people through starvation in an open air prison. People ate the grass. There's nothing left. A million children are being starved to death. #cdnpoli #markcarney #freepalestine And, Canadians gave Israel the resources it needed.

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Hey #halisky #cdnpoli Is it true that if I didn't vote on or before April 22, I can't vote again until April 28? I didn't get my voter card until after April 22, so I wanted to vote today.

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I wrote a poem to try and capture my feelings around the online spaces we've gotten too used to using for free in a world built for premium subscribers only. I hope you like it olivandjasper.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/g... #poetry #halisky #online #society

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Grieving online space

My friend, one day, you’ll be caughtstaring out over your city, your come up,the only place you truly feel is homethe screen in-hand more mirror than windowYou’ll wonder: how to find yo…

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The #NDP sent me an email today regarding one of the NS candidates. Following is an image of the email and my response. Tldr: Rana Zaman, Tammy Jakeman, and Jessica Wetz all stood up for Palestine, but the NDP didn't stand up for them. #freepalestine #Solidarity #feminism

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

@ndp.ca Who are leftists supposed to vote for when you're just liberals with more yellow?

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

@ndp.ca I voted for you every election since I was eligible. You're making it very hard to vote for you this year, because you don't protect sex workers. You don't protect NDP reps who speak out against the genocide of Palestinians, funded in part by Canadians.

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Police extend sincere condolences like they didn't murder a loved one. Thank goodness the killers are immediately remorseful. I'm sure that helps the family with their lost son. Pray you never have a mental health episode in #halifax #hrp #halisky

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Does #cavetown know Halifax is the second most #transgender city, per capita, in Canada? Or is he always that sweet and do crowds always know all the lyrics? Incredible show 😭🥺 thank you Cavetown. #halisky #Halifax

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Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

HRP 2 in one week!

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Regarding consumer strikes and economic blackouts. A Facebook post from Catmin's Anticapitalist Treehouse of Solidarity: 'Goddamnit, here we fucking go again, huh?' #polisky #leftist #leftists #freepalestine

A Facebook post from Catmin's Anticapitalist Treehouse of Solidarity: Goddamnit, here we fucking go again, huh?

Somewhere in the vast wilderness of social media, an idea was born. Not a good idea, not even a coherent one, but an idea nonetheless: a one-day “economic blackout” to teach the corporations a lesson.

Now, what is an economic blackout, you ask? Well, it appears to mean doing nothing. No shopping, no gas, no online orders, no credit cards—for exactly 24 hours. The logic, such as it is, holds that by refraining from commerce for a single day, we will send a powerful message to the ruling elite.

And what is that message? That some people will buy their coffee on Wednesday instead of Thursday? That billionaires should beware, for a brave band of internet activists has momentarily resisted the siren song of Taco Bell?

The problem, of course, is that this does nothing.

Capitalism doesn’t blink when you skip a grocery run.

Corporations don’t panic when you delay a purchase.

There’s no cumulative damage, no actual leverage.

Just a handful of people patting themselves on the back for an act of pure symbolism. It is the protest equivalent of holding your breath for a minute. Maybe you’ll feel a tiny twinge of discomfort yourself, but no one else will notice or care.

And yet, these kinds of performative one-day “consumer boycotts” go viral again and again because they require no sacrifice, no coordination, and no real effort. They’re easy, self-contained, and most importantly, they don’t scare anyone with power.

Compare this to something that does work: open-ended labor strikes.

A labor strike requires organizing, solidarity, and strategic planning. It requires people to risk their jobs in order to withhold something irreplaceable: their labor.

And when workers do this together, in numbers large enough to grind production to a halt, they create real, undeniable pressure.

It’s the difference between casually skipping Starbucks for a day and shutting down an entire supply chain.

That’s why labor strikes are hard. They demand real planning, real courage, real risk. And that’s why corporations and the government will go to extraordinary lengths to crush them.

But a one-day consumer boycott? That’s not a threat. That’s a distraction.

It’s a pacifier.

And worse, it siphons energy away from actual organizing, letting people believe they’ve “taken action” when they’ve done nothing at all.

So if you really want to shake the system, don’t waste your time on performative nonsense like one-day “economic blackouts.”

Organize.

Strike.

Build power where it actually matters.

Because history isn’t made by people who briefly inconvenience themselves by shifting their shopping one day.

It’s made by people who are willing to withhold their labor from the system and refuse to return to work until they win.

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

@stoometzphoto.com so happy to see you working the African Heritage Month Gala

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We don't make Comfort Zone dollars in this house. #canadasky

Photo showing an old electric heat wall thermostat with Fahrenheit. Between 60 degrees and 80, the words "Comfort Zone" are written.

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jennstotland.bsky.social @jennstotland.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#hfxqueernetwork survey of Bayers Road.Community mental health with open comments field. Remember you can report a doctor to the NS College of Physicians and Surgeons. Queer rights are human rights and we keep them by exercising them.

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

@gtmowatch.bsky.social I don't wanna follow but I can't look away.

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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This comes right after the world hit 1.5 degrees Celsius. In the United States, the country most responsible for the cumulative carbon in the atmosphere, we are at the dawn of a massive upswing in electricity demand from data centers, air conditioning and electrification.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I'm a journalist. My profession is the only one named and protected in the U.S. Constitution. Our founding fathers understood that if the press was stifled, their new democracy would not survive. Here's how you can help journalists like me preserve democracy: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

freedom.press

Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press

Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

@itsparkerlee.bsky.social dearest parker, I need a cute sticker or something with your name because my edition of DROPKICKromance is outdated. Send help. ✨

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Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Not that I am a doom sayer but in the 14 years that I have been doing this! It is the first month where I noticed a significant number of closures vs opens and I just did the math and so far in 2025 we are having 2.5 closures per open where last year was 1.8 opens per 1 close

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France. I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.

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Chy @chyhere.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

For Booksky 📚 ❌ Goodreads: owned by Amazon. ✅ StoryGraph: black woman-owned, inclusive, has mood based recommendations! ❌ Audible: owned by Amazon. ✅ Libro.fm: supports local books stores.

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Leia @galaxyrabbit.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Ok #booksky, let’s talk. 👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books. 👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/01/2025

This just popped up on our M-W app 😭

Important update from Merriam-Webster

We regret to inform you that the words ‘emoticon’ and ‘emoji’ are not etymologically related.

‘Emoticon’ is ‘emotion’ + ‘icon.’

‘Emoji’ is from the Japanese word for ‘pictograph,’ from ‘e’ (picture, drawing) and ‘moji’ (letter, character).

We appreciate your support. Please stay tuned.

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I keep getting notifications of new followers. I login to check if they're porn bots and they've disappeared. Bluesky, what's happening? :p Obligatory: #freeallpalestinianprisoners, #freeahmadsaadat

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Puka_bear 🌈🧙‍♀️🍉💙📚🌶🐈‍⬛️BLM🇺🇦4B @pukabear.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Don't watch the inauguration. Don't go to work, don't buy ANYTHING. Take your kids out of school for a day. Let the world stand still in protest. It is not normal for a rapist, insurrectionist, and 34-time felon becoming president. #blackmonday #resist #worldwide #international #mlkday #bluecrew

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Olivand Jasper @oliegator.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I can't express how much I love this tiny creature. My Peanut has surgery 21/01, because lops have poorly designed faces so she needs help clearing an infection. If you feel want to help, she'd appreciate you urging your representatives to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza. #bunsky #bunnies

A soft, taupe bunny sits on a pale, mixed colour carpet on a medium brown hardwood floor with metal grating and cardboard behind you. She can get the medical care she needs, but not a single child, sibling, or parent in Gaza can access food, clean water, or medicine.

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Your periodic reminder that there is a Gift Links feed where you can read all the latest non-paywalled articles from major publishers legally, courtesy of subscribers/authors. Save to your feeds and enjoy access to paywalled articles. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/01/2025

Welcome to 2025! If your new years resolution is to learn a new skill why don't you have a look at some of our guides on open source research? www.bellingcat.com/category/res... Want help? We have a community of people eager to learn alongside you and collaborate. discord.com/invite/belli...

Reads: start your year off by learning a new skill! Learn how to track a ship, spot land changes in satellite imagery or identify when and where a photo or video was taken... www.bellingcat.com/category/resources

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 30/12/2024

2024 saw the launch of our revamped toolkit! Thanks to amazing Toolkit Maintainers and Guardians, you can find a database full of useful free-to-access tools. Complete with complexity ratings and clear descriptions, the toolkit is a one-stop shop for investigations. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit

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About | bcattools

A toolkit for open source researchers

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Puka_bear 🌈🧙‍♀️🍉💙📚🌶🐈‍⬛️BLM🇺🇦4B @pukabear.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

OKAY I AM SCREAMING NOW!!! Not a SINGLE creator over 100k has posted about this! You say you're for the people. PROVE IT!! Reposting it is not ENOUGH!! We CANNOT stay silent! #resist #holidaymediablackout2024 No social media. No streaming sites. No cable #eattherich #vivalarevolution

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