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Owen Lawson

@owencpl.bsky.social
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Work in Tech, Progressive, Father Toronto, ON He/him

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Canadaland has been leading the way to Conspiracyland on this important story from the start. Now, with a new journalist behind the wheel, what do I make of this latest update?
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
the technology is not going to disappear. a few companies will maybe go bankrupt. railroads went under and trains didn’t poof. like the most that might happen is that it gets more expensive for a bit.
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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 08/02/2026
Two things I’m not sure is widely understood: 1. Many public servants no longer have their own desks and work in transient government co-working spaces 2. Many describe a Kafkaesque existence of going to physical offices only to spend their time on video calls with the people sitting next to them
cbc.ca
Federal public servants called back to office 4 days a week starting this summer | CBC News
The federal government expects its employees to return to in-office work for a minimum of four days a week starting this July.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including
citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them
ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the
president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal
government doesn't act extrajudicially.
Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/10/2025
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 10/10/2025
This outrage is pure Zionist anti-Palestinian racism and islamophobia. A language is not inherently antisemitic. It’s disgusting that this farce was entertained.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Serbian police have arrested eleven people for Islamophobic and antisemitic attacks in France, designed to convince French Muslims and French Jews to each blame the other and to exacerbate ethnic tensions inside France. They allegedly acted on behalf of Russia. www.timesofisrael.com/serbia-arres...
timesofisrael.com
Serbia arrests 11 citizens accused of stirring Jewish-Muslim hate in France, Germany
12th Serb still on run accused of following orders of unidentified foreign intelligence service in training the group to deface Jewish sites and place pigs' heads outside a mosque
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.
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Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Huh, when Air Canada couldn't rely on back-to-order orders from the government, they sure suddenly were able to bargain in good faith and reach an agreement pretty quickly... www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Air Canada, flight attendants reach tentative deal to end strike | CBC News
A tentative agreement has been reached to end the contract dispute between Air Canada and its flight attendants, both the airline and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) said early Tuesday.
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Owen Lawson @owencpl.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I get frustrated sometimes with people writing off this new batch of 'AI' as nothing but a pointless toy as I think it's a lazy take. The technology is already being used in some really beneficial ways and we should not discount those. Then I see someone like this...
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Owen Lawson @owencpl.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Back in the mid-aughts I read a screenplay for Neuromancer that was apparently being considered for development. It was... ok, but despite that it was also exciting to consider getting to see this story told on screen. Based on the recent quality of Murderbot, this is much more exciting.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
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EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
I thought I was signing up for an aid mission. But what I've witnessed in Gaza is horrific.
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Elliot Pinkus @maxmillion.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
With the cancellation of Project Bifrost, my time at People Can Fly is at an end. It’s been an honor working with such a passionate, creative, freakishly talented team. So now I’m officially #OpenToWork, if you know a team in need of an experienced Lead/Principal/Senior Game Designer. #GameJobs
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The White House doesn’t care about Garcia’s legal status because they’re not enforcing immigration law—they’re conducting ethnic cleansing. They can’t justify their actions legally, but they don’t think they need to.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My latest -- honest takes on strategic voting are few and far between, so here something to chew on.
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Stop lying to yourself about strategic voting
The other day, I saw my first Conservative placard.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11/03/2025
Donald Trump proudly pardoned the Nazi who wore a "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirt while storming the Capitol and beating cops to death. Anyone who actually believes Trump's prosecuting Mahmoud Khalil because of "antisemitism and rule of law" is either lying to themselves or a closeted Nazi.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Just imagine that after the last four weeks of campaigning, the only gain your party made was to defeat a Black woman who your party tried to destroy for supporting Palestine. Incredible stuff from the ONDP.
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Owen Lawson @owencpl.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is a great way of describing a very real phenomenon. Saw this all the time back when I worked in games. A similar rule holds true outside of games. Qualitative customer & user feedback is incredibly valuable, just make sure you're focusing on the problems identified, not the offered solutions.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 30/01/2025
Israel just killed all humanitarian services for Palestinians. Medical, food, water, everything. The genocide continues. The scale of Israel's relentless murder and terror is unspeakable - a blight on humanity like very few evils in history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...
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Israel’s ban on UNRWA comes into effect despite backlash
Israel has repeatedly accused UNRWA employees of involvement in the October 7 attack without providing proof.
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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ash Orr is without his passport, without his birth certificate and without his marriage license. He doesn't know if or when he'll get them back. The State Dept. is holding his documents as it freezes all applications from Americans seeking to update their passports with a new gender marker.
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The State Department is blocking new passports for trans Americans
The ACLU has warned that transgender people risk losing access to their passport and supporting documents if they apply to update their gender marker.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/01/2025
Everyone should be aware of the line that has been crossed in the Trump trans military EO. No longer is this about "evidence," "science" or "protecting kids." Now, explicitly, black and white, it's about trans people being "liars," "dishonorable," "false." It's a big step towards very bad things.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I know that there's this feeling out there that someday, everyone will pretend that they were always opposed to Israel's aggression. I think that there is some truth in this belief but I think that more than truth, it won't end up being true.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Truly heinous www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
404media.co
Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
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