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Gordon J Holtslander

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VanIslander ExSker Pinholer altphoto steelGuitar linux !Fear&Ignorance guitars & cameras. I make new old photos. Was a biologist once, now herd electrons through […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ humanwords.party/@pinhman, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Good piece of possible context about Elon Musk and Canada — his Grandfather lived in Saskatchewan, was a politician, arrested for subversive activity during WWII, possible Nazi sympathizer, went to South Africa… the rest is history… #Musk #Canada #Separatism #CanPoli #CdnPoli

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]

A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement. She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 07/10/2026

Poll modeling shows Doug Ford's PCs could win another majority government on just 34% of the vote. First-past-the-post bails out unpopular governments while the rest of us suffer. We need proportional representation so governments always represent a broad majority.

A screenshot of a post by Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) with the text "PC Majority on these numbers" above a table displaying political party polling projections. The table lists party percentages, projected seats, and seat ranges: Green Party (GRN) at 5%, 2 seats (range 2-2); New Democratic Party (NDP) at 27%, 33 seats (range 27-41); Liberal Party (LIB) at 26%, 20 seats (range 13-29); Progressive Conservative Party (PC) at 34%, 66 seats (range 52-78); and Others (OTH) at 8%, 3 seats (range 2-4). Below the table is a quoted post from Polling Canada detailing Ontario Provincial Polling results and percentage changes from the 2025 election: PCPO at 34% (-9), ONDP at 27% (+8), OLP at 26% (-4), GPO at 5% (-), and Others at 8%. The polling metadata notes Mainstreet, Sept 29, 2026, a sample size of n=1062, a margin of error of 2.8%, and IVR methodology, ending with a link to check out more details on @338Canada.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The RM Sherwood data centre protest had like 10 people, because the meeting was online and the shadily-appointed RM decision makers weren't even there. But we all chatted and then did some "Water is life" chanting while 3 security guards and an RCMP officer looked on grumpily, and I did a CTV […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

"Rob Shaw: Conservatives should level with voters on ICBC plans Leader Lorne Doerkson sent a letter pledging legislation to replace B.C.’s no-fault insurance model without making it public" […]

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

So Hungary's new Prime Minister, who replaced the dictator Orban in an election that was essentially a bloodless people's revolution, is proposing a wealth tax on 3-millionaires and above. Orban's orange fanboy-in-the-white-house-turned-circus must be losing his mind over this. And there's […]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Wow! The CAQ wiped off the map in Québec as the Parti Québécois wins a minority with less than 30% of the popular vote. Strong Liberal Opposition, large Conservative caucus (largest in 100 years?!), and significant Québec Solidaire seats as well […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

Screenshot from the CBC showing the results in seats.

Screenshot with a table of results including %

Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I don’t follow Quebec politics closely, but the conservative leaning Coalition Avenir Quebec that held 90 of 125 seats has lost every seat The separatist Parti Quebecois has won a minority government, but made a commitment _not_ to pursue a referendum The Quebec Liberal party (provincial […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Doerskon is offering a lesson in fallacies? No new taxes AND $50 million health fund He never addresses where the funding will come from. That this can be offered is Indicative of how poor health care has been managed […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"The National Post has suggested violence is the way “to deal” with the NDP leader for his outspoken criticism of Israel.. no-one in the mainstream media or political class has denounced or even commented upon the piece—except for one Liberal politician, Salma Zahid, who had her car in her […]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Imagine a newspaper publishing an opinion exclaimed by actual neo-Nazis a few days before. Well imagine no more, I give you none other than the Winnipeg Sun, whose CEO is running to be Mayor of that City. Full on residential school denialism. I don’t think that it is a coincidence that so much […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"Carney announced a new “mega-deduction” corporate tax break.. bears an uncanny resemblance to the [ask from] Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers .. expected to cost Ottawa $36 billion in tax revenue over five years, allows companies to immediately write off a range of capital […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Canada's National Post advocates the death the of NDP leader Avi Lewis "Imagine, for example, if a newspaper had published an article invoking Sharia law to explain how to “deal with” Pierre Poilievre because of his political views." Willful Ignorance hard at work, in a Canadian national paper […]

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Marcia MacDonald @marcia.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

BC Greens announce plan to regulate AI and hold Big Tech accountable bcgreens.ca/announce-plan-to-regula… #BCPoli #AI #BigTech

Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Doerkson welcomes extreme views on deadline www.bcndp.ca/releases/doerkson-welc…

Doerkson welcomes extreme views on deadline day

With today’s candidate deadline, Interim B.C. Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson had an opportunity to set a higher standard for what views are welcome in the party. He declined.

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

While Canada goes all in on a new pipeline, dismissing every concern to subsidize one of the world's most profitable industries Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, and Portugal, along with Spain push for windfall tax on oil companies amid surging war profits. Will all those partnerships with […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Former B.C. chief coroner running in Saanich South for Green Party wltribune.com/2026/10/01/former-b-c…

Former B.C. chief coroner running in Saanich South for Green Party - Williams Lake Tribune

Lisa Lapointe spent around 13 years as chief coroner of B.C.

Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

"Members of a white nationalist group called the Second Sons showed up on Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc land carrying signs that read "Got bones?" That incident was intimidation, aimed at a community that is still grieving. It deserves to be called what it is: denialism, and ugly denialism at that […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

STOP DON JR. FROM GETTING A CUT OF CANADA’S MILITARY BUDGET charlieangus.substack.com/p/stop-do…

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STOP DON JR FROM GETTING A CUT OF CANADA’S MILITARY BUDGET

Don Jr. has his fingers in a Canadian military contract obtained through Saskatoon-based Dragonfly Technologies.

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

LNG funding health & education in B.C.? Billions of dollars? Will any of it benefit us? “In 2019, Shell Canada, a subsidiary of one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies, paid the British Columbia government not one dollar in royalty payments despite producing 175 billion cubic feet of […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Librarian job, Vancouver Island Canada #librarian careers.viu.ca/vacancy/digital-coll…

Digital Collections Assistant (3054) | VIU | Vancouver Island University

Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

DULF founders’ trafficking charges thrown out in BC Supreme Court ruling on constitutional challenge "Murray agreed with the Nyx and Kalicum’s lawyers’ argument, finding: The DULF compassion club saved lives and did not negatively impact public safety" […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

sk goes nuclear www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan…

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Gouged pluralistic.net/2026/09/29/algorith…

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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@pinhman All these dummies are neoliberal con men at heart. Nobody should have any patience for practice that has led to the horrible water situation in the UK as an example. Private conversation costs everyone more.

Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Canada, Following the Rules, Agreements, borrowing Europe's better ideas <- we're supposed to be good at this? Instead of privatize airports to build Canada, make affordable housing public. Follow Finland's Munifin and subsidize/ guarantee housing finance. No shortage of demand in Canada. Make […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Health & Safety in Alberta, Cargill? Between April and mid-May 2020, over 950 Cargill workers — almost 45% of the plant’s workforce — tested positive for COVID-19 Devin Dreeshen, gave assurances that the entire industry would be declared an “essential service.” A formal designation — with no […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

"When they say 'old stock,' they mean white and European people," said Evan Balgord, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. "When they label themselves as enforcers, it’s tied to their belief that they will have to use culture, politics and violence to achieve their goal of a […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@rabbleca/117344401… Should be “Building Corporations Strong Act” ordinany Canadians will see their wages suffer, while corporations are free to ignore labour law by having the labour minister step in. Who’s the labour minister responsible to?

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[incredibly depressing, satellites] As you look up and admire the beautiful moon over the next few nights, remember that a US-based company has clearance from the FCC to launch a satellite that will be about 4x brighter than the full moon, and moving across the sky at Starlink speeds. And they […]

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

"Too many governments in the world have been captured by the fossil fuel industry and the petrostates. Taxpayers around the world are actually subsidizing the burning of fossil fuels at the rate of $4.5 trillion per year. " […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

So if the BC conservatives win , will Doerkson be the premier, or will unelected party leadership make that decision? The party leadership appears unwilling to answer.. Their party constitution currently does not allow […]

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Edwin G. Spooks 👻 @edwing.mstdn.moimeme.ca · 25/09/2026

Canada 🇨🇦 funds the Explore Second Language Program, that allows you to immerse into a second language and experience life in another part of the nation www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/… - - - Le Canada 🇨🇦 finance le programme d’immersion en langue seconde […]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Update: the defence (the city and police) have applied to the court to make Cardinal pay thousands into a trust that would pay damages and costs to the city if he loses. So now it appears that defending charter rights is only available to someone who can afford to park eight or nine thousand […]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

In Edmonton, a houseless man is suing the city $7,000 in damages for taking his belongings. “Dwayne Cardinal, 55, is seeking summary judgment in his lawsuit against the city, arguing the evidence establishes that city workers unlawfully took his tent, tarps […] [Original post on beige.party]

A quite tidy encampment site on a gravelled area under a spruce tree. A bright orange traps is folded and hanging neatly from a fence. There are a number of items - a bedroll and backpacks - put together in a tidy collection to the side. Everything looks clean and cared for to my eye, much like when my camping family is setting or breaking camp.

Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Alternative federal budget 2026-27: Taxation Bridge to independence A budget that makes Canada stronger by committing to solidarity and dignity for all "the wealthy accrue wealth in many ways that are not taxed under the typical income tax system. When income is accrued within corporations, it […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Well, *someone* needs to post about this on Mastodon www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-colu…

Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

[This story discusses suicide and extreme violence.] Tumbler Ridge School shooting "Van Rootselaar [the shooter] told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

“After the ballots have been counted, Alberta will be angrier, more divided, more radicalized, and not incidentally a worse place to invest money than it was before.. At the heart of this still unfolding disaster wrought by Premier Smith and her political advisors is Elections Alberta, the […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

David Eby drops election writ as B.C.'s centre-right continues to eat itself alive #bcpoli provincialtimes.ca/david-eby-drops-…

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David Eby drops election writ as B.C.'s centre-right continues to eat itself alive

Milobar leads ex-BC United MLAs back to the party they fled as Eby drops the writ

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 23/09/2026

Great to see the CBC cover our position on the BC snap election. First-past-the-post is directly to blame for early election calls when politicians gamble for total power with minority support. We need proportional representation for true democratic stability.

News graphic featuring a CBC News article about the BC snap election. The headline states that first-past-the-post is to blame for opportunistic election calls and explains how proportional representation prevents false majorities. Photos of provincial political leaders are shown.

Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Danielle Smith Is Putting Alberta Up for Sale The corporate lobbyist-turned-premier is letting the private sector run the government #atlasnetwork macleans.ca/politics/danielle-smith…

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Kerry-Lynne Findlay has announced she’s stepping down as leader of the B.C. Conservatives. She posted a statement to social media Sunday afternoon (Sept. 20). It came hours after another defection from her party when Surrey Serpentine MLA Linda Hepner quit caucus. #bcpoli #cdnpoli […]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

absolutely bonkers BC political scenes right now as it is revealed an operative of the BC Conservative leader hired a private investigator behind the back of the rest of the party to dig up dirt on members of their own party, executive, and a political reporter at CHEK (who is notably […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Former deputy leader of Labour announces he is joining Palantir

Screenshot of Tom Watson’s long post on LinkedIn about why he’s joining Palantir

Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

AI killing people? It already contributed to the death of 9 people in a rare Canadian school shooting. (Tumbler Ridge Feb 10, 2026) OpenAI is desperate to avoid any US legal precedents being set and is seeking to dismiss all the lawsuits it faces, arguing they should be held in British Columbia […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

"Carney’s airport privatization is a looming disaster: ‘Highway 407 of the skies’ You don’t beat the American right by becoming the American right. Since its privatization in 1999, the 407 has cost drivers an estimated $25 billion in tolls. And we’re only getting started! The privatization […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

"How groups tied to U.S. Atlas Network turned a fringe separatist movement in Alberta into a political threat Over the last decade, a cadre of libertarian think tanks has been instrumental in bringing Alberta separatism into the mainstream, promoting the idea through research, conferences […]

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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"Trickle down hasn’t worked for the last 40 years. Why does Carney want to try it again? Newly announced corporate tax break doubles down on a failed economic model We already have one year of data from the prime minister’s latest round of corporate handouts. Investment has not budged. What […]

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