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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Stelco is laying off 500 Canadian steelworkers. The CEO of their US parent company, Cleveland-Cliffs, is a vocal Trump supporter who has been cheering on the tariffs. This is a MAGA attempt to deindustrialize Canada and harm our productive capacity.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Saw this out of context and I was sure you were talking about Vancouver's current (but hopefully not-for-long) mayor, Ken Sim. Fingers crossed that y'all over there dodge that bullet.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My littlest boy cat looks just like this when he's napping. Except orange.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Clare Turlay Newberry (1903-1970): Cat Napping, before 1940

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Technology can improve standards of living, but without political change, the gains of technology tend to be absorbed by a society's elite. Democracy is required to distribute the benefits of technology to an entire population. And Big Tech's political agenda is profoundly anti-democratic.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What started to really shift quality of living standards to our modern day was political change, not technological change: it was collective action by voters in democracies and by organized labour to win labour rights and public infrastructure.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A passage in Luke Kemp's book Goliath's Curse really struck me, in which he suggests that the populations of ancient Mesopotamia and early modern France (and societies in between) had comparable health/quality of life, despite massive technological changes and economic growth over ~4000 years.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The thing that will get us a 3-day work weeks won't be a capitalist deregulated free market economy with ever-improving tech. It'll be collective power of some kind (for example through electoral or labour action) forcing limits on the elite's ability to exploit us.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This problem goes back way further than LLMs. All kinds of technology *could* allow for us to gain in leisure time; but the way we've structured our society instead means that we continue to work as much as capital can force us to work, while producing more than we actually need (unsustainably).

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Agreed. I've been seeing a lot of positivity for the progressive flank in the campaign both in my circles and in the broader media ecosystem, but it's hard to say how representative that is when I'm not in the kinds of circles that supported ABC.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Love to see increased turnout! I'm hopeful it'll hold for the whole election. I meet so many strangers in public who either love those Evict Ken Sim buttons or are already wearing them.

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🗳️🚨Over 25,000 people voted today, the highest single-day advance turnout on record. Next chance to vote is this Saturday, Oct. 10th, 8am to 8pm. #EvictKenSim

Today, approximately 25,142 Vancouverites showed up to advance voting places, the highest single-day advance turnout on record. This beats the record of 21,824 set on Oct 3 and is a 139% increase over the turnout of 10,502 people on the second day of advance voting in 2022.

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rodmickleburgh.bsky.social @rodmickleburgh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Latest howler from Vancouver’s hapless mayor Ken Sim: Asked why ABC didn’t do more during their FOUR YEARS in power, Sim replied: “We’re still learning the ropes.” What a joke. Vancouver deserves so much better. #vanpoli

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ken Sim's entire philosophy has been to serve the money, not the many. Voting is the many's chance to reassert ownership over our city. Get out there and vote!

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And don't forget the school board, where ABC has overseen public land being sold off and US corporations shoving LLMs into children's classrooms uncritically; and the park board, whose mission of protecting community spaces has been hobbled by ABC slashing funding and trying to abolish it entirely.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I voted in Vancouver's advanced polls yesterday! There are more on Oct 10 and 13, and final voting day is Oct 17. Ken Sim has governed with contempt, greed, lies, and fearmongering. It's time for Mayor Pete Fry, and a mix of COPE, Green, and OneCity councillors. #EvictKenSim #Vancouver #VanPoli

A tortoiseshell cat stands on a table, sniffing the back of a purple and white sticker that a person is holding up. The sticker reads "I Voted" and has the logos for the City of Vancouver, and the Vancouver Votes public awareness campaign.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm not much of a whale watcher, but seeing so many humpbacks while taking the Frances Barkley between Port Alberni and Bamfield was a treat. I caught this one falling back down from a modest breach during feeding. #Whale #HumpbackWhale #Wildlife #iNaturalist #VancouverIsland

A photo of a humpback whale lunging upwards out of the water and splashing back down, with the spray of its blow and of its splashdown trailing behind it. In the background of the water, a rocky shoreline with conifer trees is visible.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Touché! I mixed up debt and deficit, thanks for the correction. Still, 7% isn't nothing. It would be nice to have a single solution to the problem, but typically you need to combine multiple approaches to get all the way there.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If they're throwing taxes around now as election promises, let's slam the O&G industry with higher taxes to pay for the damage they're doing and the costs required to shift our economy away from O&G.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's 1B per year; while the deficit is a sum, not an annual recurring expense. So after 4 years that's actually 4/14, or over 28%. But if you really must stick to 7% just for the sake of complaining, maybe consider how you'd feel about losing 7% of your income or savings. It ain't nothing.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cheatcode for this problem is federated social media. You get the network effects without the concentration of governance in a single platform. The main adoption barrier is the network effect of existing corporate platforms, of course; but breaking them up would help mitigate that problem.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

In both film and video games, you see a ton of *project cancellations* and a general difficulty in funding new projects, which wouldn't be the case if AI was displacing workers in producing those products—you'd expect the opposite, in fact, if it was becoming cheaper to make a movie/game.

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Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks for the link! That's a huge leap in spending.

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