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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It being Bandcamp Friday, it would be remiss of me not to mention I have an EP of acoustic protest songs out. PWYW. #BandcampFriday #ProtestSongs #ProtestMusic

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yep Ppl don't have to be persuaded to accept fascism. If it makes them feel good, if they aren't the outgroup suffering under it? They'll handwave literally anything associated with it, if not fully enjoy it. The only reason the Taliban is floundering now is EVERYONE is suffering, not just women.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

fucking horrendous

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had to explain this t-shirt to someone at an open mic last night. Realized afterwards that as they’re about 18 they were born the same year the iPhone was released and may have no idea that Apple was close to collapse in the late 1990s @rstevens.bsky.social when did you release this? 2001 or so?

A black t-shirt bearing the phrase “I was a Mac user when Apple was doomed” in a Garamond-like font.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.

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Toronto GDC @gdctoronto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hate group "Canada First" has a rally scheduled in Nathan Phillips Square this SUNDAY SEPT 27th (not Saturday as we reported originally). We need people to show up to counterprotest! Please find more details here: www.facebook.com/events/s/cou...

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They don’t know what they’re missing :-)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.

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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.

One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026

It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.

Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Let's fucking go, since posting this we've cracked £3k. I can't doxx him but this guy has put everything on the line as an antifascist for the 20+ years I've known him, and now he's facing prison time for defending migrants in Bristol. He's an amazing dad to 2 kids. Please support his legal case.

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Support a Bristol antifascist on trial

Support a Bristol antifascist facing charges for resisting far right attacks

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In the oral histories of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Seneca, there was a race of serpent-dragons that lived within Lake Ontario. The Seneca described the creatures like Gaasyendietha as a giant snake that could breathe fire and fly like a bird. 🎨 Ayia Napa 🧵 2/6

A giant sea serpent with a coiled body and toothy mouth rises from turbulent waves beside a wrecked sailing ship while terrified sailors flounder in the surf, one reaching toward a rocky shore.

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reading and understanding words on a screen pretty much requires we make something up in our head; the best we can hope for is that the reader makes up a clear approximation to our intent.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you ever need your faith in the sciences restored after having it so violently compromised by techbros masquerading as technologists, I encourage you to check out the breakthrough after breakthrough ongoing in oncology.

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I wish ill on ___ @monicarooney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I will be contributing to the #TOPhoto feed as much as possible. My first entry is my attempt to capture morning #TorontoHenge that didn’t work because the sky had other ideas.

The CN Tower and downtown buildings as seen from the Bathurst bridge over the rail yard at dawn. An UP train is leaving Union Station. The sky is full of orange clouds in a ruffle pattern that looks purple in the areas not lit up by the sun.

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why did it take a month for me to see this? It should be going viral…

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Coming next, new music for the Space Force anthem…dun dun dun, dun-da-dun dun-da-dun…

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When you go to the polls and vote for a Republican, you are voting for an escalation of preventable deaths, continued erosion of food safety, and anti-science disinformation. Not a single Republican has done a goddamned thing about the destruction being wrought by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026

As once-extinct diseases sweep through America, sickening, maiming and killing, the wild lunacy of anti-vax superstition grows ever more difficult to excuse.

A leaky drop ceiling with a large, dirty water stain.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 09/09/2026

A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11. “Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans were targeted for how they looked, dressed, or prayed.” [post911.org]

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What happened the week after 9/11?

Documenting hundreds of hate incidents against Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans in the week after September 11, 2001.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's a concept in international relations, specifically power transition theory, called a "revisionist state." Basically, the idea is that a revisionist state will tear down the whole international state system because they think it's unfair to them personally. Sound familiar?

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So not so much about states’ rights, then…

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 07/09/2026

From Louisville to LA to Philly to Denver, Starbucks workers are turning up across the country for Labor Day! Our message is simple: it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer, and in support of workers. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.

Two people smile and hold a sign that says BOYCOTT STARBUCKS at a Labor Day event

A large group in a busy city hold a banner that says BOYCOTT STARBUCKS

A large group stand in front of a Starbucks holding signs that says "WORKER RIGHTS, "SHAME ON STARBUCKS," and "UNION STRONG UNION PROUD"

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Juin 🌞 18+ @juinreed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You know who we need most when companies overreach and desperately need reminding of their place? People who are already spending their cash on said company. I would love to start a Cancel Your Nitro Membership and Pass Along the Sentiment train. Just cancelled mine. Join me ✨ 🌹

Discord is going to reintroduce Global Age Verification, which restricts teen accounts.
Teens will face several limitations:
- Blocked access to NSFW channels and servers
- Sensitive media automatically blurred in chats and direct messages
- Mandatory message requests for incoming texts
- Restricted speaking access in Stage Channels
To lift these restrictions, unverified adults can confirm their age via one of the following options:
- Credit Card checks via k-ID x Stripe
- Official ID through k-ID
- Selfie
- Google Wallet

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Kennebel @kennebel.com · 06/09/2026

The most succinct statement on this I’ve read, “if you don’t support helping homeless people, but you do support putting them in jail, then you do support giving homeless people a place to live, but only if it costs more and is cruel.”

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hi, I’m Rick, software engineer turned musician, and I love the moment in Annette Peacock’s “Dear Bela” when she hits the word “love” in the line “isn’t love a great excuse / the vampire thinks before it sucks the juice”.

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Funny, I’ve been editing a podcast episode which touches on this very topic :-)

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Looking out my window this morning, the combination of trees, sky, and cloud, with the barely visible neighbouring house, make feel like I’m living in a Miyazaki movie.

A view through a sash window dominated by green trees. On the left is a tall Rowan tree with bright orange berries. On the right is another tree of indeterminate type. In the centre of the window the roof, chimney, and part of the wall of a house is visible. Behind this house another very large tree fills most of the upper centre of the view. At the top of the window a patch of blue sky and a fluffy cloud are visible.

Within the room, a keyboard instrument sits atop a tall writing desk, and in the lower centre the headstock of an acoustic guitar is visible.

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lifeofjenius @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026

Garbage in Garbage out

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

SOCAN (Canada’s performing rights org) is taking Suno to court over Suno’s unauthorized use of Canadian songwriters’ material. ✊🏼 www.socan.com/socan-ai/ai-...

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Innovation Must Respect Human Creativity — SOCAN

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Since it’s #BandcampFriday, a reminder that my 5 track EP “The Winter Of Our Discontent” is available for download on a pay what you want basis, which should include $0.00

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a former Apple Maps team member, who worked on the initial implementation for handling disputed territories, I find this yielding to Trump’s whim’s extremely disappointing. Again.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If socialism wasn't a threat to the ruling class, they wouldn't be shouting about it so much.

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Taibhse 🖖👻🐿 @greenrocks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is one of the guys attacking the WNBA. "Republican U.S. Senate candidate Royce White is subject to a no-contact order after a Minnesota judge ruled there was credible evidence of threats of harm toward his ex-wife and one of two children they have together." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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U.S. Senate candidate Royce White is under order to avoid ex-wife, their son over threats

Royce White, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, has been ordered to stay away from his ex-wife and one of his children because of allegations of threats and physical abuse. He is challenging the ...

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with ten acts I’ve seen live. (Where to start?) The Clash Siouxsie and the Banshees Bill Nelson Kate Bush Tune-Yards Richard Thompson The Mekons Big Country The Pop Group Laurie Anderson

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just thinking about Netflix’s Fall Of The House Of Usher. Maybe Donald knows they’ll all die before him?

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The @theguardian.com has done an excellent job on how Canadians are using the boycott to defend our sovereignty. We shut down American booze. We stopped travel and there is a major fight to limit US produce in the stores. Maitres chez nous. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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‘If it’s made in the US, I don’t buy it’: Canadians on boycotting Trump’s America

Avoiding US goods and services – from tech to whisky to air travel – has forced many to find a new way of living

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"For the next two minutes, Cloud detailed three issues impacting women that she believes deserve more attention than Freedom: domestic violence, sexual assault and food insecurity." www.nytimes.com/athletic/754...

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Natasha Cloud calls Enes Kanter Freedom ‘irrelevant,’ urges WNBA to ban him league-wide (Gift Article)

“I will talk about real issues that face women, and it’s not our trans human beings,” Cloud said.

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Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

1) A thought I liked today (in two parts...) "Forward motion in service of a purpose you care about doesn’t undo the chaos or erase the stupidity around you, but it is nonetheless empowering (and distracting), not to mention a good in and of itself." thewalrus.ca/trumps-stupi...

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Trump’s Stupid Lake America Stunt Is Less Funny than It Looks | The Walrus

The spectacle masks something sinister: a major power coming undone

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