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Shauna Penny

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BC Greens are the only party in this provincial election with policy that is AGAINST mass death
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
The thing is; regardless of where you stand, it’s universally true that people who view the world this way are dinosaurs and cowards. Pick a fucking side.
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Give Voice AB - Resistance, rooted in community. @givevoiceab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Important dates. Please pass on. #abpoli
October 2026 calendar titled “IMPORTANT DATES” showing key Alberta referendum and voting deadlines. October 1–3 appear in the first week, followed by October 4–10. A note on October 9 reads “LAST RECOMMENDED DAY TO MAIL your completed special ballot package,” with a yellow sticky note emphasizing “Mail ballot package back” and the number 9 in red. October 11–17 shows Thanksgiving Day on October 12 and a green highlighted “ADVANCE VOTING” period from October 13–17, with arrows indicating the voting period. A red deadline note on October 16 states “5:00 PM DEADLINE Elections Alberta must receive your completed special ballot package.” A blue sticky note marks October 19 as “REFERENDUM DAY.” October 20–31 are shown in lighter gray. The calendar footer says “For up-to-date information elections.ab.ca.” Dates and deadlines are presented visually with red, green, yellow and blue highlights to make key actions easier to identify.
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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 02/10/2026
I'm trying to locate these original paintings - I didn't write down who had purchased them from me at the time. Purchased in Ottawa about 20 -25 years ago. I'm wondering if anyone has either, could you let me know? Thank you.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Heartbreaking VIDEO for all my cis followers on here (please share with any other cis people you may know) It’s about Andy Burnham’s new Transphobic Section 28 in schools and the harm caused to one trans child as a result. I never say this but I will now; Please watch don’t scroll.
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Trans kids are no longer safe in UK schools
YouTube video by Cool2BTrans
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
National interest and such
A Walking Eagle News headline reads: pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 29/09/2026
absolutely fucking incredible news for public health in canada that a safer supply organization successfully fought the constitutionality of drug possession trafficking laws for not providing any legal way to operate. selfless life-saving work that is actually being identified and respected as such.
But in her judgment on their constitutional challenge on Tuesday, Murray concluded that a non-medicalized safer supply program is urgently needed to save lives.

And with no legal source of drugs available for such a program, and no legal "safety valves" in the CDSA that would support setting one up, she found such a program "is legally and practically incapable of being exempted."

She said part of the CDSA "unjustifiably infringes" on two parts of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and deprives DULF members the "right to life and security of the person."

She gave Parliament six months to find a way to allow for a "pathway to non-medicalized safer supply."
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lot of people assume we'll start decarbonizing once things calm down. We need a new pipeline now, but hey, once things are better, we can focus on the environment. But things are never gonna calm down. The world is going to get more chaotic every year because we didn't decarbonize decades ago.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shout out to the heroes in Maine who do NOT sit quietly when the man who is taking away their rights walks into a brewery. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Canadian Drug Policy Coalition @candrugpolicy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DULF WINS. Today, the BC Supreme Court found the criminal law used to arrest and convict DULF co-founders Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx unconstitutional. Read our full press release: drugpolicy.ca/bc-supreme-c... @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
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BC Supreme Court finds Drug Law Unconstitutional, Frees DULF  - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ territory| Vancouver, BC | September 29, 2026 – In a landmark ruling that could alter the fabric of drug policy in Canada, the BC Supreme ...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026
you’re going to want to read jeremy’s book on the extreme-right wing premier fucking not just with alberta, but all of canada
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 29/09/2026
You're also going to want to read Paris's book on data centres: hyperscalebook.com
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Hyperscale by Paris Marx
An eye-opening account of how the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. A new book by Paris Marx.
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Local health minister says wait times for wealthy people way down since her government started focussing on bringing down wait times for wealthy people.
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Wait times for most priority surgeries in Ontario have increased since 2017, study says | CBC News
Wait times for most of the province’s publicly funded priority surgeries and procedures have increased between 2017 and 2025, according to a study released Monday.
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Brett Bergie 🏳️‍⚧️ @brettbergie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When we allow governments to erroneously and irresponsibly strip Charter protected rights away from vulnerable communities [we allow] politicians to use lies and stigma […] to impose their ideology and power on those different from them.” Full statements here: www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
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Transgender Advocates Call for Inquiry into Alta., Sask. Laws
Trans and gender-diverse advocates from Alberta and Saskatchewan hold a news conference on Parliament Hill to call for a House of Commons inquiry into the suspension of Charter rights for transgender ...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026
The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Excellent news. Glad to see what so many of us predicted borne out by actual data. (Yes, this is a "we told you so" post. Hopefully one day people will stop listening to the cranks who think the world will end if we even slightly reduce the amount of cars in the city.)
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 28/09/2026
The Democrats’ recent vibe shift should be a warning to progressive parties and candidates in Canada’s elections this fall: if you let the other side set the terms of the conversation about queer and trans issues, you risk slipping into transphobia yourself. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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The Democrat turn on trans rights should be a warning to Canadian progressives | Xtra Magazine
In elections across Canada, centre and left-wing politicians can’t let anti-trans arguments set the terms of the conversation
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Congratulations Phillies
We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
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The Goose 🇨🇦 @the-goose-media.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The point of AI data centres in Alberta is to sell gas. Nothing more. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ai-d...
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Leaked doc suggests Alberta has sprawling plans to pave the way for AI data centres, more oil production
Rewriting laws, creating Crown corporations that could rival TC Energy, building new natural gas pipelines and increasing prices for consumers: what a leaked document says about Alberta’s AI data centre and oil push
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There are 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide stored underground at Giant Mine. Pumps have to run constantly to prevent the contamination of Great Slave Lake. This is the toxic legacy of mine owners who walk away and leave the cleanup to taxpayers. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Upcycling waste: researchers pitch newest solution for Giant Mine’s arsenic trioxide | CBC News
Researchers are turning arsenic trioxide from Giant Mine into something called metallic arsenic that can be used as semiconductors in electronic devices. They say the result could answer what to do wi...
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The Goose 🇨🇦 @the-goose-media.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Someone tell Doug Ford
A man holding a sign that reads “I'M A DRIVER
I WANT $48M PUT IN HEALTHCARE + HOUSING
NOT REMOVING BIKE LANES”
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Me reading DUNE decades ago: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," haha, religious zealots are so weird Me now: Slack referring to itself as "me" in a notification is an obscenity and the people who programmed it to do that will not see heaven
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)
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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This guy!!!!!!!!!!!
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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Angella MacEwen @angella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My week has been wild - how about you? cupe.ca/news/cupe-wi...
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CUPE will defy Bill C-39’s unconstitutional limits on the right to strike if passed
The national executive board of Canada’s largest union, CUPE, has passed a unanimous resolution vowing to defy the Liberal government’s Bill C-39 limiting the constitutional right to strike if it is p...
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Analysis: Just be glad it’s Liberals fucking you over, and not Conservatives - because those guys are REAL assholes
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Believing in it while contributing to it with new pipelines is sociopathic.
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Edmonton Bike Coalition @yegbike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great event tonight!
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mulcair praising Carney while trashing Lewis is so on brand
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Every time. Every single time.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“This bill explicitly gives government the power to end legal strikes when a minister decides that a strike is or could become contrary to the national interest — and the national interest is defined solely by the opinion of the minister,” warns top labour leader Bea Bruske. Holy shit. This is bad.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 22/09/2026
whenever you say "trans people are asking TOO MUCH and should accept Democrats shitting over their civil rights", you're part of this. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. Your smug assholery is making the world WORSE. Fuck you, and may your favorite meal make you shart a big hole in your favorite pants.
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So many to choose from, I’ll offer this one since it simultaneously seems hopeful and scary because of the political disruption it will bring (wait, is already bringing). Someone should probably tell Alberta to get on the renewables-electro tech bus soon.
Map: Electrotech will curb the power of the petrostates

Ten countries hold three-quarters of the oil and gas; nearly every country has enough sun and wind
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
TOMORROW! Don't miss it: www.friendsofmedicare.org/stolentimesas
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Dave Thompson 🇨🇦 @davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is this still happening??? I blew the whistle 13 years ago
Image of globe and Mail article on the true cost of suburban sprawlImage of same article showing billions of dollars of financial losses for the city of Edmonton approving suburban sprawl
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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A reminder that my work is 30% off for Canadian residents. This one is $665 if you are in Canada. I'd really like for this painting to stay in Canada. DM me if you're interested. #art #painting #canadianart #canada
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trans rights or we all enjoy the camps
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Daniel “Spooky Nickname” Tirebiter @danmofftarkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Supporting MAGA-friendly Democrats is not “pushing back against MAGA,” it’s collaborating with MAGA. What’s so difficult to understand about that? There’s a reason that being an accessory to a crime is in and of itself a crime.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ll take any excuse to recirculate this
TOLKIEN Vs. LEWIS: ALLEGORIES


TOLKIEN 

PROFESSOR TOLKIEN! IS IT TRUE THAT YOU WROTE YOUR NOVELS AS AN ALLEGORY FOR THE
FIRST WORLD WAR? 

NO. NEVER. ASK ME THAT AGAIN AND I WILL CALL THE POLICE.

LEWIS 

IF EVEN ONE PERSON READING THIS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE BIG LION IS JESUS, I WILL SET MYSELF
ON FIRE.

reparrishcomics
2020
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
Imagine if, instead of regulating drones (which we did!), we instead decided to let drone companies self-regulate, and ALSO dedicated tons of money and time to "problems" like "what if, in 1000 years, hyper-intelligent dogs learn to fly drones into mailmen." This is what we are doing with AI.
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