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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary)

@siobhanftb.bsky.social
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She/Elle EN/FR. Policy, critical public health, medical anthropology, cats. IU 651. Opinions are my own. Ex-journo under Siobhan O'Leary (bylines: Rewire.News, VICE, Shadowproof). Public speaker, irregular blogger. 🏳️‍⚧️ liberation now.

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Le Troupeau @letroupeauqc.bsky.social · 12h
On dirait bien qu’un des fasciste de Nouvelle Alliance milite dans Orford pour le candidat du Parti Québecois Est-ce que PSPP dénonce leur discours ethno nationaliste sur l’immigration ?
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Antagoniste 🏴 @antagonisteqc.bsky.social · 7h
incompétent et menteur j'attends sa démission #polqc
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Ashley "Billie" Thomson 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleybillie.bsky.social · 8h
Les personnes #LGBTQ+ nous sommes pas des personnes de seconde zone et les personnes #trans et #NinBinaire sont des humains comme les autres. Les Québécois-es méritent des réponses. #EnjeuxLGBTQ+ #DroitsLGBTQ+ #DroitsTrans #PQ #PSPP #polqc
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 27/09/2026
In an attempt to further divide Quebecers, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has confirmed that his party will push ahead with a referendum on Quebec independence — even if the PQ only wins a minority government in the upcoming election. A large majority of Quebecers (69%) oppose Quebec sovereignty. #polqc
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Quebecers don't want a referendum — the Parti Québécois will hold one anyway
A large majority of Quebecers oppose Quebec sovereignty.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 7h
From that shocking thread of investigations into who the heck is in charge of OH&S to protect workers (including those in schools and hospitals) from COVID: x.com/OhCasavant/s...
Post 20 in the thread: 20/ So that's it. 

Apparently, Bonnie Henry can grant herself powers to override WorksafeBC, EGBC, etc. ONLY Bonnie Henry can take away those powers. But those powers do not clearly come with professional / legal responsibility.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 7h
Some screenshots of her investigations, showing Bonnie Henry, BC CDC, and Worksafe BC were negligent exactly how AB Labour and AHS were in the Cargill report (albertapolitics.ca/wp-content/u...) x.com/OhCasavant/s...
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 7h
Cargill Report: "OHS, which has primary regulatory authority over the workplace, seemed to accept that its role was subservient to public health, even though no directive delegated its authority to AHS." @OhCasavant on X found the exact same issue between WorksafeBC & Bonnie Henry. #bcpoli
July 14, 2022
Attention: Tracy Casavant
Dear Ms. Tracy Casavant:
Re: Freedom of Information Request - WCB-2022 - 0861
I am writing in response to your request for access to information under the Freedom of Information
and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). You requested documents authenticated by WorkSafeBC
responsible engineer, Allen P. Heinrichs, P.Eng, providing the technical rationale for COVID-19
workplace safety guidance relied upon by employers. Specifically, the authenticated work product
underpinning decisions.
In response to your request, we reached out to WorkSafeBC departments such as
Prevention Divisional Services and Credentialling and Occupational Health and Safety Practice &
Engineering Support. I received confirmation that workplace safety guidance was not provided by
WorkSafeBC’s Engineering department or any other internal group, but rather by public health.
WorkSafeBC aligned all COVID-19 workplace safety guidance to public health direction.
We also reached out to Allen Hendrichs requesting the above records. Mr. Henrichs confirmed that no
such records exist. Therefore WorkSafeBC is unable to provide you with the records you have
requested because the records do not exist in the custody or under the control of WorkSafeBC.
If you disagree with our response you have 30 days from receipt of this letter to request a review by
the Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC). You can contact the Office of the IPC at 250-387-
5629 or visit their web site at www.oipc.bc.ca.
If you have any questions, please write or call me at 604-279-8171.
Yours sincerely,
Eden Hoey
Senior Access to Information and Privacy Officer
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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 7h
Wondering why you can say things like 'Covid is not airborne' when clearly it is. "But those powers do not clearly come with professional / legal responsibility."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 7h
The rise of for-profit industry comes as Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare eliminate nearly 500 jobs. #canlab @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
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The struggle between Hamilton hospital cuts and private clinic growth
Rise of for-profit industry comes as Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare eliminate nearly 500 jobs.
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Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio 🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 7h
Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.
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Hi, my name is Katra, and I’ve just been notified that I’ll be let go of… Katra Ariello needs your support for Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 15h
"A common argument I hear in favor of wealth taxes is about the ability of wealthy people to leverage their assets as a form of untaxed income. … If it is true that the asset-rich are skirting taxes with loans, the obvious solution is to close the loophole." www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...
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Tax the Wealthy, Not Wealth
Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.
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Ana Valens || 🔞 @acvalens.net · 11h
Pretty much every trans woman that was writing in games with a FT position is unemployed right now. Gamurs pushed me out in Feb 2024, and (coincidentally) it was shortly after I had learned there was an enormous salary gap there between women and men working at the company
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Ursa 🧸, Mama Bearfessor @ursabearwalker.bardrockcafe.com · 12h
Anyone know a NJ attorney that would take this?
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A Real Octopus @a-real-octopus.bsky.social · 13h
Also the fact that these Democrats thought that a Democrat being transphobic was fine and it opened the floodgates for Democratic transphobia is why we have to push back on these things hard and immediately
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A Real Octopus @a-real-octopus.bsky.social · 13h
I'd like to know what "it was fine" means, and for whom it was fine.
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Horza ☢️🐼 @horzapanda.bsky.social · 12h
We want to convince people we’re the majority so we can get away with bigotry is a heck of a thing to admit to Which is precisely why we should not tolerate transphobia from Democrats. It hurts us and it’s not even winning you votes. Transphobes already have the transphobia party they’ll vote for
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pornofoleyartist.bsky.social @pornofoleyartist.bsky.social · 11h
And yet I have to listen to dumbfucks on this platform tell me that these Democrats don't really mean this shit and they're going to walk it back once they win their election. Bullshit. If they fear abandoning bigoted language now, why would they be less cowardly once they have a job to protect?
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16h
Lost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life.
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 13h
This makes me feel sick
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h
swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
SEN. WARREN: "They cut taxes and they always say ‘it's really going to pay off for you’ — every time academics come back say ‘What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.’.. this is the 20.0 version of this.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12h
The reward for standing up to your social group is usually isolation and being told you’re a killjoy, I’m sorry to say.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
Tangentially, the military has made a service-wide push into using personal phones as work devices, meaning Meta is no doubt ingesting sensitive if not classified/secret data. And I’d be curious what this might mean for Signal.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
No, those conversations are not supposed to happen over text message. But we know they do.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
Anyway if Meta is doing this with your texts I’m not sure what’s stopping them from ingesting your whole hard drive so you should probably assume they are.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
It ALMOST feels like we’re just starting to reach the normies with “the federal government and Silicon Valley have joined forces to spy on every aspect of your life and it’s called Palantir” and it’s either going to be the turning point for radical privacy or cripple the concept forever.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
To say nothing of maliciously accessing apps of their users without permissions. Which is why we know these companies are not respecting robots.txt to block their crawlers.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Shiba @coldbrewcryptid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS IS THE GREED THEY TALK ABOUT IN THE BIBLE
A blurry calico cat being held back from a matcha bunA calico cat touching the tip of her tongue against a matcha bun
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the past decade there has been a group of men who screenshot everything I post and every article I publish to be like “This woman created the Shitty Media Men list btw. And she has a JOB.” As if I’m ashamed.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How it started/how it’s going
Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in UtahBREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV
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NDP @ndp.ca · 29/09/2026
Last week, Avi Lewis and our NDP caucus joined Bank of Canada security workers on the picket line. As the Liberals ramp up their attacks on the right to strike, we'll keep standing with workers to fight back, together.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 17h
This is very straightforwardly downstream of "GC beliefs are protected beliefs"
He told the hearing on Monday: "The requirement to have a second interview, which arose simply from the respondent discovering that Mr Ngole held a protected characteristic, in this case a belief, then meant they imposed upon him requirements that were not imposed on anyone else."
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 17h
As a regime, it is one of the greatest threats to the very notion of human rights.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 17h
The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable.
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 18h
During an 11 day period around Christmas 2025, an estimated three million sexualised deepfakes were created mostly of women, but some of children, on Elon Musk's X
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 19h
"For decades, electorates have been mis-sold a fanatical ideology: the prerogatives of the private sector must override the collective interest, and anything less is tantamount to Stalinism"
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The Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world order
A journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If your one job is saying things smart enough to make people want to give your boss money, you should not be surprised when saying dumb things in public generates more backlash for you than for Guy At The End Of The Bar.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What people who talk about “innocent until proven guilty” need to understand is that victims are actually the ones considered guilty while purposefully being held to an impossible standard.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This would not be the first time the state retaliated against a victim for embarrassing them. It’s a pretty regular occurrence
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Only rich people are allowed to do social work, art, study religion, educate others, and create music is the uptick.
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