Reposted by sjm604Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Honestly live streaming an execution for the clicks feels like a natural consequence of not regulating the tech industry 321703305
Reposted by sjm604Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17hMeanwhile, back where we started. I said this morning: Notable that Anthropic is more interested in protecting Claude from humans than humans from Claude. Not just Anthropic. The misdirection of empathy says a lot. 419542
Reposted by sjm604Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Pet-loving Canadians! My Grandfather's Cat (a national pet charity) is a little short of their autumn goal to fund their pet pantry. Their pet pantry provides pet food to poor seniors and terminally ill humans, so that they can keep their pets longer. www.mygrandfatherscat.ca/petpantry?ss...mygrandfatherscat.casupport our pet pantry — My Grandfather's Cat 44757
Reposted by sjm604Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 205124803088
Reposted by sjm604Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Foucault wrote about this. It's meant to terrify and control the public. It's a spectacle for domination. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...nytimes.comFort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon SaysIf carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history. 2381963648
sjm604 @sjm604.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you don't want to put in the effort to be present while raising your kids, maybe don't have kids. 🤦🏻♀️ 000
Reposted by sjm604Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026For months Gabriela Soto has relentlessly advocated for her husband Martin, unlawfully detained by ICE while buying diapers for their baby. Martin played a key role in the Delaney Hall hunger strike this summer. Last night we was RELEASED from ICE custody. ALWAYS FIGHT BACK. 186124392793
Reposted by sjm604rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3255901938
Reposted by sjm604Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/10/2026Until then demanding that large corporations get to pirate all our work is not the amazing freedom from corporate overlords that you think 135823
Reposted by sjm604ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule 842591521
Reposted by sjm604Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality. 5040571272
Reposted by sjm604Hazel Brandybuck @voodooforce.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Women don’t need men to protect them. Women need men to stop protecting each other. 519029
Reposted by sjm604Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’ll also add that most of the heat should be directed at USA Today, but the journalists who participated in this breach of ethics also made a choice. Organizations are made up of people. We can’t absolve the people who do harm on the behalf of an organization. 121520146
Reposted by sjm604Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As an expert on sexual violence, I have to add that these ethical violations are a nightmare for interviews on sensitive subjects. I would never recommend ANY survivor goes public with their story at an outlet that would do this to them. 82035189
sjm604 @sjm604.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is exactly how one of the poorest regions in Vancouver, Canada functions. 010
Reposted by sjm604Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Benefits like: All the art sucks now, all the writing sucks now, every website and app runs like shit, every search engine is broken, the environment is being poisoned, jobs are being lost, and all your creative output and also photos of your family are being feasted on like carrion. 520767
Reposted by sjm604Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In 2025, 39% of challenged books represent the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ people and people of color. This isn't just censorship. It's an attack on our communities! Read banned books. Help us continue fighting for equal access to knowledge. 🏳️🌈📚 08437
Reposted by sjm604Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851891381
Reposted by sjm604Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The only reason why so many men oppose women’s freedom, autonomy and opportunity, is because they directly benefited from our oppression 1253254740
Reposted by sjm604The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 02/10/2026Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policythebeaverton.comCarney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policyVancouver, BC – Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced more than one billion dollars in federal funding to keep the ocean safe from the consequences of his own actions. 23579192
Reposted by sjm604Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 01/10/2026Here are 16 Canadian-owned brands you can buy instead of the usual grocery store picks. 🇨🇦 #BuyCanadian ✅ Get my free weekly newsletter: farandwide.news Note: A previous version of this graphic listed a Canadian-owned company which had moved its production to the U.S. 28229105
Reposted by sjm604The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 30/09/2026University assigns Cornell 7 to get ChatGPT to write their essaysthebeaverton.comUniversity assigns Cornell 7 to get ChatGPT to write their essaysITHICA, NY – As punishment for drugging and gang-raping a young woman for over seven hours in 2024, Cornell University has assigned the seven known perpetrators to generate essays using ChatGPT. 1533891
Reposted by sjm604Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I really love seeing all this solidarity from women and the “I am Jane Doe” posts but we did this with Me Too and nothing fucking changed. I want the men to step up and publicly promise to change themselves and call out their buddies instead of women always being forced to volunteer our trauma 2193
sjm604 @sjm604.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So, so, short-sighted. Even as we speak, Asia is pivoting and diversifying a lot of their energy consumption. There will be a need for petroleum but the size of demand over the next 10-20 years is legit up for debate 000
Reposted by sjm604Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026This is reminiscent of the Trudeau-era promise to spend all the money earned by Trans Mountain on climate action — a promise that has since been quietly abandonednationalobserver.comHow Carney’s ‘climate action’ pipeline spin echoes Trudeau’s Trans Mountain rhetoricCanada's last two prime ministers have something in common: both Mark Carney and his predecessor Justin Trudeau cast their support for oil pipelines as a form of climate action. In the case of Trans M... 211139
sjm604 @sjm604.bsky.social · 01/10/2026British Columbians are going to left holding the bag on the clean up and permanent environmental damage/impacts. All for a resource that has a limited lifespan 000
Reposted by sjm604Mark Totten @marktottenpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026He talks about having long term vision but there's no evidence of it from his policy positions. Oil is very profitable right now but is also shown to be a liability because of climate change and geopolitical instability. This makes oil investments very risky for Canada over the long term. 1161
Reposted by sjm604Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Socially and in the legal system, our understanding of responses to sexual violence is purposefully uninformed and therefore limited to only “perfect” victims (who don’t really exist), so that we don’t have to actually combat sexual violence or believe victims or hold perpetrators accountable. 31529172
Reposted by sjm604socalbookish.bsky.social @socalbookish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This👇👇👇👇👇👇 172437557
Reposted by sjm604Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156165055562
Reposted by sjm604Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 30/09/2026Tomorrow is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Here's one small, practical thing you can do: learn the right words. Pick up this great book as a first step: ✅ Your local bookstore: www.indiebookstores.ca/bookstores/ OR ✅ Nanaimo's Indigenous-owned bookstore: StrongNations.com 212651
Reposted by sjm604Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I won't even allow a Google Home or Amazon Echo in my home, and I've been burned by *password managers* and bad Chrome extensions; I sure as heck won't trust Meta's Muse to do anything involving personal information 811766313
Reposted by sjm604Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026woke up to the back door open and every single cat missing and I'm standing out there scratching my head wondering wtf to do when all 3 saw me and showed up screaming for breakfast and stalked back in angrily so I guess sometimes its good to have asshole bosses 15120052
sjm604 @sjm604.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Are the governments alarmed because they have plans involving AI? Get rid of those plans, idiots. WE. DON'T. WANT. THIS. 000
Reposted by sjm604Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up. 4927169
Reposted by sjm604Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 1533481491
Reposted by sjm604Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it. 1024131523814
Reposted by sjm604Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Have you heard about the Islamophobic outrage over halal cheese yet? Someone is now going around saying the cheese has been “blessed for a false god.” Tbf, if the cheese is repelling bigots then it is blessed and doing its job. QED. 1621580147
Reposted by sjm604TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For those boycotting Tillamook Cheese and anything else that is “Halal,” I want you to know that fruit, vegetables, fish, air and water are also halal. ☪️😅. 2023983589
Reposted by sjm604Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻 106198246634
