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Bread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The framing of the question would have you believe that it’s a point of principle – that the UCP wants to work with other provinces to make Canada more democratic. At the same time, completely absent from the referendum is any mention of reforming our archaic first-past-the-post electoral system.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”
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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing.
Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore.
Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Elbows up baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bloomberg headline reads: “Morgan Stanley, CIBC Win Mandate for Sale of Canada Airport Concessions”Wikipedia page for Morgan Stanley opens: “Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial…”
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Bread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Come check out the Philippine Edmonton Solidarity Organization's Fundraiser & Social this Sunday, September 20th from 3-8PM! Lend your support to the Kapit-Bisig conference, learn about Martial Law in the Philippines and sing karaoke with us! #yeg www.instagram.com/p/DdNrGy9SND...
An invite to PESO's Fundraiser & Social on September 20th, 2026 from 3 to 8 PM. It reads:

Karaoke / Clothing Swap / Art Sale
Fundraiser & Social
Join us in support of this years global conference Kapit-Bisig (Linking Arms) Against US-Led War on the Philippines

For updates, check out the instagram PESO.EDMONTON
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"a proposed $10.9-billion high-speed rail link between Edmonton and Calgary" Ok who wished on the monkey's paw 😭
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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
THE PEOPLE NEED FROG
Frogs more popular than church? People want frogs not Jesus
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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
[Marxism] says: We must know how to combat religion, and in order to do so we must explain the source of faith and religion among the masses in a materialist way. The combating of religion cannot be confined to abstract ideological preaching, and it must not be reduced to such preaching.
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Bread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Happy Pride from B&WR! This Edmonton Pride, we want to highlight a fight for queer Charter Rights that took place in our own backyard, the Vriend v. Alberta case!
A slide titled "Vriend v. Alberta: A Lesson from our Victory" with images of rainbows and a graphic of a newspaper article titled "Gay rights upheld: Alberta won't challenge the Supreme Court ruling", and an image of Delwin Vriend.
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Happy pride 😌🌈
Portrait of Stalin labeled "Bottom"
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Every technology that allows one worker to produce what once required ten should be fantastic news. We could all work less. Instead the owner discovers he can sack nine people and keep the extra wealth. Technology isn't stealing our future. Ownership is.
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I use Ubuntu just because of how much documentation and overall support it has available! I've heard from other Linux users that it has a bit of bloat, but so far that hasn't been a problem for me.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
browsing the AI coding reddits and seeing a lot of posts like "im outputting code at 100x the rate i used to but im getting a bit worried about the fact that nobody at the company understands any of our codebase anymore" and the replies range from existential crises to "its fine. this is the future"
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Our society should be responsible to its members, providing education in new and engaging fields as previous work becomes redundant."
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"And if it were determined that the automation of certain positions was necessary and sustainable, we shouldn’t need to worry about unemployment, destitution or drudgery."
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"We should be able to decide which features would actually benefit humanity, and to do away with the ones that are wasteful and destructive."
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"A.I. doesn’t need to be a job-destroyer for some, or a glorified search engine for most. It shouldn’t need hundreds of “hyperscale” data centre facilities to meet prospective demand."
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"We need to move away from a system based in private ownership, where workers have to claw one another out of the way in order to support themselves, and towards collective ownership, where these technologies can be reviewed and managed for the benefit of us all."
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"In these unstable times, we have to remember that we're more than just our specific job or industry. We're a part of a greater class of workers, and these antagonisms that we're being confronted with aren't new."
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"From the steam powered machinery of the industrial revolution to 20th century robotics to the recent digitization wave, people continue to be jettisoned from there heretofore "stable" jobs by new technology, which is always heralded as the next big step for human civilization."
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 11/08/2026
You can pry the City Centre Landmark Cinemas FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Edmonton developer looks to buy downtown mall, convert half to housing | CBC News
Westrich Pacific leadership and the city’s mayor say the reimagining of the property is a big step forward for downtown.
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Excellent piece by Kim Il Sung about socialist construction and the role of the dotp, paired with a guide to help clarify terminology and historical conditions. Would highly recommend giving it a read if you're curious about what is to be done after the initial success of the revolution!
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Please, sir, I want to pay more.
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Alberta Utility Bills Are Set To Spike And Data Centres Are To Blame
Albertans pay the highest electricity rates in the country and new gas plants for AI data centres could drive costs up further.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This just-released Canada Heritage survey is a stunning piece of anti-Palestinian propaganda weaponized vs. critics of the genocide at universities. It is a reprisal against the encampment movement. Look at the evidence of ‘antisemitism’: a prof calling Israel a Zionist project—as it attests to be.
In a course that had nothing to do with Israel, my professor spent three weeks talking about Gaza and the creation of the State of Israel. He never mentioned the Holocaust as a precursor to its founding, repeatedly calling the state a “Zionist political project.”
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Bread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
1. The Primary Victory of Socialist Construction The first milestone in the transition from capitalism to socialism is represented by abolition of capitalist private property through the seizure of the means of production by a socialist republic and cementing the socialist system of economy -
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Bread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
From our new article What is Socialism? (breadandwildroses.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/w...) Within Marxism-Leninism socialism is recognized as being a system defined by a number of key features which come together in a society which adheres to the fundamental law of socialist society:
A pink slide titled "Socialism" with the following text:

Within Marxism-Leninism socialism is recognized as being a system defined by a number of key features which come together in a society which adheres to the fundamental law of socialist society:

1. The collective ownership of the means of production by a class of worker-citizens;
2. the class of worker-citizens holds political power by controlling the state apparatus through a socialist republic;
3. production is planned by the socialist republic; and
4. exploitation – the basis by which the exploiting classes, such as the capitalists, derive their livelihoods, partly or wholly, on the labour of others – has been eliminated.

The fundamental law of socialist society: The securing of the maximum satisfaction of the constantly rising material and cultural requirements of the whole of society through the continuous expansion and perfection of socialist production on the basis of higher techniques.
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Bread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
From our new article What is Socialism? (breadandwildroses.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/w...) Within Marxism-Leninism capitalism is recognized as being by a system defined by a number of key features which come together in a society which adheres to the fundamental law of capitalist society:
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Within Marxism-Leninism capitalism is recognized as being by a system defined by a number of key features which come together in a society which adheres to the fundamental law of capitalist society:

1. Individuals or corporations called capitalists privately own and control the means of production;
2. this class of capitalists holds political power by controlling the state apparatus through forms of government that range from liberal democracies to fascist dictatorships, depending on whatever conditions are necessary for preserving the political authority of the capitalist class;
3. production is regulated by the profit motive; and
4. exploitation – the basis by which the exploiting classes, such as the capitalists, derive their livelihoods, partly or wholly, on the labour of others – exists as an unavoidable barrier to the production and dissemination of the wants and needs of society.

The fundamental law of capitalist society: The securing of the maximum capitalist profit through the exploitation, ruin, and impoverishment of the majority of the population of a given country, through the enslavement and systematic robbery of the peoples of other countries, and, lastly, through wars and militarization of the national economy, which are utilized for the obtaining of the highest profits.
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Bread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
An excerpt from 'Anarchism or Socialism?' by J.V. Stalin, a reading in our Socialism 101: An Introductory Course (breadandwildroses.wordpress.com/socialism-10...). An IskraNote is now available for this work to help highlight key learnings and provide modern examples!
The Parable of the Shoe Maker: A Lesson in Materialism
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Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Depuis 31 ans, le Canada a voté contre le blocus américain à l'endroit de Cuba. La semaine dernière, Carney s'est abstenu. Le gouvernement doit dénoncer sans équivoque les menaces d'invasion militaire et briser sa complicité avec ce blocus. 🔗 communist-party.ca/fr/la-lache-...
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GG TRIBUNE @ggtribune.com · 10/07/2026
OPINION: I Think I Know How To Solve the Video Game Industry’s Problems ggtribune.com/2026/07/10/o...
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Not a book, but have you checked out It's Called Leninism's "The Wind of History" series on YouTube? Great biographical retelling of Stalin's life from childhood
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Seconding this, Losurdo gives an incredibly clear-eyed recounting that's far from hagiography.
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 03/07/2026
Welcome to Alberta, where you get to choose between a party that loves fossil fuels and a party that loves fossil fuels and thinks renewable energy is ok too, I guess
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
While it mainly looks at the Brezhnev years, The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union by W.B. Bland is a great resource on the USSR's revisionist turn and its consequences. The intro gives some insight into the interests that Khrushchev represented during his time in power.
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Wild Rose Marxist🌾 @wildrosemarxist.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Danielle Smith should go swim a couple laps in a tailings pond before she does her next press conference about how everyone who opposes oil and gas is an enemy of her short-sighted & corrupt petrostate. I think it would do wonders to help her see the other side's point of view. #abpoli #ableg
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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I wrote about how AI is destroying my career and what it means that highly skilled jobs are being deskilled with nothing to replace them Link below 👇
era. Having to hire human workers who might have pesky demands for more pay, better hours, or better working conditions is but a nuisance to them. They want to streamline their businesses by - ideally - not needing to hire humans at all.
They are being sold a dream of a 100% agent operated business where they purchase tokens instead of labor hours, and at a fraction of the cost. After all, agents won't ever try to unionize.
They don't need weekends off. They don't get sick or fall pregnant. They can't strike. They won't fight back. When the one of the last vestiges of upward mobility ("just learn to code") is being increasingly proletarianized and made redundant, it signals that the owner class has completely abandoned the notion that a minimum quality of life must be made possible for workers, even aspirationally. The oligarchs of old used to talk about a "riot tax": some minimal concessions by capitalism to prevent the working class from an uprising; a base level standard of comfort that would quell a revolution. Our modern day oligarchs no longer feel such impulses. They (either rightly or wrongly) predict that no such uprising will occur, even if their wildest dreams come true and 25% of the workforce becomes unemployed and unemployable.
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Excellent and unfortunately very relatable article about being on the frontlines of the massive AI automation push. The sword of Damocles is hanging over the heads of programmers, and every day, the rope holding it up becomes more thread-bare.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/05/2026
Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measure
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Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measure
EDMONTON - I addition to his announcement lowering industrial carbon pricing specifically just for Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled a plan to eliminate all of Canada's environment in o...
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
As communists, it's important to turn a critical eye to Orwell's widely lauded work. In a 2022 lecture, Comrade Jones Manoel of the Brazilian Communist Party highlighted the anti-worker and generally anti-historical attitude of the piece: redsails.org/jones-on-ani...
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A Critical Read of Animal Farm
Let us broach a polemical subject. The British author George Orwell is very well known for works such as Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and his book about the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Cataloni...
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The reviews are coming in for Andy Serkis' Animal Farm adaptation. For a movie that's been in development limbo for 15 years, it's no surprise that the reaction has been largely negative. But many of these reviews have an overwhelmingly positive regard for the source material.
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The Alberta Socialist @voxsocialism.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“Life expectancy rose during industrialization” is not the same thing as “fossil fuels improve lives.” Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Alberta oil sands communities, and coal-heavy regions of China and India all show the opposite: pollution cancer corruption shortened lives unequal wealth
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Bread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy #mayday! This year to celebrate May Day, B&WR created volume 1 of our Revolutionary Hymnal. This includes 10 of the most historically significant songs to the socialist movement. breadandwildroses.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/s...
B&WR's Revolutionary Hymnal Volume 1: Songs for Socialist Sing-Alongs and Rallies
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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Comrade workers! May Day is coming, the day when the workers of all lands celebrate Their awakening to a class- conscious life, their solidarity in the struggle against all coercion and oppression of man by man, the struggle to free the toiling millions from hunger, poverty, and humiliation.
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@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink
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e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Same goes for the slow murder of Canada Post. Tearing apart public institutions to create the new markets they desperately need. What a state of decay we are in.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15/03/2026
#OtD 15 Mar 1917 Tsar Nicholas II abdicated as revolution swept Russia in the February revolution (named according to the Julian calendar). The revolution began with a mass demo of working-class women now commemorated on International Women's Day stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8700...
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