sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025@taprootedmonton.ca Where can I find a list of all the mayoral candidates? 000
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 13/08/2025So...."fit check for my napalm era"... people are actually fine with and leaning into this lyric? It doesn't evoke, like, *this* for example, for anyone else? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Th...en.m.wikipedia.orgPhan Thi Kim Phuc - Wikipedia 100
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Just found out the Alberta College of Pharmacy no longer allows pharmacies to accept scans of prescriptions (like from a patient through an app) so that they can be prepared in advance. Cuz God forbid we try to bring Canadian healthcare into the 21st century #abhealth 010
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialSlashFilm @slashfilm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The first reactions to the John Wick spin-off Ballerina, which stars Ana de Armas as an assassin, have arrived...but there's a catch.slashfilm.comThe First Ballerina Reactions Are All Saying The Same Thing (And There's A Reason For That) - SlashFilm 032
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 21/05/2025"the University of Alberta (U of A) will be ending funding support for all affiliated child-care centres in January 2026. Right now, funding for child care costs the university $298,600 per year or 0.02 per cent of the total expenses in 2024" edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...edmontonjournal.comOpinion: U of A puts up barriers to access by cutting child careWe call on the U of A to make the choice to continue to support families and the larger community. 000
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Hey #yeg folks, @taprootedmonton.ca wants to know what issues matter to you in the upcoming municipal election. They'll use the responses to help craft a survey for the election candidates so we can understand where they land on them. Fill out the form! edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/questio...edmonton.taproot.voteWhat do you care about in this election?Taproot is gathering information from the community to better understand what issues are most important as voters make their decisions for the municipal election on Oct. 20, 2025. 000
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialKevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/. I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that. Thread below...liberal.caCanada Strong | Liberal Party of CanadaDownload our plan 1024198
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Found this article from June on how the AB gov is trying to tackle the opioid crisis via @inklesspw.bsky.social's recent Substack subscribers report. Boy was I surprised by the extent of investment in tackling this issue open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...open.substack.comAlberta's system builderAlberta and opioids II: Marshall Smith's ambitious campaign 010
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025This. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli 920670
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp... 4057391074
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialEmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Really incredible to have CTV, an entire broadcast news outlet, say they 'don't have the bandwidth' to deal with the type of harassment that Rachel Gilmore deals with as an individual journalist all the time. 33981342
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialJanis Irwin @janisirwin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025On April 1st, tens of thousands of Alberta families lose the childcare subsidy. Why? Because the UCP have cut it. I've heard from so many of you who are struggling to make ends meet. This cut has just made your lives a whole lot less affordable. 718944
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialIndivisible Acton Area ❌👑 @indactonma.bsky.social · 26/03/2025💪 We stand with Rumeysa Ozturk 🚫 ICE abductions 📣 Due Process for All 🪧 Protesting is a right 727752
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialJared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 22/03/2025It boggles the mind how Premier Smith can take a harder line stance against the prime minister of her own country than the president of an enemy nation. If she's unsure who is the bigger threat, her advisors have failed all Albertans miserably. 771308446
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialJoel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 16/03/2025In a world of Gavin Newsoms, be a Jared Polis 0215
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I really miss the vibrant comment sections about tv shows on the AV Club. I've basically got Reddit now and it's a hell hole. 000
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I know that allowing cats to roam about food products is unhygienic, but I still ❤️ photos of cats in bodegas. 000
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Just finished S1 of Severance. Wow it is overrated. It's not bad, but it is certainly not amazing. A slow pace can be good, but the slowness of this show does it a disservice. 010
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialNed Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I wrote about the NYPL’s incredibly uplifting report on public libraries and their impact on well-being, exploring how marketing campaigns could be built around the words and phrases the research highlights as embodying libraries. 📚 www.ned-potter.com/blog/refuge-...ned-potter.comThe Public Library Brand: refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion — Ned PotterIn my Strategic Marketing training , we conduct an exercise around the library brand. It begins with a key question: what do you want your library's brand to be ? What would the ideal sum-total of... 07730
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I've come up with my New Year's resolution. Don't buy from Amazon what I can get locally. I knew about many of the company's issues already, but it was very helpful for my car-free lifestyle. Between this anti-trans BS and political baffoonery, though, I guess that's the nail in the coffin for me. 000
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025“According to Edmonton Win House, they were able to answer 2,531 crisis calls, however, due to capacity issues, they had to turn away 1,982 or 78.3 per cent of callers.” WIN house is a women’s emergency shelter. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/01/07/d...edmonton.citynews.ca‘Domestic violence epidemic’ advocates concerned over recent homicides in Edmonton and Calgary | CityNews EdmontonTwo women were killed in just two days in Alberta and police allege both were killed by their intimate partner. 57654
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialRadiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025I mean, if a guy did this in front of me, I would marry him too. Congrats to Zendaya and Tom Holland for their engagement🙏m.youtube.comLip Sync Battle - Tom HollandYouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica 612412633
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialKevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Update: this seems closer to where I'd suggest we set the tone for countering the bluster from the South. Good on Minister Wilkinson. www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...bnnbloomberg.caCanada Energy Minister Warns Trump Against an Oil Trade WarDonald Trump’s claim that the US doesn’t need anything from Canada is “simply false,” said Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s energy minister and a potential candidate in the contest to replace Justin Trude... 45320
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialJen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 08/01/2025Earthquake in Tibet, fires in California, ongoing pandemic and genocide, bird flu, rambling American dictator, unstable Canadian federal politics, billionaires controlling the media. There’s not enough whiskey soaked fuck muffins for this week so far. 2437759
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialKevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Ugh. This looks like they are preparing a round of cutesy tariffs on Kentucky bourbon and Wisconsin Harleys. That is too indirect and too cute. Need bigger threats. The incoming WH is aiming a bazooka at our heads and we are going to threaten ping pong balls aimed at pinky toes. 1315948
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Unbelievable. Irresponsible. Offensive. Posting a screenshot instead of reposting in the hope that it may reduce appearance of engagement with this item. 000
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025CAT ADVISORY: Temperatures in the UK could drop to -10c tonight. All cats should IMMEDIATELY find the warmest spot in the house and stay there. Tell humans to bring you snacks and to keep the second warmest spot free in case you want a change of scenery. 235116001390
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Ooookie dokie I think it's time I take a break from the socials today.media.tenor.coma woman with her arms in the air and the words keep it together girlAlt: A gif with the text "keep it together girl" and an animation of a woman making a deep exhale 000
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialDavid J. Doorey (aka The Law of Work) @thelawofwork.bsky.social · 08/01/2025No non-necessary travel to the United States for the next 4 years, right my fellow Canadians? Not giving one tourism dollar to a regime run by that lunatic. 3415
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialMike Anderson 🇨🇦 @andersonmike.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Canadians should peacefully protest against the impending Trump “organization” overreach, including threats to the sovereignty of Canada, Panama, and Greenland. Protest at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa and Consulates in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, and Winnipeg. 2215
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025So what's the vibe in Greenland's social media right now? 010
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Why does the Bluesky algorithm think I like sexy cartoon furries art? 100
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialKathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 07/01/2025What is Justin Trudeau’s legacy on climate? - Transformative climate policies. This is the fed govt that finally moved from announcing targets and plans to actually adopting policies - Achilles heel on oil and gas. - The legacy is fragile but is that Trudeau or Canada? Bear with me for a long 🧵. 715446
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 05/01/2025I guess I'm not surprised that The Night Agent is getting a second season, but I'm very disappointed in people's taste. In the conspiracy genre, The Madness is much better (despite the terrible car chase scene). #netflix 000
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 13/12/2024New profile pic, who dis? No one else is using the icons, so I joined the bandwagon and ditched it. New fabulous art is my own. ©️sparklemooncat 000
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 12/12/2024There is a brief paragraph about each person that Biden pardoned today. ♥️whitehouse.govClemency Recipient List | The White HouseToday, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is granting clemency consisting of 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is pardoning 000
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialCCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 10/12/2024New from @policyalternatives.bsky.social: The GST holiday costs a lot of money—and won't have a huge impact on people most affected by the affordability crisis. The feds could be doing much more with that money, writes @davidmaccdn.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...policyalternatives.caCanada’s GST tax holiday won’t do much for affordability | CCPAThe following article is based on speaking notes from a presentation which the author gave to the Senate Committee on National Finance. The video of the presentation is at the bottom of the page. 3128
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialAndré Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Canadian police killed six #Indigenous people in 11 days: Four were shot; two were fatally struck by police vehicles. This has to stop, by Jeff Shantz www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com #policing #IndigenousLivesMatterthestar.comCanadian police killed six Indigenous people in 11 days. This has to stopThere are many factors that lead to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the justice system. But what’s clear is that the statistics point to a systemic failure, one that 514673
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I don't understand why I still come across websites that don't use HTTPS protocol. Isn't it the default now? 000
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialchris - sᴉɹɥɔ @newfangl3d.bsky.social · 28/11/2024As good a time as any to mention that Edmonton loses 3~4x more money operating its golfcourses than it spends on winter maintenance for active transportation pathways. edmonton.ctvnews.ca/mobile/city-... 33615
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/12/2024oh FUCK this!!!! 3438790
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 13/11/2024“I don't wanna go far for stuff" My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city. 692660574
Reposted by @sparklemooncat.bsky.socialFlorence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Interesting interview. Worth taking a moment to read.jacobin.com“You Can’t Buy Paradise with Blood”Nineteen-year-old Sofia Orr was jailed for refusing to enlist in the Israeli military. In an interview with Jacobin, she explains the disturbing authoritarianism of an Israeli society that has rallied... 1325
sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Going outside to wait at a bus stop for a bus that is theoretically "scheduled" to arrive with no real time info feels like gambling. #yeg #ets #publictransit 220
