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Tanis @tanisracket.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Lmao!!!! I think the last day of summer is technically September 22. But it is outrageous to consider anything in September “Summer”

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Where the teens are YouTube 90% TikTok 63% Instagram 61% Snapchat 55% Facebook 32% (down from 71%) WhatsApp 23% X 17% (down from 33%) Reddit 14% Threads 6% report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

YouTube tops the list of the online platforms we asked about in our survey. Nine-in-ten teens report using the site, slightly down from 95% in 2022.

TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among teens. Roughly six-in-ten teens say they use TikTok and Instagram, and 55% say the same for Snapchat.

Facebook and X use have steeply declined over the past decade. Today, 32% of teens say they use Facebook. This is down from 71% in 2014-15, though the share of teens who use the site has remained stable in recent years. And 17% of teens say they use X (formerly Twitter) – about half the share who said this a decade ago (33%), and down from 23% in 2022.

Roughly one-quarter of teens (23%) say they use WhatsApp, up 6 percentage points since 2022.

And 14% of teens use Reddit, a share that has remained stable over the past few years.

We asked about Threads, launched by parent company Meta in 2023, for the first time this year. Only 6% of teens report using it.

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Diana 🌒🌕🌘 @chaosfeminist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew calling these geriatric idiots ambulance chasers is an insult to the hardworking personal injury attorneys who form the backbone of our working class attempts to escape wage slavery. None of these people could successfully litigate an injury case in a modern court of Law.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

To me, the lesson of De Blasio and the NYPD is different: they will hate you no matter what. NYPD, especially the white well-connected officers who make up the upper ranks, get their news from conservative propaganda and will not respect your authority or cooperate with you no matter what you do.

De Blasio entered office promising to reform the NYPD and end stop-and-frisk. He ended up clashing with the NYPD after making remarks that were unfairly interpreted as anti-police, fueling an immense amount of negative tabloid coverage and playing into a caricature invented by the Post. The lesson isn’t to walk on eggshells on the topics of crime and public safety, but to understand that the politics of crime in New York have a potent history, rooted in the 1970s and 1980s and etched into the public imagination by films like Taxi Driver and the national media.

That history makes it especially important for Mamdani, who once called for defunding the police, to articulate a credible public safety agenda. He’s since backed off his defund stance and stated that he’d “work with police…because the police have a critical role to play in creating public safety.” Mamdani’s relentless focus on economics will help, but mayors have to govern the whole city, so he needs a credible policing strategy.

The first place to start is to simply affirm that people’s desire for public safety is real and valid. In a city with a lot of rich people and a lot of poor people, there will be scaremongering about crime. But falling into the trap of repeating that crime is actually low, while accurate, won’t be sufficient. In addition to giving voice to working people’s economic struggles, Mamdani can talk about how many working-class communities in New York suffer from gun violence, and that building a just society means delivering both economic justice and physical safety.

Law and order can also mean cracking down on corporate crime and slumlords who violate tenant protection laws, as well as taking on physical safety threats. People are as much enraged by the disproportionate treatment given to white-collar criminals relative to other criminals. In this sense, Mamdani can reframe tough on crime messaging,

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 18/06/2025

I assure you Bluesky is nowhere near as cool as this sounds

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Tanis @tanisracket.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Get those animals off those horses.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

One thing social media has taught me (though I have definitely experienced it in other media too): a lot of people, even quite smart people, are worryingly bad at reading comprehension. For instance: many have trouble distinguishing between someone *describing* a thing and *advocating* that thing.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

this speaks a bit to my argument about leaving twitter. it's not about ideological purity, it is about the fact that it's been turned into a political weapon for people who wish to use it to harm others. it's not the marketplace of ideas - you do not have to participate in this project! very simple!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/06/2025

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

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farner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

called a cop a “doodoo poopoo fuck” and he shot me 62 times

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 04/06/2025

It is by no means an exaggeration to say that many, many people who work in politics don't actually believe in anything but making money in a white collar career of consequence. You can't explain this kind of thing any other way.

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Tanis @tanisracket.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

They should read Character Limit

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Jenna 🐻🍫 @jennegatron.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

completely correct. all of the complaints about cities & public transit being dirty boil down to what we prioritize in our city budgets: police. Can you imagine how much better it would be if we paid custodians police officer wages to keep our shared public spaces clean?

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Tanis @tanisracket.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Lindy West deleted her Twitter in 2017 after relentless harassment. And she was accustomed to hateful shit directed towards her. It’s been shockingly hostile for a very long time for a lot of folks.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

you want to win voters trust? choose something, anything at all, to care about more than polls and fight like hell for it.

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person

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Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Hasan has a certain amount of fame and can get away with shit because ICE wanted to intimidate him but not suffer the heat for holding him long. If you get picked up say exactly this and nothing else: "I am invoking my right to silence and will not say anything until I have legal counsel present".

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Fascism first arose as a responce to large scale, Marxist worker organising. Refusal to understand the potenency of that organising - and why the owning class feared it so much - makes it impossible understand fascism. Liberal screeches of 'get rid of the bad man' will achieve nothing

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farner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

right-wing ppl who work normal jobs are complete freaks. there’s no way around it. you make $15 an hour and the thing that motivates you is your boss not having enough money? you’re cooked buddy

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nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

[defense wheels out a tv with their own ai of the victim] hey man, thanks for killing me

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Tanis @tanisracket.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

November 2023. About 10k Canadian for 7 days at DW.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"Ethan Klein, Hasan, Streamer Debates" You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn

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Tanis @tanisracket.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

They are getting themselves whipped up over pencils at the polls.

Instagram comments from Conservatives suspicious about pencils at their voting polls. Pure cope.

Instagram comment “They made us vote with pencil!!!”

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 29/04/2025

i wonder if the new york times feels bad or complicit interviewing and gawking at a bunch of people who don't know any information or news

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 29/04/2025

heartwarming

screenshot of an election result showing Pierre Poilievre has lost his own seat

it says “Defeated” under his name with an X in a red circle

it says he’s Trailing by 3,793 votes (4.5% margin) in riding of Carleton

it has a picture of a white man grinning

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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Number of times I have seen someone concerned about "wokeness" or "global elites" or "vaccine safety" or "WEF" or "communism" who is not on the far right: 0 Check your local candidate's history on Google. Know who you are voting for. #canpoli #cdnpoli

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Tanis @tanisracket.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The phrasing of “treated like a criminal” tells me this man is very comfortable with diminishing the humanity of others so long as it doesn’t happen to him.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A useful reaction for political elites who “didn’t see this coming” would be to reconsider how smart it was to be a condescending, dismissive prick to everyone who tried to tell you it was coming

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Before 9/11, the Canadian media diet was significantly more Canadian, tbqh, and then it became gauche to make fun of Americans. But given the benefit of hindsight, I think we can definitively agree that Red Green was superior to Tim Allen in every conceivable way.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/04/2025

To the people who think racist authoritarians should be posting more on Bluesky: What the actual fuck is wrong with you, fuck off with that mealy-mouth "both sides" bullshit, thank you for your attention, now go fuck yourselves

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

While you will not read this anywhere in mainstream media, because editors are a mix of cowards and ignorants, this is the most important driver of generalized misery in society. And neither Liberal nor Conservative will do anything to stop it.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 13/04/2025

the reason is actually that their ideas are bad and they survive as public figures because they benefit from support provided by the American media’s endless supply of well-positioned dimwitted snobs

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Tanis @tanisracket.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The GDP is the pervert’s metric.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

How to beat them at the polls: 1) stop voter disenfranchisement

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Sometimes, because it was the way to survive or just get along, you joined them in the betrayal of yourself, your reality, and what you knew. This is not a reason to be angry with yourself or ashamed of that choice. It’s a reason to start unraveling it, and rejecting it, today. Like right now.

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Tanis @tanisracket.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Hope CMBC covers this one.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/04/2025

Mercy looked it up yesterday night and the tariffs are about to make my Crohn's meds unavailable. So that's cool. Anyway, don't sleep on the eugenicist aspect of this. Tariffs are going to make it unaffordable for disabled people to stay alive, which is part of the point of them.

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Tanis @tanisracket.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

He is such a condescending little prick.

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Emily Ward @omgitsemilyward.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

an historic moment in SNL history and SNL socials are already out there posting the bleeped version and we can’t have that so here is the unbleeped one god bless king Ego

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

all protest is performance. street turnout without using that energy to push you into effecting material change, however you can no matter how tiny it is, is just a parade. being responsive to calls for help is good to do. better to stay alert and keep showing up, especially when the trend fades.

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