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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The US is a far-right illiberal democracy, not unlike Hungary under Orban, but on a scale never before seen in human history. The potential effects on global civilization are catastrophic. We need to isolate the US from the world as a matter of self-preservation.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The backlash against the Spotify logo is vapid rage cycle clickbait. We get it, you hate everything and like to be extremely petty and noisy about it 😏 #Spotify #RageCycle #DoomScrolling #FuckOff

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I live in Canada, we have five major parties (though only two of them have ever formed government). I strongly believe more parties would greatly strengthen American democracy, but first that would require Americans to possess a basic understanding of their democracy.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's called piracy and it was invented for exactly this scenario.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The majority of Americans will also likely do nothing meaningful to stop any of this, because they seem to think their role is to complain loudly enough for *someone else* to do it. Hundreds of millions of people, all of them wanting someone else to fix the problem. All of them required to do it.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

He's a narcissist, so making him look ugly and childish will really get under his skin when he sees this! Take that, Mr. President! Or, this does fucking nothing and it's well past time to stop wallowing in schadenfreude. Sneering does nothing, neither do these. Find any way to help, however small

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

One of the parties is a resurgent far-right white nationalist movement that idolizes illiberal democracy and autocracy, it has already created a humanitarian crisis in the US and shattered American democracy to pieces. Democrats aren't great, but Republicans are a threat to America's existence.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Let's complain about it on social media, surely someone who can do something about it will see and finally save us! Nothing gets done because everyone assumes only experts or leaders or whatever can do anything. If everyone tried to contribute what little they could, it would add up to solutions.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Uh, tech companies have been around for literally two centuries. Even if you limit the definition to modern tech companies, they have still been around since the 1950s (three decades before this movie). And CEOs have always been villains, that's not unique to tech companies. Fuck capitalism.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

That is blatantly untrue, and glosses over the fact that much of that decline is due to factors beyond our control. COVID disrupted a lot of things, Trump is sowing economic chaos with his incompetence, and we're in the middle of a massive trade realignment. Carney can only soften the blow for us.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

@404media.co Why do you guys have so much negative coverage of AI?

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Harm reduction saves lives by reducing overdoses, preventing disease, and connecting people to care. Abstinence-only fails substance users, with higher rates of illness, overdose, and relapse. #HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #SubstanceUse #Substances #Drugs #Health #Healthcare #Canada #Politics #CdnPoli

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by the opioid crisis due to discrimination and culturally inappropriate treatment. Harm reduction saves lives and can help preserve cultural identity. #HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #Health #Healthcare #SubstanceUse #Indigenous #FirstNations

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

AI doesn’t make people stupid. It reduces cognitive load by offloading some work, the same way Google or calculators do, without harming our ability to think. It extends thought rather than replacing it. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Automation #MachineLearning #Technology #Science #Politics

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested. Not because he raped underage girls, but because he leaked trade reports. He is being held to account over trade reports before his crimes against children. #UK #UKPoli #Politics #Windsor #Royal #Monarchy #Andrew #Epstein #Giuffre

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Former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested by U.K. police | CBC

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The circumstances around Tumbler Ridge are becoming clearer. This was committed by a person who should have never been around guns, but who was clearly raised around a plethora of poorly secured weapons. #Canada #CdnPoli #Politics #TumblerRidge #BC #GunControl #LongGuns #Firearms #Guns

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If you think the UK has not become an Americanized satellite state of the US, just look at how deeply enmeshed it's leadership and politicians are with Epstein and US corruption. The UK has become Little America. #US #UK #USPoli #UKPoli #Politics #Andrew #Starmer #Epstein #Giuffre #TimesUp

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Gen Z use AI to aid thought. Millennials use AI to aid work. Gen X use AI cautiously as a tool. Boomers are most likely to be AI skeptics. #Technology #AI #Automation #Science #LLM #ChatGPT #Zoomers #Boomers #Millennials #Futurism

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Danielle Smith is undermining the independence of the judiciary in her province. She openly believes in parliamentary supremacy. Her argument is that we should be more like the US. Our Canadian values are getting in her way, apparently. #Canada #CdnPoli #Politics #Alberta #Smith #Americanization

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I am getting sick of performative anti-AI bullshit. If you don't like AI, then simply don't use it. Stop involving the rest of us in your insecurities. It's not going away just because you call it stupid and useless at every opportunity. #AI #Technology #Politics #Science #Automation #NeoLuddites

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

And this is the cost of failing to persuade. It's not enough to warn people, you need to also convince them. All this shit is happening because the people who were supposed to be preventing these things failed catastrophically and repeatedly. Without learning from that failure, or recognizing it.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Honestly, this is true of most Americans. They don't feel brave until they have guns, armour, vehicles, or numbers. Otherwise, it is all bluster to try and convince everyone you are tougher than you are, like an animal puffing up it's coat to appear large. Take bigger risks in this fight.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I would say this is actually an incredibly pressing issue. Holding them responsible for their crime is a necessary step towards reform.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

So they deserve it? You didn't prevent it. You're just as culpable. When democracy fails, the entire electorate bears some of the responsibility. It's not enough to just cast a vote, you need to be organized and be persuasive. Trump is a moron, and somehow that hasn't been capitalized upon.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hey now, consistently useless seems to be the American way. A proud American tradition in the face of a challenge. Do as little as you can, as loudly as you can, because apparently it matters more to be seen as something than to be that something. Performance over substance.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

She cocked her fist too. She should have thrown it.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Yo she was ready to punch that guy, that's kinda badass lol

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Maybe it would be more productive to think of what exactly went wrong, and what could have been done differently. So it won't keep fucking happening. Americans need to act more, talk less, and stop fantasizing altogether. Everyone can do *something*. It all adds up. No part is too small.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Both persons of colour, too. Attacked in the midst of anti-immigration crackdowns targeting people of colour. Their lives are in danger, and that should be taken more seriously.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hey, eighty years between these events is nothing to turn your nose up at. We all know it would have become a common occurrence if not for the actions of your generation. People take to cruelty too easily. It was ended for nearly a century. Next time, we can try to beat that record.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

For doing what? This accomplished nothing. It was performative, even if she didn't intend it to be. There are no heroes in American government. Democrats have no teeth. They seem to think announcing their position somehow does something. Punch some fucking Nazis. This is a war on Americans.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

You know you can use AI to help with that process, right? It can even detect AI-generated writing, if you are dead set on trashing anything touched by AI (as long as you can tolerate the irony of using AI to do so). Truth was never easy to find in the first place, anyways.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The Trump administration is sharing blatant falsehoods at a record pace. Embarrassingly fake and childish images. Lying about Carney. Their support is collapsing, and lying is their only survival skill. #US #USPoli #Politics #Minnesota #Carney #FuckTrump #Corruption #Failure #AmericanCollapse

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

So Trump has caved on Greenland. The battle is over. Once more, the bully lost. Collective power will always defeat singular power. #US #USPoli #Politics #Europe #NATO #Greenland #Denmark #FuckTrump

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Congratulations to Jenner Yeremiy for gathering 6,500 signatures to remove UCP Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides from the Alberta legislature. They needed 16,000, but the message of dissent is clear. #Canada #Alberta #CdnPoli #Politics #UCP #Yeremiy #Nicolaides #DanielleSmith #Recall

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

You don’t have to approve of substance use to support harm reduction. You just have to care whether people live or die. Harm reduction is risk management, not endorsement. #HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #SafeConsumption #SubstanceUse #Drugs #Substances #Health #Healthcare #DrugSky

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Canada will be sending troops to help defend Greenland against the United States. So is the rest of NATO (except, of course, the US). Bullying does not work. Trump is not strong. He is a lonely, isolated grifter. #Canada #US #CdnPoli #USPoli #Politics #Greenland #Denmark #NATO #FuckTrump

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

And that's how it's always been, publications acting as filters. The proportion of crap to gold has always been high. AI is creating more writers, which means exponentially more crap, but also exponentially more gold. Your job, with your publication, is to sift through it for us.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Do you think online articles have *ever* been a showcase of mastercraft writing? AI is not the issue, these are just shitty writers, who will always exist. The only thing that is different is the volume, because AI makes it more accessible. But it goes both ways, amplifying good writing too.

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦 @thomasembree.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It's actually fine and rapidly improving. This neo-luddite moral panic bullshit needs to stop, it's ridiculous.

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