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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have reviewed thousands of grad school applications over my career & always advocated against looking at overall undergrad GPA & instead at the trajectory in the last two years. That’s because I saw a pattern on so many women’s transcripts as they experienced something in their first year 1/

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I teach bystander intervention for a living which means every day, I listen to people tell me they don't need to learn those skills because they would obviously do the right thing in the moment. ... and then I read about the frat at Cornell and the shitshow at GuelphU and I bang my head on the wall

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 23/09/2026

The AI slop, the spammy calls and phishy emails are out of control. Is this the future we were all waiting for?

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm going to fight for a better world, and fighting for that better world requires calling out propaganda -- even if people would rather lose social progress because it feels good to support nationalism that thinly masks an agenda of aggressive neoliberalism.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Carney is more popular than ever. He’s also, in my view, a very skilled propagandist. So it’s essential to cut through that for Canadians so they can be clear about exactly what they’re supporting. That’s the focus on my new piece for @thetyee.ca. I hope you’ll hear me out as I tell you about it:

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I found this to provide useful context to the scary AI stories that have been in the news lately. It’s a long thread, but worth taking some time to read.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 10/09/2026

“We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web research task. These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions.” [collusion.wiki]

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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 10/09/2026

Some University of Manitoba students are calling on their school to ban a far-right group from campus after posters promoting mass deportations were found during the summer break.

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U of M students call for ban on far-right group

Dominion Society of Canada labelled a white nationalist organization, promotes mass deportations

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’ve been trying to stay on top of these AI stories about the risks and dangers, but I cannot determine whether these claims are exaggerated or whether we should all be terrified.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026

The researchers' hypothesis was that dominant businesses don't maintain their lead by making their customers happy, but by making it harder for those customers to leave. There's good reasons to suspect this.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026

Half a century later, our entire economy is dominated by monopolies, duopolies and cartels, who boast of *gigantic* margins, whose products are palpably worsening at an accelerating clip.

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.” - Gloria Steinem Another giant gone, another life spent in motion on behalf of others, another life that unequivocally showed that change is possible.

gloriasteinem and gloriasfoundation post - picture of Gloria Steinem laughing

Photo by @giamckenna for @gloriasfoundation

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Yesterday, Gloria Steinem passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her. Gloria's near-century on earth were years well-lived, and she continued working for equality until the very end.
Gloria's greatest gift was her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard. Her words, actions, and example gave people permission to be their truest selves. Gloria lived true to her independent spirit, always with curiosity and a great sense of humor.
She spent her recent years doing the two things she loved most: being in community with others and writing. She has welcomed hundreds of guests into her living room for Talking Circles, a tradition she insisted will continue long after she is no longer with us. As Gloria wrote in her forthcoming book, An Unexpected Life, "! have now lived for more than fifty years in this brownstone, in rooms that have witnessed lives before mine, and will know others after ! am gone." This book, along with her commitment to her home becoming a center for social justice movements, are among the many gifts Gloria has given the world with the hope they have ripple effects for generations to come. Gloria often quoted the adage: "The flap of a butterfly's wing can change the weather hundreds of miles away."
Gloria loved the tradition of lighting signal fires on hills to light the way to the other side of the mountain. Lighting your own candle for Gloria makes you part of this global and celestial community circle.
In lieu of flowers, Gloria has asked that those wishing to honor her with a gift, may make a donation to Gloria's Foundation.
Photo by @giamckenna for @gloriasfoundation

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McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com · 28/08/2026

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Friday October 9 at 7pm, join bestselling Enshittification author & activist Cory Doctorow (@doctorow.pluralistic.net) for a presentation on The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, followed by a book signing. www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18991/... @fsgbooks.bsky.social

The cover of The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence - Before It's Too Late appears on the left. On the right is an image of the book's author, Cory Doctorow.

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Bukowski’s Broken Family Band is in the running for favourite book read in 2026. Hilarious, wild romp. I always enjoy the familiarity of books that take place in Winnipeg. The description of the indie music scene reminds me fondly of living in Osborne Village when I was in my 20s. So much fun. 🩷

Book cover. Title in black all caps text. Bukowski’s Broken Family Band. Guitarist with shaggy black hair and holding a green and black electric guitar, wearing a white sweatshirt and black jeans.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

it's depressing to think about how quickly massive data centres are being built around the world, but there are so many communities that still don't have clean water, or schools without air conditioning and HEPA filtration, and bike lanes are being removed from streets

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Lengthy thread, well worth taking the time to read.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Watching the Prime Minister’s entire speech. I hate that this feels like wartime, but that’s what it is. People have to remember that Russia used two things to “weaken” Ukraine ahead of war: They stoked separatist debate in Donbas, & they used unfair tariffs to cripple their economy.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22/08/2026

5/5 What brings us together and makes us strong is how we take care of each other in hard times. That’s the Canada the NDP will fight for in this crisis moment and those to come.

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 19/08/2026

I am once again asking those who spend their time lamenting visible poverty, addictions and homelessness to perhaps channel that rage into advocating for better healthcare, income supports, shelters and housing.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 17/08/2026

We live in a world of ordinary abundance & luxuries only dreamed of in centuries past: music on demand, photographs, books, eyeglasses, refrigeration, vaccination, bicycles, and the washing machine. [ordinaryabundance.com]

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I tried something new today! I tried bouldering! It was challenging and I could only do the easiest climbs, but it was good to do something new. I’m pretty clumsy and don’t have much upper body strength, but it was way more fun than the gym. #trysomethingnew #nevertooold #50+

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’m so jealous of everyone’s juicy, red tomato pics. My tomatoes are still very green. ☹️

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

mosseri promised IG would fix this problem a month ago, literal years after it became a real problem, and I was still able to find endless pages of videos where women are telling these freaks to FUCK OFF on no uncertain terms. mind boggling www.404media.co/meta-ray-ban...

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Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women

A new study shows how pickup artist influencers use smart glasses to create content, and the connection between covert recording and harm.

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We were out at Wasagaming, and my 14 yo and her friend wanted to see the sunset. It was 9:30 in the evening. They walked five minutes to get a better view and take some pictures. On their way back, two boys, hoods pulled up, followed them. 1/?

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 11/08/2026

An Absolute Climate Catastrophe. “My best guess as someone who's worked on this for years, is that we are going to fail. We're going to go to 3-4 °C of warming, and...we’ll have to live through, or die from, all of the repercussions that that will have." [kottke.org]

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“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”

British climate scientist Kevin Anderson (from a 2024 video): So there is lots that you will hear — lots of rhetoric, lots of good words, lots of optimism about the future. But given we’ve known about this subje

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026

I'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking the interiority that you experience. 1/

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

Barack Obama's 2026 Summer Reading List:

Kin by Tayari Jones
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
A World Appears by Michael Pollan
Whistler by Ann Patchett
This Land is Your Land by Beverly Gage
Vigil by George Saunders
One Sun Only by Camille Bordas
Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu
Data Empire by Roopika Risam
Transcription by Ben Lerner
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#Winnipeg I'm frustrated by the Mayor's response to homelessness & addiction & the explosion of open drug use www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews... My thoughts are informed by understanding the present is the result of people's past imaginations that they worked to make a reality. 1/9

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West Broadway residents demand Winnipeg mayor take action on drug crisis

The laughter of children playing outside has been replaced by open drug use, vandalism and incidents of theft that have put residents of West Broadway on edge.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Beard's essay opens, "I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; telling her that her voice was not to be heard in public." My essay on the Odyssey, Andrew & Tristan Tate, misogyny then & now:

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Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern

Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the British government, which seeks to extradite them to face a long list of charges. An...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/07/2026

Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.

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Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto

A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Easy fix…”Hey, does anyone want this? If not, I’m going to finish it off.”

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is really interesting and well worth a few minutes to read.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

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Another stolen summer day

What are we still waiting to learn?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Chris Wiebe @chriswiebe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“People who aren’t going to be alive to see what comes next are making decisions to drill for more oil, build more pipelines, even burn coal for energy. But it’s those who are left who will have to deal with the personal and financial consequences.” www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/edit...

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Opinion: Climate change consequences keep piling up

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I was listening to Angine de Poitrine, and they remind me of a Winnipeg band I saw play in the early 90s at the Pyramid or the Spectrum. Anyone remember a Winnipeg band that played funky chaotic music that had the whole dance floor grooving? #Winnipeg #1990s

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 15/07/2026

Our earth and her climate system doesn’t care about pipeline and AI data centre profits, cruises and private jets, or fast Amazon deliveries, but she encourages you to keep up the capitalism, and she’ll send more extreme weather and climate disasters until everything collapses.

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I was aiming to get a walk in before it got too hot. At 7:00ish, it’s 24C and feels like 33. 🥵 I really hate this weather.

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A deer ate the tops of my cucumber plants. 😢

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Carney government’s lazy realpolitik treats diversification away from the US as an end in itself. Hence cozying up to Saudi Arabia. But what can reduced economic dependence actually “buy” Canada, given that our number one economic and security relationship will always be with the US?

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

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Scott Kehler 🇨🇦 @scottdkehler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A non-exhaustive list of June rainfall totals in Manitoba: San Clara: 422 mm Stonewall: 409 mm Petersfield: 303 mm Roblin: 275 mm Swan River: 269 mm Winnipeg (The Forks): 232 mm Dauphin: 211 mm Pinawa: 211 mm Brandon: 169 mm Winnipeg Airport: 154 mm #mbstorm

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026

It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.

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🟥 edel⁷ 🥢 ㅇㄹㄹ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ'ˢ ᵍᵒⁿⁿᵃ ᵇᵉ ᵒᵏᵃʸ @edelrh7.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I can't believe dinner has to be cooked AGAIN! Why does this keep happening, and can we somehow stop it?

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Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My 14 yo every evening about 15 minutes after eating supper. 😆

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