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T Shea

@tpshea.eurosky.social
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Music, education, bicycles, antifascist live band karaoke, existential dread. Transphobes fix your heart or die.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 5h
Doing nothing to change my opinion that we simply should not have a military.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 13h
Music-making is older than speech and universal to all human cultures, so yeah, the idea that we'd need a planet-destroying app to make it is wildly offensive. If you can breathe you can make music, for free, right fucking now. And you probably should! (logging off to go make music ttyl)
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h
“AI boosters may say that their hostility is just fear of change. But they’re wrong. The promotion of AI music-generation software as a way of making music is an insult to musicians. Musicians are right to react to it as such.” www.ft.com/content/2c21...
ft.com
The moral case for human music
A philosopher of music argues that AI music-generation software ‘is an insult to musicians’
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 15h
Fuck. I went through a "midlife crisis" and...joined a live karaoke band where I made new friends and help hundreds of people to laugh and sing and love life every month. The answer to "I'm not sure what to do next with my life" is never "murder" unless you are thoroughly cop-brained.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 18h
Don't lose hope when you read about more VC-backed garbage that purports to people shortcut the creative process. The novelty of using any of that shit is going to burn itself out. Humans yearn to do meaningful things that take effort, and practice, given the right conditions
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Wonder if it comes in left handed?
Black and white photo of Rick Neilsen, guitarist for rock band Cheap Trick, on stage playing a ridiculous 5 necked Hamer electric guitar with a tight checkerboard pattern on the body.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Avi Lewis and Marit Stiles are right to demand the nationalization of Stelco. Building genuine economic democracy means going beyond replacing American capitalists with Canadian ones. NEW from @christoaivalis.bsky.social on why economic sovereignty demands public ownership:
canadiandimension.com
Nationalize Stelco—and put Canada’s economic future in public hands
The ongoing dispute over Stelco offers a test of just how seriously Mark Carney takes the principle of economic self-determination. As NDP leaders Avi Lewis and Marit Stiles call for nationalization, ...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16/10/2026
Stelco workers in Hamilton are being laid off *right now*. They can’t afford to wait through a years-long court battle, and neither can our steel industry. We have to act now to protect Canadian jobs and assert public control in this strategic sector. That means nationalizing Stelco.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
<glares at Toronto bike lanes>
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Add it to the list of things we oughtta nationalize.
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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
You love to see it
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
If you require platoons of police to enforce your urban design decisions, you're 100% making shit urban design decisions.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Alt text please?
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Shatner could probably get a gig at the Rivoli. 😉
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Produced by Ben Folds, with Joe Jackson coming off the top rope for the bridge? Hard to miss with that support team. So good!
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
backbreaking work and poor pay...and repeat COVID infections...
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Nathan Sager @n8sager.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"The truth is that Canada is cloud-cuckoo land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots." -- Mordecai Richler (1934-2001), Barney's Version #CielCanadien #CanadianSky
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
When they ask you why you are masked explain that the Pope has lung cancer and so you’re doing your part to help protect him, and when they say but he isn’t here (and you aren’t Catholic), ask them if they think the Pope is the only person whose lungs need protecting.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
That KID!!
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
LLMs are imitating you because you're doing a cool thing--carry on boldly!
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Related re AI detectors = bullshit: they specifically equal racist bullshit. bsky.app/profile/pook...
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
One of the early AI detector sites tracked two values to determine level of AI-ness in writing. Although the service was (inevitably) bullshit, the values stuck with me as good goals for writers: Burstiness and Perplexity Or Be a startling weirdo.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
I love every bit of this.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Let's goooo!
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
Christopher Walken timing with zero Christopher Walken personality / intensity?
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
OK, since this thread has blown up a bit, I think it's worth clarifying in a new thread to what extent the 'GenAI is asbestos for the mind' analogy might hold up, and where it breaks down (as even useful analogies always do): 1/n
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
Whatever the heck this is, "driving" it surely ain't. Also cars suck.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
So much dusting. Constantly sweeping out nazis. Ugh.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
I always wonder to myself, "if I inherited the Earth, where would I even put it?" My basement's just not that big.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
Looping back to the OP, I went to a Catholic high school in the 80s and can confirm that the Northern Italian kids were low key racist towards the Sicilians and Calabrese.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
"It has the distinct verdant flavor of cabbages" is a cursed sentence, and yet I feel compelled to walk this strange new path you've shown me.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
Suddenly aware of the lack of a "horrified curiosity" emoji!
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
One sip of tomatocello and you'll reconsider your opinion. :)
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And the mob crime syndicate posing as a democratically elected government in Ontario is tearing down his acclaimed Science Centre so the boss' real estate buddies can cash in on the land.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
it's not too late
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
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Couple Overlooking City Skyline at Night
Alt: The final scene of Fight Club. Ed Norton's unnamed character and Marla Singer (played by Helena Bonham Carter) stand together in a destroyed corporate office looking out the wall of plate glass windows at the night time city skyline. They hold hands and watch quietly as the two office towers directly before them explode and crumble, destroying huge troves of financial data.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
I think about this every Saturday a.m. at my local farmers' market chatting with vendors that I never see elsewhere. It's such a joy to be friendly with so many people so regularly. I'll go even if I need nothing, just for the stroll and the chat (and maybe one of those fab cinnamon cruffins).
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s hard enough for cities in Canada to do smarter things given how often bad city leaders hurt their own cities. But it’s extra infuriating watching awful provincial premiers sabotaging cities by ripping out good things they FINALLY managed to achieve. Premiers should not have that power, period.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
It's good that our pension plan is predicated on making the planet unlivable for future generations, right? Right?
The Anakin / Padme 4 panel meme. In the first panel Anakin says "our retirement plan is predicated on destroying the planet." Padme, smiling, asks "but we have another planet to retire on, right?" In the third panel Anakin says nothing. In the final panel, Padme, no longer smiling, says "Right?"
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
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Max Rockatansky Says 'That's Bait' Meme
Alt: Max Rockatansky Says 'That's Bait' Meme
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Dead Poets Society
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Related: death to the surveillance state
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Efficiency isn't one of my values
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
HYPOTHESIS: having sinks out in the open increases the likelihood that boys will actually wash their hands.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
"...as soon as this country starts self-consciously celebrating and defining itself, we sound as American as apple pie." 🔥🔥🔥 When jingoism is your brand, your brand is highly exportable.
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Related: let's all go to Queen's Park! osstfupdate.ca/2026/10/07/o...
osstfupdate.ca
October 24: Let’s Show Up for Public Education - OSSTF Update
On Saturday, October 24, education workers from unions across Ontario [...]
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
By fast tracking bills like Bill C-5 and C-39 all the Liberal government has achieved is to build a pipeline to the courts. (1/3)
ca.news.yahoo.com
Cold Lake First Nations seeks judicial review of Pacific Link pipeline designation
OTTAWA — Cold Lake First Nations filed an application for judicial review in Federal Court on Thursday challenging Ottawa's decision to designate the Pacific Link pipeline as a project in the national...
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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Related: bsky.app/profile/cana...
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