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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15h
Netflix adaptation called Surf Dracula: Nocturne that coyly plays with the original lore of the Surf Dracula franchise but is mostly penned by playwrights and is about the expulsion of the Acadians from maritime Canada.
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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why is the BIA allowed to do this? Postering is a valuable tool for community outreach and communication.
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
it was smart of jacob geller to only post about what he did to his 50k followers on here instead of to his 1.5 million youtube subs or on his patreon. that way fewer people know about it and he limits the financial hit
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Secular Moi @secularmoi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"I’m familiar with death threats". They show Avi Lewis is having an impact. The National Post has suggested violence is the way “to deal” with the NDP leader for his outspoken criticism of Israel. breachmedia.ca/im-familiar-...
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I’m familiar with death threats. They show Avi Lewis is having an impact ⋆ The Breach
The National Post has suggested violence is the way “to deal” with the NDP leader for his outspoken criticism of Israel
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A spectre is haunting Canada 👹 @esunaproxy.solidarity.social · 04/10/2026
Violence is how we deal with Nazis and white supremacists, actually. Not how we deal with with Jewish political party leaders who criticise Israel. National post is a reactionary rag trying to enable a state committing genocide.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Tryk @tryk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Only thing I'm locking up this October are my emotions
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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @cjpme.org · 01/10/2026
We are disgusted and disturbed to see a piece run in the National Post that appears to potentially endorse violence against NDP Leader Avi Lewis for his argument that we all bear a collective responsibility to stop the genocide in Palestine. See our joint response:
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”
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Kai @kaisten.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Locktober No Nut November Don't masturbate December No Jackinguary February March yourself to church April Abstinence Maybe don't jerk off Jorkless June Dry Dick July Abstinence August (it's different) Stop touching yourself September
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
[The judge] “said in court on Tuesday that the pair ‘selflessly’ put themselves to the side for the cause. ‘Mr. Kalicum and Ms. Nyx have borne the burden of bringing a successful constitutional challenge, thereby doing the public interest a service at considerable personal cost’
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming
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CyKoore @cykoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NO SHIT
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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a real fuckin problem with journalism. This piece seemed mean spirited, unkind, and not really the sort of thing I would dedicate thousands of words to when people are being snatched off our streets. But the industry will go towards this kind of shit because they want the money it brings
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 23/09/2026
Employers always want binding arbitration because it saves them from the onus of compromise, which strikes force them into. It always gives them the upper hand, if not the best outcome. If they wanted to be fair to workers they wouldn’t force them to strike.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/09/22/h...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026
Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

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Todd Dwyer (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warner_Bros_Water_Tower_-_panoramio.jpg

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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dustin @godfrey.work · 21/09/2026
governments in Ontario, Alberta, Sask and BC are curbing harm reduction, AB and SK are going after trans kids, Quebec is targeting Muslims, the federal government is selling off public assets and killing environmental regulations. what centrist government are Canadians uniting behind?
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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cis people see trans people upset about their rights being stripped as “performative outrage” because they often can’t understand what it’s like to genuinely give a fuck about trans people. Their allyship is performative and therefore so must be our anger over attacks against us.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 20/09/2026
I know living up to principles is whole other thing than having them, but it boggles the mind that “We refuse to abandon marginalized people” is something anyone who pretends to have morals thinks is negotiable. Trans liberation now. No fucking bending. Fuck you if you think otherwise.
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 20/09/2026
Transport minister won’t guarantee prices won’t go up after airport privatization, promises fees will be ‘partially regulated’ www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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Transport minister won’t guarantee prices won’t go up after airport privatization, promises fees will be ‘partially regulated’
Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon won’t guarantee the cost to fly won’t go up for travellers if the federal government follows through on its plan to privatize Canada’s four largest airports but doe...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this 1922 new york times story on hitler, over 100 years later, is like the poster child for why you don't just accept spin from people you have access to as gospel when you're doing reporting.
But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch messes of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political pur- poses.
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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“cum. is. not. social. media.” has to be the funniest fucking things I’ve read on here in weeks🤣
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kysan ✨ @alolanfloatzel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
KYSAN LISTENS TO DAY AND NIGHT BY CARLY RAE JEPSEN - A LIVEBLOG IM STAYING UP PAST MY BEDTIME FOR THIS BUT I DONT GIVE A FUCK ITS TIME
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 17/09/2026
I once again ask why does every single police officer need a computer in every single police cruiser giving them instant access to every single Canadians' private information? There is no oversight. They are literally using this information to stalk women and sharing this information with assassins
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Progressives will propose things like more credit unions, postal banking, co-op grocery stores, etc. and everyone goes ballistic about how it's unreasonable & a terrible idea. But then governments propose selling our services to corporations & people are on board.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 15/09/2026
When the apocalypse comes, my only goal is finding this guy
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So there is in fact a "magic money tree", but it's not for fighting climate change or for public services.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 15/09/2026
When Australia privatized their airports, their Competition Bureau found that consumers paid $1.6 billion in extra fees.
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Lack of airport regulation costs consumers up to $1.6b in fees: ACCC
Airlines and their passengers have paid up to $1.6 billion too much for airport access over the past decade due to a textbook example of how not to privatise monopoly assets, the competition regulator...
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Tryk @tryk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Has privatization of public goods + reducing taxes on business investment ever worked for the public in the long run? Ever? Genuinely, asking. Cause the beneficiaries seem to be to private businesses and the GoC can now spend more $ on like the military or whatever.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the only threats "AI" poses to society are when people put it in charge of things that require thought, or crash the economy over it, or destroy the environment to power it. but it's people doing all of those things. AI poses zero threat by itself as it cannot do anything due to not existing
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Tryk @tryk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
YOOOOOOOOO! Metroid Ravenous let’s gooooooo!
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I keep seeing this rhetoric and no. 1) “Misandry” doesn’t exist. Misogyny is a structural force, and has no equivalent directed at men. Individual women’s exasperation with men is not an equivalent. 2) Feminism is about liberation and equal *opportunity,* not surface-level “equality.”
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
so far these are the big real uses of AI 1. Analyzing huge data sets better than we could before 2. Automate hacking and malware to an unprecedented degree 3. Supercharge fraud beyond all prior precedent 4. Flood the internet with slop / disinfo Where's the change in our very nature?
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
COVID helped fuel the rise of the far right globally. The uncertainty, grief, anger, and fear made for fertile ground for conspiracist thinking and right-wing indoctrination. Is it one of many drivers? Yes. But it’s an important factor nonetheless—and one that is too often overlooked and unexamined
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
saw someone say "I don't get the media's fascination with this guy" wrt this story - rahm emanuel's brother is the CEO of WME Group, a huge media agency. he can get instant fawning press wherever & whenever he likes, which makes it all the more incredible that he is still so unpopular
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rocky Horror was so influential because it introduced the idea that it can be homophobic to ask what the fuck the plot of a movie is
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Emotional Support Homo @hungryfool.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A musical on stage can survive on pure vibes if they songs are good and the actors do a decent job. Wicked‘s second act is a mess. But I don’t care because „No good deed“ itself is enough for me.
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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They call him Batman Beyond because he's made entirely of plant proteins
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Daniella @daniellamazzio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sunday at 5pm at @socialismconference.org 🐭 see you there!
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