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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17h
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
mississippitoday.org
Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Our education system is being intentionally and systematically underfunded to create a crisis. It's working. Please keep this story in mind when you hear Paul Calandra and Doug Ford talk about their govt's "historic investments in education." Voting has consequences. So does not voting. #OntEd
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My school has ~400 students, 85% of whom speak a language other than English at home. Six years ago, my school was allocated 3 ELL teachers. Students in Gr. 2-8 received 40-150 minutes of language support a day, depending on their needs. This year, my school was allocated half a teacher. #OntEd
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Canadians of a certain age will understand.
Barnett Newman
Voice of Fire, 1967
As displayed in the National Gallery of Canada
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i’m not in dereliction of duty if i refuse to let a stranger talk to me on here. even if they’re a very nice person aside from saying one annoying thing to me i still don’t have to let them talk to me!
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Earl @earlalbright.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Living in very Red East Texas, I often feel like my vote doesn’t count. The worst possible Republican candidate always wins the election. We have not had a good Governor since Ann Richards, over 30 years ago. But I’m definitely voting. We all need to vote.
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david. @david.uncensored.zip · 01/10/2026
They come in regular envelopes so they cant be easily id and stolen.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whomp whomp www.thestar.com/news/gta/war...
thestar.com
Warren Kinsella leaves Brad Bradford’s campaign as a senior adviser in Toronto mayoral race
The controversial campaign operative, who the Star reported in July was part of Bradford's senior team, was not on the list of senior staff the campaign shared in a recent
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We’ve built a bridge!
Asshole is as asshole does
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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We get lots of patients who unfortunately have been struck by cars or had a crash because of unsafe road infrastructure, because of potholes, damage, or obstructed bike lanes" @edwardxie.bsky.social #DoctorsforSafeCycling www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Ontario health-care coalition denounces province's plan to remove bike lanes across Toronto | CBC News
A coalition of Ontario health-care workers gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to denounce the provincial government’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major roadways across the city.
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The Chronicle Herald @thechronicleherald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Halifax’s Argyle Street could become pedestrian-only year-round. Here’s what to know www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
saltwire.com
Halifax’s Argyle Street could become pedestrian-only year-round. Here’s what to know
Opinions are mixed on turning busy Argyle Street in downtown Halifax into a year-round pedestrian-only thoroughfare both among business owners and Halifax residents
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm fine with the twice a year time changes leave me alone.
Normal Rockwell Freedom of Speech
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William Buck @williambuck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
thelocal.to/candidate-tr...
thelocal.to
Candidate Tracker: Toronto Election 2026 | The Local
The only place to find reported, fact-checked biographies and platform summaries for every candidate running in the 2026 Toronto municipal election.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 22/09/2026
Dear God I have NEVER seen a judge this mad... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Order – #638 in Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney (S.D.N.Y., 2:22-cv-02435) – CourtListener.com
ORDER CONCERNING FREEMAN'S DEPOSITION: My order requires no clarification. It is perfectly clear. Counsel for Ms. Freeman do not get to set the rules. Ms. Freeman will answer EVERY question that is pu...
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Ed Sheeran’s cousin Jethro Sheeran.” Nope. Thanks, I’m good. That’s enough.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When I want to make my wife laugh I adopt a character I call Exasperated Narcissist, wherein I complain outlandishly about other people treating me in perfectly reasonable ways, as if they’re greatly offensive. Our marriage relies on her never realizing that this is in fact my real personality.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 20/09/2026
Another resignation for Kerry-Lynne Findlay as Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigns.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 20/09/2026
Oh, this is a big deal. www.vanguarddefence.ca/p/canada-for...
vanguarddefence.ca
Canada formally applies to join UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force
Canada is moving from observer status to membership in a rapid-reaction defence pact built around the North Atlantic, Baltic and High North
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[goes back in time] Me: WOW! I can't believe I'm seeing a real dinosau-- T-Rex: MOOOOOOOOOO! Apatosaurus: MOOOOOO!! Triceratops: MOOOOO!! Me: So you guys moo Archaeopteryx: MOOOOOOOO!
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Adam Bates @abates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
bro you had one job
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 16/09/2026
"As the country's ocean envoy, Fox Carney will "'advance Canada's leadership by connecting ocean conservation, climate action, Indigenous leadership, economic resilience and maritime security,'" wait wut?
cbc.ca
Diana Fox Carney appointed as Canada's ocean envoy, chair of Our Ocean Conference | CBC News
Diana Fox Carney — Prime Minister Mark Carney's wife — is stepping into an unpaid role focused on ocean conservation, including chairing an international conference set to take place in Halifax next y...
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s a bit odd to talk about potential costs when in reality nobody has *any* idea what Carney actually has in mind, I can’t remember a single time in the past 50 years where one man was given such latitude to determine Canada’s future in the absence of *any* public debate or discussion.
thestar.com
There are costs for Mark Carney’s closer ties with Europe
There could be a political cost in addition to the financial price tag for Canada’s proposed “unique alliance” with the European Union.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 14/09/2026
The reason we say the GOP and MAGA are white supremacist movements is because they are.
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
wired.com
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hopefully the lighthouse at Cape of Good Hope still works.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/09/2026
What if rock jumped windshield? Or brick jumped driver’s door? What’s the editorial guideline there?
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 09/09/2026
I think the best way to think about the Omarchy stuff is not a bunch of companies donating millions of dollars to a Linux dotfiles project. It’s a bunch of companies donating money to a political advocacy project with goals like getting minorities out of open source and eliminating the Roma.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A city survey about the waterfront excursion zone - the one that kept boats of the swimming areas (like Europe, Asia etc do with ease). Single best improvement to beaches in years. Have your say. The haters will be out.
ca.mar.medallia.com
MWEZ & VORR survey
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
The admission to killing seniors like this Ancient Rome and stealing the people’s money is bold. Them people need to start raging against the machine.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Horrible Toronto (like the AM radio strong men & social accounts say).
Sunset
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/09/2026
4 Americans died at Benghazi and we got a decade of Republican hearings about it
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SalamanderStreet @salamanderstreet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
All of our civics depends on the idea "leaders all want to work towards making things good, but sometimes -uh oh- they disagree on the best way to do that. That's why checks and balances are great." None of it is built for "when corruption, billionaire greed, and petty hate are their motives"
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Canadian General's ensigna:
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
Today's @xkcd.com
It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Old commercial didn’t anticipate twitter’s algorithm. Cookin’ grey matter.
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This Is Your Brain On Drugs
ALT: This Is Your Brain On Drugs
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 26/08/2026
Meta says they look forward to putting these allegations behind them and getting back to what they do best: harming children.
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Such a success the BIA wants to do May - October next year! #topoli
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Community reflects on Church Street pedestrianization project
Now, residents, business owners and some elected officials say they would like to see it expanded next year.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.
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Leo McKay Jr. @leomckayjr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One comforting thing for all non-Canadian traditional US allies is that if the US efforts to crush Canada work, there is no way they’d ever go after any other country next.
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We are a country in which a lot of our voters get confused when they don’t see the Prime Minister’s name on their ballot when they vote. We know more about you than a lot of you know about you, and we know more about you than a lot of us know about us.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
local12.com
Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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