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🔫Scott Martin🛼

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 4h
The current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornell
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will
The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 4h
Indigenous people, overrepresented in Canada's prisons, are far more overrepresented in a hidden form of solitary meant for suicidal and self-harming prisoners. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/hidden-...
Line chart shows Canada's use of observation cells for Indigenous and white prisoners.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 15h
If this happened to any other leader they’d be banished from political life forever. Poilievre’s hanging on by the strength of the rabid base and nothing else.
globalnews.ca
Poilievre about to lose his 8th MP in a year | Globalnews.ca
The Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of Parry Sound--Muskoka, Scott Aitchison, an MP since 2019, is set to announce he is resigning his seat.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: BC NDP Premier David Eby called a snap election while the BC Conservatives grappled with internal chaos. Two years after the NDP nearly lost government, BC voters, Conservatives and even some prominent NDP politicians are unhappy. @jenstden.bsky.social joins me to explain the nonsense:
readthecatch.ca
Nobody's Happy About the BC Snap Election ft. Jen St. Denis (Podcast)
Untangling the web of BC electoral politics
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 16h
We cannot end sexual violence until we abolish the institutions that act as training grounds for its commission.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 17h
My thoughts on Michael Tracy prompting the doxxing of the Cornell victim
A man in front of sponsors says “If I speak Bluesky will suspend me”
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19h
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 19h
Oh no
Email notification:
Bloomberg
Tax dodges for the rich are under fire
The IRS just made its clearest threat yet.
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 20h
A BC judge has declared Section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional and given Ottawa six months to bring the legislation in line with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports: thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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DULF Wins Constitutional Challenge, Judge Applauds Their Work | The Tyee
Compassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will avoid prison and Canada told to update its drug laws.
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Harbinger Media Network @harbingermedia.bsky.social · 23h
On a new 🐙THE NORTH STATE 🐙 @youcaughtscott.com sits down with @thetyee.ca's @jenstden.bsky.social to find out why no one's happy about BC's snap election. readthecatch.ca/nobodys-happ...
readthecatch.ca
Nobody's Happy About the BC Snap Election ft. Jen St. Denis (Podcast)
Untangling the web of BC electoral politics
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
zeteo.com
First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Breaking news from the DULF trial, where two founders of a drug compassion club in B.C.had previously been found guilty of trafficking but their lawyers started a constitutional challenge. The judge issued a ruling today in that constitutional challenge. A previous story: thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
thetyee.ca
DULF Founders’ Drug Law Charter Challenge Ends | The Tyee
Compassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will wait months to learn if they face prison.
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Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We won!!!
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 29/09/2026
Ragebait used to be an art
Screencap of an instagram reel with the words “shower tiramisu hallelujah” showing exactly that
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were illegal.
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sarah Hagi writing about the Daily Wire movie 🚨
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Finally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys | Defector
I can’t think of a time in my life when the idea of a Muslim terrorist was not the most acceptable societal enemy. As someone who came of age in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of both Iraq and Afg...
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 29/09/2026
It’s so weird being such a die hard Green Lantern fan and feeling little to nothing about the new show. I haven’t watched it, but just not feeling any urge to.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: BC NDP Premier David Eby called a snap election while the BC Conservatives grappled with internal chaos. Two years after the NDP nearly lost government, BC voters, Conservatives and even some prominent NDP politicians are unhappy. @jenstden.bsky.social joins me to explain the nonsense:
readthecatch.ca
Nobody's Happy About the BC Snap Election ft. Jen St. Denis (Podcast)
Untangling the web of BC electoral politics
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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CBC covers the Bradford AI story as 'AI in campaigns: GOOD OR BAD?' “To somehow suggest that using AI in the Toronto municipal campaign is a bad thing, I would suggest is an absolute overreach, and it's also not fair to campaigns that have fewer resources” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
ANALYSIS | Authenticity is on the ballot as Toronto's mayoral hopefuls clash over AI use, experts say | CBC News
A Toronto mayoral candidate is defending his campaign’s use of artificial intelligence, but experts in the emerging technology say while it could act as an equalizer for under-resourced teams, it's no...
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 29/09/2026
“A new model? At this stage of revenue stagnation? In this part of the quarter? Localized entirely within your company?” “Yes.” “May I see it?” “…no.”
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 29/09/2026
No way
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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, but not the way he means.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
in advance of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation I spoke to Kimberly Murray & Connie Walker about their efforts to raise awareness about this looming destruction, which survivors may not even know is happening next year. read it today at @thenarwhal.ca:
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The act of hate and violence shown by white nationalist residential school denialists demonstrating on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation is abhorrent, dangerous and unacceptable. Read my full statement here:
leahgazan.ca
MP Leah Gazan Statement on the Denialist Attack at Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation
MP for Winnipeg Centre
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 28/09/2026
Ngl Taylor Swift’s “Cleveland” kinda slaps
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 28/09/2026
MASHUP of famous penny arcade and far side comics
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
404media.co
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
boosting this because i don't have any assignments to work on this week. looking for anchor clients i can develop a relationship with & produce work monthly.
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is so genuinely cruel and heartless. Ford is, among other things, just a bad person.
Aware that the premier gives out his cellphone number freely, DiBernardo decided to get in touch. On Sept. 7, he sent Ford the following text:

Hello, I just saw the news in the Toronto Star that proposals from the city to retain the bike lanes and reduce traffic congestion were rejected without due consideration. A close friend of mine died in a cycling accident north of Bloor on university [sic] in an area where bike lanes were removed due to construction. This political move is going to cost Canadian lives at a time when we need to be more united than ever before. Please reconsider.He didn’t expect to hear back. He only wanted to register opposition to a plan that will needlessly endanger lives (not to mention one that will have almost no impact on traffic, as an engineering report commissioned by Ford’s own government indicates). “I spoke from the heart,” DiBernardo told me. “And I almost immediately got a response.”

The response he got (verified by the Star): “I am sorry for your loss! Star is always truthful lmao! I have been talking to the Mayor last week about University!”
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 28/09/2026
One of the best books I’ve ever read tbh lads 🤷
My hand holding up the book “Notes On a Colonial Situation In Hell” by Robert G. Penner
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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"...the Colonies are the breeding-ground for the type of fascist mentality which is being let loose in Europe today… The fight against fascism cannot be separated from the right of all colonial peoples and subject races to Self-Determination." -George Padmore, How Britain Rules Africa (1936)
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Michael Gormly @michaelgormly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can tell what the guests look like without even checking the pics
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
language model programs have no conscious intent or ethical understanding and they never will. you can program them to say they do, but they fundamentally cannot
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also - ridiculously - I don't have a will and I quite desperately need to get one together. Any lawyers in Edmonton someone would recommend? I can't just do one of those will kits - they are questionable as it is, and I need someone to walk me through the actual process.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 27/09/2026
"It's pretty difficult to still claim ignorance on this one." I am eagerly anticipating Tropical Fuck Storm's Inflatable Graveyard Vol. 2 by listening to their live version of Moscovium. (I really am that insufferable, yes.)
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 27/09/2026
To be fair, upon reflection, me saying "Well I've never heard it" doesn't mean much. I listen to Future of the Left ffs.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anti-immigrant demagoguery is the hearth that keeps the embers of local ethno-sectarian and racial animus alive. We saw it in the US and France, we're seeing it in Northern Ireland and the UK. It's both replacement therapy and gateway drug.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 27/09/2026
I listen to bluegrass and country music and have never heard Choosin’ Texas. I think there are viable arguments to me made that “I listen to everything but country” is a hack phrase but when the biggest country artists of the past few years are Morgan Wallen and Jelly Roll it’s not so cut and dry.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 27/09/2026
Horrific news out of South Africa today.
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South Africa: Pair of mass shootings leave dozens dead
South African police have launched a search for suspects after 17 people were found dead at a tavern southwest of Johannesburg. A separate tavern shooting near Cape Town left 10 dead.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 27/09/2026
Mr. incredible, dejected, faces Mrs. Incredible in two panels. The edited caption reads “shut the fuck up… please shut the fuck up”
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 26/09/2026
Wild how the classic Primus lineup has officially been back for 12 years and their output has had maybe 3 good songs total
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 26/09/2026
Telling the ad firm during my interview that I was inspired to join the advertising industry by an amazing TV show that plums the depths of humanity in advertising: Detroiters.
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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't watch the new Harry Potter series. Not even if you plan on keeping your HBO subscription because of other movies and shows on the platform. Not even if you pirate it. Do not watch it.
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Hankypankenstein's Monster 🏳️‍⚧️💖🏴‍☠️ @samanthaduke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
help keep Juniper's family stay housed & connected 💕😭
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 26/09/2026
This misses any analysis of what the term “Zionism” constitutes. You can always find bad-faith antisemites using “Zionist” as a replacement for “Jew,” but conflating anti-Zionism w/ antisemitism under that flimsy justification is bad-faith reasoning that assumes the conclusion.
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