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Skookumchick
@canuckduff.bsky.social
Practitioner of dark library arts. Resident of unceded Lheidli T'enneh territory. 🇨🇦. She/her. Mostly lurking here. Doesn't automatically follow back.
Paging @goingmedieval.bsky.social & @lukeisamazing.bsky.social (apologies if already seen)
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
September 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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A big reason the Epstein story is a fiasco for Trump is that it wrecks his core narrative: That he's a member of the elite using his inside status to expose elite self-dealing/perfidy and avenge "the people." He's now in on the elite cover-up.

Some thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/1981...
July 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The Liberals Are Dodging Questions About A New Israeli Arms Contract

Loophole for shipments via US.
www.readthemaple.com/the-liberals...
#CdnPoli
The Liberals Are Dodging Questions About A New Israeli Arms Contract
It’s unclear whether the Liberal government knew about the deal before it was reported by Project Ploughshares.
www.readthemaple.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
April 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"A consummate technocrat like Carney, committed in his bones to neoliberalism, can only exacerbate the economic pain that is driving greater numbers of people into the arms of the right."

But what realistic alternative is there for anti-PP voters? #CdnPoli

www.readthemaple.com/carney-may-b...
Carney May Be Better Than Poilievre, But Serious Issues Remain
A consummate technocrat like Mark Carney, committed in his bones to neoliberalism, can only exacerbate the economic pain
www.readthemaple.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
March 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
@wtyppod.bsky.social
Has society learned *nothing* from your nightclub & tunnel fire episodes?!
metro.co.uk/2025/03/16/l...
London's secret tunnels to become 'UK’s deepest bar' in £120,000,000 makeover
They were kept hidden for 70 years.
metro.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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It will now be illegal to to make fun of me. If you make me cry you will go to prison. I’m strong.
March 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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It does not matter whether you think Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. They are, but that's not the point

If you stand by while the DHS executes a warrantless arrest of a green card holder for his political beliefs, you're giving them a permission slip to arrest anyone who opposes them
March 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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This.

I think about how the entire Rogan universe just ingested every entheogen at heroic doses and just became bigger fucking assholes.

It's not the psychedelic substances.

It's the assholes putting them in their bodies.
Ketamine is not special or weird. It's useful and like anything else, it should be used with skill. Focusing the discourse on ketamine instead of naziism and unchecked power only serves to further stigma.
I understand this sentiment, but 2 things. First, it’s effective messaging to note that Elon is high on K while destroying the country. Second, K is not like pot, or or even cocaine. It’s horse tranquilizer.
March 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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The way Trump talks about Canada, Greenland etc is straight up like a rapist. He seems to openly take pleasure in showing how little he cares for our consent and agency. That is what's causing the threat level people are perceiving IMO.
March 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I keep thinking back to the opening of each @fallofcivspod.bsky.social episode where Paul Cooper asks “what did it feel like to be a person alive at the time who witnessed the end of their world?”

Maybe it felt like this?
Empires fall, they always have. But I don’t know that an empire has ever fallen because the ruler decided that actually he hates all the vassal states and would rather they fend for themselves.
March 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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This is probably the most insidious thing about Trumpism as an ideology. It's negatively polarizing people against the idea of helping other people in any way at all, *even if they themselves benefit too*.
one curious feature of our particular dismal political era: some people have gotten so addicted to the particular vice signaling around empathy / concern for other people that they seem to see evidence that something will benefit others as evidence that it will harm them
Anyway, this is about as gross and anti-social a statement from an antivaxxer as you'll find, but also probably pretty par for the course

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
March 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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March 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I am once again asking for your support in destroying a fascist snitch line
Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI.

FLOOD THE PORTAL

Spam the hell out of it.

Pass it on! It works!

enddei.ed.gov
February 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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literally every time I talk to friends
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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the economy
March 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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The way you push the bully back is by revoking permission, not once it’s gone too far, but every time it is tested, and then revoking permission for bullying things that had previously been permitted. It’s by drawing clear lines that harm is not acceptable, and then—crucially—by not accepting it.
February 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Absolutely do not share this post with any white-hat hackers, especially if they know much about digital signs.
#CdnPoli
~AB separatist behind ‘Let’s join the USA!’ billboard

The sign by the town of Bowden in central AB has the Town's office fielding calls, including some serious threats of violence.

The community has nothing to do with the sign along the QEII
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/p...
February 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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February 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Big Divine Right of Kings energy here. Or pharoahs?
Jack Posobiec told CPAC that Trump is not violating the Constitution because "Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution."
February 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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When volcanos spew lava what they're saying in the Volcanic language is "FEED ME BILLIONAIRES"
February 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Vancouver area if glaciers & sea ice all melt. Say goodbye to all hospitals south of the inlet and west of Coquitlam (except UBC and Women's).
February 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Going to a protest? Thinking about switching to encrypted messaging? Curious about VPNs? Check out EFF’s Surveillance Self-Defense site: Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications.
Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...
ssd.eff.org
February 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM