fab
@cfbnn.bsky.social
Analytics engineer. Recovering urban planner.
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First time in mainland China in over 15 years. Thoughts:
- Cash is on the brink of extinction in China. You pay for everything with QR codes. Even beggars have QR codes. You cannot get around or pay fpr anything without Alipay or WeChat.
- Cash is on the brink of extinction in China. You pay for everything with QR codes. Even beggars have QR codes. You cannot get around or pay fpr anything without Alipay or WeChat.
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
First time in mainland China in over 15 years. Thoughts:
- Cash is on the brink of extinction in China. You pay for everything with QR codes. Even beggars have QR codes. You cannot get around or pay fpr anything without Alipay or WeChat.
- Cash is on the brink of extinction in China. You pay for everything with QR codes. Even beggars have QR codes. You cannot get around or pay fpr anything without Alipay or WeChat.
Bring back stigma to sex and porn if that's what it takes to get y'all to stop eviscerating riverbeds with lazy prompts
October 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Bring back stigma to sex and porn if that's what it takes to get y'all to stop eviscerating riverbeds with lazy prompts
That jet (?) Was absolutely terrifying. I thought something was about to crash into my building. Why the fuck do we still have air shows??? #toronto
July 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
That jet (?) Was absolutely terrifying. I thought something was about to crash into my building. Why the fuck do we still have air shows??? #toronto
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Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says
Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says
Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundation
More than 20 people were killed on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip, according to a hospital run by the Red Cross that received the bodies.
Witnesses told the Associated Press that Israeli forces had opened fire on people as they headed toward the aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There were many martyrs, including women,” the 40-year-old resident said. “We were about 300 metres away from the military.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says
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Act for Palestine
April 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Act for Palestine
Imagine shitting on decades of work building up your own reputation as a forward thinking urbanist councillor in Toronto... Only to sell out and back a notoriously corrupt spa. Nice job adam. #therme www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...
Former Liberal MP who opposed province’s plan to redevelop Ontario Place accepts job with Therme Canada
A former Liberal MP and member of Toronto city council who was a vocal opponent of Premier Doug Ford’s plans for the redevelopment of Ontario Place has taken on a new role with the company building a ...
www.ctvnews.ca
May 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Imagine shitting on decades of work building up your own reputation as a forward thinking urbanist councillor in Toronto... Only to sell out and back a notoriously corrupt spa. Nice job adam. #therme www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...
Right after Dina's announcement??? Really?? 🥴 #TheLastOfUs
May 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Right after Dina's announcement??? Really?? 🥴 #TheLastOfUs
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So true. SO. TRUE. One of the hardest things to quantify is how many people did *not* die (or experience harm or loss) thanks to protective measures. Seat belts, air bags, weather warnings, air pollution reductions, vaccines, medical treatment and preventions, and on and on. Leads to complacency.
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
So true. SO. TRUE. One of the hardest things to quantify is how many people did *not* die (or experience harm or loss) thanks to protective measures. Seat belts, air bags, weather warnings, air pollution reductions, vaccines, medical treatment and preventions, and on and on. Leads to complacency.
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less than ten trans women tried to play collegiate sports and now the car dealership class gets to crash the global economy and set up sweatshops in the midwest
April 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
less than ten trans women tried to play collegiate sports and now the car dealership class gets to crash the global economy and set up sweatshops in the midwest
Kudos to both, thank you for getting the message out there. 🫡 🇵🇸
Microsoft reportedly fires staff whose protest interrupted its Copilot event
Microsoft reportedly fires staff whose protest interrupted its Copilot event
On Monday, Microsoft reportedly terminated the roles of two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event last week. According to an internal message viewed by CNBC, Microsoft wrote that Aboussad could have raised concerns “confidentially with your manager, […]
tcrn.ch
April 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Kudos to both, thank you for getting the message out there. 🫡 🇵🇸
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They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism.
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
How Katy Perry and Blue Origin's all-female crew are preparing for space
Katy Perry and an all-female crew will launch on the New Shepard rocket on April 14.
abcnews.go.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism.
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
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If you have any interest in supporting or following my work -- please know there's no pressure -- you can do so here:
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youtube.com/@AtRachelGil...
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rachelgilmore.substack.com
patreon.com/rachelgilmore
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Bubble Pop with Rachel Gilmore | Substack
I'm Rachel Gilmore. I'm your least favourite person's least favourite journalist. Let's pop your bubble✨. Click to read Bubble Pop with Rachel Gilmore, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of...
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April 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If you have any interest in supporting or following my work -- please know there's no pressure -- you can do so here:
rachelgilmore.substack.com
patreon.com/rachelgilmore
twitch.tv/rachel_gilmore
youtube.com/@AtRachelGil...
open.spotify.com/show/5uP73Dl...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...
rachelgilmore.substack.com
patreon.com/rachelgilmore
twitch.tv/rachel_gilmore
youtube.com/@AtRachelGil...
open.spotify.com/show/5uP73Dl...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...
Well this pissed me off enough to sign up for an annual sub.
Rachel is truly your least favourite person's least favourite journalist. Support independent journalism.
Rachel is truly your least favourite person's least favourite journalist. Support independent journalism.
I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom.
If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?
If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?
April 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Well this pissed me off enough to sign up for an annual sub.
Rachel is truly your least favourite person's least favourite journalist. Support independent journalism.
Rachel is truly your least favourite person's least favourite journalist. Support independent journalism.
I'm just saying you should check where the HQ of the data vendor you're evaluating is. 🍉
March 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I'm just saying you should check where the HQ of the data vendor you're evaluating is. 🍉
This thread 🏆
We founded Proton in 2014 specifically to resist mass surveillance and abuses by Big Tech.
Google’s Gmail, Drive, Docs, Password Manager and Calendar can now be replaced with Proton Mail, Proton Drive, Proton Docs, Proton Pass and Proton Calendar.
2/16
Google’s Gmail, Drive, Docs, Password Manager and Calendar can now be replaced with Proton Mail, Proton Drive, Proton Docs, Proton Pass and Proton Calendar.
2/16
March 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This thread 🏆
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Stoppons?
STOPPONS?!??
STOPPONS?!??
March 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Stoppons?
STOPPONS?!??
STOPPONS?!??
Hell yeah meritocracy
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
March 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Hell yeah meritocracy
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with aid not getting in and with ongoing bombardment again, eSims continue to be a crucial lifeline.
if you are like me and can’t go to in-person things too often, please consider supporting our work directly:
#ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
if you are like me and can’t go to in-person things too often, please consider supporting our work directly:
#ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
March 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
with aid not getting in and with ongoing bombardment again, eSims continue to be a crucial lifeline.
if you are like me and can’t go to in-person things too often, please consider supporting our work directly:
#ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
if you are like me and can’t go to in-person things too often, please consider supporting our work directly:
#ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
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Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say
Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.
bit.ly
March 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.
It's 2025 and people on LinkedIn still openly believe in meritocracy, embarrassing!!!!
March 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It's 2025 and people on LinkedIn still openly believe in meritocracy, embarrassing!!!!
Name a more insufferable Asian Canadian politician than k*vin v**ng. I'll wait 🤢
March 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Name a more insufferable Asian Canadian politician than k*vin v**ng. I'll wait 🤢
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time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet
February 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet
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So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
February 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
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Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia.
Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.
Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.
February 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia.
Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.
Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.