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Jonathan Kennedy
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Filmmaker/photographer, communist, small town surrealist, pro wrestling enthusiast. Abbas Kiarostami liked my work, Guy Maddin liked a bunch of my Instagram posts once (he/him)

Hamilton, ON via St. John’s, NL / jonkennedy.net
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Bataille was so real for this
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Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them.

www.404media.co/government-l...
Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.
www.404media.co
February 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Just noticed that I typed the phrase “then-partner” and autocorrect changed it to “teen-partner” and this is why we need an edit function on these stupid websites.
February 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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And here's The Pleb acknowledging he posted photos all over the Internet accusing a completely random innocent person of being a school shooter:
February 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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NEW: A Mossad-linked Israeli lawfare organization is trying to shut down The Maple and get criminal charges laid against me.

Read, share and let Israelis know that they don’t get to decide what Canadian journalism looks like.

www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
A Mossad-Linked Israeli Org Is Trying To ‘Shut Down’ The Maple
The organization has sent demand letters to Ontario law enforcement and global payment processors.
www.readthemaple.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:57 PM
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Music on posts is one of the worst features on Instagram in general but if you’re putting songs on your posts about like the genocide in Gaza or whatever, you need to fuck off.
February 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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some of the very real, specific harm perpetuated by Grok and Elon Musk’s nonconensual porn machine: www.404media.co/grok-nudify-...
'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans
Kylie Brewer isn't unaccustomed to harassment online. But when people started using Grok-generated nudes of her on an OnlyFans account, it reached another level.
www.404media.co
February 11, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I’ve read two of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Morning Star novels now why are they so good? Does this make me a lit bro?
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Oh you think AI is bad? Well where do you get your fake Avengers Doomsday trailers? How are you listening to Metallica songs but funk? Do you just use your imagination to picture the transformers fighting Luke Skywalker? Good luck with that, chump.
February 10, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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Kadri's work is groundbreaking and key to more fully understanding the threat capitalism poses to life itself.
NEW: "Death Itself Is On Sale" - Ali Kadri on The Accumulation of Waste
millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/death-itself...
February 10, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Just send the oil
February 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Stupidest country in the history of the world.
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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If they can do this to find a dog, they can do this to find anyone. That’s terrifying.
Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Everyone should listen to Blowback’s season on Cuba to understand how this is the latest in decades upon decades of brutal US policy towards Cuba. blowback.show/Season-2
February 9, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Two recent episodes have shown how liberal institutions like Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders are designed to recognize the violence that shapes Palestinian life but not challenge the systems that produce it.

mondoweiss.net/2026/02/libe...

#Palestine #Israel
Liberal institutions are designed to acknowledge Palestinian oppression but not end it
Two recent episodes have shown how liberal institutions like Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders are designed to recognize the violence that shapes Palestinian life but not challenge the systems...
mondoweiss.net
February 9, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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"Because the bomb would be cheaper than drilling a deep well, the search for an economically feasible method of extracting the oil seemed to be at an end."
????? WHAT
February 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Still one of the most bonkers things I have ever heard about.
February 9, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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Where are my fellow Persona enjoyers? I'm maybe a fourth of the way through, and god, this book rules.
🎉The reviews are IN and the book is OUT🎉

Today marks the official pub date of @ravineangel.bsky.social's debut horror novel Persona!

You can buy the book right NOW on our website or at your local indie bookstore!
February 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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NEW: Canada’s top-paid CEOs made more in the first 33 hours of 2026 than the average worker will all year, writes Adam King.

www.readthemaple.com/top-paid-ceo...
Top-Paid CEOs Made More In 33 Hours Than Workers Will In 2026
A new CCPA report found Canada is increasingly a country of exorbitant wealth alongside persistent poverty.
www.readthemaple.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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What's your favourite Canada fact? Mine is that the RCMP bombed an oil site in Alberta in 1998 "with the full support of the energy company that owned it" and blamed a farmer for it.
RCMP bombed oil site in 'dirty tricks' campaign | CBC News
www.cbc.ca
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
“Centrist” is just a word for right wingers who are afraid to admit they’re right wing.
NEW: The “centrist” Abundance think tank pushing Democrats toward deregulation is run by a registered corporate lobbyist for OpenAI, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, and a crypto think tank.
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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very good thread of a lot of very concerning things re: AI. we need to resist and reject this shit where and when we see it.
Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:

1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI

www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
February 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I’ve always said I thought it was funny that Kid Rock is a right wing dork because Bawitdaba is an anthem for the underclass.
Lyrics to a song performed by Kid Rock at the TPUSA halftime show mentions “topless dancers,” “hookers,” and “porno flicks.”
February 9, 2026 at 6:10 PM