✨Brock✨
@queeralchemy.com
Queer PhD student in Quebec exploring care ethics in community-based participatory design research with the queer/disabled community through textile arts and e-textiles.
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@queeralchemy.com
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Petition e-7002 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
My official government petition to give Canadians rights over our likeness to combat deepfakes and AI companies claiming ownership of likeness is now live!
Please sign here:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#AI #Privacy #DigitalPrivacy
Please sign here:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#AI #Privacy #DigitalPrivacy
I basically made a cocktail that tastes like a sangria with xmas spices with this simple syrup recipe. I mixed with gin + cointreau, topped with cranberry juice and soda.
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Easy Christmas Simple Syrup for Cocktails | Cocktail Society
Our homemade Christmas simple syrup is the perfect base for your Christmas cocktails. Based on mulled wine and Christmas spices, this syrup is perfect...
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December 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I basically made a cocktail that tastes like a sangria with xmas spices with this simple syrup recipe. I mixed with gin + cointreau, topped with cranberry juice and soda.
cocktail-society.com/barkeeping/c...
cocktail-society.com/barkeeping/c...
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Headed to get my flu, rsv & covid shots. Want to protect myself and family. Rest in peace Mickey. So tragic #bb27 #bigbrother #bb
December 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Headed to get my flu, rsv & covid shots. Want to protect myself and family. Rest in peace Mickey. So tragic #bb27 #bigbrother #bb
Sad news today, Mickey (35) from the latest season of Big Brother US passed away after getting the flu and having a series of heart attacks.
Respiratory viruses are no joke!
Mask up, get vaccinated, go to the ER if you're sick and don't feel right!
💜
Respiratory viruses are no joke!
Mask up, get vaccinated, go to the ER if you're sick and don't feel right!
💜
December 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Sad news today, Mickey (35) from the latest season of Big Brother US passed away after getting the flu and having a series of heart attacks.
Respiratory viruses are no joke!
Mask up, get vaccinated, go to the ER if you're sick and don't feel right!
💜
Respiratory viruses are no joke!
Mask up, get vaccinated, go to the ER if you're sick and don't feel right!
💜
Elbows up means investing in Canadian BL series!
canada’s national identity should just be exporting yaoi we got people fantasizing about OTTAWA
December 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Elbows up means investing in Canadian BL series!
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Two years ago today, the three of us began Crips for eSims for Gaza. Alice, are you reading this? (We know you are.)
Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, & we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social
Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, & we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Two years ago today, the three of us began Crips for eSims for Gaza. Alice, are you reading this? (We know you are.)
Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, & we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social
Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, & we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social
Tiramisu is done and setting overnight in the fridge 😍
December 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Tiramisu is done and setting overnight in the fridge 😍
Why does Mark Carney think we need a Christmas message from him like he's the King?
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Why does Mark Carney think we need a Christmas message from him like he's the King?
I saw a video of a couple talking about how it's weird people over 35 think it's weird to share your location 24/7 with your partner and friends and that it's "not that deep."
I really feel bad for younger folks not knowing the value of privacy.
I really feel bad for younger folks not knowing the value of privacy.
December 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I saw a video of a couple talking about how it's weird people over 35 think it's weird to share your location 24/7 with your partner and friends and that it's "not that deep."
I really feel bad for younger folks not knowing the value of privacy.
I really feel bad for younger folks not knowing the value of privacy.
The F*ck Trudeau people are going to go wild with this one.
UK police say comedian Russell Brand charged with two more sex offences reut.rs/4awuZi7
UK police say comedian Russell Brand charged with two more sex offences
British police said on Tuesday that comedian Russell Brand had been charged with a new count of rape and another of sexual assault.
reut.rs
December 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The F*ck Trudeau people are going to go wild with this one.
Not a faculty member, but a PhD student who TAs and I think lots of us are feeling this right now.
I am committed to access in my classes--flexible deadlines, to providing multiple modes of media, and to universal design. But the truth is that all of this is already debilitating over and above how gAI is perverting learning in my courses. Im exhausted. And just trying to figure things out.
December 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Not a faculty member, but a PhD student who TAs and I think lots of us are feeling this right now.
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Our letter rejecting the use of generative AI for reflexive qualitative research has now been published OA in Qualitative Inquiry - endorsed by over 400 researchers
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
journals.sagepub.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Our letter rejecting the use of generative AI for reflexive qualitative research has now been published OA in Qualitative Inquiry - endorsed by over 400 researchers
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Heated Rivalry is a Crave production, from Canada. HBO is just a distributor. I really wish people would stop attributing anything in the production of this show to HBO.
Sounds like this set was run how they all should be. HBO once again leading the industry in intimacy directing.
“These actors are so bold,” says “Heated Rivalry” intimacy coordinator Chala Hunter. “I can’t overstate how much of these characters they just brought. We kept saying, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe they’re doing that.’”
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Heated Rivalry is a Crave production, from Canada. HBO is just a distributor. I really wish people would stop attributing anything in the production of this show to HBO.
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: AB, MB, NB, North, QC, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, NS, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 55 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: AB, MB, NB, North, QC, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, NS, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 55 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
December 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: AB, MB, NB, North, QC, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, NS, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 55 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: AB, MB, NB, North, QC, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, NS, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 55 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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Deportations in Canada reach highest rates since Stephen Harper, spending on removals up 50% since 2019. This is a conservative, anti migrant government. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Canada spent $78 million deporting 18,000 people in 2024 — the most since Stephen Harper
The vast majority of those deported have been asylum seekers whose refugee claims have been rejected, according to data obtained by the Star from the Canada Border Services Agency.
www.thestar.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Deportations in Canada reach highest rates since Stephen Harper, spending on removals up 50% since 2019. This is a conservative, anti migrant government. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Goodbye Trump Hunger Games. We're gassing up men so they think they could do a round in a boxing match and watching them see birdies.
Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Goodbye Trump Hunger Games. We're gassing up men so they think they could do a round in a boxing match and watching them see birdies.
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Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI 'from passive tool to active partner in journalism'.
Al Jazeera launches new integrative AI model, ‘The Core'
Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI 'from passive tool to active partner in journalism'.
www.aljazeera.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Co-signed, both because it's important to uphold Charter rights for all people, and because if the provinces are going to start using the Notwithstanding Clause to abrogate rights then the Federal government needs to get some precedent for the power to dismiss that kind of legislation.
this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
December 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Co-signed, both because it's important to uphold Charter rights for all people, and because if the provinces are going to start using the Notwithstanding Clause to abrogate rights then the Federal government needs to get some precedent for the power to dismiss that kind of legislation.
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“Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.”
December 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.”
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Canadian friends: here's a petition to stop AB and SK from Notwithstanding their anti-trans-healthcare legislation (this will make sense to Canadians). Don't let them shield their bigotry from Charter scrutiny!
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Canadian friends: here's a petition to stop AB and SK from Notwithstanding their anti-trans-healthcare legislation (this will make sense to Canadians). Don't let them shield their bigotry from Charter scrutiny!
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Ok, so now that Traitors Canada is over are we all in agreement that Real Housewives of Toronto and Real Housewives of Vancouver need to come back?
December 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Ok, so now that Traitors Canada is over are we all in agreement that Real Housewives of Toronto and Real Housewives of Vancouver need to come back?
I think one lesson that Pluribus is trying to teach us is that things are never black & white and that one individual can hold multiple contradicting ideas & beliefs at the same time.
Something that Carol has learned and Manousos will need to learn.
Something that Carol has learned and Manousos will need to learn.
December 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I think one lesson that Pluribus is trying to teach us is that things are never black & white and that one individual can hold multiple contradicting ideas & beliefs at the same time.
Something that Carol has learned and Manousos will need to learn.
Something that Carol has learned and Manousos will need to learn.
Every news article this week about the flu wave.
December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Every news article this week about the flu wave.
According to this CBC article, the NDP blame Canadians, the situation with Trump, and their own candidates whining about having no support and not pulling up their bootstraps as the reason they lost so many seats in the last election.
So they've learned nothing.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
So they've learned nothing.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
NDP campaign review cites 'brutal environment' for worst-ever election result | CBC News
The federal NDP released its internal campaign review Friday largely avoiding casting blame on senior staff and instead citing issues that were beyond the control of New Democrats for its worst electi...
www.cbc.ca
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
According to this CBC article, the NDP blame Canadians, the situation with Trump, and their own candidates whining about having no support and not pulling up their bootstraps as the reason they lost so many seats in the last election.
So they've learned nothing.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
So they've learned nothing.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Gotta say, hitting the year mark of when I first launched my independent news outlet is SCARY. I've had about a 10% drop in income after passing the "auto renew" dates from my initial launch, eek!
If you have some extra cash and wanna spend it on some independent journalism, consider subscribing :)
If you have some extra cash and wanna spend it on some independent journalism, consider subscribing :)
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Gotta say, hitting the year mark of when I first launched my independent news outlet is SCARY. I've had about a 10% drop in income after passing the "auto renew" dates from my initial launch, eek!
If you have some extra cash and wanna spend it on some independent journalism, consider subscribing :)
If you have some extra cash and wanna spend it on some independent journalism, consider subscribing :)
I wish he stepped down years ago. This POS is partly responsible for so much medical disinformation.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Christian Dubé steps down as Quebec health minister, leaves CAQ | CBC News
Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé is stepping down. Dubé cited difficult negotiations with the unions representing doctors in Quebec as one of the reasons behind his resignation.
www.cbc.ca
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I wish he stepped down years ago. This POS is partly responsible for so much medical disinformation.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...