Susan Joudrey
@sujo.bsky.social
educator. historian of public history, settler colonialism & eugenics. concerned citizen. pop culture enthusiast. Worth a million in prizes, but also anti-capitalist.
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Susan Joudrey
@sujo.bsky.social
· Jul 8
I guess my Bluesky typos will also keep me humble
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In 2026 there will be more mass media articles and commentators ridiculing people taking precautions to avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection while simultaneously hundreds of pieces of research will be published further demonstrating the long-term harms of infection.
Ignore the ridicule.
Ignore the ridicule.
January 2, 2026 at 12:49 PM
In 2026 there will be more mass media articles and commentators ridiculing people taking precautions to avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection while simultaneously hundreds of pieces of research will be published further demonstrating the long-term harms of infection.
Ignore the ridicule.
Ignore the ridicule.
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What little constraint there was for the US post-WWII came from their rival superpower, not international law. It's gone, so what's actually left to challenge them other than other geopolitical entities? Imagine WMDs passing the sniff test with a global superpower warning them to stay out.
January 4, 2026 at 5:15 PM
What little constraint there was for the US post-WWII came from their rival superpower, not international law. It's gone, so what's actually left to challenge them other than other geopolitical entities? Imagine WMDs passing the sniff test with a global superpower warning them to stay out.
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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
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All of those people who claimed to be desperately worried about mental health at the start of the pandemic seem to no longer care about mental health.
It was obvious at that time that they did not care, and frankly, they never will.
That little dip in deaths by suicide was in 2020.
It was obvious at that time that they did not care, and frankly, they never will.
That little dip in deaths by suicide was in 2020.
January 4, 2026 at 4:54 PM
All of those people who claimed to be desperately worried about mental health at the start of the pandemic seem to no longer care about mental health.
It was obvious at that time that they did not care, and frankly, they never will.
That little dip in deaths by suicide was in 2020.
It was obvious at that time that they did not care, and frankly, they never will.
That little dip in deaths by suicide was in 2020.
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❤️Open to all signatories❤️
Deadline Jan 12
Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial
🙏✍️&share
Thank you
Deadline Jan 12
Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial
🙏✍️&share
Thank you
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
Clean Indoor Air Toronto
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January 4, 2026 at 1:19 PM
❤️Open to all signatories❤️
Deadline Jan 12
Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial
🙏✍️&share
Thank you
Deadline Jan 12
Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial
🙏✍️&share
Thank you
so what ill-advised CBC Cross Country Checkup topic will be foisted upon us this time?
January 4, 2026 at 1:25 AM
so what ill-advised CBC Cross Country Checkup topic will be foisted upon us this time?
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📣 EMERGENCY RALLY TOMORROW JAN 4 2026 📣
What: U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Rally
When: 2pm Jan 4 2026
Where: Victoria Park (5720 Spring Garden Rd)
What: U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Rally
When: 2pm Jan 4 2026
Where: Victoria Park (5720 Spring Garden Rd)
January 3, 2026 at 7:12 PM
📣 EMERGENCY RALLY TOMORROW JAN 4 2026 📣
What: U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Rally
When: 2pm Jan 4 2026
Where: Victoria Park (5720 Spring Garden Rd)
What: U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Rally
When: 2pm Jan 4 2026
Where: Victoria Park (5720 Spring Garden Rd)
globally things are not good, but also I need some pillow recommendations because I have aged and my neck is always sore.
January 3, 2026 at 8:34 PM
globally things are not good, but also I need some pillow recommendations because I have aged and my neck is always sore.
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We had a good run
2026 could be great. We simply don't know.
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
We had a good run
anyway, no one saves themselves by refusing to condemn illegal military aggression. playing nice doesn't result in preferential treatment.
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
anyway, no one saves themselves by refusing to condemn illegal military aggression. playing nice doesn't result in preferential treatment.
IMHO people haven't got their heads around this fast enough. The United States is an enemy.
nobody can depend on the US for shit, and everybody's got to get their head around that real fast.
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
January 3, 2026 at 4:43 PM
IMHO people haven't got their heads around this fast enough. The United States is an enemy.
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There are many, many people still viewing world events like today's through an ideological prism, as if the Trump regime has coherent or principled worldviews.
The sane among us realize Trump could just as easily "capture" the Canadian Prime Minister next month, on a whim.
The sane among us realize Trump could just as easily "capture" the Canadian Prime Minister next month, on a whim.
January 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM
There are many, many people still viewing world events like today's through an ideological prism, as if the Trump regime has coherent or principled worldviews.
The sane among us realize Trump could just as easily "capture" the Canadian Prime Minister next month, on a whim.
The sane among us realize Trump could just as easily "capture" the Canadian Prime Minister next month, on a whim.
Palestine is a test. Venezuela is a test. And everytime the world says nothing or does nothing it's permission to take similar actions again anywhere else.
January 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Palestine is a test. Venezuela is a test. And everytime the world says nothing or does nothing it's permission to take similar actions again anywhere else.
anyway, I'll be pleasantly surprised if Canada has any European allies because historically the interest in the border was mostly about resource extraction.
A few 19th-century cartoons about US-Canada border issues, presented for no particular reason 🙄
For over 200 yrs there's been talk of annexation or "liberation," while many Indigenous Nations recognize that the imposed colonial borders never made much sense anyhow 🧵
For over 200 yrs there's been talk of annexation or "liberation," while many Indigenous Nations recognize that the imposed colonial borders never made much sense anyhow 🧵
January 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
anyway, I'll be pleasantly surprised if Canada has any European allies because historically the interest in the border was mostly about resource extraction.
I thought this was going to all transpire in Trump's first term, but then the pandemic happened, which both disrupted the plan & created the conditions for an eventual second term. They're not wasting any time in these extra 4 years.
January 3, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I thought this was going to all transpire in Trump's first term, but then the pandemic happened, which both disrupted the plan & created the conditions for an eventual second term. They're not wasting any time in these extra 4 years.
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Trump's regime has murdered people in the water. He has seized ships on the high seas. He has invaded a country and kidnapped their leader.
All bets are off with the United States.
Canada needs to build alliances with Europe and to be ready on the home front.
All bets are off with the United States.
Canada needs to build alliances with Europe and to be ready on the home front.
January 3, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Trump's regime has murdered people in the water. He has seized ships on the high seas. He has invaded a country and kidnapped their leader.
All bets are off with the United States.
Canada needs to build alliances with Europe and to be ready on the home front.
All bets are off with the United States.
Canada needs to build alliances with Europe and to be ready on the home front.
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The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”
wtaf
you wouldn't be able to write this because you'd be told it's too far-fetched.
you wouldn't be able to write this because you'd be told it's too far-fetched.
How extreme is Jim O’Neill, Deputy Health Secretary who just froze federal childcare funding to every state based on a viral video?
As a leader of the Seasteading Institute, he praised selling human organs on the free market b/c “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused” 1/2
As a leader of the Seasteading Institute, he praised selling human organs on the free market b/c “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused” 1/2
January 2, 2026 at 8:07 PM
wtaf
you wouldn't be able to write this because you'd be told it's too far-fetched.
you wouldn't be able to write this because you'd be told it's too far-fetched.
When they were baby-sitting, my sisters used to let me stay up late to watch Good Rockin' Tonite.
January 2, 2026 at 8:04 PM
When they were baby-sitting, my sisters used to let me stay up late to watch Good Rockin' Tonite.
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It would be nice if Canadian journalists started asking our politicians why they continue to use X despite all of the CSAM and fascism, but a lot of Canadian journalists still use it, too.
January 2, 2026 at 5:25 PM
It would be nice if Canadian journalists started asking our politicians why they continue to use X despite all of the CSAM and fascism, but a lot of Canadian journalists still use it, too.
Do we think the Halifax mayor's end-of-year reel featuring the NS Minister of Ed in his boxers was created by AI? After all, we know gen AI doesn't worry about consent.
January 2, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Do we think the Halifax mayor's end-of-year reel featuring the NS Minister of Ed in his boxers was created by AI? After all, we know gen AI doesn't worry about consent.
Settler colonialism has often positioned white settlers as both victim and victor. It's a weird contradiction, but a good example is all the captivity narratives created to strip Indigenous people of their humanity by depicting them as violent aggressors.
January 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Settler colonialism has often positioned white settlers as both victim and victor. It's a weird contradiction, but a good example is all the captivity narratives created to strip Indigenous people of their humanity by depicting them as violent aggressors.
Or to other congregate spaces. One meaningful way we could be investing in a healthy population is improved indoor air quality in schools, long-term care homes, apartment buidlings, uni residences, correctional centres, etc.
Operating Rooms have always had a large number of air exchanges, up to 20 per hour. In fact when the HVAC goes down we have to wait an hour after it restarts. So ventilation has always been recognized as infection control so it’s a mystery why it hasn’t been applied to the whole hospital.
January 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Or to other congregate spaces. One meaningful way we could be investing in a healthy population is improved indoor air quality in schools, long-term care homes, apartment buidlings, uni residences, correctional centres, etc.
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One of the ways I have tried to make my Bluesky experience better than my twitter experience was is by not reading people's posts/comments in the worst possible light.
If someone says "CSAM is bad" and your retort is "but revenge porn is ok?!"—that's twitter behavior and you should stop it.
If someone says "CSAM is bad" and your retort is "but revenge porn is ok?!"—that's twitter behavior and you should stop it.
January 2, 2026 at 2:56 PM
One of the ways I have tried to make my Bluesky experience better than my twitter experience was is by not reading people's posts/comments in the worst possible light.
If someone says "CSAM is bad" and your retort is "but revenge porn is ok?!"—that's twitter behavior and you should stop it.
If someone says "CSAM is bad" and your retort is "but revenge porn is ok?!"—that's twitter behavior and you should stop it.
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PLEASE SOME EXPLAIN WHY THE MLA IS IN HIS UNDERWEAR ON THE MAYORS COUCH
January 1, 2026 at 11:40 PM
PLEASE SOME EXPLAIN WHY THE MLA IS IN HIS UNDERWEAR ON THE MAYORS COUCH