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Trout in Plaid
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Artist. I like living things. I block bots, AI, crypto, people here to make $$$
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My ancestors started this mess in 1635 and I'd like to make it right.
Insta: @indifference_to_flowers
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Last night, I conducted an unannounced oversight visit to the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.

The Trump Administration’s policies are putting people’s lives at risk with their incompetence, cruelty, and lawlessness.
February 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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I will absolutely equate people who use AI with fascists / Nazis / colonizers because their universal base function, their shared core structure of behavioral patterns, is to violate boundaries and thieve attribution in an attempt to escape their own inadequacy. They take, because they can't make.
January 23, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Mandatory, thorough mental health assessments by bipartisan committee of all senior government officials, now.
Nothing says prayer breakfast like concentration camps
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "One of my favorite people, President Bukele ... he operates rather large prisons. Very strong prisons."
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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The Trump GULAG tracker. bsky.app/profile/proj...
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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I applaud this
February 5, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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U.S. interest in Alberta separatism raises red flags over what might come next.

Russia used Ukrainian separatists as a Trojan Horse. Could it happen here?

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli
ANALYSIS | U.S. interest in Alberta separatism raises red flags over what might come next | CBC News
Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intention...
www.cbc.ca
February 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
February 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Not an endorsement, but I do think Eurosky looks promising, at least as a way to break the chains of the tech bros, and do social media as clusters of indie apps rather than as the current monoliths. Bluesky and Canadian beta platform Gander are into it. Thoughts?
eurosky
www.eurosky.tech
February 4, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things
February 4, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Use AI to show just how little you really care.
Using AI to interact with your friends asks other people to work harder so one person can work—or think, or care—less, Dan Brooks writes.
The Problem With Using AI in Your Personal Life
Using LLMs to talk with your friends is efficient. It’s also bad etiquette.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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I will never forget working in a federal
Department and our internal libraries being closed and all materials DESTROYED. I think this action was the start of my interest towards left leaning politics. I hate Harper.
February 4, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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The French Response account ended Elon Musk 🔥😂
February 4, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Some rich people buy real estate just to tear it down and replace with 17 storey buildings and make gobs of money; and other rich people buy real estate and turn it into beautiful public spaces which they give for the use of community. Artist Theaster Gates' work is a study in what is possible.
rebuild_foundation on Instagram: "Last month, we were honored to witness our work celebrate on CBS Sunday Morning as our founder and Executive Director, artist @thea…"
Last month, we were honored to witness our work celebrate on CBS Sunday Morning as our founder and Executive Director, artist @theastergates, took CBS correspondent Mark Whitaker on a journey through his practice, which included a stop at The Land School and discovering some of the newest projects in Gates’ ongoing activation of the Johnson Publishing Company archives.The two dove deep into Gates’ artistic interests with progressive infrastructure, disused and discarded objects, radical methods of archival stewardship, and a pivotal moment in his career foretold by his newly commissioned work for the Obama Presidential Center. As the organizational expression of the core values of Gates’ practice, we are grateful to foreground the importance of investing in experimental, land-based models for artistic care and self-determination through our artist-led spatial and archival work.Thank you to funders who make it possible: Alderperson Michelle Harris; American Airlines (@AmericanAir); Bloomberg Philanthropies (@BloombergDotOrg); Chicago Community Trust (@TheChicagoCommunityTrust); City of Chicago Neighborhood Opportunity (NOF) (@ChicagoDPD); Clayco Foundation; Coleman Foundation (@ColemanFoundation); CommonSpirit Health (@CommonSpiritHealth); Ford Foundation (@FordFoundation); Good Chaos; Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) (@IllinoisArtsCouncil); Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity (DCEO); Knoll Foundation (@Knoll); Kresge Foundation (@TheKresgeFoundation); Litowitz Family Foundation; Love on Tour; LUMA Foundation (@Luma_Arles); Mellon Foundation (@MellonFoundation); MacArthur Foundation (@MacFound); MillerKnoll Foundation (@MillerKnoll); Paul and De Gray; Prada Group (@Prada); Pritzker Traubert Foundation (@PTFound_); Reimagining the Civic Commons, a national initiative funded by the JPB Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Kresge Foundation; Surdna Foundation; Terra Foundation for American Art (TerraAmericanArt) and Wallace Foundation (@WallaceFdn). Every investment functions as a resonant reflection of how art, when rooted in intention and place, can serve as a catalyst for collective possibility.View all comments
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February 4, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Premium Post: This is the Hater's Guide To Oracle: an evil company that profits off of strongarming its customers to boost its declining revenues. It needs $150bn more to complete its data centers, and if OpenAI can't pay its bills, Oracle runs out of money.

www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
Premium: The Hater's Guide to Oracle
You can’t avoid Oracle. No, really, you can’t. Oracle is everywhere. It sells ERP software – enterprise resource planning, which is a rat king of different services for giant companies for financial ...
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January 30, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Lakelands Public Health investigating cybersecurity incident that disrupted internal systems. Health unit has not confirmed the nature of the breach, but ransomware attacks are increasingly common among Canadian healthcare organizations. kawarthanow.com/2026/02/03/l...
Lakelands Public Health investigating cybersecurity incident that disrupted internal systems | kawarthaNOW
By kawarthaNOW. Health unit has not confirmed the nature of the breach, but ransomware attacks are increasingly common among Canadian healthcare organizations.
kawarthanow.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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“… restricting the public’s ability to delegate on those issues is not helpful in building trust and confidence between the public and our elected officials, which at all levels of government seems to be at an all-time low” @dianetherrien.bsky.social
#Ptbo city council upholds councillor phone ban in new procedure by-law but reverses course on delegation limit. Council adopted an amendment to allow four delegations per agenda item following suggestion from former mayor Diane Therrien-Hale. kawarthanow.com/2026/02/03/p...
Peterborough city council upholds councillor phone ban in new procedure by-law but reverses course on delegation limit | kawarthaNOW
By Bruce Head. Council adopted an amendment to allow four delegations per agenda item following suggestion from former mayor Diane Therrien-Hale.
kawarthanow.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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The never ending austerity loop is the result of policy decisions sold as “for the people.” Populist slogans don’t make for good governance.

Public services are crumbling in Ontario because Doug Ford wants them to fail, not because we cant afford them. It doesn’t have to be this way.
The Never ending Austerity Loop
Cut taxes, starve services, blame government, repeat
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February 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Alberta UCP caucus has 'no business' signing separation vote petition: former premier - Jason Kenney says UCP was founded with commitment to a strong Alberta within a united Canada.
#cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta UCP caucus has 'no business' signing separation vote petition: former premier | CBC News
Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says the governing United Conservative Party caucus has "no business" signing a petition to force a vote on the province quitting Canada.
www.cbc.ca
February 3, 2026 at 8:20 AM
"When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, his vision was clear: it would used by everyone, filled with everything and, crucially, it would be free."
‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet
Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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She keeps getting chances to show some loyalty to Canada -- and keeps turning them away in order to defend Alberta separatists and their cause.

It's who she is. It's time we all started saying it. #cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/o...
Yes, Danielle Smith is a separatist
Alberta's premier says she supports "a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada." Her actions tell a much different story — one that makes her position on the issue impossible to ignore.
www.nationalobserver.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM