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Trystan
@trystancarter.bsky.social
· May 28
Today is the International Day against Homophobia and as a librarian I need to convey this message (image by @bossdog.bsky.social)
Reposting this and pinning it since it's an evergreen sentiment unfortunately
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December 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Merry winter everyone I got paid to draw this
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Merry winter everyone I got paid to draw this
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RETWEET IF IM RIGHT - dashare.zone ADMIN
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
RETWEET IF IM RIGHT - dashare.zone ADMIN
If you like *video games* please give this a watch if you want to understand why we should be boycotting Xbox right now.
Microsoft is very difficult to extricate yourself from, especially if you're a knowledge worker. Xbox? Not hard to bail on at all.
youtu.be/Ybj10537yi4
Microsoft is very difficult to extricate yourself from, especially if you're a knowledge worker. Xbox? Not hard to bail on at all.
youtu.be/Ybj10537yi4
Why We're Boycotting Xbox (and Maybe You Should Too)
Chris investigates the Palestinian-led Xbox Boycott and how it's already secured a major victory against one of the largest corporations on the planet.
Pledge your support for the boycott here: https://nogamesforgenocide.com/
Find out more about BDS: https://bdsmovement.net/
Help fund PMG on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeopleMakeGames
Created by Chris Bratt:
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisbratt.bsky.social
And Anni Sayers, who doesn't use social media.
Stock footage: Getty Images, Reuters
Music & SFX: Epidemic Sound
00:00 - It's a platform that's a weapon, no less than that.
09:31 - What is the Xbox boycott?
14:51 - How a boycott like this can beat Microsoft
17:41 - Two years on, has the games industry stood up for Palestine?
23:30 - How a group of Arkane Lyon game devs made a difference
30:27 - Why is the boycott still happening?
33:44 - We have a responsibility to believe things can change
37:39 - Outro credits
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
If you like *video games* please give this a watch if you want to understand why we should be boycotting Xbox right now.
Microsoft is very difficult to extricate yourself from, especially if you're a knowledge worker. Xbox? Not hard to bail on at all.
youtu.be/Ybj10537yi4
Microsoft is very difficult to extricate yourself from, especially if you're a knowledge worker. Xbox? Not hard to bail on at all.
youtu.be/Ybj10537yi4
There's lots to say about what the Liberal government plans to do with the Canada Post but I'll be a broken record and say postal services shouldn't need to "break even." Cutting jobs and services is to squander the incredible reach Canada Post has in our country: thetyee.ca/News/2025/12/19/Wh...
What’s the Way Forward for Canada Post? | The Tyee
Its CEO says ending door-to-door deliveries is part of a plan to save the corporation. But the union wants to expand services.
thetyee.ca
December 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
There's lots to say about what the Liberal government plans to do with the Canada Post but I'll be a broken record and say postal services shouldn't need to "break even." Cutting jobs and services is to squander the incredible reach Canada Post has in our country: thetyee.ca/News/2025/12/19/Wh...
We beat NFTs. Gen AI will be harder but it’s possible ✊
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
We beat NFTs. Gen AI will be harder but it’s possible ✊
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Still can’t get over how Mark Carney hates Canada Post so much he’s willing to kill libraries along with it.
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Still can’t get over how Mark Carney hates Canada Post so much he’s willing to kill libraries along with it.
Something I've realized since folks started bailing on Spotify is a new version of the tired "no ethical consumption…" refrain in the form of "well all music streaming is bad." Yes! Sure! But you can still opt not to give your money to the one that is demonstrably the worst of all!
December 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Something I've realized since folks started bailing on Spotify is a new version of the tired "no ethical consumption…" refrain in the form of "well all music streaming is bad." Yes! Sure! But you can still opt not to give your money to the one that is demonstrably the worst of all!
@nytwirecutter.bsky.social’s AI summaries are so atrocious. The reason people would even go to wirecutter is to get a real person’s expert advice on something. To just have AI summarize that is against the whole point of the site, no?
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
@nytwirecutter.bsky.social’s AI summaries are so atrocious. The reason people would even go to wirecutter is to get a real person’s expert advice on something. To just have AI summarize that is against the whole point of the site, no?
No one can afford the Vancouver-level rents in Kelowna because there are no jobs here that pay well enough and the mayor thinks this is great because soon the city will be able to lax the provincial Airbnb laws 🤦♂️ www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...
Kelowna in 'unique' situation as vacancy rate nears seven per cent - Kelowna News
Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas says the city finds itself in “uncharted territory as it finds itself with the highest rental vacancy rate of any large city in Canada.
www.castanet.net
December 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
No one can afford the Vancouver-level rents in Kelowna because there are no jobs here that pay well enough and the mayor thinks this is great because soon the city will be able to lax the provincial Airbnb laws 🤦♂️ www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...
if the poem's got a "thy" in it, it's a pass for me
December 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
if the poem's got a "thy" in it, it's a pass for me
A lot of very cool musicians on this list stereogum.com/2482225/19-a...
19 Acts Who Pulled Their Music Off Spotify This Year
Why King Gizzard, Deerhoof, Kadhja Bonet, and more opted to remove their work from music's biggest streaming platform.
stereogum.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A lot of very cool musicians on this list stereogum.com/2482225/19-a...
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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I understand that legally OpenAI can’t admit that they didn’t know or predict this would happen but they can’t cite “misuse” of a wholly new technology that they popularized and kept the internal workings of secret. I hope they lose this badly www.theverge.com/news/831207/...
OpenAI denies liability in teen suicide lawsuit, cites ‘misuse’ of ChatGPT
The case is ongoing.
www.theverge.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I understand that legally OpenAI can’t admit that they didn’t know or predict this would happen but they can’t cite “misuse” of a wholly new technology that they popularized and kept the internal workings of secret. I hope they lose this badly www.theverge.com/news/831207/...
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
These are two of the best games I've ever played please buy them and play them and love them and let them change you
Clones, sleepers, aliens, androids, an Orchard, and the Starward Belt — what more could you ask for?
Save 33% on both 1000xRESIST and Citizen Sleeper 2 with the Clones & Consciousness bundle!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61076...
Save 33% on both 1000xRESIST and Citizen Sleeper 2 with the Clones & Consciousness bundle!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61076...
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
These are two of the best games I've ever played please buy them and play them and love them and let them change you
Sports are great 😭
October 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Sports are great 😭
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Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.⚡ My new piece for Back to Know Future, a Back to the Future Halloween themed art show hosted by Know Future Gallery. It was a blast painting Christopher Lloyd as a spooky Doc Emmett Brown.
#art #watercolor
#art #watercolor
October 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.⚡ My new piece for Back to Know Future, a Back to the Future Halloween themed art show hosted by Know Future Gallery. It was a blast painting Christopher Lloyd as a spooky Doc Emmett Brown.
#art #watercolor
#art #watercolor
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Too many $5/month bonus podcasts popping up. How many $5/months you think we all have to listen to you all talk an extra half hour?
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Too many $5/month bonus podcasts popping up. How many $5/months you think we all have to listen to you all talk an extra half hour?
Yesavage is putting the “savage” in “Yesavage”
October 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Yesavage is putting the “savage” in “Yesavage”
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you love to see it
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
you love to see it
It’s a great time to ditch Xbox and join the successful BDS boycott of all of Microsoft: bdsmovement.net/news/microso...
October 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It’s a great time to ditch Xbox and join the successful BDS boycott of all of Microsoft: bdsmovement.net/news/microso...
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