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Alex Tétreault
@alextetreault.bsky.social
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Sudbury, ON 🪨
Playwright | Poet | Grosse tapette 🌈
P’tit bum brasseur de marde ✨
#FreePalestine🇵🇸
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charlieangus104.bsky.social
PM Carney subsidizes Big Oil to pump carbon to increase production.
He walks back greenwashing rules allowing Big Oil to lie.
He cuts a deal on planet killing methane.
Now his team is walking.
The CEO isn't smartest guy in the room when it comes to a burning planet.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Climate change advisers quit over Carney government’s energy deal with Alberta
Two departing members of Canada's Net-Zero Advisory Body say the Carney government is shredding any hope the country will meet its climate goals.
www.thestar.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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parkermolloy.com
The Next One Here's what's going to happen next. Somewhere, right now, a trans person is teaching a class, or coaching a team, or working at a library, or providing healthcare. They're doing their job. They're probably good at it. And at some point, someone is going to have a problem with them. Maybe a parent, maybe a student, maybe a coworker. The problem won't really be about job performance. The problem will be that they're trans. That person, or someone connected to them, will take their grievance to social media. If they're lucky, Libs of TikTok will pick it up. Or Turning Point. Or one of the other accounts that have built massive followings by turning trans people into content. The post will frame the trans person as a predator, or a groomer, or a bully, or a tyrant. It won't matter what actually happened. The framing is the point. Then the calls will start. To the school board, to the administration, to the HR department. Local news will cover the "controversy." A state legislator will demand an investigation. The institution, desperate to make the problem go away, will put the trans person on leave. Maybe they'll be fired outright. Maybe they'll resign because the harassment makes it impossible to do their job. Either way they're gone. And then the person who started it all will go on Fox News. They'll get a GoFundMe. Maybe a speaking gig at a conservative conference. If the story is big enough, if it goes viral enough, they might get something more. A podcast. A book deal. A center with their name on it. This is not a guess. This is a pattern. We've watched it happen over and over again, and we will keep watching it happen until the institutions that capitulate to these campaigns start recognizing them for what they are: coordinated attempts to purge trans people from public life, dressed up as individual controversies.
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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danifroom.bsky.social
This has been in my head for a year
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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journodale.bsky.social
Solomon is just utterly useless.
Liberal AI legislation won't address copyright questions, says Solomon
A government report published earlier this year identified several outstanding isssues related to generative AI and copyright law, including how Ottawa should approach data mining used to train large-...
www.ipolitics.ca
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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ledevoir.com
En Alberta, le «prix effectif» du carbone industriel est plombé par des crédits compensatoires à 25$ la tonne.
Ottawa a laissé l’Alberta bafouer ses lois climatiques, déplore Steven Guilbeault
www.ledevoir.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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wickdchiq.bsky.social
Fuuuuuuck
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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colindickey.com
Why it matters
A quote from an Axios story about a raccoon that got trashed at a North Carolina store that reads: "Why it matters: The intoxicated suspect was a raccoon."
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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kieranhurley.bsky.social
incredible quote lol
When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
6 Panel Comic Panel 1: A Purple Dude and a Green Dude in an electronics shop. The Purple Dude is holding a box containing a new laptop. Purple Dude: You’re all set. Here’s your new AI laptop and your guy. Green Dude: My what? Panel 2: A severe looking Red Dude in cap and shades has appeared behind Green Dude. Purple Dude: Your guy. Every new AI laptop comes with a guy. Panel 3: Green Dude is back at home. We see him through the window working at his new laptop. Panel 4: Interior of kitchen. Green Dude continues to work at his laptop. The Red Dude is standing next to him. Panel 5: Close up of laptop screen. Green Dude is about to turn off the AI features. Panel 6: Red Dude produces a gun and presses it to Green Dude’s temple. He hisses: Don’t you fucking dare.
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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thebeaverton.com
Satirical news headline: Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
For example, the room of Canada’s top journalists heartily laughing as Poilievre mocks the concept of “Queers for Palestine” as “crazy.”

Yikes.
November 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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astrokatie.com
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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brandesstoddard.bsky.social
The true and final neural atrophy of the neural atrophy machine.
kennedytcooper.bsky.social Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 5d
When your brain is so cooked it has turned to ash and blown away in the wind
from r/SunoAI title: "Sick of having to come up with prompts" Hey y'all, looking for some tips here. I like what I've made so far with Suno but now I'm kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn't Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button that says "new prompt" and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?
November 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
I've described the feeling this creates as the sense of existing in a swirling ever-present.
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d
The pipeline between a thing happening and people knowing about it (and understanding it in context) has collapsed to the point most people no longer have any idea what's going on.

The timeline is unsettling because it's clear how we got here AND that there's no obvious course correction available.
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
The Washington Post headline reads: "Try a ‘fart walk’ to ease the pressure after that big Thanksgiving meal Whatever you do, resist the urge to lie down. November 24, 2025" Accompanying the article if a black ad white photo of someone walking on what appears to be a cold fall day. The camera is capturing their back as they're walking in a park with leaves on the ground. They are wearing a black coat and black leggings. The Washington Post has added radiating yellow lines from their butt to suggest they're farting. The photo credit says the image is from iStock.
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
The Kamala Harris book is so excruciating
“I wish I could have gotten the message across that there isn’t a distinction between “they/them” and “you.” The pronoun that matters is “we.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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lukeplunkett.com
every journalist who has been ringing the alarm bell about this for the last three years should get $10 million from any bailout, as a treat
ersquare.bsky.social R @ersquare.bsky.social · 10d
A story in 3 acts:
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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heyjaeee.bsky.social
The library is open
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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aljazeera.com
"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media."

— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
No, there is no ceasefire in Gaza
Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not a ‘violation of the ceasefire'. It is a continuing genocide under diplomatic cover.
aje.io
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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ndhapple.bsky.social
I believe the diplomatic term for this is “clusterfuck”
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that the U.S. “authored” a 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, after a Republican senator asserted that Rubio had distanced himself from the proposal and called it a Russian initiative.
Rubio Insists U.S. Authored the Ukraine Peace Plan
The comment from Secretary of State Marco Rubio came after a group of U.S. lawmakers claimed that he said the plan was a Russian initiative, not a U.S. proposal.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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zeteo.com
How We Grew Numb to Trump’s Calls for the Slaughter of Anyone He Wants

"In a sane and healthy democracy, a president behaving in this way – as he has many times over the past decade – would quite possibly trigger impeachment proceedings," writes @swin24.bsky.social.

Read: zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
How We Grew Numb to Trump’s Calls for the Slaughter of Anyone He Wants
Is this what we’ve become, at this failing stage of the grand American democratic experiment?
zeteo.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM