Stephanie
@myone.bsky.social
No one of importance. North Vancouver. Mostly reading, rarely writing. She/Her
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This is craven and beyond contempt. There's no justification. Carney is using the perceived threats from the US to justify slashing commitments, checks, and balances as they pertain to environment, labour, and basically everything else.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
rime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is craven and beyond contempt. There's no justification. Carney is using the perceived threats from the US to justify slashing commitments, checks, and balances as they pertain to environment, labour, and basically everything else.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
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once again posting The Chart
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
once again posting The Chart
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I’m just a Canadian, looking at her fellow Canadians, begging them to connect the dots between rising anti immigrant sentiment and what is happening in the states.
October 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’m just a Canadian, looking at her fellow Canadians, begging them to connect the dots between rising anti immigrant sentiment and what is happening in the states.
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the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
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Anyway. Get a library card. Cancel things you know no longer serves your world view, really do it and subscribe to newsletters you trust. I feel for this world. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be.
September 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Anyway. Get a library card. Cancel things you know no longer serves your world view, really do it and subscribe to newsletters you trust. I feel for this world. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be.
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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
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We do not want to live in a society where every single person has become totally numb to witnessing horrifying violence.
Claiming that everyone needs to “toughen up” by exposing themselves to horrifically violent imagery is *simply doing fascism’s work for it.*
Claiming that everyone needs to “toughen up” by exposing themselves to horrifically violent imagery is *simply doing fascism’s work for it.*
September 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We do not want to live in a society where every single person has become totally numb to witnessing horrifying violence.
Claiming that everyone needs to “toughen up” by exposing themselves to horrifically violent imagery is *simply doing fascism’s work for it.*
Claiming that everyone needs to “toughen up” by exposing themselves to horrifically violent imagery is *simply doing fascism’s work for it.*
In case anyone is looking for a non-JKR fantasy series for their kids, I very much recommend the Nevermoor series by Jessica Townsend. It's not complete yet (book 4 of 9 just came out), but it's a fun read.
August 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
In case anyone is looking for a non-JKR fantasy series for their kids, I very much recommend the Nevermoor series by Jessica Townsend. It's not complete yet (book 4 of 9 just came out), but it's a fun read.
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Yes, and what do *we* mean when *we* say “we’ve never been so polarized,” anyway?
What if instead we said “It’s been a long time since the reality of injustice has been made so unavoidably present to otherwise comfortable people”?
www.the-reframe.com/polarization...
What if instead we said “It’s been a long time since the reality of injustice has been made so unavoidably present to otherwise comfortable people”?
www.the-reframe.com/polarization...
Polarization And Strife
We’ve never been less polarized as a country than we are right now. I’ll explain.
www.the-reframe.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Yes, and what do *we* mean when *we* say “we’ve never been so polarized,” anyway?
What if instead we said “It’s been a long time since the reality of injustice has been made so unavoidably present to otherwise comfortable people”?
www.the-reframe.com/polarization...
What if instead we said “It’s been a long time since the reality of injustice has been made so unavoidably present to otherwise comfortable people”?
www.the-reframe.com/polarization...
This poster starts strong and just keeps getting better.
June 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This poster starts strong and just keeps getting better.
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Perhaps if we just started treating brown and asian people with the respect they deserve and focus globally on the #1 enemy which is climate change, and fight it, so many people would not have to die? Just a thought.
June 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Perhaps if we just started treating brown and asian people with the respect they deserve and focus globally on the #1 enemy which is climate change, and fight it, so many people would not have to die? Just a thought.
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made this in case you need to remember this as much as i do:
June 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
made this in case you need to remember this as much as i do:
Saw Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat for the first time this weekend at Metro Theatre in Vancouver. Hilarious. Read the synopsis in advance to prepare and thought, wow the brothers are a bit much. Watched the show and was like, oh yes, I see now. I would have thrown him in a pit as well.
June 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Saw Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat for the first time this weekend at Metro Theatre in Vancouver. Hilarious. Read the synopsis in advance to prepare and thought, wow the brothers are a bit much. Watched the show and was like, oh yes, I see now. I would have thrown him in a pit as well.
Thinking about April Fools Day and how I can't come up with a single prank you could do on me that would be benign enough that I wouldn't take it as a very personal betrayal resulting in a permanent decrease in trust. I think this sort of thing may be why I've been described as "no fun."
April 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Thinking about April Fools Day and how I can't come up with a single prank you could do on me that would be benign enough that I wouldn't take it as a very personal betrayal resulting in a permanent decrease in trust. I think this sort of thing may be why I've been described as "no fun."
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using emotional manipulation to try and make me do a thing is a great way to make me not do that thing. even if it's a thing i previously wanted to do. even if you're a cartoon owl.
February 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
using emotional manipulation to try and make me do a thing is a great way to make me not do that thing. even if it's a thing i previously wanted to do. even if you're a cartoon owl.
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In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...
February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...
Starting to realize how much of my 90s education was just terror-based cautionary tales. Apparently watching videos of firecracker injuries before Halloween wasn't a universal experience? And not everyone's sex ed included a live birth video in grade 7?
October 24, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Starting to realize how much of my 90s education was just terror-based cautionary tales. Apparently watching videos of firecracker injuries before Halloween wasn't a universal experience? And not everyone's sex ed included a live birth video in grade 7?
Starting to realize that if I want to do fun things, I have to plan the fun things instead of waiting for other people to plan the fun things. AND - bonus - that when I am the planner, the likelihood of me finding the things fun is actually much higher.
October 18, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Starting to realize that if I want to do fun things, I have to plan the fun things instead of waiting for other people to plan the fun things. AND - bonus - that when I am the planner, the likelihood of me finding the things fun is actually much higher.
You always think there will be some joy in "I told you so," but a result that is both extremely predictable and undesirable just makes me grumpy that I listened to whoever said, "No, it'll be fine."
September 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
You always think there will be some joy in "I told you so," but a result that is both extremely predictable and undesirable just makes me grumpy that I listened to whoever said, "No, it'll be fine."
Spent a week in Quebec City. Fantastic, but so strange. Canada, but foreign. Like a parallel universe where the French beat the British back in the day. Highly recommend.
August 23, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Spent a week in Quebec City. Fantastic, but so strange. Canada, but foreign. Like a parallel universe where the French beat the British back in the day. Highly recommend.
The older I get, the more I realize that one of my core values is just art. To look at, listen, read. People can create beautiful things and it's one of our best qualities. But also doing art is nice, even if your art is terrible. The process itself is good and human and valuable.
August 13, 2024 at 6:16 PM
The older I get, the more I realize that one of my core values is just art. To look at, listen, read. People can create beautiful things and it's one of our best qualities. But also doing art is nice, even if your art is terrible. The process itself is good and human and valuable.
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Liberal Party watches in horror as French centrists fail to turn fear of right-wing maniacs into unending political power for themselves
www.thebeaverton.com/2024/07/libe...
www.thebeaverton.com/2024/07/libe...
Liberal Party watches in horror as French centrists fail to turn fear of right-wing maniacs into unending political power for themselves
“How can people who are terrified not vote for the bland comfort of centrism? Bland comfort is literally the only thing we offer.”
www.thebeaverton.com
July 8, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Liberal Party watches in horror as French centrists fail to turn fear of right-wing maniacs into unending political power for themselves
www.thebeaverton.com/2024/07/libe...
www.thebeaverton.com/2024/07/libe...
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It drives me nuts when people say we need to make sure poor people have access to AI. The entire schtick is focused on providing AI slop to the masses while ensuring the elites get real human professionals. Having a human teacher or doctor or lawyer cannot become a bespoke luxury for the wealthy.
Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩
Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistants
The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.
www.axios.com
July 7, 2024 at 1:03 PM
It drives me nuts when people say we need to make sure poor people have access to AI. The entire schtick is focused on providing AI slop to the masses while ensuring the elites get real human professionals. Having a human teacher or doctor or lawyer cannot become a bespoke luxury for the wealthy.
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“Each time you search for something like “how many rocks should I eat” and Google’s AI “snapshot” tells you “at least one small rock per day,” you’re consuming approximately three watt-hours of electricity.”
The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI
While the mass adoption of AI has transformed digital life seemingly overnight, regulators have fallen asleep on the job in curtailing AI data centers’ drain on energy and water resources.
jacobin.com
June 24, 2024 at 4:34 PM
“Each time you search for something like “how many rocks should I eat” and Google’s AI “snapshot” tells you “at least one small rock per day,” you’re consuming approximately three watt-hours of electricity.”