Colleen🫐
@peppermind9.bsky.social
She/her
Public servant, union activist, librarian at heart
East of Eden and just about all of North America
Public servant, union activist, librarian at heart
East of Eden and just about all of North America
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Petition in Parliament to demand security clearance for party leaders
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6489 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
May 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Petition in Parliament to demand security clearance for party leaders
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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always wild when a Catholicism thread breaches containment and my replies fill up with people who are unfamiliar with Willett Catholicism lmao
as always, we will learn who this guy is through what he actually does, so I'm scrutinizing with cautious optimism; but there's lots to like in here:
as always, we will learn who this guy is through what he actually does, so I'm scrutinizing with cautious optimism; but there's lots to like in here:
Transcript of Pope Leo XIV's first speech after election: ‘Peace be with you'
In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo said, “Peace be with you,” and emphasized a message of peace, dialogue and missionary evangelization...
www.nbcnewyork.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
always wild when a Catholicism thread breaches containment and my replies fill up with people who are unfamiliar with Willett Catholicism lmao
as always, we will learn who this guy is through what he actually does, so I'm scrutinizing with cautious optimism; but there's lots to like in here:
as always, we will learn who this guy is through what he actually does, so I'm scrutinizing with cautious optimism; but there's lots to like in here:
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okay
this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today
some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how
article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:
this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today
some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how
article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:
May 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
okay
this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today
some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how
article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:
this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today
some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how
article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:
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If you are worried about disinformation and media manipulation in this election give a pass to
@ctvyourmorning.bsky.social
They caved to pressure from Pierre Poiievre's online posse in their continual harassment of @rachelgilmore.bsky.social
She is a truth teller.
CTV is not.
@ctvyourmorning.bsky.social
They caved to pressure from Pierre Poiievre's online posse in their continual harassment of @rachelgilmore.bsky.social
She is a truth teller.
CTV is not.
April 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you are worried about disinformation and media manipulation in this election give a pass to
@ctvyourmorning.bsky.social
They caved to pressure from Pierre Poiievre's online posse in their continual harassment of @rachelgilmore.bsky.social
She is a truth teller.
CTV is not.
@ctvyourmorning.bsky.social
They caved to pressure from Pierre Poiievre's online posse in their continual harassment of @rachelgilmore.bsky.social
She is a truth teller.
CTV is not.
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Just a brutal typo on Ash Wednesday 😂
March 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Just a brutal typo on Ash Wednesday 😂
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Hey @safety.bsky.app, please remove the offensive GIFs featuring the Canadian flag with "51 State" and others that promote annexation. 🚫 These are disrespectful to our sovereignty and to your 🇨🇦 user community. Despite previous requests, they remain up! 🗣️✨ #TeamCanada
February 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Hey @safety.bsky.app, please remove the offensive GIFs featuring the Canadian flag with "51 State" and others that promote annexation. 🚫 These are disrespectful to our sovereignty and to your 🇨🇦 user community. Despite previous requests, they remain up! 🗣️✨ #TeamCanada
So Canadians, can we please make rescinding the Safe Third Country agreement an election issue now?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%...
Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
January 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
So Canadians, can we please make rescinding the Safe Third Country agreement an election issue now?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%...
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Important perspective in this thread.
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Important perspective in this thread.
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Not everyone can run or sit on a board.
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.
bookriot.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Not everyone can run or sit on a board.
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
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You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
January 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
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How to turn off Gemini AI in Gmail:
• Go to "Settings"
• Go to "General"
• Scroll down + unclick all boxes labeled "Smart Features & Personalization" (For me there were two boxes to unclick)
Once I did that I rechecked Settings & found that no less than (10) different categories deployed AI 🤢
• Go to "Settings"
• Go to "General"
• Scroll down + unclick all boxes labeled "Smart Features & Personalization" (For me there were two boxes to unclick)
Once I did that I rechecked Settings & found that no less than (10) different categories deployed AI 🤢
January 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
How to turn off Gemini AI in Gmail:
• Go to "Settings"
• Go to "General"
• Scroll down + unclick all boxes labeled "Smart Features & Personalization" (For me there were two boxes to unclick)
Once I did that I rechecked Settings & found that no less than (10) different categories deployed AI 🤢
• Go to "Settings"
• Go to "General"
• Scroll down + unclick all boxes labeled "Smart Features & Personalization" (For me there were two boxes to unclick)
Once I did that I rechecked Settings & found that no less than (10) different categories deployed AI 🤢
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A few that did actually happen recently:
🧵A THREAD 🧵
- Egypt eradicated malaria.
-Emissions in the EU plumetted by 8%, which means emissions in advanced economies dropped to a 50-year low.
- The Iberian lynx stopped being on the endangered species list.
🧵A THREAD 🧵
- Egypt eradicated malaria.
-Emissions in the EU plumetted by 8%, which means emissions in advanced economies dropped to a 50-year low.
- The Iberian lynx stopped being on the endangered species list.
We should have some unprecedented events that are good for once
January 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
A few that did actually happen recently:
🧵A THREAD 🧵
- Egypt eradicated malaria.
-Emissions in the EU plumetted by 8%, which means emissions in advanced economies dropped to a 50-year low.
- The Iberian lynx stopped being on the endangered species list.
🧵A THREAD 🧵
- Egypt eradicated malaria.
-Emissions in the EU plumetted by 8%, which means emissions in advanced economies dropped to a 50-year low.
- The Iberian lynx stopped being on the endangered species list.
I want a traditional Christmas this year - the kind where capitalists get visited by three ghosts who teach them the error of their ways
December 24, 2024 at 2:06 PM
I want a traditional Christmas this year - the kind where capitalists get visited by three ghosts who teach them the error of their ways
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🚨 🚨 🚨Our director just told us that if the social media team can fundraise 30 million dollars, we can get a museum cat. 🐈 🐈 🐈 🚨 🚨 🚨
December 13, 2024 at 10:57 PM
🚨 🚨 🚨Our director just told us that if the social media team can fundraise 30 million dollars, we can get a museum cat. 🐈 🐈 🐈 🚨 🚨 🚨
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Ok here’s a thread of feeds that aren’t topic themed but utilitarian and do things like show you different versions of your timeline or provide services that should be official Bluesky features. 🧵
Would y’all want a thread of helpful feeds that are basically utilitarian and make the experience of Bluesky better by, for example, showing you different versions of your timeline and things like that?
November 27, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Ok here’s a thread of feeds that aren’t topic themed but utilitarian and do things like show you different versions of your timeline or provide services that should be official Bluesky features. 🧵
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TL;DR I’m sure that someone out there is gleefully planning an enormous violation of human rights on a massive scale, but it will not lower your grocery bill.
November 16, 2024 at 3:09 PM
TL;DR I’m sure that someone out there is gleefully planning an enormous violation of human rights on a massive scale, but it will not lower your grocery bill.
I saw this earlier and thought it was a story from The Onion, not that The Onion was the story!
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site plans to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:50 PM
I saw this earlier and thought it was a story from The Onion, not that The Onion was the story!
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Up to 60 people on the Newfoundland & Labrador Starter Pack. Reply here to be added/removed :) #nlwx #nlpoli #nltraffic #yyt
go.bsky.app/mF2LTt
go.bsky.app/mF2LTt
November 12, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Up to 60 people on the Newfoundland & Labrador Starter Pack. Reply here to be added/removed :) #nlwx #nlpoli #nltraffic #yyt
go.bsky.app/mF2LTt
go.bsky.app/mF2LTt
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So.
Listen up, because this is going to be short and sweet.
I do not have the time, patience, energy, spoons or faith to teach people HOW TO CRIME.
So I'm going to teach you a few essential things that will keep you alive in HOW TO CRIME.
Because CRIME is just going against the state folks.
Listen up, because this is going to be short and sweet.
I do not have the time, patience, energy, spoons or faith to teach people HOW TO CRIME.
So I'm going to teach you a few essential things that will keep you alive in HOW TO CRIME.
Because CRIME is just going against the state folks.
November 9, 2024 at 2:25 AM
So.
Listen up, because this is going to be short and sweet.
I do not have the time, patience, energy, spoons or faith to teach people HOW TO CRIME.
So I'm going to teach you a few essential things that will keep you alive in HOW TO CRIME.
Because CRIME is just going against the state folks.
Listen up, because this is going to be short and sweet.
I do not have the time, patience, energy, spoons or faith to teach people HOW TO CRIME.
So I'm going to teach you a few essential things that will keep you alive in HOW TO CRIME.
Because CRIME is just going against the state folks.
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If you see a lot of folks replying to posts with a 📌 emoji it’s because they’re using this feed. It’s essentially a bookmark! Reply with the emoji and it pulls the post into your own private feed and saves it there for you!
Here:
Here:
November 10, 2024 at 3:01 AM
If you see a lot of folks replying to posts with a 📌 emoji it’s because they’re using this feed. It’s essentially a bookmark! Reply with the emoji and it pulls the post into your own private feed and saves it there for you!
Here:
Here:
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A gentle reminder to all the new folks who've joined the bluesky fam:
Please use alt-text when posting pics so our friends who use screen readers can enjoy them too! It's easy to do! And there are A LOT of characters in alt text, so some people put hilarious backstory or description in.
Win/win!
Please use alt-text when posting pics so our friends who use screen readers can enjoy them too! It's easy to do! And there are A LOT of characters in alt text, so some people put hilarious backstory or description in.
Win/win!
November 10, 2024 at 2:03 PM
A gentle reminder to all the new folks who've joined the bluesky fam:
Please use alt-text when posting pics so our friends who use screen readers can enjoy them too! It's easy to do! And there are A LOT of characters in alt text, so some people put hilarious backstory or description in.
Win/win!
Please use alt-text when posting pics so our friends who use screen readers can enjoy them too! It's easy to do! And there are A LOT of characters in alt text, so some people put hilarious backstory or description in.
Win/win!
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Want to clear AI generated sludge and its apologists off your feed?
Here's a moderation list to get started. I'll keep updating it. Point me in the direction of any prominent folk I've missed.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Here's a moderation list to get started. I'll keep updating it. Point me in the direction of any prominent folk I've missed.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 10, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Want to clear AI generated sludge and its apologists off your feed?
Here's a moderation list to get started. I'll keep updating it. Point me in the direction of any prominent folk I've missed.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Here's a moderation list to get started. I'll keep updating it. Point me in the direction of any prominent folk I've missed.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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I think the fact that we did fix these things and it didn't make it into collective memory is a big part of the apathy toward climate change now. A lot of us remember being warned about all this stuff as kids only for it to go away without much discussion - *because we fixed it*.
we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.
The other day I was like “you know something we heard a lot about as kids was acid rain, why don’t we hear about it anymore”
TURNS OUT we fixed it???
TURNS OUT we fixed it???
November 24, 2023 at 3:23 AM
I think the fact that we did fix these things and it didn't make it into collective memory is a big part of the apathy toward climate change now. A lot of us remember being warned about all this stuff as kids only for it to go away without much discussion - *because we fixed it*.