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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ben Bartosik @benbartosik.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 10d

As many Canadians reckon with their country’s history, a loud and organized group of people continues to minimize and deny the harm residential schools and other colonial policies did to Indigenous Peoples.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

What’s Canada Doing about Residential School Denialism? | The Tyee

The problem is growing, experts say, and the government needs to act fast to address it.

thetyee.ca

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 12d

In 2015, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued ninety-four Calls to Action for repairing the Crown’s relationship with Indigenous peoples. A decade later, most remain unfulfilled. Seven Indigenous writers reflect on the work still to be done: thewalrus.ca/truth-and-reconc...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11d

What I heard in Klein was someone whose central priority was his own immediate comfort. And it will be the death of us.

I'm not someone who believes in doing hard things for the sake of it. I like ease. But I'm also aware that if I spend all day everyday bed rotting my body will atrophy /4

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Ben Bartosik @benbartosik.bsky.social · 12d

"Civility is a fantasy, because our political discourse never happens in a vacuum. It happens in the beautiful mess of the real world. It is naïve, at best, to believe civility is more important than who we are, what we stand for and how."

kottke.org @kottke.org · 16d

Fantastic essay by Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy. “Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control.” [nytimes.com]

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

Calling for civility is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly.

www.nytimes.com

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Laine Johnson @lainejohnson.bsky.social · 16d

So just to be clear, all taxpayers will pay for traffic calming instead of fining the people that speed and leaving everyone else alone. We like this for a policy change? Are we so afraid of going after the actual rule breakers that we would rather put it on the back of everybody?

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 17d

It takes a split second of googling to find the evidence. Do not give these "devil's advocates" your time. (Probably a bot since this is well-trod territory, answered many times before, typical phrasing). Sharing the link to so you can too.

www.sickkids.ca/en/news/arch...

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Ben Bartosik @benbartosik.bsky.social · 17d

He's actively dismantling things that improve the health and safety of kids

Ben Bartosik @benbartosik.bsky.social · 17d

Good to know that if we just vandalize the things we don't like in this Province, eventually Ford will just get rid of them

Unofficial TorontoStar (All News) @torontostar-rss.bsky.social · 17d

Ford is moving to cancel speed camera programs across the province. Here’s what we know

Sources say Ford’s Progressive Conservatives will table legislation later this fall to outlaw the devices.

www.thestar.com

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Ben Bartosik @benbartosik.bsky.social · 21d

I’m always interested to hear about ways to get into an urbanism type career that isn’t necessarily planning. What are your thoughts on other skill sets and roles that might be needed in working towards building better cities?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21d

We keep confusing the metrics for the goal.

"Dem's should run pro-life candidates in those states" is a bad take not because those states had pro-abortion wins but because being pro-life kills people. What is the point of winning if you just become the opposition?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22d

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 22d

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22d

white cis men blocking people of color and other members of vulnerable communities because their risk factor is a lot different than ours is peak white nonsense.

It's also how I know they don't give a shit about us.

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Ben Bartosik @benbartosik.bsky.social · 23d

This right here is why you'll never catch me in wearable tech

nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 23d

This sucks so much www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

Samsung brings ads to US fridges

Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

www.theverge.com

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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 23d

There is no organisation called antifa, it's an idea. What Trump is doing is trying to criminalise *anyone* who opposes fascist regimes, like his.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Trump to designate anti-fascist Antifa movement a ‘major terrorist’ group

US President Trump describes group as a ‘dangerous, radical left disaster’ as well as a ‘major terrorist organisation’.

www.aljazeera.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25d

There. Is. No. Such. Thing.
Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries.
"Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25d

McDonald’s said Monday it plans to invest $200 million over the next seven years to promote regenerative agriculture practices on cattle ranches.

McDonald's plans $200 million investment to promote regenerative practices on US cattle ranches

McDonald’s said Monday it plans to invest $200 million over the next seven years to promote regenerative agriculture practices on cattle ranches.

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Ben Bartosik @benbartosik.bsky.social · 28d

Dark Crystal

Ben Bartosik @benbartosik.bsky.social · Sep 9

At this point, I’d be willing to believe it’s Doug doing the vandalism

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is so terrible.

Please do not use these things for therapy.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 6

The conversation on this shifted rather quickly.

If you use AI for therapy, here are 5 things experts recommend

Generative AI chatbots are available and accessible, and people are using them. Here are some best practices, as recommended by mental health experts.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’m a consultant. I’ve seen inside every kind of organization. Good managers/leaders doing important work don’t run their teams ragged, and especially don’t brag about it.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

angela yang @angelayang.bsky.social · Sep 2

The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy

In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ben Bartosik @benbartosik.bsky.social · Sep 2

Surprisingly detailed itinerary given in response to a rumour he claimed he hadn’t heard of before now

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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · Sep 2

It's that time of year again, welcome back to school kiddos! This week we're going to address Toronto's back to school/micro mobility campaign & ask that they direct all available resources at dangerous drivers who cause hundreds of serious injuries & deaths each year in TO. 📷 @tomflood.bsky.social

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Aug 26

The struggle against racism must be anti-capitalist, and the struggle against capitalism must be anti-racist.

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