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Those who seek to divide us seek to conquer us.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · Jan 18

The new few weeks, months, years, will likely not be pretty. Get this guide to surveillance self-defense to your communities. It has printable PDFs as well as tailored reccomendations for certain activities, types of people, etc.

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Surveillance Self-Defense

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

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mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 2d

Weeeiiirrrrrd!

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

Shout it from the roof tops: accommodation doesn't work #farright #radicalright

Embracing populism doesn’t hurt right-wing parties. It may help them.

New research from Western Europe shows that accommodating extremism doesn’t work.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d

The Great derangement syndrome:
People telling me to stop talking about a burning planet when our Prime Minister has a "nation-building" plan to build oil pipelines, repeal the tanker ban, kill the emissions cap.
Trump is a convenient excuse for the plant burners. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Carney doesn’t rule out new pipeline to B.C., repealing tanker ban and emissions cap

As the federal government works towards its next batch of major projects, Prime Minister Mark Carney is not ruling out a new pipeline to the B.C. coast or lifting environmental policies like the tanke...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 2d

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

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GreyBruceInfo- Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @brucegreyinfo.bsky.social · 3d

Miss his kindness, intelligence & optimism.

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 2d

Premiers are stretching Canada’s notwithstanding clause to silence critics, override rights & dodge courts.

CBC breaks down what’s at stake — and why it matters for our democracy. 🇨🇦
🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

#SaveTheCBC #cdnpoli #CharterOfRights #Democracy

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mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 2d

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Justice minister rules out withdrawing legal submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Justice Minister Sean Fraser rejected calls from five premiers for Ottawa to withdraw its legal argument calling for limits on the use of the Constitution's notwithstanding clause.

www.cbc.ca

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 2d

This is how you foster a perfectly valid form of mistrust for modern medicine.
I would absolutely be doing whatever I could to forage my own medicines in this type of situation.
What an fucked up world we live in.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Froggles 🇨🇦 @froggles42.bsky.social · 3d

...alllllllllllllllll the way to hell.

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Lars • Iskotaa @lars.bsky.social · 3d

More of this! More of this! More of this! 📣

Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 3d

Following Microsoft's mass layoffs, former Elder Scrolls Online and Blackbird devs form worker-owned studio

A group of ex-Zenimax developers have formed worker-owned Sackbird Studios following Microsoft's mass layoffs.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 3d

youtu.be/r_9wkavYt4Y?...

No, Really. A Rogue AI Started Worshiping Hitler.

YouTube video by AI In Context

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mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 4d

Enormous respect for both Dropout and Brennen Lee Mulligan!
Now that's an endorsement!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 4d

"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

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mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 4d

You sure did, you fascist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 4d

Did you just refer to Albertan teachers as terrorists?

mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 4d

He seems to have a neglected bluesky account.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t know who Mr. Nichols hangs around with, but people have absolutely been erasing their social media accounts and keeping their heads down. Green card and visa holders in the US already have plenty of evidence that their social media presence is being monitored and used by the administration.

Tom Nichols post reads:

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re apprehensive that what you say or do now could come to haunt you in a more authoritarian environment in the future then this is your absolute cue that you absolutely must say or do something now.

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 8d

Fascism creeps in, through silence, through apathy, through “it can’t happen here”

History teaches us one thing clearly: when fascism arises, you don’t debate it,
You fight it.
Every time.
Everywhere.

And once it's taken hold, fascism has only ever been defeated by force.

A vintage-style propaganda poster in red and white. It shows a figure in a cap, mid-stride, holding a Molotov cocktail in one hand and what looks like a rifle slung over their shoulder. Bold red text reads: “FIGHT FASCISM” at the top and “WHEREVER IT ARISES!” at the bottom.

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 8d

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mundus sine caesaribus, @merydeath.bsky.social · 8d

How else would you get a literate bigot to read the article?
Not defending them, just my first thought.

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