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Caffeinated Chaos @amindfulmess.bsky.social · 1d

Right?!?! @rebeccahartery4.bsky.social - would also love to know more 🙃🙃🫠🫠

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Caffeinated Chaos @amindfulmess.bsky.social · 2d

I've literally SEARCHED for this option. So would love to know where to sign up for it 🙃

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Caffeinated Chaos @amindfulmess.bsky.social · 2d

*live in. But there's no doubt of his love for self either.

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Caffeinated Chaos @amindfulmess.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently, Andy Fillmore just proclaimed himself as the "best bike lane advocate in Halifax," and I'm dyyyyyiiiiinnng. What it must be like to love in this man's inflated reality of overconfidence.

I did not make the district 8 town hall meeting tn. But for folks there, I must know more 🤣🤣🤣

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Law + Tech News Bot @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org · 4d

TL;DR: The EU is once again discussing its contentious 'Chat Control' proposal, which aims to scan private messages of billions, raising significant privacy concerns. Efforts to modify and push this legislation forward have been met with strong opposition from advocacy groups like EFF.

Chat Control Is Back On The Menu In The EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of …

www.techdirt.com

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 4d

Speculative Friction has a cool series and they just spoke with our colleague, activist + author @liaholland.bsky.social, about challenging tech solutionism, navigating surveillance capitalism in the creative industry + more. Check it out!

speculativefriction.substack.com/p/the-journe...

The Journey Matters: resisting tech solutionism, building community, and rewriting narratives

A conversation with Lia Holland exploring how storytelling opens space for meaning, equity, and imagination

speculativefriction.substack.com

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 4d

A reminder as the National Guard is weaponized against more cities:

Policing & crime do not go hand in hand. Incarceration rates in every single U.S. state are out of line with the entire world, and this disparity is not explainable by differences in crime or “violent crime.”

Scatterplot showing that the U.S. incarcerates more of its population than any other nation – including nations that have similar or higher rates of crime. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2021.html

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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 4d

Ecuador revokes DPM Metals' environmental license for the Loma Larga project!

“It has been a decades-long struggle,” says Cuenca's Mayor Cristian Zamora, one of the leading voices opposing the mine.

www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

Ecuador revokes environmental license for Canada’s DPM to develop gold project

Ecuador’s government has revoked the environmental license granted to Canadian mining company DPM Metals DPM.TO for the development of Loma Larga, a gold project in an environmentally sensitive area, ...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Critical Criminology @critcrim.bsky.social · 4d

Canadian policing kills again. This morning.

Man (41) Dies in Dryden OPP Custody (October 6, 2025) killercopscanada.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/m...

Man (41) Dies in Dryden OPP Custody (October 6, 2025)

A 41-year-old man died in Dryden OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) custody on October 6, 2025. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) reports that the man was arrested at a residence in Dryden for bre…

killercopscanada.wordpress.com

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Caffeinated Chaos @amindfulmess.bsky.social · 4d

*stares directly at Andy*

The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 4d

Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism is on the rise in Canada

Two years into the Israeli war in Gaza, racism targeting Palestinians or pro-Palestinians continues rise — and now there’s new data that delve into this alarming phenomenon.

theconversation.com

Caffeinated Chaos @amindfulmess.bsky.social · 4d

Shocker.

Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 4d

Bridge traffic up 10% since tolls removed

Story by me

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/transportati...

Bridge traffic up 10% since tolls removed - Halifax Examiner

Meanwhile, collisions down 40%, according to Halifax Harbour Bridges.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

Caffeinated Chaos @amindfulmess.bsky.social · 4d

That and "Just say no"

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Caffeinated Chaos @amindfulmess.bsky.social · 4d

"Would love to see this board use evidence based decsion making"..."and not evidence that comes directly from the police"

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 4d

I guess the big question for me about this years police budget increase requests, I guess I don't understand why a local police office in the Passage or for that matter why the HRP/RCMP are paid out of the general rate, since they're explicitly geographically specific services.

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Su @ajjjvarrrr.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think BoPc ever listens to public consultations but the community members are my favourite thing to listen to every year (excluding anyone associated with alderney landing)

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 4d

Making Bolognese and listening to the Board of Police Commissioners meeting while pretending it's July to desperately try and fend off the existential dread.