Ann Petersen-Kane
@anniegirl.bsky.social
I assume everyone is good faith in discussion but if you aren't, I will block your ass so fast. Canadian. Anti-adoption. Writer. Gamer. Family history enthusiast. Polinerd. Liberal/NDP depending.
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Hey, #abpoli, did any of you get a call from the Alberta Govt tonight for the budget 2025 budget town hall with Horner? Cuz they had my number - for reasons that escape me.
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Do they have t-shirts? I'll bet they're pretty cool.
Bullshit.
“The Turtle Island Liberation Front—a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group—was preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year’s Eve.” www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi... #cdnpoli
“The Turtle Island Liberation Front—a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group—was preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year’s Eve.” www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi... #cdnpoli
December 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Do they have t-shirts? I'll bet they're pretty cool.
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Utah’s repeal of its collective bargaining ban last week is a historic step toward restoring respect and dignity for workers in the state. apnews.com/article/utah...
Utah repeals ban on collective bargaining for teachers, firefighters and police unions
Utah has repealed a collective bargaining ban that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating on behalf of their workers.
apnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Utah’s repeal of its collective bargaining ban last week is a historic step toward restoring respect and dignity for workers in the state. apnews.com/article/utah...
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It’s not wrong to say that Trump has said embarrassing horrible things in similar situations but I do think people forgot how fucking awful it was to hear them week after week after week after week and you’re starting to see some people remember and just get fed up with it
Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽
December 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It’s not wrong to say that Trump has said embarrassing horrible things in similar situations but I do think people forgot how fucking awful it was to hear them week after week after week after week and you’re starting to see some people remember and just get fed up with it
Danielle Smith surrendered to the SoCred's and their insistence ontheir version of Christianity being the basis for governing the province. They were not elected to overlord us with this anti-Charter bs. But merry fucking xmas, you heathens, is baked firmly into this fuck you from Demetrious. #ableg
December 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Danielle Smith surrendered to the SoCred's and their insistence ontheir version of Christianity being the basis for governing the province. They were not elected to overlord us with this anti-Charter bs. But merry fucking xmas, you heathens, is baked firmly into this fuck you from Demetrious. #ableg
Twitter is over. Nothing to be gained from going back to that place that replaced it. And No one reads. No one has ever really read all that much tbh. People are visual consumers.
to be clear, it is fine if you just want to dick around! that's what i mostly do on here. but the idea that "you're giving up the fight to influence people by not using X" is belied by the fact that effectively *no one* uses X. and i don't see any of the "use X!" people on tiktok or youtube.
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Twitter is over. Nothing to be gained from going back to that place that replaced it. And No one reads. No one has ever really read all that much tbh. People are visual consumers.
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Britain’s head of MI6 will accuse Russia of exporting “chaos” and warn that the threat posed by Moscow will persist until Putin is “forced to change his calculus”, in her first public remarks since taking office. Metreweli, who took the top job at the spy agency in June, will on Mon use a speech at
Russia is ‘exporting chaos’, new head of Britain’s spy agency MI6 warns
In her first public remarks since taking office, Blaise Metreweli will also say UK support for Ukraine is ‘enduring’
www.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Britain’s head of MI6 will accuse Russia of exporting “chaos” and warn that the threat posed by Moscow will persist until Putin is “forced to change his calculus”, in her first public remarks since taking office. Metreweli, who took the top job at the spy agency in June, will on Mon use a speech at
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I was fully into the conspiracies growing up until I stood in Dealy Plaza & looked up at the Book Depository window. One of the common theories was it was too difficult a shot.
Sorry, but it isn't that far. I realized then that I could make that shot with iron sights. Oswald probably made the shot
Sorry, but it isn't that far. I realized then that I could make that shot with iron sights. Oswald probably made the shot
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I was fully into the conspiracies growing up until I stood in Dealy Plaza & looked up at the Book Depository window. One of the common theories was it was too difficult a shot.
Sorry, but it isn't that far. I realized then that I could make that shot with iron sights. Oswald probably made the shot
Sorry, but it isn't that far. I realized then that I could make that shot with iron sights. Oswald probably made the shot
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To clarify: the current vaccine does not include subclade K of H3N2, which is circulating now. It is not more virulent or serious. But the fact that we are not protected from it means we're more likely to be infected with it. H3N2 is always more serious, in general, especially for elderly.
I am fully vaccinated but masking as there is one particularly virulent strain of flu out there not covered by this shot. Haven't been sick with a cold or flu since 2019 but I don't have kids at home and I am retired since then so I can avoid crowds as much as needed...
December 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
To clarify: the current vaccine does not include subclade K of H3N2, which is circulating now. It is not more virulent or serious. But the fact that we are not protected from it means we're more likely to be infected with it. H3N2 is always more serious, in general, especially for elderly.
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There are 4 staff away sick (including me) from my small library branch today, I'm honestly not sure how they are managing. Perhaps the high school teens are the captains now.
December 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
There are 4 staff away sick (including me) from my small library branch today, I'm honestly not sure how they are managing. Perhaps the high school teens are the captains now.
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Straight people make everything weird.
Every day I say married couples are the problem. So I guess married men can’t talk to any strangers in public at all when they are with their spouse. YIKES.
December 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Straight people make everything weird.
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Maybe this wasn’t the best idea.
December 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Maybe this wasn’t the best idea.
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"About half of current enrollees who are registered to vote said that if their overall health care expenses... increased by $1,000 next year, it would have a "major impact" on whether they vote in next year's midterm elections or which party's candidate they support."
Why would you not vote? 🤦♀️
Why would you not vote? 🤦♀️
ACA shoppers face sticker shock as Congress dithers on health care
With subsidies that help consumers pay their health insurance premiums set to expire, health care shoppers face staggering prices. Lawmakers are running out of time to agree on a solution.
www.npr.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"About half of current enrollees who are registered to vote said that if their overall health care expenses... increased by $1,000 next year, it would have a "major impact" on whether they vote in next year's midterm elections or which party's candidate they support."
Why would you not vote? 🤦♀️
Why would you not vote? 🤦♀️
Okay, yeah. Mostly. But there was the time when my MP had to deal with a tweet of mine that ended up as the focal point of an article in the local paper. So that was a minute of my life well spent. People still remember it. Plus he runs away whenever he sees me in public. So no regrets here.
I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful
December 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Okay, yeah. Mostly. But there was the time when my MP had to deal with a tweet of mine that ended up as the focal point of an article in the local paper. So that was a minute of my life well spent. People still remember it. Plus he runs away whenever he sees me in public. So no regrets here.
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What I loved about Twitter and now BlueSky is that for my whole life I had these pointless thoughts and dumb jokes popping into my head and bouncing around endlessly inside my skull with no escape. Now I can just post them and exorcise them from my thoughts. Now they're your problem. Sorry.
December 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
What I loved about Twitter and now BlueSky is that for my whole life I had these pointless thoughts and dumb jokes popping into my head and bouncing around endlessly inside my skull with no escape. Now I can just post them and exorcise them from my thoughts. Now they're your problem. Sorry.
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This has always been true. The advertising budgets reveal the audience size. At twitter’s height, viral posters there were offered like $50 to spam promote a lamp in their own comments. Meanwhile youtubers make videos titled “I blew up a Ferrari in outer space”
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This has always been true. The advertising budgets reveal the audience size. At twitter’s height, viral posters there were offered like $50 to spam promote a lamp in their own comments. Meanwhile youtubers make videos titled “I blew up a Ferrari in outer space”
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Anthony Geary, who played Luke Spencer on 'General Hospital,' dies at 78 www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
Anthony Geary, who played Luke Spencer on 'General Hospital,' dies at 78
Geary was one half of TV's most iconic couples: Luke and Laura. Their TV wedding in 1981 drew 30 million viewers to become the highest-rated soap episode in American TV history.
www.nbcnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Anthony Geary, who played Luke Spencer on 'General Hospital,' dies at 78 www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
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Trump’s post that Rob Reiner had a stabbing death coming to him because he opposed Trump will be forgotten in a day or two. Like everything else. If we were a rational society, these appalling words and actions would be cumulative and we’d get rid of the bastard. Instead everything is a one-off.
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Trump’s post that Rob Reiner had a stabbing death coming to him because he opposed Trump will be forgotten in a day or two. Like everything else. If we were a rational society, these appalling words and actions would be cumulative and we’d get rid of the bastard. Instead everything is a one-off.
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A new documentary from Las Cruces filmmaker Annie Ersinhaus tells the story of the oil and gas industry’s takeover of the Permian and San Juan basins, and the effects fracking over the last decade has had on area communities.
via @sourcenm.com
via @sourcenm.com
New documentary film highlights pollution from oil and gas industry in New Mexico
A new documentary from Las Cruces filmmaker Annie Ersinhaus tells the story of the oil and gas industry’s takeover of the Permian and San Juan basins, and the effects fracking over the last decade…
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A new documentary from Las Cruces filmmaker Annie Ersinhaus tells the story of the oil and gas industry’s takeover of the Permian and San Juan basins, and the effects fracking over the last decade has had on area communities.
via @sourcenm.com
via @sourcenm.com
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I’m finding myself torn between a “Try to find the humour in it all” and a “This looks like a good place to start digging my bomb shelter” mindset so I might try writing some satire while on my breaks from mixing cement.
March 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I’m finding myself torn between a “Try to find the humour in it all” and a “This looks like a good place to start digging my bomb shelter” mindset so I might try writing some satire while on my breaks from mixing cement.
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Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation
another story in the invaluable series on the impacts of Trump's brutal deportation machine in NYC by @hunterw.bsky.social and @talkingpointsmemo.com
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/unde...
another story in the invaluable series on the impacts of Trump's brutal deportation machine in NYC by @hunterw.bsky.social and @talkingpointsmemo.com
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/unde...
Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation
At his clinic, John Sirabella is a hard man to talk to. ...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation
another story in the invaluable series on the impacts of Trump's brutal deportation machine in NYC by @hunterw.bsky.social and @talkingpointsmemo.com
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/unde...
another story in the invaluable series on the impacts of Trump's brutal deportation machine in NYC by @hunterw.bsky.social and @talkingpointsmemo.com
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/unde...
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I still don't have any takers here - it's a complex use case, so I didn't expect one right away, but if you know anyone who uses or could benefit from switch access hit me up
Posting this just made me remember something and I’m angry with myself bc I should have said this sooner
I have a lot used for testing that ends up not being used, and I have this Xbox adaptive controller and the full kit. Happy to ship it to any gamer who HAS THE NEED for the full controller
I have a lot used for testing that ends up not being used, and I have this Xbox adaptive controller and the full kit. Happy to ship it to any gamer who HAS THE NEED for the full controller
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I still don't have any takers here - it's a complex use case, so I didn't expect one right away, but if you know anyone who uses or could benefit from switch access hit me up