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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 2h

if there isn't a statue to the Fuck ICE Frog when this is over then we've failed as a society

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 5h

imagine suing your own record label because another of their artists made a diss track against you. and losing.

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 5h

I take back my warm statement about GO trains. I'm sitting across from someone having a LOUD work meeting on speaker phone. One -- it's rude to your fellow passengers. Two -- confidentiality?

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 5h

At some point (and I'm not talking only about Trump), keeping elderly elected officials in power is elder abuse.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6h

however even they will only be allowed to use it in the Internet Room.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 6h

La Turbulence des Fluides is a lovely bit of magical realism.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 6h

Canada needs passenger rail that doesn't share tracks with freight. I love taking the Go train around the GTA because it's on its own tracks. VIA sucks because it often gets bumped by freight which makes it unreliable.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 6h

The trailer doesn't do it justice, but New Waterford Girl is charming.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

kotowych.com

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

The administration is aware of black bloc tactics, was vaguely aware of clown bloc tactics, but was completely unprepared for the advent of Animal Crossing bloc tactics.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 1d

Jim Lee openly disparaging AI in no way guarantees anything, no one knows what the future of AI is and no one knows who will be in charge at DC Comics down the line. But I think it's important that a popular artist publicly shot AI down. Fans and artists ignorant of or using AI need to hear this.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 1d

One of many things I love about Dolly Parton is she can accept feedback that would send weaker celebrities into the eager arms of the far right. When she learned Dixie was a reference to the Confederacy and all it stood for, she simply changed her restaurant's name. She didn't whine about it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 1d

The first really cold weather of the season starts tonight. Normally, I love the first really crisp fall days, but as someone who suddenly developed cold urticaria towards the end of last winter, I'm feeling trepidatious. It's not fatal, but it's itchy. And sometimes my lips and eyelids swell up.

Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 1d

This is like asking weasels about chicken coop design while not asking chickens.

Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 1d

OTTAWA – The Liberal government has given its new AI “task force” until the end of the month to fast-track changes to the national artificial intelligence strategy — a plan that critics say leans too much on the perspective of industry and the tech sector.

Experts say Ottawa’s new AI task force is skewed towards industry

OTTAWA – The Liberal government has given its new AI “task force” until the end of the month to fast-track changes to the national artificial intelligence strategy — a plan that critics say leans too much on the perspective of industry and the tech sector.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 1d

They're not even my kid, and I'm so proud of them.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Suddenly, I'm reminded of the French place names in Michigan's UP -- I never did figure out how Manistique should be pronounced, even after spending a night there.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Somehow this small group of Gamergaters dictating popular culture somehow doesn’t chafe our writers as much as seeing a Black Disney character did.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Bluntness can be cultural. I'm Canadian & I've had more than one colleague from eastern Europe tell me they find Canadians weirdly indirect. My Polish boss thought it was ridiculous to frame her directions as polite requests. And my Canadian colleagues thought the eastern Europeans were too direct.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 1d

I hate the "AI is inevitable" crowd. Nothing is inevitable except death.

Our history is littered with ideas, technologies, beliefs etc. that were sold as the be-all and end-all, only to be replaced and doomed to fade into vague memories.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 1d

My dad predicted the Jays wouldn't have an easy go in their first game in Yankees' stadium this series. But he also predicts they'll bounce back for Game 4. 🍀

Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 4d

Like many sixty-something dads in Ontario, my dad spent this evening glued to the TV, watching his beloved Blue Jays hit homer after homer against the Yankees. For the dads' sakes, I hope the Jays go 90s retro and go all the way this year.

a baseball player wearing a number 29 jersey is running towards a referee .

Alt: Vince Carter running the bases after his game winning at bat in the World Series.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Chat bots are irritating when you're trying yo get an answer about a utility bill. A robot saying "I didn't catch that. Can you repeat it?" while in a life or death crisis is unconscionable.

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 1d

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

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