Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him
@chestnutfez.bsky.social
Winnipegger. Copy editor in sustainable development. Jets fan, much of the time. YIMBY. Musician for joy, not mastery. Just trying to find good Winnipeg/hockey/literature/language stuff on here.
All vibes positive until further notice.
All vibes positive until further notice.
These people are disgusting seditionists and need to be tried accordingly.
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'Respect Canadian sovereignty', Carney tells US officials after they meet Alberta separatists
Alberta separatists have held three meetings with members of the Trump administration to discuss their push for independence
www.bbc.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:40 PM
These people are disgusting seditionists and need to be tried accordingly.
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There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason.
Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
January 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason.
Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
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A few social media platforms are giving users more control to tune down AI slop in their feeds, and I'd like to see this become more widespread!
apnews.com/article/ai-c...
apnews.com/article/ai-c...
One Tech Tip: Fed up with AI slop? A few platforms will let you dial it down
AI-generated content is flooding digital platforms, but some are taking steps to help users manage it.
apnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:08 PM
A few social media platforms are giving users more control to tune down AI slop in their feeds, and I'd like to see this become more widespread!
apnews.com/article/ai-c...
apnews.com/article/ai-c...
Gretchen is correct--this is, indeed, very fun!
This is a fun nested thread to read all the replies on
My Latin speaking peeps: @shadowspar.bsky.social was looking for a good Latin equivalent of "fuck around, find out" and this was my attempt, but I know it's not perfect; who's got better?
January 29, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Gretchen is correct--this is, indeed, very fun!
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It's like getting arrested by a fascist Magritte painting.
January 29, 2026 at 2:11 PM
It's like getting arrested by a fascist Magritte painting.
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Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Wonderful piece, and powerful quote from bell hooks: "The entirety of my intellectual and creative project is this: marginality [is] much more than a site of deprivation; in fact I was saying just the opposite, that it is also the site of radical possibility, a space of resistance.”
Oops, wrote a thing. Didn't mean to. "One habit I see all too often is the assumption that the future will be an extension of some obvious force in the present: that force will continue to enlarge in power and impact or just stay steady."
"Past Performance Is Not Indicative of Future Results": On Immigration and Assumptions
This morning the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial warning about the consequences of the persecution and deportation of immigrants and its impact on the overall labor force: "The Census Bureau repo...
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January 28, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Wonderful piece, and powerful quote from bell hooks: "The entirety of my intellectual and creative project is this: marginality [is] much more than a site of deprivation; in fact I was saying just the opposite, that it is also the site of radical possibility, a space of resistance.”
Beautiful and powerful.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Beautiful and powerful.
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To every writer, artist & [insert your creative thing here] who feels they maybe shouldn't be posting stuff that *isn't* 'How Do We Stop The Fascists' right now:
One of the tools of Evil People is hopelessness - where everyone's so exhausted they forget what Better looks like.
Please remind them.
One of the tools of Evil People is hopelessness - where everyone's so exhausted they forget what Better looks like.
Please remind them.
January 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM
To every writer, artist & [insert your creative thing here] who feels they maybe shouldn't be posting stuff that *isn't* 'How Do We Stop The Fascists' right now:
One of the tools of Evil People is hopelessness - where everyone's so exhausted they forget what Better looks like.
Please remind them.
One of the tools of Evil People is hopelessness - where everyone's so exhausted they forget what Better looks like.
Please remind them.
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I think about this post a lot.
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I think about this post a lot.
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Asking chat gpt what the Sunk Cost Fallacy is.
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Asking chat gpt what the Sunk Cost Fallacy is.
Horrible and sadly, completely predictable.
tired: flatten the curve
wired: make that ish go vertical baby. up and to the right. we're #1
wired: make that ish go vertical baby. up and to the right. we're #1
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Horrible and sadly, completely predictable.
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No-till farming helps Canada post record grain exports. Canadian farmers are harvesting record spring wheat and canola crops, driven largely by widespread no-till and zero-till farming that locks in soil moisture and cuts erosion. Reuters #ShareGoodNewsToo
January 28, 2026 at 1:50 PM
No-till farming helps Canada post record grain exports. Canadian farmers are harvesting record spring wheat and canola crops, driven largely by widespread no-till and zero-till farming that locks in soil moisture and cuts erosion. Reuters #ShareGoodNewsToo
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There are literally children hiding in their homes from masked agents of the state trying to disappear them you f*cking hacks
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 3:26 AM
There are literally children hiding in their homes from masked agents of the state trying to disappear them you f*cking hacks
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Always a good time to follow Bellingcat.
we have Bellingcat doing video analysis of executions in America. Got here pretty quick guys
Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, on January 24. DHS claims he died after an armed struggle, but videos of the incident appears to contradict that claim. Read our analysis here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
January 27, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Always a good time to follow Bellingcat.
Excellent thread.
It's weird how after every good thing/gain (even if we don't call it a victory) people circle up to insist we shouldn't celebrate. Celebrating is not how people give up, in my experience; believing we can't win, never win, and have no power is (with a side of joylessness).
I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
January 27, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Excellent thread.
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Putting the 'ope' in Hope, hell yeah
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Putting the 'ope' in Hope, hell yeah
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If you jumped on the recent social media trend of posting photos or videos of memories from 2016, AI says thanks.
That's because the high volume of publicly available, labelled images is a gold mine for anyone needing data to train AI models.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/vira...
That's because the high volume of publicly available, labelled images is a gold mine for anyone needing data to train AI models.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/vira...
Viral social media trend reminiscing about 2016 a gold mine for AI firms
TORONTO - If you jumped on the recent social media trend of posting photos or videos of memories from 2016, experts say artificial intelligence likely thanks you.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
January 27, 2026 at 1:33 PM
If you jumped on the recent social media trend of posting photos or videos of memories from 2016, AI says thanks.
That's because the high volume of publicly available, labelled images is a gold mine for anyone needing data to train AI models.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/vira...
That's because the high volume of publicly available, labelled images is a gold mine for anyone needing data to train AI models.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/vira...
This is wonderful. 😀
January 27, 2026 at 1:40 PM
This is wonderful. 😀
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I was trying to determine what the feeling I'm experiencing tonight is, and it's...hope? That regular people fucking broke shit up, without waiting for any useless elected fucks to do anything about it. the bullies have been stood up to and were revealed to be impotent cowards with no fucking game
January 27, 2026 at 4:52 AM
I was trying to determine what the feeling I'm experiencing tonight is, and it's...hope? That regular people fucking broke shit up, without waiting for any useless elected fucks to do anything about it. the bullies have been stood up to and were revealed to be impotent cowards with no fucking game
I love this so much. Today a ray of home started gleaming for me. Thank you, Minnesotans.
We've been celebrating partial victories for 14 months, but this is the first time the entire regime focused its power on one goal but was repelled by a powerful nonviolent force of organized people. I get shit is still bad, but damn how can someone not be inspired by this.
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 AM
I love this so much. Today a ray of home started gleaming for me. Thank you, Minnesotans.
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The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."
It also sounds like at least some of them thought the cameras wouldn't matter because they were assuming that a couple of public executions would cause all of the resistance to run and hide.
January 26, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."
This is brilliant. And hilarious ta boot, eh?
This is so good — credit to Henrysircomedian #Canada😆😏
Henry calls out the maga cult and their hypocrisy.
This is 🔥 🔥
Henry calls out the maga cult and their hypocrisy.
This is 🔥 🔥
January 27, 2026 at 2:36 AM
This is brilliant. And hilarious ta boot, eh?