Chloë Lum
@compulsiveobserver.bsky.social
Installation artist. Perfume fanatic. Chronically ill. Concordia University PhD student(disability studies + performance studies + practice-based research.) Ex jammer, current failure. She/her Montréaler in Edmonton. https://linktr.ee/ChloeLum
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Chloë Lum
@compulsiveobserver.bsky.social
· Nov 14
New folks following me from starter packs, hi! Unfollow if you find me boring. I’m a chronically ill middled-aged grad student & artist in Edmonton. I’m not famous & I’m not especially funny. I don’t have a newsletter but I might post about sickness, vegan snacks, prog rock, or performance art.
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
I just had to share the majesty of my cat Hammerstein.
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I just had to share the majesty of my cat Hammerstein.
Dream destination.
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Dream destination.
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Introducing “Energy Limiting
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
www.scienceopen.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Introducing “Energy Limiting
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
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Being able bodied is always a temporary privilege. Whether by age, illness, accident, climate catastrophe, or class exploitation- we will all become disabled.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Being able bodied is always a temporary privilege. Whether by age, illness, accident, climate catastrophe, or class exploitation- we will all become disabled.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
I’m feeling targeted AF. Will tidy a few plants and a few book but the cables will wait and the pottery is still most in moving boxes until we are done building the closets and installing the rest of the shelves.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I’m feeling targeted AF. Will tidy a few plants and a few book but the cables will wait and the pottery is still most in moving boxes until we are done building the closets and installing the rest of the shelves.
Bury them under the jail.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Bury them under the jail.
I can’t learn my ‘new’ phone number after having to change it 4 years ago, but I remember every single commercial that ran 40 years ago.
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I can’t learn my ‘new’ phone number after having to change it 4 years ago, but I remember every single commercial that ran 40 years ago.
This is exactly me. Just like I don’t believe in astrology but I’m the most Pisces Pisces you will ever meet.
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This is exactly me. Just like I don’t believe in astrology but I’m the most Pisces Pisces you will ever meet.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I hope Albertans will remember that trans kids and teens are living breathing humans who just want to be themselves, without fear of hate and discrimination. Demonizing kids merely to score political points in some weird culture war is craven and cruel.
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I hope Albertans will remember that trans kids and teens are living breathing humans who just want to be themselves, without fear of hate and discrimination. Demonizing kids merely to score political points in some weird culture war is craven and cruel.
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"From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible."
Who Said It: The Hell Priest Pinhead or Olivia Nuzzi?
“Olivia Nuzzi did it all for love. The former political journalist has written a combustive portrait of America, President Trump, and the scandal w...
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible."
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
We pay 3 times more for car insurance in Alberta than we did in Quebec. Can’t wait to psy more because total psychos run this province.
“We have speed limits of 110 km/h. People will always travel 130 now. If we give them 120, will they travel 140 or 150? Yes, they probably will, so I’d say it will be a concern.”
- Staff Sgt. Andy Woodward with the Calgary Police Service.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Staff Sgt. Andy Woodward with the Calgary Police Service.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta already has sky-high car insurance rates. Will 120 km/h speed limits send premiums higher? | CBC News
Vehicle insurance companies are going to keep a close watch on whether the Alberta government keeps driving forward with a proposal to increase some highway speed limits to 120km/h.
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We pay 3 times more for car insurance in Alberta than we did in Quebec. Can’t wait to psy more because total psychos run this province.
So excited!
Y'all looking forward to Everybody's Sick But No One's Gonna Do Anything To Prevent It season?
I, for one, am absolutely thrilled.
I, for one, am absolutely thrilled.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
So excited!
An actor turned down a role because they think the character who lives w/ an invisible disability that is poorly understood should be performed by someone with *visible* disabilities.
I’m not gonna push people to do things they don’t want, but damn if this doesn’t make me feel more invisible.
I’m not gonna push people to do things they don’t want, but damn if this doesn’t make me feel more invisible.
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
An actor turned down a role because they think the character who lives w/ an invisible disability that is poorly understood should be performed by someone with *visible* disabilities.
I’m not gonna push people to do things they don’t want, but damn if this doesn’t make me feel more invisible.
I’m not gonna push people to do things they don’t want, but damn if this doesn’t make me feel more invisible.
What could go wrong?
So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
What could go wrong?
I’m jealous of all those people who say ‘I mask up and haven’t been sick for years.’ as I wear a respirator whenever I share air with others, rarely go anywhere (too tired), and yet I end up with flu-like symptoms a few times a year. Like right now.
I’m been too poorly to do anything but repost.
I’m been too poorly to do anything but repost.
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I’m jealous of all those people who say ‘I mask up and haven’t been sick for years.’ as I wear a respirator whenever I share air with others, rarely go anywhere (too tired), and yet I end up with flu-like symptoms a few times a year. Like right now.
I’m been too poorly to do anything but repost.
I’m been too poorly to do anything but repost.
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Alice Wong was a visionary leader who left an indelible mark on the disability justice movement. Her legacy lives on in her work to ensure that people with disabilities are represented, as seen in the Disability Visibility Project. Alice's powerful words & relentless advocacy will be greatly missed.
Disability Visibility Project
"Creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture"
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Alice Wong was a visionary leader who left an indelible mark on the disability justice movement. Her legacy lives on in her work to ensure that people with disabilities are represented, as seen in the Disability Visibility Project. Alice's powerful words & relentless advocacy will be greatly missed.
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Quetion for rural Alberta? support a dying industry that leaves a toxic wasteland that has no funding for cleanup, or support a growing clean responsible industry that pays its bills?
Tough one.
Tough one.
Rural Alberta's $70-million question: Will renewable energy revenue keep growing?
Rural Alberta is experiencing something remarkable — a steady, reliable stream of revenue that doesn’t depend on oil prices, doesn’t require new taxes and keeps flowing year after year. In 2025, wind ...
ca.news.yahoo.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Quetion for rural Alberta? support a dying industry that leaves a toxic wasteland that has no funding for cleanup, or support a growing clean responsible industry that pays its bills?
Tough one.
Tough one.
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A lovely tribute to Alice Wong by @thrasherxy.bsky.social. "She did not gatekeep knowledge; she shared it with the generosity and glee of a neighbor passing out full-sized candy bars on Halloween." I laughed at the part where she told him to “EAT THE FUCKING COOKIES!!!!” So very Alice.
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A lovely tribute to Alice Wong by @thrasherxy.bsky.social. "She did not gatekeep knowledge; she shared it with the generosity and glee of a neighbor passing out full-sized candy bars on Halloween." I laughed at the part where she told him to “EAT THE FUCKING COOKIES!!!!” So very Alice.
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Since Christmas is around the corner, a reminder that Wikipedia has a store. And the profits go to a project billionaires hate, so you're buying an object and getting free spite.
Classic Collection
Inspired by infoboxes, blue hyperlinks, talkpages, and everything that makes Wikipedia unique, this collection features new and well-loved designs, reimagined.
store.wikimedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Since Christmas is around the corner, a reminder that Wikipedia has a store. And the profits go to a project billionaires hate, so you're buying an object and getting free spite.
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For-profit healthcare is failing when it comes to saving money or providing care, but it's working when it comes to its actual purpose: stopping poor people from accessing the same healthcare as the wealthy.
It's class warfare. It's not even well-disguised class warfare, it's pretty blatant.
It's class warfare. It's not even well-disguised class warfare, it's pretty blatant.
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
For-profit healthcare is failing when it comes to saving money or providing care, but it's working when it comes to its actual purpose: stopping poor people from accessing the same healthcare as the wealthy.
It's class warfare. It's not even well-disguised class warfare, it's pretty blatant.
It's class warfare. It's not even well-disguised class warfare, it's pretty blatant.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.