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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 21h

Canada’s new government is starting Automatic Federal Benefits. We’re going to pre-file taxes for up to 5.5 million low-income Canadians, so they get the benefits they are entitled to — money that would otherwise be left unclaimed.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 2h

“For all his talk of reconciliation, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to accelerate the next wave of nation building has exposed a familiar fault line: when economic ambition collides with Indigenous consent, ambition usually wins,” writes Wendy Kaur. thewalrus.ca/a-subjugation-fi...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4h

A decade after the Paris Agreement, global greenhouse gas emissions are barely rising, up just 0.3% a year since 2015, compared with 1.7% before. buff.ly/JXM4dIv
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Paris Agreement at ten – ‘brakes slammed on’ emissions growth, finds…

Annual increase slowed fivefold to just 0.32% since agreement signed

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 3h

Also feeling pretty rundown and depressed this morning BUT THEN SUDDENLY a frond was like "Hey I'm in Lunenburg and this bookstore has a whole little Premee Mohamed section!" :D

(She also said she bought BUTCHER so now it's just the Clouds novellas haha)

part of a shelf, showing j.m. miro's ORDINARY MONSTERS as well as THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST, WE SPEAK THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN, THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS, and THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES by premee mohamed, then a few more books.

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 1d

In 1936 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky, a German pacifist convicted of high treason for exposing German re-armament. At the time of the award he was in a concentration camp. As a result Hitler banned any German from accepting a Nobel Prize and created his own German prize.

Ossietzky in the Esterwegen concentration camp in 1934.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 1d

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 22h

It's World Mental Health Day, which means it's a great time to ask any politician posting about this what they're doing to guarantee public coverage of pharmacotherapy and non-MD-provided psychotherapy.

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 1d

You know when you finish a book and wish the author had just given you a call to make it a comic book instead?

(I mean, they made the correct choice but a boy can dream.)

Screen shot from my phone of the recently completed audiobook of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s exceptional book And Put Away Childish Things.

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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 23h

It's seriously fucked that we let fossil fuel companies take freshwater, poison it with heavy metals and shit, and then pump it below the water table, allegedly taking it out of the water table for hundreds to thousands of years.
So not just stealing water for generations, but poisoning it as well.

Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 1d

In 2024 the oil and gas industry paid BC taxpayers $20,000 for fresh water. They used and poisoned 9 Billion litres of fresh water. Fracking companies should not be allowed to do this. If you want to call in the government to stop letting them you can here act.stand.earth/page/89100/a...

Fracking is draining B.C.’s freshwater: Act now before it’s too late

Despite B.C.’s Peace River Region facing an ongoing severe drought, last year oil & gas companies set a new record high for freshwater extraction, with an alarming 50% increase over the year before. J...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The lake sturgeon (a 100-year-living, 90-kg relic from the age of dinosaurs) is returning to Missouri’s rivers after near-extinction from dams and pollution. The revival of a keystone species and signalling broader recovery of the Mississippi basin’s river systems.
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Ancient fish species makes historic comeback in Missouri rivers

The Missouri Department of Conservation reported that lake sturgeon are spawning in large numbers.

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 1d

This is currently happening. 4 spots left!

Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, here we go. Further examples to follow.

Welcome to TomCon 25!

I’ll be taking a total of 6 “con style” commissions at “con rates” starting on Friday morning (October 10th) at 10am est.

All TomCon Coms will be 11x17 bw. TomCon Comms con rate for each will be $350 + shipping (plus whatever tariffs apply to US customers or HST to Canadians). An extra $100 will be applied to any an each requested extra element per TomCon Comm.

Requested subjects should be limited to “Big two” or adjacent, please.

Please contact me at tomfowlerart@gmail, subject line: “TomCon Comm” with your subject, name, address, and phone number to secure your spot. Payment via PayPal due upon confirmation.

Cheers!

11x17 drawing of DC’s Frankenstein and co slaughtering nazis.

11x17 drawing of Two-Face in an abandoned amusement park. Batman’s crouched behind him somewhere.

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 2d

Ontario ratepayers are seeing hikes in their gas bills. Meanwhile, Enbridge shareholders are getting up to $45 billion back over the next five years. @woodsideful.bsky.social reports.

Enbridge investors to get billions as gas giant expands into small-town Ontario

Enbridge executives know Ontario ratepayers are a cash cow for its gas business, and in recent calls with investors they said they plan to milk it for all its worth.

www.nationalobserver.com

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 2d

As I was posting this, Discord was dealing with hackers getting access to users’ personal info uploaded as part of the UK’s age verification law

MPs and Senators are getting ready to put Canadian users of porn websites in the same position – what could possibly go wrong!

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 2d

I wrote about this a few years ago

Bizarrely, this legislation is supported by the @ndp.ca despite warnings from Canada's privacy commissioner, legal experts and sex work advocates

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

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Michael Coyle @oplopanax.ca · 2d

this is one of those lines we must not cross

Canadian sovereignty cannot be weakened even a tiny bit.

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 2d

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 3d

“Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way?” That truck is climate change.

Great to speak with @theguardian.com’s Maya Goodfellow about my new book, #RunLikeAGirl.

Canada’s former climate minister on making a change, ‘aloof’ Trudeau and sexism

Catherine McKenna’s memoir delves into thorny parts of being in office including death threats and being referred to as ‘climate Barbie’

www.theguardian.com

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 4d

You don’t need Doug Ford qualifiers in this headline. The Hospital for Sick Children’s study showing “automated speed cameras reduce aggressive driving and speeding by almost half” didn’t make the cut.
Just call them speed cameras.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 4d

#Breaking: Doug Ford rejects mayors' plea to rethink banning speed camera 'cash grab'

‘The answer is no’: Doug Ford rejects mayors’ plea to rethink banning speed camera ‘cash grab’

“The only thing municipal speed cameras are 100 per cent effective at is taking money from hard-working people,” Doug Ford wrote in his response.

www.thestar.com

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LionessElise @lionesselise.bsky.social · 4d

Still happening (and going well, thank you! you are helping SO MUCH and you are all awesome)....

LionessElise @lionesselise.bsky.social · 5d

Quick Sunday night (and maybe Monday and Tuesday) sale is happening now, because I have inconvenient bills that could use some convenient sales.

35% off a lot of things.
Done when the bills are covered.
Have fun!

www.etsy.com/shop/Lioness...

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 4d

Hey fellow millennials in B.C. Did you ever get vaccinated for HPV? I did but got the Cervarix vaccine, which protects against the two cancer-causing HPV types. The standard vaccine is now Guardasil 9 which protects against nine types, so I'm paying out of pocket to update my vaccination status.

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Day 4 of waiting to find out if we get to keep selling anarchist, erotic, and trans lit or if a certain corporation is going to freeze our assets, whee

Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Heeeey it's Q3 2025, and we were about to send a bunch of much deserved money to our hundreds of indie publishers, but PayPal has seen fit to limit our account for arbitrary reasons! Ain't corporate-captured late capitalism grand

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