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Judy 🇨🇦
@dreamin.bsky.social
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she/her Vancouver, BC "War is no time for soft Cheezies!"
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Let’s be clear. If a completely immature & unhinged maniac is allowed to do this kind of thing out of toddler-level spite when President’s DON’T EVEN HAVE THE POWER TO UNILATERALLY LEVY TARIFFS, then there simply IS NO LEGITIMATE TRADE RELATIONSHIP between the United States & Canada or any country.
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life
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Nothing says “Nobel Peace prize” quite like the changing the name of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War.”
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Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
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Imagine picking a “businessman” to be your leader, but instead of a great businessman, or even a good one, you pick the absolute worst one…I mean, the laughing stock of his sector (land dev’t), known for many bankruptcies, cheating people, crooked deals, etc.

Now imagine letting him be a dictator.
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Why go to a place that may disappear us? That threatens our nation's existence? That denies basic human rights to women & 2SLGBTQ? That's a no
Over 150 Canadians including toddlers have been kidnapped by ICE.
Our government continues with the fiction that travel in the United States is normal.
But Canadians are no dummies.
The boycott remains strong.
Las Vegas mayor complaining that Canadians just won't come back.
Hasta la vista baby.
The headline made me laugh. So true!
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Text from a friend just now:

"Why are “travel disruptions” the only part of this Air Canada story the CBC deems worthy of coverage? What about union busting & expecting a whole cohort of women workers to perform unpaid labour? WTF. How do these people think strikes work?"

#cdnpoli #aircanadastrike
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I was going to head home to upload photos and interviews but the dinosaurs showed up
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As federal authorities crack down on homeless encampments in D.C., revisit our reporting on the possessions people lose in sweeps — and how these losses can traumatize them, exacerbate health issues and undermine efforts to find housing.
Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments
People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or…
projects.propublica.org
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We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.

In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:
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The reason for the strong reaction against #ElbowsUp by Conservatives should be self-evident.
PP has nothing to contribute. He could easily be replaced by a bot at this point.
Really enjoyed this episode. She's not wrong!
Lawns are as outdated as jello salad. Best left in the past.