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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 6m

They're not the best at taking no for an answer.

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Iceblueaccent @iceblueaccent.bsky.social · 10m

"Resistance to the United States is a moral imperative, and it is at this point abundantly clear Americans won’t do it themselves."

Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 5h

"Americans would use “salami tactics.” Taking slices Canadian sovereignty and independence at a time. The first steps would not be tanks rolling across the border, but the Canadian government allowing, or being forced to allow organizations like the US Marshalls or the FBI to operate inside Canada."

Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · Apr 24

New from Avant Garde Press: Canadian Salami

"Recently, an article was published by ‘The Conversation’ about the potential of an American invasion and Canadian insurgency....It’s time to examine the issue of the Canadian resistance to American invasion."

avantgardepress.substack.com/p/canadian-s...

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 26m

I hope a lot of Canadians are paying attention to these kinds of moves, because Carney will meet them in the middle

Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 5h

"Americans would use “salami tactics.” Taking slices Canadian sovereignty and independence at a time. The first steps would not be tanks rolling across the border, but the Canadian government allowing, or being forced to allow organizations like the US Marshalls or the FBI to operate inside Canada."

Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · Apr 24

New from Avant Garde Press: Canadian Salami

"Recently, an article was published by ‘The Conversation’ about the potential of an American invasion and Canadian insurgency....It’s time to examine the issue of the Canadian resistance to American invasion."

avantgardepress.substack.com/p/canadian-s...

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 34m

This is the Jays secret: you can't hit 8 pitches at once.

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 4h

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 36m

If they’re going to call us rebels anyway, then embrace it. Antifascist rebels

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 47m

“The president of the United States believes there is a rebellion brewing in the United States? That is such an audacious claim,” the attorney for Illinois argued. “Who are the rebels? Are the rebels well armed? .. There is no rebellion in Illinois.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/09/t...

Lawyers fight over the word ‘rebellion’ as federal hearing begins on barring National Guard troop deployment

Trump administration lawyers argued in a filing that escalating violence against immigration officials during “Operation Midway Blitz” justify deploying National Guard troops.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 35m

This was the most jarring thing for me when I got back from Afghanistan. The entire world just went on. Perhaps it shouldn't have been a surprise but to find the rest of Canada be "oh we're still doing that?"

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 40m

No

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · 47m

I honestly think a bigger point needs to be made in high school history classes that people still had to work during invasions. People had to work during the London Blitz. People still have to work in Ukraine. Taxes often go up during war and the people pay for that.

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 1h

Jan Hus would too but he can't cus he got lit on fire.

Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

Martin Luther might have something to say about irony...

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 4h

Pope Leo is spitting.

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

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 2h

Now it's a day later and the APTN and CBC Indigenous news sites still have no story about, or even mention in another story of Israel abducting, in international waters, a First Nations person who has Canadian citizenship.

canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 1d

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 2h

Some art I did for the Batting Around podcast. Sums up my feelings right now.

Alex Haus of Decline tenderly kisses Alejandro Kirk on the back of the head with a SMEK

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

Martin Luther might have something to say about irony...

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 4h

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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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

They didn't listen did they

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

You don't have to act like it's far in the past either.

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

The LLM investors may eat shit a little.

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MacGruboooooo @loxy.bsky.social · 2h

I kind of feel like there will be both. Like the size of it isn’t close to what it should be, so it will tank a bunch of stocks for normal people retirement funds, but govt will buy it all up at a lesser value, bailing out the billionaires and leaving us on the hook for a detrimental technology.

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

A quote from the film Body of Lies that may prove relevant:

"Our enemy realized that they are fighting guys from the future. Now, ahem, it is brilliant as it is infuriating. If you live like it's the past, and you behave like it's the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you."

Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

It sure seems to me there's not going to be much 'AI bubble popping,' and a lot more of a transition to 'AI run digital surveillance,' and 'state run deepfake creation facilities.'

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

Always comes back to it doesn't it

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

Evil, certainly, but not stupid.

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

The people investing enormous amounts of capital in building these facilities aren't stupid.

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

It sure seems to me there's not going to be much 'AI bubble popping,' and a lot more of a transition to 'AI run digital surveillance,' and 'state run deepfake creation facilities.'

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 2h

Should have cleaned his room better.

A miserable looking Jordan Peterson wearing a brown coat at an office chair. In the background his apartment is a shambles.

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 2h

Bolsanaro life arc

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 14h

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 3h

Any and all ICE agents entering Canada should be arrested under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.

We have a legal framework designed to address the unconscionable. We ought to use it!

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