Audra 🇨🇦 Halfdansdottir
@intheprairie.bsky.social
Books, TV, & cheap wine.
Support animal to many.
No patience for bigots.
I swear a lot.
Treaty One Territory (Manitoba)
Support animal to many.
No patience for bigots.
I swear a lot.
Treaty One Territory (Manitoba)
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I'm going to say this once. If I just followed you back, we've never interacted, and the first thing you do is message me, you will be blocked.
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Waxing crescent on way home.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Waxing crescent on way home.
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Brian undersells how horrifiying it is. It's also the funniest fucking thing I've read all year.
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Brian undersells how horrifiying it is. It's also the funniest fucking thing I've read all year.
When I read two lines of RFK's poetry, I threw up in my mouth a bit & scrolled on, but this is quite good.
Laughter is therapy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Laughter is therapy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What can we learn from RFK's 'erotic poetry'? That Americans need to get better at enjoying a scandal | Marina Hyde
The US health secretary’s ‘digital affair’ with Olivia Nuzzi doesn’t need sombre analysis. Take it from this Brit: sometimes laughter is the only option, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
When I read two lines of RFK's poetry, I threw up in my mouth a bit & scrolled on, but this is quite good.
Laughter is therapy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Laughter is therapy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While I appreciate the attempt at transparency, reading this just triggers me.
I have heard this same nonsense so many times.
Frankly, if “employees must verify and cross reference all AI outputs with a strong focus on fact-checking” how the fuck does Ai save any time??
www.cbc.ca/news/editors...
I have heard this same nonsense so many times.
Frankly, if “employees must verify and cross reference all AI outputs with a strong focus on fact-checking” how the fuck does Ai save any time??
www.cbc.ca/news/editors...
How CBC News will use AI responsibly to benefit our journalism — and keep your trust | CBC News
CBC is launching a new campaign aimed at reminding Canadians how our journalism can provide a safe harbour from the fake news and AI-generated content roiling through our feeds. As the campaign begins...
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
While I appreciate the attempt at transparency, reading this just triggers me.
I have heard this same nonsense so many times.
Frankly, if “employees must verify and cross reference all AI outputs with a strong focus on fact-checking” how the fuck does Ai save any time??
www.cbc.ca/news/editors...
I have heard this same nonsense so many times.
Frankly, if “employees must verify and cross reference all AI outputs with a strong focus on fact-checking” how the fuck does Ai save any time??
www.cbc.ca/news/editors...
We have a full set of World Book Encyclopedia - as well as the annual yearbooks. (I know...)
Anyway, randomly pulled out 1985 & fell open to this article on a cholesterol study done on men.
Only men.
Only men are mentioned throughout.
Women barely existed just 40 years ago.
Anyway, randomly pulled out 1985 & fell open to this article on a cholesterol study done on men.
Only men.
Only men are mentioned throughout.
Women barely existed just 40 years ago.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We have a full set of World Book Encyclopedia - as well as the annual yearbooks. (I know...)
Anyway, randomly pulled out 1985 & fell open to this article on a cholesterol study done on men.
Only men.
Only men are mentioned throughout.
Women barely existed just 40 years ago.
Anyway, randomly pulled out 1985 & fell open to this article on a cholesterol study done on men.
Only men.
Only men are mentioned throughout.
Women barely existed just 40 years ago.
Trying to bite my tongue on the Winnipeg churches that either have, or want to install, 8 ft barbed wire fences around them.
*sighs*
I understand the concern about safety, but if you have to build a fence like that around your church, I think you've completely missed the point of the church.
*sighs*
I understand the concern about safety, but if you have to build a fence like that around your church, I think you've completely missed the point of the church.
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Trying to bite my tongue on the Winnipeg churches that either have, or want to install, 8 ft barbed wire fences around them.
*sighs*
I understand the concern about safety, but if you have to build a fence like that around your church, I think you've completely missed the point of the church.
*sighs*
I understand the concern about safety, but if you have to build a fence like that around your church, I think you've completely missed the point of the church.
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Cute Baby Pix of the Past: sitting in his highchair, wearing his bumper, contemplating next move in his campaign to annoy lace-making mum. Painted in 1656 by Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today.
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Cute Baby Pix of the Past: sitting in his highchair, wearing his bumper, contemplating next move in his campaign to annoy lace-making mum. Painted in 1656 by Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today.
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I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
Grieving is difficult enough without having to deal with nonsense like this.
My sympathies to Amy Redford and all of Robert Redford’s family.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My sympathies to Amy Redford and all of Robert Redford’s family.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘Extra challenging during a difficult time’: Robert Redford’s daughter criticises AI tributes to the late actor
Amy Redford thanks fans for ‘love and support’ but takes issue with ‘AI versions of funerals, tributes and quotes from members of my family that are fabrications’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Grieving is difficult enough without having to deal with nonsense like this.
My sympathies to Amy Redford and all of Robert Redford’s family.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My sympathies to Amy Redford and all of Robert Redford’s family.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
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24 November 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Alex Weijel, was born in Enschede.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
24 November 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Alex Weijel, was born in Enschede.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
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Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant) was one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the late-18th and early-19th centuries.
A gifted diplomat, he spent his life fighting for the right for his people to remain on ancestral lands.
This is his story.
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A gifted diplomat, he spent his life fighting for the right for his people to remain on ancestral lands.
This is his story.
🧵 1/10
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant) was one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the late-18th and early-19th centuries.
A gifted diplomat, he spent his life fighting for the right for his people to remain on ancestral lands.
This is his story.
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A gifted diplomat, he spent his life fighting for the right for his people to remain on ancestral lands.
This is his story.
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Reading Miss Lonelyhearts & there's a writer *calling himself*...
"Used & Abused"
who does not understand why his girlfriend is leaving him when "I only hit her once during a fight she provoked when I got home from a bad night of gambling". 👀
"Used & Abused"
who does not understand why his girlfriend is leaving him when "I only hit her once during a fight she provoked when I got home from a bad night of gambling". 👀
a close up of a man 's face with the words stop it get some help below it
Alt: A close up of Sherlock Holmes face with the words, Stop it. Get some help.
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reading Miss Lonelyhearts & there's a writer *calling himself*...
"Used & Abused"
who does not understand why his girlfriend is leaving him when "I only hit her once during a fight she provoked when I got home from a bad night of gambling". 👀
"Used & Abused"
who does not understand why his girlfriend is leaving him when "I only hit her once during a fight she provoked when I got home from a bad night of gambling". 👀
Reasons why Local media matters. Today I learned about "Bondslaves" - Christian Motorcycle Club.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reasons why Local media matters. Today I learned about "Bondslaves" - Christian Motorcycle Club.
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❗️A British team of scuba divers has recovered what is believed to be a Russian tracking device off the Welsh coast, the BBC reported.
bbc.com/news/articles/…
bbc.com/news/articles/…
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
❗️A British team of scuba divers has recovered what is believed to be a Russian tracking device off the Welsh coast, the BBC reported.
bbc.com/news/articles/…
bbc.com/news/articles/…
Hoo boy, does this hit.
From today's @winnipegfreepress.com
And frankly, students aren't the only ones using AI to avoid actually doing the work they are assigned...
From today's @winnipegfreepress.com
And frankly, students aren't the only ones using AI to avoid actually doing the work they are assigned...
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hoo boy, does this hit.
From today's @winnipegfreepress.com
And frankly, students aren't the only ones using AI to avoid actually doing the work they are assigned...
From today's @winnipegfreepress.com
And frankly, students aren't the only ones using AI to avoid actually doing the work they are assigned...
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Musk may have inadvertently provided an idea for how governments can begin to combat disinformation. Mandatory country of origin details on every account.
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Musk may have inadvertently provided an idea for how governments can begin to combat disinformation. Mandatory country of origin details on every account.
Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson showing why they are legends in The Great Escaper. That was excellent.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson showing why they are legends in The Great Escaper. That was excellent.
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When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Trusting in billionaires is a fool’s game. How do you think they became billionaires?
'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 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Trusting in billionaires is a fool’s game. How do you think they became billionaires?
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I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Senators call on prime minister to ban advertising for sports betting | CBC News
Two senators are calling on the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting in Canada. A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon as...
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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.
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About it.
As infuriating as it is, there is some comfort in knowing I am not just imagining that everything is going to hell.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
As infuriating as it is, there is some comfort in knowing I am not just imagining that everything is going to hell.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Doctorow documents decline of devices and services as shareholders, tech executives get richer
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About it.
As infuriating as it is, there is some comfort in knowing I am not just imagining that everything is going to hell.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
As infuriating as it is, there is some comfort in knowing I am not just imagining that everything is going to hell.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
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Us and them …
Love ❤️ Pink Floyd …
Love ❤️ Pink Floyd …
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Us and them …
Love ❤️ Pink Floyd …
Love ❤️ Pink Floyd …
Watching some history show and apparently SS officers wore a death ring? Naziism is a fucking death cult.
What a waste of life.
What a waste of life.
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Watching some history show and apparently SS officers wore a death ring? Naziism is a fucking death cult.
What a waste of life.
What a waste of life.