Bethany
@justanybeth.bsky.social
Canadian. She/her. Knitter. Spinner. Vaxxed to the max. Anti-fascist, as any decent person would be. 🇸🇩🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Bethany
@justanybeth.bsky.social
· Sep 21
I tap the little heart on every post that I see announcing a vaccination, and I give a little cheer. Huzzah! Vaccinations seem like an act of resistance now.
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I’m late in sharing it, but here is another piece about Substack making money off Nazis.
Those writers — especially those who say they are fighting tyranny and injustice — on the platform know better by now.
No excuses.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Those writers — especially those who say they are fighting tyranny and injustice — on the platform know better by now.
No excuses.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I’m late in sharing it, but here is another piece about Substack making money off Nazis.
Those writers — especially those who say they are fighting tyranny and injustice — on the platform know better by now.
No excuses.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Those writers — especially those who say they are fighting tyranny and injustice — on the platform know better by now.
No excuses.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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Knitters of Bluesky and the people you love: this is for you.
January 25, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Knitters of Bluesky and the people you love: this is for you.
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Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge.
Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today
styleguide.transjournalists.org
Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today
styleguide.transjournalists.org
Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide
The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...
styleguide.transjournalists.org
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge.
Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today
styleguide.transjournalists.org
Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today
styleguide.transjournalists.org
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UBI. Universal Basic Income. In every trial everywhere, it works. People are healthier, more engaged even more productive. It creates more & costs society less than picking up the pieces. Yet despite these results it's always another trial because the threat of destitution helps the rich feel safe.
February 12, 2026 at 12:29 AM
UBI. Universal Basic Income. In every trial everywhere, it works. People are healthier, more engaged even more productive. It creates more & costs society less than picking up the pieces. Yet despite these results it's always another trial because the threat of destitution helps the rich feel safe.
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You know that creative struggle you have in your head when figuring something out and trying to write it out? That’s called thinking!
Nothing to see here other than a university telling its research community that AI can appropriately be used to "generate first drafts."
unbcloud.sharepoint.com/sites/AI-at-...
unbcloud.sharepoint.com/sites/AI-at-...
February 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
You know that creative struggle you have in your head when figuring something out and trying to write it out? That’s called thinking!
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I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry
The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”
The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”
February 12, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry
The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”
The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”
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ANNOUNCING 🇨🇺 The Nuestra América Flotilla.
We are sailing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.
Together, we can break the siege, save lives, and stand up for the cause of Cuban self-determination.
Join us: nuestraamericaflotilla.org
We are sailing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.
Together, we can break the siege, save lives, and stand up for the cause of Cuban self-determination.
Join us: nuestraamericaflotilla.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:46 PM
ANNOUNCING 🇨🇺 The Nuestra América Flotilla.
We are sailing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.
Together, we can break the siege, save lives, and stand up for the cause of Cuban self-determination.
Join us: nuestraamericaflotilla.org
We are sailing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.
Together, we can break the siege, save lives, and stand up for the cause of Cuban self-determination.
Join us: nuestraamericaflotilla.org
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This is just like UBI. Every study shows it works and is more cost effective but societies‘ hatred of poor people means we‘d rather pay more to make them suffer.
Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…” #HousingFirst
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…” #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This is just like UBI. Every study shows it works and is more cost effective but societies‘ hatred of poor people means we‘d rather pay more to make them suffer.
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One way to reconcile climate goals with the terrible toll batteries are taking on communities is simple, writes Nicolas Niarchos: We should listen to the people who live in the places where we get our minerals.
https://bit.ly/4bNxCwE
https://bit.ly/4bNxCwE
The Ghosts of Colonialism Haunt Our Batteries
With its cobalt and lithium mines, Congo is powering a new energy revolution. It contains both the worst horrors of modern metal extraction—and the seeds of a more moral economics.
bit.ly
February 13, 2026 at 6:54 PM
One way to reconcile climate goals with the terrible toll batteries are taking on communities is simple, writes Nicolas Niarchos: We should listen to the people who live in the places where we get our minerals.
https://bit.ly/4bNxCwE
https://bit.ly/4bNxCwE
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
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Also for anyone suggesting Canada is limited in what it can say because of its proximity to and dependence on the US, that didn’t stop Mexico.
"Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally ... by armed forces of the United States of America against targets in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in clear violation of Article 2 of the [UN] Charter"
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
January 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Also for anyone suggesting Canada is limited in what it can say because of its proximity to and dependence on the US, that didn’t stop Mexico.
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I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
If there is one resolution I want for journalists this year: it is to get off S*bstack and use Ghost or any other indy publishing platform that does not fund literal nazis instead.
January 5, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
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we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
January 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM
we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
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Badass
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Badass
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Another reason for UBI.
Means testing benefits and prosecuting benefit fraud increases the costs massively.
Being afraid 1 person will get something they don't deserve means we have 99 people who don't get what they deserve.
Means testing benefits and prosecuting benefit fraud increases the costs massively.
Being afraid 1 person will get something they don't deserve means we have 99 people who don't get what they deserve.
Explaining the other day that the moral puzzle about universal health care is not why poor people get it, but why richer people do. The answer from Beveridge, the Liberal (not Socialist) who recommended the NHS is economic efficiency. Universal healthcare removes huge transaction costs.
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Another reason for UBI.
Means testing benefits and prosecuting benefit fraud increases the costs massively.
Being afraid 1 person will get something they don't deserve means we have 99 people who don't get what they deserve.
Means testing benefits and prosecuting benefit fraud increases the costs massively.
Being afraid 1 person will get something they don't deserve means we have 99 people who don't get what they deserve.
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Posting the sign so I can tap it when necessary.
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Posting the sign so I can tap it when necessary.
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i don't think it's an exaggeration to say that rob reiner is a meaningful part of the reason i have the federal right to marry today
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
i don't think it's an exaggeration to say that rob reiner is a meaningful part of the reason i have the federal right to marry today
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survivors and experts have been calling on our government to recognize intimate partner violence as an epidemic for years now and they don’t want to do this so they just used AI to generate a report with sources that don’t exist to justify their refusal
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
NDP says Ontario report on intimate partner violence partly AI-generated, includes non-existent sources - The Globe and Mail
The 877-page study was introduced into the legislature on Tuesday
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
survivors and experts have been calling on our government to recognize intimate partner violence as an epidemic for years now and they don’t want to do this so they just used AI to generate a report with sources that don’t exist to justify their refusal
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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UBI has been proven to work in every time and place in which it has been attempted. Even with the odds of "conventional wisdom" stacked against it. There are no valid excuses for not implementing it immediately, only greed and hatred.
Disabled people do not owe you their medical history or an explanation as to why they receive certain benefits
The idea that people must humiliate themselves for a meagre benefit that forces them into legislative poverty is another part of eugenics
We deserve a living wage.
We are not expendable.
The idea that people must humiliate themselves for a meagre benefit that forces them into legislative poverty is another part of eugenics
We deserve a living wage.
We are not expendable.
December 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
UBI has been proven to work in every time and place in which it has been attempted. Even with the odds of "conventional wisdom" stacked against it. There are no valid excuses for not implementing it immediately, only greed and hatred.
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Continuing to insist we must "earn a living" while simultaneously reducing our ability to earn anything at all is not a viable social contract and is how to get people to start building guillotines instead of resumes.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
December 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Continuing to insist we must "earn a living" while simultaneously reducing our ability to earn anything at all is not a viable social contract and is how to get people to start building guillotines instead of resumes.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
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From the V&A Museum, an ASMR video of someone making a pair of gloves using a 1940s knitting pattern from the museum’s archive. “Featuring soft-spoken moments, natural yarn sounds, needles gently tapping…” [kottke.org]
90 Minutes of Knitting ASMR
From the V&A Museum, here’s a 90-minute video of someone knitting a pair of gloves using a knitting pattern from the 1940s from the museum’s archive.
Featuring soft-spoken moments, natural yarn sounds, needles gently
kottke.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
From the V&A Museum, an ASMR video of someone making a pair of gloves using a 1940s knitting pattern from the museum’s archive. “Featuring soft-spoken moments, natural yarn sounds, needles gently tapping…” [kottke.org]
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The financialization of housing is creating a crisis that’s threatening the security of families across Canada. Could co-ops be the way to ensure a home is truly a home, instead of just a profit-maximizing asset? thewalrus.ca/why-co-ops-are-t...
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The financialization of housing is creating a crisis that’s threatening the security of families across Canada. Could co-ops be the way to ensure a home is truly a home, instead of just a profit-maximizing asset? thewalrus.ca/why-co-ops-are-t...
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for those who are looking for this
wordpress.org/plugins/disa... turns off AI in wordpress core and things like Yoast SEO
wordpress.org/support/topi... turns off AI in jetpack (you'll need to install the code snippets plugin first)
#fuckAI
wordpress.org/plugins/disa... turns off AI in wordpress core and things like Yoast SEO
wordpress.org/support/topi... turns off AI in jetpack (you'll need to install the code snippets plugin first)
#fuckAI
I find it infuriating that every time I go to write a blog post it asks me if I want to "improve it with AI" and when I go to insert an image it asks me if I want to "generate" one with AI. I should probably see if there'a a way of turning this shit off in wordpress before I start smashing things
December 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
for those who are looking for this
wordpress.org/plugins/disa... turns off AI in wordpress core and things like Yoast SEO
wordpress.org/support/topi... turns off AI in jetpack (you'll need to install the code snippets plugin first)
#fuckAI
wordpress.org/plugins/disa... turns off AI in wordpress core and things like Yoast SEO
wordpress.org/support/topi... turns off AI in jetpack (you'll need to install the code snippets plugin first)
#fuckAI
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Important to also know that Trump was threatening to withhold all federal funding from Indiana if Republicans voted NO on this.
Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map.
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Important to also know that Trump was threatening to withhold all federal funding from Indiana if Republicans voted NO on this.
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1/ The Carney government has fallen hard for AI hype, and it's endangering us all.
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government
Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.
dub.link
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
1/ The Carney government has fallen hard for AI hype, and it's endangering us all.
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0