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Revontulet (they/them)
@revontulet.bsky.social
On a quest to become Canada's Worst DJ
Hates 🏃💨; does it anyway
Loves mashups, bass/house music, Chilltrax, Lights, & Morcheeba
GenX enby immigrant in Mississauga; used to be kitchenless😎
❌Blocks randos begging for $❌
https://remix.audio/profile/revontulet
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Oh wow hi new followers, welcome along on this long, strange trip we call life.

I'm Revontulet, I'm an Aquarius, I immigrated to Canada nearly 15 years ago from the US, I like photography, cooking, house/bass music, stories about your cats, & playing Diablo 4. I'm learning to DJ & make bad mashups.
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I would like to see Conservative y-o-y spending by category compared to prior years under the Liberals.

And then I want to see where the healthcare dollars are going. For-profit agency nurses? Check. Private clinics? Check. Developers? No doubt. Where else? Show us.
Ontario's finance minister says health-care spending is unsustainable. Ontario spends the least per person on Healthcare out of all of the provinces and the projected spending over the next 3 years is to be the lowest in over 30 years. #ontario #onpoli #dougford #ontarionurse #frankdomenic🍁
February 18, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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LISTEN👏🏽TO👏🏽TIMNIT👏🏽
Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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What is happening to trans people in the United States is the beginning of a genocide.

The right is driving it, but the center is enabling it, and the left is in denial about it.
February 17, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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THINK ABOUT IT - dashare.zone ADMIN
February 17, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Metrolinx hires elderly woman after watching her take 30 minutes to cross the street
Metrolinx hires elderly woman after watching her take 30 minutes to cross the street
Toronto, ON - Metrolinx has responded to criticism of its project speed by adding Nancy Callahan to their team after her inspiring 30 minute walk across an intersection.
www.thebeaverton.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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a person could make a lot of drawings with an extra 30k in their pocket
The AI dorks have no ideas. They don't understand or appreciate art. They have nothing to say.

$30,000. Imagine what any of your favorite creative minds on Bsky who struggle to sell enough things to make rent every month could do with $30k given to them to make something from their hearts.
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.

You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Public services in general are an investment in people and a wealthy society like BC needs more of the care economy and less digital baubles. A lot of other infrastructure spending supports households and large and small businesses.’ @policyalternatives.ca
B.C. budget’s hidden austerity and tax increases put fiscal burden on low-income households - CCPA
BC's Finance Minister says "this is not an austerity budget." Let's look at the numbers and see for ourselves.
www.policyalternatives.ca
February 17, 2026 at 10:32 PM
I got a bunch of stuff to make garden veggie sandwiches - it's been so long since I had one & they're so good:

Lettuce, thinly-sliced tomato & cucumber, alfalfa sprouts & onion sprouts on whole wheat

Protip: Use labneh instead of cream cheese or mayo on your sandwiches - you'll thank me later!
February 17, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”

@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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DHS is abusing administrative subpoenas to target and silence its critics. @repespaillat.bsky.social and I will be introducing legislation that would make this practice illegal and help end these authoritarian abuses.
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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My Doctor told me to quit eating three cheesesteaks a day so now the Cheesesteak Institute has unleashed bots, troll farms & paid pundits on her saying she practices witchcraft.
February 17, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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yes I keep thinking about this!!
In the UK, there's this drive to restrict children's access to social media, whereas it's the Boomers who've become radicalised by it.
February 17, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Today in 2022: Toronto municipal vehicles created barriers all around downtown to prevent an ottawa-style convoy from moving into downtown. Strange days.
February 17, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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They're coming for adult care and they're explicit about it.
Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation, claims that evidence suggests a correlation between undergoing Trans Medical Care and acts of violence.

He states Heritage's public policy solution is to ban it for all ages and they're willing to work towards this goal on an incremental basis.
February 17, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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If you're a journalist who covers law enforcement, don't let their claims about slick and effective technology go unchallenged.
Behind police tech's slick marketing is a sprawling, under-scrutinized industry that relies on manufacturing the appearance of effectiveness, not measuring it. EFF partnered with CJJ and IPVM on a new report to help you see through the spin: www.eff.org/document/se...
"Selling Safety": A Journalist's Guide to Covering Police Technology
selling_safety.pdf
www.eff.org
February 17, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Well, this checks out. Lots of things these days are not what we think. This is exactly what we think.
Also remember, the Republican Party believes that only Christian nationalism can save America from the (((immigrants)))
Christian Nationalists love love love internment/concentration camps for immigrants.
February 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Despite *hundreds, if not thousands* of videos of IDF soldiers looting homes and institutions in Gaza and Lebanon, only *one criminal case* was put forward by Israeli military prosecutors on the issue.

And it was closed yesterday with a plea bargain.
למרות מקרים שתועדו, רק אישום אחד הוגש על ביזה במלחמה – והוא נגמר בהסדר
אף על פי שמקרי ביזה בעזה ובלבנון תועדו ופורסמו ברשתות החברתיות, הפרקליטות לא איתרה חשודים ולא נקטה נגדם צעדי ענישה. באישום היחיד שהוגש נגד חייל מילואים, הופחת סעיף העבירה ועונשו יהיה 60 ימי מאסר בשל מ...
www.haaretz.co.il
February 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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I know there are a lot of terrible things going on simultaneously, and also... This is both terrifying and really breaks my heart.
U.S. military blew up three alleged drug-trafficking boats, two in the Eastern Pacific and one in the Caribbean, killing 11 people. Since Sept. 2, the U.S. military has conducted at least 42 strikes and has killed at least 144 people it says are “narco-terrorists” in the Ca...

TAT: [Foreign Policy]
US military blows up 3 alleged drug boats, killing 11 people
The U.S. military blew up three alleged drug-trafficking boats, two in the Eastern Pacific and one in the Caribbean, on Monday, killing 11 people. The U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) said the mili…
thehill.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Real question:

Who is working on viable counter measure products?
February 17, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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"Carney said Tuesday, as he described a new plan to steer his government's military rearmament drive to bolster this country's war machine."

*war machine*

Canada's complicity in atrocity and unjust conflicts will go through the roof under Carney's leadership.
Mark Carney unveils defence strategy to lessen 'dependency' on the United States — Toronto Star
Canada's relationship with the United States is a
apple.news
February 17, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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The intention for any who miss it, is to exclude certain people from being out in public when they cannot use facilities safely.

This has been done to oppress many groups, all for that reason.

This is no different. Same evil.
1. Terrible news for trans people in Idaho.

The state's House just passed one of the first private business bathroom bans in the United States.

It allows you to sue any private business that lets trans people pee if you think they're in the wrong bathroom.

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Idaho House Votes, Passes Trans Bathroom Ban In Private Businesses As Bill Rockets Through Legislature
The bathroom ban bill will now go to the senate.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Insane nonsense going on here
1. Terrible news for trans people in Idaho.

The state's House just passed one of the first private business bathroom bans in the United States.

It allows you to sue any private business that lets trans people pee if you think they're in the wrong bathroom.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
Idaho House Votes, Passes Trans Bathroom Ban In Private Businesses As Bill Rockets Through Legislature
The bathroom ban bill will now go to the senate.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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This is a story about local Salem, OR politics, but the dynamics described here are symptomatic of the current state of our politics and media. The ease and rapidity with which the right can whip up a digital lynch mob is pretty terrifying...and the effectiveness of it is also a bad sign.
February 17, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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they're not requesting social media to vet travelers or screen systems. they're requesting social media to identify and catalog dissent and more importantly to build social graphs.
There's no evidence that social media screening is useful for vetting travelers. By the govt’s own admission in the context of a similar rule for visa apps, collecting social media handles adds “no value” and has “very little impact on improving the screening accuracy of relevant systems.” 3/
Visa Applicants’ Social Media Data Doesn’t Help Screen for Terrorism, Documents Show (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM