@sectator.bsky.social
Follower of Jesus, justice and beauty seeker, ex-designer and design educator, knowledge omnivore…
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False of "just one"; Truth of Many.
"I’m just one person...the narrative that we are disconnected, powerless individuals... The truth is that I’m not alone, and I’m never just one person. My actions have a direct effect on my peers, friends and family, and I am influenced myself by others."
False of "just one"; Truth of Many.
"I’m just one person...the narrative that we are disconnected, powerless individuals... The truth is that I’m not alone, and I’m never just one person. My actions have a direct effect on my peers, friends and family, and I am influenced myself by others."
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On Swarms, Davos and the Power of the Powerless
Let’s take a look today at the power of individuals against world leaders and what swarm improvisation principles suggest is best to do. This is a rather unusual post for this blog, but hey, …
geneticchoir.wordpress.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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False of "just one"; Truth of Many.
"I’m just one person...the narrative that we are disconnected, powerless individuals... The truth is that I’m not alone, and I’m never just one person. My actions have a direct effect on my peers, friends and family, and I am influenced myself by others."
False of "just one"; Truth of Many.
"I’m just one person...the narrative that we are disconnected, powerless individuals... The truth is that I’m not alone, and I’m never just one person. My actions have a direct effect on my peers, friends and family, and I am influenced myself by others."
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After promising to end hallway healthcare, the Ford Government is no longer reporting on hallway healthcare amounts. It has been on the rise in recent years. #ontario #onpoli #dougford #ontariohealthcare #ontariodoctors
February 9, 2026 at 2:52 AM
After promising to end hallway healthcare, the Ford Government is no longer reporting on hallway healthcare amounts. It has been on the rise in recent years. #ontario #onpoli #dougford #ontariohealthcare #ontariodoctors
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How Canada was/is being pressured into F35 purchase.
Let’s uncouple from LM and the 🇺🇸
And buy a fighter that works before it’s too late.
How Canada was/is being pressured into F35 purchase.
Let’s uncouple from LM and the 🇺🇸
And buy a fighter that works before it’s too late.
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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How Canada was/is being pressured into F35 purchase.
Let’s uncouple from LM and the 🇺🇸
And buy a fighter that works before it’s too late.
How Canada was/is being pressured into F35 purchase.
Let’s uncouple from LM and the 🇺🇸
And buy a fighter that works before it’s too late.
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he was busy getting oligarchs elected globally
February 8, 2026 at 6:45 PM
he was busy getting oligarchs elected globally
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Here’s a slightly clearer version with AltText—and the link to the original: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 7, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Here’s a slightly clearer version with AltText—and the link to the original: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Name them so their Constituents know who to not vote for!
Name them so their Constituents know who to not vote for!
More than a dozen UCP MLAs said to support pro-separatist petition
A petition calling for a referendum on Alberta separation is said to be supported by 19 UCP MLAs.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 7, 2026 at 4:58 AM
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Name them so their Constituents know who to not vote for!
Name them so their Constituents know who to not vote for!
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Trump said he would fight for “forgotten Americans.” I didn’t know that meant Jeff Bezos.
Despite making $89.5 BILLION in profits last year, Amazon paid just 3.1% in taxes.
This is what Republicans’ SNAP & Medicaid cuts were for.
Guess that ‘Melania’ doc really paid off.
Despite making $89.5 BILLION in profits last year, Amazon paid just 3.1% in taxes.
This is what Republicans’ SNAP & Medicaid cuts were for.
Guess that ‘Melania’ doc really paid off.
Trump’s New Tax Law Saved Amazon Billions
Breaks for investment and research lowered the company’s payments to the U.S. government.
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Trump said he would fight for “forgotten Americans.” I didn’t know that meant Jeff Bezos.
Despite making $89.5 BILLION in profits last year, Amazon paid just 3.1% in taxes.
This is what Republicans’ SNAP & Medicaid cuts were for.
Guess that ‘Melania’ doc really paid off.
Despite making $89.5 BILLION in profits last year, Amazon paid just 3.1% in taxes.
This is what Republicans’ SNAP & Medicaid cuts were for.
Guess that ‘Melania’ doc really paid off.
Cruel––cruel––cruel.
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Cruel––cruel––cruel.
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this is the question.
"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?"
Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
bylinetimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
this is the question.
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Well, NOW he says that. When he was PM he told the Americans that accepting the Keystone XL pipeline was a no-brainer. It has been the Liberals who have given Alberta access to markets via a pipeline *on Canadian soil*, which is why record production. Not to mention the huge LNG Canada project.
February 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Well, NOW he says that. When he was PM he told the Americans that accepting the Keystone XL pipeline was a no-brainer. It has been the Liberals who have given Alberta access to markets via a pipeline *on Canadian soil*, which is why record production. Not to mention the huge LNG Canada project.
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And those whining Albertans also forget that the original 1950s TM pipeline, the one twinned via TMX, was also a federal Liberal project. Alberta thrives on fantasy victimhood.
February 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM
And those whining Albertans also forget that the original 1950s TM pipeline, the one twinned via TMX, was also a federal Liberal project. Alberta thrives on fantasy victimhood.
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Judge Luttig TEARS Into Supreme Court’s Trump COWARDNESS
YouTube video by Legal AF
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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Object impermanence and the ability of far right authoritarians to game the information ecosystem in this essay I will
Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
February 6, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Object impermanence and the ability of far right authoritarians to game the information ecosystem in this essay I will
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I opened an X account just to see what it’s like over there now and I looked at a few cabinet ministers’ accounts and the replies to their tweets are mostly just variations on “kill yourself” so I’m not sure why they think it’s such a great way to get their message out.
February 6, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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This would be the same Stephen Harper that took the back door to meet with Trump?! 🤔
Saying "all the right things" still doesn't make him trustworthy. I don't ever remember a time when a "former" (horrific) PM keeps stepping out to become relevant. He reminds me of "The Ex" that keeps reaching out
Saying "all the right things" still doesn't make him trustworthy. I don't ever remember a time when a "former" (horrific) PM keeps stepping out to become relevant. He reminds me of "The Ex" that keeps reaching out
February 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM
This would be the same Stephen Harper that took the back door to meet with Trump?! 🤔
Saying "all the right things" still doesn't make him trustworthy. I don't ever remember a time when a "former" (horrific) PM keeps stepping out to become relevant. He reminds me of "The Ex" that keeps reaching out
Saying "all the right things" still doesn't make him trustworthy. I don't ever remember a time when a "former" (horrific) PM keeps stepping out to become relevant. He reminds me of "The Ex" that keeps reaching out
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Mélanie Joly 🇨🇦 on Magat Jivani's trip to Washington: "He represents people working at GM in his riding. I haven't heard once, not only denouncing what GM was doing, but also promoting the interests of the workers at GM ... he should be talking much more about it. It's a problem." #cdnpoli
February 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Mélanie Joly 🇨🇦 on Magat Jivani's trip to Washington: "He represents people working at GM in his riding. I haven't heard once, not only denouncing what GM was doing, but also promoting the interests of the workers at GM ... he should be talking much more about it. It's a problem." #cdnpoli
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
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30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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After campaigning on ending Hallway Healthcare, the Ford Government will no longer be publically reporting on hallway healthcare amounts, hip and knee surgery wait times (which had recently been privatized), adult cancer surgical volumes, and ER visits for mental health. #ontario #onpoli #dougford
February 5, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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“Some are saying we’ll have a 10% GDP loss at between 3C and 4C degrees [of global heating], but the physical climate scientists are saying the economy and society will cease to function as we know it. That’s a big mismatch,”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Some are saying we’ll have a 10% GDP loss at between 3C and 4C degrees [of global heating], but the physical climate scientists are saying the economy and society will cease to function as we know it. That’s a big mismatch,”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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“Some are saying we’ll have a 10% GDP loss at between 3C and 4C degrees [of global heating], but the physical climate scientists are saying the economy and society will cease to function as we know it. That’s a big mismatch,”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Some are saying we’ll have a 10% GDP loss at between 3C and 4C degrees [of global heating], but the physical climate scientists are saying the economy and society will cease to function as we know it. That’s a big mismatch,”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
February 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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For the evening crowd.
New post: Mark Carney must flatly reject Danielle Smith's latest round of anti-constitutional posturing emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/mark-carne...
Mark Carney must flatly reject Danielle Smith's latest round of anti-constitutional posturing
Danielle Smith has threatened to withhold provincial funding for new judicial appointments unless the province gets more of a say in selecting judges.
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:40 PM
For the evening crowd.
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UPC intends to make Alberta’s (and all of Canada’s) treasured health care a for-profit system. Just like 🇺🇸.
Call on the feds NOW to enforce the Canada Health Act and overturn Alberta’s Bill 11.
UPC intends to make Alberta’s (and all of Canada’s) treasured health care a for-profit system. Just like 🇺🇸.
Call on the feds NOW to enforce the Canada Health Act and overturn Alberta’s Bill 11.
The purpose of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act is to destroy public health care as we know it.
Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli
Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli
How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada | The Tyee
A new law opens the door for two-tier care that would destroy medicare.
thetyee.ca
February 4, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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UPC intends to make Alberta’s (and all of Canada’s) treasured health care a for-profit system. Just like 🇺🇸.
Call on the feds NOW to enforce the Canada Health Act and overturn Alberta’s Bill 11.
UPC intends to make Alberta’s (and all of Canada’s) treasured health care a for-profit system. Just like 🇺🇸.
Call on the feds NOW to enforce the Canada Health Act and overturn Alberta’s Bill 11.
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This would be a good move all 'round here in Canada...
France is pushing state workers to stop using Zoom to “guarantee the security, confidentiality and resilience of public electronic communications.” Germany has been moving public-sector workflows away from Microsoft-dependent infrastructure toward open-source / European-controlled solutions.
Good.
Good.
Europe just started building a ‘kill switch’ for U.S. tech — and the market isn’t priced for it, says this strategist
Zoom and Microsoft are among those companies that could lose business as Europe seeks tech sovereignty, says Matthew Tuttle
www.marketwatch.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:45 PM
This would be a good move all 'round here in Canada...
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Smith either doesn’t understand the constitution or is an anarchist. Either way she’s unfit for office.
Smith either doesn’t understand the constitution or is an anarchist. Either way she’s unfit for office.
February 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Smith either doesn’t understand the constitution or is an anarchist. Either way she’s unfit for office.
Smith either doesn’t understand the constitution or is an anarchist. Either way she’s unfit for office.