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Jada D @thordora.bsky.social · 1h

That's twice now Silver magically goes out of stock on the jeans I ordered.

Le sigh.

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Serge Boonard (supportive) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 2h

I've filled this out

The questions are so tacitly and often directly pro-AI that I think all Canadian anti-AI folks need to fill this out to let them know

I pretty much left the same message in each text box, which spoke on the negative social, mental, environmental aspects of AI, with sources

Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 3h

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 1h

It’s Taco time again and time for another round of market manipulations.

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Jada D @thordora.bsky.social · 2h

Oh wow what beautiful big eyes you have!

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2h

Trump’s fraud stunt with the tariffs on China, cost the US economy $1.65 trillion, which was wiped out in seconds.

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · May 8

Tag yourself! I’m about a six today

The image is a chart titled "HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY" and features nine different artistic depictions of monstrous or ghostly faces, each expressing various degrees of horror and distress. These faces are drawn with a sketch-like, scribbly style in red and black, giving each a distinctly eerie and unsettling appearance. Each face is numbered from 1 to 9, allowing someone to pick a number that matches their current emotional state, aligning with the theme of the chart.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

Back in the 90s when neo-nazi skinheads were everywhere, people wore colored laces in their Doc Martens to signify which side they were on. Red meant nazi, one black one white meant anti-racist, blue meant neutral, and green meant you like frogs and were anti-fascist. Been thinking about that a lot.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6h

Happy 4th birthday to the Branch Manager!

A yellow lab sits with a happy expression on his face with a y-shaped branch on the ground in front of him

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 10h

Sunday morning peanut butter treat

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2h

This is funny and also why these chuds always pose for pictures with their AR-15s

"My ammo does my running for me" is a real thing I've read in a reply.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h

Out of shape goon squad 🤣

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 2h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Jada D @thordora.bsky.social · 2h

"Not only did up to 88% of the vaccinated mice remain tumor-free (depending on the cancer), but the vaccine reduced—and in some cases completely prevented—the cancer’s spread."

Incredible!

Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 2h

Adding a link for the curious. Author: Prabhani Atukorale, asst prof of biomed eng in the Riccio College of Eng at UMass Amherst www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 2h

We have to listen to his unhinged ranting and treat it seriously because he has enough money to bribe every elected official in the government and not even impact his lifestyle. He’s effectively a vizier, a ruling advisor, because his private wealth demands access and power in our political system.

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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Jada D @thordora.bsky.social · 2h

After walk nappy time.

Black lab on brown couch, curled up. So sleepy.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17h

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 4h

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "don't forget to be a fuckin' human being"

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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 4h

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Jada D @thordora.bsky.social · 4h

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4h

Maybe I am wrong, but to me it looks like the purpose is to sell the idea of Trump Gaza to citizens of Israel. And they seem to be sold already since US presence gives Israel a huge advantage and protection.