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Trystan

@trystancarter.bsky.social

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Librarian 🌱🕹️🏀 Read my thoughts at cartography.pika.page

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Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · May 28

Reposting this and pinning it since it's an evergreen sentiment unfortunately

Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · May 17

Today is the International Day against Homophobia and as a librarian I need to convey this message (image by @bossdog.bsky.social)

Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · 6d

Yesavage is putting the “savage” in “Yesavage”

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 9d

you love to see it

Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 9d

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Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · 9d

It’s a great time to ditch Xbox and join the successful BDS boycott of all of Microsoft: bdsmovement.net/news/microso...

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 14d

4 panel comic

Panel 1: ICE “Agent” (thug) punches protester hard in the face.
Agent: STOP

Panel 2: ICE Agent viciously snaps protester’s arm
Agent: BEING

Panel 3: ICE Agent strangles protester
Agent: POLITICALLY

Panel 4: ICE Agent stamps on protester’s head
Agent: VIOLENT

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15d

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is

- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)

- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)

- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

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cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 16d

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Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · 16d

So I’m assuming this works best with the built in Categories off?

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Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · 16d

This is great. Proof that good reporting, targeted boycotts (@bdsmovement.bsky.social), and keeping the conversation going work.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · 18d

I appreciate the honesty here. Too many people out there carrying water for this thing.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · Sep 8

NO BOSS NO MASTER'S - GOT A SHIRT OF THIS ONE AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

A SKELATAN SHOOTEN LIGHTING BOLTS OF ENERGY OUT OF THEM SELF AND IT SAYS "YOIUR ALLOWED TO BE LATE, YOU WERE BORN WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, YOU OWE THE CLOCKS OF THIS WORLD NOTHING " AND ITS TRUE, YOU LIVE IN THE PRESENT TIME, YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OR BOUND BY THE RULES OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE!!! NO ONE HAS THE MORAL AUTHORITY TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO LEAST OF ALL SOME DIP SHIT WHOSE RIDIN HIGH ON HAVING A SMALL AMOUT OF POWER! IF U EVER BEEN FIRED BY SOME MANAGER AT SOME SHITY JOB U KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!!! LIKE IM GLAD THAT YOUR ALL HOPPED UP ON BEING IN CHARGE OF LOW LEVEL EMPLOYEES LIKE ME BUT YOU DONT HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT ON ME JUST DEVELOP A DEPENDANCE ON WEED AND BEER LIKE THE REST OF US DUMMASS - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · Sep 10

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

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Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Sep 10

Rent shouldn’t be so high anywhere that when one of the few subsidized spaces has to be replaced, it nearly ruins the lives of the people who lived there in the interim. I’ll never understand why Kelowna is so overpriced. www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...

Former residents fearful, skeptical, hopeful over plans to replace damaged Kelowna subsidized housing complex - Kelowna News

Former residents of a Kelowna subsidizes housing complex question why it took 18 months to announce plans to replace the damaged building.

www.castanet.net

Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Sep 9

Genuinely curious what they need to drop the “apparently” here. The man has one of the most distinctive signatures ever and he shows it off constantly

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 8

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an image of a sexually suggestive note and drawing apparently bearing President Trump’s signature, taken from a 2003 book celebrating the 50th birthday of Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has insisted he never wrote such a note. nyti.ms/46kvJmW

Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Sep 8

Smokers must love this shit

Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Sep 5

ok but as an avid voice note listener iMessage actually desperately needs this

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Sep 4

Trump is turning international students against the US, but Canada is completely missing the opportunity because we’ve decided to blame immigrants, and specifically international students, for social problems to distract from capitalist profiteering.

We need to lift this cap.

International student visas for Canada plummet | CBC News

Permits for students from abroad to study in Canada plummeted in the first half of this year, with nearly 90,000 fewer issued than a year earlier, when the federal government introduced a cap on inter...

www.cbc.ca

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Jesse Taylor Lewis @jessetaylorlewis.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Didn’t realize @giantsquidstudios.com was on BlueSky hi! I loved your game!!

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Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sword of the Sea: what a stunning, lovely and succinct game. If you have PS+ it’s a must play.

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Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Sep 1

Labour Day feels so divorced from its origins I thought it was celebrating people giving birth up until a few years ago. So, yes, we need a stronger labour movement!!! Unionize! It rocks!!!

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Sep 1

A reminder that if we hope to ever rebuild an economy that works for everyone, we need a much stronger labor movement.

Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is objectively correct

Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Aug 30

Chip mode is my default mode

da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · Aug 30

GOING CHIP MODE TODAY - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKLETEN WHO HEARD THAT A FAMOUS GUY WAS SUCKIN SHIT THRU THE IV LINES AND PROBLY GONNA MOVE TO A NEW HOUSE SOON, WELL YA GOTTA THINK ABOUT YOUR OWN SELF, YOUR A HUMAN NOW WHO KNOWS WHAT YOUR GONNA BE NEXT TIME SO EAT THE CHIPS IF YOUW ANT, IF YOU COME BACK AS A BABY IN THE WRONG PLACE OR A ALIEN OR DOG YOUR NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO GET CHIP'S WHEN EVER YOU WANT, AND YOUR SURE AS SHIT NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO PICK THE CRUNTCHIEST KIND, SO MAKE YOUR MOVE PLAYER, "DEATH IS CERTAIN EATING ALOT OF CHIPS IS NOT" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Aug 30

Haha I don’t think it’s a bug! It’s zooming in to show me the path to the bus stop, which is obviously helpful for people in new places, and less so for me catching my bus to work. I will send screencaps though. Thanks!

Trystan @trystancarter.bsky.social · Aug 30

Colleges and universities, especially at the moment in Canada where the lucrative tap of international students has been mostly turned off, are looking at any and every way they can eliminate and replace human labour. Boards and presidents and deans do not care about quality of education.