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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 21h

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 20d

Was just thinking about the term “democratic socialist.” How liberals who wanna entertain Socialist thought like to add "democratic" to it to make themselves look like "good" people. Socialism by definition—workers owning the means of production—is the most democratic system you could ever imagine.

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 21h

you know, the Bank of Montréal, the Royal Bank of Canada, the Bank of Canadian Tire

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 21h

Canadian Tire is a retail chain staple across rural and suburban canada that sells all types of general merchandise. and also wholly owns an entire bank that issues credit cards to their customers

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 21h

"The Canadian Tire Bank" is not a sentence that exists in a just world

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 1d

one of the biggest names in trans healthcare discrimination is also one of the biggest names in ME/CFS healthcare discrimination (Simon Wessely) & as a trans person with ME/CFS i'm begging all of us to make this intercommunity connection

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 22h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 14d

you’re telling me this entire Siberian Orchestra is trans?

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 14d

Just going to repeat myself a bit

Skeet from me on 9/20/2025

The plan is pretty blatantly to crash the Economy.

They believe that criminalizing / disincentivizing even LEGAL immigration creates the 'openings' for work whilst the collapse that it causes creates the material conditions that force the usually unwilling 'white labor pool' to take the openings.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14d

The Trump administration: ha ha ha prices can't go up if you can't buy anything!!!!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14d

* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESTRICTING COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSES FOR NON-U.S. CITIZENS, USDOT SAYS

@reuters.com

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 14d

the full recording is here:

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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 14d

Trinity Church has uploaded the entire concert with Andrew Yee’s Trans Requiem here: trinitychurchnyc.org/events/novus...

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 14d

this is fucking epic, and i do not use that word lightly. holy shit. @sadqueer4life.bsky.social

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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 14d

looks like the whole concert is here! trinitychurchnyc.org/events/novus...

NOVUS Renewal: Undivided

The world premiere of ”Trans Requiem“ anchors a program focused on music as a vessel for visibility, pride, and belonging.

trinitychurchnyc.org

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 14d

this is fucking epic, and i do not use that word lightly. holy shit. @sadqueer4life.bsky.social

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 14d

My spicy people made a banger.

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 14d

The thing about the history of eugenics is that *a lot of people supported it, including a lot of otherwise progressive people* from Margaret Sanger to Felipe Carrillo Puerto. It's a cautionary tale, less about evil people in the past than about "could we be doing the same thing with something else"

Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 14d

Before everyone gets all freaked out about this: yes, Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist who believed in contraception to eliminate less desirable babies. Yes, super icky and unfortunate. But yes, she was also a pioneer for women's bodily autonomy. Complexity is one of the lessons of history.

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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 14d

“Thúy has been a Quebecer longer than Bock-Côté has been alive. Why is she being treated by him as a foreigner, branded as ungrateful the minute she criticizes policies & rhetoric that deeply impact Quebec’s reputation and many Quebecers’ sense of belonging?”
www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

Drimonis: I’m not a guest here. This is my home. It’s Kim Thúy’s home too

We all have the right to both love and criticize Quebec.

www.montrealgazette.com

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 14d

The questionnaire, which is supposedly meant to indicate whether or not you’re autistic, is actually out to roast every flaw you’ve ever been insecure about.

Autism assessment questionnaire designed to personally attack you

An autism assessment quiz has reportedly been designed to obliterate your sense of self worth - yes, you, specifically. The questionnaire, which is supposedly meant to indicate whether or not you’re…

thedailytism.com

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Lord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.social · 14d

"Remember, there is nothing that cannot be used in soup. The list of ingredients for bread, cakes, candy, sweet dishes, is confined to comparatively few under each heading, but there is no edible substance which may not be used in soup."

Holy shit guys.