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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 5h

If you love genuinely moving narrative games, or if you love cats (and who doesn't love cats?) then Copycat is the game for you.

And, not to spoil it, but if you are worried- it has a very, very sweet ending. Little Dawn ends up just fine.

An illustration of Copycat, the game. A small cat sits in the rain at night, looking up at a window in a house, in which sits another cat.

Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 5h

I completed Copycat game (@copycat.bsky.social) and it ended up being my surprise game of the year. It is a very, very moving title and manages to tell the sad story of how little Dawn the cat finds a home and loses it with a great deal of emotional honesty.

What a wonderful game...

Copycat on Steam

A poignant narrative-driven game about rejection, belonging and the meaning of home. It follows the story of a newly adopted shelter cat whose space in the home is taken by a copycat. Bring the tissue...

store.steampowered.com

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 10h

CIJA gets their money's worth.

When discussing foreign interference, there was almost ZERO mention of Israel. Who pressure our country far more than Russia or China and have for decades. Only the NDP and Green parties will speak the truth.

Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 10h

CIJA is a substantial corrupting influence in Canada. Here are the 10 MPs most lobbied by them. Anthony Housefather has been lobbied 67 times by them. If you're one of his constituents and want to get his attention, be a foreign government.

www.readthemaple.com/here-are-the...

Here Are The 10 MPs Most Lobbied By CIJA

Nearly 60 per cent of current MPs have been lobbied by CIJA, but these 10, from all three major parties, stand out.

www.readthemaple.com

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 10h

This amount of foreign interference in a sovereign country means that it isn't really a sovereign country. When AIPAC can openly brag about getting replacement politicians for Israel's critics, you're the mark.

www.trtworld.com/article/a15a...

TRT World - TikTok investor pushed to embed pro-Israel content in US culture

Former Oracle CEO Safra Catz wrote that Americans must be taught to 'love and respect' Israel.

www.trtworld.com

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 10h

If someone, especially a journalist, claims that the Israeli military is the most moral in the world, they are not a journalist, they are a propagandist. Anyone who treats them seriously is not to be trusted. They're lying to you out of conviction or for the money.

Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”

Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 1d

All conservatives now take political violence as their due. They have become utterly broken individuals, complete scoundrels who believe that they and they alone have the right to inflict violence against others. When others commit violence, it's a crime. When they do, it's justice.

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Poilievre's chronic bullshit is an obvious flaw, but a greater and more menacing one is his complete lack of morality. He's manifestly a broken human, one who yearns for power and does not believe that the slightest ethical or legal constraint should affect him.

He is the worst of us.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 3d

Pierre Poilievre Is a Serial Liar: We're Calling It Out #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/theplane...

Pierre Poilievre Is a Serial Liar: We're Calling It Out

Pierre Poilievre calls other people "elites" while living off taxpayer perks, voting against affordability, and importing American chaos. We’re calling out his lies with facts.

open.substack.com

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 3d

We now have conservative governments who are opposed to medical science because Facebook has made people paranoid and even more stupid.

"If you vote for me, I'll let your child die of measles!"

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 4d

The IOF are harassing and torturing flotilla participants. Why would they openly demean people trying to provide aid? Because they do not give a shit.

As long as America has been bought off, Israel can murder as many people as they want. The mask of decency is obviously gone. Now it's only hatred.

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 6d

Every conservative government in Canada is aimed, exclusively, at providing profits to the industries that have bought them off. The only benefits to the polity are ones they lie about: The benefits that will surely flow in once privatization and industry subsidies are allowed to flow.

Potash Companies Are Getting Rich. Saskatchewan, Not So Much | The Walrus

Billions go to shareholders, while the province guts schools, services, and social supports

thewalrus.ca

Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone who has looked at the transaction whatsoever can tell that they are definitely most likely guilty. An innocent party would be able to discuss the matter at great length because there would be no change they would incriminate themselves. Kawhi and Ballmer cannot.

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 7d

Albertans were not only idiots who let themselves get taken for a ride, their key industry has received a fucking fortune in public monies AND THEY STILL CHRONICALLY WHINE.

Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 7d

If we had been a functioning nation, and if Alberta hadn't been governed by corrupt shitheads year after year, the oil wealth would have enriched the country. Look at Norway. They have over a trillion in their sovereign wealth fund because of oil wealth. Alberta has... around twenty billion.

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 7d

and other bullshit merchants with nebulous finances.

Most of the right-wing bullshit is from oil money. We have, since the beginning, never appropriately governed our oil wealth. Oh, and the oil and gas industry has received well over a hundred billion in subsidies and industrial projects.

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 7d

the election. But, outside of some independent media and the centrist CBC and Star, most of our media is right leaning and extremely pro-corporate. Not that it matters. Reactionary conservatives who get their misinformation online are getting it from bullshit from Rebel media and Canada Proud

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 7d

Poilievre never passed a bill. Over twenty years in parliament and he has never governed. Instead, he has mastered dog whistles and acting with absolutely no accountability. Only a country with almost no effective news media would have allowed his campaign to dictate the terms of coverage during

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 7d

Racial hate is skyrocketing in Canada.

The CPC knows that part of their core is the locus of this hate, so they will say nothing. Poilievre suddenly denouncing temporary foreign workers is not because it's sound policy, it's because his supporters hate brown people. He knows that they do.

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 7d

Further confirmation that TikTok was attacked because it wasn't sufficiently zionist.

Skylight is going to become the future. Except, on TikTok, the average user will NEVER hear the truth about Gaza.

This should morally horrify people, but we're far past that.

TikTok investor: 'Embed the love and respect for Israel' in the US

In a 2015 email, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said 'we have to fight the battle' before kids get to college. She might get her wish now.

responsiblestatecraft.org

Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 7d

There is no amount of slaughtered Palestinian children that would trouble Poilievre. He is a broken human without the slightest moral compass. As long as it is advantageous of him to be a zionist, he will be one without shame.

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 8d

Men are not all right. The more conservatives become ascendant, the worse it will become for women. They will work to destroy women's autonomy at every possible moment. They do not care how much suffering they will cause.

These men hate their wives and they hate their daughters.

The Misogynistic Abuse Directed at Rory McIlroy’s Wife at the Ryder Cup Is Deeper Than Golf

It shows a cultural shift, one in which men feel emboldened to attack women in public without shame or consequence.

www.glamour.com

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine being an intelligent, well-educated and hard-working military professional. One who is not a drunk, loser bigot.

And then having to listen to Hegseth and Trump.

That had to be painful.

Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 8d

This is going to produce so much bloodshed and suffering.

Who would have thought that a military coup is one if the more positive responses? The American people, the polity, cannot organize against this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

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Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 9d

For years, Brian Mulroney was booed in public when he went out.

Canadian supporters of Israel will deserve no less. They must become pariahs. Their participation in murder must never be forgotten. Ben Mulroney and the executives at Global must live in disgrace.

And Postmedia should burn.

Citizen Michael @citizenmichael.bsky.social · 9d

Doctor who served in Gaza reads the will of a 10-year-old girl who Israel killed.

Poilievre would call the murdered child Hamas and dismiss her murder. The majority of Canadian media would completely agree, either openly or tacitly.

History will judge and condemn.

zeteo.com/p/doctor-who...

Doctor Who Served in Gaza Reads the ‘Will’ of a 10-Year-Old Girl Who Was Killed

Dr. Thaer Ahmad gives an emotional statement at a high-level UN event about Israel's war on children in Gaza.

zeteo.com

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