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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 14h

“Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way?” That truck is climate change.

Great to speak with @theguardian.com’s Maya Goodfellow about my new book, #RunLikeAGirl.

Canada’s former climate minister on making a change, ‘aloof’ Trudeau and sexism

Catherine McKenna’s memoir delves into thorny parts of being in office including death threats and being referred to as ‘climate Barbie’

www.theguardian.com

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t need Doug Ford qualifiers in this headline. The Hospital for Sick Children’s study showing “automated speed cameras reduce aggressive driving and speeding by almost half” didn’t make the cut.
Just call them speed cameras.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 1d

#Breaking: Doug Ford rejects mayors' plea to rethink banning speed camera 'cash grab'

‘The answer is no’: Doug Ford rejects mayors’ plea to rethink banning speed camera ‘cash grab’

“The only thing municipal speed cameras are 100 per cent effective at is taking money from hard-working people,” Doug Ford wrote in his response.

www.thestar.com

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LionessElise @lionesselise.bsky.social · 2d

Still happening (and going well, thank you! you are helping SO MUCH and you are all awesome)....

LionessElise @lionesselise.bsky.social · 3d

Quick Sunday night (and maybe Monday and Tuesday) sale is happening now, because I have inconvenient bills that could use some convenient sales.

35% off a lot of things.
Done when the bills are covered.
Have fun!

www.etsy.com/shop/Lioness...

www.etsy.com

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 2d

Hey fellow millennials in B.C. Did you ever get vaccinated for HPV? I did but got the Cervarix vaccine, which protects against the two cancer-causing HPV types. The standard vaccine is now Guardasil 9 which protects against nine types, so I'm paying out of pocket to update my vaccination status.

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Day 4 of waiting to find out if we get to keep selling anarchist, erotic, and trans lit or if a certain corporation is going to freeze our assets, whee

Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Heeeey it's Q3 2025, and we were about to send a bunch of much deserved money to our hundreds of indie publishers, but PayPal has seen fit to limit our account for arbitrary reasons! Ain't corporate-captured late capitalism grand

Screenshot of a PayPal arbitration screen.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely!

This almost feels like a pipedream considering our current political climate but I would love, love, love to see a civil society group or hell, even the NDP, putting out information on taxes; what the hell they are and how they work. Mutual aid at scale is taxation! Taxes can be good!

Emillie Parrish @emillieparrish.bsky.social · 2d

Worth noting that all the "Axe the tax" rhetoric was supposedly about affordability. Grocery priced didn't go down and now low income families are no longer getting their carbon rebate cheques.

Really deserves more attention as PP starts on his next round of complaining.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 2d

#Booksky Apparently, it was International Day of Older Persons on 10/1, so here’s your reminder that our publisher saw her first book published at 43, her first novel at 50 and a publishing company launched at 54. And she writes about menopausal werewolves. reactormag.com/change-of-li...

Change of Life: Catherine Lundoff’s Wolf’s Point Novels - Reactor

Werewolf lore can be heavily weighted toward the male side of the gender spectrum. It’s the Wolf Man, not the Wolf Woman. The classic films feature male protagonists. The women in their lives may play...

reactormag.com

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 2d

Against removing speed cameras in school zones:
- School boards
- Police Chiefs
- Several dozen mayors and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario

For removing speed cameras in school zones:
- Opportunistic, transactional politicians
- Speeding drivers

#OntEd #OnPoli

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Ontario's school boards have joined police chiefs, mayors and the municipal association asking the Ford government not to follow through with its plan to scrap automated speed enforcement. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146657...

Ontario school boards join others telling Ford to reconsider speed camera ban | Globalnews.ca

The Ontario Public School Boards’ Association begged the province to 'improve and refine' the speed camera program, instead of 'dismantling a proven, life-saving safety system.'

globalnews.ca

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Deanne aka deakat @deakat.bsky.social · 2d

Loads of resources here: www.nonviolent-conflict.org

Homepage | ICNC

www.nonviolent-conflict.org

Deanne aka deakat @deakat.bsky.social · 2d

This is a brutal watch (violence, massacred civilians), but it may be time for it, my friends. "Bringing Down a Dictator", on how Serbians brought down Milosevic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7dN...

Bringing Down a Dictator - English (high definition)

YouTube video by ICNC - International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

www.youtube.com

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

your moment of calm if you like wasps 1/?

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

Braving #WarRavagedPortland for a nice birding walk with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social. It's hellish out there. Couldn't find a latte for a good .001 clicks.

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 2d

🎶 "Got a revolution behind my eyes
We got to get up and organize
You want a revolution behind your eyes
We got to get up and organize" 🎶

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · Jan 15

Another Star Wars #FanvidRec because apparently I haven't yet posted some of my faves here and rebellion is on my mind.

"Battleflag" by gwyneth is excellent. (Uses footage from the original trilogy, Rogue One, Force Awakens.)

archiveofourown.org/works/11711874

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVXY...

Battleflag - Star Wars Movies

YouTube video by thegwynvids

www.youtube.com

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 2d

🎶 "And when the cherry's ripe with blossoms
Be ready and be brave
And remember what we had here
When there was something left to save" 🎶

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · Nov 4

Title for that vid show/playlist is from the fanvid "Be Ready and Be Brave" by stardust_rain which got its title from "Magpie" by the Mountain Goats, which is the song used in that fanvid for Andor. #FanvidRec

archiveofourown.org/works/53473198

youtu.be/dsVM9u_RVfc

Be Ready and Be Brave | Andor

YouTube video by stardust_rain

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 2d

This made me laugh for ~40 seconds.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca

Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

globalnews.ca

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 3d

Considering doing a TomCon next weekend over NYCC. Any interest out there?

11x17 “con style” commissions at “con rates” starting at $350 + postage?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 2d

wake up, hosers

new petition just dropped

e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money

Sign this Petition - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 3d

It's true, I have a podcast!! In which I chat with friends who work on fascinating stuff related to disasters (expansive definition). Check it out: issues.org/category/the...

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d

Apropos of nothing, I would like to point out that large companies whose business model is "serve words to the public" will typically pay between US $.10 and $3.00 per word. So when you give words to a company for free, you are in fact paying them a LOT of money.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

CURATING CULTURE E4:
The High Line: How New York Turned an Abandoned Railway Into a Global Icon

youtu.be/e4LskHOdetw

The High Line: How New York Turned an Abandoned Railway Into a Global Icon | CURATING CULTURE

YouTube video by ONEST

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 3d

Why do oil companies fund transphobia? commoncausefoundation.org/why-does-big... #Transphobia #climatechange

Why does big oil bankroll the anti-trans movement? - CC Foundation

The media organisation Atmos recently highlighted research that showed the extent of fossil fuel funding for organisations that campaign against trans rights in the US. Why would big oil bankroll the...

commoncausefoundation.org

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

Puffins return to Maine after half a century of absence. Eastern Egg Rock now hosts the only puffin colony in the United States, restored through decades of painstaking work after the birds were hunted out a century ago. buff.ly/RB0Ibz0
#ShareGoodNewsToo

How researchers restored a thriving habitat for Atlantic puffins in Maine

Atlantic puffins face an increasingly precarious foothold due in part to a loss of habitat and to troubles tied to warming ocean waters and climate change. But an effort off the coast of Maine…

buff.ly

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