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Susan Badger
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Dog walking, Pilates teaching person. 🇨🇦 Profile pic is AI generated, please don’t panic.
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leahmillis.bsky.social
Another successful debunking campaign! I’m glad 8 people saw this, lol.
leahmillis.bsky.social Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · Jul 17
Comments on this post are limited so I’m going to speak here (where I’m sure nobody will see it). I’m a photojournalist, member of WHCA and I’ve covered Trump and his rallies for 3.5 yrs his first term and half of this year of second term. I can explain what you’re seeing here:
July 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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japantimes.co.jp
“It takes the women in the refugee camps anywhere from two to six months to embroider a single obi,” says Maki Yamamoto, a Tokyo native who spearheaded a project to combine Japanese kimono with Palestinian artistry.
In Gaza-made obi, Palestinian embroidery meets Japanese kimono
Kimono sashes from the Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project combine Japanese materials with Middle Eastern designs.
www.japantimes.co.jp
July 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
essbadger.bsky.social
Thank you Cory Doctorow podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/u...
Understood: Who Broke the Internet?
Entertainment News Podcast · Weekly Series · Host Cory Doctorow coined the word
podcasts.apple.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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browneyedsusan.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
“Since the inception of the ASI in 2019, there has been only one year of increased provincial spending on public operating rooms. In that year (2022-23), funding increased by 14 per cent and the number of AHS-delivered surgeries increased by 13 per cent.”

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Attack on AHS reveals the failings of surgery privatization
While politically convenient to blame AHS, responsibility for surgical wait times sits squarely with the government.
edmontonjournal.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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edwardongwesojr.com
The Silicon Valley Consensus: a persistent but fragile pattern for overbuilding, overvaluing, and overinvesting in tech to enrich networks of capitalists & advance their (reactionary) political projects. 1st iteration focuses on AI capex, first half today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-silico...
The Silicon Valley Consensus & AI Capex (Part 1)
On overbuilding AI infrastructure and its energy supply
thetechbubble.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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dogmatters.bsky.social
North America’s largest urban solar power park is set to take shape in Medicine Hat, Alta., following the sale on Tuesday of a 325 megawatt (MW) project to the prairie city.

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/19/n...
North America’s largest urban solar power plant takes shape – in Canada's ‘Gas City’
Medicine Hat, located in the centre of Alberta’s fossil gas heartland, takes over 325 megawatt photovoltaic project that fully-developed could totally power its industry. businesses and homes
www.nationalobserver.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
Seriously…

We go away for two weeks and someone broke Camrose?

H/t reddit

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
March 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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shaws-light.bsky.social
Original full scene snap of Bucky and seagull at base of Brooks Falls. Bad light. Shot from the Riffles. I did what I could with it. #naturephotography #photography #wildlife #nature #katmai #alaska #getoutside
February 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
essbadger.bsky.social
The litter Frank came from (he’s top row, far right)
February 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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edzitron.com
Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I walk you through how the early days of OpenAI show that it was never a “non-profit,” or really anything other than a vehicle for the greed and narcissism of Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

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Monologue: OpenAI Was Never A Non-Profit
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 02/20/2025 · Bonus · 11m
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February 20, 2025 at 5:25 AM
essbadger.bsky.social
Another reason to keep enjoying coffee!
February 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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rothschildmd.bsky.social
This is the only King of America I recognize.
The cover of the Elvis Costello album King of America, with Costello wearing a crown and looking stern.
February 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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rajman1.bsky.social
John "JD" Roberts is officially relieved of his Canadian citizenship. I can't believe we used to think this fucker was cool...
February 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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colinpeters.bsky.social
By the way, if anyone has the slightest doubt that Donald is full of shit about Canadians getting “the best treatment” and “better care” should their country be annexed by the US, I encourage them to note the relative positions of Canada and the USA on this graph.
A graph of the trends of life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita in various countries. The USA is an outlier with lower life expectancy and much higher costs. Canada is in the middle of the pack, with average life expectancy about three years higher than the USA, and costs about half. And that doesn’t even take into account that most of those costs are borne by universal health insurance in Canada, unlike the United States’s frankly insane system.
February 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
essbadger.bsky.social
A Frank moment.
February 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
essbadger.bsky.social
“The current U.S. administration is in the midst of trying to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services—the man who has publicly stated that pesticides can somehow turn kids trans.”
xtramagazine.com Xtra @xtramagazine.com · Feb 9
A 2024 study from Media Matters and GLAAD revealed that the New York Times failed to quote a single trans person in 66 percent of its coverage of anti-trans legislation
Mainstream media paved the way for Trump's anti-trans policies | Xtra Magazine
OPINION: Years of questionable coverage manufactured consent for Trump’s executive order targeting gender-affirming care
xtramagazine.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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rothschildmd.bsky.social
I've been working on some other stuff and busy with fire recovery for the past week, but should have a new blog post going up tomorrow. In the meantime, catch up on my past travails with the Eaton Fire at themikerothschild.com
Mike Rothschild
Journalist, author, conspiracy expert
themikerothschild.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
essbadger.bsky.social
A Frank moment.
February 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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edzitron.com
Here's the latest ep of my iHeartRadio/CZM show Better Offline. I'm joined in my living room by Wide Left's @arif.bsky.social and Western Kabuki's @birdrespecter.bsky.social to explain the evils of the sports gambling app industry.
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How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 02/12/2025 · 1h 25m
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February 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
essbadger.bsky.social
Fuuuuuuuuukkkkk
From the behindthebastards community on Reddit: Google Reminding us they now simp for MAGA/Fascists
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February 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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naheednenshi.bsky.social
Our Coal Policy Town Hall with @nagwanyyc.bsky.social and @elmeligisarah.bsky.social is underway, and the room is PACKED!

If you couldn’t make it out tonight, we still want to hear from you!

✍🏻 Share your concerns with us online: www.albertasfuture.ca/coal-town-ha...
February 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
essbadger.bsky.social
“…software has, for the tech industry, become far more about extracting economic value than it has in providing it.”
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Feb 11
Tech has stopped being about helping YOU do things - it's now a means for management consultants to use software to penetrate/monetize every aspect of our lives, all while expressing growth to the markets. This is the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy.
www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
Technology has, in many ways, stopped being about "using technology to help people do things," or at the very least "help the user do something that they want to do." Software has, as Marc Andreessen said it would in 2011, eaten the world, and has done so in the nakedly-cynical and usurious way that he wanted it to, prioritizing the invasion of our lives through prioritizing growth - and the collection of as much data as possible on the user — over any particular utility or purpose. Andreessen and his ilk saw (and see) software not as a thing that provides value, but as a means for the tech industry to penetrate and "disrupt" as many industries as possible, pushing legacy providers to "transform themselves into software companies" rather than using software to make their products better, describing Pixar — the studio that made movies like Toy Story and Inside Out that was acquired by Disney in 2006 — as a software company rather than a company that makes something using software. I realize this sounds like semantics, but let me put it another way: software has, for the tech industry, become far more about extracting economic value than it has in providing it. When the tech industry becomes focused on penetrating markets (to quote Andreessen, "software companies....[taking] over large swathes of the economy") there's little consideration of whether said software is prioritizing the solution to a problem. Nowhere is this more obvious than the software we use in our professional lives. Microsoft Teams is one of the single worst products l've ever used, because Microsoft's goal isn't to make it easy to have digital meetings, but to make a product good enough and cheap enough to make it easier for your boss to buy the entire Microsoft 365 Suite, even if most of the parts of said suite kind of suck. Here's another great example: Google Drive. Google Drive is absolutely fucking awful. The people responsible for designing Google Drive's user interface should be made to explain themselves before a judge. Why can't you sort files by size? Why does it only show image and video thumbnails when viewing a folder in a grid layout? Why, when you attempt to move a file to a folder, are the suggested folders — literally the first window you see — always, without fail, wrong? The proliferation of software throughout society has been led by the stewards of the Rot Economy, as software - along with its associated managed services — can effectively proliferate infinitely, and can take advantage of how many corporations are run by management consultants (and filled with middle managers) that don't do any real work or have any true connections to the problems they solve.
February 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.

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Mama bear wrestling with her cub. She's got him by the rear paw, nibbling on his toes I guess. They're in spring grass with a tree on the left.
February 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
essbadger.bsky.social
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk are systematically seizing control of the federal government’s machinery through plainly illegal means”
February 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM