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Ian Capstick

@iancapstick.bsky.social

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Ethical tech exec, certified horticulturist and quilter. Queer. Likely topics: social justice, Indigenous rights, sewing, theme parks and gardens.🌱 Happy to help you & your plants, open for horticultural info/help by message or DM!

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Jul 26

Hey plant lovers! If you're looking for some advice, need pest help or otherwise just want a garden design pick me up? Get at me! 20+ years of gardening and I just recently wrapped up all my formal horticulture classes, and love to help folks! 🌱

Promotional graphic, white background with various garden implements around the edges in a border, with the text:
Blue Sky
Horticulturist On Call
Need plant help or a garden Sounding board?
Send me a Skeet!

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 5d

fibrecraft.ca

Felting and Fibre Art Supplies

Canadian online felting and fibre art store offering the highest quality wool, silk, vegan fibres, felting needles, and supplies. Fibres, Felting, Fun!

fibrecraft.ca

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 18d

Montréal this weekend: 2 major bridges closed, tunnel closed, 30K marathon runners blocking streets, and Monday impeding transit strike + trucker protests slowing traffic from 5-9am. Finally going to try that café 10 min from my house I've never been to 😂 #ClassicMontreal

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 20d

We all breathed a sigh of relief when the country rejected the Maple MAGA politics of Pierre Poilievre. So why does this bill feel like it was written by him?

This divisive piece of legislation has already passed its second reading—we need to voice our concerns NOW.

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Tell Carney: We don’t want Trump-style borders & surveillance state!

Sign this petition to defend our human rights and privacy

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · 29d

Says the guy who single handedly moved the Overton window in Canadian politics *to the right* in his tenure as the social democratic leader?!

That's a bit rich. Oh no wait: the rich is ... who Tom catered to as leader, business elites and Outremont snobs.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Tom Mulcair: Mark Carney’s Liberals are swinging right with no guardrail left

In the Jack Layton era, the NDP saw itself as the ‘conscience of Parliament.’ Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair says that conscience is mostly a memory now; and the Liberals are having a 'grand old time ...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Aug 28

Congratulations Alex, this is a truly important time for your message and an incredible moment in your long career as a human rights leader.

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Jim St. Leger @jimstleger.bsky.social · Aug 28

BWI has an art display that celebrates America’s earliest civil rights leaders. I found this quilt pretty amazing. It celebrates Frederick Douglass and more.

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Aug 5

There are 30 em dashes in this article.

Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Aug 3

You are waiting a little bit too long to pot it, you can put it i soil as soon as the roots are approximately 1"

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Aug 1

This is a really,really big deal: and puts into snap focus how devastating the cuts to the global fight against AIDS are.

WIRED @wired.com · Aug 1

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Aug 1

@shawndearn.bsky.social was just saying our new mantra is "More Ariel's in politics."

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Jul 28

whoa. really, really impressive work!

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hello Halifax! Your local library now has two copies of my book! Go check it out, literally

screenshot of a library webpage's entry for my book

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jul 17

This is a useful provocation. Doxxing actions taking collectively should be about abuses of power and real infliction of harm in a social context, not just what's unpopular (or, let's be real, entertaining) to a bunch of folks online.

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Jul 17

The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"

www.404media.co/the-astronom...

The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia

Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.

www.404media.co

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · Jul 17

"It would generate a total of 650 megawatts of on-site natural gas power, with a grid backup, as required by the Alberta Energy Systems Operator."

It's not a great location for a sovereign data center, it sounds like just an excuse to develop more natural gas extraction 🤷 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Indigenous-led data centre in Alberta slated for development amid AI infrastructure boom | CBC News

Woodland Cree First Nation is in the process of acquiring an abandoned power plant site for its data centre. If successful, it would be one of the first Indigenous-led data centres in the province.

www.cbc.ca

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Pabàmàdiz @karynpugliese.bsky.social · Jul 16

I asked PCO about media for PM Carney's summit with First Nations. I was told: "Information regarding media access, if any, will be communicated in due course." So, no public access & no media access planned yet from the government. But chiefs? They want to talk. # Indigenous #cdnpoli.

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Jul 16

"The majority of Canadians, the poll found, go between 10 and 15 per cent."

Pardon me!? Folks are really out there tipping this little? 😳

Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · Jul 16

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Montreal diners more demanding but better tippers than most of Canada: poll

In Montreal, expectations are high and they hate rude service, but restaurant-goers from the island out-tip those from other provinces in Canada, according to Lightspeed Commerce’s poll.

www.ctvnews.ca

Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Jul 15

All great movements need mimicry. Aire commune is a great choice to implement it, awesome org.

Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Jul 15

Well that's very cool: Montreal's Aire commune helping Ottawa making better use of their urban space! Bravo! @arieltroster.com

Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com · Jul 15

This summer, we are bringing more places for people to Centretown. The City of Ottawa and the Centretown BIA worked together to create and program three new Uncommon Spaces on Frank, Florence and MacLaren.

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Missouri Star Takes Controlling Interest in Robert Kaufman Fabrics - Craft Industry Alliance

Corporate records show that Missouri Star Quilt Company now makes up the majority of the board of Robert Kaufman Fabrics.

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Jul 15

with Kona off my list, now these folks...we need a queer owned quilting cotton company

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Jul 12

before that, see: Anglo-Norman invasion

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

4/Reminder: human rights are equal and indivisible. That includes freedom of speech.

The censorship of @abeba.bsky.social‬ for calling out Big Tech’s role in war and genocide, gave me the serious ick. That silenceing speaks volumes. 😒

genevasolutions.news/science-tech...

UN AI summit accused of censoring criticism of Israel and big tech over Gaza war - Geneva Solutions

A prominent AI scientist says she was pressured by the organisers of the UN’s flagship conference on AI to censor parts of her presentation that criticised Israel over its war in Gaza and the role of tech giants – hours before taking the stage.

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Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Jul 9

Oh wow, that's a really tough set of growing conditions. I think this approach will become more common as climate change continues to heat up the planet 🫠

Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social · Jul 9

I leave them to do this wherever they wish, don't interfere with pupating insects was a lesson I learned in horticulture school