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Jon Coutts

@joncoutts.bsky.social

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Film lover and lifelong fan of #LFC and the #Canucks. Scottish-Canadian theologian writing a book on Bonhoeffer. 🎬 http://letterboxd.com/joncoutts ✍️ http://thissideofsunday.blogspot.com

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 5h

In all seriousness maybe The Other Journal?

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 5h

My inbox? ; )

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 11h

Just in case people at home aren't paying attention, what we're watching here is the "primitive accumulation" stage of capitalism, wherein capitalist enclose (i.e., steal) resources while loudly insisting they should be given both state subsidies and legal protections to do so.

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hatch @imhatch.bsky.social · 1d

go jays

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 1d

Wild that the "disquieting" scenario in MacIntyre's After Virtue is actually happening right now, to popular acclaim

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah and there's a version of command ethics that lands closer to the latter than the former

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 2d

There really oughtta be two unisex washrooms: one for handwashers and the other for those men that can't be bothered

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2d

I’m sick of how if somebody is rich enough their stupidity is our problem. That’s not fair to actual people

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

Hop on facebook to scroll 22 ads for a picture of muffins a friend made three days ago

Hop on bluesky for a live feed of liberalism flaming out

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 4d

the "kid drowning while mom helps other kid" meme. The Mom is labeled "white evangelicals explaining the gospel," and she's focused on the kid labeled "the crucifixion." The kid drowning is "The resurrection." The forgotten skeleton at the bottom of the pool is "liberation."

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 4d

This line up is not working

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 4d

There could be a whole documentary analyzing the fouls called for Grealish but not for Salah

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 7d

Who stands to benefit from the gutting of Canada Post?

The billionaire class.

If Mark Carney were really serious about nation-building, Dru OJa Jay writes how the post office could become an engine for green energy, public banking, and better services. breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...

Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach

The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service

breachmedia.ca

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 4d

It wasn’t naivety, it was shareholder greed.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 6d

I find it easier to root for the Jays when I don't have to watch Sportsnet Central drool over them

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 6d

It's funny that 2 years ago I was telling students not to rely on wikipedia and now I'd say for the love of all things please use wikipedia

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant as always from @janebarter.bsky.social

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Charlie Kirk’s legacy is the beneficiary of empathy, but he couldn’t stand the term

Empathy has been painted by the U.S. political right as a vice, informed by Catholic theology. This is a misreading of the role of empathy according to Catholic doctrine.

theconversation.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.