Bethany
@justanybeth.bsky.social
Canadian. She/her. Knitter. Spinner. Vaxxed to the max. Anti-fascist, as any decent person would be. 🇸🇩🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Bethany
@justanybeth.bsky.social
· Sep 21
I tap the little heart on every post that I see announcing a vaccination, and I give a little cheer. Huzzah! Vaccinations seem like an act of resistance now.
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Also for anyone suggesting Canada is limited in what it can say because of its proximity to and dependence on the US, that didn’t stop Mexico.
"Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally ... by armed forces of the United States of America against targets in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in clear violation of Article 2 of the [UN] Charter"
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
January 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Also for anyone suggesting Canada is limited in what it can say because of its proximity to and dependence on the US, that didn’t stop Mexico.
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I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
If there is one resolution I want for journalists this year: it is to get off S*bstack and use Ghost or any other indy publishing platform that does not fund literal nazis instead.
January 5, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
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we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
January 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM
we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
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Badass
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Badass
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Another reason for UBI.
Means testing benefits and prosecuting benefit fraud increases the costs massively.
Being afraid 1 person will get something they don't deserve means we have 99 people who don't get what they deserve.
Means testing benefits and prosecuting benefit fraud increases the costs massively.
Being afraid 1 person will get something they don't deserve means we have 99 people who don't get what they deserve.
Explaining the other day that the moral puzzle about universal health care is not why poor people get it, but why richer people do. The answer from Beveridge, the Liberal (not Socialist) who recommended the NHS is economic efficiency. Universal healthcare removes huge transaction costs.
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Another reason for UBI.
Means testing benefits and prosecuting benefit fraud increases the costs massively.
Being afraid 1 person will get something they don't deserve means we have 99 people who don't get what they deserve.
Means testing benefits and prosecuting benefit fraud increases the costs massively.
Being afraid 1 person will get something they don't deserve means we have 99 people who don't get what they deserve.
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Posting the sign so I can tap it when necessary.
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Posting the sign so I can tap it when necessary.
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i don't think it's an exaggeration to say that rob reiner is a meaningful part of the reason i have the federal right to marry today
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
i don't think it's an exaggeration to say that rob reiner is a meaningful part of the reason i have the federal right to marry today
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survivors and experts have been calling on our government to recognize intimate partner violence as an epidemic for years now and they don’t want to do this so they just used AI to generate a report with sources that don’t exist to justify their refusal
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
NDP says Ontario report on intimate partner violence partly AI-generated, includes non-existent sources - The Globe and Mail
The 877-page study was introduced into the legislature on Tuesday
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
survivors and experts have been calling on our government to recognize intimate partner violence as an epidemic for years now and they don’t want to do this so they just used AI to generate a report with sources that don’t exist to justify their refusal
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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UBI has been proven to work in every time and place in which it has been attempted. Even with the odds of "conventional wisdom" stacked against it. There are no valid excuses for not implementing it immediately, only greed and hatred.
Disabled people do not owe you their medical history or an explanation as to why they receive certain benefits
The idea that people must humiliate themselves for a meagre benefit that forces them into legislative poverty is another part of eugenics
We deserve a living wage.
We are not expendable.
The idea that people must humiliate themselves for a meagre benefit that forces them into legislative poverty is another part of eugenics
We deserve a living wage.
We are not expendable.
December 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
UBI has been proven to work in every time and place in which it has been attempted. Even with the odds of "conventional wisdom" stacked against it. There are no valid excuses for not implementing it immediately, only greed and hatred.
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Continuing to insist we must "earn a living" while simultaneously reducing our ability to earn anything at all is not a viable social contract and is how to get people to start building guillotines instead of resumes.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
December 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Continuing to insist we must "earn a living" while simultaneously reducing our ability to earn anything at all is not a viable social contract and is how to get people to start building guillotines instead of resumes.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
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From the V&A Museum, an ASMR video of someone making a pair of gloves using a 1940s knitting pattern from the museum’s archive. “Featuring soft-spoken moments, natural yarn sounds, needles gently tapping…” [kottke.org]
90 Minutes of Knitting ASMR
From the V&A Museum, here’s a 90-minute video of someone knitting a pair of gloves using a knitting pattern from the 1940s from the museum’s archive.
Featuring soft-spoken moments, natural yarn sounds, needles gently
kottke.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
From the V&A Museum, an ASMR video of someone making a pair of gloves using a 1940s knitting pattern from the museum’s archive. “Featuring soft-spoken moments, natural yarn sounds, needles gently tapping…” [kottke.org]
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The financialization of housing is creating a crisis that’s threatening the security of families across Canada. Could co-ops be the way to ensure a home is truly a home, instead of just a profit-maximizing asset? thewalrus.ca/why-co-ops-are-t...
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The financialization of housing is creating a crisis that’s threatening the security of families across Canada. Could co-ops be the way to ensure a home is truly a home, instead of just a profit-maximizing asset? thewalrus.ca/why-co-ops-are-t...
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for those who are looking for this
wordpress.org/plugins/disa... turns off AI in wordpress core and things like Yoast SEO
wordpress.org/support/topi... turns off AI in jetpack (you'll need to install the code snippets plugin first)
#fuckAI
wordpress.org/plugins/disa... turns off AI in wordpress core and things like Yoast SEO
wordpress.org/support/topi... turns off AI in jetpack (you'll need to install the code snippets plugin first)
#fuckAI
I find it infuriating that every time I go to write a blog post it asks me if I want to "improve it with AI" and when I go to insert an image it asks me if I want to "generate" one with AI. I should probably see if there'a a way of turning this shit off in wordpress before I start smashing things
December 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
for those who are looking for this
wordpress.org/plugins/disa... turns off AI in wordpress core and things like Yoast SEO
wordpress.org/support/topi... turns off AI in jetpack (you'll need to install the code snippets plugin first)
#fuckAI
wordpress.org/plugins/disa... turns off AI in wordpress core and things like Yoast SEO
wordpress.org/support/topi... turns off AI in jetpack (you'll need to install the code snippets plugin first)
#fuckAI
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Important to also know that Trump was threatening to withhold all federal funding from Indiana if Republicans voted NO on this.
Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map.
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Important to also know that Trump was threatening to withhold all federal funding from Indiana if Republicans voted NO on this.
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1/ The Carney government has fallen hard for AI hype, and it's endangering us all.
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government
Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.
dub.link
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
1/ The Carney government has fallen hard for AI hype, and it's endangering us all.
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
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Trains may be returning to #Vancouver Island tracks!
Greater Victoria mayors are working with First Nations on a commuter rail route between Victoria and Langford, without cutting through Esquimalt Nation
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/m...
Greater Victoria mayors are working with First Nations on a commuter rail route between Victoria and Langford, without cutting through Esquimalt Nation
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/m...
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Trains may be returning to #Vancouver Island tracks!
Greater Victoria mayors are working with First Nations on a commuter rail route between Victoria and Langford, without cutting through Esquimalt Nation
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/m...
Greater Victoria mayors are working with First Nations on a commuter rail route between Victoria and Langford, without cutting through Esquimalt Nation
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/m...
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I too would much rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI
You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I too would much rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI
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The bicycle has never been just a vehicle. In Africa it was both an instrument of colonial control and a tool of anticolonial resistance. ...
December 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The bicycle has never been just a vehicle. In Africa it was both an instrument of colonial control and a tool of anticolonial resistance. ...
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The passage of Bill C-12 in parliament's last sitting marks a day of shame for Canada.
It’s an assault on the rights of migrants, refugees, and all Canadian citizens. Rather than keeping us safe, this bill creates a deportation machine that drags us ever closer to the horrors happening in the US.
It’s an assault on the rights of migrants, refugees, and all Canadian citizens. Rather than keeping us safe, this bill creates a deportation machine that drags us ever closer to the horrors happening in the US.
December 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The passage of Bill C-12 in parliament's last sitting marks a day of shame for Canada.
It’s an assault on the rights of migrants, refugees, and all Canadian citizens. Rather than keeping us safe, this bill creates a deportation machine that drags us ever closer to the horrors happening in the US.
It’s an assault on the rights of migrants, refugees, and all Canadian citizens. Rather than keeping us safe, this bill creates a deportation machine that drags us ever closer to the horrors happening in the US.
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Excellent 🧵 on eugenics history that emphasizes how it was a mainstream science for so long.
A number of our standard statistical tools we still use were developed by avowed eugenicists partly or wholly in service to their attempts to prove things like racial differences.
A number of our standard statistical tools we still use were developed by avowed eugenicists partly or wholly in service to their attempts to prove things like racial differences.
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Excellent 🧵 on eugenics history that emphasizes how it was a mainstream science for so long.
A number of our standard statistical tools we still use were developed by avowed eugenicists partly or wholly in service to their attempts to prove things like racial differences.
A number of our standard statistical tools we still use were developed by avowed eugenicists partly or wholly in service to their attempts to prove things like racial differences.
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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This guy, who is advocating arming ICE with Canadian armoured vehicles, is a lobbyist for the Military-Industrial Complex, and he is using the Americans selling stuff to the Nazis as justification to say it isn't so bad.
In case you're wondering why our current government is so transparently evil.
In case you're wondering why our current government is so transparently evil.
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This guy, who is advocating arming ICE with Canadian armoured vehicles, is a lobbyist for the Military-Industrial Complex, and he is using the Americans selling stuff to the Nazis as justification to say it isn't so bad.
In case you're wondering why our current government is so transparently evil.
In case you're wondering why our current government is so transparently evil.
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The rest we need to repair our nervous system is analogous to the rest a muscle needs after exertion to grow. It's understandable we'd associate rest w/ danger or "laziness," given our experiences & programming, but we need to reframe it-- along w/ nutrition-- as essential.
December 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The rest we need to repair our nervous system is analogous to the rest a muscle needs after exertion to grow. It's understandable we'd associate rest w/ danger or "laziness," given our experiences & programming, but we need to reframe it-- along w/ nutrition-- as essential.
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Remember their names.
Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz.
Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz.
December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Remember their names.
Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz.
Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz.
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It still matters if things are real
In the comments, people note that it’s AI and the poster responds that he just doesn’t care.
That’s an easy block.
That’s an easy block.
this is AI, as should be obvious by the PICE vest, please stop sharing it.
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It still matters if things are real