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Rick Innis

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Former hacker turned protest singer, aiming to follow Woody Guthrie’s injunction that “It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.” He/him 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🥂 Debut EP out now: https://linktr.ee/rickinnis

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · Feb 14

My EP “The Winter of Our Discontent” is a collection of acoustic protest songs inspired by events of the past few years.

In the spirit of sharing, please feel free to promote your own creative works in this thread or Scalzi’s original thread. Or both.

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 17h

Jason Kottke refers to this as “The Great Span” and has several interesting blog posts on the topic kottke.org/tag/The%20Gr...

kottke.org posts about The Great Span (kottke.org)

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 17h

My gran, 1890-1981.

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 17h

God, yes. Make times in general less interesting.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18h

Just have to take a beat to say that the people that have long warned about state violence and the militarization of law enforcement were right.

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 1d

Notice he’s not threatening to pull Guinness, Tanqueray, Johnny Walker, Smirnoff, or any other Diageo brands off the shelves. Just the one made in Canada.

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 1d

And to facilitate this, turn in the setting in the BlueSky app that reminds to add alt text to images.

Also, don’t trust autogenerated alt text because it is at best a simplistic description of the image with no additional context.

Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Alt text your fucking god damn images, people.

Fascism feeds on and is built upon eugenics.

Cutting disabled people out of information only helps it grow.

Stop being both inaccessible AND complict.

Add Alt Text.

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 1d

One can hope, but iirc they still have to go cap in hand to Westminster to request a referendum. UDI won’t fly.

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 2d

Less a fan of the DNA version but Suzanne likes it enough that that’s how she performs it now.

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that while Charlie Kirk’s death was a tragic waste of a human life, his life was also a tragic waste of a human life

Ripperoni @ripperoni.com · 27d

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly, Scotland is part of the UK so it would probably be required to platform terfs and definitely required to enforce the UK’s ludicrous new identity laws.

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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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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

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Black-and-white street art of a hare holding a protest sign that reads, “The Earth isn’t dying, it’s being killed — and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” Painted on a graffitied wall with turquoise tags in the background, the artwork delivers a stark environmental message about accountability for ecological destruction.

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 2d

Whoever said “much less threat than I expected” must be a real pessimist.

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 2d

I suppose mostly cow shit? Bulls aren’t much use in a dairy operation :-)

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 2d

Damn and double-damn. Always wanted a Parker Fly even though I don’t technically need one.

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 2d

Always did like Redlance. Though in some ways the older I get the Treetrunker I get.

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful playing! FYI that’s not Bach, it’s Gabriel Fauré’s “Pavane” - a piece of my childhood!

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 2d

Some Charlie Kirk stans on the Bluesky mod team?

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 3d

Prime material here.

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 3d

“Respect my authority”

a cartoon of a police officer with the words respect my authority

Alt: a cartoon of a police officer with the words respect my authority

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 3d

To make a point? To be seen standing against the corrupt government?

Tim’s gonna Tim. Someone’s gotta think of the shareholders, after all. (And I’m one)

Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 5d

They could have fought it, at least

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Antifa Lit. Journal @antifalit.bsky.social · 5d

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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 5d

Hopefully BÖC sue

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 5d

Can we stop calling an artificial representation of a person by a human-coded name? "She" does not exist. "She" is a reflection of someone's ingenue dreams, but "she" is pixels and code.

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 5d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

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