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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 11h

mark carney taking the time to shit on canada post during his big pre-budget speech was disgusting.

he acts like it’s the responsible choice to gut an essential institution at the very moment he can’t stop talking about nation-building projects. that’s what canada post is and could continue to be!

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 10h

still not over getting the front skytrain seat with the sunrise this morning

almost enough to make you forget how expensive it is to stay here

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 1d

Me seeing the cathedral in Santiago:
“Holy… crap… we actually did it!?”

Me seeing the ocean for the first time today since September 11:

a woman wipes her nose with her hand while wearing a shirt that says cw on it

ALT: a woman wipes her nose with her hand while wearing a shirt that says cw on it

media.tenor.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

“Child actors never really grow up, or, more precisely, having grown up once, early, like a forced flower, they stay the age they were when their careers ended.” Adam Gopnik writes about the plight of child stars.

What Do We Want from Our Child Stars?

Adoration, exploitation, and the strange afterlife of being celebrated too soon.

www.newyorker.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

Peter Diamandis tweets: "800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them."

Elon Musk replies: "Working will be optional in the future.

There will be universal high income."

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

I know I’ve said this more than once, and I know it’s really obvious, but taking the train between cities in Europe is just fantastic. So easy.

One of the dumbest mistakes North America ever made, and continues to make, is doing so relatively little with trains. Train networks are nation-building.

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 3d

Did you hear they robbed the louver. The looverer. They stole the jewels from the lvoora. It was on BBC news. They drove a scooter up the voov.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5d

The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony

The others fell in behind, at first struggling to keep up with the alpha leader. But soon enough Ackman faltered—at Mile 32, Ackman recalls—and fell way behind the others. He was clearly “bonking,” as they say in the cycling world, which is what happens when a rider is dehydrated and his energy stores are depleted.

While everyone else rode back to Loeb’s East Hampton mansion, one of Loeb’s friends, David “Tiger” Williams, a respected cyclist and trader, painstakingly guided Ackman, who by then could barely pedal and was letting out primal screams of pain from the cramps in his legs, back to Bridgehampton. “I was in unbelievable pain,” Ackman recalls. As the other riders noted, it was really rather ridiculous for him to have gone out so fast, trying to lead the pack, considering his lack of training. Why not acknowledge your limits and set a pace you could maintain? As one rider notes, “I’ve never had an experience where someone has gone from being so aggressive on a bike to being so hopelessly unable to even turn the pedals…. His mind wrote a check that his body couldn’t cash.”

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 7d

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 7d

Bit extreme, but walking the Camino de Santiago. It’ll even renew your faith in humanity. Somehow.

“Solvitur ambulando.” St Augustine. “It is solved by walking.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

#4 👍

Zohran sitting in the corner seat on a subway.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8d

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 8d

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 8d

The information booth lady giving out stamps today, in spanish: “And where did you start? Sarria?”

Me: “No, in Saint-Jean.”

Her: 😮‼️👏

Me: 😏

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 9d

A lot of people wonder how companies like IBM, Ford, Coca Cola, and General Electric got away with supporting Nazi Germany in their genocidal war.

This is how. Companies have always taken profits, wherever it comes from, no matter what atrocities they are enabling. Fascism is built on corporations.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 9d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 9d

vancouver planning in the 21st century is developers and the city patting themselves on the back for a sustainable mixed-used community that pays homage to the industrial past while using modern best practices where a two bedroom condo costs a million dollars and there are no schools

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 9d

cool, awesome, inspiring, just one question where are the schools or buses or community centres

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 9d

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 9d

I was warned about pilgrim manners going out the window starting in Sarria. Thought we hit jackpot because the city was basically dead today.

Ding dongs are setting up top bunks at TEN PM. In JEANS.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 10d

Fun fact, you can answer all of these questions by talking about how much you want the government to protect you *FROM* "AI" rather than how much you want them to fund it. Give it a try!

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 14d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 11d

Jesus Christ… 🤦‍♀️

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 12d

The economics of AI (LLM) data centers continue to be utterly unworkable. This whole thing is going to crash sooner rather than later and leave a giant smoldering crater where a big chunk of the economy used to be.

The House on Haunted Hannibal (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 12d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 12d

WHY ARE MEN???????

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 12d

“She has a pretty good lifestyle. She doesn’t have to work. Of course, if we split up I’d still support her.”

🚩 Now might be a good time to mention that I’VE JUST MET THIS GUY. Buddy’s mind is clearly already made up and he’s just looking for excuses.

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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 12d

“If my wife doesn’t let me do the whole thing on my own, maybe that’s a sign we need to split.”

🚩 Jesus Christ.

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