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Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 22h

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 4h

Nitch. Nish.

acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 4h

@pedgehog.bsky.social oh hey it’s Peggy!

acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 17h

It’s so nice that our current choices are a neoliberal, forever-austerity, anti-labour group of blazing centrists or these fucking conservative losers drafting tight against the wake of emergent fascism.

Cool stuff. Fucking love that for us.

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 20h

On Monday, Pierre Poilievre shared his party’s petition to “end DEI” and “restore the merit principle.”

Just before that, another Conservative MP posted that “Canada must now place restrictions on birthright citizenship”

If it all sounds a bit Trump-y, that’s probably because…it is:

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 17h

Love the tough guy act from a group of people on campus who don’t even do their jobs if it’s raining.

UNB Faculty 4 Palestine @unbfac4palestine.bsky.social · 1d

At UNB, professors and students were surveilled for Palestine solidarity because, per campus security, the university is the President’s “house.”

“If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”

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UNB Faculty 4 Palestine @unbfac4palestine.bsky.social · 1d

At UNB, professors and students were surveilled for Palestine solidarity because, per campus security, the university is the President’s “house.”

“If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t know what else to expect but this is a good indication that no one needs to listen to the Digital Alliance.

blair @blairaf.com · 7d

Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies

Excerpt from an article that reads: Lehane met with AI Minister Evan Solomon on Monday. Solomon told The Logic in June that his mission is to “create sovereign AI.” But “sovereignty is not solitude,” Solomon said, noting that Canada still needs technology and capital from other countries.

OpenAI is participating in similar initiatives in other advanced economies. In May, the firm launched OpenAI for Countries, a new program that localizes ChatGPT and its underlying models for a nation’s particular customs and the requirements of its public sector. It is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure.

Countries are turning to OpenAI because of its “cutting-edge technology,” which can be used to build homegrown tools and applications, and because the firm can help stimulate their domestic AI ecosystems by building or buying compute capacity, Lehane said.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 6d

Lmao Jesus fucking Christ. It’s gas leak the regime.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 7d

Elbows down.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7d

Completely unsurprising. Every single policy position has been the exact equivalent of this craven capitulation.

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 8d

CNN can fuck all the way off.

CNN @cnn.com · 9d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 8d

trans rights are non negotiable, this man is trash

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 8d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 9d

Incredible evidence that will be summarily ignored by federal, provincial, and municipal governments for, I’m sure, generations while they do things like dump more money into rent-a-cops and harassing the houseless.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 9d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 9d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11d

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."

-Anne Frank

CNN @cnn.com · 12d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 11d

I see the Mississippi police haven’t changed in the last 60 years.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 13d

Did you know that you also hate Canada?

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~trunnion @trunnion.bsky.social · 17d

Getting a wired keyboard and mouse because of the increasing tendency to want to throw them across the room.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 17d

Oh like they would ever. Imagine a Democratic Party capable of doing anything requiring a spine.

They boneless.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17d

“If a Democrat wins in 2028, what’s to stop them from turning the D.O.J. on Trump officials or unleashing the F.C.C. on Fox News?” she said. “Trump is setting a precedent that will .. haunt the right and they’ll have no leg to stand on ..”

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 18d

Normal stuff.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19d

"A Luddite is someone who is against the *abuse* - not the use - of technology."

The kids get it.

Here's why a group of NYC teens is rejecting cellphones and social media

These Brooklyn students formed a group to try to beat their own addictive behavior around technology.

www.cbsnews.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 16

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think

Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 19d

Doing everything in his power to smite his invisible enemies.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19d

Absolutely fucked.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20d

I know I’ve been posting a lot about this, but it’s telling of how this government looks at society that at the very moment Mark Carney can’t stop talking about nation-building projects, he’s throwing the biggest nationwide service-delivery network on the scrap heap because it doesn’t make money.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 20d

The more I watch myopic growth goblin neoliberals take the austerity axe to everything good for society, the more I realize they’ve chosen to scaffold the infrastructure driving many to embrace fascism.

Why support people when you can fast track discontent with trivial profit gains?

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20d

It’s absolutely right that workers walk off the job in response to the government taking a chainsaw to Canada Post.

If we lose the unique national infrastructure the postal service has, it will never be rebuilt. We should be using it to expand services to the public, not nickel and diming it.

Canada Post workers walking off the job after government demands reforms | CBC News

The union representing Canada's postal workers has called for a cross-country strike in the wake of the federal government announcing major reforms to Canada Post.

www.cbc.ca

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