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Jenn (^_^)/ 🇨🇦🎃🍁

@canadacobrachicken.bsky.social

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BG artist, consistent gym goer, proud feminist (who has no time for SWERFs or TERFs), union member, and generally laid back person 🚫AI, Roko's Basilisk be damned

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Jenn (^_^)/ 🇨🇦🎃🍁 @canadacobrachicken.bsky.social · 26d

"Strongmen" by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social is an invaluable read right now. The whole playbook we're seeing in the US is laid bare for all of us to see.

"On Tyranny" & "On Freedom" by @timothysnyder.bsky.social are also both must reads given the current moment.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaime…

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Panic Restaurant @panicrestaurant.bsky.social · 14h

pete !! @peterokii • Mar 28
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oh poor baby do do do you need the robot to make you pictures?
yeah?
you need the bo-bot to write you essay too? yeah ??? you can't do it?? do so you're a
moron?? so do do you need chat gpt to fuck your wife ??

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 9h

I wish everyone talked to all of them like this all the time

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 16h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 12h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Jenn (^_^)/ 🇨🇦🎃🍁 @canadacobrachicken.bsky.social · 1d

I've never been a Spotify user and this just guarantees I never will be. Vote with your dollars folks and let them know why.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

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 · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Jenn (^_^)/ 🇨🇦🎃🍁 @canadacobrachicken.bsky.social · 1d

I made this for lunch for the week and it is taking every last bit of control I have not to inhale all of it tonight. 🤤
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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 1d

Good news, recruits! Image Engine is currently searching for a Senior VFX Coordinator working #Hybrid in #Vancouver. Interested? Visit the direct link below.

Looking for more opportunities? Bookmark cartoonrecruit.com for an ad-free animation job directory.

VFX Coordinator - Senior

Position: VFX Coordinator - Senior Hiring Range: $76,700 to $81,900/year for a 40 hour work week Term Contract: start December 2025 Company Benefits: Extended healthcare from day 1, premiums 100% covered by Image Engine, up to 8 paid Health and Wellness days per year. *Candidates are required to be base

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 1d

At the ready, recruits! Image Engine is currently searching for a VFX Production Manager (Expression of Interest) working #Hybrid in #Vancouver. Interested? Visit the direct link below.

Looking for more opportunities? Bookmark cartoonrecruit.com for an ad-free animation job directory.

VFX Production Manager (Expression of Interest)

Position: VFX Production Manager Hiring Range: $91,000 to $106,000/year for a 40 hour work week Project Contract: November 2025 and January 2026 Company Benefits: Extended healthcare from day 1, premiums 100% covered by Image Engine, up to 8 paid Health and Wellness days per year. *Candidates are requ

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Jenn (^_^)/ 🇨🇦🎃🍁 @canadacobrachicken.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure what your prescription is, but Ollie Quinn is a flat price of $245 for all their frames w/lenses, & I *think* progressives are $100-150 more (?) I've gotten a few pairs from them now (next ones will be progressives 😅) Might be worth a look www.olliequinn.com

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Shop men's and women's quality prescription eyewear from $245 including lenses. Buy glasses in Canada online or find your local store in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria, and Calgary. Book an eye ...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

Newsmax and MTG openly flouting Trump have me in eyeball emoji mode. I do not trust either of those stopped clocks to be accidentally right. there is palace intrigue afoot. rats leaving a sinking ship. is he crumbling into dust even worse than we're seeing? are they preparing to distance themselves?

Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 1d

Et tu, Newsmax?!

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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · Jun 21

Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!

#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤

A picture of various formline stickers piled on top of each other. In bold red gradient text reads "Indigenous People's Day Art Share".

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 1d

Posted at 10/13 @ 1:29pm. Please share!

severeweatherus 1m
JUST IN: Evacuation Warnings have been issued in Los Angeles County in California for ALL burn scar areas ahead of the incoming storm system which could bring dangerous flooding and significant debris flows around the burn scars.
If you live around the burn scars of Los Angeles County, officials are encouraging you to evacuate.
Isolated tornadoes are also possible across Los Angeles and Orange Counties tomorrow.

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 1d

OK, let's understand a few things:

1) Antifa is not a real organization. It's simply an acronym, a philosophy - it means anti-fascist.

2) And what ICE is doing to innocent people and families on our streets every day is absolutely fascism.

#ResistTrump

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 2d

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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Akane ⚔️🫀 DTIYS pinned! @akanelogics.bsky.social · 2d

‼️ REMOVE AIslop from your PINTEREST results.‼️
Let's see how true this is....

1. Go to ‘Refine your recommendations’ and remove everything related to ‘generative AI interests’.

(As if anyone who visits the site for reliable references would be interested in that...)

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 2d

Just got my print from @briannaduggan.bsky.social

It’s a damn fine print ☕️

Photo of a print with artwork featuring Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks, cherry pie, and a coffee stain.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2d

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 2d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

George Retes is an American citizen and Army veteran who served in Iraq.

He was jailed by ICE and held for three days. He was never given a phone call — much less an explanation for why was detained by ICE.

He shared his story of abuse by the Trump administration to
@timmiller.bsky.social:

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is shooting and murdering people. With real bullets. From real guns. If you think they only use rubber bullets or paintballs, no—they are using real guns with real bullets #DefundICE #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 3d

Say his name.

#SilverioVillegasGonzalez

How do you tell the innocent children that their only father will never come home?

#USDemocracy

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 2d

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 · 6d

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...

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