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@habpipes.bsky.social

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Living the dream in Regina. Political shit poster and video game aficionado. Voracious reader; to a point where I got in shit in school for reading books too much.

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M @habpipes.bsky.social · 17d

The Canadian Justice system loses $20 billion year.

The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year.

Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year.

Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.

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M @habpipes.bsky.social · 11h

Lots hadn't seen people in a decade or more. Wish we all could spend more time doing things with more people, but as we age and families grow and expand, it seems like it gets harder to see everyone.

M @habpipes.bsky.social · 11h

This was really good to read. We had a surprise 90th birthday for my wife's grandma this weekend. It was cousins upon cousins upon cousins through generations cole and go lunch followed by a huge Thanksgiving meal with every family down to the great grandkids.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!”

Bari nods sympathetically.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 21h

depressing morning reading about all the pretzel logic and out and out lies going into supporting expansion of Canada's oil and gas industry.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 21h

For everyone over these years who helped, WE LOVE YOU AND THANK YOU!!! And going forward, please help Indigenous people though payyourent.ca who ensure many are cared for across our lands. Love to everyone 💕🪶

payyourent.ca

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 22h

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 23h

Safe to say, with these changes, people with “X” gender markers will no longer be able to travel to or even from the U.S. starting October 14.

www.visaverge.com/passport/cbp...

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS

CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 11d

Who stands to benefit from the gutting of Canada Post?

The billionaire class.

If Mark Carney were really serious about nation-building, Dru OJa Jay writes how the post office could become an engine for green energy, public banking, and better services. breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...

Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach

The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service

breachmedia.ca

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Tom McIntosh @proftomuofr.bsky.social · 23h

The SK govt has refused to prioritize the fixing of health care for years and so this is where we are. They can’t blame the NDP, the Feds or trans kids for this. The Sask Party owns this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sask. man undergoes invasive medical procedures in hospital hallway due to overcapacity | CBC News

Kay Roberts never imagined he would receive invasive medical treatment in a busy hallway. He spent four nights and five days on a stretch bed while experiencing confusion and other cognitive issues.

www.cbc.ca

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 1d

This sexist policy will affect more cis-gender girls and transgender. Any girl that is taller, stronger, and tougher might get singled out.
Also, good way to take out the best players of the opposing team for a few weeks.
Conservatives are preoccupied with girls genitals. This is sick.
#ABpoli

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 2d

According to provincial documents, if someone wants to challenge an athlete’s gender, they can do so.

Alberta’s new policy is forcing girls—cis and trans—out of school sports | Xtra Magazine

Gender forms mandated by Bill 29 are forcing families into tough decisions around whether to put their daughters in sports

xtramagazine.com

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d

From what I understand, consultations like this one go on the record and even if the government ignores them (which, in this case, they almost certainly will), they can still be used to embarrass them and point out that they're not doing what the public they claim to represent wants.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d

I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

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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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 1d

Please help if you are able ❤️

The Entity Formerly Known As The Impercievable Entity 🇲🇽 🇵🇸 @threeninjas.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Stevie White Magpie is a Lakota grandmother who lives in Box Elder, SD. She's been raising her 3 grandkids and last week her daughter died in a car crash, so now she's raising 4. She needs help with food and clothes for them, if anyone is able.

#SettlerSaturday

$tevian78

Stevie White Magpie top right, with her oldest daughter and some of her grandchildren.

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 1d

I'm sure this would be "digitally sovereign" much in the way all the grapes at Loblaws are "grown in Peru."

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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M @habpipes.bsky.social · 1d

If hell exists, I hope every single one of these motherfuckers is forced to sit upon a red hot lance for eternity.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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M @habpipes.bsky.social · 1d

In the past couple of years, Bing quizzes have basically gone from asking about Socrates and his influences on philosophy to "Is the ground above or below your feet?"

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

Come on, where is a company like MARVEL supposed to find human artists who can do superheroes on a tight turnaround?

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

Guess I’m not watching WonderMan.

nerd_talks_show 6h
Marvel employees were asked whether the 'WONDER MAN' poster for the in-universe movie was created using Al.
"Its artwork made by artists but touched up by Al," which was clarified with "so, really Al-assisted Photoshop work," and the response was "yes."
(via: searcher_gold | X)

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M @habpipes.bsky.social · 1d

Parents in the 90s - Never get in a strangers vehicle
Parents in the 00s - Never meet people from online
Parents today - Use that online app to get a stranger to drive you in their vehicle.

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Dubsak @dubsak.bsky.social · 1d

This ain’t great for Canada. I mean, we’re right here. We should be hoovering American students.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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KatMarie @katmarie.bsky.social · 1d

Canada is not a resource buffet for Silicon Valley. OpenAI’s push to build massive data centers here isn’t about empowering Canadians—it’s about exploiting our cheap energy, land, and regulatory gaps. #AIregulations #CanadaAI

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

I could tell this was AI right from the get-go but it’s like with the Terminators — every generation makes it harder and harder to tell. And that’s scary.

"How" @myoneandonlykat.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline cleanse!

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 1d

Oldie but a goodie, Spice Girls Dune.

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 1d

Conservative Premiers all coming in with a healthy dose of “just don’t tell Dad, okay?”

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 1d

"Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario have all lined up at the Supreme Court to say that when a government invokes the Notwithstanding Clause, the courts should stay out and not even look at the case."

The premiers violating your Charter rights don’t want the courts to weigh in | Xtra Magazine

When it comes to the Notwithstanding Clause, premiers opposed to the federal government’s factum are showing their true colours

xtramagazine.com

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shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 1d

it's unfortunate that tommy douglas wouldn't even recognize far right rural saskatchewan today. he wouldn't even win a seat in his old riding of weyburn.

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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 1d

I came back to tell the Liberals they can quit burying their heads in the sand now. There’s a ceasefire. You can act like you were against the genocide all along now.

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