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lucindacatchlove.bsky.social
@lucindacatchlove.bsky.social
Writer and culture worker. Lapsed visual artist and performer. FKA Miss de Meaner, Cardinal Sin. Flâneur. Dollar store intellectual. Garden fairy. House goblin. Creature lover. Queer witch. Culture crone. Science nerd. Kindness afficiando.
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The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.
Did the climate world misread Carney?
Many in the climate movement saw a fellow traveller in Mark Carney — the man who could preach climate action in the language of finance — but what if they were wrong from the very start?
www.nationalobserver.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!
PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
This marks one of the first major labor-arbitration rulings on the impact of AI on journalism, setting an important precedent for the U.S. news industry.
wbng.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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tech companies that chase hype cycles survive because the government derisks them, throwing ungodly amounts of money at them with no strings attached, and the moment there is a condition on this capital they go crying to the media about it.

literally meanwhile www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be
Will the bubble ravage the economy when it bursts? What will it leave of value once it pops?
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Yeah, like at this point this was a student very clearly recruited to bait this kind of situation. And because academic discipline is never a neutral situation it’ll work: bsky.app/profile/cait...
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Labor unions can recruit working class candidates in red states, run them as independents, fund them with money they now give to Democrats, and use union members as the core of their volunteer base. The numbers are more plausible than you think.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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cette mesure sera largement inutile si les gouvernements persistent à limiter le nombre d'étudiants étrangers au québec

les étudiants étrangers, qui viennent ici faire une maitrise, doc, post-doc, sont essentiels aux fonctionnement des labos universitaires

www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...
Québec investit 10 millions pour attirer des chercheurs établis aux États-Unis
Québec se lance dans la course au recrutement de chercheurs établis aux États-Unis. Il annonce 10 millions de dollars pour attirer les meilleurs talents dans les rangs des universités québécoises.
www.lapresse.ca
December 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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📢 Tech giants who want to build data centres for the AI boom in Australia could be pushed by the Albanese government to build their own renewable energy sources.
Fears big tech AI plants’ voracious appetite for power will drain grid
www.smh.com.au
December 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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'Grassroots' - nope, it's a surveillance firm whose clients are big tech

For both renewables and data centres, the article blames feral locals rather than corporate wrongdoing, laziness and railroading

More info --->>>>>
bsky.app/profile/keta...
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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“Moraes said Bolsonaro’s electronic ankle monitor had been tampered with at 12.08am on Saturday. That suggested “the convict had planned to break the ankle monitor in order to ensure the success of his escape, aided by the confusion caused by the protest”
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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“Centrists like Ezra Klein call for a kinder, more connected liberal culture. But without building public systems that allow people to actually care for one another, civility is just polite sentiment to cover over the fact of cruelty.”
www.newglobalpolitics.org/neither-cult...
Neither Culture Wars nor Big Tents Will Save American Democracy - New Global Politics
Centrists call for a kinder, more connected liberal culture. But without building public systems that allow people to actually care for one another, civility is just polite sentiment to cover over the...
www.newglobalpolitics.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Leurs présidentes, Magali Picard et Caroline Senneville, ont dénoncé les dérives «autoritaires» du projet de loi. #TLMEP
Bloc uni de la FTQ et de la CSN contre la réforme Boulet à «Tout le monde en parle»
www.ledevoir.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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This is awful. And is an issue in all democracies. More legislation, education, and security are essential to combating this gender based hate.
Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency
Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In a story typical of our capitalist times, water in plastic bottles is full of micro plastics so you're better off just drinking tap water.
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Haro sur les bouteilles d’eau à usage unique
www.ledevoir.com/actualites/s...
Comment se plastifier les organes, une bouteille d’eau à la fois…
Haro sur les bouteilles d’eau à usage unique
Leur contenu serait plus nocif pour la santé que l’eau du robinet.
www.ledevoir.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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It’s just really telling that venture capitalists (Strong Floor Movement) and the dark money right (Abundance Movement) keep coming up with new movements that will “save” the Democrats and the left and laundering them through centrist writers and political consultants. Seems like a real problem.
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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There’s a 90% chance Trump wants to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, convicted for his role in a major drug trafficking enterprise, becuz he is connected to people like Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen & the rest of the tech bro morons”

www.rawstory.com/trump-267435...
‘Trump is now doing their bidding’: Journalists say they know why trafficker got pardon
President Donald Trump has been hammered over his recent pardon of a convicted Honduran drug trafficker, with the president being pressed for an explanation as his administration escalates military pr...
www.rawstory.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Peut-être est-il temps de devenir un grand peuple qui accueille
www.ledevoir.com/opinion/libr...

les migrations contemporaines sont aussi une forme de contre-circulation historique : les peuples jadis colonisés viennent habiter les sociétés…
Peut-être est-il temps de devenir un grand peuple qui accueille
La loi 21 nous oblige à choisir entre deux modèles: un qui repose sur la peur, l’autre sur la mutualité.
www.ledevoir.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Fascinating article looking at respiratory viruses in a Swiss school setting finds that bad air quality in the classroom, not close proximity, is the dominant driver of viral spread.

Close proximity: RR 1.16
Shared classroom: RR 3.17
Suboptimal air quality: 1.90

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM