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🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃

@maplezero.bsky.social

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(Mapleservo at the other place) Designer, artist,educator, creative, progressive. Based in YYC. He/Him

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🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃 @maplezero.bsky.social · May 27

Danielle Smith want you to believe LGBTQ+ people are a threat, but I can’t remember the last time a LGBTQ person:
-lied to people about vaccine safely
-privatized health care to make it unaffordable
-defunded education
-removed safety regulations
-celebrated Nazis
-attacked the news media

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 3h

such tender concern for the eardrums of a Capitol police officer if the sound is emanating from a liberal; no tender concern for their actual physical safety when the violence comes from Trump's insurrectionists

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

When you finally run out of fucks to give.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5h

"Trump and Republicans in Congress could end this shutdown in a second. They won’t because this chaos is by design."

Commentary from @membrich.bsky.social ↓

The Shutdown Is Wreaking Havoc on Military Families and Veterans

bit.ly

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 6h

When the next generation of your party is more repugnant than the current generation, it’s proof positive your ideologies are deeply toxic and un-American.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Furious Floridian @lmh82.bsky.social · 3d

The negative environmental impact of AI use alone is enough to never use them. Please stop using AI to generate your images or anything else. We already can't opt out of their use entirely.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

The “get em while they’re young” plan worked for Big Tobacco and… other institutions

Matt Round @mattround.com · 20h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 21h

“a new report shows teachers in Alberta are the most stressed in the world, and their workload is among the most demanding.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

Alberta teachers among the world's most stressed, new report shows

ATA president Jason Schilling said the report shows his agency’s findings that teachers feel stressed out, overworked and underappreciated.

edmontonjournal.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23h

And they‘re all such overt creepy losers. Subormals.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 23h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Classic McDavid @henchman21.bsky.social · 17h

But the good news is, no jobs were created and higher electric bills will be passed to the community.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · 17h

Alberta needs to separate from Danielle Smith and the craven UCP.

#Canada #CanadaSky #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #CanadianInAlberta #WeAreCanadian

Screenshot of article in the Winnipeg Free Press entitled, “Albertan when we want, Canadian when it suits us”

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 21h

now you too can set a torch to the environment in pursuit of the perfect wank since you can't convince a human to have sex with you

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

Hey Georgia! @hankgreen.bsky.social has a convincing pitch for why you should vote AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS in the upcoming Georgia Public Service Commission special election! Potentially save consumers money, kick out some Rs, feel good! YOUR VOTE WILL COUNT HUGELY! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

How MAGA sees things.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 21h

People have actual problems that need solving, and I would like S. Altman to stop making up new ones, please and thank you.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 23h

Samuel Please

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Lyn Hertle @lynhertle66.bsky.social · 18h

Hmmmm… good question.

Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 19h

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h

super smart to share your sexual fantasies with technofascists in a country too corrupt to pass a baseline internet privacy law

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 19h

“As soon as this election is over and the province needs to win in Calgary, we can start pushing them on returning our property tax, getting the Green Line back on track and other issues.”

“Thiessen also has some advice for Mark Carney’s Liberals.”

“Sue Alberta.”

I like how he thinks.

MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 20h

'“It is not too much to ask that the premier of Alberta demonstrate the same level of respect for the mayor of Calgary and Calgary city council that she demands from the prime minister,” he said."

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Braid: Upstart Calgary Party aims to boot the province out of city hall business

The Calgary Party and mayoral candidate Brian Thiessen say the big issue is provincial intrusion into city hall by Premier Danielle Smith.

calgaryherald.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Betty💪 @bettyhumpter25.bsky.social · 23h

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 21h

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 21h

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David Shepherd @dshepyeg.bsky.social · 1d

Danielle Smith & the UCP claim they love choice.

But their choice to provide the lowest funding per student in all of Canada means students get much less.

Teachers are fighting for better for students & for our schools.

And better is absolutely possible. #abpoli

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