Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase
writer/editor at The Beaverton
she/her | Vancouver B.C.
Articles: https://www.thebeaverton.com/author/mary-gillis/
Money for me? Sure, go ahead: https://ko-fi.com/marygillis
writer/editor at The Beaverton
she/her | Vancouver B.C.
Articles: https://www.thebeaverton.com/author/mary-gillis/
Money for me? Sure, go ahead: https://ko-fi.com/marygillis
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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
· Aug 21
I'm not "wasting time scrolling social media." I'm gathering telemetry.
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guys look at this picture of the moonrise my sister sent me 🥹
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
guys look at this picture of the moonrise my sister sent me 🥹
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Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
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The tenants of Park Beach have been fighting aggressive eviction threats for nearly two years.
Their landlord has painted them as criminals and thieves - and to their dismay, some Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrators have accepted that characterization. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Their landlord has painted them as criminals and thieves - and to their dismay, some Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrators have accepted that characterization. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
A Vancouver Landlord Keeps Being Allowed to Evict Tenants. Why? | The Tyee
Residents want to know why BC’s Residential Tenancy Branch keeps siding with Plan A.
thetyee.ca
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The tenants of Park Beach have been fighting aggressive eviction threats for nearly two years.
Their landlord has painted them as criminals and thieves - and to their dismay, some Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrators have accepted that characterization. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Their landlord has painted them as criminals and thieves - and to their dismay, some Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrators have accepted that characterization. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
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We’re entering a new era of childhood mortality & disability, & almost no one will care bc they’ll just get used to “the new normal” within a few years. They’ll ignore the harm.
How do I know? Because that’s exactly how it went w/COVID, which is the 2nd largest threat to childhood health rn.
How do I know? Because that’s exactly how it went w/COVID, which is the 2nd largest threat to childhood health rn.
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We’re entering a new era of childhood mortality & disability, & almost no one will care bc they’ll just get used to “the new normal” within a few years. They’ll ignore the harm.
How do I know? Because that’s exactly how it went w/COVID, which is the 2nd largest threat to childhood health rn.
How do I know? Because that’s exactly how it went w/COVID, which is the 2nd largest threat to childhood health rn.
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Fostering collective make-believe as a vehicle to power is one thing that the tech industry/oligopoly, and the various far right political clades who have assembled into fascism, have in common; and why they have to ally together to support their disparate political missions.
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Fostering collective make-believe as a vehicle to power is one thing that the tech industry/oligopoly, and the various far right political clades who have assembled into fascism, have in common; and why they have to ally together to support their disparate political missions.
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"The term 'skyscraper' was first used in the 1780s to describe a particularly tall horse" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_s...
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"The term 'skyscraper' was first used in the 1780s to describe a particularly tall horse" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_s...
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as you dig through coverage of the Netflix Warner Bros merger, play a little game with me:
notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted
notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
as you dig through coverage of the Netflix Warner Bros merger, play a little game with me:
notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted
notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted
Yet another reason to get off X: the owner uses it to recruit broodmares for his baby cult.
todays reminder that elon musk is the leader of a baby breeding cult and almost nobody brings it up www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Oh baby, Musk's trying to build a breeding cult 'before the apocalypse'
Elon Musk, the leader of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its assault on federal agencies and federal workers, is reportedly obsessed with fathering a “legion” of babies ...
www.dailykos.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Yet another reason to get off X: the owner uses it to recruit broodmares for his baby cult.
I wonder how much of this was because ordinary Canadians started consciously buying Canadian and travelling in Canada.
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I wonder how much of this was because ordinary Canadians started consciously buying Canadian and travelling in Canada.
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these anti-vaxers are going to kill so many people, especially children, and not one of them will ever face any consequences for it
A federal advisory panel with power over vaccine policy has voted to stop recommending a universal newborn shot to prevent the hepatitis B virus, which causes liver disease — a major shakeup to the childhood vaccine schedule under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Vaccine advisory panel votes to end universal newborn hep B shot in major shakeup
Parents appear to be able to continue to get the hep B vaccine for their kids, but the move could cause confusion among families and logistical barriers for health providers.
19thnews.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
these anti-vaxers are going to kill so many people, especially children, and not one of them will ever face any consequences for it
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People need to boycott this show and not just half ass. Shame everyone who plans on watching it. This isn't about Eurovision, it's about Israel getting away with committing genocide because THERE ARE NEVER ANY CONSEQUENCES. They should be untouchable by now. Everybody needs to walk the fucking walk.
Eurovision has allowed Israel to compete in 2026.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
People need to boycott this show and not just half ass. Shame everyone who plans on watching it. This isn't about Eurovision, it's about Israel getting away with committing genocide because THERE ARE NEVER ANY CONSEQUENCES. They should be untouchable by now. Everybody needs to walk the fucking walk.
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And God saw the boys that he had made, and behold, they were back in town
December 17, 2024 at 10:24 PM
And God saw the boys that he had made, and behold, they were back in town
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She looks like John A. MacDonald.
Spocking is cool, but have you ever McEnroed folded UK five and ten pound notes?
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
She looks like John A. MacDonald.
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Time to relax for bed by looking at social media and cramming 70 different thoughts and jokes into my head at a rapid unforgiving pace
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Time to relax for bed by looking at social media and cramming 70 different thoughts and jokes into my head at a rapid unforgiving pace
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The solution to homelessness is housing
The solution to poverty is reducing economic inequality through the redistribution of wealth
The solution to the unregulated drug deaths is drug regulation
bsky.app/profile/kwar...
The solution to poverty is reducing economic inequality through the redistribution of wealth
The solution to the unregulated drug deaths is drug regulation
bsky.app/profile/kwar...
Governments have never addressed the reality that “the majority of individuals in B.C. who died from drug poisonings did not have a diagnosed opioid use disorder or use opioids on a daily basis.”
governments created ministries of mental health and addiction to deny this fact.
governments created ministries of mental health and addiction to deny this fact.
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The solution to homelessness is housing
The solution to poverty is reducing economic inequality through the redistribution of wealth
The solution to the unregulated drug deaths is drug regulation
bsky.app/profile/kwar...
The solution to poverty is reducing economic inequality through the redistribution of wealth
The solution to the unregulated drug deaths is drug regulation
bsky.app/profile/kwar...
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now with 30% more mothman
December 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
now with 30% more mothman
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mr beast is terrorizing my flock
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
mr beast is terrorizing my flock
Every level of government is jumping through increasingly complicated and ridiculous hoops to try to keep the for-profit housing industry going instead of just acknowledging it's not viable. We need public housing if we want affordable housing. That's just how it is now. But no one ever admits it.
Vancouver unveils sweeping rescue plan as housing project cancellations loom | Urbanized
City of Vancouver staff have released a sweeping set of measures to shore up development viability and preserve the housing pipeline.
dailyhive.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Every level of government is jumping through increasingly complicated and ridiculous hoops to try to keep the for-profit housing industry going instead of just acknowledging it's not viable. We need public housing if we want affordable housing. That's just how it is now. But no one ever admits it.
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I love Paul Verhoeven but I hate that we live in one of his movies.
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I love Paul Verhoeven but I hate that we live in one of his movies.
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Holy shit. This is like end of a geological era in Hollywood time. Theatrical moviegoing will likely never be the same. HBO series may never be weekly releases again… www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...
Netflix Wins the Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War, Enters Exclusive Deal Talks
Warner Bros. Discovery has selected Netflix after the streaming giant offered $30 a share for the studio and streaming assets.
www.thewrap.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Holy shit. This is like end of a geological era in Hollywood time. Theatrical moviegoing will likely never be the same. HBO series may never be weekly releases again… www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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What!? That's ALL?
Good lord, just 10x it. We wouldn't even notice it on our taxes.
Good lord, just 10x it. We wouldn't even notice it on our taxes.
Slide reads: "Flat Funding for All BC Libraries: Annual provincial funding shared across 71 public library systems has remained at $14m since 2009, even as costs for books, digital content, staff, and facilities continue to rise."
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
What!? That's ALL?
Good lord, just 10x it. We wouldn't even notice it on our taxes.
Good lord, just 10x it. We wouldn't even notice it on our taxes.
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60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found.
More than 95% of the African penguins in two of the most important breeding colonies, on Dassen Island and Robben Island, died between 2004 and 2012. The breeding penguins probably starved to death during the moulting period, according to the paper, which said the climate crisis and overfishing were driving declines. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
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I hate this deal but it's better for Netflix to get WBD than the Ellisons. I just need them to lose.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix Enter Exclusive Deal Negotiations
The move comes after the latest round of bids for the media company. Paramount and Comcast also made offers.
www.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I hate this deal but it's better for Netflix to get WBD than the Ellisons. I just need them to lose.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...