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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 1d

Look, if you don't want to mask in public, that's your deal.
My point is don't call yourself a leftist & pretend to care about disability justice

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 19h

Liberals clutching their pearls on this site when told that not masking to protect others in essential public spaces is ableist. Instead of getting angry, they should reflect on how they can do better

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 19h

1. We haven't come out the other end of Covid
2. I've never called for everyone masking every time they leave the house. I've called for more allies to mask in essential public spaces in solidarity with long COVID sufferers
3. Masks are *not* just for those who are sick

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

I’m a subscriber to The Onion print edition and trust me, the ads alone are worth it

Fake Apple ad

Remember when those
Chinese factory workers were all committing suicide?
Neither do we!

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6h

new tonight for @zeteo.com, from @premthakker.bsky.social and me:

Trump’s Pentagon ordered staff and military personnel to watch or read in full Pete Hegseth’s speech to the generals last month. In the days since, senior officials have kept bothering staff, asking them…

zeteo.com/p/pentagon-h...

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 15h

FYI for BC residents, if you want a COVID booster/flu shot, I was able to search in my emails for a previous "Book your next vaccine appointment" from a previous year and click on the link and it just let me schedule my covid vaccine.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 12h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15h

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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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 17h

OpenAI: raising $1 trillion for data centers
Also OpenAI: projected $18 billion of revenue

Gosh I wonder if it’s a bubble

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Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 8h

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 6h

Mark Carney shows contempt for all Canadians by excluding the press from foreign trips. He needs to apologize and make amends for this, and be shown he’s a democratic head of government not the chief executive of Canada Inc.

Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 8h

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

the more I read about the promises OpenAI has made, the more disgusted I am. They've promised to deploy 10GW of Broadcom chips *by the end of 2029*, a chip that has yet to tape out, in data centers yet to be planned or funded or the power acquired. We are in a black hole of ethics and good sense.

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Politico @politico.com · 15h

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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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13h

To recap: A Roman Catholic national TV host just suggested that a Jewish journalist is antisemitic for daring to call out a right-wing hack…

Best of all, this is happening on the pro-Trump Fox News, effectively state TV, where just the other week, Gutfeld embraced the label “Nazi.”

Beyond parody.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14h

Bari Weiss is an unqualified right-wing operative. She has no business running a newsroom—and CBS has already begun to degrade with such a hack in charge.

The billionaire takeover of media that gave rise to Weiss represents a serious threat to democracy.

Everyone at CBS should resign.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 12h

Really curious how ignoring thousands of studies is "denying science" - feel free to share the science that says it's OK to keep getting this virus.

Or stay in your lane?

Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 13h

Covid Forever deadenders are an ignorable little sect. In their own way, they deny science just as much as the right does.

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦📚🧑🏻‍🎨 @writerartisteh.bsky.social · 12h

Freaking bigots, every one. Never occurs to them that they’re supporting hurting real people, that trans folk are just the “it” group for human hatred right now. The propaganda worked on these bigots.

Michael Coyle @oplopanax.ca · 12h

Not even asking or addressing the question "why".

Why are there people asking to boycott the works of Rowling?

Could it be because she's explicitly said she takes every dollar as a vote of support for her position, and that she spends that money funding hate campaigns against trans people?

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 14h

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

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Michael Coyle @oplopanax.ca · 12h

Not even asking or addressing the question "why".

Why are there people asking to boycott the works of Rowling?

Could it be because she's explicitly said she takes every dollar as a vote of support for her position, and that she spends that money funding hate campaigns against trans people?

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 14h

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 12h

her laugh???? damn she sucks

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 14h

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 14h

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 1d

the police are *claiming* that overtime spending has increased exponentially since 2023 because of an officer shortage, an easily disproven assertion.

cc @bakergeorget.bsky.social
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

B.C. police academy pushes back on calls for city-run police training amid officer shortage | CBC News

The institution responsible for training municipal, transit and tribal police recruits in B.C. is pushing back against calls for city-run academies, arguing that a single, province-wide system is ess...

www.cbc.ca

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.

I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 19h

ICE is recruiting quickly. And given its glorification of violence & aggression on its socials, it's going to attract a lot of dark tetrad personalities.

@brianklaas.bsky.social has looked at how recruitment of police officers determines who ends up in the uniform. His work feels very relevant.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

ALT: a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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