Chloë Lum
@compulsiveobserver.bsky.social
Installation artist. Perfume fanatic. Chronically ill. Concordia University PhD student(disability studies + performance studies + practice-based research.) Ex jammer, current failure. She/her Montréaler in Edmonton. https://linktr.ee/ChloeLum
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Chloë Lum
@compulsiveobserver.bsky.social
· Nov 14
New folks following me from starter packs, hi! Unfollow if you find me boring. I’m a chronically ill middled-aged grad student & artist in Edmonton. I’m not famous & I’m not especially funny. I don’t have a newsletter but I might post about sickness, vegan snacks, prog rock, or performance art.
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"We're making unprecedented investments in nation building projects."
The nation we're building:
The nation we're building:
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"We're making unprecedented investments in nation building projects."
The nation we're building:
The nation we're building:
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1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
Nice to see someone in the liberal party have principals. Merci M. Guilbeault, c’est fort brave.
Mad respect to @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social for standing up for the environment and his own principles 💜
Steven Guilbeault resigns from Mark Carney’s cabinet
Before entering elected politics, Guilbeault was a famed environmentalist.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Nice to see someone in the liberal party have principals. Merci M. Guilbeault, c’est fort brave.
All of this and it’s not going to win the liberal party a drop of support in Alberta, and will very likely erode support from progressives nationally. If any progressive still support this liberal-in-name-only PM.
The federal-AB agreement is a love letter to fossil fuels
-cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules)
-public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program)
-more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production
- only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels
-cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules)
-public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program)
-more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production
- only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
All of this and it’s not going to win the liberal party a drop of support in Alberta, and will very likely erode support from progressives nationally. If any progressive still support this liberal-in-name-only PM.
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If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
I’m watching a lot of TV while trying to claw out of a symptom flare and I’m seeing ads for the meta AI glasses. The use cases they came up with the advertise their expensive and antisocial product are asking it the weather and to play a song. Things anyone could do with a phone pre-AI.
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m watching a lot of TV while trying to claw out of a symptom flare and I’m seeing ads for the meta AI glasses. The use cases they came up with the advertise their expensive and antisocial product are asking it the weather and to play a song. Things anyone could do with a phone pre-AI.
For a second, I hesitated when I called AI users the laziest people alive this morning because I wondered if I was being too harsh.
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
For a second, I hesitated when I called AI users the laziest people alive this morning because I wondered if I was being too harsh.
The future is so fucking stupid it makes me want to spit.
I did my best to not yell about how ridiculous everything is right now and how hard it is to take anything seriously when we're all supposed to bet our future on magic beans
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
The AI hype-machine: Canada’s ill-advised ‘national sprint’ on artificial intelligence
Cynthia Khoo, Jeff Doctor and Hadrian Mertons-Kirkwood discuss the dangers of Canada’s accelerated approach to artificial intelligence.
rabble.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The future is so fucking stupid it makes me want to spit.
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Only the federal government can provide the stable, predictable support needed to modernize and expand transit systems across the country, write Sam Hersh and Andrew Pulsifer. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/o...
Public transit is nation-building. Our federal budget should reflect that
If the federal government truly believes in building communities that work for everyone, it needs to stop treating transit as secondary and start treating it as what it is: vital national infrastructu...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Only the federal government can provide the stable, predictable support needed to modernize and expand transit systems across the country, write Sam Hersh and Andrew Pulsifer. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/o...
AI. We are going to boil for fucking AI. Are you fucking kidding me? I’m so fucking angry.
Pro-oil spokesperson on CBC says we need more oil pipelines because of the extra energy demands from AI. So Canada is going all-in on destroying the planet. It's a choice. Canada has chosen extinction. The Carney government is officially dead to me.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
AI. We are going to boil for fucking AI. Are you fucking kidding me? I’m so fucking angry.
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Canada doesn’t have a failing healthcare system. It has 10 provincial and 3 territorial healthcare systems and at least 8 of them are being maliciously dismantled by corrupt premiers.
Alberta’s (welcome) healthcare heresy. The province has floated proposals on private care that could finally unfreeze the debate over how to reform Canada’s failing healthcare system. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... via @theglobeandmail.com
Globe editorial: Alberta’s (welcome) healthcare heresy
The province has floated proposals on private care that could finally unfreeze the debate over how to reform Canada’s failing healthcare system
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Canada doesn’t have a failing healthcare system. It has 10 provincial and 3 territorial healthcare systems and at least 8 of them are being maliciously dismantled by corrupt premiers.
I went out walking after my class abd it was -8 and I was fairly unphased. I guess I’m becoming an Alberta guy. Boiled wool makes a huge difference.
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I went out walking after my class abd it was -8 and I was fairly unphased. I guess I’m becoming an Alberta guy. Boiled wool makes a huge difference.
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
I just had to share the majesty of my cat Hammerstein.
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I just had to share the majesty of my cat Hammerstein.
Dream destination.
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Dream destination.
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Introducing “Energy Limiting
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
www.scienceopen.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Introducing “Energy Limiting
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
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Being able bodied is always a temporary privilege. Whether by age, illness, accident, climate catastrophe, or class exploitation- we will all become disabled.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Being able bodied is always a temporary privilege. Whether by age, illness, accident, climate catastrophe, or class exploitation- we will all become disabled.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
I’m feeling targeted AF. Will tidy a few plants and a few book but the cables will wait and the pottery is still most in moving boxes until we are done building the closets and installing the rest of the shelves.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I’m feeling targeted AF. Will tidy a few plants and a few book but the cables will wait and the pottery is still most in moving boxes until we are done building the closets and installing the rest of the shelves.
Bury them under the jail.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
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'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Bury them under the jail.
I can’t learn my ‘new’ phone number after having to change it 4 years ago, but I remember every single commercial that ran 40 years ago.
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I can’t learn my ‘new’ phone number after having to change it 4 years ago, but I remember every single commercial that ran 40 years ago.
This is exactly me. Just like I don’t believe in astrology but I’m the most Pisces Pisces you will ever meet.
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This is exactly me. Just like I don’t believe in astrology but I’m the most Pisces Pisces you will ever meet.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I hope Albertans will remember that trans kids and teens are living breathing humans who just want to be themselves, without fear of hate and discrimination. Demonizing kids merely to score political points in some weird culture war is craven and cruel.
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I hope Albertans will remember that trans kids and teens are living breathing humans who just want to be themselves, without fear of hate and discrimination. Demonizing kids merely to score political points in some weird culture war is craven and cruel.
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"From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible."
Who Said It: The Hell Priest Pinhead or Olivia Nuzzi?
“Olivia Nuzzi did it all for love. The former political journalist has written a combustive portrait of America, President Trump, and the scandal w...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible."
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social