Rome Demands Stone
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Yes, it's me. The cocktail loving, board game playing, data librarian with a wall of games🇨🇦🍁
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Pinnable: “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” —Anne Herbert Support your public library in any way you can—this includes using it.
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Don Davies
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Right now, workers in the federal public service can lose their pension entitlements due to a disability, even if that disability is caused by a recognized work-related injury. If you think those workers deserve fair treatment, sign this petition.
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Petition e-7227 - Petitions
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7227
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about 16 hours ago
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Holy moly—why did I switch back to the game. I jinxed them…
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about 19 hours ago
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Charlie Angus
about 19 hours ago
As a drop out who played in a band, washed dishes and climbed scaffolding to feed my family I never worried when debating lawyers and bankers about how to make life better for working people. But if the Cons think they can tarnish Carney on his credentials they really do need to get a real job.
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Charlie Angus
about 20 hours ago
The Conservatives are going after PM Carney's resumé. Check out Andrew Scheer's resumé: He had a paper route. He CLAIMED to be an insurance broker but had no license. Became career politician. Used party funds to pay for his kid's private school. (Source CDN Encyclopedia) Burn.
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Andrew Couts
1 day ago
NEW: Emails obtained by
@wired.com
show how a small conservative group was instrumental in FCC chair Brendan Carr's actions against Jimmy Kimmel.
@dell.bsky.social
has the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA:
www.wired.com/story/the-fc...
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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics
Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-fcc-has-a-fast-lane-for-complaints-about-trumps-media-critics/
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Oh boy where’s that Airplane “I picked the wrong day to quit…” meme with Lloyd Bridges when you need it?!?!
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Michael Geist
2 days ago
Jon Penney's argument isn't just about rules that inhibit speech. Chilling effects operate as a mechanism for conformity and power with direct implications for how Canada designs its surveillance and platform laws. Our discussion of his new book on my Law Bytes podcast.
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Michael Geist (@mgeist.bsky.social)
"Chilling effects" is a term everyone uses and few people interrogate. @penney.bsky.social joins the Law Bytes podcast to discuss his new book and why we may be understating the issue, with…
https://bsky.app/profile/mgeist.bsky.social/post/3mjewc2726m26
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.
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Max Fawcett
3 days ago
Never forget.
#cdnpoli
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Pasquinel
3 days ago
Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets
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In just a few seconds, I sent letters to BC policy-makers demanding Novavax access in BC for in 2026/27. Write one here:
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
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Demand Novavax access in BC
Despite Health Canada recently approving the updated Novavax vaccine to protect against COVID-19, the federal government refused to order any, citing "low demand" which we know is false. However, indi...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-novavax-access-in-bc-for-2026-27?source=bluesky&
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Timeline cleanse because we all need it. (sorry its not a cat!)
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Jonathan Schulman
5 days ago
The full dataset from Pew's 2025 Global Attitudes Survey is available for download! A great resource for anyone interested in public opinion that contains rich data from 25 countries.
www.pewresearch.org/dataset/spri...
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Spring 2025 Survey Data
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/spring-2025-survey-data/
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George Wallace
4 days ago
SPOILER 'LERT. The ones protecting pedos are the bad guys and whatnot.
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George Wallace
4 days ago
SPOILER 'LERT. The ones pulling the stories of minorities from museums are the bad guys and whatnot.
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George Wallace
4 days ago
SPOILER 'LERT. The ones scheming $4-billion off the American Presidency are the bad guys and whatnot.
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Pat Bagley
5 days ago
The GOP liars are trying to frame moving the Forest Service to SLC as “streamlining” government. Bullshit. Republicans are NEVER about improving government services. They are ALWAYS about selling off our birthright to their rich donor asshole buddies I am incandescent with rage
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Who else needed this?? 👋👋👋
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4 days ago
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Sarah Sweet
5 days ago
NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.
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What? What was the point of all of this loss of life, security & reputation?
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John Rogers
6 days ago
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
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Michael Geist
6 days ago
The government is back with another political party privacy law. After the Bill C-4 debacle, Bill C-25 is supposed to provide real protection. But reality is that with major omissions and weak enforcement, parties will still not be subject to a serious privacy law
www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/stil...
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Still Not a Privacy Law: Bill C-25’s Political Party Privacy Provisions Fall Short Again - Michael Geist
The government’s treatment of political party privacy has been one of the most dispiriting digital policy stories in recent memory. Last year, it buried political party privacy provisions in Bill C-4, an “affordability measures” bill, that required far less of political parties than of virtually any other type of organization in Canada. The rules were designed primarily to shut down litigation in British Columbia that opened the door to applying the provincial privacy law to federal political parties. Bill C-4 ensured that provincial law would not apply and, for good measure, added a clause making the new rule retroactive to the year 2000. The Senate found the bill so outrageous that it sent it back to the House with a sunset clause that would give the government three years to develop something better. But the government rejected that too and rushed the bill to royal assent in a matter of hours with virtually no debate. Two weeks later, the government introduced Bill C-25, an Elections Act reform bill that includes updated privacy provisions for political parties and which dropped just before Parliament took a holiday break.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/still-not-a-privacy-law-bill-c-25s-political-party-privacy-provisions-fall-short-again/
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Luke LeBrun
6 days ago
“Let those truckers roll 10-4” Liberal MP Marilyn Gladu promoted the Freedom Convoy’s GoFundMe fundraising campaign in the lead-up to the occupation of Ottawa
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Internet Archive
7 days ago
🇨🇦 Canada’s Council of Prairie & Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) has joined a global movement to protect digital rights for libraries, archives & museums supporting access, preservation & heritage online.📚 Learn more ⤵️
internetarchivecanada.org/2026/04/07/c...
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Gerald Butts
7 days ago
The Economist was right on the nose this week.
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The Tyee
7 days ago
Tuesday brought back ugly memories of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when it felt we were hours away from an all-out nuclear war. This time, though, we weren’t immediate targets. Instead, we were watching Trump threaten to kill a civilization.
@crof.bsky.social
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Trump’s Ceasefire Won’t End in Peace | The Tyee
His recent threat to obliterate Iran was only a more dramatic version of his normal international deal-making.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/04/08/Trump-Ceasefire-Wont-End-in-Peace/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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Anonymous
7 days ago
Russia continues to launch waves of terrorist attacks against Ukraine, on April 4–5 alone, 93 drones targeted residential areas including Odesa. Russia willingly strikes civilians in a psychotic symphony of death and destruction as revenge for its battlefield impotence.
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Charlie Angus
8 days ago
What is frightening about this moment in history isn't the madman with the nuclear codes threatening to destroy a civilization but the failure of the political, legal, media, business establishment to stop him. I was a witness when the monster took the stage. My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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When the Monster Took the Stage
Tonight the world stands frozen as the madman with the nuclear codes brags that destroying a civilization is how to negotiate with an adversary.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-193519955
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Senator Ron Wyden
8 days ago
Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office. Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.
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Hayes Brown
8 days ago
the psychic damage of being online and aware this morning is staggering
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The Tyee
8 days ago
In a time when nations are toppling into authoritarianism or outright fascism, Canadians should be checking the health of our own democracy.
@crof.bsky.social
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#canpoli
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How Does Canada’s Level of Democracy Stack Up Globally? | The Tyee
Swedish governance experts offer a road map to stronger civic engagement, if we want it.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/04/06/How-Canada-Democracy-Stacks-Up-Globally/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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Alberta sets stage for takeover of libraries: Bill 28 expands ministerial power and wrests control from local directors
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Bill 28 puts Alberta libraries at risk of government censorship
Now all of that is threatened by the Government’s proposed amendments to the Libraries Act.
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-bill-28-puts-alberta-libraries-at-risk-of-government-censorship
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The Tennessee Holler
8 days ago
“Worse than Nixon”
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Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now!
8 days ago
I just called my (R) congressman and spoke to a staffer. Please do the same if you can.
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Aaron Rupar
9 days ago
“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”
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The man who watches Trump all day, every day
Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences. He says it’s ‘pretty bleak’
https://www.thetimes.com/article/dd968023-2bcf-42e9-9433-d315c60c476a?shareToken=268eae9758a25bba5da53bfe44346e21
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James R Jacobs
9 days ago
Sign on today to the Preservation of Government Information call to action! This manifesto/call to action grew out of last month's Information Stewardship Forum hosted by
@archive.org
publicinformationtrust.org
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Preservation of Government Information: An Information Stewardship Call to Action
Endorse the call to action to preserve U.S. government information. For libraries, archives, and information professionals.
https://publicinformationtrust.org/
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Mike Sowden
9 days ago
I don't want to sound too excitable, but right now, ACTUAL PEOPLE are going round the ACTUAL MOON - for the first time in my own lifetime. This is not a story, and this is not a drill. We are all here, looking up together as this happens. 🫵 🤝🫶
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Aaron Rupar
10 days ago
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Al Jazeera English
10 days ago
Earth in rear-view of Artemis II astronauts
https://aje.news/91iiv8
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Is it just me or do the headshot pics of baseball players—PARTICULARLY the White Sox—make them all look like thumbs?
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Best Stat Trek crew. Wrong answers only
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Don Davies
11 days ago
This was allowed to happen by centrist and right-wing governments in power over the last four decades. And only political parties representing working people will do anything about it.
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