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🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 filmmaker. protect🏳️‍⚧️youth. accessibility, harm reduction, equity. do what you can w/ what you have. 😷 Recent: Innovator in Residence @ Toronto Ref Library Less recent: field producer - The Agenda - TVO www.lizwhitmere.com Signal: @hello.694
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New: My dispatch from the hottest club in New York City on Friday — the Luigi Mangione hearing. Truly one of the most fascinating scenes I’ve ever witnessed. With illustrations from inside the courtroom by the great Molly Crabapple www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

What the hell @ianhanomansing.bsky.social I don't care that you reworded the question, this whole episode is an embarrassment to the CBC and to Canada.

@ianhanomansing.bsky.social why are you inviting an American on to discuss how Canadians feel about our sovereignty being threatened? Also, how is this in any way CanCon?

Sounds interesting to me! I'm in.

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

Time to call Doug Ford’s office again, cite this as (yet another) reason to tear up that stupid Starlink contract. 416-325-1941

It's been so run through pop culture as to seem almost corny, but I need you all to understand with the deepest seriousness available to you that the "First they came for..." thing was to prepare you for this exact moment

The thing about firing a lot of experts is they don’t stop being experts. And now they’re mad experts, so. www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

This is the way

PORTLAND: Tesla will be exhibiting vehicles at the Oregon International Auto Show, starting today and running through the end of the weekend. People use this event to survey the market for new vehicles ahead of purchasing, so it's an ideal place to interrupt potential new Tesla sales. #TeslaTakedown

Broken Chairs, Duct-taped Tiles, Strained Teachers: Ontario's Schools Today Doug Ford cut public education funding by $1,500 per student. Parents say the decline in education quality is alarming. By Saima Desai, in our snap election issue. www.thegrindmag.ca/broken-chair...

Keep it going! Huge numbers don't matter, getting out into the street and being heard matters and we're being heard around the world! Join at TeslaTakedown.com #TeslaTakedown

Say the words, you cowards.

This is a pretty clear-eyed take.

baby are you ai because i didn’t invite you and no one knows how to get you to leave

"But the government won't reveal the full cost." That's tens of millions of our dollars that Doug Ford is spending supporting Fox News and Sean Hannity. Source - The Globe and Mail #VoteFordOut

vote vote vote!

A free virtual screening, and you support an indie movie too. Lovely.

@simonbrew.bsky.social is kind and also good.

Today is the Day of Remembrance, the 83rd anniversary of the forced removal of 120,000 people of Japanese descent to American concentration camps. American soldiers physically tortured and murdered Japanese Americans in these camps. Their money, homes, businesses, and wealth were stolen.

Squad goals. More in alt text.

Like horror movies? Enjoy a bit of dream logic/dark comedy? Ever been misdiagnosed? Feel like everything is falling apart? Stars: Melanie Scrofano, Peter Keleghan, Sean Baek Free virtual screening 🎥 & Q&A Feb 25th at 7pm EST. Register: www.lizwhitmere.com/contact (there might be a blooper reel)

This is such a crucial point, and it looks like a huge number of people just don’t see it.

Good.

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

hey @alexwinter.com, know anybody who might be into this?

A year ago today, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) embarked on an ambitious project in collaboration with us - Internet Archive Canada (IAC)- to digitize a collection of up to 80,000 out-of-copyright publications: library-archives.canada.ca/eng/corporat...

Seriously. Ditch shopify. Do you have an e-commerce presence? There have GOT to be better alternatives. Please. Come on, everybody.

Hello Microsoft/Office 365 personal users! Did you know MS increased the cost of your subscription while 'including AI'? From 9.99 to 12.99 a month (or $99 to $129 annually)? It's a scam by Microsoft to try and inflate Copilot (and its revenue).