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@heyitscrystal.bsky.social
Usually using these kinds of socials to check in on my community (Ottawa), country (🇨🇦) and other weird stuff.
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improve your mental health with this one easy trick:
try to stop caring about things out of your control
try to stop caring about things out of your control
September 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
improve your mental health with this one easy trick:
try to stop caring about things out of your control
try to stop caring about things out of your control
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Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke is concerned employees are sending too many long-winded AI-generated emails, forcing recipients to waste valuable time using AI to summarize them
September 18, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke is concerned employees are sending too many long-winded AI-generated emails, forcing recipients to waste valuable time using AI to summarize them
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I'm old enough to remember when Keean Bexte, co-founder of Juno News, did exactly this when he invented a reporter, used an AI-generated headshot, and used the hiring of that "reporter" to fundraise from his readers
‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
www.cbc.ca
September 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Keean Bexte, co-founder of Juno News, did exactly this when he invented a reporter, used an AI-generated headshot, and used the hiring of that "reporter" to fundraise from his readers
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[clears throat] If you all think Meta didn’t know exactly what they were doing when they chose Bowie’s Five Years for their “everything’s fine” AI ad then you’re likely not equipped to get in a slap fight with those facetious little fucks. Don’t mistake targeted calculated insincerity for stupidity.
September 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
[clears throat] If you all think Meta didn’t know exactly what they were doing when they chose Bowie’s Five Years for their “everything’s fine” AI ad then you’re likely not equipped to get in a slap fight with those facetious little fucks. Don’t mistake targeted calculated insincerity for stupidity.
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Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.
September 14, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.
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Such awful reporting--the Smithsonian charter, which dates to the 1840s, is designed to prevent the sort of political meddling that Trump is now attempting.
September 13, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Such awful reporting--the Smithsonian charter, which dates to the 1840s, is designed to prevent the sort of political meddling that Trump is now attempting.
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Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
September 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
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Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection
The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
September 7, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection
The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
September 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
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Environmental groups say there’s a reason why the federal government quietly released its latest climate report, which finds that average temperatures in Canada are set to go up by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century.
Carney government accused of burying climate report warning of worsening impacts
The report, which analyzes the impacts of climate change in Canada, was posted to a government website with no fanfare on Thursday evening ahead of the Labour Day long weekend.
www.nationalobserver.com
September 4, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Environmental groups say there’s a reason why the federal government quietly released its latest climate report, which finds that average temperatures in Canada are set to go up by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century.
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Public consultation now open on proposed eastern Ottawa-Gatineau bridge
Public consultation now open on proposed eastern Ottawa-Gatineau bridge
The public can now have their say on a proposed new bridge to link Ottawa and Gatineau, as federal officials begin the next stage of planning for the debated Eastern Bridge Project.
bit.ly
September 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Public consultation now open on proposed eastern Ottawa-Gatineau bridge
If my insomnia comes back I'm going to have the biggest ever crash out.
August 30, 2026 at 5:31 AM
If my insomnia comes back I'm going to have the biggest ever crash out.
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Today marks the 55th anniversary of the We Demand Rally, a landmark demonstration in the history of gay rights in Canada.
Learn more about 2SLGBTQIA+ people and history in Canada with our new research guide:
Link: www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
Learn more about 2SLGBTQIA+ people and history in Canada with our new research guide:
Link: www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
August 28, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Today marks the 55th anniversary of the We Demand Rally, a landmark demonstration in the history of gay rights in Canada.
Learn more about 2SLGBTQIA+ people and history in Canada with our new research guide:
Link: www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
Learn more about 2SLGBTQIA+ people and history in Canada with our new research guide:
Link: www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
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Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
August 26, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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people barely caught their breath
August 26, 2026 at 4:06 PM
people barely caught their breath
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the backache will continue until posture improves
August 26, 2026 at 2:13 AM
the backache will continue until posture improves
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as a big boobs and good morals haver i think i speak for all if us when i say we will miss our leader
August 25, 2026 at 7:23 PM
as a big boobs and good morals haver i think i speak for all if us when i say we will miss our leader
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You have to be a better reader than a lot of people are lately to glean from this article the extent to which Finland's housing-first policy was wildly successful until a racist right-wing government derailed it by gutting funding and services. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures?
The Housing First policy led to the number of homeless people in Finland dropping by half. Those with firsthand experience explain why it worked
www.theguardian.com
August 23, 2026 at 1:12 PM
You have to be a better reader than a lot of people are lately to glean from this article the extent to which Finland's housing-first policy was wildly successful until a racist right-wing government derailed it by gutting funding and services. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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"PSAC says 71 per cent of the 14,000 PSAC members who have received workforce adjustment letters are women."
Union calls on federal government to release equity data on public service job cuts
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) is calling on the federal government to halt workforce adjustments in the public service, saying the job cuts are disproportionately harming women.
www.ctvnews.ca
August 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM
"PSAC says 71 per cent of the 14,000 PSAC members who have received workforce adjustment letters are women."
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The simple reality is that the turn to 'forced addition treatment' is motivated by any concern for health and well-being but by a desire to drive inconvenient social problems from sight.
www.sudbury.com/local-news/f...
www.sudbury.com/local-news/f...
Forced addiction treatment ‘extremely dangerous and problematic’, groups say
Not only that, a community coalition says in a joint letter that research shows forced treatment rarely works, that police are not health care professionals able to diagnose a person’s needs and Ontar...
www.sudbury.com
August 21, 2026 at 12:42 PM
The simple reality is that the turn to 'forced addition treatment' is motivated by any concern for health and well-being but by a desire to drive inconvenient social problems from sight.
www.sudbury.com/local-news/f...
www.sudbury.com/local-news/f...
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TL:DR
Kept some, many are “kept” if the spin is accepted; many are not.
IMHO, the important ones like transit, environmental (inc trees) and overall quality of life haven’t been met. My life, and my local business opp, aren’t better today than 4y ago bc of Mark 1/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Kept some, many are “kept” if the spin is accepted; many are not.
IMHO, the important ones like transit, environmental (inc trees) and overall quality of life haven’t been met. My life, and my local business opp, aren’t better today than 4y ago bc of Mark 1/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Has Mark Sutcliffe kept the promises he made 4 years ago? | CBC News
As the incumbent mayor runs for re-election, CBC looks at whether he followed through on more than 170 commitments he made during his first campaign.
www.cbc.ca
August 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM
TL:DR
Kept some, many are “kept” if the spin is accepted; many are not.
IMHO, the important ones like transit, environmental (inc trees) and overall quality of life haven’t been met. My life, and my local business opp, aren’t better today than 4y ago bc of Mark 1/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Kept some, many are “kept” if the spin is accepted; many are not.
IMHO, the important ones like transit, environmental (inc trees) and overall quality of life haven’t been met. My life, and my local business opp, aren’t better today than 4y ago bc of Mark 1/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Author Chelsea Vowel admits that on the strength of the five years of “difficult conversations” that followed the TRC report, she 'probably naively' hoped that settler and newcomer knowledge about Indigenous Peoples would be further along than it is.
Indigenous issues should be deeper by now, but myths and stereotypes persist
Indigenous issues should be deeper by now says the author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada
www.aptnnews.ca
August 18, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Author Chelsea Vowel admits that on the strength of the five years of “difficult conversations” that followed the TRC report, she 'probably naively' hoped that settler and newcomer knowledge about Indigenous Peoples would be further along than it is.