As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.
Liz Whitmere
@lizwhitmere.bsky.social
🇨🇦 I like making movies, I like taking pictures. You can find my photography/videography on instagram @LizWhitmere www.lizwhitmere.com Signal: @lizw.85
This looks like a really cool service for people who want to hire artists who don't use AI. Check it out! hirehumanartists.com
Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists
Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.
hirehumanartists.com
Seems like a great time to reduce canadian air travel competition and integrate with an American behemoth /s Feedback opportunity here on Air Canada bumping uglies with United Airlines: consultations.tc.canada.ca/en/consultat...
Public interest assessment on the proposed update to the joint venture between Air Canada and United Airlines
consultations.tc.canada.ca
URGENT: As you prepare to vote in your municipal elections, please don't skirt the SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE elections, even if you don't have children. Nowhere more than any other level, the schools board elections are targeted by far-right, anti-trans/anti-EDI lunatic candidates. Vote to keep them out!
All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.
“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems
Fun tool - lots on the 407, as expected: flockcameralocations.com/locations/ca...
Flock Camera Locations — Live Map of 150,000+ Flock Safety Cameras & ALPRs
Find Flock camera locations near you. A free, live map of Flock Safety cameras and automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the US, built on open, community-reported data.
flockcameralocations.com
my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
paidforby.info
I didn’t know this tool existed. A questionnaire to assess breast cancer risk: magview.com/ibis-risk-ca...
Tyrer-Cuzick Risk Calculator for Breast Cancer Risk Assessment | MagView
The Tyrer-Cuzick risk model or IBIS risk tool assesses a women’s 10 year and lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.
magview.com
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Who is protected by the destruction of Indian Residential School records?
“There’s not a single Indigenous person in Canada, who has not been touched by the legacy of Residential Schools.” - Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
contactingconnie.substack.com
I LOVE HIM
The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle
Hey friends, my film is playing @accesshorror.bsky.social! Some wonderful work in this programme.
Less than one week until “Cold” will be available as part of the 2026 Access:Horror Film Festival! Watch from anywhere, at any time, all October long. One $20 ticket grants you access to 19 films with audio descriptions PLUS filmmaker panels and Q&As. Tickets: accesshorror.filmchief.com/hub
I get the feeling that Meta tried SO HARD to make this mascot thing the cuddliest lil’ guy ever but all I see is an unholy amalgamation of the Snuggle fabric softener teddy bear & the Adipose Babies from Doctor Who. Its an echo of both but not either, and feels viscerally WRONG
I deactivated my facebook account a thousand years ago, but just officially deleted. Feels good. Please clap.
Shocker. “A much easier way to understand Meta's latest product is to think of it like every other Meta product: Completely useless unless you're a scammer.” tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/a...
Surprise, Meta's latest AI gimmick is just underpaid humans
Much like the rest of the AI industry, Meta is using human workers to make its AI agents look like magic.
tech.yahoo.com
Accidentally (I’m tired and not enunciating clearly) came up with the best name for a mechanic drag persona: Double-D 40
"I don't know my own address" is not the flex you think it is.
Periodically the quote “probable anagram Reince Priebus” pops into my head like an earworm
remember when there was a guy named reince priebus
About time. Sick of all the previous Godzilla movies where he’s wearing slacks.
'Godzilla Minus Zero' is officially Rated R First Godzilla film to ever receive an R rating
These accounts all post bona fide real cat content bsky.app/profile/cats...
This was unpinned for a month while I was doing my birthday fundraiser, but don't forget my starter pack of bluesky cat accounts run by real people who use ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN
“This bill explicitly gives government the power to end legal strikes when a minister decides that a strike is or could become contrary to the national interest — and the national interest is defined solely by the opinion of the minister,” warns top labour leader Bea Bruske. Holy shit. This is bad.
In classic fashion, I noted a post on here about an ios launch of a bsky app that allows one to remove one's posting history easily? But now can't find it. Of course I cannot remember the name of the damn tool.* *title of my autobiography
Arrested for trespassing? In a publicly accessible part of Parliament Hill? For a passive protest? I think we need an explanation here.
Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.
the footage of the president speaking at a news conference and you can't hear him because it's the press he banned who bring the sound equipment is too on the damn nose because guess what we wouldn't have if people hadn't kept insisting on handing this asshole a microphone over & over & over again
Jack Haven is a vital part of one of this year’s best films. And they’re in need of some help. The film industry, man… www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqB5...
Are You Casting?
YouTube video by Jack Haven
youtube.com