#ShowMeYourKnits Current WIP is a keffiyeh-patterned scarf for a dear friend who’s “not made for the cold”, lol. It’s double-knit, so the backside is opposite to the front.
Sharon (she/her) 🇵🇸🧶🐈
@shroon7.bsky.social
Masked Blood Banker~Mom~Wife~Knitter~Cat Enthusiast~Harm Reduction~Trans rights=human rights~Land Back~Free 🇵🇸 . She/Her *Salty Language* Profile: A woman with long grey/brown hair and glasses wears a keffiyeh and smiles. Banner: Closeup of Anderson Tartan
Looking at you, Edmonton/#yeg. The amount spent on policing is far more money than is required to house people & provide robust wraparound services, to boot. Choosing deliberate, unaccountable cruelty to the most vulnerable requires choosing the outcomes of that cruelty. Fix your fuckin' hearts.
David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 10h agoA reminder that all the aspects of our economic system are made up and we can have a better system if we wanted to. Homelessness for example. We could have an economy that builds homes for homeless people. It does not have to be this way.
Every time I don’t think EPS could possibly go any lower…🤬 #yeg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Edmonton Police Service asks court to order homeless man to pay $8,400 before proceeding with lawsuit | CBC News
A man experiencing homelessness who is suing the Edmonton Police Service is facing a new hurdle after EPS applied for an order requiring him to pay $8,400 in security for costs.
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Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
The human heart is The size of a Fist Clenched. Indefatigable, and infallible On pain of death. And yet it skips At the most curious Times, To remind us of its finite Beats. And perhaps to attend us To use them both wisely And with abandon. - Darren Markland
I've been using the term climate villain. Because denial is simply not a strong enough word to describe what he's doing. It's an existential threat to our grandchildren. It's villainy.
Seth Klein@sethdklein.bsky.social · 2d agoMy latest column is out today in @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy, in which I explain how the “new climate denialism” is holding back progress in the fight of our lives, and how PM Mark Carney has become its lead practitioner. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/25/o...
Can someone in the media please ask our Minister of AI why a technology that tells kids how to commit mass violence is something we need in schools? www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Illiberal perversion of 'secularism' (i.e., not secularism but merely forced irreligion viciously attacking minorities). And cowardly federal politicians won't even speak out against it.
Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d agotoday in Stop Romanticizing Canada: Quebec’s Bill 9 has just taken effect, barring women in veils from receiving public services. Public employees include university faculty, so professors have been instructed to require veiled women to uncover their faces or be removed from the classroom.
Although Policy Options published an article from an author with an apparently AI-generated headshot and whose articles sound like they were also generated by AI, I appreciate their transparency here and also sharing additional details about the deceptive behaviour of this "Daniel Robson" character
Les Perreaux@perreaux.bsky.social · 3d agoA cautionary tale for my editor friends (and probably many others in this new world.) Why Policy Options removed an article published under the name Daniel Robson policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/09/dani...
Canada sits for a war criminal. Disgraceful.
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2d agoCanada continues to be shameful on this issue.
I don't know what Procurement & Logistics are, which already shows that Aaron is smarter than me, but he is a fine human and would undoubtedly make your company's Procurement & Logistics dept much stronger and more efficient, so get in touch with him already!
Aaron feat. Nelson the dog 🇨🇦@crabbycrab.bsky.social · last mo.I'm a Procurement and Logistics professional in Edmonton, Alberta. If you know of a good work opportunity with a positive, professional and supportive organization, please help me get in contact with them. My DMs are open for this purpose.
Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that
In Alberta, operating rooms are not funded to run evenings or weekends. But please, tell us more about how funding private surgeries is supposed to address wait times.
My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social · 3d ago“What we’ve seen is a systematic bias against properly maintaining and funding our public health-care system and our public hospital system in favour of funding and supporting and encouraging the emergence of health care as a private business." #OnPoli #OnHealth
"We have problems, but these changes are not going to fix them for the public system,” he said. "So the only ones benefiting are the chartered surgical facilities, investors and then the insurance industry.” The purpose of a system is what it does. - Stafford Beers
Heme Doc@labsandmabs.bsky.social · 3d agoAll my life, the wait times argument has been used to push privatization. And all my life, reporters have just accepted the government's framing. It's been 50 years. At what point do we start pointing out that these arguments are in bad faith?
Heme Doc@labsandmabs.bsky.social · 3d ago
"I was pushed to be self-sufficient" = my father let me live with him Why are people so allergic to recognizing support they were given? I am proud of the ways I have worked hard but at the same time I can also acknowledge that I got a whole lot of family support that turned that hard work into more
Ximena González@ximenaka.bsky.social · 3d agoWhere this woman sees self-sufficiency, i see community. What do you see?
The Loose Ends Project matches volunteer finishers to complete knitting, crochet, embroidery, quilting & more projects left unfinished due to illness/death, helping preserve the maker’s legacy, and support grieving families, ensuring the original maker’s work is cherished and returned to loved ones.
No one should have this kind of money to anonymously donate.
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 4d agoPrincess Margaret hospital receives the largest donation for cancer care in Canadian history -- $100-million -- from an anonymous donor as it launches Carry the Fire, a $2.5 billion multi-year fundraising campaign. www.thestar.com/news/gta/pri... via @thestar.com @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social
“Hajdu says there are times in negotiations when employers or unions refuse to bargain in good faith and instead wait for the government to intervene.” Pretty much every time the government has intervened it has been because the employers are doing this. Both sidesing it is so fucking dishonest.
Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada [Unoff…@globalnews.ca.web.brid.gy · 4d ago
The UCP sent the referendum ballots to the US and let Americans assemble and mail the ballot packages to Albertans? Excuse me, wtf? #ableg #abpoli
Dragonlou 🍁 #ElbowsUp @dragonlou.bsky.social · 5d agoElections Alberta outsourced the physical printing and envelope assembly of its referendum mail-in ballot packages to a third-party commercial vendor operating in the United States.
Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...
Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia
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TW@twesq.bsky.social · 6d agothis is fantastic and I learned something new
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #abpoli This is not ok.
Alberta premier floats charging temporary residents $1,900 to access public health care | CBC News
The figure comes as Albertans will vote in the Oct. 19 referendum on charging certain non-permanent residents a "reasonable fee or premium" for access to Alberta's health care and education systems.
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We're arresting seniors wearing pictures of their grandchildren on behalf of the fossil fuel industry
Judy Trinh@judytrinh.bsky.social · 5d agoSeniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
Judy Trinh@judytrinh.bsky.social · 5d agoSeniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.