Ian Capstick
@iancapstick.bsky.social
Ethical tech exec, certified horticulturist and quilter. Queer. Likely topics: social justice, Indigenous rights, sewing, theme parks and gardens.🌱 Happy to help you & your plants, open for horticultural info/help by message or DM!
Absolute icon. apnews.com/article/juer...
Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...
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Oh Canada? Are any of our officials doing the same?
Tony Vaughan KC MP@tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social · 7mo agoI am leaving X. The app is capable of creating pornographic images of children, there is absolutely no question: I cannot, in good conscience, remain on the platform. Follow me on Instagram: @ tonyvaughanmp Follow me on Bluesky: @ tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social Follow me on Facbook: Tonyvaughanlabour
He should keep the word queer out of his transphobic mouth.
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 8mo agoWhat even is the punchline of this “joke”? Queer people and Palestinians are “crazy”? “I hear that the NDP actually rejected having Guilbault join their caucus, what an ego blow … Steven Guilbeault’s brand of crazy would fit in right between the delegation of furries and queers for Palestine.”
Circle 6 (Bee Works). Honeybees, resin on panel, 2014. I arranged thousands of dead honey bees in symbolic patterns to bring awareness to the plight of worldwide honey bee decline. www.sarahhattonartist.com/bees #bees #sciart #canadianart #artists #savethebees #CanadaSky 🇨🇦
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
So I'm just catching up on things, you're telling me that the guy who has had literally one job in his entire life - federal MP - just up and forgot to move the most important amendment the opposition leader moves? Yeah, Pierre Poilievre won't be leader long. He's rattled.
If you are posting on or engaging with content on X, you are working as a volunteer laborer helping this specific man earn money and political influence. Any person, group or organisation that is still there and helping keep you there: you have to make them get out, not give them reason to stay
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9mo agoElon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits" "And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids" "This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
Also symbolic of how they treat artists in Ottawa: Imagine what the $4M would have bought in local art, displayed at a human scale throughout the area. Oh and this outcome was predicted at the time by artists in Ottawa.
David Reevely@davidreevely.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe contempt the city has shown for this expensive and genuinely impressive piece of art it bought and proudly installed is just perfectly symbolic of how it treats both the public realm and its own investments. ottawacitizen.com/news/artist-...
100% your fault if you misfile your taxes though 🤪
Lucy@lucycappiello.bsky.social · 10mo ago"The Canada Revenue Agency’s contact centres provided accurate responses to questions about individuals' taxes only 17 per cent of the time between February and May 2025, the federal auditor general said in a report released Tuesday." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/cra...
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
Montréal this weekend: 2 major bridges closed, tunnel closed, 30K marathon runners blocking streets, and Monday impeding transit strike + trucker protests slowing traffic from 5-9am. Finally going to try that café 10 min from my house I've never been to 😂 #ClassicMontreal
We all breathed a sigh of relief when the country rejected the Maple MAGA politics of Pierre Poilievre. So why does this bill feel like it was written by him? This divisive piece of legislation has already passed its second reading—we need to voice our concerns NOW. act.gp/4mmDEG0
Tell Carney: We don’t want Trump-style borders & surveillance state!
Sign this petition to defend our human rights and privacy
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Says the guy who single handedly moved the Overton window in Canadian politics *to the right* in his tenure as the social democratic leader?! That's a bit rich. Oh no wait: the rich is ... who Tom catered to as leader, business elites and Outremont snobs. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Tom Mulcair: Mark Carney’s Liberals are swinging right with no guardrail left
In the Jack Layton era, the NDP saw itself as the ‘conscience of Parliament.’ Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair says that conscience is mostly a memory now; and the Liberals are having a 'grand old time ...
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BWI has an art display that celebrates America’s earliest civil rights leaders. I found this quilt pretty amazing. It celebrates Frederick Douglass and more.
This is a really,really big deal: and puts into snap focus how devastating the cuts to the global fight against AIDS are.
WIRED@wired.com · last yr.Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
Hello Halifax! Your local library now has two copies of my book! Go check it out, literally
This is a useful provocation. Doxxing actions taking collectively should be about abuses of power and real infliction of harm in a social context, not just what's unpopular (or, let's be real, entertaining) to a bunch of folks online.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last yr.The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive" www.404media.co/the-astronom...
"It would generate a total of 650 megawatts of on-site natural gas power, with a grid backup, as required by the Alberta Energy Systems Operator." It's not a great location for a sovereign data center, it sounds like just an excuse to develop more natural gas extraction 🤷 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Indigenous-led data centre in Alberta slated for development amid AI infrastructure boom | CBC News
Woodland Cree First Nation is in the process of acquiring an abandoned power plant site for its data centre. If successful, it would be one of the first Indigenous-led data centres in the province.
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I asked PCO about media for PM Carney's summit with First Nations. I was told: "Information regarding media access, if any, will be communicated in due course." So, no public access & no media access planned yet from the government. But chiefs? They want to talk. # Indigenous #cdnpoli.
"The majority of Canadians, the poll found, go between 10 and 15 per cent." Pardon me!? Folks are really out there tipping this little? 😳
Toula Drimonis@mtltoula.bsky.social · last yr.Well that's very cool: Montreal's Aire commune helping Ottawa making better use of their urban space! Bravo! @arieltroster.com
Ariel Troster@arieltroster.com · last yr.This summer, we are bringing more places for people to Centretown. The City of Ottawa and the Centretown BIA worked together to create and program three new Uncommon Spaces on Frank, Florence and MacLaren.
4/Reminder: human rights are equal and indivisible. That includes freedom of speech. The censorship of @abeba.bsky.social for calling out Big Tech’s role in war and genocide, gave me the serious ick. That silenceing speaks volumes. 😒 genevasolutions.news/science-tech...
UN AI summit accused of censoring criticism of Israel and big tech over Gaza war - Geneva Solutions
A prominent AI scientist says she was pressured by the organisers of the UN’s flagship conference on AI to censor parts of her presentation that criticised Israel over its war in Gaza and the role of tech giants – hours before taking the stage.
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Early summer check in! How are your gardens coming along? Let me know if you've got questions, pests, problems or want to update me on something we worked on? 🌱 Send an image, detailed description or questions and I can lend a hand... #gardening #garden
Ian Capstick@iancapstick.bsky.social · 3y agoHey plant lovers! If you're looking for some advice, need pest help or otherwise just want a garden design pick me up? Get at me! 20+ years of gardening and I just recently wrapped up all my formal horticulture classes, and love to help folks! 🌱
Scenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon until Oct. 12. “We’ve been colonized by condiments.”
As I get older, I become increasingly convinced that we should replace measuring GDP per capita with a robust quarterly "how are the vibes?" survey.
All flourishing is mutual. -Robin Wall Kimmerer #quiltynook #applique #bannermaking #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #robinwallkimmerer
A former deputy PM. A $2B pandemic federal contract. And a courtroom battle over alleged unregistered lobbying. My latest for the IJF:
Investigative Journalism Foundation@theijf.org · last yr.Former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps says her firm, Medipro Canada, is owed tens of millions of dollars for helping a medical equipment company win federal contracts during the pandemic. theijf.org/former-deput...
