Piers Hollott 🇨🇦

I always pray to St. Giada because she is Bene Gesserit

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

1/ Three weeks ago Lula trailed by 2.2 million votes. Yesterday he won Brazil's presidency, the first runoff comeback in its history. Part of why: 10 million everyday supporters on one WhatsApp channel, each handed a job to do. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Add one more. The beginning of the end. bsky.app/profile/meid...

The people of Serbia celebrating the defeat of the dictator who held full authoritarian control of their country for nearly 14 years. This is what democracy looks like.

I just signed a petition to stop Big Oil killing cleaner flights. Planes can already fly on cleaner fuel made from waste, and the EU has a law to make it happen. But the oil giants like BP and Shell are lobbying to kill it. Add your name now: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09...

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

I spent all day writing the thread in my head about how Bolsonaro's win was the culmination of a 20-year project to end Brazilian democracy, with the participation of both domestic elites and foreign actors like the US state department and Meta. This is all true, of course, except he didn't win.

Huge reason — probably? — for the big swing of seats in the #BCElection: Absolutely abysmal 48% turnout. Possibly lowest ever. This was not a giant wave of enthusiastic change makers. This was more like a very tired and possibly cynical shrug… #BCPoli #Democracy

Here is the full post-election night speech by Emily Lowan. This is the change we need in BC. #bcpoli (I didn't get to see it live because Chek News cut it short and then Rob Shaw threw a temper tantrum and trashed the Greens.) www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

If we had three months for provincial elections would be harder for candidates like Lorne Doerkson, to hide from media scrutiny It was absolutely cowardly that he was terrified of follow up questions & banned them. Authoritarian like #skinnyTrump and anti-democratic We need more debates #bcpoli

Voter turnout numbers in BC are incredibly disappointing. Mirrors what we're dealing with in Ontario. We need electoral system reform, so people feel their vote will count. We also might need to make it compulsory. :/ #bcpoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

Sanewashing BC Cons as "folksy," rather than a party of conspiracy theorists & bigots is a big reason they have a majority gov't tonight. BC Cons have denied climate change, talked of chem trails, trans kids, and the holocaust. This is who they are. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #BCelxn #vanpoli #SurreyBC

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

I voted @bcgreens.bsky.social because I do #BelieveInBetter and this is the ONLY party that has an ACTUAL plan that MAKES SENSE in #bcPoli

Ted Cruz: “right now, if you’re a left-wing transgender witch, you hate Donald Trump almost as much as I love stepmon porn…”

Only the BC Greens have an AI policy that puts people, British Columbians, and their communities first. Regulations to protect people's interests must come first, before any more data centres are built and communities must have the final say. #VoteGreen www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

You cannot convince me that frat brothers organically walked into separate police interviews using the same word, “consensual,” and that it wasn’t coordinated. Especially after a witness told police there was allegedly a fraternity meeting to get everyone “on the same page”.

First Nations children are still waiting for safe schools, clean water, adequate housing and equitable services. Meanwhile, Canada somehow finds urgency when the “national interest” is pipelines, mines and major projects. Reconciliation has to mean more than wearing orange once a year. 🧡

i genuinely forgot how bad this was

Rebel Spirit Season 2 is up for a Signal award in the "Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact" category and I would LOVE if you would vote for @akilahhughes.com and me! vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

This is the absolute, unshakable truth.

Like CATS? Like SPACE? Like MECHS? Like SHOOTING STUFF. Like QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ETHICS OF CONSENT IN UPLIFTING ANIMALS AND ALSO THE HEALING OF TRAUMA THROUGH KINDNESS Then, my friend, put the 6TH OF OCTOBER in your diary. Audio and EBOOK release of BEASTS OF THE WILD BLACK. (Tell everyone.)

Wish people understood how brutal ICE is in Austin lately beyond the shooting. You don't see as much viral footage because Texas State Troopers (being the state capital puts a bunch of Greg Abbott's faithful piggies here) are quietly pulling brown drivers over and then calling ICE to come get them

A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S.

ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.

• Tom Waits voices Eyera • Scarlett Johansson, who once made a Waits covers LP, voices Venus Nova • Venus Nova’s songs are by Kimbra • Brad Bird’s story was inspired by B-52s’ “Planet Claire” • Sneaker Pimps get trailerized • This is not ‘Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly,’ another new Netflix film

Keep 'em coming "Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday, more than a year after a jury found the former Hollywood mogul guilty of sexually assaulting former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam Haley in a high-stakes retrial."

All concerns about casting aside, after reading this I am so into this movie now.

As always, I like to make brews for the upcoming streamer event for Reality Fracture this Wednesday. As always, thanks to @mtgarena.com for inviting me and allowing me to do silly brews. I post lists I plan to try out during the event as I brew them in this thread. #MTGFracture

Really looking forward to early access streams for this set. So far, the release timing of story spotlights, spoiler cards, and the story itself has been perfect, building up a ton of excitement.

WILBUR WAS SHOT IN THE BACK BY ICE. NOW HIS ATTORNEY SAYS HE HAS LEFT SIDED PARALYSIS Wilber Garces Perez’s attorney alleges he was removed from a car by ICE (not with spinal precautions), treated at the hospital for only

Imagine if all the evidence for climate change was "a bunch of guys on a website thought very hard about it and agreed it was very bad and might happen" instead of empiricism.

AI made up indigenous journalists www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ICE has been detaining a record number of pregnant women since Donald Trump’s return to office. According to records obtained by The Guardian, the agency also "lost count” of miscarriages suffered by women held in detention almost a year ago. youtu.be/bR3xgS0XMos?...

The only thing out of Dems’ mouths for the next six weeks should be: Donald Trump single-handedly drove up gas prices by starting a senseless war, and it will only get worse if you re-elect Republicans

Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia.

Industrial fishing for fishmeal has devastated sardinella stocks off Guinea-Bissau, threatening local food security. An @occrp.org report links Chinese factory ships and Turkish fleets to the collapse, prompting the government to ban fishmeal production to safeguard community diets.