Schmutzie

Schmutzie

@schmutzie.com

They/them. I design & build websites. No AI. Also: writer/poet, playlist maker, softie, subject, boss. Saskatchewan, Canada. Posts past 7 days are deleted often. #Treaty4 #YQR #Sask Links: linktr.ee/schmutzie Playlists & blog: shiveryourtimbers.com

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Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

It's nearly 5pm, and I've been in Emergency since 11am. Don't worry your gorgeous heads, though. No one's treating me like I'm dying (yet haha) and my eyes are working in concert again instead of googling around in my head willy nilly. I will rise! (Or walk unaided again, either/or.)

Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

We got to the ER at 11am, and we're finally out of there at 8:45pm. I'm alive! And it turns out that I don't have stress damage on my heart, I don't show intestinal inflammation, and I've been loaded up with a litre of saline and excellent stomach acid defeaters. I'm a healthy recovering mystery.

Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

Am I highly sensitive to cinnamon, or is everyone actually intending to let cinnamon strong-arm every other flavour into submission under a very weird sweet top note in what are supposed to be savoury dishes? (I sound snarky, but I really want to know if people mean what I'm tasting.)

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Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

US powers are using AI like ChatGPT to break us down person by person. If you talk to it like a person? STOP RIGHT NOW. If you are not forced to use it for work, DON'T. It is literally a weapon waging war against individual autonomy. Paying them in attention or money to do it is deranged behaviour.

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AFA Nederland
@afa.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy

We wish the Brazilian people a lot of strength during these crucial elections. :solidarity: If #Bolsonaro wins, #fascism is not only given free rein in Latin America, but all over the world. But even then, fascism will not win. Never! And if #Lula wins, fascism is […] [Original post on todon.nl]

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Laura Bassett
@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

Am I highly sensitive to cinnamon, or is everyone actually intending to let cinnamon strong-arm every other flavour into submission under a very weird sweet top note in what are supposed to be savoury dishes? (I sound snarky, but I really want to know if people mean what I'm tasting.)

Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

I taste bitterness quite strongly, but I've learned to enjoy its background weirdness for the sake of having a broader diet. I've had no such adjustment luck with cinnamon, though. It's the bully of the spice world.

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Cult MTL
@cultmtl.com

The IDU is an international syndicate for far-right authoritarians, and Canada’s Conservative Party is actively aligned with it. Keeping membership in this organization is a direct betrayal of democratic values. An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.

cultmtl.comThe Conservative Party's membership in the IDU is a threat to Canadian democracyThe Conservative Party's continued membership in the IDU isn’t just a national embarrassment: it threatens Canadian democracy.
Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

I've largely been away from any sort of news for a few days, and catching up with The Horrors [sweeps arm over everything] has been a trip. I'm crawling back into my hidey hole for a bit longer.

Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

Okay, enough bombardments for today. I am at my parents-in-law's where there is a glorious shower situation of which I must avail myself. My home shower weeps for such glory.

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UBI Works
@ubiworks.bsky.social

AI is taking away the first rung of the career ladder. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warns that young graduates could be left with low-paying service jobs as AI disrupts traditional career paths.

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁
@fairvote.ca

Only 48% of BC voters supported the BC Conservatives, yet the voting system has handed Lorne Doerkson's Conservatives 69% of the seats and 100% of the power. READ MORE: www.fairvote.ca/25/10/2026/b... JOIN THE CAMPAIGN FOR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION: secure.fairvote.ca/en/action/de...

fairvote.caBC Conservatives receive 69% of the seats with 48% of the vote. BC voters cheated by first-past-the-post and pushed further towards a two-party system.Only 48% of BC voters supported the BC Conservatives, yet the voting system has handed Lorne Doerkson's Conservatives 69% of the seats and 100% of the power.

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Debbie Iron Bow
@ironbow.bsky.social

They are doing this for ultimate control. And it works. Its working for them right now. Yes, stop. You don't need it, you need connections to the lands, to life. 🪶

Schmutzie@schmutzie.com

US powers are using AI like ChatGPT to break us down person by person. If you talk to it like a person? STOP RIGHT NOW. If you are not forced to use it for work, DON'T. It is literally a weapon waging war against individual autonomy. Paying them in attention or money to do it is deranged behaviour.

Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

US powers are using AI like ChatGPT to break us down person by person. If you talk to it like a person? STOP RIGHT NOW. If you are not forced to use it for work, DON'T. It is literally a weapon waging war against individual autonomy. Paying them in attention or money to do it is deranged behaviour.

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Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

I know I'm posting a flood of Canadian political stuff this morning, but what the ever-loving hell is this godforsaken bullshit? #CdnPoli #CanPoli

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social

Here's what **Environment and Climate Change Canada** is posting as ads.

Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

This is literally a photo of water adjacent forest levelled and destroyed. Environment Canada is celebrating.

Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

If Carney were actually for a properly democratic Canada, he would break up foreign media ownership. A democracy must preserve at least its own news media from local to national newspapers, radio, and tv/video. Foreign control should never have been legal in the first place. #CdnPoli #CanPoli

Cult MTL@cultmtl.com

“The biggest lie in Canadian politics is that the mainstream media is ‘left-wing.’ Conservative-backed, U.S. hedge-fund-owned outlets dominate Canadian news and endorse the CPC election after election. “The media isn’t biased against Pierre Poilievre — it tried to get him elected.”

cultmtl.comObservations from MontrealAn ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

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troyliss
@troyliss.bsky.social

Feels relevant that EPS brass are getting training tips from IDF forces in the occupied West Bank.

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Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

#CdnPoli #CanPoli

The Walrus@thewalrus.ca

Is Canada heading for a major labour showdown? A new omnibus bill, C-39, aims to speed up projects. The catch? It would grant federal ministers unprecedented strike-breaking powers. Political scientist @David_Moscrop on the unions fighting back: thewalrus.ca/bill-c-39-mark-c...

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Anna Holmes
@annabookwriter.bsky.social

I have been seeing a lot of “if it’s on the internet, you should expect it to be scraped” posts lately, and as practical advice, sure. It is also thoroughly okay to be mad about this fact! We SHOULD be able to use devices and services without accidentally signing over souls.

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George Young
@vitageorge.bsky.social

While I have had many excellent pitches I am severely lacking in pitches from non-white people and I am very aware of that. I really really really want to elevate some non-white voices with this so I urge you to apply. Please please please.

George Young@vitageorge.bsky.social

📣Calling all women and femme writers📣 I am looking to commission around 10 heartfelt essays surrounding video game criticism. If this sounds like something you are down to do them read on and I urge you to apply. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

docs.google.comWomen-led book pitchHey women, femmes, and literary gems, First off, I'm George Young and I like video games. I like them so much I've turned writing about them into my career. While I love to write about them, I also l...
Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

The United States government gave him tons of money from Obama on, has done nothing to rein in his continual push against legal and ethical boundaries to accumulate global power, and now we're here, globally fucked by the US again.

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

SpaceX now launches about 90% of all mass sent into orbit, and the Pentagon is the biggest customer for Starshield, its military satellite network. Experts told Yahoo Finance that Elon Musk’s resources now rival that of most nations. Read more: https://yhoo.it/4BoBcaL

Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

Both sides of the US political aisle, Dems and Republicans, have been working towards this outcome for over a decade. THANK YOU SO MUCH, AMERICA.

Schmutzie
@schmutzie.com

Read about Musk's grandfather in Canada. The similarities with his grandson, Elon, go on and on.

Schmutzie@schmutzie.com

I know! "[He] embraced the solution proposed by a movement called Technocracy…" which began "pushing for the U.S. to take over Canada and Greenland 'either by purchase, negotiation or by force of arms.'" Their map is weirdly close to the present US takeover goals, huh? 😒 www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

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fairleyfindings.bsky.social
@fairleyfindings.bsky.social

How moe and smith get away with scapegoating immigrants after they initiated the process to bring in immigrants, asking federal government to support. Pay attention to their finances, because they have accumulated huge deficits and need to create distractions.

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