Trevor Bennett
Trevor Bennett
@tgabben.me
🇨🇦 Newfoundland expat living in Halifax, NS. Devoted partner & pet parent. Autistic | Secular humanist | Teetotaller | Cookery nerd | Knits, apparently? He/him | Progressive Leftist | Anti-fascist | 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
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purdy presumably thinks that if you want to ride a bike and not die, the onus is entirely on you to just work harder to not die. GO GET ANOTHER JOB ABOUT IT, YOU LAZY BUM.
Fillmore and Austin are having a back and forth on the “circles” everyone is going on bike lane debates. Coun. Trish Purdy said she won’t support the deferral either.
mayor andy fillmore wants to have the old picture of him riding a bike and eat it, too. mayor andy fillmore is unfamiliar with the old 'faster, cheaper, better' approach, and thinks so little of the taxpayers of the municipality that he thinks everyone will shut up if he puts some paint down.
Mayor Andy Fillmore said he wants to complete the bike lane network as quickly as possible and with more savings. Fillmore said he’s voting against referring the reports to the committee.
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Alberta's Conservative leaders/leadership should read this. #abpoli open.substack.com/pub/theline/...
I'm not saying that I WANT to burn my parents' house down, but mom just told me I have to do my own laundry and eat my vegetables. This disrespect will not stand.
This is a child's mentality towards living in a country. If you want to do whatever you want whenever you want, go live in the woods of Alberta away from social services, community support, and healthcare. Absolutely immature nonsense.
every accusation is a confession from the gang who keep threatening annexation and actively funding and fomenting separatist sentiment in Alberta. can somebody walk this mistake of a man back to the grocery aisle where he was presumably dropping cans on the floor to demand a dent discount?
U.S. ambassador warns Canadian politicians: ‘Keep your nose out of American politics’ www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
the absolute hubris to assume that they will build an all-knowing AI god, feeding the absolute batshit psychosis to put human lives and the fate of society in the hands of their own creation, since they and only they can create such perfection.
"So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI," Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said. https://bit.ly/4rXlHlU
do you know how much good those $150MM alone could do? to set that amount of money on fire to spite everyone else so that you can continue to hoard more wealth that you will ever need is profoundly anti-social behaviour. billionaires shouldn't exist, full stop.
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
why aren't the same people who want trans women to stop existing because someone *might* get uncomfortable in a bathroom /some day/ expressing full-throated support of the actual human who was provably raped by a gang of cis men? ...could it be that they don't actually care to protect women at all?
Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...
"Why do we have to go right to she's a victim?" ...well, Megan, i'd start with the part where she was drugged and raped, that's where i'd start, you soulless fucking ghoul.
Megyn Kelly: "...this is probably a first for her. She's probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn't grow up the incredibly beautiful one."
The woman who wants to cut services to the bone because taxes are too high, when presented with a strategy that honestly, would actually lower municipal taxes for many, goes instead with "fuck you, lazy bums, get another job". any way she looks at it, you lose.
Trish Purdy voted against this but said she also understands how it affects new homeowners, including her son. Purdy said her son can get a second job or just work harder to pay his tax bills.
Staff: holding Purdy’s face in their hands, making unwavering eye contact “It’s bad, Trish. It’s so bad. It’s so very, very bad and it isn’t good, ‘cause it’s bad.” Purdy: “…but you’ll tell us when it’s bad, right?”
Halifax Finance: we are in serious trouble. We have put off non-optional spending to keep taxes low over long periods and now face only painful option. We are out of runway on debt, and must make difficult decisions. Purdy: math isn't real. You'll think of something.
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local man who dictates that humans can only have jobs if there's proof the work can't be done by AI shocked to learn that forcing people to use AI for it's own sake like a solution in search of a problem results in remaining people hucking absolute garbage no one cares about at each other.
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke warns that employees' AI-generated "slop grenades" can create more work for colleagues instead of saving time. https://bit.ly/4AjM9tN
Accusing Carney of starting a 'political shouting match'. "He isn't doing what's best for the Canadian people, [...] he's doing what's best for Mark Carney, and in the long run, the Canadian people are gonna see through that" ...the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. Wild
EISEN: Markets are wondering if we're in tit for tat trade war w/Canada BESSENT: I don't think you can be in a tit for tat with someone who's 13 times larger than you E: They say they're doing ok B: What else are they gonna say? What are they gonna do? Take their 2 submarines & sic them on us?
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I am bravely defending middle school girls from having to pass a ball to transgender athletes, even if it means validating and falling in line with a known rapist and pedophile's open and unabashed persecution of trans people. ...good thing I didn't get caught up in the culture war. Go me.
Iowa Democratic Governor Candidate Rob Sand becomes the latest to throw transgender people under the bus. In an interview this weekend, he told Politico that "girls sports are for girls," decrying Democrats for being too caught up in "culture war" issues. Subscribe to support our journalism.
I am bravely defending middle school girls from having to pass a ball to transgender athletes, even if it means validating and falling in line with a known rapist and pedophile's open and unabashed persecution of trans people. ...good thing I didn't get caught up in the culture war. Go me.
Iowa Democratic Governor Candidate Rob Sand becomes the latest to throw transgender people under the bus. In an interview this weekend, he told Politico that "girls sports are for girls," decrying Democrats for being too caught up in "culture war" issues. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Maybe Carney should preemptively rename all the rest of the Great Lakes to "Lake Legal Adult" so Trump won't want to touch them. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
When the criminal justice system callously and repeatedly shows a woman that there's absolutely no help coming - and then dehumanizes her and disproportionately punishes her for finally defending herself and her children - that's patriarchal, state-sponsored violence.
This week, a woman named Keshia Golden took a plea deal after she killed her abuser in self-defense while 8 months pregnant. Her case is one of many examples of the disproportionate criminalization of Black women who fight back to survive abuse. spitfirenews.com/p/keshia-gol...
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predictable - weak-minded skidmarks pounce once someone is no longer able to speak for themselves to co-opt and re-purpose the goodwill that an absolute icon earned by being a woke, progressive queen, and try to shape it into some centrist, do-nothing hogwash. keep her name outta your mouth, bub.
"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis
"ongoing anti-social behaviour" unhoused folks who've been damned near priced out of existence... sitting/lying down? "make our CBD safer" so people aren't at risk of having to interact with the victims/price of capitalist greed? fuck this bullshit to the ends of the earth.
This is not satire. This is a genuine post by a Queensland LNP state MP celebrating that he's "delivered" the removal of a public bench to "address antisocial behaviour".
the measure of human worth is not clothing or creed or income or skin colour or faith or neurotype or ability or sexual orientation or gender expression or eye colour or handedness. until I’m blue in the face: what you *do* is who you are. words, actions, accountability.
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Paging @clareblackwood.bsky.social with extreme urgency
Timeline cleanse 🥹🐶 With our new fur-ends from Toronto Humane Society 💙