CJae 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 🔜ProtoCON BC 2025!

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

At what point do we do something about the fact that a handful of shitty people and companies are literally killing us off for a few more $?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

A box of tea labeled "Sinister Steeps Sampler" beside a rose-and-skull teacup

If you're creepy & a tea nerd clap your hands⁠
If you're creepy & a tea nerd clap your hands⁠
If you're creepy & a tea nerd,⁠
Skulls & oolong, spells & black bird,⁠
If you're creepy & a tea nerd clap your hands⁠

28 Days!!

A beautiful native woman flipping the bird in response to Monday, Oct. 13th, Columbus Day. “Fuck Christopher Columbus.” Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

*boom goes the micdrop*

BMG is hosting a game jam! Make a game using 3 unique mechanics, one of which is voted on by the community. Be sure to join the Discord to vote on which mechanic you wanna see! 🎃

www.eventbrite.com/e/break-my-g...

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Call for PNW artists! Our Seattle-based queer nerd witch tea house is accepting applications for 2026 visual art installations! Email portfolio links to fridayafternoontea at gmail dot com

It's that time again, friends! Our monthly art installation slots are now open for 2026! Have you always wanted your pieces to hang on the walls of a lovely witchy tea house? This is your chance!⁠

Andrea's Adventurers 2025 Silent auction 'Andrea's Adventurers 2025' hosted online at 32auctions.

one of the various things i have my hands in is Andrea's Adventurers, which was set up by @wisdomcheck.ca to support Cancer Research

which means we get to play games, people get to donate to make things more exciting, and there are also goodies in a silent auction! including signed Delta Green?!

A pic of Granville Bridge at dawn with a text below that reads, “Join Our Upcoming Games from Vancouver Steam Event”.

Hey Vancouver Game Devs! 👋

We’re hosting a Games From Vancouver Steam event with @bbigames.bsky.social from Nov 21 - 30!

Games that can discount during the event have priority, but unreleased and non-discounted games will also be admitted on a case-by-case basis.

Apply below ⬇️

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Ah, and Caveat: learn the difference between Competitor and Future Collaborator 😁 why fight when you can work together and do more??

Don't let Imposter Syndrome drag you in. Take the time. Investigate the competition.

Realize they're not as intimidating as they look.

Me: "There are already so many places out there doing the thing I want to do. I'm gonna be crushed."

Me, after investigating them:
"... Ok, so actually, none of them are offering what I'm going to do. Got it. Oh and look, AI use..."

YouTube video by Species | Documenting AGI It Begins: An AI Literally Attempted Murder To Avoid Shutdown

If y'all need even more reasons for why AI is a bad idea...
youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg?...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

The push to use AI is bonkers to me, like...

I thought it was a free market? Which means people are free to dislike something, and AI projects lose money 95% of the time apparently.

Which one is it, Jay?

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Grievance politics fuel far right extremism and work to instill a narrative in the target demographic (Christians, especially white ones in this case) that they are under attack and mobilized them. @charlieangus104.bsky.social makes it easy to understand. Very important work.

FACT FOCUS: Republicans shut down the government to give him more time to hide the #EPSTEIN_Files.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

We're still looking for volunteers!

They used a military helicopter to raid & terrorize an entire apartment complex full of sleeping families then posted a sizzle reel about it. The government is shut down but ICE is exempt. While the opposition plays by the rules this is where we are on the fascism timeline. 👇🏻

ICE must be destroyed.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

Used Game Sale We carry board games, party games, D&D, Magic: The Gathering, jigsaw puzzles, gundam, dice and more in downtown Vancouver and New Westminster, BC.

The first price drop has happened - everything is now 40% off!
www.raincity.games/used-game-sa...

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