Shane Mackenzie

Happy New Year, everyone!! Happy 2025!! #HappyNewYear

News is out. As per @politico.com playbook today, it’s true - I will be making a move early in January over to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce as VP Media Relations & Stakeholder Relations.

Excited to get to work on helping the Canadian economy be strong, resilient and benefit everyone.

I swear I’ve seen one. Let me see if I can find and get back to you! :)

At least one item on his wishlist has been granted: Bluesky has decided to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100, the company told Platformer. The move comes in response to Bluesky’s rapid growth since this month’s US presidential election, which triggered a fresh exodus of users away from Elon Musk’s X and over the weekend took the platform past 22 million total users.

Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

From earlier this week - chatted with the peerless Mary Walsh from CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes. What a wonderfully thoughtful, kind, funny person. 🇨🇦

@jeanyoon.bsky.social so lovely to meet you tonight! You were an absolute gem. Thanks for all your advocacy for the arts, the CBC and Canadian culture.

Good to see so many other friends from other platforms here.

I’m really liking it so far to see people I mostly recognize. Real verifiable humans.

This gives me a lot of hope.

Fair enough. I’m new here.

I’m just hoping the hazing period goes well. 🤞