Ian Capstick
Ethical tech exec, certified horticulturist and quilter. Queer. Likely topics: social justice, Indigenous rights, sewing, theme parks and gardens.🌱 Happy to help you & your plants, open for horticultural info/help by message or DM!
- Oh Canada? Are any of our officials doing the same?
- I am leaving X. The app is capable of creating pornographic images of children, there is absolutely no question: I cannot, in good conscience, remain on the platform. Follow me on Instagram: @ tonyvaughanmp Follow me on Bluesky: @ tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social Follow me on Facbook: Tonyvaughanlabour
- He should keep the word queer out of his transphobic mouth.
- Reposted by Ian CapstickCircle 6 (Bee Works). Honeybees, resin on panel, 2014. I arranged thousands of dead honey bees in symbolic patterns to bring awareness to the plight of worldwide honey bee decline. www.sarahhattonartist.com/bees #bees #sciart #canadianart #artists #savethebees #CanadaSky 🇨🇦
- Ça va être tout un voyage...
- 📊Intentions de vote au Québec, sondage Léger: ⚜️PQ 32% 🔴PLQ 27% 🔵CAQ 17% ⚫️PCQ 14% 🟠QS 8% → qc125.com/20251109-leg... [Léger, 7-10 novembre 2025, n = 1 031] #polQC
- Reposted by Ian CapstickNo no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
- So I'm just catching up on things, you're telling me that the guy who has had literally one job in his entire life - federal MP - just up and forgot to move the most important amendment the opposition leader moves? Yeah, Pierre Poilievre won't be leader long. He's rattled.
- Reposted by Ian CapstickIf you are posting on or engaging with content on X, you are working as a volunteer laborer helping this specific man earn money and political influence. Any person, group or organisation that is still there and helping keep you there: you have to make them get out, not give them reason to stay
- Also symbolic of how they treat artists in Ottawa: Imagine what the $4M would have bought in local art, displayed at a human scale throughout the area. Oh and this outcome was predicted at the time by artists in Ottawa.
- The contempt the city has shown for this expensive and genuinely impressive piece of art it bought and proudly installed is just perfectly symbolic of how it treats both the public realm and its own investments. ottawacitizen.com/news/artist-...
- 100% your fault if you misfile your taxes though 🤪
- "The Canada Revenue Agency’s contact centres provided accurate responses to questions about individuals' taxes only 17 per cent of the time between February and May 2025, the federal auditor general said in a report released Tuesday." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/cra...
- Reposted by Ian CapstickUNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
- Montréal this weekend: 2 major bridges closed, tunnel closed, 30K marathon runners blocking streets, and Monday impeding transit strike + trucker protests slowing traffic from 5-9am. Finally going to try that café 10 min from my house I've never been to 😂 #ClassicMontreal
- Reposted by Ian CapstickWe all breathed a sigh of relief when the country rejected the Maple MAGA politics of Pierre Poilievre. So why does this bill feel like it was written by him? This divisive piece of legislation has already passed its second reading—we need to voice our concerns NOW. act.gp/4mmDEG0
- Says the guy who single handedly moved the Overton window in Canadian politics *to the right* in his tenure as the social democratic leader?! That's a bit rich. Oh no wait: the rich is ... who Tom catered to as leader, business elites and Outremont snobs. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
- Reposted by Ian CapstickBWI has an art display that celebrates America’s earliest civil rights leaders. I found this quilt pretty amazing. It celebrates Frederick Douglass and more.
- This is a really,really big deal: and puts into snap focus how devastating the cuts to the global fight against AIDS are.
- Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
- Reposted by Ian CapstickHello Halifax! Your local library now has two copies of my book! Go check it out, literally
- Reposted by Ian CapstickThis is a useful provocation. Doxxing actions taking collectively should be about abuses of power and real infliction of harm in a social context, not just what's unpopular (or, let's be real, entertaining) to a bunch of folks online.
- The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive" www.404media.co/the-astronom...
- Reposted by Ian Capstick"It would generate a total of 650 megawatts of on-site natural gas power, with a grid backup, as required by the Alberta Energy Systems Operator." It's not a great location for a sovereign data center, it sounds like just an excuse to develop more natural gas extraction 🤷 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Reposted by Ian CapstickI asked PCO about media for PM Carney's summit with First Nations. I was told: "Information regarding media access, if any, will be communicated in due course." So, no public access & no media access planned yet from the government. But chiefs? They want to talk. # Indigenous #cdnpoli.
- "The majority of Canadians, the poll found, go between 10 and 15 per cent." Pardon me!? Folks are really out there tipping this little? 😳
- Well that's very cool: Montreal's Aire commune helping Ottawa making better use of their urban space! Bravo! @arieltroster.com
- Reposted by Ian Capstick4/Reminder: human rights are equal and indivisible. That includes freedom of speech. The censorship of @abeba.bsky.social for calling out Big Tech’s role in war and genocide, gave me the serious ick. That silenceing speaks volumes. 😒 genevasolutions.news/science-tech...
- Early summer check in! How are your gardens coming along? Let me know if you've got questions, pests, problems or want to update me on something we worked on? 🌱 Send an image, detailed description or questions and I can lend a hand... #gardening #garden
- Reposted by Ian CapstickScenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon until Oct. 12. “We’ve been colonized by condiments.”
- Reposted by Ian CapstickAs I get older, I become increasingly convinced that we should replace measuring GDP per capita with a robust quarterly "how are the vibes?" survey.
- Reposted by Ian CapstickAll flourishing is mutual. -Robin Wall Kimmerer #quiltynook #applique #bannermaking #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #robinwallkimmerer
- Paging @garymarcus.bsky.social ... This is what passes for critical thinking on AI in Canada's capital. Help! 😭
- AI Superintelligence Is Coming—and Canada Is Super-Unready, Don Lenihan writes. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/07/03/a...
- Reposted by Ian CapstickA former deputy PM. A $2B pandemic federal contract. And a courtroom battle over alleged unregistered lobbying. My latest for the IJF:
- Reposted by Ian CapstickTruth.
- Québec landlords pressured successive governments into removing even the most modest controls. Rent is up 71% in Montreal since 2019. 1900 households without a place to live tomorrow.
- More than 1900 households in Quebec have reached Moving Day and need to move out, but with nowhere to go.... mtlcityweblog.com/?p=130453
- Reposted by Ian CapstickAbsolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
- The ATIP on this will be fun.
- Reposted by Ian CapstickParks Canada just called to ask if we can delete the word "heck" from an article in which an employee, promoting a mushroom-spotting contest, says: "I had an opportunity arise to create my own project. I was like, heck yeah, it’s gonna be mushrooms.” That request is not going to fly.
- SDG 3 includes the promise made by Member States to achieve the end of AIDS by 2030 (target 3.3). We are not on track to do this in Canada. Maybe if we call HIV prevention "critical infrastructure" if could be funded properly?
- Promise of Victory Over #HIV Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support. A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding is gone, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h... via @nytimes.com
- Reposted by Ian Capstick“Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.” —Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain would have turned 69 today.
- Reposted by Ian Capstick"Zohran Mamdani's campaign framed itself as aspiring to build a city people can afford to live in... where people are consumed by the things they want to make, the art they came here to create, the businesses they dream of starting." Affordable = livable. #EconSky 🔗 the.ink/p/what-zohra...
- "Canada punches above its weight in terms of science and innovation." For #MostAmbitious, @deepskyclimate.bsky.social's Phil De Luna explains why Canada is the perfect place for his company to fight climate change.
- Reposted by Ian CapstickWrong - we need to prioritize using critical minerals for the transition off of fossil fuels, not weapons: Carney says Canada will meet new NATO spending target by developing critical minerals www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
- Reposted by Ian CapstickAlright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff. When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything. RTs appreciated here.
- Montreal too.
- Reposted by Ian CapstickAh, Montreal on an early summer hot humid day. The tantalizing, competing smells of hot garbage and lilacs!
- Lenacapavir was approved by the FDA yesterday. Yay? I guess. It's a twice yearly injection to prevent H.I.V. infection, a regimen called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, will be sold at a list price of $28,218 in the USA. 🫠
- The company says "scientists have made it their life’s work to end HIV." Sure, but the rest of the company is built to extract profit. Lenacapavir is coming to Canada, may take until 2026 to receive approval and when it does it is unlikely to be provincially covered. www.catie.ca/treatmentupd...
- Meanwhile, HIV rates climb. 2,434 new HIV diagnoses in 2023. 35.2% increase since 2022). Every single one of them was preventable. Access to PrEP is should be simple, easy to access via pharmacies and 100% free of deductibles, fees and on an as needed basis. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
- It's clear Canada's borders need to be open to trans folks from affected US states, and that the Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement must be scrapped immediately. Will our neoliberal government do it? Oh hell no, they will need to be forced by the courts. #transrights #cdnpoli
- Thanks for all the love for the decision tree app to help guide banner and sign making. I'll be iterating on it, please feel free to send feedback. iancapstick.github.io/bannerapp/ba... #NoKings
- It's a decision helper: asks about protest context (indoor/outdoor, budget, timeline, skills) and gives you most of what you need to know. Free, zero tracking, no ads. Massive thanks to @zakfoster.bsky.social Quilty Nook Craftivism Room beta testers! Open to more feedback, will keep improving it!
- Seeing what's happening in the USA and globally, created this small tool based on a bunch of years making banners and signs 🏳️🌈✊ Banner Planner v1.0: Sizes, materials, making methods based on the budget, situation and people you have contributing to make signs. iancapstick.github.io/bannerapp/ba...
- Reposted by Ian Capstick“No Kings” is such a great name for these protests. It works in today’s Trumpian terms (mar a lago etc wannabe oligarch rejection) but also gets to the core of American birth/protest 1776. Genius.
- Seeing what's happening in the USA and globally, created this small tool based on a bunch of years making banners and signs 🏳️🌈✊ Banner Planner v1.0: Sizes, materials, making methods based on the budget, situation and people you have contributing to make signs. iancapstick.github.io/bannerapp/ba...
- It's a decision helper: asks about protest context (indoor/outdoor, budget, timeline, skills) and gives you most of what you need to know. Free, zero tracking, no ads. Massive thanks to @zakfoster.bsky.social Quilty Nook Craftivism Room beta testers! Open to more feedback, will keep improving it!
- For tech fok: Built as a single self-contained HTML file with vanilla JavaScript, embedded CSS, no external dependencies. Just fork the repo, customize the logic/styling for your community's needs, and host anywhere. 🔗 github.com/iancapstick/...
