troyliss
Troy Lissoway. Graphic Designer. Ape seeking understanding. Albertan. He/Him. Product of Canada*
(*At least 98 per cent of the total direct costs of producing the item were incurred in Canada)
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- Reposted by troylissThere's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.
- Reposted by troylisswhen I was in high school I had male teachers in their 30s who I totally thought I was adult peer friends with. when I was in my 30s and was a high school youth group leader I was like “those are not my friends, those are children.” that’s when I realized those men just had bad boundaries
- Reposted by troylissI think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.
- Reposted by troylissSwear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
- EDMONTON MENTIONED!1!! #yeg
- Reposted by troylissI think the big failure of the AI rush was that if it were incorporated in the places it makes the most sense, even if I hate it, most people would not have found it that disagreeable in premise but the way that companies have forced it into everything and aggressively gloat that this is to hurt you
- Reposted by troylissReally nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- Puts the relentless push for generativeAI in a grim light. What if you could get the “art” without having to engage with or recognize humanity?
- The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
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- Reposted by troylissHaving literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.
- Reposted by troylissThread. I've seen a lot of people be more sympathetic to Julie Le. The correct thing to do, in her situation, is not to say "I'm trying, I'm using my 24 point font." It is to speak with candor to the court and, if you are unable to comply with your ethical duties, to withdraw from representation.
- Reposted by troylissYou want 'British values', here's national treasure Ian McKellen performing a speech by national hero William Shakespeare about how we should be humane and welcoming to migrants and refugees. bsky.app/profile/lala...
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by troylissYoungest bro often quotes a prof of his from long ago: ‘Shakespeare. Every time I re-read him it’s like he knows everything that’s happened to me since I read him last.’
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by troylissI just finished my first time reading Wuthering Heights and I'm confused as to why the new adaptation is coming out on Valentine's Day rather than Halloween.
- Reposted by troylissNot just talking heads. A lot of the population
- Reposted by troylissthis is one of the dumbest things I've seen in this hype cycle. The entire thing is literally "what if instead of buying software companies build their own software," an egregious misunderstanding only made possible by the continual lies about what generative AI can do
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- Reposted by troylissI can now report that Judge Blackwell did not grant Julie Le’s request for a nap, and also noted that, as overwhelmed as she may be, the people who the Trump administration is detaining in violation of court orders have it worse ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
- Reposted by troylissI can think of one way Alberta's legal system is distinct: "2 Alberta judges under investigation after IJF reveals evidence of donations to UCP" theijf.org/article/albe...
- Reposted by troylissYou should read all of it because it makes clear that there is nothing to the Metro Surge operation other than terror. There is no planning, no infrastructure, no legal basis, nothing other than go out and terrorize a community, the constitution be damned. Everyone involved should be behind bars.
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- Reposted by troylissI taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable
- Reposted by troylisschat is it a good thing when the US Attorney representing the DOJ is also afraid of getting disappeared by the same organizations they're representing
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
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- Reposted by troylissI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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- Reposted by troylissAfter a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all
- The audience they’re looking for is already in their text chat.
- Reposted by troylissPeople keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience
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View full threadReposted by troylissConsider Target - they thought they were making a good business decision by axing all the Pride merch, getting rid of all the "woke" signifiers. But it turns out the market actually really likes that stuff and gets mad when you make a big deal of tossing it.
- And he actually wouldn’t run out because his wealth isn’t static. It replenishes, probably to the tune of more than $1M/day.
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- Reposted by troylissINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Reposted by troylisslike, I haven't thought about Greenland in days. it's absolutely wild. I would say it's almost impressive if they weren't so fucking evil.
- Reposted by troylisswatching the act of bombarding the media with so many things that would get any previous president not only fired, but jailed, knowing that they won't be able to focus on any of them to create a meaningful enough dialogue to do so, is fascinating and horrifying on a level I wasn't prepared for
- In Edmonton, right? Right??
- Three of the 2000s biggest indie Canadian bands are going on tour and only playing one show in Canada www.cbc.ca/music/metric...
- Reposted by troylissI've known terrible people of all political stripes, very much including some anarchists, but ON THE WHOLE I find anarchists very often function as the conscience of liberatory movement, in that they tend to genuinely believe in liberatory values and walk the walk as uncompromisingly as possible.
- Reposted by troylissTwo Americans are dead because of Shirley's self-promoting lies, but the Times gives him a puff piece.
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- Reposted by troylissIt is perhaps notable that it is 3D printed whistles and not 3D printed gun parts that are making a collective difference in actual community resistance.
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- Reposted by troylissThe Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
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- Reposted by troylissRelying on powers conferred by recent statutory amendments Mickey Amery, the province's AG and Minister of Justice, has just knee-capped the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre. First they came for the independent voices of civil society ... And then .... #abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg
- Reposted by troylissThis cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
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- Was there a “however” at the end of that response? Because I’m reading an implied “however…”
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- Reposted by troylissIn 1970, during the Blue Quills Occupation in Alberta, Harold Cardinal flew to Ottawa to help negotiate, with Chrétien, the hand over of the school to local control - based on the criticisms: www.cbc.ca/history/EPIS...
- Reposted by troylissIn light of Jean Chrétien's most recent denialist comments - story to come, basically he downplays the harm of the IRS system - I went down the rabbit hole researching how far Indigenous leaders lobbied him, as Minister of Indian Affairs in the 1960s and 1970s, to close the system 🧵
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- Reposted by troylissPeople are misreading this lawsuit; this is about Google Assistant ACCIDENTALLY recording you when you ACCIDENTALLY trigger it and retaining those recordings, not always being on.
- Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
- This is who runs this account
- Still surprised that Captain America:Brave New World has a Black man representing the spirit of America do battle with a corrupt, elderly president who transforms into a raging id monster, and it was still thematically and narratively inert. Disney shouldn’t even go there if they’re pulling punches.
- Wow, this is great. Sometimes greater knowledge of the artist prevents you from engaging with the work the way you once did. Other times the things you took from the work endure, even after the work itself is tarnished. There are no rules for it, other than the advice to see things clearly.
- It's hard. "Can you separate the art from the artist"--I got asked that 1 million times in the last decade. It took a long time but I came up with my answer to that Kobayashi Maru dilemma. Talked about it with @colehaddon.bsky.social in 5am Storytalk in 2024: colehaddon.substack.com/p/q-and-a-jo...
