RE: https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/116760593030606003

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ESC by John Holcroft

#Art #illustration

On this #CanadaDay I'm struck by how few Americans know their government and the Russians are involved in a psyop in Alberta to incite a separatist movement. The goal: force a populist referendum to leave #Canada and join the #USA.

Albertans are being swayed by glitzy YouTube influencer videos, many of which are #AI generated abroad,, to suggest their lives would be better in the US. You know, Florida mansions, control over immigration, pristine health care, high valued US dollar, and other grass is greener lies. Very #Brexit-esque, Cambridge Analytica playbook.

As the US under this administration seeks to capture and manipulate oil internationally, Hormuz and Venezsudentenland are not enough. They are coming for the Canadian oil fields not with arms, but with algorithmically amplified #disinformation and millions of corrupt dollars to influence an election in their favor. For Russia, cracking Canada means destabilizing yet another Western democracy in the international illiberal project, plus Canada recently signed an agreement to provide drones to the #Ukraine.

How can you help?

I wish I could say call your Congressional Rep, and that might still work in some districts. However, this is digital guerilla warfare, and we still don't have good innoculation against it.

Any information you can get out there on social media --about what it is really like to live in the US (maybe more about how actually likely it is to own a mansion or paying for your health care!), about how disinformation campaigns work, about what happened to democracies that voted to shoot themselves in the face based on peddled lies and are now dealing with the consequences (hello #UK), would help. Please tag Alberta separatism to ensure the message gets out.

And tell your friends. People need to know this is going on.

#elbowsup

Receipts:

https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-separatism-fuelled-by-russian-networks-and-us-influencers/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/co-ordinated-network-of-fake-youtube-channels-pushing-alberta-secession-and-us-annexation-narrative-report-finds/

https://www.cdmrn.ca/slopaganda-the-inauthentic-youtube-network-selling-secession-to-albertans

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/21/Dishonest-Online-Campaign-Support-Alberta-Separatism/

https://disifnowatch.org broke this story with international journalists' help: see: https://disinfowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Alberta-and-Foreign-Interference-Report-Final-052026-web.pdf

I want to try something for July.

For the month of July, each day, can I get 7 donations of $7 to Black Python Devs every day. I'll start with a week donation.

Success would be over $1500 donated. That covers 1-2 events in South America or Africa.

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/7-7-31.html

Name an album so good you never feel the urge to skip a track.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116841848684568048

The latest blog post by @cwebber is a MUST READ (I have never saved something to Linkwarden this fast.)

I didn't simply boost her original post because some of you have boosts turned off. Just go, give her some love (https://mastodon.social/@cwebber@social.coop/116841849068409994) and please please please read it ASAP.

It perfectly encapsulates how we are at a critical juncture and we should actively fight for the internet and the fediverse. New mandates about age verification are an existential threat to the web as we know it

What are you most likely to skip?

#Meme #Humour

Café owners who serve butter straight out of the fridge are sadists.

Iceland
‘A field of very inquisitive and friendly horses in the far north of the island.’
Photograph: David Davies

#photography
#Iceland
#horses
#AltText

Choose a mundane superpower from this very limited list of them!

#mosstodon

When interest in herbs has an … interesting effect.

Knold was sniffing a mint plant, the human was showing him (human and mint not included in photos).

#WhiskersWednesday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold

Reminder. It's #SkaDay

What happened to the fight for the internet? https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/

A new blogpost from me. I believe the fight for keeping the internet free is more important than ever but also under more threats than ever.

And the irony is, centralization is partly to blame: people don't feel like the internet is theirs anymore.

But we can't leave it there.

We HAVE to act.

For our sake, for our kids' sake, for ourselves, for the future.

Tonight's late night Low Quality Ad is for this Umbrella Phone Clip. Fellas, take notes. Women aren't attracted to muscles or nice cars or money. They don't even care about your personality. Women are only attracted to guys with tiny umbrellas on their phones.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5WGHDPH?ref=t_ac_view_request_product_image&campaignId=amzn1.campaign.3GNJDBSDACAZ6&linkCode=tr1&tag=connorstone06-20&linkId=amzn1.campaign.3GNJDBSDACAZ6_1782873154288

Some biologists theorize that eventually, all species will evolve into crabs. Apparently this also applies to inanimate objects, like tonight's Low Quality Ad, this Crab Multi-Tool.
https://collabs.shop/dfyexy

@cwebber is flying to DWeb Camp on a Hooting owl with a platoon of Goblins to introduce “@spritely: painting a new vision for the Internet”

🦉 https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DXJRXY/

➡️ Check out the full schedule here: https://dwebcamp.org/schedule

#DWeb #DWebCamp #Spritely #Goblins #Hoot #Guile #Internet #decentralization

Massachusetts friends that believe privacy is important, you need to contact your legislators! Make sure we pass a bill with real teeth.

https://www.northshoreprogressives.org/contact-your-state-legislators-to-advocate-for-a-strong-data-privacy-bill/

#AskFedi

Whats that kind of diagram called where you visualize items and their connections? Looks like a mindmap but the stronger the connection the closer the elements are together.

So if you'd have 5 different elements representing 5 evenly different colors you'd get the Fediverse logo. :fediverse:

Bonus if someone can recommend a free, simple, AI-free (web)tool.

#FollowerPower #chart #relationships #diagram