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ABear-Ridge

@amandaott.bsky.social
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Supporter of Education, Healthcare, Democracy, Neurodivergence, and Healing your Inner Child. Anti-fascist, Anti-capitalist, Anti-racist

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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just realized the 88 no longer goes to Kanata, it ends at Bayshore. So now trips that used to take 2 buses take 3 instead OCTranspo just seems determined to make transit unusable
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... ‘The study…found that since Ontario has started outsourcing more key procedures, wait times for these medical imaging services and surgeries are actually going up.’ @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
ctvnews.ca
Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Omg. Best ever
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Seven of Sixty Nine @internetperson69.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
An edited black and white picture of Spock and Kirk from Star Trek TOS, in the corridors of the USS Enterprise. The picture is taken at an askew angle, making everything seem off-kilter. Spock is standing in the foreground, looking off into the distance, at the ready with his phaser in his hand. In the background, Kirk is running up behind Spock. He is a blur of motion, with his arms at his sides as he runs, his feet barely touching the ground. Spock is labeled "me, just minding my own business," and Kirk is labeled "The sudden reminder that the world is on fire and everything is so completely fucked up in ways so huge and all encompassing that you can barely wrap your head around it."
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wait, a man who drove his wife to suicide by proving how popular he is with the ladies stole money from black kids for their health to fund an entourage to prove how important he is? It's *almost* as if RFK, Jr. is a truly horrible, insecure person!
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
firstshowing.net
Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve never seen a photo that captured the essence of two people the way this one does.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A hill I will die on - some kids don't do well in inclusive classes and need a different environment. Largely because inclusive classes aren't actually inclusive, they just expect the child to adapt to the environment.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bob Rae on fighting for democracy: "I think it's really important for people to understand that this is the battle of our lifetime. And our grandparents and our parents fought that battle in the Second World War. We had it on easy street for quite a while. And now we've got to fight again." #cdnpoli
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Ottawa Citizen @ottawacitizen.com · 24/09/2026
'Lack of urgency' plagues plan to house veterans on federal lands: advocates ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Starter words working out for me! Wordle 1,923 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 24/09/2026
Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees before annual harvest
irishtimes.com
Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees before annual harvest
‘They left us with nothing,’ says owner of olive grove in West Bank
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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 24/09/2026
Evil is as evil does. #genocide #FreePalestine
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
School Budget 2025: $90,000 School Budget 2026: $51,000 Please remember this when Doug Ford and Paul Calandra try to tell you about the historic and unprecedented investments their government has made in education and how greedy teachers are always asking for more. #OntEd
Doug Ford and Paul Calandra
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 24/09/2026
While other presidents have canceled tens of millions of dollars’ worth of restitution and fines, none of them have come anywhere near the billion-dollar mark – until now.
talkingpointsmemo.com
Other Presidents Have Let White‑Collar Criminals Dodge Financial Penalties—But Not Like Trump
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It...
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Cricket of MeadowHawk 🇨🇦 @cricketmh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Exactly. Went to this rally last night. Mr Nenshi & team have been door knocking up a storm. 30-40% of doors were not even aware of the referendum, and 80% did not know there are NINE other questions. Smith is only advertising where she knows significant numbers will vote against Canada.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
newrepublic.com
Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Made a big step today towards finally getting caught up on my taxes. Once you get behind it becomes really hard to get caught up because you can't access a CRA account or file older ones online I now have all my T4 and T4Es and can get that information to the accountant I'm working with! #ADHD
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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today was just not the right day to bring my 9 year old autistic son to the dentist. He did well last time, today he barely made it into the exam room, xrays were a no, and my husband and I both had to hold him down just to get a basic flouride treatment in. Something to work on
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FAA ISSUES GROUND STOPS AT NEW YORK JFK, LAGUARDIA, BOSTON AIRPORTS AS FALLOUT FROM TELECOM ISSUE WIDENS
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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 20/09/2026
This is the kind of “politics” that Ed Sheeran would rather not get involved in.
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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saturday, September 19th 2026 - there's still a monster in the White House - there's still a vast network of pedophiles walking free because of their power, position, connections and those who enable and cover for them. - the Republican party is still enabling all of this to continue today
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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lucky guess! Wordle 1,918 4/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/09/2026
This is straight-up evil. Yom Kippur is on Monday — the moral contradiction is impossible to ignore. 📌 REUTERS: Israeli settlers set fire to olive groves in the town of Burqa in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to local Palestinian residents. Burned trees that are “thousands of years” old.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 17/09/2026
Police brutality against anti-AI protesters in Montreal shows their true colours “When faced with peaceful protesters, police chose violence. Photos and videos from yesterday's demonstration show bloody civilians, tear gas and bike cops driving directly into people who were walking away.” #polmtl
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Police brutality against anti-AI protesters in Montreal shows their true colours
Montreal police deployed the riot squad and used tear gas on a peaceful group of anti-AI protesters at the ALL IN AI conference yesterday.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ottawa urged to fund intensive housing for homeless Canadians with cognitive impairments. Proposed model would be secure or semi-secure units with 24-7 staff, similar to a dementia unit, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
theglobeandmail.com
Ottawa urged to fund intensive housing for homeless Canadians with cognitive impairments
The proposed model would be secure or semi-secure units with 24-7 staff, including nurses and health care aides, similar to a dementia unit
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
I know I am not the median voter. But when I watch Trump performances like the one we just endured in North Carolina, I can't escape the feeling that our problems go much deeper than "affordability" and we're whistling past the graveyard if we reduce our politics to that issue.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump is threatening to cut off all trade to the European Union if Canada becomes an associate member, and I give it a few months before the only people the White House will be trading with is Don Jr.'s cocaine dealers
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/09/2026
Two people were killed in the assault on Gaza City - a paramedic and a 15-year-old boy returning from school.
aljazeera.com
Israeli ‘double-tap' air strike responsible for killing schoolboy in Gaza
Two people were killed in the assault on Gaza City - a paramedic and a 15-year-old boy returning from school.
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Professor Plink @professorplink.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If parents waited until a child reached the age of 13 to introduce them to religion and let them decide for themselves if they wanted to believe in it or not, all organized religion would die out in a single generation.
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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Did anyone else spend half the morning going down the rationalist/effective altruist/AI doomer rabbit hole? I consider myself kind of an Internet elder and know there are pockets of weirdness all over, but hoo boy. The ties to terribly written Harry Potter fan fics are crazy
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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sea of greens? More like sea of greys Wordle 1,915 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A modest proposal. The current people building the future are fucking it up. We want some better people to build the future. Perhaps even a future not built by pedophiles and oligarchs and fans of autocracy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Not taking sides" when it comes to speaking out about genocide is indeed taking a side, Ed Sheeran, but I think you probably already know that.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I know bsky is generally pretty anti-AI, and yes, the idea of open AI employees reading my prompts is troubling... But sometimes it just helps to talk things through with *someone* and many of us don't have people in our lives we can do that with. I think that's a niche it's filling for many
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
starter words coming through with all 5 letters Wordle 1,913 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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ABear-Ridge @amandaott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Radio Canada International @rci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Jean Chrétien had a message for 'our American friends' while speaking at the 9/11 commemoration. 'Canadians are tolerant and kind,' said the former PM in front of the U.S. ambassador. '[But] never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness.'
ici.radio-canada.ca
Jean Chrétien says ‘we bow to no one’ in stirring 9/11 speech in Gander, N.L. | RCI
'Never mistake our kindness for softness,' former PM says
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