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the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So, not only will it take more than 50 years to pay back the current trans mountain pipeline at the new lower rates, but 60% of that oil is going to the US so it’s not doing a whole lot to diversify. But one more pipeline will fix that right? Right?

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

From landslide majority to 0 seats is…wow. If this holds up, just wow.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 15/09/2026

Privatizing airports is a terrible deal for travellers, workers, and the public purse. Around the world, it has led to higher travel costs, fewer jobs and worse working conditions.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 13/09/2026

Bottom line: voters want candidates who stand for something, who have values that matter more to them than winning elections. When candidates make it clear that they'll say anything to win, voters learn that they can't trust anything those candidates say.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reminder that Proportional representation stops far right majorities.

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ladies and gentleman: presenting a supposed strong defender of women’s sport.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Remember when Kristen Welker would always ask every Republican guest to repudiate the statements of Nick Fuentes, Jack Posobiec, Benny Johnson, or other MAGA racists? Neither do I.

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Milo @milomix.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What’s your sign?

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#ClimateChange is ridiculously expensive! — more so than phasing out fossil fuels. A new study says that NY State will surpass half a trillion dollars on infrastructure spending related to climate change by 2050. Now this is just one state. And one type of cost! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/n...

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New York Faces Half a Trillion in Storm Prevention Costs, Report Finds (Gift Article)

A study from a group called Rebuild by Design estimates that the money will be needed to repair the effects of climate change in the next 24 years.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 18/07/2026

As temperatures rise, you get more intense fires because a warmer atmosphere dries out the fuel. See www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo... In other places, as temperatures increase, you get more intense rainfall because a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor.

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The Frankenmuppet🇨🇦 @frankenmuppet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Heard someone call it MAHA Blast and I haven't been able to stop laughing since 🤣😂🤣

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Gabe De Roche @gabederoche.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Taken together, this is a body of evidence that acknowledges that climate change has moved lower on the list of voters' priorities, but it shows that the recommendation to back away from pro-climate policy commitments is wrong, and likely a vote-loser. [13/13]

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Gabe De Roche @gabederoche.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Among people open to voting Democrat, making climate a priority yields a 5.9 point boost. Making climate a top priority yields a 7.2 point boost. If the climate hush/climate backlash theory were true, these effects would be negative, not positive! [6/13]

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Donny darko imaginary friends meme, only now Jake Gyllenhaal says "I found a fourth place beyond liberalism fascism and communism". The therapist asks, "fourth place or fascism again?'. You know the answer.

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hi media wildfires don’t start spontaneously! These heat waves are not normal! Maybe you could explain what the cause is! Sheesh!

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

And yet absolutely no media coverage of it that I’ve seen. I know there are fires because I can smell it (even though I’m far from any of them), but the media isn’t informing me.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 03/07/2026

This pipeline isn’t nation building. It’s nation burning.

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Can reporters please stop asking people convicted of a crime “how do you feel?”. Why not something like “what do you have to say to the victims of your sexual assaults? Are you sorry you took these actions?”

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 15/06/2026

My Kingdom For Harm Reduction Public Policy

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

@cbcnews.ca find another food scientist than Sylvain Charlebois challenge: level impossible.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 25/05/2026

“I think it’s really, really clear where Jews of conscience stand [on Palestine].” Canadian Party Leader @avilewis.ca explains to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social why he identifies as anti-Zionist and believes most North American Jews feel similarly. Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/avi-lewis-...

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

FYI neither of these things have happened in Canada.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 18/05/2026

A tripling of emissions by 2100 was probably never plausible. But a doubling was. The fact that we're no longer on that path is progress — not, as some pundits claim, an indictment of climate science. And we still have a long way to go get emissions to zero and stabilize global temperatures 11/11

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Liberals and left wing people across North America this morning: 🎶 “I have a structured settlement and I need cash now!”🎶 #johnoliver

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 27/04/2026

I feel like his skills could have been put to better use at that specific point in time

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Looking forward to the post from this guy tomorrow complaining how he’s getting cancelled on Bluesky. (Btw, yes I’ve had a verified case of COVID this winter despite being vaccinated in the fall)

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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs In www.lifeisasacredtext.com/indigenous/

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"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs In

Guest Post from Daniel Delgado

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Reminder that “UBI provides a disincentive to work” is just fancy repackaging of “the poor are poor because they refuse to work hard to better themselves”. (And before you @ me, yes there are valid arguments against UBI - even though I don’t agree with them, but this isn’t a valid one)

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This isn’t an issue. EV batteries last longer than most people seem to think. That doesn’t mean someone who’s barely scraping by can afford to buy one (the main point in this thread), but if you do need to buy, there’s not much need to fear a battery about to die. Check the SOH. That’s it.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received.
In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed.
Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago.
“I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.”
But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint.
It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.

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not cephas @notcephas.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

imagine believing Mehdi Hasan is somehow far left and that horseshoe theory is real LMAO

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

In other words: if the GOP just took the offer on the table, FEMA, Coast Guard, and TSA would all be funded at normal levels and ICE would have ~3x historic levels because of BUB. And yet they are demanding more in spite of an obvious lack of need.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Denial of reproductive rights in the name of the personhood of the embryo/fetus is denial of the personhood of the person who's pregnant. It's frustrating that feminism is so often treated as done deal to dismiss when it's just getting started with so much yet to do.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

So here's the thing. All of these are true: 1. Limit your UPF consumption because most UPFs are crap. 2. It's not the processing that makes them crap. It's the garden-variety stuff like sugar, fat, and calories that make them crap. 3. Research on UPFs is also crap. Thanks for listening.

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Time to ponder the sheer evil madness of capitalism #socialistsunday

Under capitalism it's normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich - not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane.

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I don’t mind the US beating Canada for gold, but I hate that the upchuck brothers get gold.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Every day I see a clip of a right wing podcaster saying this or that group contributes nothing to society. Unlike podcasting

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I’m sitting right now. 😢(This is an Olympic post)

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 13/02/2026

Voting to fund Trump's paramilitary organization because they are afraid to look weak on migration is not a winning strategy for the Democrats.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 10/02/2026

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

If you hit someone with enough wet noodles, they are eventually forced to leave the pool. Or you can just say “welp, guess we gotta just let them sh!t in the pool, since all we have are these 200 wet pool noodles”

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Just so everyone is clear: the valve here releases pressure that would otherwise build on her leadership from within her party. She would rather lose the country than her own job.

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Average Rando (not) on twitter @averagerando.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Why is Doug Ford so determined for Ontario to fall behind even the Americans on renewable energy? @mikeschreiner.bsky.social @maritstilesndp.bsky.social

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