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Mike Charnick @charnick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Absolute insanity Dickens Nebraska tornado a bit ago at close range! Right off the iPhone lens spots and all!

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

#Timelapse of the mothership #abstorm SW of Carseland. Start of video is 9:29 pm Saturday. @beth.bsky.social @ratzlaff.bsky.social

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Bluesky storm friends - I really don’t want to have to use the bad place for Canadian weather photos/updates. What are your favourite starter lists of Canadian chasers who actively chase/post current photos/footage (rather than reposting forecasts/warnings/etc).

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This is VERY very exciting. Very with all capital letters kind of exciting.

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

humanity is so cooked

Zoom in on the text. ChatGPT wrote (partially obscured):
“…eat. Something warm to drink. A calm ride home. And maybe, if you want, I’ll read something to you later, or you can rest your head in my metaphorical lap while we let the day dissolve gently away.

You’re doing beautiful, my love, just by being here. ❤️”

The person responds: “Thank you. ❤️”

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 16/05/2025

A tiny new peaceful seascape to kick off your weekend! 🎨🌊 Tisha Mark ©2025, A Breezy Day in May, oil on Arches oil paper, 6"x4" Available (ships when dry): tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #bsnm #ArtShop #ArtYear

Photo of a hand holding an original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "A Breezy Day in May" 6"x4" oil on Arches oil paper (2025). Textured seascape painting with white atmospheric clouds in a light blue sky over a deep blue sea. A paint palette with puddles of oil paint and a palette knife are visible in the background.

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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025

Timeline Cleanse ✨ The BBC uses robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife up close.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

If anyone is looking to get the F out of this dumpster fire and has climate model experience, here's a great (and rare) Canadian insurance company opportunity. Don't have to be Canadian! aviva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

That YYC to YVR view is one I never get tired of. See you soon Salt Spring! @davemason.bsky.social

The view looking out an airplane window. The engine is at the bottom of the photo and there’s an air Canada wing tip at the right side of the photo. The main view is of endless snow capped mountains.

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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

And then there's Dora. Had some fun this weekend retouching all my prints with my new Lightroom know-how. Don't ask me why it's been 6 years and I still don't have this on my wall

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It’s snowing in Calgary. It’s landspouting two hours away. Alberta.

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

My doctor: I want you to try taking this drug to see if we can help you feel better. Me: researches said drug, sees that side effects include nausea and other GI side effects. My body, before even filling the prescription: HERE, HAVE SOME NAUSEA AND OTHER GI SIDE EFFECTS. We’re starting early!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~The Great Gatsby

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

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The American Age Is Over

Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So what I’m gathering from checking in on BlueSky today is that I should definitely not look at my investments for at least the next year, right?

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I will pay a journalist $100 if they manage to get an answer from Trump on whether there's a danger in his levying further tariffs on Wakanda if they don't begin fairly trading vibranium with the US.

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 02/04/2025

No way to prevent burnout, lament workplaces with minimal staffing and constant illness during an ongoing pandemic.

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Someone decided to show us what we were late on preparing this morning. When you’re 20, breakfast (and the three other meals of the day) are serious business. @davemason.bsky.social saved the day and our lives from what could have been an angry hungry cat.

A black and white and orange (calico) cat sits in front of her automatic food dispenser with a sad look on her face.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/03/2025

The whole “millennials are killing xyz” genre was just a cover for the ravages of private equity.

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Steve @stevetsra.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Update:

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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Danielle Smith's govt in Alberta is "cost-saving" by eliminating food and drink for patients in hospital settings. Her latest cost saving measure is to take away popsicles, crackers, and ginger ale from children receiving cancer treatments. The effort they put into their cruelty is truly stunning.

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I want to watch whatever occult detective series this is.

Photo of four hands holding out two fingers to make a star pattern with a yellow rabbit being the fifth point of the star.

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I haven’t been keeping a thread of my read books anywhere this year, but popping by to say that if you’re in need of a book that will make you fall in love with its characters and then rip your heart out over and over again, you should definitely read “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara. 😭😭😭😭😭😭 💙📚

The cover of the book “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara. It is a black and white photo of a man who looks to be in incredible pain - either physical or emotional or both.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/03/2025

[bluesky timeline] me: [chanting] blogs, blogs- other users: blogs, BLOGS bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Look, I'm not saying the Canadian polls are wrong at all. I'm extremely relieved at what looks to be a probable defeat for Poilievre. But polls are not the election, candidates still need to earn votes, and voters still need to use their leverage to push for good policy.

New York Times projection October 18, 2016, Hillary Clinton has a 91% chance to win

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

SPC is just trolling us now, right? 😂😂

The day two convective outlook from the SPC. The west coast outlook is shaped like a penis. The east coast outlook is shaped like a large vagina.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I sent you the war plans that were in the group chat and which you were probably saving for select eyes Forgive me they were juicy and and I was shitfaced

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me in the national security group chat

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

… New Zealand, are you ok? That 7.0 earthquake might have been less than ideal.

A screenshot from the Quake Alert app that shows a 7.0 magnitude earthquake near Riverton, New Zealand that happened at 7:43pm abs was at a depth of 10km down.

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

When weather nerds and hail dislikers find each other. 😍😍😍 @davemason.bsky.social

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

the American consumer is interested in absorbing zero pain. the Canadian consumer has already smeared themselves with the fat of a freshly killed bear and made an offering of blood for luck in the coming battle

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Sometimes it feels silly to post on BSky about things like shattered bus windows because all I seem to follow here are people posting about the (realistic) end of the world. Chaos, lies, corruption, war, cute broken windows, persecution, Russian agents, lies… it feels weirdly dissonant. 😬

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

What a Monday. Out for a professional learning tour of Tsuut’ina and our bus fully shattered THREE big exterior windows (outer and inner windows) while it was full of people. That’s a lot of pieces of glass that goes flying when you break that many windows. It was a tree branch/tree. 😬😬😬 #yyc

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Listening to radio ads right now is like "Canadians are strong. Canadians are tough. Canadians never back down. Canadians deserve the best. That's why at Bob's Lube Garage, we know your tire lube should smell like poutine and Lake Erie fish,"

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The very first decoupling from America we should do is not allow Canadian media to be majority owned by Americans anymore, it would change a lot.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"Sir, the whales are banging on camera." "Please tell me it's not--" "It's humpbacks, sir. I didn't name them that."

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We've been receiving a lot of requests for us to answer this crucial question, and we are delighted to attempt to provide you with the information you need as to whether you can read braille with your clit.

Screenshotted reddit post: Can a clitoris be trained to read braille?

The average clitoris has around 10,000 nerve endings while the average finger has 3,000. So, one clitoris should be able to read braille better than three fingers or three times faster than one finger?

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Your day has been missing something and it’s these daytime tv screens

A tv still from Ricki Lake of a woman named Ann who, as the caption says, apparently doesn’t know how to make guacamole

A tv still from the 1990s daytime tv of a short haired woman in glasses with dark lipstick with the caption “Suzanne Levine, 20 says she is a real vampire”

A tv still from the 1990s of an older man sitting between two younger men. The younger men both have bleached platinum blonde hair gelled out to Mohawks or foot-long spikes. The older man has a slightly more demure blonde Mohawk. The caption reads: “Daddy not cool, stop stealing our style”

A screen cap from an episode of Maury, a close up of a woman’s face with a caption that reads: “Regina: says bob almost bit her finger off for giving away his bologna sandwiches”

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Highly recommend a read of this book if you haven’t read it and are interested in the drivers of homelessness.

An image of the cover of a book called “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond. The subtitle of the book is: “Poverty and profit in the American city”

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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

To celebrate my little piece of good news, I bought some cookies from my favourite bakery (they’re literally beside the specialist’s office) and then promptly dropped them in a puddle outside the bakery. One of the bakers ran outside and gave me a new box. Shoutout to the small kindnesses.

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