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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Remind me to never fuck with Canada” Great read… especially if you’re Canadian 😉 ifloz.substack.com/p/remind-me-...

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REMIND ME TO NEVER FUCK WITH CANADA

He brought a sledgehammer. They brought a scalpel and a map of his own marginal seats. Guess who’s bleeding.

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I iz stuck. Looks like I will be spending #caturday morning in bed.

A grey tabby cat relaxing in bed, using his humans legs as a pillow

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Six foog high neon sign at the Canadian Clay and Hlass gallery...

Neon sign with the text "Nothing is so important that it needs to be made in six foot neon"

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Jim of Pennsyltucky @jimdigs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Christian Nationalism is not Christian. It is authoritarian religious dogma seeking political power. It equates with Christian Sharia law.

Christian Nationalism can be more accurately described as Christian Supremacist Nationalism. A belief system that merges national identity with a particular interpretation of Christianity, often asserting superiority over other cultures, religions, and worldviews. Nationalism at its core is not simply national pride, but the elevation of one nation, and groups within that nation, as inherently superior to others in terms of ideologies and or religious beliefs. Self-righteousness is the belief in one's moral or spiritual superiority.

When nationalism and religious exclusivism combine, they contradict the humility and universality of Christian teachings making Christian Nationalism fundamentally anti-Christian.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/09/2026

It's time to clean the catbox It's time to shovel crap It's time to sift used litter While the kitties take a nap

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It was The Ontario Science Centre. Without the science dept it's now the Ontario Centre. The province will soon push to sell it off, reducing it to just The Centre. The new owner will then demolish the buildings to put up condos, leaving nothing left.

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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"LGBTQ+ wouldn't be tolerated in Palestine. Why are you supporting people who hate you?" Because human rights & international laws - against apartheid, genocide & persecution - are not conditional on whether people like us, they are universal principles Never Again, means never again for everyone

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Canada wants the benefits of being a sovereign state, not a US state.

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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Proof once again that Canadians are just…different 😁 🇨🇦

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/10/2023

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse  🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse  🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

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DB 🇨🇦 @rebelliousdb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When I asked an owner of a liquor store here in Calgary if he was ordering new inventory of US products.. "Why would I or any business spend money and use up valuable shelf space for products that their customers aren't buying?"

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My friend, legendary playwright Allan Stratton, posted this. My American friends get mad when I say stuff like this. But they need to hear it.

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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Proud to be Canadian 🫶 🇨🇦 💪 🇨🇦 👊 🇨🇦 ♥️

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Where is the outrage when two pedestrians are killed when a driver runs a red light and strikes them on a sidewalk? So far, none of our elected officials have said a word. seanmarshall.ca/2026/07/21/w...

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Where’s the outrage when pedestrians are killed?

Birchmount Road and Lawrence Avenue East, Scarborough On Friday, July 10, the driver of a westbound Toyota RAV4 SUV drove through a red light on Lawrence Avenue East and struck another vehicle trav…

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 20/07/2026

Someone should start a rumour that AI causes low testosterone.

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I joined during the pandemic when people couldn’t help themselves. Post pandemic, food security is still something many in Toronto are fight for every day. If you can, come and volunteer. If you can’t help spread the word throughout #BikeTO - CBC The National May30th 2021 youtu.be/rOZZ_K9M7V8?...

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Volunteer cyclists help deliver essential goods during the pandemic

YouTube video by CBC News: The National

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A 15-year study of bike lanes shows that they have no negative impact on business. Neighborhoods that embraced bike lanes showed a measurable increase in foot traffic. momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A really good question from @steinberg.nu "𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻?" We've got the tools and technology. "They know 𝗛𝗢𝗪 to solve the problem. They just haven't decided 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 they actually want to." h/t @ffsafestreets.bsky.social #TOpoli

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻?

One of the world's deadliest machines is the automobile. Every year, over 1.19 million people are killed by cars globally. Yet, we have normalized this. We treat it as a "necessary evil". The unavoidable, tragic cost of doing business.

But there is already a solution. And for some reason, politicians don't want it.

For every grand challenge, two questions need to be answered:
- 𝗛𝗢𝗪 to solve it. This is a technical, technological question.
- 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 to solve it. This is the question of political will: are we actually going to use the solution we've found?

When it comes to road safety, we already have the technological solution to practically eliminate traffic deaths. It’s called Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA). It automatically limits a vehicle's speed to the posted limit. Is it a 30 km/h street? No matter how hard the driver presses the gas, the car won't go above 30 km/h.

The 𝗛𝗢𝗪 is solved. This technology has already been tested with incredible success around the world:

🇺🇸 New York City installed ISA on hundreds of municipal fleet vehicles, dropping severe speeding by a staggering 77%.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London mandated it on their public buses, and speeding plummeted from 17% to barely 1%.

Now for the 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥.

This is where decision-makers should step up and make this technology mandatory. The mayors of Barcelona, Amsterdam, Tokyo, or Rio de Janeiro could say today: No car can enter this city without an active ISA installed.

But they don't. Instead, they give us a mountain of excuses: "The GPS isn't 100% accurate yet", "Drivers might need to speed up to avoid an accident", "We can't force this on older cars. We need a 15-year phase-in...", "It infringes on personal freedom...".

These excuses are moral cowardice.

Which brings me back to the question at the top:
Why don't politicians want to save the lives of children?

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's Monday, and it's morning. That's two strikes against the day already.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/07/2026

One of the reasons why the ongoing meltdown about Zohran asking people to set their A/C to 78 bothers me is that it seems to be a symptom of post-COVID unwillingness for individuals to do anything for the common good, and if we don’t have that we’re in a very bad place as a society.

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

How to tell you're in Canada. It's July 1st, the main TV in the restaurant has the FIFA game on. All the smaller screens are showing hockey.

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Catherine 🇨🇦 🌎 @capeacadia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Proud to be Canadian! #CanadaStrong 🇨🇦

Canadian flag overlaid with “Together We Are Canada Strong!”

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I went out for an early morning walk at 7:00 am today. It was already like hiking in a sauna! Take care out there everyone, and bring plenty of water!

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Hyper - Seattle Enthusiast @thehypercoyote.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The more people who take public transit, the better it gets. The more people who drive, the worse it gets.

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Here's something to keep in mind... All this AI stuff is programs running on computers. Computers are based on silicon. Silicon is refined from sand. Sand is just ground up rocks. So your average AI is just barely more sentient than your average rock.

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is something I would very much like to see. Since you already need to periodically renew your driver's license, I would make the renewal conditional on passing a driving test.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 23/05/2026

Okay, so I'm two and a half weeks behind, but (ht @timothychambers.net ) this is fantastic and a reminder of why *protocols* matter so much over platforms, no matter what people say about any particular site or service.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 20/05/2026

3D printer company Bambu Lab went after a small developer for using their own open source code. The blowback was enormous and may have exposed something far more consequential. aftermath.site/bambu-lab-agpl...

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The Battle Over 3D Printer Software Licensing Matters For Everyone

Bambu Lab, a giant in the 3D printing space, took a swing at a smaller developer over open source code. The fallout may have exposed an ancient violation.

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Jeff Allen @jamaps.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

recently sketched an elevation profile of yonge st, from lake ontario to holland marsh -- higher-res here: jamaps.github.io/maps/yonge-e...

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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There are Doug Ford protests planned all over Ontario on Saturday, May 30. Find one close to you here: protestdougford.com/may-30th-pro... If you’re in Toronto, see you at Queen’s Park (111 Wellesley Street West) from 11 am to 12:30 pm. #FightFord #DougFordIsCorrupt

Doug Ford smiles ghoulishly beside a raging dumpster fire. The dumpster is labeled Ontario. Doug Ford says, “We’re getting it done, folks!”

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

American voters, please remember this. A vote for any Republican is a vote to allow Donald Trump to continue destroying the country with impunity. Not even at the halfway point in his Term, Donald Trump has done more damage to the USA's reputation than the USSR managed over its entire existence.

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Simon Moya-Smith @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Please “go Native.” You’ve heard this phrase. “Welp, he’s gone Native.” Good. That would mean he’s for clean water for all, free housing for all, free medicine for all. Free childcare for all. Free education for all. So, by all means, go Native.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We at @spacing.bsky.social are trying to answer Billy Bishop questions our elected federal and provincial officials are avoiding answering. What would it cost, who will pay, and who benefits? Please read and share with people you know who are asking questions. Post this on neighbourhood lists.

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Jet Dreams on Toronto Island (Part 1) - Spacing Toronto

Premier Doug Ford and the Toronto Port Authority, the federal agency that owns Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, have been extraordinarily secretive about their plans to modify the island airport for...

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 26/04/2026

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.

Simple, direct graphic proclaims "Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores.

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I recently broke both bones in my lower left leg. Ambulance trip, 5 days in hospital, surgery to put a pin in the leg, two casts, crutches, and a couple of prescriptions. Out of pocket costs about $400. $400, not $400K

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bflmouse.bsky.social @bflmouse.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It certainly looks like the TTC is doing its best to live up to the acronym "Take The Car!" www.cp24.com/local/toront...

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Excellent visualization of the true distance between the Earth and our moon: #artemis #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 27/03/2026

The role of crossing guard was once seen as an idyllic job meant for local retirees. Today, most crossing guards are poorly paid contract workers employed by private companies, and their job is more dangerous than ever, writes Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social. thelocal.to/crossing-gua...

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The New Reality for Toronto's Crossing Guards | The Local

Once a job for local retirees backed by the police, today's crossing guards are poorly paid contract workers employed by private companies. As they confront growing road rage and speeding drivers, the...

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