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Barry D🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

@bigbangbear.bsky.social
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Stay-at-home dad after years of teaching. Fan of triathlon, cycling, Celtic, TFC, Jays, Raptors and Tempo (when they start) Hoping we can right the ship on climate, disease and wars

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Dread VanVleet 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Sure, the president is a pedophile, but you know what's *really* outrageous? This fake scenario I just made up involving trans athletes that's never happened and never will.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Somebody named @mark-carney.bsky.social might want to pay attention. You can't expect the Canadian public to just accept $35 billion for a new tar sands pipeline, untold climate policy rollbacks during the worst fire and smoke season in years and not begin to care again about climate change.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026
What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
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Barry D🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 @bigbangbear.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Of course these idiots would pick something that just creates other problems trying to solve one. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada built its nuclear industry on self-reliance. Its new reactors will depend on foreign fuel | CBC News
Canada built its nuclear industry around Candu reactors supplied by a made-in-Canada supply chain. Ontario is building, and other provinces are considering, SMRs that require foreign uranium enrichmen...
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/07/2026
Thou shalt not blame Canada for wildfires caused by climate change you’ve spent your whole life denying and intensifying through your own greed and stupidity.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/07/2026
A decade ago, Facebook was so worried about rising misinformation that it paid various news outlets to hire writers specifically tasked with publishing Snopes-like fact-checks. Today, the company is leaping into bed with a purveyor of misinformation to toy with a tool known for getting facts wrong.
The top part of a Newsmax press release dated 28 July 2026 headlined "Newsmax and Meta Enter AI Content Partnership." The screenshotted text of the press release reads:

BOCA RATON, FL / ACCESS Newswire / July 28, 2026 / Newsmax Inc. (NYSE:NMAX) ("Newsmax" or the "Company") announced today that the Company has entered into an AI content partnership with Meta Platforms ("Meta").

Under the agreement, Meta will have access to Newsmax's digital news content. Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content across its platforms to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.

"Newsmax applauds the significant resources Meta is putting into AI to keep America at the forefront of this emerging technology," commented Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax. "We are pleased to work with Meta to help ensure users have access to timely, high-quality journalism through AI technologies."
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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 & Buy Canadian Warrior @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Don’t let this make you complacent Alberta, get out there and get loud! The 🍊 regime is funding and spreading propaganda so we all need to keep up the fight. But, encouraging… Vote and show the UCP separatists that THEY are the ones not welcome.
Alberta polling results - separatists losing bigly.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A must read this morning
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Legend Bartlett @sammyb1996.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/07/2026
The worst thing about AI is how nobody trusts anything as being real anymore. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Great thread on why one company has chosen not to use AI.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
David Eby on Alberta separatists seeking assistance from the U.S.: "To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that. And that word is treason." #cdnpoli
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
In a league of its own! This years forecast El Niño in white, compared to all the strongest El Nino’s on record in color. If the forecast is right, it’s gonna redefine how we view El Niño and its impacts! #elnino
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 24/07/2026
I mean, we knew this. A *majority* of Canadians benefitted from the federal carbon pricing scheme due to how the rebates were structured. Mark Carney didn't just hurt the climate fight, he took your money.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So, you see, smoke travels in both directions and every other direction What matters is that we help each other and tackle climate change as humankind www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
ctvnews.ca
Smoke from U.S. wildfires affecting air quality in B.C.
Wildfires south of the border are responsible for “much” of the smoke that has prompted an air quality warning in one region of B.C., according to officials.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
Susan Collins standing with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#Mexico sends 200 fire fighters to #Canada to help with wildfires #ViveLeMexico #ViveLeCanada 🤗 Gracias Mexico!!🇲🇽 Credit to SoCanadian
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Kara Fagan 🇨🇦 Liberal @fagankara.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#Canada check your herbs
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Alex Jones popped like a balloon. InfoWars starts in 15 minutes.
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INFOWARS ALEX JONES BOMBSHELL - Live Stream 7/23/26
YouTube video by InfoWars
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: The Ontario NDP and several First Nations are calling for a public inquiry into the Ford government’s handling of the wild land fires #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1198676...
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NDP calls for public inquiry into Ford government’s wildfire preparedness, response | Globalnews.ca
First Nations leaders have said the Ontario government left communities to fend for themselves without timely support for evacuations.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This will happen in Canada too. Harper redirected public research funding to fossil fuels. Carney is doing it with AI and defence.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/07/2026
Japan this week recorded its first kokushobi, a term that means “cruel heat day,” as temperatures reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit. It's not the only country that has scrambled for a new vocabulary to communicate the risks of rising temperatures.
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It’s So Hot That Japan Needs a New Word for It
Japan this week recorded its first kokushobi, a term that means “cruel heat day,” as temperatures reached 104 degrees. It is not the only country that has scrambled for a new summer vocabulary.
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penguinaph.bsky.social @penguinaph.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Barry D🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 @bigbangbear.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
No big surprise when forced to answer staff shut it down. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Ontario's emergency preparedness minister defends wildfire response as staff cuts radio interview short | CBC Radio
Ontario Emergency Preparedness Minister Jill Dunlop defended the province's wildfire response on CBC Radio's As It Happens on Tuesday, but her staff abruptly cut the interview short after she was aske...
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 22/07/2026
This video is about sunscreen but also the entire internet ⭐️
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/07/2026
The ChatGPT maker said the ‘agent’ escaped a testing environment, gained internet access, stole login credentials and hacked into the start-up Hugging Face by itself, in one of the first public examples of a cyber attack by an AI system acting outside human control. www.ft.com/content/9db7...?
Image description: The OpenAI logo displayed against a background of a partially visible circuit board with blue lighting. Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters. Overlaid text reads: OpenAI admits an AI ‘agent’ caused a major cyber breach by itself
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Cuts www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...
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1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds
New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????
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WWF Scotland @wwfscotland.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Arthur’s Seat has been hit by another wildfire. 💔 The smoke hanging over Edinburgh is a stark reminder that climate change is already being felt here in Scotland, increasing the risk of more frequent and intense wildfires. It's time to turn the temperature down. 🔥
bbc.co.uk
Fire crews battle blaze on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh
A huge plume of smoke could be seen from as far away as Fife on Sunday evening.
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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Ford government called it mismanagement and put eight school boards under appointed supervisors, a third of Ontario's schools. The CCPA ran the numbers: schools are $6.5B short since 2018 against enrolment and inflation, $919M at the TDSB alone. Growing special ed waits. Leaking roofs.
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Ellenⓥ🌱☮︎ @ennievegan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 19/07/2026
FDA update: "A sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico has tested positive for Cyclospora... Taylor Farms has confirmed that this positive product is not part of their current recall." www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...
fda.gov
Investigation of 5-State Outbreak of Cyclospora Illnesses
Do not eat recalled iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico. FDA’s investigation is ongoing.
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Don Cochrane 🇨🇦 @doncochraneyow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
One resignation shouldn’t make all of this go away. The only ones who claimed this perk were PC MPPs. “Mr. Cho and more than a dozen others in the PC caucus charged more than $120,000 since 2023 on hotels, according to public disclosure documents.” “No opposition MPPs charged for hotels.”
theglobeandmail.com
Toronto MPP Stan Cho resigns from Ford cabinet after outcry over hotel expenses
Former tourism minister spent more than $16,000 on hotels in the past three years, despite representing a riding near Queen’s Park
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Anton van Walraven @avwraven.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The writing was on the wall. This is what Carney is. He is as capitalist as trump. And as trump, he works for the oligarchy. #Canada thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-...
thewalrus.ca
Mark Carney, Cutthroat Capitalist | The Walrus
The prime minister sells himself as a public servant, but his private sector past reveals his true loyalties
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Ahead of an apocalyptic wildfire season, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government made CUTS to the very teams who help prevent the worst outcomes: experts who map wildfires and issue warnings and risk assessments that communities rely on. The union representing these workers sent me the details:
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Covid is airborne and vascular
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Sandra Kelly @2020willbelit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The only way to stop this is to subsidize EVs solar and wind power and STOP BUILDING PIPELINES #LeaveItInTheGround
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Reminder that here in Canada, Carney is cutting jobs at CFIA, has given politicians the ability to override food safety rules, is allowing the use of banned pesticides, and is deferring to provinces on meat inspections. As always, receipts linked below.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Carney fans, rationalize away! 4D chess? Audience of one?
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elcanaco.bsky.social @elcanaco.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
While Americans continue to blame Canada for wildfire smoke that is ironically a result of their fossil fuel dependence, let's turn our attention to what Canada can do to mitigate climate disasters... Yes, Carney's cuts can (should) be reversed. As well as Doug Ford's. #cdnpoli #onpoli #topoli
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Brian Platt @brianplatt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Carney was asked about the bridge today, and it seems pretty clear his earlier description of the deal was wrong. Debt servicing/repayment is not part of the bridge's expenses. It's instead taken from the net revenue Canada will now split with the US for 15 years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Carney Defends Deal With Trump to Split Bridge Toll Profits
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney defended his decision to give the US a share of the profit from a new bridge between Ontario and Michigan, saying there will be little to no proceeds to split at fi...
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Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is a very thorough and very informative article about air purifiers and air quality. www.cnet.com/home/kitchen...
cnet.com
The Unfiltered Truth: What Air Purifiers Actually Catch
I connected with experts to find out where our air quality is headed, and if air purifiers are the breath of fresh air we need.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When it comes to cleaning the air, any cleaning is better than no cleaning. This includes during wildfire season -- but is not limited to it. Health Canada put it this way in 2012: Source: www.canada.ca/content/dam/...
Indoor levels of PM2.5 should be kept as low as possible,
as there is no apparent threshold for the health effects of
PM2.5. It is impossible to entirely eliminate PM2.5 indoors,
as among its sources are essential and everyday
activities, such as cooking and cleaning, as well as
infiltration from outdoor sources, over which residents
have little or no control. However, any reduction in PM2.5
would be expected to result in health benefits, especially
for sensitive individuals, such as those with underlying
health conditions, the elderly or children.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
every gardener i follow is going absolutely hogwild flexing that they eat lettuce from behind their house. i've never seen gardeners act like this in my life. this is our super bowl. this is our olympics. gold medal in shitting normally
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CJTO🍁🏳️‍🌈 @cjtoronto.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Posting for no particulate reason...(see what I did there?) Had 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 yet, Ontario??? #onpoli #cdnpoli
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