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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 15h

2022: The whole internet loves Chat GPT, the chatbot you can ask anything except how to spell strawberry! 2026: We regret to inform you that you shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For the past week, I've heard a lot of people say "provincial and municipal elections happening at the same time is confusing, especially since I don't fully understand what a city is in control of." So, I did a four minute explainer piece to try and help www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqlh...

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What municipalities can and can’t do in B.C.

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Stop stop! We're running out of coffin nails

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not much of a meme zeitgeist forecaster, but it would greatly please me to see this photo gain some traction.

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me to my organic chemistry prof, after giving me an F on the final and accusing me of studying for one night: Well guess what. I studied for 60 nights.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Repetition of talking points works for good & for evil. In 2022, Biden's FDA considered a ban on menthol cigarettes. Big Tobacco inundated the comment section w/ 175k comments. Of those, 75% were against the ban. Half of those had the same language from tobacco giants. 🧪 archive.today/jLGQr

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How Big Tobacco flooded the FDA with public comments to kill a menthol cigarette ban

Virtually all of the 175,000 public comments on a 2022 FDA proposal to ban menthol cigarettes were form letters, most echoing tobacco industry talking points.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Young men of the internet! Do not juice your bets with borrowed money!

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Where are the Hand Rails? An Occupational Health Analysis of Imperial Navy Working Conditions

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have a Canadian girlfriend. You wouldn't know her

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh look. The bread price fixers are caught in another public fraud. FryShocked.gif

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This just happened to me, and then the guy pulls out his phone to watch a movie with no headset. Off I go to murder God.

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't ever sell your shares in The Flamingo

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Desperately perfecting my Anthropic "ITS THE END OF THE WORLD" AI Qaeda joke only to realize too late that BlueSky uses sans serif

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When you start collecting straits, you promise yourself you'll stop at one, but you really just can't help yourself.

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An editor waits an entire career to write this headline

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wish life was like in a Douglas Coupland novel. - Monkey's paw curls

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Knowing how Iran did it last time, there will likely be a happy phone call during the inauguration day luncheon

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The MC Escher John Deere is glitching my brain

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fill out this SURVEY and TELL VANCOUVER CITY HALL you support the PEDESTRIANIZED GRANVILLE STREET!

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So nice when September comes and breaks the back of August heat

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A week after watching video tape, family has regrets

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

cHeCk yOuR vOtEr rEgIsTrAtIoN C'mon America, how much of this are you prepared to eat? Looking from the outside, your appetite for humiliation seems infinite

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For all the folks wondering when we'll get cancer preventing vaccines, that train left the station years ago. By the way, Gardasil is great for anyone with a throat, as it is also leading to plunging rates of head and neck cancers

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Here's the greatest song I know about when the love is gone, and winters on Lake Ontario. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMt0...

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Blue Rodeo - Hasn't Hit Me Yet (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Blue Rodeo

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Man, every time a cybertruck goes rolling by my window I can't help but think there goes another failure of the public education system.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 27/08/2026

A 48-year-old man has become the first in the world to have a brain tumour removed while medics used live artificial intelligence.

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Patient gets first live AI-assisted brain surgery

A 48-year-old man has become the first in the world to have a brain tumour removed while medics used live artificial intelligence.

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Patrick Leblond (he/il) @prleblond.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My uOttawa colleague, Wolfgang Alschner, was quick out of the starting blocks. I encourage you to read his excellent analysis of Canada’s response to the new Trump tariffs. economicsecurity101.substack.com/p/canadas-co...

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Canada’s counter-tariffs are more defence than offence — and that matters

Key objectives are import substitution and trade diversification, not changing trade policy in Washington

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026

The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 25/08/2026

The Main Street Canada directory is growing! ✅ Support small Canadian businesses hit by the American tariffs by visiting mainstreet.todmaffin.com Is YOUR store hit by the tariffs? Upload your video and get listed. We do NOT let our neighbours down in this country. LET'S DO THIS! #BuyCanadian

Directory page titled "Main Street Canada" listing small Canadian businesses in card format, grouped by shipping regions (Ships to Canada, USA, Worldwide) with province tags and brief descriptions.

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a Page in your life 🍁📎 @sailorgirl2017.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey Canada...would you follow @yukon.ca This account posts daily and gets little traction; meanwhile, the Premier just wrote a wonderful statement supporting PM Carney and all of Canada in this trade war. We need to SEE each other and support each other!

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This country is vast, beautiful, indescribable in any adequate sense. I've driven it coast to coast multiple times, defended it, patrolled it by air, slept in an igloo in perpetual darkness in its farthest northern reaches, seen all its oceans. I've not scratched 1% of it. whereidlive.com/s/0gtan14g

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Canada: where I've been

Fill in your own version and see where the two of you disagree.

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