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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of the most astounding videos of a bear I’ve seen. Welcome to Northern BC! (It zooms in after a second. The video isn’t watermarked so I wanted to be sure to credit the poster.)

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

High on “I made up a breakfast casserole and everyone in the house actually liked it so I’m not stuck eating the whole thing for my lunch all week” this morning

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Daniel Craig's Smug Look at SNL

Alt: Actor Daniel Craig looking comically smug in a crowd of fawning people

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 26/08/2026

Ok look, Barkerville is obviously going to win. I won’t complain to @justinmcelroy.bsky.social. But Enchanted Forest deserves to put up a hell of a fight. It’s one of the few remaining of the classic Road Trip attractions, endearing and terrifying in equal measure. Please vote Enchanted Forest.

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Search for B.C.'s best roadside attraction: Semifinal 2, Enchanted Forest vs. Barkerville | CBC News

After four weeks of voting, we're left with Cathedral Grove as one of the two finalists in the Search for B.C.'s Best Roadside Attraction. But what will it face?

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Just listened to some music by this amazing Indigenous band Melawmen Collective from British Columbia and damn they are incredible, roots, blues, rock music, check out their music 🎶 #Queen 🙌🏼 #Canada Credit to melawmencollective

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 08/08/2026

Castanet has a map from BCWS showing the latest perimeter of the Bald Range wildfire which is threatening the whole town of Summerland. No streets on the map image so hard to tell if they’ve been able to hold it at the edge. I’m hoping that everyone’s been able to get out safely.

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Evacuation orders still in place in Summerland, Peachland areas as wildfire grows to 9,500 ha

Many properties in the Summerland and Peachland areas remain under evacuation orders or alerts this morning due to the Bald Ridge wildfire.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

Made myself tear up first thing in the morning today with this one. Love this whole album so much. (Shine On by Alan Doyle)

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Shine On

YouTube video by Alan Doyle - Topic

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 19/07/2026

Not a great photo but seeing this little guy reminded me that I shouldn’t be clipping ALL the male blossoms to save for a female blossom. I’ve been greedy! 🌱

A close up photograph of a yellow squash blossom. There is a bee on his way out of the flower, well-dusted with yellow pollen.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 19/07/2026

Some (white) people will say that AI is a better and more neutral option than humans, that data is impartial, etc. But racism in, racism out. What data is considered and how it is considered is not impartial, and when a lot of the existing data is the result of racist decision making…

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 18/07/2026

“Why do so many millennials live in homes decorated with the landlord special, it must be that they love greys and not any other possible reason”

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Heads up Canadians! Earthbound Organics is in a lot of our grocery stores and is owned by the company responsible for the parasite-contaminated lettuce causing diarrhea in the USA.

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Salty @dfedmpls.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My mother wrote a book putting my young child in the cabin where dad tried to kill me. This is the review Amazon keeps taking down from this book listing: www.amazon.com/Granny-Annie... I am asking the internet to read my review instead of the sycophantic reviews there now. #signalboost

This book uses my daughter's likeness. She is visiting Granny Annie at the cabin in Northport, MI that Anne used to own. Her husband Walter took me there after I was diagnosed with autism when I was roughly the same age as my daughter is at time of publication. Walter was arrested in Grayling, Michigan that weekend. He had driven me, while very drunk, for 80 miles.

In that cabin, I begged to go to school the next day so I would not be "The Genetic Curse." That's why he drunkenly got in the car. Anne picked me up from the Grayling police station.

You can note this book doesn't depict me, just my daughter who was underage at the time of publication. My wife and I were not asked for permission for her likeness to be used. Minnesota's 2025 child media law may be applicable here.

For those confused:

On roughly the 40th anniversary of my father's arrest, my mother published a book depicting my child at the cabin my life was threatened at ~40 years prior. The cabin I begged for my life at. She has sent multiple copies of this book to me, unsolicited. I do not appear in the book.

Every time Anne yelled at me that she brought me into this world and she could take me out, she did so with the weight of that event crushing those words into me.

As for the story: It's a children's book where the children have no autonomy or agency as they are ordered around by Granny Annie. That seems true to real life: I had no agency or choice but to mask neurotypical because if I didn't...who knew what would happen?

I've included a photo of the multiple copies Anne has sent to me, unsolicited. Both copies have inscriptions in her handwriting admitting the little girl is my daughter.

I was told “You don’t have to live here.”

I was told “You can’t ask for help anymore.”

I was told “I will not attend your daughter’s birthday” because I hadn’t apologized for your feelings.

I was punished in the will.

Why do you publish my child’s likeness now, in the place I had to beg for my life?

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 10/07/2026

When I have had a long day with the kids and every nerve is fried, it’s very hard for me to remember that they’ve had a long day too and unlike me, they have not had 40 years to learn to regulate their behaviour.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 08/07/2026

Lotta dudes real quick to tell on themselves the second any man gets public consequences for sexual assault

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Are you worried about the environmental impact of your food choices, but confused by competing sustainability labels? My new book can help! It's now available for preorder with a significant discount! Here's why I decided to write it: www.southernfriedscience.com/why-sustaina...

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“Why Sustainable Seafood Matters” is now available for preorder! Here’s what it’s about, and why I decided to write it.

I am thrilled to announce that “Why Sustainable Seafood Matters,” my second book, is now available for preorder through my publisher Johns Hopkins University Press! Use code HWSSM for 3…

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026

ADHD Women's Summit— a summit specifically for a cohort of people CATEGORICALLY KNOWN to have auditory processing issues— is *Charging A Fee*. For *Subtitles*. What in the ACTUAL FUCK.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 05/07/2026

There’s a lot here to be annoyed about but this passage stood out to me. The use of autism as an excuse for boundary-crossing behaviour is pervasive but I have always said that someone who is autistic but not an asshole will be mortified when they learn they’ve overstepped and will change behaviour.

In fact, he said, his own research showed that autistic people tend to differ in cognitive empathy (interpreting facial expressions and language) but not affective empathy (the internal response to others' feelings). "Once they know that someone is upset, it upsets them and they want to do something about it," he said. "There's a kind of myth that autistic people lack empathy."

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 03/07/2026

Starship Titanic is on Steam for less than two bucks??? I might finally make it past the introduction? This game was given to me in my early teens and I didn’t have the patience to figure it out. When I tried to reinstall in my 20s one of the discs was scratched. So this is a welcome surprise.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 30/06/2026

1-year-old is learning to say “firefighter”. Comes out “fuh-fiya” and sounds like Christopher Walken introducing the Foo Fighters

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Christopher Walken saying, "Foo Fighers" #music #rock #foofighters @SurfStrandsMusic

YouTube video by FryeShlight

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 29/06/2026

At first glance Tidal music’s new AI policy seems pretty decent but it also seems to be very specific about targeting only 100% AI-generated music. So all a person would need to do is record themselves farting and put it in at the end of each song to get around it?

A screenshot of part of a recent email from Tidal. Reads:

Here are the highlights of our new Al Policy:
• Tidal will identify and tag Al-generated music in our app. Listeners will see an "Al" badge next to music we detect as wholly Al-generated.
• Tidal will not tolerate Al-generated music that impersonates an artist or group, or that facilitates fraudulent activity. We're implementing automatic tools to remove these releases immediately and on an ongoing basis.
• Tidal will not allow music that is 100% Al-generated to be monetized. No royalties will go to such releases, nor will Al-generated uploads be eligible for direct-to-fan sales.
• We will expand these policies to music that is substantially Al-generated when Al detection technology is sufficiently reliable to do so.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 27/06/2026

But how can I give back, he says. I don’t know, maybe with some of that money you have too much of, instead of treating public service as a vanity project?

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 22/06/2026

What an odd article to print during Pride month. Or any month, because it’s a load of horse dookie, but especially Pride.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Venus vanishes today! "not everyone will see it at the same time. For example, people in San Francisco will observe Venus vanish at around 11:34 a.m. PDT, while those in Miami will watch the planet disappear at about 4:06 p.m. EDT" www.livescience.com/space/astron...

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How to see Venus vanish behind the moon during the day Wednesday — without any special equipment

On Wednesday (June 17), the moon will pass between Earth and Venus, causing the hellish planet to temporarily disappear from the daytime sky. Here's what it will look like, exactly when it is happenin...

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 09/06/2026

Old and busted: texting spouse photo that “accidentally” includes boobs New hotness: texting spouse photo of bread dough rising that “accidentally” includes the already-washed mixing bowl drying in the background #adhd

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 07/06/2026

Accidental-bonsai raspberry update: preschooler reports “best raspberry ever”. I’ll have to take her word for now. So we’ll be looking forward to when this plant settles in and starts giving us more berries. Next up looks to be the wonky “fall gold” raspberries from the quoted post. 🌱

A close up photo of a red raspberry growing on a very small raspberry cane. The raspberry is only a few centimetres from the ground.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 07/06/2026

Surprisingly just 1 (licorice) but most of my aversions are uncommon and get met with shocked disbelief. This makes me sound like a food aversion hipster but it’s really just a weird set of foods that make my tongue itch to think about

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 01/06/2026

Here’s a pretty clear example of the importance of pollinators! Those underdeveloped berries didn’t get fully pollinated. They’re closer to ripe than the others because they’re from the plant’s first blossoms of the season. When ripe they’ll be fine to eat, just ugly. 🌱 🐝

A close up photograph of a raspberry plant with several green berries on it. Some of them look normal but some of them are missing most of their drupelets (the small segments each containing one seed that together make up a single raspberry). In this case, poor pollination is the culprit as these berries came from the plant’s first flowers of the season - they didn’t get enough attention from pollinators while the flowers bloomed. The later flowers didn’t have that problem and their berries are developing fine.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 31/05/2026

This raspberry transplant had a rough time compared to the other 2 but it looks like it’s going to bounce back and even give us a couple berries this season. Planted 3 types: purple, red, yellow. I picked this Tulameen for the red one because I like camping at the provincial park at Tulameen 🌱

A photograph of a small raspberry plant, Tulameen variety. A dead stick (what’s left of the original cane cutting) protrudes upward about a foot, twice as tall as the living growth. A single unripe raspberry cries “we’ll make it! Just you wait, I am but the first of many!”

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 27/05/2026

I know my children have a psychic bond because how else would the older have a perfect ability to play quietly for 40 minutes and then at the precise moment the younger falls asleep for a nap barrel past her room shrieking “Cinnamoroll, I’m flyyyyying!”

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 20/05/2026

Teaching the preschooler the joy of gnawing on a mango pit. Bittersweet as it means fewer pits for me in the future, but sharing my joy of food with the kid is almost as satisfying. I guess.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 19/05/2026

Bill C-22 is an invasive, dangerous overstep. If you think “if you’re not doing illegal stuff you have nothing to worry about,” you are either disingenuous or ignorant. Canadians, please consider contacting your MP to demand they oppose this bill.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 10/05/2026

The guy she quoted thinks he can tell when a woman has been assaulted in her past. Which means that the women in his life can tell that he’s not a safe person to share that information with.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 09/05/2026

I know some people think it’s a waste of time to try to mimic animal products instead of just making good vegan food. But imitations can be really useful in making the switch away from animal products easier for people who like the taste but not the ethics. This meets them where they’re at.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If there's one thing I care about more than trans rights its that people at the lowest rungs of society have gifts and talents that equal that at the highest, and their gifts are being squandered, and no one really internalizes that or cares.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 07/05/2026

I did not keep my flower tags because I lack foresight and do not learn from past mistakes, but I am pretty sure this is a double petunia. At this moment it is my favourite flower in the whole wide world. Look at these lil guys just givin’er! 🌱

A photograph of a pot of flowers centred on a pair of purple blooms. The petals are rugfly and are pale at the edges, darkening to black towards the middle.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 06/05/2026

If “transphobia hurts you too, cis people” is the only way to get certain cis people on board with opposing transphobia, so be it, I guess. But I sure wish “transphobia hurts trans people” was enough for those people

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 03/05/2026

Ok so this has had me ruminating on family resemblance since yesterday. I have a nephew, I’ve always privately thought he didn’t get any of his dad’s looks and I can’t see my brother in him at all. But I can see my nephew in my own daughter sometimes in a way that always stops me short.

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TheAllergyGirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @theallergygrrl.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It’s always “you’re autistic” and never “thank you for telling me everything you know about mega man”

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 30/04/2026

So far I have not been subjected much to Baby Shark but the kids have just discovered Watermelon Meow Meow, they both love it, and I’m not sure but I think I might like it better if they just went back to fighting

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Meg Adams (ArtbyMoga) @artbymoga.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

“Trusted Adult” (2026)

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 25/04/2026

Funny he talks about hammers. The aphorism “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” comes to mind when people are insisting that LLMs are great for all sorts of use cases that they currently are not, if ever they will be.

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 23/04/2026

This banger is hardly ever the Sesame Street Number of The Day segment and that is a damn shame. Look, the Martians are great and all but how can you even compare

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Sesame Street: Number 10 (Number of the Day Song)

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social · 22/04/2026

Tulips are finally open and showing off their insides. Nice to see! And a bonus pic of radish sprouts because I’m very excited to get the food garden going. 🌱

A photograph of several tulips with their petals open. The two in the front are showing inside the blooms. The petals are yellow with red streaks of varying width so as to give an orange impression to the flowers.

A close up photograph of a tulip in bloom, described in more detail in the previous photograph. The red gets more pronounced treats the centre of the flower, solid red at the base of the petals.

A close photograph of some very young radish sprouts, growing in a crooked line across some soil flecked with organic debris and white specks of perlite.

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