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Chef, nutrition manager, culinary professor, dog person, scotch aficionado, and grilled cheese enthusiast.

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Jeromy Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We need to talk about the separatists selling out our city and province. MAGA operatives came to Calgary to help carve up our country. Meanwhile, separatist leaders went to Washington promising our water, our oil, and our land. If you want to live in the United States, move to the United States.
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fact.
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Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today: Ukrainian train reserves are almost depleted after Russian attacks on railways. Ukraine is now looking to Europe whose railways have the same track gauge as Ukraine’s to supply additional rolling stock.
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Russia’s new drive to crush Ukraine
Moscow’s relentless offensive on cities and ports has halted the country’s grain exports, severing an economic lifeline
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Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Information that turns into action.​ Your donations provide our Ukrainian reporters with bullet proof vests, helmets, medicine, and emergency power packs.​ Get involved at www.counteroffensive.news
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The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak | Substack
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy. Issues 3x a week...
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Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CAT OF CONFLICT: Ally’s Compot the cat feels extremely exhausted after the latest strikes on Kyiv.
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Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Ukraine may decriminalize porn to boost its budget, but critics warn it could lead to exploitation. But it would be transformative for Sofya, an OnlyFans creator who has used the platform to raise money for the military.
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Porn decriminalization to fund the war effort?
Ukraine is one of the few European countries where porn production is illegal. As lawmakers weigh decriminalizing the industry to help refill a war-drained budget, anti-porn activists are worried.
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Heat (1995) @heatfilm1995.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Because she got a GREAT ASS!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Guess which other narcissistic, mentally unstable authoritarian leader called for an arch and a ballroom to be built as grand monuments to his glory. I'm sure it's just a coincidence . . .
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My high school calculus teacher came to our event🥹 Thank you Mrs. McDonald!
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David Benjamin @drdavidbenjamin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You’ll love this one. In this video I explain three reasons why Trump’s cult is finally beginning to collapse. And it’s his own fault lol 😂
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DOCTOR: Trump is KILLING his OWN CULT (and he doesn't even know it)
YouTube video by The United Front Show
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This is Patrick 🍁 @chefpat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#goodlunch
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This is Patrick 🍁 @chefpat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Mineral? You can fuck me up again, any time.
A side-on view of a white, wide-rimmed, shallow soup plate filled to the just below the rim with a reddish rhubarb broth. In the broth is roasted eggplant with green and yellow beans on top of it. Resting on the beans is a perfectly cooked white piece of skin-on fish with the skin side up, garnished with thin slices of radish.A top-down picture of a gold-rimmed white plate, with thinly-sliced pineapple carpaccio, crispy veggies, and tiny caviar-sized balls of puffed corn. There is a gold fork resting on the upper right rim of the plate, tines pointed towards the centre of the plate.
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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 20/07/2026
Remake RoboCop but give him a really loud CPU fan.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
How about politicians, Nigel? Do you think that MPs and party leaders who consort with and promote rapists and paedophiles should also be jailed ... meme via The Raging Left
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FrameToFrameNature @frametoframenature.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We have noticed an increase in the number of used tires we are seeing along farm roads in the #Greenbelt. Farmers we know have told us there has seen an increase in the numbers over the past year. Now we know why, yet again #Ontario it is because of Doug Ford. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Abandoned tires along a farm road in the Ontario, Greenbelt.
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Paul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Note that in the past, the members of the advisory panels were mostly, if not all, distinguished physicians, pharmacists, and scientists who were experts in the field. If you are curious as to whether there is ANY rationale for approving these peptides, this answer from chatGPT is helpful.
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Paul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
These peptides are “research-grade” and supporting data were primarily animal and in vitro results. Typical large scale blinded clinical trials for safety and efficacy have not been done. This is the Wild West.
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Paul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
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FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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FrameToFrameNature @frametoframenature.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
CTV News: "Ford has called the expense claims “unacceptable” and has said that he has directed the MPPs to pay back “every single penny.” Only problem Doug Ford is that they work for you & you didn't even know what they are doing with taxpayer money. Why Ford? www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Fewer than 1 in 4 Ontarians approve of job Doug Ford is doing as Liberals maintain lead: survey
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s approval rating continues to slip amid a hotel expense scandal that has dogged his government  and at least one new survey now suggests that the Liberals have opened up a n...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
3 families got a knock on the door this weekend telling them their soldier isn’t coming home. Trump called it the golden age of America the same weekend. Gas prices are climbing again b/c of his war. That’s the Epstein class playing with lives. #RepublicanCostOfCorruption
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Toronto’s public bikeshare is completely world class. Half the price of NYC, more winterized than Montreal, well integrated with transit.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We just won a months-long halt to the illegal merger between Paramount and Warner Bros.    Stopping this merger while our case proceeds is a critical victory in our efforts to uphold the law and protect the film and television industries.
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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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Ohwoisme @kmohwoisme.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You’re absolutely right. We should not have so many people on SNAP. Because jobs should pay enough FOR PEOPLE TO EAT.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Politically homeless? Hope you're sitting down,
Never Trump Republican? That’s a Republican. 
Liberal who is former Republican? Republican.
Moderate? You guessed it buddy.
Lifelong liberal who hates the left? You know what it is.
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · 24/07/2026
The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required | Electronic Frontier Foundation www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required
The court ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply…
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
‼️ The area of ​​the fire is 500 square meters: due to the strike of Russian drones on the trade facility, the buildings are damaged, goods are burning. Emergency services are working on the spot, - Zaporizhzhia OVA
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 24/07/2026
“We are volunteers with experience who have been here since the very first day, doing what we know best—cooking for people.” – Chef Ángel Lozada, Cocinando por Venezuela After last month’s earthquakes, Venezuelan chefs & volunteers came together with 1 shared purpose: feed their communities. (1/4)
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 09/07/2026
I don't know what to call the specific political tendency represented by Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Zaid Jilani, mostly because words sort of fail, but it isn't "the Left."
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 09/07/2026
The compromise I'm willing to make here is calling them Strasserites: but that requires understanding that this is a disease specific *to* the left: hating liberals more than fascists, obsessed with defeating liberalism, while believing an alliance with "working-class" fascist fans is possible.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Mexico's president Sheinbaum, condemned the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as another tragic death of people whose only offense is not yet having proper documentation; the government is preparing legal action and UN involvement over killings and abuses by the United States.
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Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Disappointing data on meningitis vaccine preventing Neisseria gonorrhoea infections Then again negative trial data is as useful as positive findings, so that we focus resources most effectively #IDSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Meningococcal B Vaccine to Prevent Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infection | NEJM
No vaccines are currently licensed for the prevention of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection. Observational studies suggest that the four-component meningococcal serogroup B vaccine (4CMenB) may reduce...
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Pembina Institute @pembina.org · 09/07/2026
Alberta’s new Meta #DataCentre will require more electricity than the entire city of Calgary — and with current policy has pushed it to be powered by natural gas. Other jurisdictions are pairing data centres with #renewables, but AB is focused on locking in increased gas usage. buff.ly/vkunKyg
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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
mitch mcconnell is brain dead. the USA were humiliated in the world cup. nigel farage just shat his pants on national television. a dark covenant has been made. pray for the soul who gave us this sacrifice.
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Ms. Lonnie🦋🩵🫂 @lonsj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Weapons used by Ukraine have proven superior Winning back the Black Sea And appears to be gaining back part of Crimea Congratulations Ukraine! united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
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“Russia Has Lost the Black Sea,” Zelenskyy Says
Ukraine's president states Russia has lost the Black Sea, citing significant Russian naval losses including 19 destroyed and 18 damaged vessels.
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Absolutely disgraceful. Robert Kennedy owns all of this. Every sick and dead child is on Robert Kennedy.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“Mr. Poilievre’s dismissive, attack-dog rhetoric only reinforces why he may never become a resident of 24 Sussex.” 🤷🏼🤫🤷🏼
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Kara Fagan 🇨🇦 Liberal @fagankara.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
www.canada.ca/en/natural-r... Retrofits undertaken via the Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program will help participants save between $300 and $1,700 in annual energy costs, and reduce their household’s annual greenhouse gas emissions by about 1.5 tonnes.
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Canada drives lower bills and cleaner energy in Quebec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Canada drives lower bills and cleaner energy in Quebec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Punk kids, maybe, but more likely it's the same kind of person who chops down & defaces speed cameras (co-signed by Premier Ford). The idea that motorists shouldn't be inconvenienced for one second is a bigger problem than one off graffiti though. This in a construction zone w people working...
cars driving along roadway in guelphconstruction zone with speed sign defacedspeed sign for 40 spray painted to say 50
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Trump is starving Cubans to death. In this episode, Meidas Canada host Charlie Angus speaks with journalist Ed Augustin who is on the ground in Havana about the brutal impacts of the Trump boycott on the island. youtu.be/W7aNFgJvclI?...
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CUBA SITUATION IS LIFE & DEATH - CANADA IS NEXT !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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This is Patrick 🍁 @chefpat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Pupdate
A white and brown puppy asleep on her back with her black nose towards the camera and looking very content, she is lying on a grey couch.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Trump’s looming defeat in Iran is a personal and political crisis. My latest for The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Trump’s looming defeat in Iran is a personal and political crisis | Robert Reich
Trump’s ego cannot accept a humiliating loss, and we are already seeing the effects of his failure playing out
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
OMFG RFK Jr's adviser Kulldorff, the anti-vaxx activist who co-authored the kooky Great Barrington Declaration—which pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination—is leading a HUGE effort, along with Bhattacharya's NIH, to prove vaccines are "helping to fuel an epidemic of chronic disease"
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... “Provincial funding austerity is shrinking the public hospital capacity required to ensure patients receive timely access to care” @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
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Wait times at Ontario emergency rooms have spiked over past 5 years, study says
Wait times for people seeking care at emergency departments across Ontario have dramatically increased over the past five years amid a “deepening Ontario hospital funding crisis,” according to a new r...
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Oh... what's that? N95s are recommended now for #hantavirus? www.who.int/docs/default...
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Taken together, these findings support a scenario of initial zoonotic introduction followed by subsequent human‑to‑human transmission during the outbreak. virological.org/t/preliminar...
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Preliminary analysis of Orthohantavirus andesense virus sequences from a cruise-ship related cluster, May 2026
Preliminary analysis of Orthohantavirus andesense virus sequences from a cruise-ship related cluster, May 2026. In May 2026, an Andes virus (ANDV) outbreak occurred aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise sh...
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I would not wait for evidence to start mitigating risk. Human faecal aerosol needs to be managed, as well as respiratory aerosol.
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.
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