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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 08/10/2026
"The party’s plan includes setting a clear provincial electrification target, with an initial goal for electricity to meet at least 35 per cent of B.C.’s total energy needs by 2035, up from 20 per cent today." Now we're talking. Real policy goals that matter. thenorthernview.com/2026/10/07/l...
thenorthernview.com
Lowan launches Greens economic vision for B.C. - The Northern View
Includes her party's plan to tax the ultra-wealthy
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Indigenous leaders from the Amazon and Canada joined Manitoba NDP Leah Gazan in Ottawa to call for urgent action to address climate emergencies and Canada’s violation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Indigenous leaders from the Amazon and Canada call for urgent climate action - APTN News
Indigenous leaders from the Amazon and Canada joined Manitoba NDP Leah Gazan in Ottawa to...
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Chad @cmdrwalrus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Petergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 30/09/2026
This is a fantastic thread about Strange New Worlds and you should all read it and think about it. And yes, I'm specifically talking to YOU. ...no, not you. You understood all this from the start. You know who I'm talking about. They need to read this and think about it.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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UnionMaidNS.bsky.social @unionmaidns.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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First Nation plans to flout Alberta law that restricts gender-affirming care for transgender youth
Asserting treaty rights, Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it will establish safe haven for the treatment on reserved lands
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People treat the disabled as invisible. They look past us. They ignore us. Rashawn Williams has Down Syndrome and was lost. He approached Metro workers and no one helped him. He ended up in their “refuge area” for 6 days because no one checked on him. He survived but deserved so much better:
washingtonpost.com
Lawsuit details Metro station ordeal of disabled man who was trapped for days
Rashawn Williams, who has Down syndrome, was missing for six days when he was found alone in the dark at a Maryland Metro station.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
One thing that I find frustrating is how people conflate "the government shouldn't use the force of law to force arbitrary parking requirements" or "the public shouldn't pay for your car storage" with "no parking will exist". Developers can build parking if they think there's demand!
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is so awesome.
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👻 Wraith Frogstab 👻 @feche.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My heart goes out to friends and family of Ricki Allan Larson, as well as all who were involved - the responders, caregivers, witnesses, and the driver. This was a preventable tragedy. We need to understand what is driving these events and how we can stop it. Media has an important role. 🧵1/x
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 07/07/2026
“Many car owners assume they're fused to their machine, and don't need to walk anywhere. But even extreme users complete 20% of their trips by walking. This has profound implications. Even if a city claims to be vehicle-oriented, they still need to dedicate 20% of their mobility budget to walking."
A hand holds a book, "Shifting Mobility Part 1: Tranforming Planning and Design for New Human Mobility Code" by Dewan Masud Karim, in front of a busy pedestrian street in Delft.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
this is what i do at home. when i have excess energy i hoist bricks to the roof of my house and when im having a bad day i chuck them off to feel better
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
If vehicles keep swelling, cities “could lose between 8.5-14% of their on-street parking capacity by 2040. London and Berlin alone are each projected to shed around 100K spaces…in dense cities, it’s a major issue worldwide.” #Carspreading pushes out more than parking spots. Tax cars by the inch.
carscoops.com
Researchers Want To Tax Cars By The Inch To Stop Carspreading | Carscoops
Researchers argue that stopping vehicle growth could save lives, space, and billions in energy costs
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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Sharing my main campaign vid this evening. We will continue to stay focused on the issues that matter to our residents - from affordability and a strong local economy, to public safety in our urban centres and transportation investments to keep people moving. www.youtube.com/watch?v=enCe...
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Davis Kyle for Kelowna City Council
YouTube video by Davis Kyle
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Tom Ellison @123tomellison.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The must see visual from Propublica's brutal takedown of carbon capture magical thinking: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c... @amywestervelt.bsky.social @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social
On the left, a line graph showing a flat trajectory of actual carbon capture and storage contrasted with optimistic projections of it taking off into the future. On the right, a line graph showing actual solar electricity production skyrocketing ahead of all projections.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
theguardian.com
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 23/06/2026
Waiting to cross the street & a teen doing tricks on a Lime ebike hopped up over the curb & almost crashed into me. Then I got the light & started crossing in the crosswalk, where a driver of an SUV didn’t look for peds before turning right on red & almost hit me. Were they equal threats? 1/2
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 06/06/2026
The price we pay of inaction on safe streets is in the lives of our neighbors. It’s unacceptable, and I am sick and tired of the endless devaluing of life for the convenience of drivers. My heart goes out to this person’s loved ones. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Yeah, a reminder that I am aggressively anti Generative AI because I'm a consent educator. I know how consent works. And a world that says "You wrote a book? Cool, let me guzzle a lake's worth of water to steal that and repackage it" is a world I don't want to participate in.
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Mz Taylor @rhythmrunner.myatproto.social · 01/06/2026
Trans youth have courage. We must match their courage and fight this erosion of human rights and dignity.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It's really crazy to me what Trump and his enablers are trying to do to vaccines and public health. Child mortality used to be 50%(!). As recently as 1950, 25% of children died globally. Now it’s 4% globally and 0.3% in some rich countries, largely due to better public health and vaccines.
Graph showing that throughout history, child mortality was around 50%. It wasn’t until the 20th century that this number dropped dramatically.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 14/05/2026
When an AI-generated quote slips into the world’s most powerful newspaper, the damage doesn’t end with a correction notice. Michelle Cyca examines what the New York Times case reveals about collapsing newsroom standards—and the fragile state of public trust in media. ow.ly/Zsh650YZn0E
On the left: an image of newspaper crumpled into a ball on a red background. On the right: text that reads “The New York Times got caught using AI hallucinations in its reporting. Despite how the newspaper downplayed it, this is—in fact—a big deal”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
None of us alive will experience climate better than what we have now. How much worse it gets is up to us.
eos.org
2026 Has Already Broken Climate Records. El Niño Could Break More. - Eos
As the midpoint of the year approaches, several climate records have already been broken. Arctic winter sea ice extent reached a record low. Several countries saw record-breaking winter heat waves. An...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“Compassion is mocked as weakness, truth treated as disposable, and cruelty elevated into a governing principle. This is more than corruption. It signals the suffocation of civic culture under gangster capitalism”
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026
Comparing people’s living conditions in 1901 to now is already silly & serves no meaningful purpose so let’s talk about numbers that matter to Alive People In 2016 Elon Musk’s wealth was 11 billion dollars. Today it is 800 billion dollars. Federal minimum wage in 2009 was 7.25. Today it is 7.25.
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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Drivers hate driving. They tell us all the time. So naturally, their answer is to make driving mandatory for everyone. It's insane. It's sociopathic.
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Chad @cmdrwalrus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
WNBA star Sophie Cunningham HAS A PET DONKEY!! theprovince.com/sports/baske...
theprovince.com
Why WNBA star Sophie Cunningham calls new contract ‘frustrating’ despite big raise
Indiana Fever star recently signed a one-year deal worth $665,000 US, significant raise over her reported $100Gs salary in 2025. Read more.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Ah, more eugenicist shit. Not only does he hate disabled people he also hates people who care for the disabled. He's fucking trash.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
it also hasn't had a negative impact on his circumstances (other than maybe on his soul). he's doing fine. you don't get to call what he has going on a disability and equate it to actual disability until it impacts him negatively, sorry. there's no correlation between what he is and what I have
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Thanks everyone who came out to tonight's webinar to mark International Anti-Street Harassment Week! If you missed it, I hope you'll join me for the next one to honour Sexual Assault Awareness Month! Register today and get automatic email reminders! zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Community care is possible

May 20, 2026
Noon - 1 PM EST

Free webinar on bystander intervention to mark sexual assault awareness month
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/04/2026
Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."
theguardian.com
$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"Chevron executive says Americans should drive less" is just chef's kiss
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Chevron executive Andy Walz suggests Americans should drive less amid high gas prices
"People should try to drive less. They should try to conserve energy," Andy Walz told CBS News. "We should be doing that all the time. Energy's essential for people's lives, but we should conserve it....
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
To all the driver's texting while in your vehicle, come join us on public transit. You can text all you want and bonus, you won't be taking the lives of others in your hands! #PSA
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 14/04/2026
For the first time since 2015, we have a majority without a majority of the vote. Instead of focusing on safe seats, swing seats, or floor-crossings, let's fix the system with proportional representation. It is time for a democracy that reflects every vote through cooperation.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Carney suspending federal gas tax to provide relief to drivers. Problem: There is physically less oil available now. Cutting taxes doesn’t create more gasoline. Some way or another, people have to use less. The mechanism that makes that happen is higher prices.
cp24.com
Carney government to temporarily suspend federal gas tax starting next week
The federal government is set to temporarily suspend the federal fuel excise tax on gas and diesel starting next week.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"I have been called the R-word and that makes me feel less than human. It invalidates my experience as a person, and every time I hear that word, it makes me feel like we’re going back to the old days—when they used to use that word to justify putting us in institutions."
thearc.org
The Truth About the R-Word, From the People It Hurts Most
The R-word is not just a word—it’s a slur that harms people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Read powerful firsthand stories of the pain this word causes.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/04/2026
People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11/04/2026
I have literally represented people who went to report their assaults AND ENDED UP CHARGED WITH CRIMES THEMSELVES and THEY WERE TELLING THE TRUTH. I have spoken with women who went to the police after being assaulted and the response from the police was to proposition them. So maybe shut up.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Today I joined Indigenous women’s organizations condemning the Liberal government's appalling $7 billion cuts to Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations, two ministries that are already grossly underfunded. (🧵 1/5)
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Jamieson Roberts @jamiesonroberts.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We need to become an electro state, and give up on being a controlled petro state
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Trump says environmentalists are terrorists. I say the US is the greatest threat to our children’s futures. Washington needs an urgent regime change & the world needs radical systemic change if we’re going to give our kids even a chance of surviving the coming decades.
theguardian.com
US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
150-300 kids are abducted by strangers nationwide each year. 150,000+ are injured in car crashes, 1000+ killed. We need to make our streets safer. And apparently we need to give Life After Cars to Bay Area parents (I read the chapter with these figures this morning). @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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Climate and Transit @climateandtransit.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It’s 2030 The average cost of gas is $12 a gallon A new car costs $100k Americans are still calling public transit and bike infrastructure a waste.
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