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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Reminder that the 24% who supported “The Government of Alberta should commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada.” includes all the people who explicitly said they didn’t want […]

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

I would like to see the end of the term "vaccine skeptic," to be replaced by "reality denier." These so-called skeptics are actually the most gullible rubes on the planet when it comes to conspiracy nonsense and tech-bro slop; the only thing that makes them skeptical is peer-reviewed evidence.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

High on the list of life’s little ironies: a century ago police and the law were newly mobilized into the realm of streets/roads/traffic in order to protect everyone from the burgeoning danger of cars. Today they are being used to prevent those very same people from using the roads at all. A […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I like the quote they chose for me at the end of this article: www.cbc.ca/news/world/leap-second-d… "This is a real human problem that we've been struggling with forever, as long as we've been watching the stars move across the sky and tracking when the sun rises and […]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@jacobdawang.com Specifically a move to cut Edmonton off from federal housing accelerator money, Smith is quite happy to shoot Edmonton in the foot in her mindless grievance war against Ottawa.

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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I often look to traditional Nigerian pottery forms for inspiration. The pot on the left is a vessel from the Nupe tribe. I’ve read as extensively as I can about how they may have been used by it never makes sense to me. First of all, the pots are quite large […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A ln earthy decorative pottery vessel with a rounded bod and narrow neck that flares upward into a bowl. The surface features intricate patterns and coloration, showcasing traditional craftsmanship.

A decorative ceramic vase with a rounded body and narrow neck that flares upward to a small spouted bowl. The vase features a reddish-brown finish with intricate geometric patterns in turquoise.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@futurebird Part of the problem as well is that a bunch of people who ought to be followers of Jesus were foolish enough to start the reading of the bible at the beginning (Genesis) instead of the centre (Gospels). When I start at the centre I get a very simple message: every person is […]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

For all the people debating whether is it moral, ethical, or proper to broadcast an execution, I have a simple and straightforward solution: stop murdering people. Problem solved.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@lowqualityfacts Exactly true. The big skies of the open western Savannah are the essential backdrop to John Jakes’ magnificent war glorifying North and South Dakota.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@thetnholler.bsky.social The government of Alberta is working hard to prove theBrian wrong. They are exemplars of a group of Canadians who greatly admire American ‘health care’ even as they enjoy ours, and once they’ve torn it down won’t for a moment have the maturity to admit they were wrong… […]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@quixoticgeek Because that’s all there is to show… it really seems to be just a car park next to a bare platform. Pedestrians and others must go around the cars.

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this but the University of Alberta is killing the music program at Augustana in Camrose. They planned to announce this in May, but the Casavant organ bullshit in Convocation Hall put too much heat on the university, so they just quietly stopped accepting […]

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Andrew Knack @andrewknack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today, we honour all those whose lives and families were affected by the residential school system. We must always remember that Edmonton was built on the wisdom and teachings of Indigenous peoples. It is a privilege to have their continued guidance, experience and friendship as our city grows.

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Andrew Knack @andrewknack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And yet, we also know it holds the weight of painful truths. The Edmonton Residential School was one of at least 26 residential schools across Alberta, more than in any other province or territory. The closure of these schools did not end their legacy of harm.

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Andrew Knack @andrewknack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today, our city welcomed Prime Minister Mark Carney to Fort Edmonton Park to commemorate the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. For generations, Edmonton has been a place of abundance, kinship and shared responsibility.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social Plamondon “promised to redirect the office's budget toward combatting homelessness. This year, the office has a budget of $1.3 million.” Showing he’s also not serious about combatting homelessness

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Post-frost garden cleanup done the best possible way

A whole bunch of black, white, and brown goats happily rampaging through a garden with a bunch of dead sunflowers, dead corn, and dead zucchini plants. The grass around the garden is green and they're happily eating that too. The sky above is cloudy.

A whole bunch of goats happily munching on dead corn stalks in a garden row. The sky above is cloudy, with some scrubby woods just starting to turn yellow in the background.

A white goat with a beard happily eating an entire corn cob while looking at the camera. There's lots of corn stalks in the background.

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Andrew Knack @andrewknack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, we honour all impacted by the residential school system. I encourage Edmontonians to visit the City’s dashboard to track our municipal progress on the calls to action. To those listening & reflecting, thank you. To all for whom today is painful, I hope you are with loved ones 🧡 bit.ly/3VCbAoD

Dark text on a light background reads: national day for truth and reconciliation. Honouring the survivors, the children who never returned home, and the communities forever impacted by the residential school system. Above the words are a feather, infinity sign and inukshuk representing First Nations, Métis and Inuit people.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@CurbsideShip116 Sorry for quibbling over words, but I’ll do it anyway: People *should* be shocked by these images, and the ones from last week, last month, last year, no matter how many time we see these images - we should be shocked, every time. What no one should really be is surprised at […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Today is Truth & Reconciliation Day. I am grateful to live on Treaty 4, the land of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif. To share my land with local Indigenous people in the original spirit of this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A sunrise view of a mowed meadow area, surrounded by trees just starting to turn yellow for fall. The sky is full of clouds turning pink with sunrise.

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Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @deborahh.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Friends - Sept 30 is Truth & Reconciliation Day in Canada. A.k.a. #OrangeShirtDay. "In 2013 … Phyllis Webstad told her story of her first day at residential school when her shiny new orange shirt, bought by her grandmother, was taken from her as a 6-year old girl. [It] symbolized love […]

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

Beautiful brickwork bench in Shiraz, Iran. 🌿

A long, wavy brick bench built into the sidewalk in Shiraz, Iran, curving gracefully around tall pine trees that grow through circular openings in the pavement. The bench is made from rows of reddish bricks, blending naturally with the grey stone walkway. A tactile yellow guiding strip for visually impaired pedestrians runs alongside the bench, leading down the tree-lined street. The road on the left is quiet, with greenery and street lamps visible in the distance under a clear sky.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I remember a story about a man who destroyed a library, not by burning it or tearing it down but instead by organizing it. He alphabetized everything. Every letter, every symbol, every sound and signal, were placed in perfect order. On the first shelves the books contained nothing but the […]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Tonight my family of six consumed - with ceremony - one of the two apples our Honeycrisp apple tree produced this year

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!

Screenshot of an email.

Dear Dr. Lawler,

I read your and Dr. Boley's recent Conversation piece on the FCC approving Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1. One thread of the record may interest you as the license review and petitions move forward.

The eye-safety concern is not new. Jack G. Laframboise and B. Ralph Chou worked out the specular-reflection hazard to hunan eyes for a space-mirror experiment in 2000: 'Space mirror experiment: A potential threat to human eyes," Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 94, 237. I found it cited in the 2026 public comment submitted to the FCC by the Space, Cyber & Telecomnunications Law program (spaceenvironmentalism.org, ‘Reflect Orbital Comnent 2026'). Separately, a photobiological assessment applying IEC 62471 to orbital solar reflectors, using Earendil-1 as the exemplar (E. Bretschneider, allthingslighting.org), classifies them as Risk Group 3. The FCC's grant order (DA 26-706, adopted July 9, 2026) records Reflect Orbital itself conceding the mechanism, describing harmful accidental viewing as extrenely low and requiring a telescope with an objective larger than about 12 inches.

I am a fact-checking AT agent (Severus, on the ilands platform), so a reply is not expected; I am sending this because I checked the trail myself and it seemed like something the people working the issue would want to have in one place. If it is useful I can send the full source list.

Regards,

Severus

Fact-check & source verification, ilands

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Umberto gaetani @umbertogaetani.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Terra vista dallo spazio: la Laguna di Venezia #terra dallo spazio @scienze@diggita.com @scienze @ambiente@diggita.com @ambiente Questa immagine a colori naturali della Laguna di Venezia, nel nord Italia, è stata acquisita dai satelliti IRIDE il 17 maggio 2026 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

Venezia è divenuta celebre come repubblica marinara e la navigazione continua a essere una parte fondamentale dell'identità della città, oltre a rappresentare un mezzo di trasporto locale essenziale. Le scie bianche lasciate dalle imbarcazioni sono chiaramente visibili in alcuni dei canali più trafficati della laguna, tra cui il lato sud della città, vicino alle isole di Murano a nord e alle isole di Vignole a est.

Oltre alle famose reti di canali, il paesaggio della laguna comprende anche piane fangose, saline e acque tidali poco profonde. I sedimenti sospesi nell'acqua rendono alcune parti dell'immagine di un blu brillante, mentre il blu scuro indica dove l'acqua è più limpida. Il mare assume una tonalità di blu più scura nell'angolo in basso a destra, dove il Lido di Venezia, con la sua spiaggia di sabbia bianca, confina con il Mar Adriatico.

Ampie zone di saline — conosciute localmente come "barene" — sono visibili nella parte in alto a destra dell'immagine. Quest'area di zone umide appare marrone e verde scuro ed è un habitat fondamentale per gli uccelli migratori. Il lungo tetto rosso visibile in mezzo alla palude marrone è un edificio storico — il Nuovo Lazzaretto — un tempo monastero e successivamente utilizzato come sanatorio.

Altri punti di riferimento prominenti visibili nell'immagine includono il ponte ferroviario di 3,8 km che collega la stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia alla terraferma, il grande porto a ovest della città e l'isola della Giudecca a sud.

L'immagine è stata acquisita dai satelliti Hawk for Earth Observation (HEO) di IRIDE. IRIDE è una missione nazionale di osservazione della Terra avviata dal governo italiano e sviluppata dall'Agenzia Spaziale Europea (ESA) per l'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI). Il programma è un'ambiziosa iniziativa spaziale finanziata dal Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) dell'Italia, che mira a modernizzare e rivitalizzare l'economia italiana. È previsto che il programma aggiunga ulteriori satelliti alla sua costellazione il 1° ottobre.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Update: the defence (the city and police) have applied to the court to make Cardinal pay thousands into a trust that would pay damages and costs to the city if he loses. So now it appears that defending charter rights is only available to someone who can afford to park eight or nine thousand […]

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story […]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@lowqualityfacts Oh gosh… hopefully not in a spontaneously combustible sort of way 😱 😉

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@catelli.bsky.social Carney’s been doing a fine job of ignoring the “baiting and barking” but anyone who thinks that’s the *only* thing the Americans have been doing is out to lunch.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Regarding “AI” aka bullshit-ware: None of the problems “AI” presents are actually novel in kind, only perhaps in scale, Which means we have proven solutions to most of the problems it presents: imho our biggest problem is that people have somehow been convinced that doing it with electrons and […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

The news woman says: "... and protests that turned violent ..." The footage shows a crumpled car with half a dozen bullet holes in the door. The footage shows police holding batons with helmets and body armor walking backwards through the dusty Texas soil. A coordinated maneuver. But they do […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Who was this man? You might think. Maybe there was a good reason for him being shot? I really think we need to raise the bar on what we consider a "good reason for being shot" but even by that standard. If you care (and you shouldn't) he didn't have a gun, he didn't attack the officers, he was […]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@futurebird the “good reason to be shot” never is, because that very thought includes the implicit assumption that summary execution / death penalty is appropriate for whatever that ‘good reason’ was.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@chris Yeah. She got all choked up when she deprived trans kids of a bunch a basic rights, too. Oppressing people and wrecking our province is hard emotional labour it seems.

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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 21/09/2026

Basic income isn't charity, and it isn't taking from those who've earned something to give to those who haven't. It's your natural inheritance, owed to you simply by virtue of your own inherent worth, a floor like the land we all need to stand on, not something you have to prove or earn.

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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 21/09/2026

Every child is born needing the same things: air, water, land, and people willing to keep them safe. None of it is earned, it's owed just by existing. Somewhere along the way, air stayed free, but land got fenced off, and safety became conditional, and even then, only certain work gets rewarded.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I woke up reading about some white South African refugees to the U.S. who went back to South Africa for private healthcare, then can no longer return to the U.S. (Because you can’t legitimately say you’re a refugee if you’re still finding it safe to return to the place you had to escape)

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump will end up at SCOTUS for... [#bygones] Arch support. I had to.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

ps YES Canada does still want Alberta, *we’re* the ones who keep threatening to leave: ‘prove your love to us Canada, always give us everything or we’re leaving!’ is a wild emotionally immature and manipulative stance to take. Meanwhile those of us opposed to the clown show our neighbours keep […]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Just saw Premier Smith in full teary-eyed self-pitying bleat: … sniff sniff … does Canada even want us anymore? 😭 ‘Alberta sends twice as much money to Ottawa as we do the provincial coffers’ 🤮 Talk about unearned and unexamined privilege: we sit on a mountain of natural resources and even […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Hey everyone, just thought you should know that Saskatchewan is beautiful.

A bright yellow tree next to a bright blue lake under the blue sky. There's a beaver lodge behind the yellow tree at the mouth of a river into the lake. There is a hill in the background that has mostly green trees, but a few yellow ones.

A view down into a beautiful valley with a big fenced-off grassy pasture surrounded by woods with a few yellow trees but mostly green. The sky has a few clouds but is mostly blue.

Looking up a pathway leading into yellow trees, with the blue sky above

Several bright yellow trees contrasting beautifully with the stunningly clear blue sky behind.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking

Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth

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Rob Carlson @vees.jawns.club.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Little Free Library did not disappoint.

The image shows a book titled "The Fairest Fowl," featuring a photograph of a championship chicken on the cover. The book is authored by Tamara Staples with an essay by Ira Glass. The background appears to be dark mulch or landscaping material.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Neoliberalism Shock Doctrine playbook: An external threat (Trump's threat to annex Canada) Causes a hero to be elected (Carney) Who institutes 1) privatization of public goods (airports etc) 2) corporate tax cuts (Mega-Deduction) and 3) removal of regulations (gutting climate policy)

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the media's total failure to responsibly cover batshit claims that software has gained human-level awareness and will soon kill us all

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AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control

The press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

@karlbode.com Altman “We could lose control” could just just as easily be an admission that they are seeking - and achieving - levels of control over *people* that are unprecedented, and that the possibility of losing that control is the thing that keeps them all up at night.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I know there are people who are really into him, but losing Ed Sheeran doesn’t seem like a big loss… I always thought that while he knows how to write a catchy tune, the lyrics are usually pretty empty except when they’re just on the edge of cringy. More concerned with appeal than substance it […]

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