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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

I was cleaning out the glass display aquarium from the "Ant Show" earlier this week and found that one worker had managed to hide in there all week! She's been separated from her colony for days in some ant version of #thebackrooms -- she seemed very happy to go back home and is now in a big […]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

This is an excellent a-political explainer about why the actual act of Alberta, or any province, "separating" from Canada is a very difficult, maybe impossible, prospect. It's worth the time (14 minutes) Including if you're not Canadian and want a relatively quick summary of the some of the […]

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David Mitchell :CApride: @davidm-yeg.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

Something to keep in mind: when your nations enemies decide to try a knockout strike before they attack you, all those mega-project data centres they want to build next to your community will be prime targets. 🤷‍♂️

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David Mitchell :CApride: @davidm-yeg.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

I knew there were concerns about high inflation, but 1000% between the first sentence and the middle is remarkable!

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

"Energy experts say some countries are better positioned to weather this energy crisis than they would have been just a few years ago. That's because of the rapid growth of renewable energy, battery systems and electric vehicles." "With a stroke," he says, "this war has dramatically increased […]

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David Mitchell :CApride: @davidm-yeg.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

My inner nihilist is loud this morning: This <gestures broadly at the world> isn’t going to end well … we’re all going to die.

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Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

Looking for the first film adaptation of The Hobbit, except it's psychedelic, reads like fan fiction written by a fourth grader, was made in just a month, is only 12 minutes long and yet is somehow faithful to the core energy and story beats, was used to hustle Tolkien out of $100,000, and was […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

At the risk of sounding like tipper gore i think it’s bad that games where you shoot people keep getting more and more photorealistic

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I've sat outside in cities, small towns, and even on our family farm in the middle of corn and soybean fields, just listening. The one thing that always breaks through is the sound of cars. Engines, exhaust, or tires on pavement, they are always there, breaking the silence.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is REALLY important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature/green in cities isn’t the density of buildings or the density of people — it's the density of cars. And the better designed your density of people and buildings is, the fewer cars you need or want.

High density mixed-use neighbourhood in downtown Vancouver with FIVE rows of street trees creating “kissing canopies.“

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Anne @annecavicchi.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

Most prostate cancer, if detected early, can be treated and cured. If the cancer has spread, it is typically incurable and symptoms are just managed with hope of some extra time and quality of life. Guys, please get checked regularly. If your Dr doesn’t mention testing, insist on it. If […]

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Fella 🦝 @debread.yeen.town.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Flight attendants had to move my giant yoshi plush to an empty seat in the back because it was taking too much room in the ceiling compartment, look a what they did to him 😭😭

My huge yoshi plush wearing flight safety equipment with graham crackers and jack daniels

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

I saw southern auroras last night!!!! Rakiura! Holy cow that was AMAZING (View from a bit south of Arthur's Pass, New Zealand)

A nighttime view looking to the south, with the Milky Way stretching across the left portion of the photo, and the two Magellanic clouds visible as little puffs of cloudy stars, with blazingly bright pink and orange aurora pillars low on the horizon. The auroras are also visible reflected in a lake that's just barely visible in the starlight, with silhouetted mountains on each side of the image.

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David Mitchell :CApride: @davidm-yeg.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

A visitation of Cedar Waxwings, who are never seen alone in winter but travel by hundreds…

A snowy suburban backyard with a crab apple tree. At first glance, there are dozens of birds on the ground, but on closer inspection you can see that there are just as many in the crab apple tree. At this time of year they travel in large flocks (hundreds, sometimes more than a thousand) visiting crab apples, ash, and other fruit bearing trees.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Worthwhile analysis about the view of the Iran War from the Israeli perspective (it differs from what the US public usually hears):

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la
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I have talked to some Israeli officials and read a good deal of Israeli media.
Here is how the war in Iran is perceived there so far:
1) On a tactical level, they believe it has gone very well and Israel has destroyed more of the Iranian military capability than expected.
2) They are disappointed that the regime has not been weakened as much as expected and that they remain in firm control. In particular the lack of a
"rise up" among the population is a cause of concern.

3) They are finding Trump to be unreliable. While Israel favors a prolonged campaign to ensure total dismantlement of threats, Trump has signaled a desire to end the war "soon," creating a potential rift in war aims.
4) Hezbollah is stronger than expected.
It has hit Israel with drones and missiles and killed soldiers. They have recovered better than expected.
5) The inability of Ben-Gurion airport to withstand closing and chaos has shown fragility in Israeli social cohesion.
6) They are disappointed in the lack of support from Gulf States who want an end to the war rather than the escalation Israel wants.
7) Israel accepts that the regime in Tehran will survive and just hopes that this weakens them in preparation for the next round.

8) There is a growing fear among Israeli strategists that they are winning the war but losing the region. While military targets are being obliterated, the civilian infrastructure damage is causing a backlash.
9) The war is proving very expensive.
The need to divert NIS 28 billion ($9 billion) to the military has forced the government to freeze social projects, leading to the first significant antigovernment protests since the war began, specifically from the middle class bearing the tax burden.
10) They are aware that the war is very unpopular in the US and that Israel is being blamed. They are concerned about the ramifications for the alliance.
While Netanyahu is painting this as a huge success, it really doesn't look like one to Israeli strategic planners. The public knows it as well.

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David Mitchell :CApride: @davidm-yeg.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

So a couple of yahoos jump out of a car at 4 am and fire a handgun at the US embassy, and Doug Ford’s barely veiled racist response is, “I believe there are sleeper cells all over the world” and “Folks, we all grew up here” and “we have to weed these people out and hold them accountable” 😞 […]

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 11/03/2026

This is from 1975.

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

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Owlor 🦋 @owlor.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Switching to red streetlights solve a common problem faced by every city: The night time is insufficiently goth. With your help and some public pressure on lawmakers we can help make night time more goth.

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David Mitchell :CApride: @davidm-yeg.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Another month, another floor crossing: another reminder that we elect individuals to represent us, not parties. For all the people I hear expressing a feeling of betrayal - she doesn’t represent you: maybe check in with your nunavummiut friends before you decide what their representative should […]

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Darnell Clayton :verified: @darnell.one.darnell.one.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

It would take decades for #America 🇺🇸 to embrace #Norway’s 🇳🇴 prison philosophy, but after watching this video I believe it would be wiser for the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 to consider it. 👉🏾 Why Luxury Prisons are Actually Genius youtu.be/svGPePk2Tac In America 🇺🇸, our prison system is run by […]

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Edinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Winter cycling in Scandinavia is not because people are unusually hardy but because of consistent planning choices, reliable maintenance and a cultural commitment to cycling as an everyday activity.

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Edinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Note that there are higher cycling rates in Scandinavian cities in winter than there are in Scottish cities in summer! Weather is not an excuse for not providing better infrastructure to enable safe cycling for all year round.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

Very proud and excited to vote in the NDP leadership race today!! This is not the first time I've voted in a Federal leadership race... more on that later but first, my choices! I considered only voting for two people, but I ended up filling in all 5 […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A screenshot from my ballot shows my rankings:
(1) Tanille JOHNSTON
(2) Avi LEWIS
(3) Heather MCPHERSON
(4) Tony MCQUAIL
(5) Rob ASHTON

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

Jenny O’Connell-Nowain was ready to go to jail. She had been prepared to spend six months in the custody of the Shasta county sheriff’s office. One of the top prosecutors in this part of far northern California had presented the evidence against her in a weeklong trial, and a jury had […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

The US military has infinite resources and could have hired infinite people to draw up target lists, and they could have made a mistake in those target lists. Military error is not unique to AI, even if it intensifies it and mechanizes it. Previously they would have blamed bad intel, fog of war […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

It's international women's day. Lots of articles and toots are being posted about women in various industries, sports etc... An unfortunately far too common phrasing will be to use the word "females" instead of women, or girls, or women and girls. Now there's a strong grammatical argument that […]

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Velocirooster adminensis :bc: @theropologist.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Just a reminder: No matter how much you wish violence upon someone, no matter how evil and vile and reprehensible they are, no matter how sure you are that they deserve to be removed from this earth, either by intentional action or happenstance, Beige Party is not the platform for expressing […]

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Kevin Patrick O’Ghoul 🍅🥫 @kevin.doyle.boston.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Going to Tucson for work, what’s good there? (boost my good fediverse friends)

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

File this under “no shit Sherlock” Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn | CBC Calgary #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #canpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/albe…

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

Excellent. Hold the #parents accountable. Father of #Georgia #SchoolShooter found guilty of #murder & #manslaughter #ColinGray, the father of Georgia school shooter #ColtGray, was found #guilty of murder & manslaughter charges Tuesday in a case testing the limits of who is responsible for a […]

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The Township of Centre Wellington (Elora and Fergus) is planning a new fixed route transit system. For now, they're planning for three routes to start within the Elora-Fergus area, augmenting the existing RideWell county on-demand service and the GOST link to Guelph. www.connectcw.ca/transitstudy

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Transit Feasibility Study

The Township is conducting a public transit feasibility study. Our goal is to assess the demand to expand on the existing public transit options currently in place.

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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

And so it begins! At least a week later than last year, but the first of Wifebot's daffodils has finally made an appearance in the garden! We ended up with 25 varieties blooming last year, so watch this space and we'll see who comes next... (last year's final […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

I can’t stop thinking about Nurul Shah Alam, the disabled refugee who died after Border Patrol left him outside in the cold with no way to contact friends or family. It took five days for him to die. He was blind and didn’t speak English. They took the pole he was using as a cane. This man […]

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David Mitchell :CApride: @davidm-yeg.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

It feels important to say some things that ought to be self evident: Don’t trust anyone who says they will bring peace with a sword. Peace has never and will never come through violence. Slaughtering people will never make the world a better place. Violence does not beget peace, it only begets […]

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Mood for today...

A cartoon shows a man and a woman walking side by side on a street. Both are well dressed. The caption reads, "My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.”

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James M Branum - יעקב מתתיהו ☮ @jmb.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Since it is Shabbat I'm going to keep my remarks brief.. 1. Preemptive US military attacks without Congression approval violate the US constituion. 2. Preemptive attacks by the USA and the state of Israel violate the UN charter, a treaty that both countries have signed. 3. The Iranian regime […]

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David Mitchell :CApride: @davidm-yeg.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Why? Why now? “A war is a time when we will be told not to ask questions. But a war is actually when questions must be asked." ~ Timothy Snyder #USPol

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

“Canada supports the United States…..” these are the only words that matter and I’m sorry what? This is “our” position? No. I reject this!! Canada has stood for humanitarian law and international peace and security for nearly a century. We should be a “Middle Power” with values. Right? Wasn’t […]

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/02/2026

In 1938, the German Reich invalidated all German Jewish passports. They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as a Jew. In 2026, the state of Kansas invalidated all correct trans drivers licenses. They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as trans.

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

Hotel Sakartvelo. One of many abandoned resort buildings scattered across the spa town of Tskaltubo in western Georgia. Once part of a busy Soviet-era holiday industry, the hotel is now an empty shell of concrete and broken stairwells. To capture this shot, I […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

An abandoned Hotel Sakartvelo's decaying interior showcases multiple zig-zagging concrete stairwells.An abandoned Hotel Sakartvelo's decaying interior showcases multiple zig-zagging concrete stairwells.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

Trump wants only sanitized patriotic history. Questioning the morality of the United States, he says, is untruthful and insane. It's treason. But.. "A state in which no one doubts the 'rightness of its cause' is a state in which politics has ceased to exist." The end of politics is the […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

I covered the fundraising matters. I then asked the group if they would like an unscheduled presentation from me on First Amendment law and legitimate government regulation of assembly and speech. I said I thought it apropos since NK3 in Santa Fe is going to be a celebration of democracy and […]

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