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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox. ‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and…
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Erin Okuno @thiserin.bsky.social · 20h
"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Dusty Evely 🎃 @dustyevely.bsky.social · 9h
It's the content you've all been waiting for: long-snapper analysis babyyyyyyyyyyy! We're looking at the snap-to-hold operation on all 3 kicks from Smack yesterday. Snap location, hold lean, etc. Big fun. www.acmepackingcompany.com/green-bay-pa...
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Packers Film Room: Long snapping on kicks in Week 4
It’s time for the weekly high-res look at Matt Orzech’s snapping.
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Ottawa Seniors for Climate Action Now @scan-ottawa.bsky.social · 15h
BC student fought her school board for composting and recycling www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/05/o... the same is true in Ottawa since last January schools no longer have any paper or plastic recycling only green bin composting. What message are students getting as a result?
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BC student fought her school board for composting and recycling
In Grade 10, Melody Silva began pressing her Saltspring Island, BC, school to provide plastic recycling and composting. To her frustration and despite a strong economic argument and widespread student...
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14h
It's quite possible to do all these things, and also, not everyone has to or wants to go car-free. Simply replacing some car trips with bike trips is a step in the right direction. This all-or-nothing framing from anti-bike people is such bad faith bullshit.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 10h
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Sven the Fahrrad Guy @caffinyyc.bsky.social · 13h
Just because some people want to ride as fast & as far as possible doesn’t mean you have to do that. A relaxed fun ride is just as good & it still good for you. Hop on your bike & just ride for the fun of it. Enjoy! 😃👍🏻 #cycling #yycbike
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Nikki Budzinski @budzinski.house.gov · 14h
Every day, we lose an estimated 22 veterans to suicide. That is not a statistic we can accept. If you or a veteran you know is struggling, call or text 988 and press 1 for the Veterans Crisis Line.
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Training focuses on suicide prevention for veterans and families
A Louisville suicide prevention training taught veterans advocates how safe storage talks can help reduce firearm-related suicide deaths in Kentucky.
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 10h
In the last 3 Ontario elections, 40% of votes brought Doug Ford 100% of power. 71% want proportional representation. Check where Liberal candidates @lfairclough.bsky.social @stephaniebowman.bsky.social Dylan Marando @navdeepsbains.bsky.social stand on reform: www.fairvote.ca/ontariolible...
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Ontario Liberal Leadership 2026 - Where Do They Stand on Proportional Representation
Ontario Liberal leadership candidates - where do they stand on proportional representation?
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 9h
chat is this good
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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.
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Seniors for Climate Action Now @seniorsfcan.bsky.social · 13h
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/05/n...
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Energy regulator hands oil giants discount worth billions to use Trans-Mountain pipeline
The decision means that Canadians will not recoup the $40 billion in public funds spent on the project during the 20 year lifespan of its oil shipping contracts, according to regulatory filings. After...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10h
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 7h
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10h
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15h
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Ottawa Public Health @ottawapublichealth.ca · 11h
Join us on Wednesday, October 7, from 10 am to 3 pm at the Ron Kolbus Lakeside Centre (102 Greenview Avenue) for the 2026 Aging Well in Ottawa Fall Health Fair.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h
what an asshole
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(Debbie)🐕🐈🐘🐼☕️🎶⚖️🌊 @felicianmitzi.bsky.social · 23h
Some of us were barely t women Some of us told someone Some of us were quiet Some were told we were lying Some were told to forget about it and smile. I'm Jane Doe I'm the woman you don’t know I'm the girl who froze I'm the girl who said no I'm the one who spoke I'm every woman We're All Jane Doe
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Deer My Friends Folks are askeen what I have bin doing lately to pertect Ontario and I have bin busy fighteen communism by tearing out bike lanes, putting up really big signs and scaring folks about Chinese spy cars. I have also bin doing thousands of photo opps because that pertects Ontario 1000%.
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Dusty Evely 🎃 @dustyevely.bsky.social · 12h
I dug into some numbers from the Packers win over the Bucs. Got a lot of stuff in here but here's my favorite: Glover & Tomlinson each had a 3.3% pressure rate against. Last week, Monk had an 8.3% rate and Burton had an 18.2% rate. www.acmepackingcompany.com/green-bay-pa...
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Packers By The Numbers: Stats from the Week 4 win over the Bucs
Digging into some numbers on the Packers’ Week 4 victory over the Bucs
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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 13h
Per @albertkoehl.bsky.social's latest article in @spacing.bsky.social, "If bike lanes were actually removed today, the premier would lose his scapegoat. How would he then explain worsening motor traffic congestion?" Well said! #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
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OP-ED: It’s not just about bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
Whether it’s buck-a-beer, easier access to alcohol, or tunnelling under Highway 401, Doug Ford has proven himself to be a master of distraction, diverting attention from his government’s failures and ...
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Ottawa Seniors for Climate Action Now @scan-ottawa.bsky.social · 15h
New LNG Canada Deal ‘Like Betting on a Concrete Canoe’ www.theenergymix.com/breaking-new... best title ever! As Independent analysts say a global oil and gas glut is still approaching fast, and will be in full flight by the time an expanded LNG terminal can be built and brought online.
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New LNG Canada Deal ‘Like Betting on a Concrete Canoe’
The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, th...
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 11h
“‘These are legal and historical records of the genocide that occurred in Canada and they must be protected,’ said Winnipeg Centre NDP MP Leah Gazan, who is calling for the governing Liberals to introduce legislation to stop the records’ imminent destruction.” (1/2)
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Clock ticks down on destruction of records documenting residential school abuses
In less than a year, a private company is set to destroy the largest cache of records detailing the widespread abuse of Indigenous children at residential schools in Canada.
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Heartache Kits @hsticka.bsky.social · 13h
I just heard @npr.org say "no one knows how to fairly divvy up the bill" regarding the increase in utility costs due to data centers. Easy. Data centers pay. The infrastructure, increase, their own bills. If I walk into a store and fuck up everything in there, I have to pay for it. Why don't they?
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 13h
Good to see seniors' mobility getting more attention from researchers & the press. "Initiatives like '15-minute cities' or pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods demonstrate that senior mobility extends far beyond housing and transit—it’s a matter of social participation, citizenship & quality of life."
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Making the most of city life for older people: 3 debunked mobility myths
Growing older does not mean disappearing from public life. It can mean continuing to live fully, in a different way, and feeling in control of our mobility.
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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 13h
"I think the only reason I remain an actor is that you can never quite get it right. So there is a challenge to it." - Susan Sarandon Happy Birthday to the legendary and intuitive, Oscar-winning & Grammy/Emmy-nominated actress and activist, who was #BOTD on 10/4/1946.
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Ottawa Citizen @ottawacitizen.com · 11h
Why getting a special-event permit in Ottawa 'sucks the life out of you' ottawacitizen.com/entertainmen...
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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 12h
Yesterday the cafe I work at packed up its CafeTO patio. Immediately, someone parked where the patio used to be and the spot was basically occupied all day m. It made me think of the bike lane removal thing. All those “freed up” lanes will just be parking. It won’t ease car congestion at all.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 13h
Man: "Maybe all women should take a self defense class." Woman: "Maybe all men should take a don't assault women class." I'll teach it.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16h
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 14h
City centers should not be a drive through, they should act as a shared living room.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 14h
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13h
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 15h
Just watched a high school kid driving an older Ford Expedition absolutely floor it on a street with a 25 mph speed limit. He had to be going 40+ mph. But he wasn't on an e-bike or e-moto so it's fine and normal.
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 13h
My mother-in-law, who hadn't been on a bicycle since the 1980s, visited us last year and we biked to toddler swimming class together. She's now biking 40 minutes to work everyday in Montreal because she has a separated bike lane the whole way there.
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Shawn Menard @shawnmenard.bsky.social · 13h
This has been a scandal from Day 1 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Tewin development takes next steps with Taggart family at helm of Algonquins of Ontario Realty Corp. | CBC News
A new community in southeast Ottawa was sold as a unique chance for reconciliation with Algonquin people, but it turns out the Algonquin corporation partnering with Taggart Group is now led by the Tag...
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 14h
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14h
Me: We should make biking safer and more accessible. Car brains: Yeah, well you can't haul the entire contents of a Walmart on your bicycle! I know we're not dealing with logic here, but it's incredible that these are the kinds of conversations you have with people.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 17h
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Ottawa Seniors for Climate Action Now @scan-ottawa.bsky.social · 14h
doreenn.substack.com/p/burlington... Guaranteed basic income and respect in politics ? wow! how revolutionary can you get?
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Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward on Basic Income and Elect Respect Campaign
Halton Region is one of the fastest growing communities in the country. Cost of living demands a Basic Income, while misogynous abuse in politics highlights the need for the Elect Respect Campaign.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 12h
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 12h
"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
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Occasionally Spooky Transpo @occtranspo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can anyone remember who the mayor was for the last 4 years?
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn, and you MAGA fools wonder why everyone laughs at you. Because you let these dipshits post ignorant, pathetic bullshit like this.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If Canada wants a stronger domestic technology sector, home-grown firms have to build. Governments have to create the conditions for them to succeed. And when credible Canadian alternatives exist, our institutions and leaders have to be willing to use them. www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/24/g...
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Gander Social pitches sovereignty in social spaces with Canadian-made app - The Hill Times
If Canada wants a stronger domestic technology sector, home-grown firms have to build. Governments have to create the conditions for them to succeed. And when credible Canadian alternatives exist, our...
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nycfemm.bsky.social @nycfemm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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