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James Wells

@drjwells.bsky.social
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Aerospace engineer, curler, (board/video) gamer, husband & father. He/Him

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can’t help but notice that ICE keeps claiming that people it shoots were trying to ram the agents with a car, and then video keeps proving that’s a lie.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE is a militia of serial abusers.
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Also, when it's trivially easy to get an LLM to disgorge entire large chunks of pilfered text from its training data, the argument that other uses are "transformative" are, well, not the slam dunk you might think they are
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 06/10/2026
He was still alive? Huh.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MAGA Americans: Canada better not interfere in our midterms! Also MAGA Americans: here's why we think you should change your laws to make them more like ours.
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ah yes, kick out the civilian professors who have spent entire careers studying and teaching war studies, strategy, and military theory, and bring in a civilian tech billionaire.
theguardian.com
Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Shall We Play A Game?
Alt: Shall We Play A Game?
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tears in their eyes, grown men,
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Saw the documentary NAZA, made in secret, with interviews of members of Israel’s intelligence services testifying and showing how they created a system to perpetrate genocide in Gaza. The filmmakers and their families have been threatened by Netanyahu himself. I wrote my thoughts here boxd.it/gvDEIR
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A ★★★★★ review of NAZA (2026)
Merely a film. A film that has led Netanyahu himself to threaten the citizenship and safety of its Israeli filmmakers and even their families, simply for the act of filming veterans of Israel’s intell...
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you make any sort of money off betting or are a sharp, they also just ban you lol
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
and yet they always say, you can't possibly take war money and use it for health care, those are DIFFERENT THINGS
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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AI psychosis for dummies: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Not everything is fake, it turns out
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Look how fast he folds. Look how strong our cards are. Maybe it's time we played them. #cdnpoli
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026
JD Vance Booed  By Own Reflection  In Mirror theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-…
JD Vance Booed  By Own Reflection  In Mirror
Image Calls VP ‘Loser’ Right To His Face
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In 2024, the US imported ~12 million metric tons of potassic fertilizers from Canada (hillnotes.ca/2025/06/05/p...) Specialized ships can carry ~60k metric tons, tho container ships <half that (www.sasktoday.ca/central/loca...) So we'd need at least 200 ships loaded from [checks notes] Belarus
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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Your boss is a credulous dolt who will give your job to an AI that can't do it." The truth about AI is dumber than you think, according to Cory Doctorow. @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Lukashenka: Even if we wanted to supply potash to the West, there's nothing to supply
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is fucked! Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford is using an Israeli AI app to create an army of snitches and reply-guys. The app finds valid criticism of the candidate on social media, gives you an AI-written reply to post, then gives you rewards
On Sept. 17, we were given another mission, this time targeting the social media platform X. It arrived as a text: “Hey! A new post just went up, and it’s waiting for you on Victory. Jump in, generate a comment with the AI button, drop a like, and share with friends — every action earns points.”

The task was named “Pushing Back on ‘Part of the Problem’ Attacks,” a reference to comments criticizing Bradford for inaction during his eight years on council.

One critic had replied to Bradford's post: “Haven't you been part of the municipal government for awhile, bradbrad? You're part of the problem lol.”

To push back, LogiVote's AI system had recommended seeding a counter-narrative.

The result, generated for us to post: “So tired of hearing the same excuses from city hall, while nothing changes. Brad, you’ve actually stood up for us — don’t let them say you haven’t tried. We need someone who won’t back down.”

The Victory App asked us to enter our X username to verify we complied and award us 25 in-app coins.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I’m running for City Council in Parkdale—High Park. I’m running because our neighbours deserve a councillor who has walked alongside them, fought for them, and knows how to turn community demands into real wins at City Hall. Join me at www.dianachanmcnally.ca.
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Diana Chan McNally for Parkdale—High Park
YouTube video by Diana Chan McNally
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh no, Canada has disappointed Susan Collins.
cbc.ca
Republican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC News
A long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union.
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Aranock @aranock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Talarico supports a nation wide ban on youth healthcare and as a canadian trans woman I think anyone calling for murdering the youngest members of my community in their country should listen to Lynch's advice about their heart. You think dead trans people is more acceptable than us saying fuck off.
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Aranock @aranock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And to the people I used to follow who can't comprehend people who hate your transmisogynistic birthday boy lib poster or your pet bigot politician you are the scum of the earth. I honestly think we as a community have been exceedingly overly patient with cis people and its how we got here.
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Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RIP Ontario Science Centre. This hurts a lot, yet sadly doesn't surprise me given how the person running my province is hellbent on destroying what was a wonderful institution that inspired so many people.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinese propaganda, tech-haters, and leftists are why there's a PR image problem for an industry that 1) says they might kill us all 2) promises to ruin every job in every industry 3) has, for four years, grossly misrepresented the capabilities and limitations of the actual products on the market.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On 9/11 when the first plane hit I was driving home from the gym listening to Howard Stern on 92.3 K-Rock after doing 45 minutes on the elliptical in my Atlantic Blue Mustang for a Women’s Studies class at Rutgers. If I can remember that, he should be able to remember being a heroic first responder.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For those still learning about Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD, here are the salient facts:
INTELLIFACTS
ALICE WEIDEL BECOMES THE FIRST LEADER IN THE WORLD WHO IS ANTI-IMMIGRATION BUT HAS AN IMMIGRANT WIFE, IS ANTI-LGBTQ+ BUT IS A LESBIAN HERSELF, OPPOSES LGBT ADOPTION BUT HAS ADOPTED TWO CHILDREN, AND IS A HARDCORE GERMAN NATIONALIST BUT LIVES IN SWITZERLAND
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
chat is it good if your government says "we are using AI to think like fraudsters and we are shutting down hospices"
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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
Happy Labor Day, comrades
Miles O'Brien from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine speaking of his ancestor "He was more than a hero.  He was a union man."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Biden took the short stairs up to Air Force One instead of the long stairs and it was headline news. Trump publicly fantasizes about conquering neighboring countries and their 170+ million people and the news media will hardly mention it.
Map shows an imagined USA that incudes the current country plus Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland etc.
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Hoosier Homer is reading The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Do not be fooled this is intellectual warfare as much if not more than cultural war. guess what's not in the teen or kids sections? Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Ian Toll, Robert Leckie, Robert Massie, Dante, Anne Applebaum, a single book on the eastern front, Rick Aktinson, Mary Beard, Among other!
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/09/2026
Homer protecting his sugar
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I for one love the corporate structure where talentless doofuses earn all the money off the back of genuinely talented people. Very sustainable and good and moral
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026
this is horrifying, unnecessary capitulation by an institution that absolutely knows better than this and both @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @governor.ny.gov should be imposing consequences on mount sinai at the state level as a result
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My family could save thousands of dollars per year by cutting off food purchases.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2:05 pm 2:21 pm @atrupar.com
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Bradford needs to be pressed on this. Is a commitment to not readying the city when extremely reliable information concerning a threat or emergency has been received part of his platform? Can we get clarification on Kinsella’s role in Bradford’s campaign? Because it screams real loud to judgement.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“wE CarE abOUt tHe tRooPS” shut up no you fucking don’t, they’re just cannon fodder for your bloodlust
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Widow of Epic Fury airman denied death benefits as Iran conflict is 'not a war'
The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Like Trump couldn't be talked into nuking Mars over the course of an afternoon.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Buy the ticket, take the ride. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Calgary home with pro-Trump flags becomes vandalism target in cross-border trade war
Some Calgarians frustrated by the renewed U.S. tariff trade war appear to be taking out their anger on one pro-Trump home by using eggs, dog feces and online suggestions of arson.
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Ryan Pollard @ryanpollard.ca · 01/09/2026
I went to the Vernon Cadet Training Centre as a kid. I also know the woman on the right. we volunteered with kids together, she is a model citizen. this shit is sickening.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's a pretty big fucking problem that no one can say for sure whether the President of the United States knows this is AI
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/08/2026
Industrialized sports gambling is evil and all of these sports leagues that have bought into it have a hell of a lot to answer for.
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