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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Which rescue do you foster with? I’m not sure my two dogs would put up with another one.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/07/2025

The first issue is simple: it's just a big old hairy lie. Emissions today would be massively higher if we hadn't put blood, sweat and tears over the past ~2 decades (most since 2015) into trying to kick things off. Wind/solar in particular are causing the most obvious reductions in FF burning:

a chart showing current emissions in the middle of various scenarios

a chart showing that every tonne of co2 makes the earth warmer

a chart showing falling fossil fuel use in Australia

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Brett Favaro @brettfavaro.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My phone is glitching out so I can't take more screenshots but when I read the whole thing, the message I take is: - things didn't have to be bad but they're going to be - loss of faith in large national and int'l efforts. Even a super well informed PM can't seem to do what it takes.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/06/2025

I know people talk a lot about purity politics but I do think we've hit a place where people don't grasp that two people acting entirely in good faith, without propaganda or bias looking at the same piece of data can come to different conclusions

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I love Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. A perfect blend of the woolly unthreatening old lady and the detective with a mind like a steel trap.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 25/06/2025

It can be tempting to think of the 2021 heat dome as an isolated incident. But extreme heat will continue to threaten lives until we ensure survival is not dictated by someone’s money, age or where they happen to live. Three experts write.

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Four Years After the BC Heat Dome, What Have We Learned? | The Tyee

Poverty determines who lives and dies in high temperatures.

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

It is truly amazing how little of the discourse about COVID in schools includes a recognition that schools can’t run without teachers. Protecting teachers from sickness and death makes it a lot easier to keep schools open.

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Bravo to this WWII veteran. He seemed very excited about smashing Fascism. 10/10, no notes.

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

What times, in which time zone, will the coaching sessions take place?

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Canuck Traveler🇨🇦 @nancyeaton.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Please complain to the Leader's Debate Commisdion regarding the inclusion of Rebel Media & True North orgs dominating the post debate press conference. Here is their email address: info@debates-debats.ca IMO, this decision to elevate these far-right propaganda orgs is unforgiveable

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/04/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“Heh, do you want to go out somewhere or just nestchicks and krill?”

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

this is disinformation, @peipolitical.bsky.social . you are contributing to the degradation of Canada's political dialogue. if you want this image to be a real thing, organize it! lying like this is only harming your stated goals.

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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

And like… grasping at straws to be like “but check out how he did some references wrong 30 years ago. Can he really be Prime Minister?” 😂 I’m not endorsing Carney or academic misconduct. I’m just saying, who actually gives a shit?

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Red Deer Antifa @reddeerantifa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Danielle Smith in Maralago Vs. Danielle Smith in Alberta.

Danielle smith smiling in photo from Maralogo

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 18/03/2025

Good post calling out a disgusting, biased "paper" published somehow by an irresponsible SAGE journal. maidincanada.substack.com/p/is-this-th...

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Is This the Most Unethical Paper About MAiD Ever Published?

Bad Economics, Worse Ethics, and the Utter Failure of Academic Integrity

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I love the title for 1 but all sound like great topics.

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Sally @platypuspants.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Our sovereignty isn't up for fucking discussion. End of story.

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Mike Spry @mikespry.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Bears chase my cat in Vermont. You get used to it.

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Where do you get yours? The place in Edmonton where I used to buy it has closed.

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

This is similar to one I often make that my people love. Squeeze a lime slice or two over the chicken just before you eat it to really make the flavours sing. www.skinnytaste.com/slow-cooker-...

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Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken Black Beans and Corn

This EASY Slow Cooker Chicken dish is cheesy and delicious, made with boneless chicken breast, black beans, corn and salsa topped with melted cheddar cheese.

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Your cat? Is used to being chased by bears? You have a very unique cat.

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dr_mackdaddy @drmackdaddy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Because most human shelters won't take animals. Because they have minutes to get out and the pets are hiding. Because a lot more reason than I'm gonna list. Until you've been in the situation do not judge. -a shelter veterinarian

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Discontinuity will echo loudly in every part of our lives—from raising and educating kids, to living in our communities, to taking care of elders, to planning our own careers and retirements. We'll all be living with more strain—and helping others manage their own distress. 28/

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

What's coming at you is first of all crazy weather and local discontinuities. Hurricanes, heatwaves, floods, megafires, droughts—but also a lot of smaller sudden shifts that mean our previous experience of what it means to live in a place no longer matches what we see. (7/)

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The most important point I'm making here is this: We're used to thinking of climate chaos as a problem that's far away, in the future... and probably someone else's responsibility to worry about. None of that's true anymore. (5/)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The request is tellingly never "which is why our best schools should expand their enrollment so there's enough space at these top schools for my special snowflake to attend" it's "a brown person took my special snowflake's deserved spot"

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I like it. Even under-ripe, I’ll still happily eat it. 🙂

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The week between Christmas and New Year is one of those liminal spaces for which there are no rules.

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Sounds like a substantial meal. 😳

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/12/2024

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“Race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the impact of social inequality on people’s health.” — Dorothy E. Roberts, Fatal Intervention (pp 11)

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NateintheWild @nateinthewild.com · 23/12/2024

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

And to you! I’ve just tracked down a second hand copy of the CD this song is on (for me all Christmas music has to be on CD). 🤭

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Working with collaborators in the Global South it upsets me how many pay expensive software license fees, or use insecure pirated versions, when free open-source alternatives are available. Below is a list of easy swaps. Please add to it and share! 👇

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Q: Whose shoulders are today’s sociologists standing upon? 📚 🪜 A: Some of them are sociologists’ wives👩🏻‍💼✍️ Read about role of social researchers’ wives in post-war British studies, inc. Phyllis Willmott, Pat Marsden, Sheila Jackson/Abrams, Ruth Townsend, Kay Titmuss #openaccess

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#ThanksForTyping … and the fieldwork: the role of sociologists’ wives in classic British studies | Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Do you have a librarian/information specialist who can help you? I find the assistance of someone with the experience and training in searching absolutely essential.

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Denise Thomson 🇨🇦 @dthomson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I was about to ask for more info on the basic Thomson. 😊

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Medieval people took the danger of childhood mortality seriously and did everything they knew to do to stop it.

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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

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