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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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LarryLegend @bwtrainer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

if someone tells you you don't need a union, you 100% need a union

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Jocelyn Lambert Squires @jocelynsquires.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's SO MUCH in here!!! - Best visual argument for pedestrianizing Yonge south of Dundas - Mapping walkable neighbourhoods - With such high ped rates on St Clair, could that make a good bike corridor? - Clear link between pedestrians & transit

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 26/09/2026

Concerns over privacy have led to calls to ban smartglasses in public spaces in Canada. According to the CBC, these products are being used against women, with reports of attempts to extort money from victims to remove humiliating videos from social media platforms.

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Privacy concerns prompt calls to ban smartglasses in Canada

Concerns over privacy have led to calls to ban smartglasses in Canada to prevent covertly recorded videos from being shared on social media.

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

September 25, 1909

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

we are reinventing scheming eunuchs from base principles

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You could find your way along the Nova Scotia coast blind, just by timing the blinks. Every lighthouse flashes on its own rhythm, a set interval and colour no neighbour repeats. Sambro Island off Halifax has burned since 1758, the oldest working lighthouse in North America. #lighthouse #NovaScotia

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Her much earlier big single, "I'm 28," is also worth checking out.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am annoyed to be in the ward where Daniel Tate is running. Absolute fucking trash.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The text of Bill C-39 doesn't seem to be available online anywhere yet, and I am extremely interested in reading it after that press conference.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I remember when the government privatized most of the country's airports in the '90s. My dad got laid off! The only thing that saved him was the union helping him move to a new job. The Liberal minister who implemented the policy called it the "worst decision" of his career.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The memes for this are great, but can you at least find a stock photo of an auger? It's a DRILL, not a BUCKET.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Unlimited Mashed Potatoes for $3" is a sentence that would get you killed by a private equity firm today

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One of the best fantasy books I’ve ever read, truly. In my mind it is to fantasy what Left Hand of Darkness is to science fiction.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ugh. Back to work legislation is also unconstitutional, and the fact that we just pretend it isn’t pisses me off.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One of my readings this week is by Woodrow Hartzog, which sounds like store brand Werner Herzog.

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Logan Dean @logandean.games · 18/09/2026

Guy from the 16th century: wow the future must be an amazing place Me: it’s a parade of avoidable catastrophes and lots of anthropomorphic animal porn 16th c guy: which animals?

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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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Weird Spy Satellite @weirdsatellite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dispatch #5612 from X-37B (TALENT-KEYHOLE) 1. Archive of Ice 2. Bathysphere Protocol 31 3. Illegal Alphabets

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters:

1. Archive of Ice
2. Bathysphere Protocol 31
3. Illegal Alphabets

Actual coordinates: 43.0940° N, 94.4913° W

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We are committed stewards of our natural heritage." (Plans a new oil pipeline, dismantles climate action) "We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but the means to a just society. We believe that our prosperity grows when it is shared." (Privatizes, cuts taxes for corporations)

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Carney to the EU: "We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but the means to a just society. We are committed stewards of our natural heritage. We believe that our prosperity grows when it is shared." I wish the Carney we hear in speeches was the Carney who governs Canada.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mostly disappointed, but 20-year-old me didn't know shit about what makes a good life.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this is un-real.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I had actually forgotten Neagley was out. Thank you for the reminder, and I’m looking forward to this kind of contrast. (There’s a looooot of gendered stuff in the Reacher books, too, though it seems, at least by book 6, like Child was starting to be aware of it and making efforts to do better.)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like his ex-wives have a group chat

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My man looks like the poorly-written western imperialist character in an IP MAN film

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

To me all this does is scream that they hired someone they shouldn’t have and they’re trying to get ahead of it, but they’re incompetent on too many levels to get that right, either.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Carney's summit is frankly a fantastic demonstration of why we should give the land back.

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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dear White People. #cdnpoli

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It took almost 20 years, but I eventually placed my short story about the guy with an anal tumor that predicts the future when he farts. (No, really.)

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Bill Nemacheck @billnemacheck.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

This passage stood out to me, and I see it everywhere in real life.

"Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Carney decided, on his own, that there should be two Conservative parties at the federal level. While Liberals were never all that progressive, former Liberals are calling him fully right-wing, including a Chretien-era minister. It's arguably an attack on democratic choice.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel it is too often overlooked that corporations were not developed under capitalism or any “competitive” system. They were developed under mercantilism specifically to function as monopolies with state-like power, for the purpose of colonialist pillaging. It is literally what they are for.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

personally I think we should just take the ai doomers at their word and shut it down if they’re telling the truth, well, good thing we shut it down. If they’re exaggerating, well, they shouldn’t have done that

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Unbelievable rendition that I’m surprised doesn’t come up more often.

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August C. Bourré @fishsauce.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

St. James Infirmary and Streets of Laredo are essentially just culturally-specific variations of the same folk song, “The Unfortunate Lad” (or “The Unfortunate Rake”), which was likely composed sometime in the mid-1700s.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yay, more Palantir. Other countries are raising pitchforks against Palantir. In Canada, most turnips think Palantir isn't here. Which is very wrong.

National Observer from 2024: Cohere a 5.5B Canadian AI startup is quietly working with Palantir

Fed announcement: Canada partners with Cohere

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from

A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

I love this version of Conan bc like the books it understands that Conan gets pant shittingly scared but his reactions to fear and vulnerability are what makes him hack and slash through everything

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