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Fernando Medrano

@fmed.bsky.social
1.2K followers 1.2K following 1.8K posts

Intersections: art, politics, culture, tech, food, cities, sustainability, language. Vocations: videogames, 3D, product design. Avocations: cooking, baking, making, gardening, dogs. 🇨🇦🇵🇭 Vancouver BC

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/...

1 big thing: Ø Link economy breaks
Total U.S. web traffic for top news sites
Visits to approximately 100 top sites;

Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the
U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My BlueSky feed is so much better after following some pro-Palestine voices.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/07/2026
WSJ accuses Mayor Mamdani of antisemitism because he condemns genocide—meanwhile publishes bigoted anti-Muslim caricature of him. No wonder Americans no longer trust legacy media. It’s dead. Support independent media instead. See you on my human rights platform at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe ❤️✊🏽
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says “good system.” In response to the following proposal: 

“Interesting... what about weighted voting proportional to the level of income tax you pay? (no income tax paid - O vote, $1-100k - 1 vote, $100-200k 2 votes and so on... cap it at 5 votes for $500k+. For those that constantly complain about the wealthy not paying tax/fair share they'd have nothing to worry about right? Why not reward representation of taxation and build a democracy around those that foot the bill?”
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh no! My condolences.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The greatest global threat to both peace and a habitable planet is the government of the USA. It has been so for a long time, but Trump has nixed the deniability. We should stop treating it as an ally that has mysteriously gone astray and start treating it as a hazard to be avoided and contained.
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Campeones y Campeonas del mundo
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I’ve bought a lot of terrible tasting fruit this year. Notably stone-fruits - cherries like cherries, nectarines. But also blueberries. And it’s not a one-off. Multiple grocery runs. Am I a just unlucky?
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Whine
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is the way.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If the Vancouver police can’t explain why they need an extra $200,000 a week on top of their $497 million budget to police five blocks of car free activities, then I can make videos pointing out how much that works out to every hour for every block. We’ll update if they provide more information.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Some crucial points here on the great Carbon Capture and Storage con by @sioldridge.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot | Simon Oldridge
George Monbiot is right to call for expensive carbon capture plans to be halted.   Ed Miliband was also right to push CCS during the Brown government. Back then it made sense to try and capture emissi...
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Negative Zero.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 08/07/2026
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Canada’s World Cup games are over. What’s left behind?
Host cities are now beginning the task of measuring the tournament’s economic impact, legacy and ultimate cost
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Oak Bay Gazette @oakbaygazette.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Sports Update: Canada slowly goes back to not caring about Soccer.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Why Canada stands with Ukraine but not Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-c…
middleeasteye.net
Why Canada stands with Ukraine but not Gaza
Ottawa's double standards are on full display as it condemns Russia's war, while enabling Israel's genocide
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Here’s a Vancouver connection: Uwe Boll owned Bauhaus, the modern dining restaurant in Gastown until its closure due to the pandemic.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Powerlessnessmaxxing: watching the country careen toward unfettered oil and gas production as the country burns and drowns simultaneously, while people scream “yeah well he’s better than Poilievre” in your ear
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Carney did the meme.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
He's trying to now get the majority of the population addicted to gambling. Youth are the most vulnerable to gambling addiction and 20% of gambling addicts attempt suicide
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“It’s a disaster World Cup” - Medhi Taremi, Iran captain. Good for him to speak up, his body language says a lot more than his words. 😕
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
You gotta love it.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
On one day in Vancouver's 2021 heat dome, my firefighter son-in-law had six cardiac cases and lost them all. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The B.C. heat dome had a deadly impact on New Westminster. 5 years later, cooling is top of mind | CBC News
Five years after extreme heat killed 33 people in New Westminster, the city has built out a network of cooling stations and passed bylaws aimed at cooling apartments.
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Silent Running (1972).
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/06/2026
'Carl Bergstrom, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington, has developed bonds with many crows at his home and on campus....“I’ll find myself sneaking across campus in a tunnel or through buildings,” he says, “because I feel so bad when I run into them.”'
audubon.org
Are Crows Really Our Friends?
An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations.
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Was Bill Maher ever funny? I don’t ever recall this.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
www.972mag.com/gaza-israeli...
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In Gaza, ‘slaughter continues unabated’ while the world turns away
Israel has escalated its airstrikes across the enclave in recent weeks, burning Palestinians alive as it makes a mockery of the ‘ceasefire.’
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Critical Criminology @critcrim.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Palestine solidarity march on the streets in Vancouver now. No sportwashing genocide! #FreePalestine #WorldCup
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Interesting. Vancouver-based (can we still say that after the acquisition?) T&T expands into the Bay Area.
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’m always impressed by Coate’s unwavering moral clarity. youtu.be/VZnvZpi8Msg?...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Democrats have ‘no choice’ on Gaza 
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
AI CEO: our newest machines run on the blood of children. This will require new societal norms. We are confident people will adjust.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17/06/2026
FIFA takes away Iranian flags at the US stadiums
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The most shadow banned post in the history of posts lol
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
UK and Canada are doing full blown internet censorship to young people from learning too much about their war crimes! Also we celebrate capitalism's greatest accomplishment: trillionaire Elon Musk LIVE NOW twitch.tv/theserfstv
Trillionaire nightmare world with Assmold and PDF Trillionaire guy
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Growing risk that thousands buried in Gaza’s rubble may never be identified, says Red Cross
Exclusive: Recovery efforts remain slow and passing of time makes it more likely they will be skeletonised
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Threads is more engaging as well. I feel less and less drawn to BlueSky.
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I wonder why? I have a theory that BlueSky really is a centrist Democrat bubble that isn’t permissive to the Gaza discourse. Threads has far more discussion. Orders of magnitude more. It of course is less self-selecting because it’s basically Facebook-Twitter. And it is larger.
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Almost no Gaza commentary in BlueSky vs Threads. I can’t be the only one who notices this.
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I saw a large peleton of VPD cops on Harleys cruising up and down Kingsway for no apparent reason today. For show? Not sure that’s relevant.
ctvnews.ca
Why is FIFA World Cup security spending higher in Vancouver than Toronto? Here’s what we know
The latest cost projection for hosting part of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Vancouver includes $242 million for safety and security—but just how that money is being spent remains a mystery.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is so devastating, honestly. I don’t understand how so many people can march for a state that is actively committing a genocide. Are Palestinian lives really worth so little to this many Canadians? If so, I’m ashamed to call myself Canadian today.
Image shows a crowded Toronto street featuring pro-Israel demonstrators far off into the distance. The caption from the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto reads: "60,000 strong. That's the power of our community. Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱❤️🇨🇦"
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
In April 2024, Spain ran its entire national grid on 100% renewable electricity for a full day — and solar was the single largest contributor. No gas. No coal. No nuclear on standby. The lights stayed on in Madrid and Barcelona with nothing but wind, hydro, and sun. Stop #oilandgas !! #ActOnClimate
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is an utterly unnecessary editorial that serves no purpose other than to attempt to appease racists who will never be appeased in the first place, at the expense of Indigenous families who lost loved ones.
Globe and Mail editorial board piece starts with the headline:

“There is no reconciliation without truth”

Then it begins:

“Two things can be true, at the same time. Five years after the startling announcement that there were hundreds of possible unmarked graves near a residential school in Kamloops, B.C., there has been no public confirmation of the discovery of any human remains. That is reality, one reality.
Another is this: 3,200 Indigenous children, at least, died at residential schools, according to the 2015 report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Residential school students died at a rate far higher than children in the rest of Canada - a negligence so deep-rooted that it came
"within unpleasant nearness" of manslaughter, according to a government official in the early “
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Magnolias evolved before bees existed. 95 million years ago, their ancestors shared the planet with the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous, but no bees. So they made a messy partnership with beetles that continues today & it explains why they're such unusual flowering plants. Let's talk about it.
mymodernmet.com
Magnolias Are So Old That They’re Pollinated by Beetles
Why beetles? You'll need to read to beelieve it.
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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Because law enforcement attracts fascists. So nothing is done.
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Evidence that Reconciliation is actually dead. We analyzed 35,000 news reports on First Nations bands (not editorials or general stories about Indigenous people) and found a massive change in the quantity and tone of coverage. www.linkedin.com/posts/knowle...
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