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@greatpretender.bsky.social
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Certain Democrats may have been driving him into Trmp's arms.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Tough. Enough of you chose him, or chose not to vote or voted for wing nuts that he got in. Tough him out then never do it again.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So Nyheter, news. I can see why since it sounds wrong because I think the Daily News is a tabloid somewhere
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Does the name mean something like " day and night"?
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I've noticed that in Canada, Germany, and France, and even the US, the best of print media still manages (partly digitally) to stay afloat. It's tabloid that are in trouble. How is it in Sweden?
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Makes sense. Still that the information is so readily available, likely weakens the pay wall
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh for pitas' sake
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
But where did it all start? I can't find this on my chick list.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We do it on purpose, too!
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Television distorts truth: even the best television.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a frontal view of a clay flask with warm-yellow coloured slip with black hand painted decoration depicting an octopus. The octopus is swimming diagonally with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional black painted motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the 'Marine Style'. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side and a small base so that it can stand upright.

“Its shape is somewhat unusual, constructed by slipping together, while still leather hard (clay that is not quite dry), two shallow plates which had been made on a fast spinning potter’s wheel and with highly refined clay. The circular bases of these shallow plates are still visible in the center of both sides of the flask” (Smart History article “Octopus Vase” by Dr Senta German https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/)

The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The excavations between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sorry, lost the thread. We're we discussing falafel? I'm feeling awful about it.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Got it now. I saw, on line an interesting article in our local paper concerning remarks made by a mayoral candidate. I could not read the article due to a Pay wall so I asked AI what those remarks were. AI repeated them, probably having extracted the info from the article I could not read.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sorry, Henrik, I've lost the thread. Which of my nonsensical statements are you questioning?
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Does Quebec actually deserve better? After all they voted pretty heavily for divisive parties: PQ, CAQ, Cons.. votes outweighed Libs and QS
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AI is a big danger to print media. If they put up a pay wall, you only have to ask AI for the story.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just like Quebec. Obsessives R Us
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm not okay with a Canadian selling poison to suicide victims
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No more making fun of Trump's incontinence problems. Got that, everyone?
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Brigitte Pellerin @brigittepellerin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mark Sutcliffe promised to fix Ottawa's recreation registration Hunger Games in 2022. He didn't — fees went up instead, and the only portal fix on record was announced by Jim Watson before the election. He’s promising to fix it again. randomactsofurbanism.substack.com/p/the-cynica...
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The cynical campaigner
I hate being manipulated like this. Stop it.
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Brigitte Pellerin @brigittepellerin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The recent CAFES mayoral debate put storm prep on the table, with Sutcliffe defensive after the record Canada Day flooding. This essay from May on the Danish firm SLA argues Ottawa is "so damn slow" adopting stormwater and climate-mitigating design. randomactsofurbanism.substack.com/p/bringing-n...
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Bringing nature back in
An inspiring visit with exceptionally cool Danes.
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Cricket of MeadowHawk 🇨🇦 @cricketmh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Have never used Uber, never will.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Be compassionate and help them seek treatment
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Vital information. Never thought of this though it should have been obvious
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Donald Trump is a (hockey) player.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jupiter and Diana this morning
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That Quebecers and some Albertan say the don't want to join the US, is only because they are denying the inevitable consequences of their choice. All those roads lead to guess where.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But aren't in both cases votes for separation, actually votes to join the US? The Albertans admit it, the Quebecers won't.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The only thing conservatives conserve is jam
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Junk for the junk. Boycott for bodily, not just political health
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Always a mistake unless you're Jean Chretien
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Steel yourself, it'll be a steal!
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Schreklich
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Danke fuer die Elklaerung. Was ist die Grossen See? Lake Victoria?
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And blond?
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Was their a pilot or crew?
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bad enough?
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They'd have to have some guarantee that it wouldn't happen again. UK puts the flake in corn.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Warm hat Clinton das gemacht? Hatte es einen Zweck?
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm inclined to agree with you; however who knows what wing nuts we'd get without some form of control. Hell, someone might vote for me!
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Like the German upper house?
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Source: CBC share.google/LgSKOku90zqP.... Call BS. Eby puts need to be reelected against conservative opponents ahead of everything else. Cars still decide elections in Canada.
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ANALYSIS | Eby puts needs of car owners ahead of transit advocates in ruling out Metro Vancouver vehicle levy | CBC News
For the last 18 months, a vehicle levy has been talked about by TransLink as a potential way to create a more sustainable funding model, as revenue from fuel taxes continues to decline. But all that w...
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just remove provinces. What good do they do? How come Canada has the most expensive and least effective health care system in the OECD? Decentralization? Why are there more trade barriers between provinces than between EU countries.
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unless of course they elect Le Pen or her surrogate
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every face has two profiles
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AI actually works against big techs financial interests. Using AI rather than URLs enables one to avoid the advertising that usually clutters a conventional internet search
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Would it be considered profiling to ask if sex offenders tend to have right wing political opinions?
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Cricket of MeadowHawk 🇨🇦 @cricketmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎯
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not big on thinking outside the bo
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David @greatpretender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can you get 67 Democrat Senators?
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