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Ben Stansfield

@groundhog-ben.bsky.social
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queer autistic Canadian weirdo who likes to make stuff. happily married

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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We shouldn't be denied medical care due to religious persecution. "In fact, it’s well past time that Canada’s publicly funded health care system ends its uncomfortable affiliation with religious institutions that routinely deny patients essential care." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized
Religion does have a place in health care, but only when it applies to respecting rights, not denying them
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
theguardian.com
The hill I will die on: not everything is a ‘girl’ thing – stop gendering and infantilising it all | Elle Hunt
No, I don’t want to go for a girl walk before my girl dinner with my girl mates: I am a grown woman who walks and eats and votes – and, patriarchy, I am on to you, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt
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Nick Derington @nickderington.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage" - Batman 11x17 Watercolor and Ink on Arches
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton on being a woman in business: “Nobody can trick me. Nobody can fool me. I can sit in a room with the biggest businessmen in the world, working on some of the biggest business deals, and I don’t feel a bit inadequate….I always feel like a got a little somethin’ on most of them.”
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
it's looking to be a depressing week, unless the rule of threes finally takes out cheetolini, so here is some good news www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Going with the grain: how restoring biodiversity led one farmer back to heritage wheat
Henry Astor looked back to his grandfather’s time for the inspiration to find older varieties that could help nature on his Cotswold farm
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
A reminder that Dolly Parton is the reason we have Buffy the Vampire Slayer! She hated the movie but believed the show could be amazing so she let them film on her sound studio. By season 2, it was a HIT! As a thank you, Buffy Summers and Dolly Parton share the same birthday. January 19th.
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Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius. You?
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT engineers develop a breath test that detects pneumonia in minutes no X-rays, no lab wait. Just a single breath Two MIT engineers, Loza Tadesse and Aditya Garg, have developed a breath test that can detect pneumonia in minutes.
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NYC is in trouble. This City Council is just as car brained and clueless as the last. These are the people that will be regulating micromobility (with annotations on their nonsense)
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/08/2026
Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
On her birthday, remembering Lucille Ball—without her we wouldn't have any Star Trek at all. You've got some 'splaining to do to the non-Trek fans in your life. Spread the word!
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is going around. It's sanity enhancing. Consistent with everything I've heard from people working inside companies with AI mandates. hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...
hermit-tech.com
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Mark Carney, Red Tory | The Tyee
The prime minister is causing a major realignment in Canadian politics. More proof came Wednesday.
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/theg... I miss when you allowed me to hide various sections of your site, please bring this back
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.
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Chilliboi @chilliboi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Abolish and prosecute ICE
ICE employees vent on Reddit, saying they’re not getting paid and still no insurance despite promises A scientist looking through a microscope Tiny cells The worlds smallest violin amongst the tiny cells
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
bbc.com
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life
In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive in deep space without light.
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
@theguardian.com your headline about Brigitte Bardot is incorrect. anti-Muslim and far-right politics are NOT 'controversial'
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?
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Elizabeth @elizajody.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Hey Toronto: Mask up! Get your vaccines (Covid, Flu, RSV). Big jump in waste water values and that data is 2 weeks old. Source: @young.me (thanks!) wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
Wastewater virus signals for Toronto. November 2, 2025. Viral load (copies per mL) about 43. Has not been this high since February 2025.
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
theverge.com
The unbearable sameness of Liquid Glass
If only we were all already living in AR glasses.
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says
High-fronted SUVs are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe, with the UK an extreme example
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
If you cannot run your business by following simple laws, you don’t have a business, you have a racket.
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
ctvnews.ca
Disability, gender equality advocates slam Carney's elimination of cabinet positions
Advocacy groups are panning Prime Minister Mark Carney for eliminating the cabinet positions dedicated to people with disabilities and women and gender equality issues.
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
theguardian.com
Canada has long been seen as the cool cousin next door. Here's the truth | Noel Ransome
The country has exported a myth of progressivism. It’s time to confront who we really are
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
media.tenor.com
a woman is looking at a picture of a man .
ALT: a woman is looking at a picture of a man .
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
patinated brass mailbox, first pass. i might try for more green next weekend
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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Thought I'd do a big 🧵 on David Klein and the incredible work he did for TWA from the 1950s-60s. I've posted about him before, but not like this. Let's start with some of his classic posters for TWA: New York ('56), and Los Angeles ('58). #wardsmorguefile #moreartlessdoom
Bold, colorful travel poster for TWA for New York.Bold, colorful travel poster for TWA for Los Angeles.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It seems that Trump wants a recession. Why? A recession will drive down the prices of real estate, companies, and shares of stock. Trump and his fellow billionaires want to buy up everything on the cheap and then enjoy the ride upward — no matter the cost to working people.
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
theguardian.com
‘The heat you need at a reasonable price’: how district heating can speed the switch to clean energy
In Sweden, most residential heating and hot water comes from heating networks – helping to pool resources and innovation
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The family of comic creator RE Burke, aka Becky Burke, have issued a detailed statement about her recent detention nightmare in the United States, asking for it to be shared
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Comic Creator RE Burke: Her Visa Story
Full family statement after her welcome return to the UK
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/03/2025
Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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theguardian.com
Elon Musk targeted me over Tesla protests. That proves our movement is working
I’ve always believed the people are powerful. Now we know the world’s richest man does too
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Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” - FDR, 1938
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 01/03/2025
Sometimes it feels like I’m going crazy, because there is something that is right in front of our faces, has been for years, and nobody of consequence ever says it: Donald Trump works for Vladimir Putin. How much more proof does anyone need? And what is anybody going to do about it?
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Processing camps and a paramilitary army reminds me of something or other but I can’t quite place it
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
ginkgo tree across the street, East York
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
spotted in Leaside, not sold in Canada tho. VW Eurovan
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Ben Stansfield @groundhog-ben.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
polymer clay
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Your regular reminder that the more often you own your mistakes, the easier it gets. It is like any muscle-- work it more and it gets stronger. All people mess up, and sometimes we do so publicly. It's not the end of the world to acknowledge that we missed the mark; it's how we clean up.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/02/2025
"AI" is, purely, a marketing term and a (poor) umbrella phrase for a number of different types of computerized statistical analysis, iteration and synthesis. If something is being touted as "AI" to me, it's because someone wants me to buy it, and also I probably don't need it.
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 15/02/2025
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🐆🥣😳 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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