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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 4h
MEANWHILE, in Canada, meet Brady Rogers, the reluctant politician who's fed up and thinks he can do better. His sign says "I barely want to do this." His website says, "I guess I'm running for Kelowna city council." His business? Recycling plastic into cool things.
lawn sign with a grumpy man in a "DADLIFE" sweatshirt and the sign says "I barely want to do this" with his name and campaignHi, I’m Brady.
Do I enjoy politics? No.

Do I know what I’m doing? No.

But am I qualified? Also no. 

I was born in Williams Lake and raised in Kelowna since I was 10. These are the streets I biked every day, the cars I threw crab apples at (sorry), and the parks I played in. Seeing this city grow has been cool, but with growth has come a whole new spectrum of challenges. Running for council is the last thing I saw myself doing this year. I don’t like meetings, I don’t like having to be certain places at certain times, and I’m allergic to stuffy offices. But unfortunately, I happen to like Kelowna, and think I can help do some good.I guess I’m running for Kelowna city council.
Support the campaignI graduated from UBCO in 2015ish (long story) and worked for 4 years as a robotic automation engineer. As cool as the job was, it was soulless, and I wanted to use my abilities for more than just helping huge companies save money. 

Since 2019, I’ve been building The Rogerie.
Starting as a farmers market booth beside the mall, my wife and I began turning plastic waste into new products in our laundry room. Seven painful years later, and we have a pretty awesome shop downtown by Sprout (come check it out!) where you’ll find me just about every day.
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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 8h
Looking up at red zinnias against a blue October sky ... lovely afternoon still hanging on to late Summer ...
Looking up into two red zinnias against a pure blue sky
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 6h
Damn. Canadian rock legend. RIP
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 12h
I feel like I can get a lot of use out of this post even after spooky season. Borb of Judgement is an Eastern Towhee by the way. Not a Red-winged Blackbird as I stated previously. Oops! #SpookyNature #birds 🌿
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 12h
Explaincars Drama: yes, Teams is a terrible app
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Structure & Function @aaronsimages.bsky.social · 12h
Great Blue Heron English Bay, Vancouver #photography #birds #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Vancouver #birdsky
A Great Blue Heron framed by a crescent moon.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 11h
Apologies the link in OP was the link for institutional letter. Here is the link for individual letters: actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...
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Action Alert: Urge Congress to Demand Release of Overdue HIV Research NOFOs
Overview Over the past months, there have been multiple delays in ensuring that the HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks (CTNs) and Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) receive their notices to renew their ...
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 11h
It really is that simple.
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 11h
Explaincars Drama: by design, all aircraft toilets were ported to HTML5 several years ago
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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 10h
An abstract image from Binalong Bay in Tasmania, which we visited in March 2023. Wish it wasn't so far away - one of the most amazing places I've visited.
An abstract image - mostly orange - of some rocks under water, with some orange reflections on the surface. The rocks along the east coast are often orange.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 10h
A man is drinking in a bar next to a fisherman, who's got an impressive collection of scars, including a peg leg, a hook hand, an eye patch. He says, "I hope you don't mind if I ask, but how did you lose the leg?" "Oh, it was a fearsome gale - fifty foot swells, we were being tossed about."
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17h
Let's talk about the HALLOWEEN GENES (really). 1979: It was a dark & stormy night⛈️& a scientist (Eric Wieschaus) is laboring over a microscope🔬, observing the dead remains of ... a fruitfly🪰. But not just ANY fruitfly. This was a TWISTED & MUTATED fruitfly with a GHOSTLY, transparent appearance.
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Mad Scientist Working in a Laboratory
Alt: Mad Scientist Working in a Laboratory. A man in a lab coat works on a large cabinet sized device covered in proper dials and levers and blinky lights. We used to be researchers. PROPER researchers.
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 16h
The marsh was full of coots yesterday. Always fun to watch them running on the water. Taken from the kayak.
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 16h
Your daily affirmation: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. And when the horrors persist, we must become the mossy horror who persists at the heart of each forest.
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Nimblenewt @nimblenewt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In which a pink suffused blimp-like squid drifts in front of the Nautilus, propelling themselves with what looks like a tiny butt-propeller. Their tentacles are rigidly elevated above their eyes, like Madonna’s bangs in the 80s.
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Piglet Squid Siphon Looks Like a Snout | Nautilus Live
YouTube video by EVNautilus
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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This little shrimp has mastered the art of disappearing in the deep 😶‍🌫️⁠ ⁠ Physetocaris microphthalma can hide in plain sight. A transparent body with splashes of red is clever camouflage—red wavelengths disappear in these black waters, leaving this shrimp nearly invisible to predators.⁠
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 02/10/2026
Only people with exceptional Squirrel Awareness will be able to spot the hidden squirrel in this photo #sqrlpix
gray squirrel hiding behind tree branch
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 03/10/2026
It’s like creating a gun safety council and putting the CEOs of major gun companies and people who invest in bullet manufacturing on the council.
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 03/10/2026
Ah yes the new National AI Safety Council, made up of “AI” boosters, venture capitalists, and high-paid consultants. We’re in good hands! www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
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Prime Minister Carney launches new National Council on Artificial Intelligence
AI for All is the government’s new national strategy to ensure that AI is adopted responsibly, in a way that truly serves all Canadians – building trust, expanding opportunities, and reinforcing our s...
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ve been inspired by @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social ‘s excellent spooky photos. So how about a spooky nature photo a day till Halloween? Please join me for #SpookyNature! First up is an intense looking Snapping Turtle. Or possibly Godzilla. Small creatures, beware! #herps #SpookyNature 🌿
Close up black and white photo of a large turtle’s head sticking up out of the water. It looks positively prehistoric.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How health care workers get killed.
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
On this #worldfarmanimalsday we celebrate them all. We recognize each individual as a sentient being and honor their consciousness. This day reminds us to acknowledge their experiences, and to protect and fight for their right to live
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#BirdOfTheDay is #Black&White; any shot in black and white Alt. is #Vivid; any bird with bright colours Been holding this one a few days for Spooky Season & today's BoD is perfect! You may be goth, but you will never be yard crow goth! #birds #becurious
black and white photo of a crow in silhouette. they are standing on a maple branch, framed with maple leaves and moss. they are in profile facing right, standing upright head looking up.
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It turns out that when you don't get an MMR vaccine, you are also at risk for Mumps. Mumps can cause infertility in young men. MMR protects against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella. #medsky
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Rain's Cats @catssurname.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The cats help make the exceedingly prolonged sternal movement restrictions more bearable. (Of course they're also a big reason they're prolonged, lol.) I'm still drowning in human and feline medical bills, if anyone's able to chip in a wee bit. #CatsOfBluesky linktr.ee/RainSurname
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One in eight cases of cancer and likely multiple sclerosis is caused by Epstein-Barr. Imagine what we could do for global public he’s with a vaccine for this.
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IB @histoirb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In hindsight, I’m actually surprised my younger brother didnt end up in this position when he was little 🤣🤣🤣
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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Kids just be doing shit
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Mark Coupe Photography @mcoupephotography.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The "squirrels" are looking pretty huge these days. This guy was 30 feet up the tree, but the tree was at the bottom of a hill. #mammals #wildlife #bear #beautifulbc #canada #blackbear #animals #mcoupephotography
A young black bear nestled in the crook of a tree staring at the camera.
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Nature @nature.com · 02/10/2026
Nature research paper: Prion-like transmission of human tau strains in the mouse brain go.nature.com/4dGtAWY
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Prion-like transmission of human tau strains in the mouse brain - Nature
Mouse experiments show that Alzheimer’s disease and corticobasal degeneration tau filaments retain their distinct structures during templated seeding, supporting strain-specific tau propagation and disease modelling.
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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Absolutely fascinated that men do not want all men to be seen as potential predators and yet at the same time blame women who are raped for not doing adequate risk assessment and being around men. Truly fascinating behavior.
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Kristin Wyatt @kristinwyatt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Still flying: Cloudless Sulphur #butterflies #nature #photography
A medium sized bright yellow butterfly with white spots on its wings, feeds from an orange Nasturtium flower in the garden.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 01/10/2026
Sending more Canadian bitumen and fossil gas around the world, instead of taking this opportunity to build out new, green infrastructure, will only accelerate this process. 🌍 🌡️ 🧊 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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Big Witch Energy | Erin McInnis @erinbraincandy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm still unclear on how you 'fire' a co-owner, and I hope a local journalist asks follow-up questions about how that works in a practical sense, and why the other owners didn't take action until now, because they must have known about his views.
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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"give me the butter, Subaru" is not a sentence I thought I'd have to say today
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has joined a growing chorus of First Nations voices in denouncing the 'Pacific Link' pipeline-Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is promising a legal fight and possible 'boots on the ground.'
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 02/10/2026
Taxpayers funding it because there's zero economic future case for this. And it's a crime against the planet & my grandchildren. Fuck these short sighted, narrow minded ass holes.
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Jason Hampton @jasonchampton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sounds like this pipeline isn’t, in fact, in our national interest.
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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I haven't posted a nudibranch for a hot minute! I think this one is Krempf's Phyllidiopsis (Phyllidiopsis krempfi). Pic from Misool, Raja Ampat #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Wildlife 🌿
A nudibranch on algae-covered rock. It is light purple, with groups of small white-tipped tubercles, and has black lines on the side. The gills and rhinopores are retracted and cannot be seen.
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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.
Life-size t rex head model from front 3/4 view. I am also in frameLife size t rex head model, from frontLife size t-rex model, from front and staring directly down the barrel of the camera
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LOOK AT THIS DUCK I met on my visit to Ontario. It does not have a blue bill and yet is quite fancy. Wood Duck! #birds
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IB @histoirb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy Anniversary to the Darwin quote of all time
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MM Anderson - Artist @mmandersonart.com · 02/10/2026
Just finished this soft pastel artwork of a pair of pretty purple striped crocus flowers. I'm planning to use it in spring greeting card designs. Prints & cards featuring this floral piece will be available shortly at the links in my profile. #PastelArt #flowers #art
Soft pastel artwork picturing a pair of crocus flowers in white with purple stripes above narrow green leaves on a background of pale pink, lavender, blue and green.
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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Providing excellent care for this golden girl 🦫
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This October I am going to use the #SpacetoberChallenge prompts as inspiration for sharing both new work and space art from my portfolio. Starting with my #linocut portrait of Félicette for the prompt “liftoff”. 🧪🐡🔭 #histsci Félicette was a Parisian stray tuxedo cat who was recruited into the
My linocut portrait of Félicette, a Parisian stray tuxedo cat who was recruited into the French space program. It's printed by hand, in black ink on pearlescent Japanese paper, 6" x 8".  She peers from the side of the image, facing the viewer with the electrode on her head,  the Véronique rocket, paw print, her name and starry sky behind her.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday was Orange Shirt Day, in which we reflect on the Boarding schools that Native kids were forced to attend. That includes Alaska Native kids, some of which were sent as far away as Pennsylvania. archives.alaska.gov/education/bo... #OrangeShirtDay
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Boarding Schools | Alaska State Archives
Primary source materials focused on the history of boarding schools in the state of Alaska. Links to digitized resources and descriptions provided by the Alaska State Archives.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fun fact. These guys are SUPER strong swimmers (not this one. This one’s crazy lazy. But IN GENERAL…) They’re really fast. I had one nearly jump out of a jar. Like full Free Willy. Just swim swim and 🐬LEAP🐬
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LANana #🟦 Punk Bitch @lanana421.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@anita1956.bsky.social, this is the coolest gift ever!!! Thank you so much 💓 Of course, I had to immediately fill it with my sewing gear 🧵🪡 😄 🙌 🫶
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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🐸😼FROLICKING ANIMALS & AN ANCIENT TEA FIELD🍵🌿 The Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (鳥獣人物戯画), a set of four scrolls depicting anthropomorphic animals, is considered by many -though it features no words- to be the earliest form of manga (漫画) in Japan. #Kyoto #Japan #京都 #folklore
Scenes from the 'Choju-jinbutsu-giga' (鳥獣人物戯画), a set of four scrolls depicting anthropomorphic animals.Scenes from the 'Choju-jinbutsu-giga' (鳥獣人物戯画), a set of four scrolls depicting anthropomorphic animals.Scenes from the 'Choju-jinbutsu-giga' (鳥獣人物戯画), a set of four scrolls depicting anthropomorphic animals.Scenes from the 'Choju-jinbutsu-giga' (鳥獣人物戯画), a set of four scrolls depicting anthropomorphic animals.
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