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Eric

@historicbent.bsky.social
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Random food & politics tweets, mostly bad jokes with friends. Edmontonian transplanted to Victoria by way of Vancouver. Schlepper. He/him.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You don't say globalnews.ca/news/1207056...
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$11.5M from Sturgeon Lake trust helped fund Rath firm’s Tallcree payment: receiver | Globalnews.ca
Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath’s firm took $11.5 million from one First Nation trust to help him make a court-ordered refund to another First Nation, court documents show.
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Del @blackdelphinium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You didn't specify *which profession* of wrestler 😉
Photograph of rikishi Aonishiki Arata looking over his shoulder while holding a Japanese parasol.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Not Writing Games @notwritinggames.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I haven't finished the Magic story yet but I was I N S P I R E D
Art of Emrakul and Jace, bashed together, with impact text that says "WON'T SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM THIS TURBULENT TWINK?"
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J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Alas I didn't pull anything off for this to happen. The page is owned by Warners. I'm just the cheerleader.
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Eric @historicbent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hey @sergeyager.bsky.social Spilt Milk (formerly Dose) in Revelstoke seems like your of place. This is the Pterodactyl flight.
A brewed coffee, a cortado, and a shot of espresso on a small wooden serving tray on a cafe table, sold together as a tasting flight
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 11/07/2026
Death (Trump) knocking on doors meme with blood out of the open doors for “Knicks in 4” and “USMNT”. He’s knocking on the door that says England
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Eric @historicbent.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If England faces Spain in the finals I cannot be held responsible for the number of Armada-related jokes that I make, nor can those around me be held criminally liable for their subsequent actions and my likely death at their hands.
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"But Lar," I hear you ask "What would I ask you to draw?" So far I've drawn a couple of signature gaming characters, a fantasy creature mashup, illustrated a fun phrase and am currently drawing a pin up burlesque performer. If you've ever been tempted to ask a.i. to make an image hire me instead!
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I appreciated this Wired review of this chair that I will almost certainly be buying and also I love that whoever created this graphic knows exactly who this chair is for www.wired.com/review/amsea...
Screenshot of the article header showing the subheading “this extra-wide chair gives you room to sit cross-legged, sideways, or however your body actually wants to sit” with a photo of the chair on a pink, purple, and blue color blocked background that evokes the bisexual pride flag
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 12/07/2026
well okay so the english won against the norwegians but in only a few days theyll have to face the french. anyway thats quite enough about September 25th 1066, lets look at some football news
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Eric @historicbent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We like to think we’re unique, then someone posts something like this and then you’re just dead, you’ve died, they just got your ass without even knowing you were there. In grade 3 my mother forbade me from reading Dad’s Doonesbury and Bloom County books. A major influence on why I’m like this.
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 03/07/2026
Periodic reminder: there are now 2 avenues for trans Americans to move to Canada without work or marriage: Do you have Canadian ancestry? Get the proof and claim your Canadian citizenship! If you are an American citizen, you can apply for asylum! Safe 3rd does not apply to you!!
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 02/07/2026
It's been misfiled under another auction of "building materials", but if you ever wanted to start and end each of your days on Captain Pike's Actual Bed: that dream can be achieved, today, and currently for just $5 www.403auction.com/auctions/527...
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Captain Pikes Quarters King Size Production Made Bed
Condition: Film UPC: No UPC,Pikes Quarters Bed King Size 99x86x30" H
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!
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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
After the tarp went up to try and stop the “Berlin Wall” moment, Cliff Owen of the AP got the iconic 📸 shot. 🇺🇸
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Eric @historicbent.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Proud of Jules for doing this, ashamed of our society that he has to.
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 11/06/2026
‘It’s about our right to fundamentally exist’: Local bodybuilder takes his fight to BC Human Rights Tribunal thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...
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Q&A: Jules Sherred Takes Fight to BC Human Rights Tribunal – The Discourse.
Sherred talks modern Pride, the struggle to be included in sports and why he keeps fighting for the entire trans community
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026
Douglas Adams: > Anything in the world when you're born is normal, ordinary and a natural part of the world. Anything invented between when you’re 15-35 is new, exciting and revolutionary and you can get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things. 1/
A blasted wasteland with a mushroom cloud rising over it. In the foreground are swarms of drowning people climbing over each other to escape into the limbs of a dead tree, and a crowd of agonized skeletons. All sourced from Dore engravings illustrating the Old Testament.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Now we get to find out just how committed Danielle Smith and the UCP really are to direct democracy and hearing the will of the people. #abpoli edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/06/08/c...
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Corb Lund says coal-ban petition has met signature threshold
Alberta musician Corb Lund says his Water Not Coal campaign that pushes for a ban on new coal mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies has gathered enough signatures. The petition, which Lund was a...
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Eric @historicbent.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I would be appalled by the new federal AI strategy if it wasn’t for the abysmal track record of federal innovation, technology & industrial strategies. Would be nice to use tax dollars to do something useful like fund basic scientific research instead of “superclusters” or the koolaid of the day.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It's Pride Month Retweet to scare a homophobe/transphobe ❤️
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James Turner @james.loadingreadyrun.com · 23/05/2026
This man is unreal. The next fucking day he shows up on network access TV to reference a thing he did 11 years ago? Legend. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 15/05/2026
Among hard-core Alberta separatists, the level of contempt for courts and hate for Indigenous people is palpable following yesterday's ruling. This is going to be an ugly summer. Reasonable Albertans will need to stand up for the constitution and treaties. Staying silent is being complicit.+
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention 
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 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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But Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Critically: You must INTENTIONALLY REQUEST expedited processing by including a letter with your citizenship request explaining your situation, along with supporting documentation.
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Eric @historicbent.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
So, generally, fuck AI, but if we're going to be building data centers, this is one where I shrug & go “I guess that makes sense”. It’s at the nexus of a district steam heat system, there’s actually a purpose for the heat generation there. This has a good overview - www.bchydro.com/news/conserv...
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Working with BC Hydro, Cadillac Fairview has installed thermal energy storage tanks under their Pacific Centre Complex as part of their decarbonization strategy for their downtown buildings.
Working with BC Hydro, Cadillac Fairview has installed thermal energy storage tanks under their Pacific Centre Complex as part of their decarbonization strategy for their downtown buildings.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time
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Eric @historicbent.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com not sure if your household has been enumerated yet but this seems relevant to your interests
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
ICYMI, article from me last week about cool new organic molecules (naphthalenes and benzothiophenes, two-ring molecules!) found in a Curiosity sample from back in Glen Torridon: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
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Curiosity Team Hits Jackpot: A Sample Full of Complex Organic Molecules
Scientists have identified at least seven carbon-rich molecules that NASA's Curiosity rover detected on Mars, and they're more complex than any found before.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
we’re doing another bracket this summer and our marketing team made a commemorative pin set from to give out to bracket fans and now my brain is broken
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Ash Splawinski @splawinski.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.” That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
BOOKS! Books, books, books! Libraries with books that don't get censored! Libraries where drag queens can read to kids and make story time delightful! Dolly Parton's Imagination Library! This is how you make super babies, you eugenicist, narcissistic fucking fools! (10/10) imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A picture of the book STRIXHAVEN: OMENS OF CHAOS by Seanan McGuire with the text NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER printed above it on a purple and gold background.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts return to Earth, ending a record-breaking trip around the moon with a splashdown in the Pacific.
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Michael F. DuBois @michaelfdubois.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Also the film is being produced by Laser Webber and his team at LaserVision. Laser absolutely rules, he’s currently also producing a trans comedy festival happening March 31st-April 12th here in LA called The Joy Who Lived, you can get info about that here! joywholived.com
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The Joy Who Lived
A trans and gnc comedy and performing arts festival! Join us for two weeks of stand-up, sketch, new plays, readings, workshops and more, March 31st to April 12th in Los Angeles and live-streamed to yo...
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Eric @historicbent.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Ducked over to Bolen Books at lunch to pick up a book I’d ordered.
A fresh hardcover copy of Seanan McGuire’s Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos, a Magic: the Gathering novel. The cover art is mostly of a curly-haired femme-presenting magic user in a swirly translucent orange sphere, top third is a OxBridge-esque cityscape
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 26/03/2026
Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...
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The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up
I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.
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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · 18/03/2026
New substack on why being Liberal in deep-blue Alberta is less weird than people think — and why it might actually fit the place better than expected.
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"Being Liberal in a Sea of Blue"
I'm not a Liberal in spite of western values. I'm a Liberal because of them.
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Sir. Take my taxes. Use them to build housing for my neighbours because they’re people who need it! Use them to help my city fund civic life because we’re more than just customers! Use them to pay for new safe lives for refugees getting settled. Then tax the rich so they can do the same x1000.
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 13/03/2026
Today, I had to spend $2000 on new glasses. Now would be a great time to buy my cookbook for disabled people written by a disabled person. I've earned so I get royalties. Pass it on! julessherred.com/crip-up-the-...
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Crip Up The Kitchen • Jules Sherred - Author
Crip Up the Kitchen is a comprehensive guide and recipe collection that brings the economy and satisfaction of home cooking to disabled and neurodivergent cooks.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/03/2026
Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 06/03/2026
The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
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Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 03/02/2026
Why does the entire industry look like they had a logo drawing contest and the only rule was “eat this acid and draw a butthole”?
An image of 17 AI company logos. They all look like more or less stylized buttholes.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Look, you may blame The Writers for really going overboard in an already crazy year, but who among us has not struggled with fucking clearances on character names.
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