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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you ForChange for adding me to your recommendations for Kelowna City Council!
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For the past week, I've heard a lot of people say "provincial and municipal elections happening at the same time is confusing, especially since I don't fully understand what a city is in control of." So, I did a four minute explainer piece to try and help www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqlh...
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What municipalities can and can’t do in B.C.
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
FAFO www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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CEO who posted about wearing 'Lake America' sweatshirts to Halifax is no longer CEO | CBC News
The Michigan tourist who recently went viral over a Facebook photo where she and three family members appeared to be wearing "Lake America" sweatshirts has parted ways with her employer.
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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm a Meta-Effective Altruist™️ I believe that Effective Altruism needs to be redistributed from where it is least effective (Silicon Valley sex cultists) to where it would be most effective (British pensioners who leave their life savings to the Donkey Sanctuary).
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Ivan S @ivanser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I feel really bad for all the billionaires who are too poor to make the Forbes list. We should start a GoFundMe for them.
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Ben Atkinson, PhD @benatkinsonphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When the nation’s finances are run by the mathematicians instead of the economists. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/imagin...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Imagine
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Imagine
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A gem at the county fair art show. 🎨
Acrylic painting of an angry looking white cat staring at the viewer with one paw on a blue vase, about to push it off a mantle.
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 01/09/2026
For the Toronto Star, I wrote about the trade war, digital sovereignty, and Lake Ontario. We are already dominated by American tech giants. If Canada fights this trade war and we don't renegotiate the terms of digital trade, we will lose. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Google changing Lake Ontario to Lake America isn’t just frustrating. It points to a deeper problem for Mark Carney
Canada’s digital infrastructure is too tied to companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
trying to win a trade negotiation with Canada by demanding less French is like trying to win a game of checkers by jamming your dick in an electrical outlet
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
mr carney if you're listening now is the time to suspend US IP protections in Canada
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So maybe the U.S. and Canada reach a deal today. Okay. But how many hours until Trump gets annoyed at the way beavers build dams or Canada geese shit in upstate New York before he imposes 125% tariffs on Degrassi High reruns?
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
NIMBYs online: “there’s no point legalizing more housing, developers will never build enough to lower prices” Edmonton landlords: “help, developers built too much, putting downward pressure on rents”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/08/2026
jesusfuckingchrist
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Oregon senators warn prediction markets allowing betting on wildfires could incentivize arson
A public report urges the CFTC to ban prediction market contracts on destructive wildfires, raising concerns over public safety and potential arson.
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Owen @oweninvan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"It would be one thing if CPP was underperforming... another if they were manipulating their benchmark to pay themselves unduly... another if ... depressing growth in the Canadian economy writ-large to cover it all up. I’ll prove they're doing all three"
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How CPP Executives are Manipulating their Benchmarks to Pay Themselves Before Your Retirement
An insider's perspective on the illegitimate $100 million dollar wealth transfer from Canadian tax-payers to CPP execs and employees, and exactly how they covered it up.
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
1) expropriate Union Station and lake shore east 2) build sufficient addition tracks and crossovers for blended service 3) electrify Boom: Alto into Union without dealing with Metrolinx or Ford
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Good morning
Kyle MacLachlan explains Dune entirely in emojis
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
the most important step in getting healthy is figuring out the unique combination of weird shit you're going to mix into Greek yogurt for the rest of your life
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Ivan S @ivanser.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Climate change double whammy - baking in 34 degree heat in Kelowna, but my backpacking trip is cancelled because the campsite is still buried under snow and ice. Same trip last year cancelled because of wildfires.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 13/07/2026
We did not agree on every issue. But today, we all mourn the passing of a leader who provided a lot to the community.
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Robin Reed @robinreed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“ When you write out the basic facts of trees, but framed as technology, it sounds like impossible sci-fi nonsense. Self-replicating, solar-powered machines that synthesize carbon dioxide and rainwater into oxygen and sturdy building materials on a planetary scale. It’s mind blowing, really.“
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Professor Plink @professorplink.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I mean Stephen King would have come up with something way better than that shite, but in general...yeah.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
they call it "single sign on" because you have to sign on every single time
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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Semis fall as degenerates pull money from stocks on the heels of gambling losses from shambolic US men’s soccer team performance
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Simpsons meme with Hans Moleman on a pay phone saying “I need the biggest metaphor you have.” Followed by “No, that’s too big.”
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Alan T Perry @alantperry.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Just gonna leave this here. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada Day activities in Ottawa cancelled due to 'extreme weather,' including fireworks | CBC News
Evening Canada Day activities in Ottawa have been cancelled, including the fireworks display, due to "extreme weather," as flooding closed some streets in the city and thunderstorms led to power outag...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/06/2026
witchcraft
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When you make 1 trillion dollars, you have won the game. They should give you a parade and a gold statue. And then take away all your money and you start New Game+ with tougher enemies.
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The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @iethics.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Against the adversary it was designed for--the provider who performs the inference itself--I believe that [private inference] probably does what it says. All I’m trying to say in this post is that this adversary is a very small piece of any agentic system." #ethics #business #tech #internet
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 18/11/2025
Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Ivan S @ivanser.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Our taxes are too damn low!
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Ben Atkinson, PhD @benatkinsonphd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Dr. Lindsay M. Tedds: “Up front: I am not setting my hair on fire about the federal deficit, and neither should you." deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/s...
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Pharmacare
Mark Carney’s Spring Economic Update tells a tidy little story. The 2025–26 deficit is $66.9 billion — a full $11.5 billion lower than projected in Budget 2025. Future deficits decline to $53…
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Ivan S @ivanser.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh, this checks out. Everything I like gets cancelled / run out of business / disappears: manual transmissions, wagons, Costco mashed potatoes, democracy, comfortable stretchy jeans that are reasonably priced…
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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Trying this reels thing, dunno if this fits this platform? Anyways, wishlist my game!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
i dont have sympathy for these people but every one of these stories needs an opening paragraph thats like “this outlet didnt offer a single fact check or rebuttal to trumps claim hes pro farmer instead we were like ‘hell yea brotha’”
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Intelligent
2 Blue Jays conversing in a spruce. First Jay asks "What if we aren't the only intelligent species in the universe? What would they be like?" The second replies "Let's see... they'd need to be good at problem solving, and to have advanced communication skills, a social structure, self-awareness..." "... the ability to fly?" continues the first Jay. "That goes without saying!" exclaims the second. The first states confidently "And a strong beak, of course". To which the second responds rhetorically "How could you do anything intelligent without a strong beak?"
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
These incredible Buff Tip Moths blend in so well with branches that you might mistake them for sticks. Nature's masters of disguise are truly fascinating!
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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I thought Carney was a builder of infrastructure? With $2.4 billion, we could quickly get to incredible levels of intercity bus service. Medical appointments, family visits, vacations, etc could all be done without a car. Instead, the people who can afford a car will save ~$5 per tank.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Contemporary Parisians also widely loathed Haussmann himself for doing the urban renewal in the first place! He was forced to resign in disgrace by Napoleon III! It was a massive political controversy at the time for how much money he spent and how heavily-handedly he went about it.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Ever wanted to be good at websites? Now's your chance
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
lmao great work guys
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
it makes sense that they’d send a Canadian on the Artemis II, there is no one better suited to sharing cramped quarters with three strangers than a person who has experienced the Ontario housing market
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I have stolen 12T of KitKats that were in transit and which you were probably hoping to buy in Poland forgive me the world is stressful and I needed a break
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The only secure way to store data is to not collect it
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Sweden’s Digital ID System Hacked, Public’s Data Sold on Dark Web
Frank Bergman Sweden’s sweeping national digital ID system has been hacked, with the public’s sensitive data already being sold on the dark web...
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Penny Daflos @pennydaflos.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Your facepalm story du jour www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Scottish-born midwife unable to practise in B.C. after immigration flags missing proof of English proficiency
At a time when maternal care in British Columbia is barely meeting the needs of patients, a Vancouver Island midwife could be forced to leave the country over a paperwork snafu.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/03/2026
Conan, what is best in life? To see your friends, to hear the lamentation of their children, and to be like "well, it was so good seeing you, have fun with all that"
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