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Calvin Binnema

@jcbinnema.bsky.social
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YEG; cycling; grandpa; abstract/minimal photography (sometimes birds & landscapes too); gardening; travel; retired Recently, award winning photographer

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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Didn’t notice. I’ll take a closer look
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You are neither omniscient nor omnipotent. Bad doG
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So the rich are getting richer as designed
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jeez, it’s almost a year since I’ve been there
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 14/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/jare...
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Those two years don’t count because nobody alive remembers them 🧐
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My gauge was a little over 40mm after the storms passed. Hard to believe, but…
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My rain barrels are the most useless things I own.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thousands needed
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If you don’t show up at this level, you deserve to be embarrassed
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
But that’s exactly what you just did
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
While England said, “let’s put up a wall … that always works.”
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You missed, but good try
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Norway. First time winner. Else Switzerland, same reason
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Perhaps, but Canada progresses further than such powerhouses as Germany and the Netherlands (and who knows which others)
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
But there are 3 host countries, 2 of which have better choices as heads of state.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
You just need to go lay down and don’t let it phase you. 😁
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And in the pouring rain
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Congratulations. You’ve got another 20 in you at least.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Isn’t Netanyahu the president of the USA though?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Safe, protected bike-lanes are: Better for business Better for emissions Better for air quality Better for space Better for public health Better for noise Better for equity Better for affordability Better for public costs Better for safety for EVERYONE Better for oil independence Better.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
He said so himself before he was ever president that it needed to be done. You’re not crazy at all
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
When you ask why that is, you begin to understand how bike lanes benefit all.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I believe he is doing it on purpose. He has said that’s what is needed for future prosperity. Of course, he’s only talking about his own prosperity.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind. Answers are a threat to national security
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Boot USA first.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Watch this. I’m unapologetically #ElbowsUp when it comes to Americans, or anyone, who try to attack or diminish Canada. But I’m VERY aware that there are a LOT of Americans who support Canada. Here’s a whole arena of them in Buffalo. A Canadian team wasn’t even playing. Thanks, neighbours.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The astronauts had a self driving vehicle though.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We started the war to protect the Iranian people! We started the war to eliminate Iran's nuclear stuff! We started the war because Iran started the war 49 years ago! We started the war because they don't believe in Jesus! We started the war because Obama! We started the war to get their oil!
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I thought you did satire?
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Yes, what you say makes intuitive sense to me
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Anyone with eyes open, even long before 2015
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I’m at ICE HQ
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Still going to take another 70 years before he completely disappears
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
He’s actually calling himself evil - or allowing for that interpretation
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Different religion, same mentality.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ironically, it’s clear from the Bible that if you wish for Armageddon and want to bring it on, you’ve joined the evil side
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I’m hoping for a power struggle that keeps contenders occupied while stalling evil things.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Get AI to summarize a joke. It’ll make you laugh more than the joke did.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
So, no, then
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
UAE billionaire Khalaf Al Habtoor wrote an interesting post on X criticizing Lindsey Graham and Trump. “We...know who dragged the entire region into this dangerous escalation without consulting those he calls his ‘allies’ in the region.” Hours later, it was deleted. It's worth reading in full:
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor
@KhalafAlHabtoor
X.com
• Translated from Arabic by Grok
I heard the statements of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, in which he calls on the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to enter this war, saying that we are also under attack and that we must join the fight.
And I say to him clearly: We know full well why we are under attack, and we also know who dragged the entire region into this dangerous escalation without consulting those he calls his "allies" in the region.
We thank God that the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are doing well, and we have no need for someone who claims he came to the Middle East to save us. The truth is that hasty American decisions are what embroiled the region in a war whose peoples were not party to its decision-making, and its local allies were not consulted before it was launched.
We do not deny the Iranian threat to the region, which has become clear in recent days. We do not trust Iran. But this is a dirty game in which several powers clash at the expense of our region, with no honor in it and no transparency. In this scene, Iran, Israel, and the United States all move according to their own interests, not according to the interests of the peoples of the Middle Eastern Arab countries.
And for this reason, we say it clearly: We will not enter this war to serve the interests of others, nor will we sacrifice our sons in a conflict that could have been avoided through diplomacy and political solutions. We value the lives of our sons, and we do not treat their souls as "collateral damage" as some do. Nothing in this world is more precious than the lives of our sons, and no alliance with any country in the world is worth risking these lives. If President Donald Trump and Senator Graham are prepared to risk their country and the lives of Americans for Israel's interests, that is their choice. As for us, we will not do the same.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Only Americans wonder why
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We have wrist watches now? What will they think of next?
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Or fishing around for your phone when it’s in the other hand
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hah! Own the solar power advocates!
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Really sticking your neck out
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Had lunch at that spot one day last April
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Calvin Binnema @jcbinnema.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Makes me think of Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game”
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