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@keithjmacdonald.bsky.social
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This. That. The other thing. Old enough to know better. In Ottawa, Canada.

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 8h
"...significant funding [is] going into for-profit facilities, and yet across the province...we see...understaffed capacity when there’s infrastructure that’s already been paid for and we don’t have staffing to staff it,” @alonghurst.bsky.social. #onpoli www.sudbury.com/health-and-w...
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Increasing MRI use would require more funding: HSN
The Ontario Ministry of Health and Health Sciences North have responded to a report which criticizes the province’s push toward privatization and underutilized MRI machines
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themindfulnomad.bsky.social @themindfulnomad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New Rule. If Trump refuses to answer a reporter’s question and calls on another reporter, then THAT reporter needs to ask the SAME question; and so on, until he finally answers the question.
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Seth Meyers: Right?!
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jack Smith is an American hero 👇
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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El Cortador @newmexislosh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remember when republicans wouldn’t adopt electric vehicles, because our electric grid couldn’t handle it? Now they’re building data centers that consume entire state’s worth of power.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
> @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/h...
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/09/2026
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 26/09/2026
Photo from Reddit of today’s Critical Mass. There are hundreds of cyclists in this photo and only about 40 people in cars. Yet both groups are taking up roughly the same amount of road space.
Photo of Critical Mass bike ride in Toronto today
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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Renewable Energy is cheaper than oil. Renewable Energy is more securely available than oil.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Europe’s biggest economy, Germany, has committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045. The plans include ramping up renewable energy from 55% to 80% of electricity generation by 2030. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045
Campaigners say plan marks notable shift away from oil and gas as previously pledges were only for carbon neutrality
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026
calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it
In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What started as one teenager’s idea is now pulling millions of kilograms of plastic out of the world’s oceans. I've been donating to this amazing org. since it's inception. Hope you will too. theoceancleanup.com/donate/ #Innovation #PlasticPlanet #OceanCleanUp #EnvironmentalSolutions
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Removing Toronto's key bike lanes will result in more cyclist deaths. That much is certain. It will also cost $48 Million for removal & $27 Million in "sunk" costs (losing the initial taxpayer investment) plus further "unaccounted costs." #ONpoli #cycling #cars globalnews.ca/news/1085115...
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Toronto’s bike lanes cost millions to install. How much will it be to remove them? | Globalnews.ca
The province has confirmed plans to remove bike lanes from Bloor Street, University Avenue and Yonge Street as part of new legislation.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cookies have very few vitamins. That’s why you have to eat so many of them.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Posted this morning by my good friend and celebrated writer Allan Stratton.
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump's stock-trading is out of control. A president is supposed to govern for the benefit of the entire country — not for his own financial benefit.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Taxing the rich is absolutely essential to saving our economy and our democracy. Don't believe me? Look at this chart.
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The Hidden Danger of America's Wealth Gap
Taxing the rich is absolutely essential to saving our economy and our democracy.Don't believe me? Look at this chart.
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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Total banger from @jeremyst.bsky.social : "The solution is not to punish early adopters of a revolutionary technology; it is to aggressively invest in dedicated space on public streets." sfstandard.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: The e-bike revolution is here. San Francisco isn’t ready for it
Bike commutes are up 52%, shared bike and scooter usage has doubled, and injuries are rising too. What the city needs isn’t a ban — it’s a backbone.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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keithjmacdonald.bsky.social @keithjmacdonald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wow…. a clip from Mayor Mamdani’s five borough back to school tour
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
12 September 1939 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Hanna Harriët Samson, was born in Emmen. In December 1942, she was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz & murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. -- Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en
A vintage black-and-white photo of a smiling baby sitting with a ball. The baby is wearing a light sleeveless outfit,
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's an abuse of the FCC. Texans, make it backfire!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🙏🕯️💙🌸🌹
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is this revenge for the roof not collapsing like it was told to?
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In New York, tax opponents have repeatedly claimed – without evidence – that any new taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers would cause tax flight. Fact: NY added ~2,000 millionaire tax filers in a single year, shortly AFTER the state raised its top tax rate on high earners.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today, 90% of newly commissioned global #solar and #wind are cheaper than new fossil-fuel. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 10/09/2026
We programmers used to say "Fast, cheap, or good. Pick any two." Apparently, we shouldn't have bothered, because a bunch of people just wanted a shit sandwich and a double helping of Fast.
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Cars incur costs of 9.3 trillion U.S. dollars annually—8.3 percent of global economic output. Drivers pay 2 trillion, while 7 trillion represent so-called social costs borne by society—accidents, air pollution, noise, climate damage, land use, infrastructure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Kid Driving Fast in Toy Car
Alt: Kid Driving Fast in Toy Car
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Brigitte Pellerin @brigittepellerin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Safety in Ottawa keeps getting worse and in part that's because most stories don't get reported anywhere because they're not ”serious” enough for the cops or the media. I want to do something about that. randomactsofurbanism.substack.com/p/safety-in-...
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Safety in Ottawa
We can’t solve a problem we don’t see.
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