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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

Buried at the end of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's NYT interview: the single most terrible yet somehow confusingly appropriate metaphor for fossil-fuelled AI I have ever seen ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026

I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s ground cherry savouring season. I’m obsessed. Make plans not to miss it next year. That means growing your own but it’s pretty damn easy and a pot on a deck or outdoor table is great because the “harvest” doesn’t get lost as easy.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On my goodness. See the size of this culvert that was overwhelmed (tech language?) by the heavy rain in Cape Breton. It looks like its diameter is approximately the width of a lane of the highway it used to be under. #ClimateChange

A large culvert lies a distance from a highway that it used to be under in Cape Breton. A still from a CBC news report. #ClimateChange

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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The UN adopted the Equal Earth projection, a map which more accurately portrays the size of the continents. The US was the only nation to vote against it, saying it promoted an "ideological agenda." www.cbc.ca/news/science... Equal Earth projection, top; Mercator projection, bottom.

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Gord Johns @gordjohns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Danielle Smith’s Bill 11 opens the door to U.S.-style two-tier health care, letting those who can pay jump the queue while everyone else waits. The Federal Liberal Government has the power to defend public health care and enforce the Canada Health Act. New Democrats are calling on them to act.

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New Democrats urge federal government to stand up against U.S. style two-tier health

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I feel this. Remember consumer protection…

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Jean Laroche @nsnewsh0und.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If this is your bike, it’s been abandoned on the side of the multi-use trail next to the Halifax MacDonald bridge ramp. Not far from the encampment.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I made it to Julius Caesar at Point Pleasant last night. I studied it in high school and but forgot almost everything, including that the rationale for killing Caesar was a belief (maybe not deeply held, maybe not grounded in much evidence) that his ambition would curtail the freedom of Romans.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hey Halifax bike people - my bicycle wandered off from our home north of Duffus. My partner may have left an open shed briefly unattended? It’s a dark blue Trek with a whale bell, a bike rack, an attached large black saddle bag (like the one pictured). DM if you see, pls.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hey @hfxgov.bsky.social - each of these walls at the commons pool should have a bench, please.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

People have been taking off their shoes at airport security for 20 years because one guy brought some liquid gel aboard. Not a thing can be done about car & driver. There, here.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New to me office almost downtown and searching for outdoor lunch locations. Most are missing shade so I’m grateful for wheels that got me to this big tree - steps from new palette at Sackville/ Brunswick.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This CAEH report on homelessness has, I think, the right basic diagnosis but whatever your preferred mechanism I think people aren't grappling with the magnitude of the affordability problem at the bottom end of the market. caeh.ca/news/homeles...

According to the CMHC, the average annual income for Canadian renters with the lowest incomes was $19,500 in 2023. A rental price that would be reasonably affordable for those renters would be $487.50 per month: nowhere near the asking rents of new rental housing stock, and substantially lower than asking rents even for the lowest-cost units in the private rental market.

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Brynn Budden, a spokesperson with HRM, sent me this email today: "At this time, there is no new information to communicate on the status of the Student Transit Pass Program." So, we'll wait and see. I will contact the Minister of Education, though.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Is there a reliable, reputable ride share app? Looking for a spot in a car to Montreal for a good adult human. Add this to the list of things I knew how to do in the ‘90s…

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

16yo, realizing that 18yo sibling will have a bus pass through university while his is about to expire. “Why didn’t they just pay for it with the bridge tolls?”

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Sam Austin @samaustind5.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is totally @lecwhite.bsky.social's parkette. She saved the project at Council.

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Sarah @sarahwhitehfx.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Listening to a CBC interview about the changes in immigration rules and I wholeheartedly agree. In speaking with colleagues concerned about work permits not being renewed, it’s changed so drastically it actually punishes people who followed the old rules and advice.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Saw Rent at Neptune and it was so good. Recommend! #Halifax

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Spent some time at the bottom of Citadel Hill this evening, just as family picnics were wrapping up - so many babies! - and dozens of kites were still flying. So peaceful and joyous.

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

For a long time, scientists thought water simply rose up through the trunk. But researchers have discovered something astonishing: trees contract and expand, pumping water like a slow-beating heart—except that this pulse beats roughly every two hours.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

AI that makes sense: a reputable child psychologist trained an AI agent only on her own body of work (columns, books, podcasts) so that people who care about teens/ young adults can ask questions and get answers based on that body of work. drlisadamour.com/ask-rosalie/

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Ask Rosalie - Lisa Damour, PhD

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

A mockup SUV advert image with a prototype safety warning

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Indulging in Saturday morning retail therapy - treats from the farmers market, including flowers - lupins - for the kiddo who has a Grade 12 prom today; and purchasing music via Bandcamp, today Nemahsis. Grateful for the privilege.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Are we doubling electricity production in Canada to keep up with demand from data centres?

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Finished my census questionnaire. Learned something new about my common-law spouse and I feel a sense of accomplishment.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It’s hard to connect with truth through the news. So, this week, I was grateful for a daily and delicious experience of truth - in the form of dates, product of a people, a culture, a place, the state of Palestine.

One date is shown next to a box labelled Palestine Medjoul Dates. Product of Palestine.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Raising a glass to everyone who put their heads down and worked today, then raised their heads to WTF

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The smallest of the “ponds” - at curb cuts/ intersections - that I leapt over this morning. Why don’t we make crosswalks at intersections water-shedding speed bumps?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"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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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Just thinking about how we’re all treaty people and resolving to show up on Treaty Day is a more consistent way now that our Provincial government has signalled that it is not honouring that relationship. Also about how artists - like Louise Pitre at the Craig Gallery - process these things.

A press release from the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs bears the headline “Provincial Reductions Are Harmful and Appear Targeted”

A shot of an exhibit by Louise Pentz at the Craig Gallery in Alderney Landing. Three blankets on the wall are - one with embedded mirrors and the words I was wrong / I regret and We were wrong/ We regret.

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Christine Saulnier (she/her) @csaulnier.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

About that $1,400 average tax cut. There is no actual average Nova Scotian. The avg includes the higher income and the lower income; one benefits 10 times more (fr HST & PIT cut). Income of $290,000 or more, taxes reduced by $2,600, income of $25K and less by $256. (Using SPSD/M stats can modelling)

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Christine Saulnier (she/her) @csaulnier.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I understand this may be offered but means-tested. So kids and families identify as low income to schools and bus drivers. Terrible stigmatizing policy change, if true.

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Michelle Hébert (she/her) @hfxwordy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I'm furious at so many of the cuts in NS's provincial budget. They'll impact all Nova Scotians, in ways we don't fully comprehend yet. We didn't vote for eliminating bridge tolls, and now the gov't has to find that revenue loss elsewhere -- like in cuts to arts and culture. As a writer, this hurts.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Make this land use illegal in your community. In every community.

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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"The level of racism and hate that has been expressed has risen undoubtedly, and it is aligned with this premier's... attempt to pin all of her failings on newcomers to this province." ABNDP's Rakhi Pancholi argues Premier Smith's referendums are designed to anger and distract.

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Lisa Roberts @lisarobehfx.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This building with - 8 or 12 or? Units - replaced a story and a half on a corner lot, two blocks from fairly frequent bus route #7 in Halifax. My only complaint: the lot was empty for years before it was built, and now the (completed?) building is still unoccupied. #MissingMiddle

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