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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do y'all have an obvious favorite photo of your dog? Because I sure do, and it will forever be this one of him photobombing Devil's Tower lol.

A photo of my dog photo-bombing Devil's Tower. My dog, a husky/malamute/wolf with black and tan fur is sitting in front of the towering rocky pillar with a large smile and tongue hanging out.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.

Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a dear friend whose OSAP got pulled because of the Ford government and now they can't finish a course that would have helped their career and, by extension, their community. I really can't describe the level of vitriol I have for this fucker. He needs to go. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Liberals ask auditor general to investigate OSAP spending at private career colleges | CBC News

The Ontario Liberals are asking the auditor general to investigate provincial student financial aid spending at private career colleges.

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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 21h

In the past 7 days this University has been through several threats of terrorism and this is the third fire in this period. The loss surpasses 25mi USD and advanced research is forever gone. All while students were protesting against the far right, and in defense of Lula. Decades of research gone

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Em meio a manifestações pró-Lula, Universidade Federal de PE é atingida por incêndio - Revista Fórum

Um incêndio de grandes proporções atingiu o prédio da Diretoria de Inovação e Empreendedorismo da UFPE, no Recife, nesta quarta-feira (7). Segundo relatos de

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Based on new information reported today, I again asked the Speaker to allow Parliamentarians to question the government about foreign interference and issues with the Alberta referendum. Once again, the Speaker has denied my request. 1/2

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026

I talked with the incredible @kissphoria.bsky.social about her reporting on Instagram banning queer bars all over the country. youtu.be/wKIgdlpGN3k

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Why Instagram Keeps Banning LGBTQ Bars (ft. Gwen Howerton)

YouTube video by Katelyn Burns

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today, I asked the government what it's doing to protect our sovereignty and democracy from foreign interference. The answer 🤔 ? Nothing, then?

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An important point: the protests began in working-class suburbs with large racialised populations, including Saint-Denis, north of Paris. This historic burial place of French kings now has a Black mayor, Bally Bagayoko, from the left-wing party LFI. White supremacy also underpins police brutality.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mainstream media have been equally pathetic, demanding that left-leaning interviewees “condemn violence” - a familiar gatekeeping ritual, echoing the “Do you condemn Hamas?” routine that shifts attention from political demands to compulsory disavowals. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Mobilisation des lycéens : les éditocrates veulent rétablir l’ordre

YouTube video by Acrimed Vidéos

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Protests have now spread to universities and education workers. On the 6th of October, Union étudiante reported over 57 university sites blocked. Organisers counted 450,000 demonstrators nationwide, including 100,000 in Paris, supporting students’ demands and opposing police repression.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Macron's France : 6.629 (maj) kids detained - mostly arbitrarily - since the beginning of the protests. The minister of Interior, Laurent Nunez, is presenting these numbers as a win, a show of force, but what they actually reflect is the impotence of neoliberal authoritarianism.

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EN DIRECT - Colère lycéenne : 6.629 interpellations, 215 élèves et 761 policiers blessés, annonce Laurent Nuñez | TF1 Info

[VIDÉO] La mobilisation lycéenne est en "net recul" mercredi à la mi-journée, affirme le ministère de l'Éducation. Celle-ci reçoit cependant le soutien de plusieurs syndicats qui appellent à une journ...

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Lynda @lyndar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

excellent thread if you’re trying to catch up on the student protests happening across France

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

France’s student protests are about basic demands: teachers in classrooms, working toilets, heating, shorter school days, educational equality. Thousands marched as hostile misinformation recast the movement as riots, race war and “the fall of France.”

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The Basic Demands of French Student Protesters: Reasonable Hours, a Teacher, a Warm Classroom and a Working Toilet

Lycée students marched across France on 6 October to demand teachers, repairs and smaller classes. Old riot footage was recycled as proof of "migrant" violence, a woman was burned in Marseille, a trai...

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Gersande La Flèche @gersande.com · 07/10/2026

Bally Bagayoko's incredible bravery here has also been (admirably, very admirably) imitated by many other politicians who have tried to intervene on behalf of the high schoolers. There are also several clips of Anthony Smith, député européen LFI, trying to engage with the forces where he is ignored.

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Compare to the Presidents of the University of Alberta and University of Calgary whom both rushed to coordinate a violent police response to student Palestine protests.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you appreciate this thread, I am a human journalist trying my damndest to keep an AI-free news site up and running. Support my work, and the work of a whole passle of excellent trans journalists by becoming a member of Assigned Media or donating today. assignedmedia.org

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s been two years since Ontario Place West Island was destroyed for a planned private spa. Hundreds of trees were cut down - here’s a snapshot of the many species who lost habitat. 🧵

Side-by-side comparison of a landscape on the Toronto waterfront. In one scene, an island is covered in trees reflected in a still channel of water. The other image of the same place shows a barren stretch land with a pile of rubble in the centre.

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Jordan Moffatt @jordanmoffatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It took until 1962 for the City of Ottawa to allow all renters to vote in municipal elections. Before that, those living with roommates or in boarding houses couldn't vote. This changed after a referendum (passed 49,776 to 20,262—though renters barred from voting at the time couldn't participate).

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Maple (fallen)", oil on unstretched canvas, 5 1/2 x 7", 2026 - $100(Cdn) #painting #art #canadianart

A small painting of a dried, yellow/brown maple leaf on a grey background. There's a loose blue pill and a loose white pill to the upper left of the leaf.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

tell me the vibe you are seeking and i will recommend you a gay romance novel (pls note if trashy is ok)

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Knyttir @knyttir.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, I didn't find the mushroom I was looking for, but I did find some incredibly photogenic amanitas. Yes I know it's cliché, but LOOK AT THEM. Absolutely spotless. #fungifriends

A photo of a very fancy mushroom family of five

A photo of just one, but nonetheless incredibly fancy mushroom

A top view photo of the previous fancy mushroom. Absolutely perfect specimen.

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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fall bird migration is happening across N. America-- make sure you get overnight lights out (to keep from disorienting the night-traveling birds), treat windows, and keep cats inside! Found two dead sapsuckers and a Blackpoll Warbler today under windows after the morning shift had already checked

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A tough piece, specifically a piece about women being extremely tough under serious threat. Big respect to @espiers.bsky.social to writing about this in such an unsparing, constructive way. Teaching kids young about consent—and *enthusiastic* consent—is, unfortunately, necessary

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

…. the late Bruno Latour remarked that “Brazil is today what Spain was in 1936, during the civil war: it is where everything that will be important in the next decades is visible.” read our litlte magazine phenomenal world in English and Portuguese: phenomenalworld.org/interviews/b...

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Brazil and the World System

An interview with Brazil's Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

With Europe and South America being taken over by far right authoritarian parties and China cracking down in its own LGBTQ population, we need to figure out an international response in how to get LGBTQ people to safety. It's going to get so bad while every potential safe harbor is taken away.

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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Carney has never taken the U.S. threat seriously: "share of fed. contract dollars heading south went from one-fifth in the 16 months before Carney took office to nearly a third under his watch.... IBM & Microsoft charged Ottawa more than $1 billion each for software license fees & IT..." #CDNpoli

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Toronto Archives @torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca · 05/10/2026

Nowadays, the Esplanade is several blocks from the edge of Lake Ontario, but in 1914 parts of it were right on the waterfront. This is the Toronto Electric Light Company at the bottom of Scott Street, just east of Yonge. ow.ly/bI7f50ZGbp5

Black and white photo: a long brick building with two chimneys and a tower is built at the edge of an inlet of the lake. A small boat is pulled up under its windows. Fonds 1231, Item 910.

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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Won't offset whale impacts: '$1.2B for ocean protections is simply pennies” compared to $10 billion pledged for an expanded terminal at Roberts Bank, The Wilderness Committee responded in a release. “Right now, I have no confidence the southern resident killer whales will survive Carney’s agenda...'

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New LNG Canada Deal ‘Like Betting on a Concrete Canoe’

The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, th...

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."

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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Amazing! "All of these things and more helped revive fish, turtle, and dolphin populations to numbers not seen in over two and a half decades. Layer by layer, the ocean floor had rebuilt itself until the results were visibly undeniable."

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Emerence 🍁 @damemyniah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The single most predictive factor in determining support for Alberta independence is not working in the energy industry, but the salience of religion in a person’s life” - pollster Janet Brown

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I advocate for careers in the trades, but they can also be very harmful to your mental health. There are epidemics of drug and alcohol abuse - and of suicide - in the industrial building trades. I've never worked on a long-term project that didn't have at least one or two deaths in camp.

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This "imported steel" comes in the form of extremely complex six-storey tall pre-assembled structures. There is nowhere in Canada even close to capable of constructing these modules - it is absolutely necessary for them to be built offshore.

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LNG Canada to import steel from China for $33B project in Kitimat, B.C.

LNG Canada announced it will be using Chinese steel for the upcoming Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just off the coast of Deer Island, New Brunswick is Old Sow. The largest whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere, it is the size of a football field and has existed for hundreds of years. It also has quite an interesting history. This is the story. 📸 Walter Baxter 🧵 1/6

A swirling white-capped whirlpool churning in turquoise coastal waters with a rocky headland rising in the background under a pale sky.

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Though ICE has shifted to less visible tactics since the start of the year, the number of immigration arrests is higher than ever, including in rural and suburban areas, such as much of Maine." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too

ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The leaked Eminem verse is fake this is the real one

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