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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 15h

Dad jokes? Of course he does

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It has never been easier to build the smaller-scale systems and tools that let people reduce reliance on the closed and predatory tech ecosystems that have taken over our world

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 21h

If you don’t know who Simon of Trent is- that’s fine and frankly I wish we lived in a world where only medievalists did- go ahead and just read this page and fix some names in your head. When you see them in discourse, that should raise some flags. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_l...

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Blood libel - Wikipedia

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 18h

Everything about this story is insane

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 19h

If you can’t oppose genocide without becoming a regular-ass antisemite, you have a serious skill issue

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 30/09/2026

True but what makes Wellesley uniquely uncontested in our region?

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o11y hacks: add “number of visits to your status page” as an alert

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah the book was fine, the discourse IIRC was all about what else those authors were up to and where they were willing to go to pitch the narrative

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A coalition of Ontario health-care workers gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to denounce the provincial government’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major roadways across the city. #ToPoli #OnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Ontario health-care coalition denounces province's plan to remove bike lanes across Toronto | CBC News

A coalition of Ontario health-care workers gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to denounce the provincial government’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major roadways across the city.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My annoying neighbours are talking so loud right outside my kitchen window and I can't even eavesdrop because they are raccoons.

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Actually, on second thought I can only take the Carney HSR plans seriously when we get a Waterloo Region stop

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They had better get some serious progress on this in a timeframe measured in months, not decades, though

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[Oprah] You get high-speed rail, you get high-speed rail, everybody gets high-speed rail!

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Election | Township of Wellesley

Every ward councillor in Wellesley Township is going to be acclaimed, what kinda democracy is this

wellesley.ca

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That’s a different and IMHO valid use case, a “yes and” kinda thing or a jumping off point… rather that the weird arguing-through-quotes thing people do sometimes

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hot take: part of why people do quote tweet responses is so their own followers see them. The dynamics might be a bit better if there were a "share with my followers" option when doing a regular reply. (This post should've been such a reply)

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Martin Luther is perhaps the original Poster

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Russia has one enormous strategic advantage of which it is taking advantage. It can daily attack civilian targets--hospitals, universities, markets--knowing that while Ukraine can do the same, the Ukrainians are too humane to do so.

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Tri-Cities Transport Action Group @tritag.ca · 29/09/2026

Announcing our Waterloo Region election questionnaire for 2026! We have had 84 candidates respond so far to our questionnaire on key issues around walking, biking, and transit:

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Waterloo Region Election 2026

Municipal candidate responses to our top transportation policy questions

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(This post brought to you by a survey call about support for Alto High Speed Rail)

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You can tell because I described them as “somewhat positive”

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Thanks to spam calls, I now have a somewhat positive attitude towards opinion survey calls because at least they’re not scams

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Maybe not just on the feed. One day a week when you've gotta avoid talking to the robots

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Over time I have found myself unfollowing people on here who share interesting or insightful things sometimes but can't help but get into stupid fights. You don't have to be randomly aggressive to people online!

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026

I'm not a VC and I have zero qualifications to advise start-ups of anything, but come on, you can't let agents write everything on your whole damn site for you. Show some self-respect

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This morning — following two investigations into Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford's use of an app that rewards supporters for posting AI-generated comments and sharing contacts — Bradford called our reporting "inaccurate." We're now releasing the recording that proves our reporting.

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Bradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.

Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.

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Dave @davescrivener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kudos to those who built a nice place.

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 28/09/2026

humbling to think that we can now write more software in a weekend than a medieval peasant could in their entire lifetime

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hailey @hailey.at · 27/09/2026

unironically, bluesky is the social website for ML. couldn’t do this anywhere else

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 27/09/2026

Victoria Park was looking nice today

Pedestrian bridge over waterway with trees (some starting to change colour), pathways, and a couple of towers in the distance, with long shadows towards the end of the day

Willow trees by pathway and creek/lake, with trees ahead lit up by late afternoon light

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This tool from @observingthecity.ca is fantastic. It shows the traffic mode share by intersection using City data. Many downtown areas are dominated by pedestrians (in green). Yet *we still give most of the space to cars on almost every street.* www.observingthecity.ca/intersection...

Map of downtown area of Toronto. Pie charts show the mode share at every intersection.

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Alex Gude @alexgude.com · 27/09/2026

In the future, there will be popular short-form video accounts of people artisanally hand-crafting code

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Since everything is Glonzo nowadays, I wonder if you could get through water price reform with: "Making data centers (and other industries 😉) pay their fair share for the water they use!"

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It’s cute when it’s not throwing walnuts down on you

A red squirrel standing on a deck railing, with its tail arched over its back

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1) Find an actual thing happening 2) Generate an exaggerated, attention-grabbing video depicting it 3) Let it go viral 4) ??? 5) Profit

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So this cross-platform viral video is fake, right? And basically no one is paying any attention to that... I hate it here (the year 2026)

Post from Maciek Hamela:

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

[video of dozens of tanker trucks racing across the desert alongside each other, pretty absurdly]

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On the one hand, the amount of slop (AI or otherwise) in the most engaged posts on here is depressing, on the other hand it seems like more of the top posts are smut than before, which I guess is good…?

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(Pretty sure that video is fake)

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