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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026

Spotted outside The Penthouse Nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. REUTERS/Chris Helgren.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Canadian Dollarama is better anyway, several friends of mine went to the Dollar Tree to check it out and said it was crap, they didn’t buy a thing

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/08/2026

He appears to have scrubbed her endorsement from his Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn too It's still showing up on Google though:

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Proud to have the support and advice of small business advocate Catherine Swift..... Uploaded: 21 Aug 2026 • 31 Comments Brad Bradford. . Proud to have the support and advice of small business...

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/08/2026

Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford just deleted this tweet announcing an endorsement from Catherine Swift, president of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada Swift recently tweeted that she is a "proud islamophobe"

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I wasn't aware of Catherine Swift's posts on Islam. Now that I am, I condemn them completely, and suggest to her that she should take them down and apologize. I don't want or need the support of those who promote division and prejudice. 5:30 PM

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Help this family out, buy some of their honey. 'Effectively, we're out of business': U.S. tariffs cut #Manitoba honey farm off from vast majority of customers Podolski Honey Farms sells 90% of its honey to buyers in the United States: general manager /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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'Effectively, we're out of business': U.S. tariffs cut Manitoba honey farm off from vast majority of customers | CBC News

Osee Podolsky, general manager at Podolski Honey Farms, says the vast majority of honey produced at the family-run business in Ethelbert, Man., is shipped to customers across the United States.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." Hannah Arendt

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James B. Jones @jamesbjones.com · 21/08/2026

When people say they’re anti-AI, they’re clearly talking about generative AI in the arts and LLM slop that C-Suite jackoffs want to use to replace them. You know this. I know this. Everyone knows this. So the “then don’t use spellcheck if you hate AI” talking point is disingenuous horseshit.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

UK Company called Ponda found a solution to replace duck down in clothes, by using Typha or cattails as we call it. Ponda partnered with farmers to restore wetlands and grow cattails to use for clothing. #BioPuff #NaturalProduct #PlasticFree #Ecological Credit to Sam Bentley

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Unapologetic Lee 🇨🇦 @ogcanada.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We've crossed 170 000 signatures to have the US Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, declared persona non grata. The highest ever petition had 387 000. We have two months left. #cdnpoli Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Cleo👠✨ @ozgib.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Jeanne Gibson, known worldwide as Rosie the Riveter, passed away on 29th July 2026 at the remarkable age of 100. Thank you Jeanne for giving women a symbol of strength when we were told we had none. 💋💪🏻💘

Image of jeanne in her 90's doing her famous pose with the famous outfit on

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Ernest Falquero @cybernest.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

For those calling for him to be fired ~ As the President of FIFA Infantino cannot be "fired" by a boss or a board of directors. He can only be removed by the FIFA Congress via a vote, suspended by the independent Ethics Committee, or forced out if he chooses to resign. Next Congress March 2027!

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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

FYI PP praised this POS.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?

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Fiona @merlyngabriel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Best thread... so many cinema memories...

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Fiona @merlyngabriel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We don't own a pride flag so I hope these little guys make up for it.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Dying at this tinder exchange this woman posted on Reddit. It’s absolute art.

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Jen Wang @jenwang.com · 01/06/2026

Whaaaaaat

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 19/05/2026

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 - Sobeys has removed the maple leaf symbols from its store shelves, according to a CBC investigation. Those symbols helped us all find and support Canadian brands. Sobeys either supports this country or it doesn’t. Seems it’s made its choice. Now we'll make ours.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/05/2026

I just can’t imagine why women would choose the bear

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Please feel free to spread the news, the posters, the cast, your hopes and dreams FAR AND WIDE. Remember folks, we only get nice independent British movies when we support them, sooo...

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The French actor and writer Jean Reno wrote the novel “L’Évasion” (“The Escape”) about Ukrainian children abducted by Russian occupiers, featuring an undercover DGSE agent who infiltrates a camp in Siberia. He said the book was inspired by real cases and aims to draw global attention to the issue.

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Can't stop singing this to the theme of the Muppet Show

Tweet from :Acting AG Todd Blanche, reading "It's time to build the ballroom."

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Must watch! Credit to pete.souvall Why does self expression make some people so angry? 🔥😏

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Fiona @merlyngabriel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Dear @minibubbly.bsky.social thankyou for all the news from home. I really would like you know how much you are appreciated. Big cheers from across the pond!

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

As a Catholic, this of course upsets me. But far and away more upsetting is all the kids the IDF has killed.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The El Gamal family did nothing wrong. The father committed a crime & his children are paying the price. 5 kids and their mother have been held in Dilley for 10 months. Mom has fluid around her heart & needs urgent medical care. We made noise for Liam Ramos. Let’s make noise for this family.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it. It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within. www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’
Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/04/2026

People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

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Our Longing for Inconvenience

People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is why so many women would choose the bear.

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Fiona @merlyngabriel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

One of my hobbies is a bit out there and I make stuff for it which gets given away as sort of certificates of achievement. This weekend saw 3 such things and an indenture contract. That hobby is the Society for Creative Anachronism and in it I am a scribe. These were fun to do.

A medieval style page from a book of hours, The text is essentially saying the person getting this has done a lot of service so we thank them. The leaves are gold leaf gilded as is the main capital letter.

A medieval style page from a book of hours, this is done in the style common for Flemish illuminators. The text is essentially saying the person getting this has done cool things so we grant them the right of arms. The capital letter is gold leaf gilded, the border is bronze powder pain and the flowers are gouache and watercolour.

This is a Knighting scroll. Flat gilded gold leaf border and painted acanthus leaves and flowers, with text on one side and miniatures on the other. You are looking at how the light shines off the gold. It is based off the Book of Hours (Use of Rouen).

In the SCA if one reaches the level of Mastery apprentices become a thing. This is a document for an apprenticeship contract. It is the same on both sides, and once signed by all the parties is cut in a wavy pattern down the middle.

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Cascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

There appears to be a pattern of sorts happening in the U.S. The national media isn’t covering many of these fires happening across the country. However, local media networks are and you have to search for them. This is what I’ve found so far.

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Fiona @merlyngabriel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

in high school we learned to crash IBM PETs by using a BASIC goto Orange screen and endless ascii It was a simple life...

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Even from space, we can all agree that maple syrup belongs on pancakes. Safe journey home to Colonel Jeremy Hansen and the entire Artemis II crew.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

A favourite things is watching a kid get on the DLR in London and run to the front seat, so they can pretend to drive it. It never matters who is sitting there. EVERY adult gets up and concedes that seat. As humans, we recognise and are bound by a sense of joy and wonder. Above everything else.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds #US US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Has anyone written an oral history about how this came about and how it is genuinely an internet cultural touchstone now

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

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Fiona @merlyngabriel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Some days I just wake up with a head full of words. #Poetry #EnoughWar #NeverAgain

When you are gone,
I hope
there will not be
respectful mourning.
No words of kindness,
no adulation of greatness
Only the sound
of a million sighs,
a wave of weary relief
rippling around the globe,
like the giant bell
in that quiet fjord
in Greenland.

When you are gone,
I hope
there will be no
Bronze statues
of your bloated form
for people to piss on,
erected in the ruins
of all you surveyed,
only footnotes
in history books
saying "never ever again,
we meant it this time."

When you are gone,
I hope
We can finally agree that
avarice and greed
are the worst of the
seven deadly sins.
That little girls
will not be blown to bits
and that, we the people,
means all people
not just the rich
and obscene.

When you are gone,
I will not
shed a single tear
but rather,
raise my face to the sky
and scream
so that all these sorrows,
and incandescent anger,
all the helplessness
will leave me
so I can finally feel
like a human again.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Day 3 of Operation Epstein Clusterfuck: 6 US troops dead, 3 F-15 jets downed, multiple allies bombed, multiple bases hit, several embassies attacked, and 500 -/+ civilians murdered (including over 100 little girls).

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