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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 5h

“Why are Japanese robots making weapons for genocide?” 70 people protested at FANUC HQ yesterday. (That’s a lot considering the countryside location.) There were also petitions to local government plus protests at other locations around Japan. Photo from Osaka. #StopFANUCNow #ShutElbitDown

Hand holding a sign that says なぜ日本のロボットがジェノサイドのための兵器を作ってるんですか (The 日本 & ジェノサイド are red & there is a FANUC robot in the shape of a ? mark) Background is a FANUC office bldg. with trademark yellow & red

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 6h

As the federal government ponders whether to extend the ban on foreign buyers that they introduced in January 2023, it's worth remembering that it did about nothing in BC. Even though a few foreign buyers rushed to buy before the ban, the rate of FB activity remained low (~1%) pre and post ban

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 19h

Deborah Kerr - BOTD in 1921

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 8h

Isseki Nagae considers what would happen if all foreign workers left Japan. Among his conclusions: GDP shrinking 10% by the 5th year, stagflation, social security deficits, bankruptcies and a recession-induced crime wave. agora-web.jp/archives/260...

Graphic illustrates seven outcomes of foreign workers leaving Japan

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勉誠社編集部 @benseyedit.bsky.social · 10h

本日は #日本酒の日です。 #アジア遊学 312 畑有紀・芳澤元編『日本酒を読み解く　歴史・文化・技術』(bensei.jp/index.php?ma...) 信仰との関わりや文学での表現、業界の動向や地域社会での役割など、人文社会科学領域の諸分野から多層的な広がりをみせる #日本酒の文化の在り方を体系的に捉える。

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Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social · 11h

Looking on from Canada, I'm not sure there is political consensus in US about the rule of law, or universal human rights. And that extends to an incoming Democratic Congress. There is a constituency that wants to actively reform the corruption of the current moment, but there is also complacency.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12h

shoutout to Senator Jack Reed (@reed.senate.gov) who was briefed on this a week ago but hasn't bothered to tell us plebes!

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Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social · 18h

Not sure if I 100% agree with this take. I’m not sure if I agree with that. The DHC-515 is best-in-class, and European countries including Portugal and Italy have used the Super Scooper for at least 30 years. The situation sucks, but De Havilland has a HS pre apprenticeship my son is considering.

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 20h

OTD 1997 Dylan released Time Out Of Mind. One of the last tapes I purchased on its first run. Still wish Jerry coulda heard this album. I can hear him singing "Not Dark Yet" and it gives me chills.

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Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social · 20h

Built here in Victoria and in Calgary. > Ottawa and Brussels will also announce the joint purchase of 50 De Havilland water bombers, to be ready for use in Canada and Europe in 2030 to fight wildfires.

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 20h

The sky in the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Powell was BOTD in 1905 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) A Canterbury Tale (1944) I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) Black Narcissus (1947)

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today’s favourite #warart Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, by Edward Wadsworth, 1919 Craig Moore on Facebook @dreadships.bsky.social #navalhistory #maritimehistory

Four dock workers cleaning the hull of a merchant ship in dry dock. The ship is wearing dazzle camouflage, and the painting has arranged the sides of the dock and other ships wearing dazzle in the back in such a way as to blend the picture creating some serious eye strain.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

40th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, from Salmon Tower 11 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, 1935 by US photographer Berenice Abbott #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a New York cityscape with skyscrapers

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 22h

I write often about how our homes are lifeboats, but Jessica shows us how to stock the lifeboat with necessary supplies. She writes a useful and thorough survival guide for people in cities and apartments. It’s not for preppers; it has bicycles, not pickup trucks.

lloydalter.substack.com

I hope I never need to use this free survival guide

Actually, Jessica Wildfire has written a guide we should all think about now before we need to use it.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LMFAO the official America.gov AI website uses a Chinese open source model

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Depending on who you ask, Lebanon is a member of the Milk Tea Alliance which should be better understood as a term for pro-democracy movements in 2019. We were the start of the Gen Z protests, we just didn't know it at the time. But also, please remember Lebanon too when you think about HK

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sky Presence (Morning), by Richard Pousette-Dart, 1962–63, 📸 by @erikrole.bsky.social

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Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I guess they really did believe all that Ayn Rand bullsh*t. Another warning sign: Geddy could have been a Cat Guy but chose a lap dog instead.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have never liked Rush, to be honest, and feel better about that now

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Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Dudley B. Menzies Bridge (for the LRT) over the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton AB. #photography

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Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s a bit shocking that there is a Second Sons chapter in Kamloops. I had assumed these were people from elsewhere.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Years ago backstage at a festival I approached Sarah Cracknell of St Etienne, with the intent of sharing my love for her. Sadly, having overcommitted to drugs earlier in the day, I was off my face so it came out as a scream. A shrill, long wail. I think of this often.

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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is getting super interesting. While I'm not certain yet what exactly is going on, at the moment, it seems like Canada was used to establish the bona fides of an AI "journalist" who subsequently went on to engage in foreign interference in Morocco..... www.turkiyetoday.com/world/exclus...

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Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today

The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Latest from me: on why the next election will be more emotional than political, because of what has happened to the English right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
9.8K Retweets
32.7K Likes

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 29/09/2026

Here’s the thing about white supremacy in BC today: The Premier and opposition party have spent the last year saying “First Nations are coming for your homes. Private property is sacrosanct.” These politicians deny such statements are stoking racist backlash. But they are

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Kathryn Hemmann @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Keigo Higashino's novel The Keeper of the Camphor Tree is a gentle supernatural mystery about a giant tree that's said to grant wishes, but it's also a serious family drama about aging and intergenerational communication. #Japanesefiction #booksky 📚 My review: japaneselit.net/2026/09/26/t...

The front cover of the UK edition of Keigo Higashino's novel The Keeper of the Camphor Tree.

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More Movies @moremovies.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Another week on Bluesky 🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #cinema

Kurt Russell as R. J. MacReady in The Thing (1980) - "Nobody trusts anybody now. And we're all very tired."

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gina @ootheca.net · 28/09/2026

i though this was bob dylan but this is ms frizzles mom

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Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s a very good and very accessible intro to key concepts and key challenges. It is not a Doomer take. But I was left with a deep sense of unease about where we are headed. > You should read the note yourself. It’s concisely written, short and accessible with a basic layman’s familiarity with AI.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The act of hate and violence shown by white nationalist residential school denialists demonstrating on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation is abhorrent, dangerous and unacceptable. Read my full statement here:

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MP Leah Gazan Statement on the Denialist Attack at Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation

MP for Winnipeg Centre

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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Avi Lewis says Carney’s ‘nation-building’ agenda is trampling workers’ and #Indigenous rights. The federal NDP leader criticized the Liberal government’s push to fast-track resource projects in response to Trump’s trade war. NEW from @justinbrake.bsky.social: ricochet.media/politics/can...

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Avi Lewis says Carney’s ‘nation-building’ agenda is trampling workers’ and Indigenous rights

Speaking in St. John’s, the federal NDP leader criticized the government’s push to fast-track resource projects in response to Trump’s trade war.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.

From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Canadian crude shipments are bypassing a pit stop off the California coast and heading straight to Asia as skyrocketing shipping rates make the detour less economical and the nation’s oil producers look to reduce dependence on the US" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beyond parody > Bad news… Usman showed up at your building around 9:15… and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating. Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

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Ben ✨ @inparts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The BCNDP may be paying lip service at best and not actually doing anything meaningful to benefit transit, but the alternative is a party running candidates that have an active track record of being transit hostile and having done actual harm

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Residential School denialism is done in the service of white supremacy and they are very, very clear about this link.

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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"An American think tank published proposals to weaken Canadian unity, including supporting and financing the province’s sovereigntist party, the Parti Québécois... and to “weaponize” reconciliation between Canada and First Nations to “slowly nudge” the country on a path toward the end of history."

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Federal intelligence agency contacted amid U.S. interference allegations in Quebec election | Globalnews.ca

As Quebec's election enters its final stretch, U.S. interference allegations prompted a CSIS contact and calls for from party leaders for transparency.

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Tuna Baguette @tarraco43008.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just a traditional Sunday morning in Catalunya - with a special form of art #stunday #ColorADay #ArtYear #castellers #Catalunya

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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noco｜花の写真家 @noco3n-com.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

FUJIFILM X-T10

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Along with other women's groups, the Santama Association attended the trial, and pushed media groups to change the narrative. Aggressive, public drunks were the problem, not the women who had to deal with them.

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British Columbia Genealogical Society @bcgs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On October 1, the Art Canada Institute and the Royal BC Museum celebrate the launch of "Hannah Maynard: Life & Work" by Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere. Hannah Maynard was one of Canada’s earliest professional women photographers and important in Victoria’s cultural history. rbcm.ca/event/hannah....

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Brett Favaro @brettfavaro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wild thread

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