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michelle

@pipichelle.bsky.social
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Transhemispheric godwit, lesbian mum, wannabe craftswoman.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it continues to absolutely boggle my mind how few people realize that refineries in the US Rockies, Plains, Midwest/Great Lakes rely so heavily on millions of barrels of Canadian crude oil *every day* and have since the 1950s
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But what that means is that it's useful to think about what we do to habitats in terms not of natural/unnatural, but in terms of levels of permanence of disturbance.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is GOLD!!! Ngā mihi nui @abelsteve.bsky.social Ka whawhai tonu mātou AKE! AKE! AKE! #nzpol
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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michelle @pipichelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's your stupid president's constant threats to our sovereignty and attacks on our country that did this, not our decision to respond to them. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
latimes.com
Canada's boycott forces the sale of a California winery
As California's wine industry struggles, a family-owned vineyard spanning 3,500 acres is for sale after its exports to Canada dropped 35% in a year.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
every day it seems a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thursday is going very well.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 24/09/2026
"Unacceptable": Australian PM says OpenAI hacked government health website. OpenAI did not raise the alarm with the Australian government until September, when it sent an email outlining the incident to a generic email address u.afp.com/S9Uj
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maybe they shouldn't have promoted that random unqualified dude with the arched eyebrow for cubersecurity.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thanks to @queenoliviaiii.com I now know that the Wellington Public Library lends out CO2 meters! www.wcl.govt.nz/services/at-...
wcl.govt.nz
CO2 meters
Borrow CO2 meters to monitor air quality and ensure a healthy environment.
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Jos Buurmans | New Zealand @josbuurmans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thin Ground - Hawke's Bay, New Zealand #photography #landscape #nz
Layered hillside ridgelines in Hawke's Bay blanketed in early morning fog, with a small stand of bare trees emerging above the mist.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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westerner @lanelmorgan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"One of the most pathetic sounds in the world is the bleat of a millionaire wounded by the expenditure of public money in a way which does not yield him an immediate profit." Murray Morgan (my dad) Tacoma radio broadcast in 1958.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A HMRC official was sacked because he was caught on camera saying he gives wrong information to black and brown people when they call for advice in a bid to sabotage them. He was a member of the far right group Patriotic Alternative. How many more?
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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson)
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kara Swisher: “I think this idea that AI is going to kill us, it’s not AI, it’s the people making AI who are killing us. Let’s stop blaming the machines. Let’s blame the people who are making these things and the administration that refuses to put any guardrails”
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Saddle Lake Cree Nation calls Alberta trans health-care laws a violation of Treaty rights, announces path to work around the legislation
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 08/09/2026
U.S. billionaires hold a combined net worth of $8.4 trillion. Nationalise them & we can all retire at 60 ya cunts
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Flavio Volpe, C.M. @flaviovolpe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We’ve been over this before: Every Global 7500 that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 GE engines built in Indiana, 🇺🇸. Every Challenger that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 Honeywell engines built in Arizona. 🇺🇸. Bombardier employs 3,000+ 🇺🇸s & has 2,800 🇺🇸 suppliers. Not so smart.
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michelle @pipichelle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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🇨🇦Trescee @teemack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🇨🇦 rn:
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Regina George: Why Are You So Obsessed?
ALT: Regina George: Why Are You So Obsessed?
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The language we use here matters. And so much of the language is determined by the AI companies themselves. Lots of sci fi or futuris terms. But what if we didn’t abide by their definitions? What if the singularity is here but it’s not something flattering or even a technological achievement?
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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
WHAT FUCKING JOBS ARE OUR GRADUATES SUPPOSED TO STAY HERE AND TAKE www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
National vows to reduce student loan repayment rate if re-elected
The National Party is promising to reduce the compulsory student loan repayment rate if re-elected, while cracking down on overseas-based borrowers.
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Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
WATCH THIS VIDEO BEFORE YOU CROSS MOLESWORTH STREET 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 28/08/2026
My favourite part and I'm only one paragraph in.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
stripes.com
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Treat yourself to this fabulous essay. tressie.substack.com/p/the-dolly-...
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The Dolly Moment
Why We Stan A Post-Racism Queen. A new essay on my new project, essaying. Live now. If you are an OG tressiemc.com subscriber - you got this delivered to your inbox along with a free Substack subscrip...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Terrible. "By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran, Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 [civilian protection] staffers to function, was left with one person...A U.S. airstrike hit a school, killing more than 100 children." www.propublica.org/article/hegs...
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Anne Goulding @annegoulding.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Lecturer in Information Systems position open at Te Herenga Waka - ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Pūkenga - Lecturer in Information Systems
Apply your teaching and research expertise in a permanent, full-time role.
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michelle @pipichelle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes.Thank you
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If I turn up at the physics department ranting about the ether nobody is obliged to pretend that I must be given a job.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 23/08/2026
Canadians chip in to buy Jamil Jivani a one-way ticket to United States
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Canadians chip in to buy Jamil Jivani a one-way ticket to United States
OTTAWA - Following public comments in which Conservative MP Jamil Jivani blamed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for failed trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, Canadians across the countr...
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 22/08/2026
Carney says the US tried to restrict Canada's ability to make trade deals with other countries as a requirement for negotiation. Sources tell CBC this included making Canada impose new tariffs on other non-US trade partners in compliance with the United States www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
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U.S. tried to restrict Canada's ability to get new trade deals - Carney says U.S. 'asked too much and offered too little' after trade talks fall apart
In the final hours of negotiations, the U.S. tried to include restrictions on Canada's ability to strike trade deals with other countries, Carney said. "Unacceptable," the prime minister said flatly.....
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And while the Trump regime punishes Canada, our ally on 9/11, it lavishes favors (military, financial, and diplomatic) on Saudi Arabia, the country that gave us most of the 9/11 terrorists. What a messed up administration.
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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Canada wakes up again to find itself stuck in the worst Star Wars trilogy
Opening text crawl from The Phantom Menace containing the thrilling phrase “taxation of trade routes”
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 19/08/2026
Most Americans have no idea how pissed off Canadians are about all this economic coercion. www.338canada.ca/p/leger-enou...
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reinstating pay equity is the right thing to do and is also the absolute bare minimum to restore the thing that should have been a given in a country that (allegedly) values equity. Saw some media framing as “but how will it be paid for” - I don’t know my dude, how on earth do we manage to pay men?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hormuz traffic vs. the 10-year yield is a great chart. 🔥 @bloomberg.com
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Democrats must resist sexually harassing people
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Reminder for those who might not remember that a scholar in my subfield was, c2013, credibly accused of plagiarism, found guilty by an independent committee, had the book revoked by the press—& was not fired or dragged in the press but (over objections from 13 of her own colleagues) made into a dean
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After plagiarism allegations, prof. was named dean
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
you take the lanes we take the road. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Get ready for every person on a bike to take the whole lane for every trip.
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Sergeant Schulz solution to climate change.
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