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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I got great seats to watch the sunset at BMO Field as the #CANvsCHI game started. #Canmnt A very large Chilean supporters contingent here tonight.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Breaking news: a Starbucks in downtown Hamilton is suddenly closing, completely and utterly unrelated to the recent unionization of its workers, according to the parent company with a long history of union-busting and worker intimidation 🤪🤪🤪 #HamOnt

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I guess I didn't follow instructions

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

To be honest I actually never thought the northern cod in Canadian waters would come back again in my own lifetime. This is great news! I look forward in the future to a healthy sustainably managed fishery, so that I can enjoy Canadian cod in my fish & chips, as I did in my youth. #cdnenv

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But... *but*... it'll be all for naught if DFO capitulates to the cod industry & throws open the gates. I clearly remember the SCL/CCFFR conference at St John's where the plenary speaker showed a modest recovery in cod, at Q&A a fishery rep was frothing that a small limited catch wasn't allowed.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Based on the 2025 $ USD amounts published by the US govt, the analysis doesn't add up, otherwise apparently it only takes a few thousand dollars in lost trade per lost job in the Cdn dairy industry in Toronto & Montreal.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Former CIA asset Gloria Steinem, dead at 92.

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Dr. Sarah Fortner @erthsarah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thirty-one years apart, about the same place on the Llewellyn Glacier.

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Where do you even go with this?

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Apples grow locally here (I could literally throw an apple and hit an old apple tree) so I assume grocery stores source S Ont apples locally and then switch to US if S Ont not available.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The coldroom storage of last fall's apple harvest has run out. I don't see grocery stores carrying Canadian apples anymore, because there aren't any. Would it kill you to go without apples for a month? The shelves are bursting with Canadian peaches, nectarines etc. #BuyLocal #BuyCanada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So have they now completely disrupted carbon storage on the Prairies and the Boreal biome, forever? 😬

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This isn't new science. I learned this in my undergraduate limnology course (which was taught by Dr. John Smol), and it is spelled out in black and white in hydrological budgets - the vast, vast majority of water in the #GreatLakes is "fossil water", only slowly replenished by annual rainfall.

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Scientists determine the Great Lakes are nonrenewable

The Great Lakes hold about 21 percent of the planet's surface fresh water, yet less than one percent of that volume renews each year. That second number, not the first, sets the limits on everyone who...

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Someone check the carbon monoxide levels around the umpires' heads.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So, has there been a tear in the space-time continuum where the rule that you have to first tag up when a fly ball is caught has been suspended? #MLB #BlueJays #RedSox

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 10/08/2026

This will literally kill people here's how... During cold and flu season, pediatric offices are at max capacity. That means an individual provider might see 30-40 patients per day. If you add in extra visits for shots, that just squeezes out slots for sick babies.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Give him a break maybe he was on shrooms when he thought that one up

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Early 1990s, Burger King at Princess & Division in Kingston ON. Tuesday evenings, 5 Whoppers for $5. I shit you not.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There's a line to be walked btwn philanthropy & influence-peddling, some philanthropists throw themselves over that line when a particular nerve is struck, there's no crossing back over in the eye of public opinion. This happened in #HamOnt politics yrs ago w/ 2 philanthropists. Gone after that.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Come on, a chimichurri consisting only of dried herbs sounds like a prepared mixture from a big plastic tub you can buy from a store. You live near Toronto? I've never been to an Argentinian restaurant in Toronto (mind you,it's been quite a few years now) where the chimichurri wasn't a fresh paste.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think what *you/we* think of as chimichurri is spicy, and Argentinian chimichurri is not spicy. Nothing Argentinian is spicy. Homemade chimichurri in my house has hot jalapeños in it.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Apparently it is really, really hard for Argentina to commit a foul despite doing all the things that in the rule book constitute committing a foul. #FIFAWorldCup #FIFAWorldCup2026 #Spain #España #Argentina

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Welp, now that Colombia is out, who should Latinos cheer for? The answer is not often Spain. (the answer is NOT Argentina. the answer is NEVER Argentina) #SUIvCOL #SUIvsCOL #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Since you're a kid you practice just drilling that ball into the top corner of the net... WHY CAN'T YOU SHOOT THE BALL INTO THE UPPER CORNER OF THE NET?!?!? #SUIvCOL #SUIvsCOL #FIFAWorldCup

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hell, even back in the 1980s we learned it was paid farm labour in the off-season when farmers had nothing to do. At the same time when our history curriculum had nothing in it about the genocide, the residential schools, the pass system etc, in our own country.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I know social media rots the brain, but I can't ever quit it when it produces art like this

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

*Nelson Muntz voice* "HA HA !!" PS I don't drink alcohol, so I'm not bothered about the inevitable tsunami of tariffs the Trump-tantrum is about to bring upon Stella Artois beer. #USAvsBEL #USAvBEL #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Oi @tsnofficial.bsky.social I'm not paying extra on my streaming package to subscribe to your channel to listen to two tossers with English accents exclaim "It's coming home!" at the conclusion of the England-Mexico game. It's a Canadian sports channel fertheloveofPete. #FifaWorldCup #ENGvsMEX

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

As we're at the 75 minute mark at 3-2, piss on that TSN sports commentator with the English accent who called the match over at the 60 minute mark. #MEXvsENG #FIFAWorldCUP #Mexico

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The ones wearing long sleeves are hiding identifiable tattoos.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The goalposts had more saves than either Morocco's or Netherland's goalkeepers. #NEDvsMAR #FIFAWorldCup

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/06/2026

The news saying we shouldn’t get aircon in the uk due to environmental concerns have been very quiet about ai data centres.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I've been to Spain. Most dwellings there already have heat pumps. Most apt buildings there looked to me like they were built in the 1980s or after, which makes sense given that most growth came after EU membership. This is not the case in France with much older (thicker) brick mortar construction.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Yer an ass. Explain how a long narrow casement window in an apartment dwelling can support a window AC unit.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A 2003 heat wave killed 70,000 people in Europe. Most were elderly. Many victims were found when neighbours reported the smell. When police went in they noted the inside was far hotter than outside. Again, old brick bldgs absorb & retain heat. Know your history before you talk shit like that.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ok, this is the tweet that finally makes me reply. You are seriously one big ignorant ass. Have you ever actually been to Europe? Do you know its architecture? Old brick buildings absorb heat like an oven. Most windows are casement or awning. There's no "easy" installation of a window AC unit.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's a not-so-radical idea that the cost of reducing carbon emissions is less than the cost of spending to deal with the effect of ever-increasing climate change impacts. There are obv things that are unavoidable now but the more we spend on the former ASAP the less we will spend on the latter.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I've been to Paris on a 30-C summer day. Again, No. Air. Conditioning. Anywhere. You don't work up a sweat walking down the street and then come inside to cool down. Their version of AC is opening a window. It is apartment living. There is no cool basement to sit in. There is no refuge. Anywhere.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I asked one of my English neighbours here in Canada, a lifelong Labour supporter from Birmingham, "So, what are Labour under Starmer supposed to stand for these days?" and her answer was "feck if I know, I don't think that whole lot know themselves from the way they're carrying on!"

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It was only a matter of time that #FoxNews would start denying aquatic biology

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A Northern Flicker woodpecker in my backyard. (southern Ontario, Carolinian forest ecosystem) I've never seen one before. I had to Google Lens it to figure out why a bird with the beak of a woodpecker was foraging in my backyard for soil invertebrates. #ornithology #birds #HamOnt

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Trump doing things that are illegal doesnt stop the GOP from supporting him (or at least they keep silent about it) and same goes for the media that are controlled by his supporters. (although I am surprised to see the Guardian jump on board - they haven't changed owners, have they?)

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