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I was fine until that house fell on my sister

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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quote of the day right here.
Stock image of a man relaxing in a folding chair that sits on top of a tennis ball. The man is wearing shorts and an open short-sleeved shirt. His hands are clasped behind his head, which is turned upward. 

The text reads "How small are you willing to make your world until everyone agrees with you?" written by Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meme is an image of a woman with arms raised in prayer, with the text "Can I get an amen? Because Halloween is on a Saturday this year"
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The cowards who created this need to be identified. Help out if you can
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social The rationale for destruction of residential school records needs to be revisited. Records are necessary to assist the communities and families who still don't know what happened to their loved ones. Don't erase their history under the guise of helping preserve privacy.
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Sharry Wilson 🇨🇦 @sharryw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A savvy opinion piece from today’s edition of the Toronto Star. “We were first, but you’re next.”🇨🇦 🇪🇺 #CanadaEU #MarkCarney #Canada #EU #EuropeanParliament
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T Watson @ttquiltworks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'll keep trying to get people to understand: If you don't want the data centers, consider what you choose to post. True Helpful Inspiring Necessary Kind Posting what you're thinking of eating in the next five minutes gets stored forever unless you remove it. Water to grow food, not data chew.
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you are 16 years of age or older, you can sign up to count ballots. $75 once training is completed, $20/hr when counting. Earn some spending money and learn how it's done. In the future, you can set the record straight and challenge misinformation. www.elections.ab.ca/elections/wo...
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Election Day and Advance Poll Officer Positions - Elections Alberta
All election officers begin at 8 a.m. and conclude when the completion of the  unofficial count has finished after the close of the poll.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The posts might well be sporadic this week, as I'm away on holiday 🏖️😎 #BookSky
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Elayne Boosler @eboosler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
He's now saying he "escaped the falling towers". How? In a catering truck?
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Stay with this to the end
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I know people are busy just trying to get through their day, but this is a must-read. "...Canada is now being courted, and claimed, by more than one direction at once..."
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 19/08/2026
Trying to make sense of the separatist leadership mixed messaging? They're all over the map. Here's their playbook, so you can follow along. open.substack.com/pub/theline/...
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Jared Wesley: Decoding the Separatist Playbook
Albertans should learn to recognize these tropes in the coming months
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social We won't get a fair trade deal with the US right now. Agree to nothing, play tariff-rate chicken, let it all grind to a halt, won't be for long. Show this for the farce it is. Wait for their midterms, the AB (non)referendum to pass. Don't become the villain they need.
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
👇👇👇👇👇
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
How lovely… 🌳📖 #BookSky
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A town sign seen through a train window.
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Sue 🧶🐈 @brighteyeddyer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Canada is awesome. And this rings true. 🤣🇨🇦🤣 youtube.com/shorts/0bTcc...
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The Canadian Stereotype 🇨🇦
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🤣
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KootenayRubyGirl @kootenaygirl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#Gold 😂
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
GenAI is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTs, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.
The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social Canceling this would build a few homes, or cut the Transportation budget and help Canadians here on Planet Earth. I don't need to see tax dollars shoveled into obvious scams. This one is the same BS as in New Mexico some time back. Signed, a Part Owner of Canada.
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social While I welcome Canada's openness to adding BYD as a vehicle option, building a plant here needs to be done according to Canadian labour laws. Introducing mistreatment of migrants workers is a hard 👎 from me. theworld.org/stories/2026...
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Chinese EV giant BYD faces ‘forced labor’ investigation at Hungary factory - The World from PRX
The Chinese car manufacturer BYD overtook Tesla as the world’s top EV seller this year. The company has rapidly expanded its operations across the globe, including in Europe. But one plant in Hungary ...
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Can't find a pattern for what I want to make, with the exception of one that's 40's vintage. The needle size and stitch/row gauges will have to change drastically. Also, no measurements/images, just "knit XX rows". Began the spreadsheet to convert it. 😱 I'm retired, I need math tests. #KnitSky
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Laura Frost @laurafrost.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Christmas humour.
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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Yvalarevolution⁷ @yvalarevolution.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is why this garbage is being pushed on us so hard. They want to kill intellectual curiosity and learning. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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ANALYSIS | ChatGPT may help you find information faster, but you learn less | CBC Radio
Bob McDonald’s Blog: Recent studies show that using chatbots like ChatGPT may get us information faster than ever before, but we’re not gaining much knowledge by using it.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Left: washing machine with the words “Critical Washing” on it

Right: A quote: “"When we critique AI, we should do so with intellectual honesty and in a principled way. Utmost care is needed to avoid ethics washing, greenwashing, and generally — what we dub — critical washing. Critical reflection cannot be reduced to a mere ‘check box’ before unleashing AI technologies in our daily life after all (as has been done in other areas such as vaping and combustion engines). Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.”

—Suarez, Müller, Guest, & van Rooij (2025) https://zenodo.org/records/15677840
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"But since the fundamental level of reality is based on non-algorithmic understanding, the universe cannot be, and could never be, a simulation" I was counting on this reality remaining a simulation. Bummer. Reality *really* does bite. Still, congrats to the team at UBC Okanagan.
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
If we're doing a +/- sheet on this government, this is a minus unless protections were negotiated. If I read in the future this is shut down down or the union affected adversely, my support will end. ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/burnaby-bc-oil-refinery-to-fall-under-us-control-in-91b-deal/
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Burnaby, B.C., oil refinery to fall under U.S. control in $9.1B deal
British Columbia’s largest oil refinery is set to fall under U.S. control this week with the expected takeover of Canadian fuel refiner and retailer Parkland Corporation by American fuel giant Sunoco.
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Elayne Boosler @eboosler.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The Lord is my sheepskin. He refurbishes my shawl. His down and his duvet they comforter me. I will follow the ten thread count commandments. Chenille before me. Gauze forth and mul-two-ply. Our faux fur who are in heaven, houndstooth be thy name. Thy gingham come, thy twill be done.
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hmmmm
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I'm all for the pet photos, I enjoy them immensely. I am starting to draw the line at anthropomorphizing them by giving them their own accounts and offering their english-adjacent commentaries. And costumes - why? Let pets be pets, I'm not entering into parasocial relationships with them.
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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Threads of the Human Loom
Lately, I’ve been hearing the same tired tune—often echoed in right-wing circles and online by nationalist talking-heads—about how white Europeans, particularly white Christian men, are singlehandedly...
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm seeing a lot of people posting plates of food like they're Jamie Oliver. So here's mine. Orange chicken, rice and green beans.
People post what theyre eating as though they are chefs. So i thought I should play too. Empty plate, I ate the food
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KevTheRev @kevtherev.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🤷‍♂️ #JustSayin
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Shots. Fired. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Just gonna leave this here.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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laraborgen.bsky.social @laraborgen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Common Sense about Negotiations
For Americans about Ukraine
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
ALL of this.
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T Watson @ttquiltworks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We have GOT to be willing to extend ourselves in curiosity for one another. It's all of us versus the forces of harm and hate and greed, or we won't make it. We cannot spare throwing anyone off. Which means that we need to figure out how to make it work. Uncomfortable conversations and all.
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
An excellent read
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Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
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Danielle Smith's Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook
And it's no accident they were released today.
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Alacritous69 🇨🇦 @alacritous.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I wrote this about MAGA, but it applies equally to Conservatives in Canada www.reddit.com/r/cognitives...
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From the cognitivescience community on Reddit: The Neuroscience of Shared Political Narratives: MAGA as a 'Pooled Interpreter' System
Explore this post and more from the cognitivescience community
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Mr. Carney, Congratulations on your election. You have one opportunity. One. I don't say this because I oppose you, but because of what it cost in votes diverted to your candidates, taken from progressives. The lions remain at your gate, so be transparent and clear, and deliver what you promised.
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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is a good listen if you want help understanding the goal of "authoritarianism by algorithm" www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
How Trump Brought a Divided Canada Together — Against Him The Trumpiest politician in the history of our northern neighbor was on a glide path to the prime ministership. Then Trump opened his stupid mouth.
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How Trump Brought a Divided Canada Together—Against Him
The Trumpiest politician in the history of our northern neighbor was on a glide path to the prime ministership. Then the president opened his stupid mouth.
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