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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦

@sambir.bsky.social
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Geographer. Mostly harmless. Mountains > oceans. Permafrost is cool. Rivers and lakes are pretty nice too.

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 02/10/2026
The University of Calgary launched its new Electricity Centre this morning. It will be a place where researchers, policymakers & the public can intersect on the increasingly important issues surrounding our power grid, generation, distribution & emissions. Expect to hear more soon!
University of Calgary Electricity Centre directors Blake Shaffer and Sara Hastings-Simon speak at the centre's launch event.
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even if this connection didn't exist (Wilson happily agrees it does), this story shows there is a dark industry that exists to push propaganda & profit from division. There are many such grifters manipulating parts of our society for their own profit but this one is big & our very own #Alberta.
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Nathaniel Schmidt Ward 8 City Councillor @natefor8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's now a tradition for me to post my trip home after late night budget hearings. Tonight, the bus, which makes my family's life easier and more affordable. We're not alone. Our budget only succeeds by understanding every family, every person, and every challenge is different. More to come.
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really more of a scheme than a plot but otherwise this is what Danielle Smith and the UCP want, a perpetual excuse to "fight" & gripe about Ottawa instead of governing the province to fix real problems. Basically, an excuse to distract from the facts of all the UCP money wasting scandals & failure.
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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't know to whom the credit goes for this! It appears sans ™ on another platform. Brilliant. Students of #ashwell26... This was the soil matrix drawing you deserved, not my poor dry erase board scribbles 😂 #archaeology #geology Please shout if you are the clever originator!
A soil matrix triangle showing percentages of sand, clay and silt, but with regions identified using punny song names like Clay Jude and Only the Loamy
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think the government and military *should* be opposed to fascism globalnews.ca/news/1168850...
globalnews.ca
Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces - National | Globalnews.ca
Federal departments and the Canadian Armed Forces must answer by April how many members of anti-fascist groups work for the public service and the military.
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Man about cowtown @manaboutcowtown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It makes me angry that an Alberta government that ran a years long “Alberta is calling” campaign straight up lies in commercials and blames the Federal government for “unsustainable” immigration. We’re f’ing paying for this bullshit.
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords seems increasingly appealing as a basis for a system of government.
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like following @reliableab.bsky.social because it reminds me that Alberta success is, and has always been, more than just hydrocarbons. If left to the types of revisionist narratives and stereotypes of Danielle Smith and the UCP, Alberta would be in a worse place today and tomorrow.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It must really be good!
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Eos @eos.org · 26/09/2026
See here! We're voting for #quartz in today's #MinCup26 quartz-erfinals. Gaze at this quartz (and bronze, marble, frit and obsidian) @metmuseum.org find from ancient Greece ... www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Eyes ready to be inset into an over-life-size sculpture in ancient Greece
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Which side are you on, skin or silicon? music.youtube.com/watch?v=1kyT...
music.youtube.com
Which Side Are You On? (Big Tech Protest Song)
YouTube video by Luke Nickle
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Splendid Drink for warm weather at the lowest market rates
CRONK! CRONK!

Splendid Drink for warm weather

EB HOPKINSON

WILL SUPPLY DEALERS AND OTHERS with the very
BEST CRONK BEER

AT THE LOWEST MARKET RATES

Old friends and others who want good Summer drink should give him a call

--Daily Miner-Transcript, 17 Jun 1870
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,
The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I often think about the speed camera chopping vigilante who returned to the scene of their crime on Parkside Drive multiple times but Toronto police didn’t catch them & it led to Doug Ford banning speed cameras for 16 million people & now speeding is at epidemic levels & people will die.
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't know. Maybe there just hasn't been any news happening in the USA since 2025. Why everyone gotta blame AI when there's maybe just nothing newsworthy in the present utopia?
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was inexpertly repairing a button on a shirt and suddenly started thinking about how some judgy archaeologist from the future would be analyzing my work... "in this fascinating artifact of mass-produced clothing, notice how inexpertly this one button was sewn, compared to the other ones..."
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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OMG. This is too funny, but 100% accurate. youtube.com/shorts/Pvo10...
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Danielle Smith Pretends To Cry #alberta #canada #currentaffairs
YouTube video by Henry Sir
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The University of Alberta’s free online critical thinking and science literacy course to help people differentiate science from pseudoscience: www.ualberta.ca/en/admission...
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I honestly can't tell if these ideas are from the brains of the AI boosters themselves or if they needed to ask their favourite pet AI agent "why don't people support turning society's entire purpose into building & underwriting AI infrastructure & insatiable power demand?" Stupid & out of touch
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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Team Canada approach worked for CETA. For any serious effort to go further, institutional reform of federalism needs to be put on the table - intergovernmental relations, in particular.
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Huh. I can see now that I have not been using my geography degree to its full potential.
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Happy Sundew Sunday! Want to learn 5 super cool facts about miniature-yet-so-complex sundew plants? Follow along to learn some unusual botany. 🧵 1/
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dress for the job you want. Are they running to be on a slop simulated council for an AI generated slop city? If you care so little about what your city looks like, for what is real and what is fake, maybe a real city council is not the right job for you.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh those people? Those are the people the town burns inside the wicker man to guarantee a good harvest. Sorry, I don’t know how they were chosen, I don’t follow politics.
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 09/09/2026
Hey Alberta, if you need to photocopy your driver’s license or ID to send with your mail in referendum ballots, your local library can help with that.
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Andrew Harper @plantlanta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am re-reading the Quebec Secession Reference and I am struck, as was the Court, by the comments of the AG Sask on the nature of the nation-building exercise. Reference re Secession of Quebec, 1998 CanLII 793 (SCC) at para 96 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 09/09/2026
Wild stuff
Chart showing increase in TX power generation covered by solar. IT's 100% so for this year.
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D. Haywick🍁⚒️🎨 @sedhead402.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Quartz has been a vital resource for human civilization for a couple of thousand years. Longer if you include cryptocrystalline varieties of SiO2 (cutting tools). Asagiite is like what? 4 years old? It can afford to wait a few years. Vote quartz. #mincup26
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sorry, no new mineral discoveries allowed. It's too much. I haven't even met all the previously discovered minerals. Future students of mineralogy are going to revile you if you don't admit the truth, quartz is everyone's favorite first confident & reliable love. Be honest, vote #quartz
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It took me a very long time to learn to read. Eventually I picked up enough literacy from Beano comic books to keep going. Farley Mowat's, Lost in the Barrens was the very first book I read cover to cover. It was an achievement but not a chore. I loved it. I am forever in that yarn spinner's debt.
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If the #CPC do this with half as much vigour & effectiveness as they've put into stoking BS western grievances everything will turn out fine. The level of Alberta separatism & resentment politics is the product of a decade of #CPC politics. Get to fixing your mess pronto @gregmcleanyyc.bsky.social
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
On his 2nd day of university, my son observed it was clear some professors are really interested in teaching the students in front of them & others had a priority to get out of the lecture theatre & back to their research. Presumably some dangerous & exciting calculus experiments needing attention.
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Harold Pliszka @hpliszka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"In the report, former Treasury Board senior manager Lennie Kaplan estimates setting up an independent Alberta would cost more than $200 billion, with ongoing costs of more than $50 billion annually." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta separation too costly with too many uncertainties, warns Calgary think-tank | CBC News
A new report from the Canada West Foundation warns that, though the grievances behind Alberta secession may be real, the economic risks and political uncertainties are too great to consider separating...
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dear Alberta seppies, reality bats last. The only people that will ever benefit from the Alberta separatist scam are the grandstanding grifters pocketing your donation money and foreign governments who want us all to be weak and divided.
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I dare to dream
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In the wake of scandals about the misuse of confidential information, embattled consulting firm KPMG is losing million-dollar contracts and cutting its workforce. And that's all before the corporate regulator ASIC has even opened its mouth.
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KPMG is losing million-dollar contracts, but hasn't hit the bottom yet
In the wake of scandals about the misuse of confidential information, embattled consulting firm KPMG is losing million-dollar contracts and cutting its workforce. And that's all before the corporate regulator ASIC has even opened its mouth.
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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦 @smikooman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🎯 @deadder.bsky.social in @theglobeandmail.com
Caricature of a sweating, overweight man in a diaper sitting in a puddle," next to a sign "Lake America."
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The fact that Alberta's tax dollars are still being wasted on this horseshit propaganda centre, forking out lucrative salaries to UCP friends, is a scandalous waste of money amongst a cesspool full of similar UCP pork barrel scandals.
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Asking the consultants that ripped your government off by providing AI garbage what the govt should tell its citizens about paying for garbage? FFS. No, it's easy. The govt response needs to be, "We had a contract for Deloitte to provide info. They failed and we'll sue for a full refund."
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
TBH, if this is the calibre of trolling he has left in the tank, he's done. I think most of us glance at this, see it conforms perfectly to evidence that he & the US are increasingly a pathetic joke & shrug. I take no offense from this low quality absurd clowning "the most powerful man in the world"
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is what I am saying, announce a sudden ban on the export of toilet paper. Impossible to ignore, every American will be thinking about Trump's pointless trade war at least once a day, maybe more often if the American diarrhea problems keep going. Fight dirty. Trump defeated by TP.
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Harold Pliszka @hpliszka.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Remain in Canada & no to the 9. "Applications to vote by special ballot opened in July and run until Oct. 9... Elections Alberta will begin mailing special ballots to electors on Sept. 1, and they must receive special ballot packages back by mail before 5 p.m. on Oct. 16." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Mail-in ballot interest surging in Alberta ahead of referendum | CBC News
Elections Alberta said it has received more than 175,000 requests for special ballots as of Tuesday, with more than 50 days remaining before the fall referendum. The total is already nearly triple the...
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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That Nazi tiger lost too. Take Churchill's advice here Canada, there is no victory available in negotiating with Trump, we win with resolve and endurance and never surrender.
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Craig 🌎 🛩️ 💙🇨🇦 @bigdaddykreativ.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Canada's largest ice cream company used to source its fruits and nuts from U.S. suppliers — some for over 30 YEARS. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products. So, what did Chapman's do? They called Italy. They called Spain. They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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punchumgum @punchumgum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Like mushrooms, data centres grow in the dark after someone spreads some bullshit around.
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