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John Rampelt

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(Mostly) retired computer technology teacher, building robots at mirobo.tech (mirobotech.bsky.social). Personal account for family, friends, photography, physics... and actually any sciencey-kinda stuff, but it's all just physics isn't it? ✨

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God @thegodshow.com · 8h
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h
Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 12h
In any case, it's a disgrace for US foreign policy. Sanctions on Russia should be strengthened, not weakened.
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 12h
This is a deal between two men who are desperate to look like they have cards on their hands: 1. Putin had to lift an export ban after Ukrainian drone strikes to deliver a symbolic amount of diesel. 2. Trump pretends that it will make a difference for diesel prices in America.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21h
Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/10/2026
Any nation that live streams executions is a shithole country.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 08/10/2026
We don’t save Canada by sacrificing our environment and constitutional protections on the altar of private profits. Bill C-39 is an unmitigated disaster, and Canadians will be fighting back.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 08/10/2026
This is the exact same approach the Liberals fought under Stephen Harper. Now, they're bringing back that very same agenda and Harper is cheering from the sidelines.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 08/10/2026
The Liberals and Conservatives just voted together to attack labour, environmental, and Indigenous rights to fast-track corporate mega projects. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Conservatives vote with Liberals as Bill C-39 heads to committee
A key piece of the Carney government’s economic agenda, Bill C-39, passed its first vote in the House of Commons Thursday when Conservatives voted with the majority Liberals to send the bill for study...
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(Let them know what you think if you're on Instagram. This shouldn't be acceptable in 2026)
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The CDC just posted this today. Do you see anything missing? Washing our hands will not meaningfully protect us from airborne viruses like Covid. We need respirator MASKS for that!
CDC graphic posted on Instagram with caption "Actions you can take to protect yourself and others from respiratory illnesses 

-washing your hands frequently 
-cover coughs and sneezes
-avoid touching your face
-regularly disinfect surfaces
-stay up to date with vaccines
-open windows or use air filters
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tuesday will be a sad day for Ontario. Ford's government is taking us backwards, spending millions taking away bike lanes in Toronto when people across Ontario desperately need money for hospitals, housing, schools and infrastructure.
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Ontario Clean Air Alliance @oncleanair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🇨🇦 A Canadian company just installed 76 offshore wind turbines in Poland, enough to power 1.5M+ homes once operational. Meanwhile, Ontario still bans offshore wind in the Great Lakes. We have the wind AND the expertise. Let's use them! 🌬️ shrlnk.ca/s/HLDrBFut
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
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Ontario Clean Air Alliance @oncleanair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
☀️ Four #FirstNations are teaming up to build an 8.5 MW solar farm in northern #Ontario! 100% #Indigenous-owned, the project could create jobs, power a local mine and avoid 4,900 tonnes of CO₂ annually. Renewable energy AND community opportunity. 💚 shrlnk.ca/s/Vafik6rA
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'It's a game-changer': CEO on proposed Greenstone solar project
Four First Nations have partnered on a proposal to develop another energy source for the Greenstone Gold Mine
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Guess who's back.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
happy to hear of this new federal policy release. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Ottawa to provide $2B in rebates for homeowners who install heat pumps | CBC News
The federal government is launching a $2-billion rebate program that it says will help homeowners in Canada lower their annual heating costs while reducing emissions when they install heat pumps in th...
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 08/10/2026
A school near Kyiv was hit today in a Russian strike. Another civilian facility caught in Russia’s deliberate terror on Ukraine. #Ukraine
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No, for Covid, every season is 'respiratory illness' season. Vaccines should have been available in the summer, when waves often begin, not after cases have ramped up. Still get vaxxed when you can, but people should have had access sooner! www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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B.C. respiratory illness season starts as province secures millions of vaccine doses
British Columbia’s respiratory illness season has started, with the province preparing to distribute millions of vaccine doses to combat the rise of both influenza and COVID-19.
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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, that coughing and "something going around" discussions is COVID. That nice low summer is over. Toronto's wastewater viral load is showing a consistent upward trend in COVID-19 and nearly zero levels of influenza A & B and RSV. wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
Most recent wastewater virus levels for Toronto, with date ending week ending September 27, 2026, showing a clear upward trend in COVID-19 and minimal for influenza and RSV.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 07/10/2026
⚡️Update: Death toll rises to 19 following mass Russian attack on Ukrainian cities on Oct. 7.
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Russia slams Ukraine with missiles, drones on Putin's 74th birthday, at least 19 dead
Explosions rocked Kyiv overnight on Oct. 7 as Moscow launched its latest mass missile and drone attack on the capital, coinciding with Russian President Vladimir Putin's 74th birthday.
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Residents of Kyiv, bringing their pets, mattresses, and folding cots, have been gathering in the metro station since evening. Russia continues to terrorize the civilian population of Ukraine.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Flaring" is a major contributor to global heating. Flames at oil sites worldwide burn enough methane each year to supply about half of Europe’s annual gas consumption. The flares also spew soot, nitrogen oxides & benzine. Since oil majors pledged to end flaring, it's risen 9%. 1/2
Flares keep burning
By Will Evans and Ben Elgin Norma Lopez Cadena tries to keep her granddaughters indoors - out of sight
from the 65-foot flare burning excess gas from more than a dozen oil wells. At night, she says, the flare rattles the house from about 500 feet away and wakes her family. When the wind shifts, it smells like burnt rubber. The flare tormenting Lopez Cadena towers over the quiet West Texas neighborhood of South Ranchito, in the heart of the oil-producing Permian Basin, where it dances in the breeze day after day like an oversized lighter. When the gas flow
increases, it swells into a thick yellow and sounds like a blowtorch.
"Nobody wants to live next to that," she says.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
From Physics Today (physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha...): ‘When asked what he will do for the rest of today, Halzen replied “I’m working on a proposal. I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No one could have foreseen this.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As a result, infection control policy in the UK, Canada, the US, the WHO and in turn much of the world rests on pseudoscience - and mistakes that senior MDs memorized in med school half a century ago, that were out of date even then. Don't put your trust in the people who got it wrong about COVID.
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‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher
University of Calgary professor Mark Ungrin has dedicated years of research highlighting what he believes is of significant concern to all Canadians’ health.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment. This article doesn't mention climate change. thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Florida’s dengue outbreak reportedly largest US has seen in decades
A dengue fever outbreak in the state of Florida appears to have grown to the largest in the continental U.S. in decades, totaling 252 reported cases this year in the Sunshine State according to an …
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We are now just $300 short of fully funding the second Hornet Vision CTRL station for the SOF. That’s all that stands between us and getting this station equipped and into operation. Just $300. Let’s close it today so the guys can start putting it to work against Russian drones Campaign below 👇👇👇
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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“The solution is not exclusion. The solution is proper investment in the supports that make inclusion possible” www.cambridgetoday.ca/letters-to-t...
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LETTER: Don’t blame inclusion for the government’s failure to fund it
'You cannot under-resource special education, leave teachers without enough support, and then point to the resulting strain as proof that students with disabilities should be separated from their peer...
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
❗️🇺🇦 Closing Dnipro River bridges could create a logistical nightmare for Kyiv and the entire country, - NYT. Completely destroying such bridges is difficult, but impacts could damage the supporting structures and force authorities to close them due to the risk of collapse.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can we get some climate action instead? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Ottawa launches new national AI council to advise on safety, deployment | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney's new national council on artificial intelligence is meant to provide the government with guidance on the evolution of its AI strategy and on making the technology safer.
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year, China installed more solar panels than the U.S. did in the last 20 years. China’s total installed solar energy capacity is now 600 GW. There is no time to waste. Time for every country to dump fossil fuels and embrace the renewable revolution. #ActOnClimate
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Churchill specifically wanted ‘corkscrew’ thinkers. He believed that the Germans were too conventional, conservative. Too ‘straight’ Geoffrey Pyke. Prolific inventor. Very beardy and weird Turing. Code breaker. Gay. Dudley Clarke. Invented SAS. Bonkers. Cross dresser
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The buck stops at Queen's Park. Hospitals run a $70 million debt while Doug Ford spends $48 million ripping out bike lanes. We live in the stupidest timeline.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every conservative candidate these days: "Everything is broken. Elect me to to fix it, even though It may not actually be broken and I haven't layed out a plan for how to fix it." (I'm lookin' 'specially at you, Brad Bradford.)
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney tells us that among the criteria for a project being designated in the national interest, the major projects office considers whether the project “contributes to Canadas clean growth and climate goals.” And a BITUMEN PIPELINE PASSED THIS TEST? Then the test is bullshit.
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The West Coast Pipeline has now officially been designated as a project of national interest by @mark-carney.bsky.social !!! 🤬😡😤😖😠 WE DO NOT NEED OR WANT ANOTHER FOSSIL PIPELINE!!! Let your MP know you oppose this!
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West Coast Oil Pipeline - Major Projects Office - Canada.ca
Bruderheim, Alberta to southern British Columbia
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 01/10/2026
The letter calls on the province to allow municipalities to make their own decisions regarding bike lanes and urges Ford to stop the project, arguing that bike lanes protect the health and safety of everyone on the road.
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Medical professionals urge Ford to reconsider Toronto bike lane removal
More than 600 healthcare workers have signed an open letter demanding the Ontario premier stop his plan to remove three major bike lanes in Toronto.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Canada has a lot of work to do. In some ways, we’re actually backsliding right now -- from residential school denial to rights-busting "national building projects." We gotta do a better job of defending and respecting Indigenous rights:
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
US sending pesticide-laden berries to Canada?? "the excess chemical levels were due to over-spraying and the removal of food safety compliance parameters for berries sent to Canada" Half of the company's exports to Canada had pesticide levels exceeding CFIA standards. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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What to know about chemical levels on Driscoll's berries | CBC News
You may be having second thoughts about eating the berries in your fridge after CBC News spoke with a whistleblower who made a startling claim about the amount of chemicals on fruit that a U.S. compan...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This bold faced lie is actually appalling in its audacity. What he’s saying is NOT true if a project is deemed in the national interest!! Which he applied for the whale-killing port expansion to be!! And if C-39 passes, even the conditions won’t necessarily apply!!!!
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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here is a 12th idea... how about a wealth tax? Plenty of these options are giveaways to the industries the CEOs and business leaders work for. None of them get after the core problem: Our tax code is a major driver of our inequality. We need to tax the rich.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026
“The $625 million Early Learning and Child Care Infrastructure Fund will sunset next year, and … [the early learning and child care transfers] won’t increase beyond what Trudeau negotiated his last week in office. Funding will, in fact, be $1.1 billion less than what the Grits promised back in 2021”
thestar.com
Althia Raj: Mark Carney has forgotten who helped get him elected
Dig into the details of the prime minister's budget and you find cuts to social programs.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
❗️Russians hit school in Sumy with KAB.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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