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Karen Markle

@skirri.bsky.social
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😷, 💉x7, 🦠x2, 🐕x1, 🐔x25, 🐓x1 Skirri is a blue squirrel in a superhero costume. Currently, he's disguised as Frida Khalo.

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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Button choice: Destroy jobs vs Save planet
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons GIF.
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Lisa Simpson Pours Coffee
Alt: Caffeine is my friend.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/06/2026
Israel has killed over 260 journalists and media workers in Gaza and 28 in Lebanon since October 7, 2023. Irish filmmaker Seán Murray investigates Israel’s killings of journalists in his new feature documentary Journacide: The War on Truth.
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“Journacide: The War on Truth.” New Film Investigates Israel’s Killing of Reporters in Lebanon
Israel has killed over 260 journalists and media workers in Gaza and 28 in Lebanon since October 7, 2023. Irish filmmaker Seán Murray investigates Israel’s killings of journalists in his new feature d...
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thank you. 🫂 I'd say I'm at about 80%. I'm easily winded but the really scary stuff doesn't happen anymore. Wishing you good health, as well.
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
That was in Oct '23. I caught it again in Dec '23. I spent nearly a year with bizarre heart trouble, including midnight tachycardia & fainting, that my GP shrugged off. By winter of '25, I finally convinced her to refer me to a cardiologist. All the testing revealed... NOTHING. I'm perfectly fine.🤦‍♀️
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Raj correctly points out how Carney is kneecappimg social programs, and working to privatize government services like airports. Also worth noting: the first-ever (AFAICT) cuts to CPP premiums, which raises for the first time the potential for future rollbacks of a previously unassailable program.
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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This is terrible! Find a good massage therapist. They can help ease the whiplash sort of pain you're likely to feel. Been there.
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Canada PURCHASED $1.1 billion of military artillery from USA. #DND #cdnpoli #canpoli #CanadaProcurement
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Pentagon procurement post reveals Canada quietly locked into HIMARS deal | CBC News
A U.S. contract notice shows Canada is included in a $1.1-billion High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) production deal, suggesting Ottawa finalized the purchase months ago without making an...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
BREAKING: The House just voted to remove the pesticide provisions from the farm bill that would have protected Bayer from lawsuits over cancer-causing glysophate in Roundup. The amendment passed 280-142.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Doug Ford regularly worked from home after ordering civil servants back to office #Ontario #FordIsAHypocrite #FordFail globalnews.ca/news/1181649...
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Doug Ford regularly worked from home after ordering civil servants back to office | Globalnews.ca
A copy of the premier's itinerary obtained by Global News shows that over five weeks from early January, Ford took a range of meetings at his house or virtually.
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
From CBC News: Canadian detained by ICE for 6 months says he's an 'indefinite' prisoner, has no idea when he'll get out. 58 Canadians are being held by ICE. Avoid all nonessential travel to the United States.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 27/04/2026
$25 Billion funneled straight from your pockets into the profits of private corporations. Neoliberalism in its purest form.
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either: a. Incompetent b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't c. a & b
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Alex Neve @alexneve.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
In case we needed reminding. Change is possible. Change is in the people's hands. Thank you #Hungary.
theguardian.com
Hungarian opposition ousts Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power
Péter Magyar’s Tisza party wins election as prime minister concedes defeat, in result likely to reshape ties with EU
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Ldora🍉🌻🍁 @ldorak.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Most of the Canadians I know who can afford to travel have had a vacation in Cuba at some point. The people of Cuba took care of you and shared the beauty of their home with you. They need us now. Please speak out, call or write your MPs and demand Canada do everything it can to aid them! #cdnpoli
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Mum & Dad used to send us to the corner store to buy their cigarettes. Mum was a "large DuMaurier regular", Dad was a "small DuMaurier king".
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Absolutely horrific. Canada’s massive border bill, C12, has been adopted after third reading at Senate. C-12 will become the country's largest machinery of deportation: deporting refugees without hearings, retroactive bars, and mass status cancellation. A mirror of anti-migrant ICE violence.
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
AT LEAST a living wage for the people who feed us. $35 to pick a 900lb box of lemons. I pay $1 each at the grocery store. A living wage wouldn't make a nickel's difference.
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I did not hear any keystrokes. Fukkin' hell.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors
or surrender accepted;
(2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such
that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted;
(3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable
ability to accept surrender would exist;
(4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate
forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and
(5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/03/2026
“Israel is doing as much as it can,” says Gideon Levy about the country’s expanding warfare. “As long as the American support is so massive, so blind and so automatic, this will go on.”
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Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support
Inside Israel, “there is no room for any question marks or doubts about this war,” says journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for Haaretz and a member of the newspaper's editorial board. He says war fever has taken over the country, with polls showing 93...
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
@sueinnovates.bsky.social has started a phone blitz to the Premier's office to voice objections. Push-back has been effective before. bsky.app/profile/skir...
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
@sueinnovates.bsky.social has started a call blitz to the Premier's office to voice objections. bsky.app/profile/skir...
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A little wait while the robo-operator puts you through to a human. "Hi, my name is (x). I live in (y). I've learned that Pr Ford wants to shield himself from Freedom of Information requests. I find this quite disturbing and I want to voice my objection." She assured me that the Premier will be told.
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Cassandra Garibay @cgaribay.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Now we are building a source network to fuel in-depth coverage of the nation’s emergency preparedness, disaster response and recovery infrastructure. Emergency managers: Fill out the form below to help @propublica.org prepare to report on the next disaster. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Emergency Managers: Help ProPublica Prepare to Report on the Next Disaster
If you are a part of the network of disaster response and recovery partners, we need your help to build a comprehensive picture of the real conditions across the country.
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I hear you and I understand your frustration but, shaking our collective heads from outside your country, your faith in checks and balances is naïve. He is a symptom of the collapse of your empire, not the cause of it.
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Not holding my breath.
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VoiceOfFranky @voiceoffranky.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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Donate A Mask Canada @donatemask.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Calling all DIYers! 📣 Today only! ⏰ Use the "CRFLASH" discount code to save 30% on Corsi-Rosenthal box kits. 🎉 Each kit includes everything you need to clean the air indoors. 💨 🛒 buymask.ca/cr-box #DIY #CRBox #FlashSale #BlackFridaySale #CleanAir
"Black Friday Sale - buymask.ca
30% off Corsi-Rosenthal Box DIY Air Purifier Kit"
Images of a CR Box DIY Kit (Fan, MERV-13 filters, wheels and white tape).
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Hey #Canada‼️❤️🇨🇦 Ever wonder how #legislation and #government works to pass #bills? What the process is? #cdnpoli
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Two men who occupy prominent positions in Canada’s media landscape just travelled to Israel, where they received a briefing from the Israeli government. Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway? Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
heated.world
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Intrepid sleuths searching for a lie. 
There is no lie to be found.
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A friend who works for a Canadian federal gov't department said they may have an opening for an editor in the spring. I said, "I thought you'd started using AI for editing." "That's why we need an editor."
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Solid oped. Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country. If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: Canada’s digital sovereignty is crumbling under aggressive U.S. lobbying
After years of insisting Big Tech has to support domestic content, Ottawa is in retreat
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Sorting... or filtering?
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
They TOLD US to apply for CERB even if we weren't certain we qualified, that it would all come out in the wash at tax time. Who's in charge over there?
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
@undertheinfluence.bsky.social FYI
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
@aptnnews.bsky.social is covering the #Alaska typhoon.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 08/10/2025
Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...
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What will the AI data centre boom mean for Canada? | The Narwhal
Sprawling AI data centres — hungry for land, water and power — are coming. Plans the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in Alberta
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Totoro in Paris Street: Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte.
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
We can kiss any vestige of autonomy or local representation goodbye. #NoPrison #SaveFarmLand #BuildCommunitiesNotCages @northgrenville @nancypeckford @leedsgrenville.bsky.social @cappkemptville @ontariondp.bsky.social @ontarioliberal.bsky.social
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.canada.ca/en/canadian-... “Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation “The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.”🪶
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Canada.ca
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is observed September 30. The day honours First Nations, Inuit and Métis Survivors and their families and communities and ensures that public commemoratio...
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I suspect it's closer to home than that. Doug, himself, got dinged and now he has his knickers in a twist.
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Karen Markle @skirri.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Exactly this. A national postal service is a matter of sovereignty not a tool of capitalism. For reference, see the demise of Greyhound/Voyageur. Small & remote communities are stranded. Without a postal service, they'd be less connected. Increase & improve services, instead. Internet, banking, etc.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24/09/2025
To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join! Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
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Pledge
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