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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦

@socrates99ab.bsky.social
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Proud 🇨🇦 Canadian. Supporter of democracy, human rights, the rule of law, decency and separation of religion and government.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 16h
The four desires driving all human behavior — Bertrand Russell's magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech www.themarginalian.org/2015/09/21/b...
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 16h
The Hunger Games next?
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
itswilwheaton: Ask not for whom the autocorrects; it autocorrects for the.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Long live #thegreatamericanshitshow
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Only if you don’t care about the potential negative consequences. So irresponsible.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good question. I got off it years ago.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Expand your thinking, read a banned book! #bannedbooksweek
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is the internet coming to an end? Maybe. #AI #endoftheinternet #deadinternet #techsky www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
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How do we survive in the world after the end of the internet? - Halifax Examiner
It's just a fact that the internet is a much, much shittier place than it was two decades ago.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maybe that’s it.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
His CV says he once worked for a prominent wizard named Saruman. I’m sure that worked out well.
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Lila 🇨🇦 @raelila.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow… what an incredible letter. This is a must read.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
OMG. Still better than attending a Trump rally. #mcsweeneys #satire
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don’t understand this either. This is sad and worrying. Do they really think they’d be better off as an independent nation?
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Damn right
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026
The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes and God is on their side too, apparently. How unfair.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Seems likely.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love the song and the title of this event!
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🤣
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Absolutely they should sell while they can. Things are likely to get worse before (and if) they get better.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s very good, IMO.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I ran my first half marathon in 5 yrs yesterday. Happy to be able to in my middle age. Boy am I sore today. 😃#runsky
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Livesuit is a gem of a novella by James S. A. Corey, set in The Captive’s War universe. Clever writing and an insightful depiction of the cost of war for combatants. #livesuit #booksky #novella #scifi #jamessacorey #thecaptiveswar captives-war.fandom.com/wiki/Livesuit
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Livesuit
Livesuit is first novella in the The Captive's War series by James S.A. Corey and was first published on October 1, 2024. Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's b...
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sad to hear this
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 02/10/2026
Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
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Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
Vancouver, BC – Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced more than one billion dollars in federal funding to keep the ocean safe from the consequences of his own actions.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 01/10/2026
Trump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize
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Trump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize
"Canadians will say they’re sorry, in that particular Canadian pronunciation, to literally anything, but they won’t say it to Donald Trump."
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Popngus 🍁🇨🇦🍁 @leftylibrarian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My workplace is pushing AI for greater efficiencies. The use cases devolve to letting AI read for you, write for you, do your analysis and - in sum - think for you. Great. Let’s all get less skilled and dumber and then be replaced. #AI #AIsucks
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Disturbing. Racist fascists. These people should have their leases cancelled if they rent space to meet. #racism #secondsons #nazis www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Former soldier exposes how Canadian white supremacist group recruits members | CBC News
Second Sons Canada describes itself as a "men's nationalist club" dedicated to fitness and preserving Canada's heritage, but a former military member who attempted to join the group says he only learn...
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wishing you well.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Poor cockroach.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🤣
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want to see this. One of the greatest Canadians.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m so sorry for your loss.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’d like this to be true but it might not be: factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Canada did not open LGBTQ crisis line to Americans after Trump shutdown
When Donald Trump's administration proposed ending the nation's LGBTQ crisis line, progressive social media users celebrated posts claiming Canada reacted by opening up its own support number to US ci...
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today, we honour the children who never returned home, Survivors of residential schools, and their families and communities. Today is also an opportunity for all of us to listen, learn, reflect, and continue the work of reconciliation in our communities. Every Child Matters. 🧡
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 28/09/2026
Alberta Separatists unveil development slogan: “Come Invest in our unstable breakaway republic!”
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Alberta Separatists unveil development slogan “Come Invest in our unstable breakaway republic!”
CALGARY - With the Alberta Separatism referendum fast approaching, pro-separatist groups have launched a new campaign to entice investment dollars to their chaotic barely-planned idea for a country.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💯 Screw you Trump.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good discussion. There’s a LOT to be said about free will and I am not generally persuaded by religious apologetics about it. Here’s one good scholarly source if you want to know more: plato.stanford.edu/entries/free...
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Free Will (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Excellent indeed. More of this across Canada please.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now playing #mccartneyII #vinylsky #classicrock #mccartney #macca
Album cover with a dark haired caucasian man looking straight ahead and seemingly fairly confused.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thiel, that is, 😆
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congrats, you just failed Philosophy 100.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🤣
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PP is fear mongering, speculating and attacking straw men. Give us some real alternatives if you have them, Conservatives. A real opposition could actually be beneficial.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Long taper run yesterday. Stunning fall colours. #runsky
Yellow, orange and green trees line a white fence along a grassy park.Street with trees bursting with orange and yellow leaves.
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“and pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space because there’s bugger-all down here on Earth” - Monty Python #thebeaverton #satire #SETI
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The happy couple
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Shawn of the North 🇨🇦 @socrates99ab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💯 agree. It is past time for Canadians who are living in the US, but not US citizens, to seriously consider moving out. It is simply not safe.
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