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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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As Alberta completes its first full year without coal in its power supply mix, renewables (wind, solar, and hydro) have reached 22% of total generation and natural gas makes up 78%.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Why do so many in the Trump administration seem to be so stupid?

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This raises the question of who gets the refund if the tariffs are disallowed. Will all importers follow Costco? What about importers who were able to pass the increase onto their downstream customers? Unlike in Canada, there is no rule governing this in the US it seems.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Just a reminder that LingQ offers Icelandic free of charge. This is also true for Ukrainian. Why are there 2 free languages on LingQ? It's a long story, two separate stories. So just go for it and start learning.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Trump did invite the mob to violence. BBC had every right to show that as did other news outlets. Why do so many news outlets allow themselves to be bullied by Trump.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Today October 27 is the day of Ukrainian language and literature. Ukrainian is available free of charge for anyone at LingQ. Just register and start learning like I did.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Charlie please tell the Afghan girls that all refugees have free access to LingQ to work on their language skills (over 50 languages). I learned Farsi there. Just register and contact support at LingQ with their username and say they are Afghan refugees.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Mostly French and English with a little mandarin Chinese

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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And this is just a small sample of the scams and the grift!

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Symbolizing the current mood in Canada, my wife and I are visiting Quebec, enjoying a wonderful meal and drinking wine from Quebec and Ontario. We have to appreciate what we have chez nous. www.beclub.ca

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Why is this dishonest low IQ clown on TV so often?

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Trump has no idea who the previous Nobel peace prize recipients were, what they did to earn the prize and how the winners are chosen. Trump has a better chance of being on the US Ryder Cup golf team then getting a Nobel peace prize.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The common theme in the Trump administration is a complete lack of morality, the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The problem for Canada and other countries negotiating with the US is that their chief negotiators are sycophants with no respect for the truth, and whose word cannot be trusted. They reflect the president.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Per Lutnick, US wants to make everything at home & will apply punitive tariffs on all countries importing anything from China, which of course every country exporting to the US does. Protectionism was tried before, Smoot-Hawley Bill, world trade declined by 60% and depression. Brilliant.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Many GOP leaders are ignorant of history. The American Revolution was part of the “enlightenment”inspired by the classical world of Greece & Rome, opposed to the influence of the Church. Jews’ voting rights were restricted till mid 19th century.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Keep asking these questions, Peter Alexander. Bravo.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If this were a real threat to the president of US, Noem, Gabbard etc should be doing everything possible, not to publicize it, the opposite of what they’re doing.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

No thanks to fortress North America scheme w/ fundamentally egotistical US. When COVID vaccines were urgently needed in Canada, EU honoured contracts & shipped to Canada. Biden blocked exports till June 2021.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I found this book in my library from when I was working on Swedish. I didn’t read it then, but enjoying it now, reading & listening to the audiobook, both in Swedish of course . Lots of personal details about Napoleon. Herman Lindquist is one of my favorite historians .

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Canada didn't force the integration of much of our economy w/ the US. No one forced US consumers to benefit from inexpensive high quality products from China. Now, suddenly all scrapped by a president whining that the US was "ripped off". We'll see if the new order is better or not.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

While American networks highlight the fact that a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump, most foreign observers are amazed that 40 to 45% of Americans still support an incompetent immoral lunatic as President.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I am privileged that people in countries all over the world work together by some magic process to bring me everything from food, to electronics, to little plugs for my book shelves. Why allow Trump to break this system?

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Susan Holt is absolutely fluent in French by the way.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Trump’s every word is humbug & nonsense or something more sinister. Rubio is just Trump‘s spineless echo.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Some think Trump & arbitrary one man rule is best. Behold the glulam beam. The inherent weak points of individuals are distributed broadly providing superior strength & resilience. One man rule doesn't work. Leads to errors & disasters. Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini & more.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I’ve been following Mark Carney improve in French over the last two months. Simply remarkable. His French this evening was excellent, calm, comfortable, clear. He understands well and communicates well in French.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/04/2025

nightmare rotation

CNN screencap with photos of Bessent, Hassett, Navarro, Lutnick, and Miller

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Pussy Riot came to NYC to tell us “ We see the rise of authoritarianism here and we want go call people to not be silent. We want ppl to remember not to give up”.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

In a government run by unpleasant morons, this guy Lutnick stands out somehow as particularly annoying.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Irish Gaelic is now available on LingQ as of S. Patrick's day, today.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I started following US politics in 2016. I now realize that "grab 'em by the p***y", they let you do it if you're famous" is Trump's profiteor, his moral north star, in a nutshell. Disrespect all, grab what you can & just expect to get away with it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2025

holy shit this question at the Rep. Chuck Edwards town hall 🔥🔥🔥

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The stupidity level of the Republican MAGA cultists is off the charts.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I remember how the Hungarian forestry department moved to to UBC in 56 to create the forestry faculty. Canada also has biotechnology and space engineering expertise to build on.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Not only Europe and the UK, but also Canada, Australia, and other countries should welcome Americans, who are with good reason frightened by what’s happening in their own country

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The obviously unqualified speaking about the need for high standards in jobs.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

If Trump tariffs are applied, Canada should immediately stop all efforts to control flow of drugs into the US & apply recently announced $1.5 Billion increased security spending on preventing much larger flow of drugs & weapons into Canada from the US.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Truth matters! We have to fight to restore truth as the foundation of morality, not religion, not party politics, not cult craziness, just truth.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Most of Canada's fentanyl, by far, comes from the US, originating in Mexico. More fentanyl flows north from the US, as opposed to south into the US. There is already lots of cooperation between Canadian and US police agencies on this. What is this fraudster talking about?

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Let me get this straight. Petro calls for dignified transit. Trump threatens tariffs. Petro smacks Trump in a post threatening his own higher tariffs. And Trump agrees to what Petro asked for. And yet NYT is calling this *Petro* backing down?

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If risky behaviour, thrill seeking and peer pressure are important factors in starting people into fentanyl addiction, how can RFK Jr. be considered for the highest health related position in the US? Rather a bad model to emulate, no?

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Speaking a foreign language I never know if the right words will come when I need them. Often enough they do. Sometimes they jump the track & I say شما (you) in Persian when I meant to say چی (what) because "what" in Mandarin is 什么, pronounced just like شما.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Just realized that only in writing systems I've written by hand (Latin letters, Chinese characters) can I visualize the written word when I hear it. I could try to write more by hand in Persian/Arabic, Cyrillic, Hangul, Kana, Greek but I prefer to just to read, listen &speak.

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Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Reading in Persian I realize that while I needed the code to get started, now in my reading, I rely more on knowing the word or subconsciously recognizing the pattern. Non Persian words/names, even from a language I know, are harder to decode than new true Persian words.

Steve Kaufmann @stevekauf.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

1. English. 2. Persian. 3. Catalan 4. Hindi 5. Ukrainian #LangSky