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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In French: “There’s no causality between the method and the end result. This pretext that there’s Donald Trump, so we’re going to dilapidate the collective wealth of Quebeckers and Canadians, in a way that’ll have no impact on the economy until well after the end of Trump’s reign,” Blanchet said.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The NDP requested an emergency debate in Parliament over the plan to open up Canada's four largest airports to private investment. The speaker said no. Cool.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm also sitting here waiting for the text of an omnibus bill to drop that's expected to have all kinds of Very Concerning stuff hidden in there but will be very hard to deal with in one go! Democracy!

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Jim Zub @jimzub.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. The only AI I 'use' is shit foisted on me - summaries and slop vomited on my screen as part of internet browsing or injected into programs I work with until I turn those settings off or rip those parts out by the roots.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others”

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Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Have you ever wanted to visually compare the size of your favorite extinct animals? Now you can, as I'm launching an interactive size comparison tool on my website. Give it a try and let me know what you think: www.skeletaldrawing.com/compare/

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 24/08/2026

as more and more celebs are coming out in (paid) support of AI remember that it was only a few years ago that they were shilling for NFTs

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@edzitron.com had it on the money here

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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Cryo @cryodraws.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Imagine being a tree and dying for this shit to be printed on you

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Not the first time that Rowling fans have prioritised the rights of imaginary wizards over real people.

A photo of a newspaper headline:
“Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby's 'grave'
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach”

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Something I see regularly in life is: people want to be informed but do not want to know. It seems like we live in a world that incentivizes that at every turn. I’m glad I get to make shows where we get to learn and know.

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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When I was a kid and I saw the 65 million years ago date gradually be replaced by 66, I thought that they were counting the years since the Chicxulub impact and had gotten to the point of rounding up to 66 instead of rounding down

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

the irony of publishing a report saying these groups are funded by outside actors and misrepresenting themselves as rights groups- right before being blackmailed by an outside actor and saying that these groups are actually rights groups

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

vox.com

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

news.com.au

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Mark Carney just allowed war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to fly through Canada despite a warrant for his arrest and the country being a signatory to the Rome Statute. We have aided and embedded one of history's greatest monsters

@CJPME
🚨 For the 3rd time in 7 months, Netanyahu has entered Canadian airspace en route to the United States.

As a signatory to the Rome Statute, Canada is obliged to enforce the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu. Instead,
@MarkJCarney
is allowing him to circumvent justice and avoid any consequences for his war crimes and crimes against humanity.

According to protocol, foreign state flights must seek permission before entering Canadian airspace, which should be submitted at least 72 hours in advance.

Why does Carney continue to give safe passage to this war criminal? Canada should deny diplomatic clearance and close the airspace to ICC fugitives.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

re-upping this too:

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

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Wildfire climate connection

Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Got upset and made this so hopefully people will actually listen. What the fuck are we doing here folks?

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16/07/2026

Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today. Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate. /1

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The West Coast pipeline that Carney and Smith proposed would drive the southern resident killer whale population to extinction btw

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 15/07/2026

Not sure Carney's got this whole petropolitics thing down just yet. You don't want to announce your wholehearted embrace of oil and gas immediately before the season now known as "fire season" or your words will be echoing through people's heads while they wheeze through their morning dog walks.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

never fucking forget that our tomato of a premier slashed tens of millions from our forest firefighting and emergency preparedness budget so now yea we’re surrounded by toxic air and whole communities are burning down

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I cry every single time I watch Sam Neill's performance in this moment - one of the greatest and most moving in all of cinema.

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

my god, this is amazing. apparently from a NY Times interview with Neill and Goldblum. Resharing with alt text so everyone can enjoy

How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL: The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening. On the other side of me was my son Tim he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.

JEFF GOLDBLUM: I love that story, Sam. I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 23/10/2025

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

SAM NEILL

GENERAL JOHN MACARTHUR

If you were to commit a murder,

how would you do it?

It's got to be big! No slipping

something into someones drink, that's just

pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a

stain on the road. There's probably a couple

of people I'd put under a steamroller,

but I won't say who they are, otherwise

when they see a steamroller coming

their way they'll be on full alert. And

steamrollers don't go very fast...

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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/06/2026

Just sharing this again at a time of what's happening in Australia. In Event Horizon Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replaced with the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047

Sam Neill in the movie Event Horizon.
Wearing a flag patch that has the Australian flag but thr union jack is removed to have the Aboriginal flag in its place

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Taran B. @taranbhartt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In honour of Sam Neill we watched the greatest movie. His portrayal of Alan Grant is perfect: it’s subtle when it needs to be, comedic when it can, gruff but with a real heart of gold, and I’ll never tire of it. He’s a talent who inspired a generation of scientists, and he will be greatly missed.

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Yes! you are not a scientist. Science is what you do! Very important to separate our identities from our jobs—not just for mental health reasons, it also helps deal with appeal to authority fallacies and the ever increasing peril of silver-tongued charlatans who trade on such identity claims

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is what Kamloops looks like right now while the liberals are building more pipelines and data centers

orange clouds of fire smoke darken the sky in Kamloops BC

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?" -- the late, great Sherry Rowland

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Carney’s flight to Edmonton, where he’d hear Danielle Smith’s pipeline plan pitch, is grounded due to extreme weather —which is exacerbated by the climate crisis that pipeline plan would worsen 🤗 WHEEEEEEEEEE WHAT A WORLD

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ha ha so funny right after he announced we're abandoning our climate targets :))))))))

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Canada Day extreme weather brought to you by climate change, which Carney announced yesterday we can’t afford to properly fight 🤗

CBC headline reads: Canada Day activities in Ottawa cancelled due to
'extreme weather,' including fireworks

Torrential rain falls on the capital

By: Gabrielle Huston

Published July 1 at 3:21pmET

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 12/06/2026

I was just on the Great Barrier Reef and that freaks like this considered it acceptable loss makes them among the greatest villains in human history.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Verge headline: The world's first trillionaire is a killer
by TC Sottek

Image of Elon Musk doing a "fascist salute" in the form of an oil painting on a wall

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 07/06/2026

It's been 100 days since the U.S. allegedly bombed a girls school in Minab, Iran, killing 100+ children. @premthakker.bsky.social pressed members of Congress on what they're doing about it. Some didn't seem to know, and some didn't seem to care. Subscribe to Zeteo.com

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/06/2026

1/ Community consultations are absolutely critical, but the choice facing the Prime Minister is clear. Premier Ford is in the middle of a land grab, & the federal government has both the power and the responsibility to stop this irresponsible & anti-democratic move. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

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Mark Carney promises ‘consultation process’ over future of Billy Bishop airport

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has not "formed an opinion" on Premier Doug Ford's contentious expansion plan for Toronto's Billy Bishop airport and is promising a "consultation process" with

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Carney has announced a new AI strategy to ramp up adoption of the tech-bro-touted technology in a way that he says “serves all Canadians.” But BIG questions are lingering about how this aggressive ramp up will play out in a world where data centres guzzle water and destroy the environment:

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