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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 10h
"I'm a bad ass." At least that's how I rank compared to past me. Like this morning's me. Was not feeling it this morning.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 10h
I may currently be a sweaty mass of jello, but my ergdata says I'm a bad ass.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I gasped when I saw the statistics of wealth concentration shown here by the Federal Reserve: www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/... It's insanely top heavy. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/... www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They don't want to foment another popular environmental movement like they did when the rivers caught fire. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuya... That kind of thing interferes with the primal forces of nature!
Net Beatty from "Network" telling Howard Beale he must atone for meddling with the immutable laws of business.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The problem with it being coded emotional, instead of pragmatic, is that we tend to underestimate the concern of the people around us: news.gallup.com/poll/711500/... We think we're worried about it, but we think everybody else isn't and that we'll appear emotional if we voice our concern.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Which was an interesting journey because it led me to this link: news.gallup.com/opinion/gall...
Republicans' lack of trust in the mass media has surged in the Trump era.
Whereas about a third of U.S. adults say they have no trust at all in the mass media, 59% of Republicans hold this view -- a view that saw a particularly sharp increase between 2015 and 2017, when it rose 21 percentage points to 48%. Republicans’ lack of trust in the media topped 50% for the first time in 2020 and has since remained at the majority level. Lack of trust is also up sharply among independents, now 42%, while it continues to be low -- 6% this year -- among Democrats.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The endurance sets will force you to improve your breath control, your cardio will be killer, and you'll do this without the joint damage. This was my latest. My first, a decade ago, had me sucking wind in the first 5 minutes. Build capacity, not pain, I say.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And here's the part where they talk about corporate equities and shiz. That top one percent owns more than the bottom 99.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not to get distracted but I stumbled on this from the Superman link: archive.org/details/50gr... And I love that "The Big Snit" takes up #25.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
YES!
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's one thing to say that there isn't enough wealth and that everybody has to fend for themselves in this MadMax world to protect what little wealth they have. It's another to say that there is PLENTY of wealth, but you see this little silver here?: www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This fed link offers a good analysis of how wealth moved during the pandemic: www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Doing my part.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Found the specs: www.concept2.com/ergs/rowerg Wasn't far off!
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This machine, likely found at your rec center, will break you. First minute is fun, blissful even. Five more minutes and you will beg for the torture to end. But you will bike better, move better, and row better over time. Twenty minutes = 5km = my limit for now.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
"In my more pessimistic moments, I sometimes think this is the response to climate change, this is what the responses to the diminished expectations of economic growth are going to look like: a ruthless, zero-sum struggle for the control of a shrinking pie. The billionaires have far greater resources, far better coordination, and a far better sense of their class interest than anybody else. We have fooled ourselves into thinking that the response to climate change and inequality was in some way going to be a socially egalitarian and democratically decided one, rather than a struggle for control, power, and resources."
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
When talking about the PETM, I remember an old @drjeffmasters.bsky.social wunderground post that featured a graph like this:
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Counter point - presidents playing poker:
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@doctorow.pluralistic.net expresses a similar theme in his centaur analysis. Is AI going to improve quality, boosting product value, or is it going to automate quantity, reducing product value to zero? bsky.app/profile/doct... It's the difference between being a horse's head and a horse's ass.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Dude. I'm in communist Canada. Once the government took over healthcare it became nearly impossible to give it back. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea... If we had worse outcomes and paid twice as much like the US, we could make the argument for turning it back. But now? Impossible. Don't make our mistakes!
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Not bad for under $12 Canadian. Credit to @desmog.com, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @erikconway.bsky.social, & @michaelemann.bsky.social.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
From Amanda Iacone: news.bloombergtax.com/financial-ac... "“Enron’s crime wasn’t having special purpose vehicles. Enron’s crime was hiding them,” Luria said." So yeah, not good. Double plus not good.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Look at this picture from the link above and imagine a system that covered all the age demographics instead of the one set generating 40 percent of the costs. The gaslighting in healthcare economics is maddening.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
@brianbeutler.bsky.social makes the case much better than I do: www.offmessage.net/p/the-failed...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The thesis of the article appears to be 'Push climate friendly policies, but decouple them from climate based politics.' 'We're doing this for you, selfish voter, not the planet.' The problem being that this was tried, as the article admits.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@polphilpod.bsky.social talks about how crowdfunding the news is disrupting the market for 'news product': bsky.app/profile/polp...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
While looking up more on the David Morens situation, I stumbled on this @philippmarkolin.bsky.social post: bsky.app/profile/phil...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This is absolutely gross and wrong. They are going after researchers for the sins of raccoondogs. @peterdaszak.bsky.social @walkerbragman.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Why delete post, @whstancil.bsky.social? :(
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Anywho, good list of popular climate communicators under the vid, ranging from @volts.wtf to @amywestervelt.bsky.social to @simonoxfphys.com to @climateadam.bsky.social. (And I always have love for @climatetown.bsky.social & the urbanist movement folks like @brenttoderian.bsky.social) Get clicking!
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_... We gonna talk about what radicalizes an audience, NOW?
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Oooh, this part is going to give @driftglass.bsky.social and @bluegal.bsky.social the tingles:
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I often refer back to this timeless article by the late Kevin Drum: www.motherjones.com/politics/201... Which included this graphic:
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When the economy is growing and wages are stagnating, when the top 20 percent are grabbing 47 percent of the post tax and benefit income: www.cbpp.org/research/pov... the economy doesn't work great for the bottom 80 percent. Don't know what else you want here.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I know that @michaelemann.bsky.social is very busy, but he made a reference to the burning of Alexandria and that seems right on the nose here: www.science.org/content/arti... They're dogeing the USFS. After the California wild fires, with a massive El Nino coming, they thought...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Pertinent bit.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
They will happily use information sourced from a nazi hacker to smear a democratic socialist: www.cjr.org/news/times-m... But they have different rules for Republicans.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Speaking of syndication: apnews.com/article/news...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Ps. What people who feign helplessness don't want people to hear about. bsky.app/profile/isab...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I live and work in Canada. It's no picnic healthcare wise, but it's cost contained and gets the job done. It's universal and people don't get billed tens of thousands for being ill. And it's half the cost of the US. www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec... It's a scam.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Nope, it's legit. Someone got too clever with the headline. Whoopz.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
They cite @fisherdanar.bsky.social to get their numbers quote, but that's not what she says nor represents. From what I've read, she's about movement building which is more than about demonstrations, it's about active resistance and building alternatives.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Beatty theatre is a nice visit for learning about the work being done by UBC researchers. The movie about the blue whale skeleton and how they got the goo out of the bones? An icky, but interesting story. I'm hoping to check out the pme.ubc.ca on my next run around. And yeah, pretty gardens.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Kevin O'Leary and this gang should realize that much of this AI trash is American led and there are concerns about data security as it flows and is stored over borders. That and offense of having LNG plants dedicated to making Nvidia chips think while the arctic melts.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is weird. The expert cited? Professor Pedro Linares? Here's his piece in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/que-pueden-h... Via Google translate, what he says here, calling for more decarbonized energy and less oil dependence, doesn't match the theme of the article that cites him. Weird.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
As I read this, I stumbled across this @grist.org @mmfa.bsky.social article by Kate Yoder: bsky.app/profile/gris... And I found myself really identifying with Adam Barnett's piece in your link.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
So I just tried to create a post on Facebook in Canada with just a link to the above article. Facebook blocked it with this message.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
If I'm reading this right, we're basically saying that we know that competition is healthy because, if these concentrated firms weren't so good at competition, these concentrated firms would have competition? 😵‍💫
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