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Chris @exnerd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"When asked if customers will be able to opt-out of this, [Amazon] told Bloomberg, “We haven’t thought about that.”" Hey @murray.senate.gov why should Amazon get to violate WA's 2-party consent recording laws and go all Peeping Tom to even record the inside of my house through my front window?

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criticalmass.yyc @criticalmassyyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When explaining why we should not cork they have repeatedly told participants that if a driver was to step on their gas pedal while a group of cyclists were in front of them, it would be our fault. This is not a concern for cycling safety but a justification for violence against us.

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criticalmass.yyc @criticalmassyyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧵 For 3 years Critical Mass has held monthly rides with 3 goals in mind: 1. Celebrate cycling + other active transport 2. Protest the lack of physical + social infra that allows for safe travel 3. Create a safe environment to cycle by empowering participants to look out for one another.

A group of cyclists ride down a Calgary street into the sunset

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some positive news to share from Patrick's wife.

Update!
Hi, this is Susan Doyle, I am Patrick Doyle’s wife.
Would like to say thank you from both of us for all the thoughtful good wishes & prayers.
Patrick is being kept in the QE2 overnight with more tests to come in the morning. He is comfortable & upbeat.
He looks forward to more awareness walks in the near future.
Bedford 🇨🇦💪 strong!

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She wants to walk down that street and not have to worry about cars with her vision impairment

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Sean Granigan @twogoblinsinacoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly though, I don't think this even makes the top 10 worst bike racks I've used.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Muse: oh wow it looks like you got shot and robbed. here’s what happened: after giving up your home address i told that dude “what are you gonna do, shoot me?” and that’s on me

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hyper-fast acceleration is dangerous as well as pointless. As I wrote in 2024, the 0-to-60 metric is outdated and needs to die. No driver on a public road needs to go from 0 to 60 mph in under 8 seconds. Even the slowest car on the market is more than quick enough.

fastcompany.com

How fast can a car go from 0 to 60? It really doesn't matter

The auto industry has pushed this metric for decades. But cars—especially EVs—are so fast that comparing the decimals is pointless and dangerous.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The agency is literally getting people killed with measles and food parasites, also preventable, so okay let's everyone trust them with deciding acceptable risks

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026

(The Western Standard used AI to generate an image of the word "removed," because I guess using MS Paint is too hard?)

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Removed Image courtesy of ChatGPT ws Western Standard News Services X

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Vision Zero Kjipuktuk-Halifax @visionzerokh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The 2026 @hfxgov.bsky.social road safety annual report: 20 fatal road crashes reported, 20 fatalities by August, an 82% increase in fatal crashes That's not a "mixed picture of #RoadSafety performance", but a complete failure of #VisionZero implementation! visionzerohfx.ghost.io/twenty-death...

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Twenty deaths on our streets in 2025 is not 'favourable' progress

If zero means zero, then the most important number in the 2026 Road Safety Annual Report is twenty. Twenty people died on HRM roads in 2025. Everything else is secondary.

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We "compare favourably" - staff: "While HRM continues to compare favourably with many Canadian municipalities on a population-adjusted basis, the current rate of fatal and serious injury collisions remains above the level required to achieve the goals established in the Road Safety Strategy”

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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Liberals’ new bill allows the Minister to violate workers’ right to strike based solely on her opinion after taking into account any consideration she wants. That’s not guardrails at all - it’s pure discretion.

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Jillian @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can’t stop thinking about how the city gave us a 2m (6’) wide barricade to block off a street that has an entrance that’s about 15m (50’) wide. Good thing we have a lot of traffic cones in our stash!

An extremely wide street with an even wider opening due to weird and bad design. An orange saw horse with “street closed” is placed in the street but there’s still room to drive an enormous vehicle on either side of it. In front of the saw horse are the green conflict markings for a bike lane. The wear pattern on the green paint is telling.

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Sean Granigan @twogoblinsinacoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just completed my first attempt at designing and 3d printing a costume prop. My wife needed a battle axe for her costume, so I did what I could. Had some difficulties with one of the grey filaments. I definitely learned a lot, and would do a few things different, but not too bad for a first try.

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Neovagina Evangelion @gammarae.design · 16/09/2026

Got blocked for replying this but let me make this clear, if you hand it to Stephen Harper for anything you are absolute fucking scum or have the political memory of a golf ball. Here's a recap: > He threatened to ban gay union using notwidthstanding(Cdn bypass to Charter of Rights) 1/

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If tech bros really feared that AI would end the world, rather than it all just being marketing bullshit, THIS is the shit they'd be focused on, rather than their Skynet fantasies. The wealthy truly are happy to burn down the world just to add a few more zeros to their bank accounts.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This FOIPOP includes a 55 page email chain where staff only consider how signal changes may or may not delay drivers and ignore concerns about creating pedestrian danger with those changes. The HRM emphatically does not have a systems level approach to road safety.

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Sean Granigan @twogoblinsinacoat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My neighbour locked his keys in his shed. In exchange for borrowing my drill, he gave me a bunch of peaches from his backyard tree. So today I get to enjoy them in my oatmeal!

A photo of diced peaches on a cutting board, next to a basket of peaches and a bowl of uncooked oatmeal

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Note the near perfect alignment of policies between the UCP and the AfD 😵‍💫 The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt promises to improve relations with Russia, ban Pride flags in schools and create separate classrooms for refugee children. It calls for "remigration,"

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 04/09/2026

This kind of report should be accompanied by a press conference—not with some low-level bureaucrat, but with the prime minister. Flanked by all of his ministers. In prime time, with technical briefings. This report says we're facing unimaginable disaster, yet we didn't even get a briefing.

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The Grim Grinner @grimgrinner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.

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Neovagina Evangelion @gammarae.design · 04/09/2026

The AI companies love it when people believe this. The "rogue agents" are cyclical scripts that just reprompt themselves in an environment that's poorly secured enough that a scraped method from stackexchange archives lets it run curl remotely. Call it what it is: publicity+corpo illegal behaviour

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Asad Chaudhary 🇨🇦 @asadc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What we give up when we don’t find active transportation or public transit in Canadian cities, which are currently in a race to rip this stuff out actually. Paris has seen even more dramatic air quality improvements

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

You would blush to offer this as parody. This is a *public health professor*.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Jason Kenney keeps telling us about his racism, and yet the commentariat in this country keeps trying to turn him into an elder statesman.

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Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm is one of the most globally influential Canadian public intellectuals.

Together with @christopherrufo, he has been one of the Anglosphere's most trenchant and effective critics of woke extremism.

Follow him and is research.

Trigger warning: he is not politically correct.

Eric Kaufmann:

SCANDAL: It costs Canada millions to discriminate against white male academics

My latest in @nationalpost on the waste and race/sex discrimination driving the prestigious Canada Research Chairs programme:

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I love when police try to mess with a critical mass. Like, what do you want? For all the cyclist to pretend they are cars and position themselves one after another and take up a half mile of road? Ok.

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Jillian @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A small mass, but a critical one all the same. #BikeHfx

A group of people on bikes on a street and bike lane in Halifax.

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nondriver @nondriverpodcast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In early adulthood, a diagnosis forced Darcy to give up driving. Rather than being discouraged, Darcy + family adapted. Now Darcy is a transportation advocate in Edmonton working to make the city work better for everyone. nondriver.riverside.com/e/darcy

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How Darcy Reynard Navigated Losing the Ability to Drive

Darcy Reynard grew up never thinking driving wouldn't be an option. From family trips by car to learning to drive, Darcy followed a pretty standard trajectory, until a diagnosis stopped Darcy from dri...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

UPDATE: It appears the order does indeed disallow our government from recognizing the existence of a Lake Ontario in any contract. That's exactly what I was talking about. Trump has now made it impossible for the United States to engage in diplomacy over this major body of water.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The argument that Donald Trump invaded Canada today is much more compelling than many realize. The border between Canada and the United States runs through the middle of Lake Ontario. By claiming to have the power to rename the entire lake, Trump is claiming the lake. That's invasion by declaration.

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Sean Granigan @twogoblinsinacoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A foggy morning at the commons brings "Seagulls in the Mist"

A photo of the Halifax Commons. There is a thin layer of fog a few feet thick along the ground

A thin layer of fog along the ground at the commons. Several seagulls can be seen in the mist

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Again, the lesson for Canada fron the tariffs - but also the EU, the Indo-Pacific and any other region looking to do business with the U.S. - is that the tools have been taken out, this will not end with Trump.

Picture of a tweet of Gavin Newsome saying he won’t necessarily rescind tariffs on Canada or other countries but says he will be nicer.

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Critical Mass Halifax @criticalmasshfx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Critical Mass Bike Ride: Friday August 28. Meet at 6:00 at Grand Parade, rolling out at 6:30. Halifax/Kjipuktuk

Event poster for Critical Mass Bike Ride August 28. Photograph of a group of people cycling, away from the camera. The Halifax Central Library is visible at the end of the block, the street can be recognized as Queen st, northbound towards Spring Garden rd. text over the image repeats: Meet 6:00, Roll out 6:30, Starts at Grand Parade, Friday August 28

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

• a list of all of the supposed trade demands the US made to Canada goes viral with 900 shares • the list gets tracked back to the original source • turns out it's just an AI-hallucinated summary of a bunch of media rumours God damnit guys

Someone named fede shares a list on bsky earlier today: "The USA demanded Canada's capitulation as if it had lost a war"

Someone named Nils Gilman says: "it's an AI synthesis of all publicly reported demands"

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"If those studies are right, wouldn't we be seeing an effect right the way across society?" Wow, the denial runs deep. I'm gobsmacked too. Like, they literally just listed all the symptoms people have—and then asked where is the proof? You can’t make this stuff up.🤦‍♂️ Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

A screenshot of a text post by Tern (@1goodtern) dated August 21, 2026. The author recounts a conversation with two colleagues about societal changes.
Narrative Summary
• The Observation: The colleagues note that people are angrier, slower to understand, have more emotional problems, and less impulse control "since the pandemic."
• The Argument: The author points out that these are documented effects of COVID-19 infections on cognitive function and mental health.
• The Contradiction: A colleague asks, "If those studies are right, wouldn't we be seeing an effect right the way across society?" despite having just described exactly that.
• The Evidence: The author cites rising sickness absences (kids, NHS staff, civil servants), increased disability approvals, higher expected mortality in lower-vaccinated age groups, and secondary infections.
• Conclusion: The colleagues reluctantly agree COVID-19 makes things worse but remain unwilling to change their lifestyle habits.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is an absolutely *hillarious* admission of the functional obsolescence of fossil fuels for power genertation, if you have to legislate their use over cheaper renewable options.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.

A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Researchers find the lung capacity and function of London children that had been stunted by traffic pollution has now been restored just a few years after the introduction of London’s ultra-low emission zone

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Important to remember that most if not all the antivaxxers you ever see or hear are vaccinated against things like measles. Their whole movement is forcing children to take the risks that they never do (because they think children are property)

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Raccoon in the sky @seebo429.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

What a beautiful day for a #KidicalMassHFX ride. Thanks everyone that came out and extra big thanks to the Kidical Mass team and all the marshals for making it happen!

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14/08/2026

I think the SCC should hear this, not necessarily because the trial court was right on section 7, but because what the Court of Appeal says here flies in the face of major s 7 cases like PHS.

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