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Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green

@carriewhet.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 I may know and if I don’t I’ll say so. Edtech specialist, seniors’ advocate, bio-control company owner. Photos, nature, philosophy, politics, sci-fi, tech., sarcasm

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Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · Mar 27

Humans are superior adapters. We are wired to normalize even the most heinous situations. It is hard work to push against these instincts in ourselves and others.

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Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 20m

Nice, thanks.

Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 21m

But I’d like to see a demo or even a mock-up. A beta test before invest?

Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 1h

And don’t sleep in the subway, darlin’

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 3h

More Dollarama Trumpism as Poilievre demands Trudeau be investigated and jailed.

Poilievre blasts ‘despicable’ RCMP leadership, accuses Mounties of covering up for Trudeau | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre took aim at the RCMP’s independence in a recent interview, calling the national police force’s "despicable" leadership and accusing it of covering up for the Liber...

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Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 3h

Now, “mnemonic” is another problem altogether…

🥀your ghoulfriend gore-igan.⚰️ @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani is not a hard name to pronounce.

Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 5h

Kafka, Nietzsche, Voltaire, Plato, De Beauvoir, etc. etc. To me, it all may all come down to Trooper:

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Trooper - We're Here For A Good Time (Not A Long Time)

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Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 5h

Control of natural resources has always been synonymous with power. Both living beings and technology are completely dependant upon them.

Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 7h

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Why Is the US War Department Buying into a BC Mining Company? | The Tyee

Global instability is creating a rush for critical minerals, which are useful for green energy. And the military.

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 1d

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

Hegel

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Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 17h

Disturbing about the Wayback Machine but there will be back-ups.

Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 20h

I hope this is prompting a complete security review of ALL airport systems, not just the ones that demonstrate they have been hacked. #victoria #airports
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Screens and PA system at 2 B.C. airports hacked with pro-Hamas, anti-Trump messages: officials | CBC News

Kelowna International Airport says it is investigating after its public announcement and flight information display systems were hacked by a third party on Tuesday. Victoria International Airport repo...

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Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 1d

thanks for the repost, Julie.

Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 1d

Northern lights down south. #weekpforpink #AlphabetChallenge

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Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 2d

Snopes says they are unable to verify this story and they cannot find relevant court records.

Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 2d

Time is moving backwards for women.

Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting medical development!

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Just Mike @justmike.bsky.social · 2d

Please be careful

"BEWARE: As Halloween gets closer, parents need to make sure to LOOK at your child's candy. Some people are giving out what looks like normal candy, but it turns out to be Katl Marx's classic critique of capitalism "Das Kapital" in the original German."

It's a picture of a bunch of candy with a copy of th3 book mixed in.

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Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 2d

Wow!

Carrie 🇨🇦 of Stamford Green @carriewhet.bsky.social · 2d

I hate these staged photo ops with a carefully selected group of soldiers. Why can’t he just go into the mess, give them a brief thank you on behalf of Canadians and then go away? That would be real.