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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 3d

i assume you follow @taras-grescoe.com already?

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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is worried about the secrets that’ll spill out if Putin falls from power

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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 5d

He is a member of the Pentaverate after all

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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 6d

a man wearing headphones and a purple shirt is holding a green box

Alt: a man wearing headphones and a purple shirt is holding a green box

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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 7d

These manufacturers say EVs are too expensive for the average Canadian, but they also want the $15,000 Chinese EVs kept out of the Canadian market…

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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 7d

i can't decide whether this was just another bonehead move by Dougie or whether this is actually some coordinated play with plausible deniability built in for Team Canada

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 9d

Stories like this—which are shockingly common—are always in my mind when I read news stories about hysteria about e-bikes. It is like getting hysterical about pretend threats trans people pose in bathrooms as thousands of cis men commit actual sex crimes.

Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 9d

"Calderon, who was driving a gold 2006 Mercedes E-Class, was found about a half a mile away from the scene after she stopped.
She was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run, gross vehicular manslaughter, felony DUI and possession of narcotics."
www.foxla.com/news/hunting...

Huntington Beach crash: Suspect accused of striking 3 cyclists arrested on suspicion of DUI

Officials said 45-year-old Eric John Williams, of Garden Grove, was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect, 43-year-old Amber Calderon from Long Beach, was arrested and faces multiple charges.

www.foxla.com

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 9d

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 11d

Why not both? I know, parts, training etc, but the RCAF has operated more than one combat jet at a time as late as the early 80s. Keep the F-35 for strike attack (like the CF-104s were for in Europe and CF-5s at home) and the Gripens for home defence (like the CF-101s)

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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 13d

Or volume -🥧r2h

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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 13d

Having grown up eating British cuisine, all I can say is thank god for living in a multicultural city and country.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 13d

fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th

Hughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 13d

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

Jess Gill
@jessgillO3

I've never had curry or a kabab and don't intend to.
British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones.
Also, our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala we only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 23d

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 15d

i remember trying out a friend's Google Glass about 10 years ago. Pretty useless...

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16d

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 19d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Jamie Skimming @jamieskimming.bsky.social · 20d

Stop threatening us with good times

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Dave Thompson 🇨🇦 @davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 20d

The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy: Andrew Coyne
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
#cdnpoli

Opinion: The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy

Today’s uber-rich have converted their obscene wealth into outsize power, wielded in the name of bizarre millenarian ideologies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 22d

Their masculinity is already janky given they joined ICE. Shooting pepper at an inflatable frog must work on their fragility late in the night when laying away on their sweaty mattresses. Like the hot Santa Ana winds in a Raymond Carver story.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 25d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 24d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23d

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26d

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 26d

I want to put this in my back pocket and carry it with me everywhere. What a powerful and beautiful message.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 26d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · Sep 28

The fact that cross-border traffic from Canada is down by only one-third is a gd mystery. Not exaggerating to say that it’s possible I will never again go to the US

🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · Sep 27

Unbelievable!

This is a US Border Agent chasing a Canadian couple heading towards the border back to Canada.

He yells at them:

“Never come to the US again”

🚨 DO NOT GO TO THE US
IT IS NOT SAFE.

#Canada
#FascistUSA
#BoycottUSA

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