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1622mhb @1622marlene.bsky.social · 16h

#FungiFriends #Fungi #Puffball #PacificNorthwest

Puffball mushroom. Cream grey in colour with a thick stocky base/stem that is cream coloured and smooth. The ball-shaped top is textured in fuzzy protrusions that give it an almost velvety look.

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1622mhb @1622marlene.bsky.social · 16h

Amanita Muscaria fest. #fungi #Amanita #FungiFriends #PacificNorthwest 🇨🇦

Orange metallic-sheen Amanita mushroom in grass with yellowed and rust-red leaves on either side. The cap is mature and flattened out with orange white wart-like remnants from the leftover veil.

Amanita muscaria. The young round ball-shaped cap has recently emerged from the egg-shaped volva visible at the base. The cap is an elegant shiny cream champagne colour with creamy wart spot remnants from the veil.

Younger Amanita Muscaria. View of the round ball-shaped cap from the top. The colour is an elegant creamy shiny champagne colour with cream colored warts dotting the cap. In the background is grass and smaller green plant leaves.

Young Amanita Muscaria. The ball-shaped cap is a bright, shiny, reddish-orange with white warts dotted all over the cap. The base of the stem shows the cream colored egg-like volva. The background is decayed leaf debris, a few bright green grass shoots.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”

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1622mhb @1622marlene.bsky.social · 3d

Trump the Mesiah is forcing world leaders to individually walk up to him on a poduim and praise him for his 'role' in ensuring peace between Palestine and Israel. It is sickening. It is all about Trump and nothing to do with the countless lives lost, in part due to America enabling Israel.

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 5d

What matters is precisely this: the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.

~ Virginia Woolf

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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1622mhb @1622marlene.bsky.social · 8d

#PacificNortwest 🇨🇦 #FungiFriends #Fungi
#Westcoast

Pacific Northwest forest trail scene. A dark grey slug is busy eating a white oyster mushroom from the top middle of the cap. The mushroom is part of a 7-cluster of oyster mushrooms, set against a bright green moss-covered tree stump.

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 11d

Every journalist should have the following response prepared for every time they speak with Premier Danielle Smith:

“With respect, Premier, that did not answer my question. What you provided was a justification aligned with your predetermined position, not a direct response."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14d

Angus: American farmers who bought into Trump, thinking tariffs would help them—their markets are gone. Canada’s not making noise about it; we’re just moving in. Canadian corn is now being sold in Ireland, Spain, and the UK. Those used to be guaranteed American markets. Not anymore.

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1622mhb @1622marlene.bsky.social · 17d

#Agrisky

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17d

McMorrow: Meanwhile, farmers are being told, “You’ll be okay because we’re going to bail you out.”

Having pennies put back in your pocket while Donald Trump is building ballrooms or filling the Oval Office with gold décor from Home Depot just feels insulting. It is beyond insulting.

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1622mhb @1622marlene.bsky.social · 18d

Concentrated GDP growth in the IT sector that benefits 'a few oligarchs' vs no growth in sectors that is supposed to support 'the many'...is a problem.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 20d

How TSLA hasn’t cratered into the Mariana trench is beyond me. I get that it’s in lots of index funds but FFS! If I ran any kind of fund, I’d never include his overpriced robot sock puppet company; especially when Boston Dynamics and WayMo actually do what he always promises but never delivers.

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1622mhb @1622marlene.bsky.social · 21d

Excited to be on the beta ride. 🤓

Ash @subfrequency.bsky.social · 22d

Checked out the video preview for upcoming Canadian 🇨🇦 social media app, Gander. Here are some highlights:
1. You'll have control over your feeds
2. They'll launch with feeds weighted towards Canadian content
3. Post: text, images, videos, and galleries.
4. Bookmarks for posts.

and there's more...

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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 21d

Tesla's current value is hugely overstated. There is no realistic path by which they get to free cash flows that match their current value let alone your number.

20bn (based on, say, 10 years discounted free cash flow) is much more realistic for an auto OEM.

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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 27d

In nearly all of those 148: Tesla doors remained .. closed

Meanwhile: Nissan Leaf, on road since 2009 and best sold single EV model worldwide on 1-1-2020:

Zero fire deaths ..

Picture from Germany 12 days ago: Tesla driver + two 9-year olds burned alive. All doors closed, rescuers helpless ..

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Northern Girl @sopogirl.bsky.social · 21d

BREAKING: London Mayor DEMOLISHES Trump after "Sharia Law" comments: “When people behave in a certain way, you've got to believe them. President Trump has shown he is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic and he is Islamophobic.”💯
Most of the world can see what too many Americans choose not to!

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CNN @cnn.com · 25d

‘Tidal wave of problems’: With harvest here, Trump’s trade war pushes some US farmers to the brink https://cnn.it/3Keg6G0

‘Tidal wave of problems’: With harvest here, Trump’s trade war pushes some US farmers to the brink | CNN Politics

Farmers across the country are issuing increasingly urgent warnings that they’ll face grim consequences if they don’t get help selling this year’s bumper crop that many have begun harvesting.

www.cnn.com

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StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 23d

#Canadian PM @mark-carney.bsky.social has delivered a POWERFUL message at the Council on #ForeignRelations in NYC. Speaking at the #UNGeneralAssembly, He laid out his plan to strengthen #Canada, diversify its partnerships, and warn #Americans that #GlobalPower is shifting 🇨🇦
youtu.be/ZsluEhQGlpU?...

JUST IN: Carney Jokes About Trump as Room ERUPTS in Laughter

YouTube video by Canada Today

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1622mhb @1622marlene.bsky.social · 23d

Yup, agree, no hyphenation.
Keep it simple. Kids have their mom's last name. Easy and super practical. (Mom's mostly arrange school stuff and medical appointments etc)

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 26d

Watch the Dutch kick Disney in their tiny mouse gonads…

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26d

This is amazing.

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A. De Chastelaine 🏴‍☠ @dechastelaine.com · 23d

Bottom line: financial pressure and subscription cancellations do work.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25d

Thousands of activists marched down Park Avenue and turned down Billionaires’ Row toward Trump Tower in New York Saturday to “Make Billionaires Pay,” calling for climate justice, democracy, free speech, gender equality, a stop to the Trump’s immigration crackdown and a ceasefire in Gaza.

Marchers gather in worldwide protest of financial institutions 'profiting off the climate crisis'

On the eve of New York Climate Week, activists and members of the public have gathered to protest the financial institutions that are “making our lives more expensive while profiting off the climate crisis, war and genocide,” the organizers say.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27d

Carney: We are both undertaking massive transformations of our economies. Plan Mexico, Canada strong. Our efforts will be strengthened by working together. As President Sheinbaum said at the G7 summit — and I quote — “In an interdependent world, no country can isolate itself.”

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Creek Bird @creekbird.bsky.social · 27d

We need to boycott ALL businesses that support this regime. Money is all that matters to them. Prepare for General Strike.

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Aussie News @aussienews.bsky.social · 29d

Protest in Windsor against US President Trump's state visit to the UK #world

Protest in Windsor against US President Trump's state visit to the UK

Protest in Windsor against US President Trump's state visit to the UK #world

www.theage.com.au

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