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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 6h

NIMBY boomers lapping up disinformation of Facebook

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Calgary's Future @calgarysfuture.bsky.social · 7h

How many times has Ward 13 Councillor Dan McLean voted AGAINST housing affordability? A lot.

To learn more about candidates that actually support housing affordability, visit https://calgarysfuture.ca/endorsements/

#YYC #YYCCC #CalgaryVotes #CalgaryElection #HousingForAll #housingcrisis

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 6h

Can someone please demand they show the data on all this supposed left wing political violence?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

JD Vance: "Because we have such a big problem with left-wing political violence, we have to train the investigatory and law enforcement powers of the govt to focus on that particular problem ... we really have to retrain the entire govt to focus on this left-wing violence problem. We are doing it."

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 10h

Strong and Free. One step up from "Oil Country"

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 10h

Doesn't say you cant walk on it. Just says it's not a trail.

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 11h

ChatGPT’s new spicy IncelChat porn mode will console them all.

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 2d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 19h

Whaddya’ know the freedumb convoy gets its own plate. 🙄
More pandering to the separatists. She will not stop until she has ruined Alberta.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Bell: Danielle Smith set to roll out a new Strong and Free Alberta licence plate

Alberta gets a new licence plate with the Strong and Free brand, Premier Danielle Smith will roll out eight designs and Albertans will vote

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 19h

ChatGPT, now with IncelVision ™ 😬

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 19h

The Hague is going to have to build a new wing for all the MAGA trials.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: A U.S. military strike killed six people on a boat in international waters near Venezuela, President Trump said, asserting without evidence that they were drug smugglers for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

U.S. Military Kills 6 People in Another Attack on Boat, Trump Says

In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’s cuts.

Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

More than a dozen U.S. airports are refusing to display a video of Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, blaming Democrats for the government shutdown and any travel disruptions that may result from it. Some said that the video was overly partisan.

Airports Refuse to Show Video of Kristi Noem Blaming Democrats for Shutdown

More than a dozen airports aren’t displaying the Homeland Security secretary’s roughly 30-second clip. Some said it violates policies against partisan political messaging.

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 19h

Good.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

A new California law will effectively ban officers from questioning the families of people killed by police before alerting them to the news of their loved one's death.

This practice was popularized by Lexipol, the nation’s largest developer of law enforcement policy manuals. 🧵

California cops can no longer conceal police killings while interrogating loved ones for dirt

A Reveal investigation helped spark a crackdown on a disturbing, widespread practice.

www.motherjones.com

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 19h

In the after times, Zuckerberg will have to answer for all his crimes.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Hope he ends up homeless
www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 1d

I did not have “AI puts the porn industry out of work” on my 2025 bingo card.

Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 1d

😳 Terrifying.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

www.motherjones.com

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Aryn Toombs @aryn.bsky.social · 2d

The $87 billion climate cost has always been, very clearly so, a long-term cost to the economy and not a direct City of Calgary cost to taxpayers—in fact many stories, and admin have pointed this out.

But some candidates keep using this number to campaign on.

livewirecalgary.com/2025/10/13/8...

Is there an $87 billion Calgary climate strategy funded by city taxpayers? Y/N... Candidates respond - LiveWire Calgary

Since the climate emergency declaration on the heels of Calgary’s 2021 municipal election, an $87 billion cost claim has been the rallying cry of opposition to the city’s climate strategy. Only, as re...

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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, Calgary Ward 13 voters.

Please don't vote for a racist.

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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 2d

Scoop coming tomorrow with new details on the mysterious resignations of Calgary police chief Mark Neufeld and two of his deputies.

Fifty documents obtained via freedom of information are included in the story.

Sign up free or paid to access:
drugdatadecoded.ca#/portal/signup

Drug Data Decoded

Politics, policing and profits of prohibition.

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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 2d

Solar power in the great western desert would be the cheapest power on earth.

Foot meet .44

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 1d

3x the output of the Hoover Dam - gone. Actually 4x current production during extended drought.

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Bruce Cullen 🫡 🇨🇦 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 1d

Florida? Hard pass.
…bummer

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Dan Goodin @dangoodin.bsky.social · 2d

The problem solving required for making Signal quantum safe is as daunting as any in engineering. In less adept hands, mucking about with an instrument this complex could have led to unintended consequences. Yet this upgrade is nothing short of a triumph!

arstechnica.com/security/202...

Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.

arstechnica.com

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