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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦

@bornat3b.bsky.social

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I am interested in justice, including health justice, science and nature (inc funny animal photos), well-designed cities, and technology, especially security. She/her-ish. I nuked my X. Now you’re stuck with me. Viewpoints from outside CDA/US very welcome.

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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 19d

If the US actively states that they will not follow the rules of engagement, that they will go against every convention to prevent abuse of prisoners, that they will act as street fighters rather than soldiers, can they be trusted in any international military training or operation?

Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 3h

Yup. Expect it to show up on some gross cable tv show soon.

Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 4h

I’m thinking, in my comments, of those who still think it is overblown, who don’t follow developments.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 4h

The translation is tremendous!

I think you’re right about the time. It’s when they were still making justifications and pretending to be addressing legitimate concerns.

The language is so strikingly similar it’s embarrassing an educated adult in 2025 would use it.

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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 4h

I’m guessing CSIS is on this, but anyone thinking that we’re on the wrong tack distancing ourselves should take a look at what other countries are doing.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

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Empathy @constant-tummyache.bsky.social · 18h

Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.

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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, that’s quite the day!

Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 16h

Nice!

I’m glad there was such a strong turnout in so many places.

Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 16h

City of my ❤️

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 20h

"It never once occurred to me that Venezuela was a forerunner, that the authoritarian playbook Chávez and Maduro were enacting could play out one day in a place like the U.S." But now "every day brings new outrages that either rhyme with what Venezuelans went through or just repeat it outright."

Going Full Venezuela

No Kings day feels eerily familiar to me.

www.persuasion.community

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 22h

No Kings 10/18/2025 favorite signs

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 20h

Your voice matters! If it didn't, they wouldn't be trying so frantically to shut you up! Refuse to be silenced! No kings!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 14

Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.

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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 21h

The kids stuck dealing with them could have told you that, too.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

Upwards of 500 people in *checks notes* Houghton fucking Upper Peninsula fucking Michigan

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Mohave County Indivisible @mohaveindv.bsky.social · 23h

The Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, & Scarecrow met the PDX Frog at No Kings today!! 🎖️❤️🌾🐸

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 22h

I did not know it was possible for this many people to exist in one place in Evanston

whitewolfsonicprincess @wwsp.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings rally & protest in Fountain Square, Evanston, IL. October 18, 2025. Was it amazing, beautiful, inspiring? Yes. Indivisible Illinois!

No Kings Protest in Fountain Square, Evanston, IL. A cast of thousands!

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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 1d

It’s too bad. Depending on their ages this could be a moment to say “I was there” in the future.

Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 1d

It’s kind of a nearly militaristic effort to keep outliers in line, even if the outliers are correct. I am not in the medical field nor have much contact with it, so I am going off what I see in other fields.

Knowing that such a block exists makes speaking up feel very risky, professionally.

Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for covering this.

Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is true for quite a lot of fields, but few have greater consequences.

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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh.

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Pat @pat112.bsky.social · 1d

Out with the old and in with the new .

What was is no more and will never be again ,

as Canada works with true allies and friends .

#Cdnpoli In - #UK #Mexico #China #EU Out- #Uspoli

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Bridget McGrath 🇨🇦 @o-tawdry.bsky.social · 1d

Let's "Elbows Up" #Stellantis like we did with 🇺🇸 products/travel, like we did with #Tesla.

To the federal & ON governments, demand repayment of every penny in taxpayer money that Stellantis got & return the $ to UNIFOR workers! True #🇨🇦Strong

#cdnpoli #uspoli #onpoli #BoycottUSA #BoycottStellantis

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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 1d

We should avoid giving airborne diseases to each other

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone who missed it: futurism.com/atari-beats-...

ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977

Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode.

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