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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 5d

The region of #Spain where *Don Quijote* is set no longer has shepherds due to population decline. Spain is seeking foreign shepherds, showing why Europe needs immigration!

Ya no hay pastores en La Mancha. España llama a inmigrants para cuidar sus ovejas.
www.libertatea.ro/stiri/meseri...

Meseria pe care spaniolii nu mai vor să o facă

Los Cortijos se numără printre sutele de sate și orașe din câmpiile Castilei-La Mancha, regiunea din centrul Spaniei devenită celebră datorită clasicului „Don Quijote”, care se confruntă cu depopularea. Aceasta a făcut dificilă găsirea de păstori, o meserie care există încă din timpuri biblice.

www.libertatea.ro

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 6d

Here's a handy link to bookmark and share with others outside of Bluesky that is my entire pinned mega-thread about universal basic income study results, all on one page.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Dec 5

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down

Source: scottsantens

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 6d

"Housing experts are sounding the alarm about a new bill by the Doug Ford government proposing changes to security of tenure rules, which they say threatens the foundation of tenant protections and rent control in Ontario."

#OnPoli #GiftLink 🎁

www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

“It’s a straightforward attack on tenant protections in Ontario,” said Ricardo Tranjan, political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

The bill could affect about 1.7 million renter households in Ontario, making up 30 per cent of provincial households, and 558,000 renter households in Toronto, who represent about half the city.

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Dooodlebugg 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @dooodlebugg83.bsky.social · 13d

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 8d

A quarter of Ontario PC voters say they’re only voting Ford’s party because they don’t see a better option.

That’s what first-past-the-post does — it traps every voice on the right under one leader.

Proportional representation means real choice, not one-party control.

#onpoli

Blue background graphic with text reading “25% of Ontario PC voters only support the party because they don’t see any better alternatives.” It explains that first past the post forces the right-wing spectrum into one big-tent party under Doug Ford, stifling diversity of thought and accountability. Below is a bar chart from Abacus Data showing reasons PC voters support the party: 41% think Ford has done a good job, 29% usually vote PC, 25% don’t think other parties would do better, 3% like their local MPP, and 2% cite another reason. The bottom text reads “Proportional representation would give the right genuine choice without fear of splitting the vote. Learn more at fairvote.ca.”

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 15d

Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons

Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.

Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons

Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.

arablit.org

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 15d

The Dutch, naturally, have this sorted.

At this #Delft intersection, people on bikes and pedestrians get a continuous green.

The arrival of a car or truck sets off a sensor, which allows it to cross. The default is green for humans, red for cars.

Video @modacitylife.com

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 20d

“When you're on a bike, you actually notice things around you as you go! One of the many side benefits of being on a bike is you just keep discovering new things about the city, specifically businesses.” #yyc #yycbike #BikeLanes #yyccc

Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · Sep 17

The data on #Bikelanes are clear & consistent: GREAT for cities in just about every metric you can think of. So why are politicians across Canada attacking them? We dig in with @bikecalgary.bsky.social's Doug Clark & Alyssa Quinney

PODCAST: www.podcastics.com/episode/3835...
#yyc #yyccc #yycbike

Divide & Conquer: The B.S. Against Bike Lanes

Build barriers between cyclists and cars, not between people and their neighbors.

www.podcastics.com

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 23d

A fascinating read.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23d

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at.

And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 12

There is a line around this building to get to the line entrance to wait to get into this job fair.

At the airport. For airport jobs.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21d

Skateboard

xkcd.com/3152/

4-panel comic. (1) [person in the sky unpacks skateboard from parachute bag] I guess this is on me. I should really keep my skateboarding gear and my parachutes in different-looking bags. (2) [person looking down at skateboard as they fall] (3) [person falling wile holding skateboard in one hand and phone making “beep beep” sound in the other] (4) (person still falling with skateboard, now talking on phone] Hello, Pro Skate Parks LLC? I’d like to place an extremely expedited order for a 600-foot halfpipe.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 20d

In which I debunk some very common (and popular) myths about renewable energy and the energy transition.

Warning: It's long, pedantic, and full of charts.

open.substack.com/pub/maxfawce...

When "blindingly obvious" facts about the energy transition are anything but

Debunking Don Wright's well-meaning interventions on the subject

open.substack.com

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 18d

Proportional representation: What we can learn from Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand. Webinar Oct 19, 2025
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Proportional representation: What we can learn from Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joinin...

In this webinar, Heino, Trisha and Emerson, three politically engaged Canadians who are originally from New Zealand, Ireland and Denmark, will share their real world experiences with proportional repr...

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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 18d

A federal coal auction in Montana drew just one bid: $186,000 for 167 million tons of coal — a 99.9% collapse … The next auction was immediately postponed. Why? Because while #coal can still sell today, its future is already bankrupt.

app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/d9a9be...

Historic ‘Clean Coal’ Auctions Collapse — Clean Energy Outperforms Everything

Something remarkable just happened in America’s coal heartland — and almost nobody noticed what it really means.This week, the Trump administration’s long-promised revival of “clean, beautiful coal” c...

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Fair Vote Edmonton @fairvoteyeg.bsky.social · Sep 21

#abpoli

Principal Skinner meme. Could it be that our system sets us up for conflict? No, it must be the other side.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 18d

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once."

- Audrey Hepburn

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · Sep 29

The best political news of the year came down to the very hard work of Maia Sandu and her colleagues — it was not at all a sure thing, and Putin had spent at least $100 million to make it not happen

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Victory for Moldova’s pro-EU party averts a dark outcome and angers Moscow

The Kremlin spent a fortune to keep a former Soviet state from getting closer to Europe. On Sunday, it failed

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27d

You can also make a public-good argument about research trainees. Not everyone who does fundamental research stays in academia, so training people in technical skills and research methods benefits everyone when those folks go off and apply their expertise to something else.

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Martin Bauer @martinmbauer.bsky.social · 25d

This night 102 years ago, Hubble discovered that there're stars outside our galaxy by observing a Cepheid variable star 1 million light years away

Until barely a century ago, no human ever knew whether there was more than one galaxy in the Universe. Think about that!

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 27d

No riding thinks the same way. But First Past the Post acts like they do. It shuts out voices and wastes votes.

Proportional representation makes every vote count and ensures fair representation for every community.

#cdnpoli

A purple background graphic with the title “What people say vs what our voting system hears.” On the left, a cartoon woman says: “In my riding, 34% support the Liberals, 32% support the Conservatives, 19% support the NDP, 12% want the Greens and…” On the right, another woman replies: “So you’re all Liberals.”

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 23d

The BC Conservatives are imploding, but the real problem isn’t just leadership.

It’s First Past the Post, which forces everyone on the right into one unstable party.

Here are 10 reasons why Conservatives should support Proportional Representation 🧵 (1/12)

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · Sep 26

Worth a read: Dan Robertson argues in The Hub that Conservatives should embrace proportional representation.

When even conservative strategists are calling out the broken system, you know it’s time for change.

#cdnpoli

Screenshot of an article from The Hub featuring Conservative strategist Dan Robertson. The headline reads “Three ways the Conservative Party of Canada can win again,” with a section excerpted that highlights his argument for proportional representation.

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · Sep 25

More evidence that we've been around a long time and should know better.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Sep 27

Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan.

This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans

In the foreground is Saturn's giant moon Titan, its hazy, peach-coloured atmosphere extending into space. Behind is Saturn itself, its upper hemisphere crossed by the shadows of its vast ring system.

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tkeyesbevan.bsky.social @tkeyesbevan.bsky.social · Sep 20

@fairvote.ca great buzz today marching to Queens Park with @fair.ca We joined up with the Green Party as we walked. Another great party to support.

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JEmphatically @jemphatically.bsky.social · Sep 20

It was hot today at the #DrawtheLine protest in Calgary - 27 degrees C. A reminder of what our future could be like unless we take climate action.

I know I was melting out there in that heat! 🥵

#climate #ableg #cdnpoli

A person with a black t-shirt and a beige hat holds a large handmade sign stretched between two poles attached to beige fabric. The words are written in black: “2050 is too late, We need action NOW, 2030 targets, CLIMATE CRISIS.” In the background are the reflective windows at Calgary’s Municipal Building with blue sky, a skyscraper and green trees reflected in a distorted view. Photo is watermarked by JMacPherson Photography.

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