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Gardener. Former flack. Fluent in spin. I media scan, therefore I am. Mister Rogers/Mary Oliver stan. Born at 326 ppm. Old married broad. Mom. Dogs' person. Canadian. Ferenge. she/her #BlackLivesMatter #LFC #ElbowsUp

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · Jun 23

For the time-being, many of the political news stories I share will have comments closed. I want to continue to share the stories as a service and FYI to other news junkies here but don't want negative energy in my comments right now. Apologies and thanks for understanding.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 32m

"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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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 3h

House crush of the day.

(Because how can one say no to a former chapel built in 1752 that has also had lives as a reading room and a Legion hall?)

For Sale: Marshfield Chapel, Marshfield, Gloucestershire | The Modern House

Breathing new life into the 18th-century foundations, this impressive Grade II*-listed former chapel, just 20 minutes from Bath, has been renovated with an unfaltering attention to detail. Rectangular...

themodernhouse.com

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Meandering M🌿 @pathwaymoments.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes moments are waiting for us 📷🕊️….

Silhouetted ladies enjoying some bench time against a cloudscaped evening sky.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

Supertramp releases “Goodbye Stranger” 46 years ago today — a song Rick Davies wrote on his childhood piano.

Is it about a one-night stand, inspired by the band’s adventures on the road?

“Yeah, it is. It turned out to be that. I didn’t know what it was when I wrote it.”

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

I think Mark Carney in the Oval Office should be seen through a corporate lens of 'managing up'.

"Sucking up and lying down to do the master’s bidding is a core practice of a capitalist democracy?

Interesting, terrifying thought."

Why don’t more people refuse to perform such compliant anilinction? His American colleagues are anti-Trump, Mr. X said matter-of-factly, but they put on a different face as business executives. “Because at the end of the day, every American I’ve ever worked with is a fundamentally hardcore, capital-C capitalist. And they will bend their ethics and their self-esteem in order to make sure their business doesn’t get crushed.”

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

Yes! It's a huge problem. Here in my province, 2.5 million Ontarians are without family physicians.

My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 7h

Well, this is concerning.

“The conversations with large language models were more persuasive than the ones with people,” said Dr. Vered Shwartz, a UBC assistant professor of computer science and author of the book ‘Lost in Automatic Translation.’

“They were also considered more empathetic.”

Shwartz says the human-like tone of AI-generated responses paired with their confident presentation can easily convince users that the information is trustworthy, even when it’s inaccurate.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 7h

I have some questions after reading this story...

“Our pilots are off to the U.S. in the next few months to start training,” she added. “The infrastructure is going up. We have airfields being extended to get ready, so we are definitely not in a position where we are waiting.”

‘We are moving forward’: top soldier says F-35 preparations continue despite government review

Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan says the Canadian military is moving ahead with its preparations for F-35 fighter jets despite an ongoing government review of the purchase.

www.ctvnews.ca

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c @3boxesofsighs.bsky.social · 1d

Yours

(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)
- Franz Kafka

dark to light peach dahlia against a black background

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 22h

I cannot even imagine the histories of sexual harassment, violence and domestic violence that those masked men have perpetrated.

We should consider them all predators.

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Meandering M🌿 @pathwaymoments.bsky.social · 22h

This pop of purple is October’s gift! 📷🌱

The purple asters are shining stars every October!

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 22h

Someone a few weeks ago told me they didn't like my use of the word evil.

Oh well. Block me.

fear of that word
suggests to me you have never seen it with your own eyes.

And don't know it in yourself.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 22h

Everyone should be using the word evil.

This is evil-shit.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

That's giving me a whole Six Feet Under vibe.

My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, Ford has some anti-democratic tendencies (And Smith... she's a nightmare.)

I think cognitive biases get in our way too often. Normalcy bias, optimism bias, etc. And we prioritize intuition over analytical thinking. ("I just have a good feeling about the PM.") Metacognition can be our friend.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

Btw, I just remembered that I had this on one of my bookshelves. I really did love that garden. 😍

A hand holds a copy of the book 'Elsie's Paradise: The Reford Gardens.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

And let me take it back to Haggart's original post. IMO, it's worse that pols & security analysts aren't raising it. Journos aren't the subject matter experts here.

It's like when Covid conscious ppl were attacking Queen's Park beat journos in 2023 on Covid coverage. The bigger issue was w/experts.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

The two of them are now having an animated discussion about university football.

Bless sports.

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RachelWardbooks @rachelwardbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Chilly this morning with a glimpse of a fox as it melted into the hedge. As I've been immersed in the colours of autumn this week, this pic from yesterday seems appropriate, taken on a lovely walk from Freshford to Iford. Have a good day! xx

Very bright hawthorn berries and red leaves in a hedgerow.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

...to what more military integration for us could mean.

Provincial & federal govt beat journos need to be generalists. It's a HARD job. They rely on subject matter experts but they must do a better job of listening to them on this topic.

One journo who seems to see it is @brucearthur.bsky.social.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

Not totally. (Some of the second though.) But that's not it entirely. I think it's more that many of them can't wrap their heads around it. Too much is coming all at once. They get, better than the mainstream US media, what's happening with authoritarianism but aren't following the through line... 🔽

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

This makes me want to visit again!

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

“My friend who was not matched anywhere in Canada was accepted by Yale University as an internal medicine resident,” said Nassiri Kigloo, whose parents were both family doctors. “I just don’t understand. That’s shocking to me. How is that possible?”

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

This new policy needs to be fixed ASAP.

“This interpretation of who is an Ontarian excludes immigrant physicians in Ontario who are permanent residents, or Canadian citizens"

#OnHealth #OnPoli

While other provinces have implemented similar residency policies, Atlin said they have taken more inclusive approaches. New Brunswick, for example, has restricted its international medical graduate residency streams to those with a “proven connection” to the province by requiring at least six months of having lived in the province.

“This interpretation of who is an Ontarian excludes immigrant physicians in Ontario who are permanent residents, or Canadian citizens, from a fair chance to compete for the designated IMG residency positions,” she said. “Our health care system loses out on the chance to benefit from their much-needed skills and experience.”

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