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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦

@erincandy.bsky.social

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🇨🇦Just a chronically ill East Coast girl with a sailor mouth. #NB History/Science/Politics/Gaming/Movies/ #Leafs Hockey/Creator/Cat Rescuer Leukaemia cancer survivor! Anti-fascist/Anti-disinfo activist. Battling #LongCovid since March 2022 #MCAS #POTS ♑

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · Jan 20

The best way to protect yourself from airborne viruses is a high quality respirator like an n95. Covid made all my hair fall out and now I have long covid. You don’t know what your magic number infection will be where you get it and never recover. Mine was 1.

A girl in an aura 9210 n95 mask. She has long blonde wig on with a pink fuzzy hoodie and a white crop top

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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 3h

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 3h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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John B Des Moines @john-b-des-moines.bsky.social · 6h

AI has hit a wall. Dev cost is going straight up, the tech isn't improving, and it's already becoming a toaster (cheap and ubiquitous.) It's plateaued so far below its promised potential, businesses are already dialing back on its use. This bubble is about to pop. www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.

www.marketwatch.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 6h

Canada Strong Pass to be renewed for the holidays and Summer 2026

The Canada Strong Pass, first introduced during the summer, is being renewed for the holidays (Dec. 12 to Jan. 15) and next summer.

cultmtl.com

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 7h

Cursing is rarely a symbol of low class. It's often a mark of high authenticity.

Evidence: Swearing predicts higher rates of honesty and integrity. It signals a willingness to prize candor over courtesy.

A little profanity can show that you're being real and you do give a damn.

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 8h

Facts

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 10h

Kylo is being so cuddly today

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah🥰🥰🥰

Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah it’s pretty funny tbh

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sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 1d

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 14h

Right??

Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 14h

And then they decide antifa is a terror organization. And since antifa isn’t real they can decide anyone who is against the regime is antifa. They will throw everyone who is a threat in the camps, just like the OG Nazis did.

onion person @junlper.beer · 21h

we need to abolish this shit

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 14h

Terrible idea

Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 14h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/t...
Air Canada is offering free beer and wine to economy class passengers on all its flights — even short-haul domestic routes.

It’s a sweetener following passenger pushback about additional fees for extra baggage and legroom.

The only airline in North America to serve free alcohol in economy on all flights | CNN

In our weekend digest of travel and aviation news: air traffic control problems in the US, free economy-class alcohol in Canada, plus a jetliner eclipses the Boeing 737 as the most popular plane ever.

www.cnn.com

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 14h

Been rewatching pretty little liars and I realize I have no memory of anything that happens after s2

Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 14h

Ya it was really nice having time off together

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 14h

At the hospital, He’s a nurse

Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 14h

After 2 weeks off my husband is back to work today 😥😥😥

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 14h

He definitely has long COVID

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 16h

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 18h

Remember they said they don’t need anything from us? Then why are US States crying for Canadians to come back, travel, why are sales down in many categories, why are companies going bankrupt, we may be small in population to the US, but Canadians put billions in the US economy and we can boycott!!

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

American spirit exports to #Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group

Distilled Spirits Council of the United States CEO urges 'lasting return to tariff-free trade'

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

www.cbc.ca

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Cheryl C 🇨🇦 @carleysue.bsky.social · 16h

www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...
Three activists from Newfoundland appear to remain detained in Israel, several days after the Gaza-bound aid flotilla they were part of was intercepted at sea.

Family awaits news of 3 Newfoundlanders detained by Israel off Gaza | CBC News

Three activists from Newfoundland appear to remain detained in Israel, several days after the Gaza-bound aid flotilla they were part of was intercepted at sea.

www.cbc.ca

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 1d

Historians sometimes say that when societies are descending into fascism, it can be hard for the people to notice it in real time. Well, historians of the future: We are noticing.

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.