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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 3h

Growing up in a union household in BC, I was so shocked when my working class Calgary neighbourhood voted overwhelmingly UCP

Nurses and Firefighters 🤷‍♀️

Currently in BC people are honking in support of striking BCGEU members, in Calgary they were honking for the anti-abortionists at Chinook Centre 😑

two women standing next to each other with the words that 's not how this works

Alt: two women standing next to each other with the words that 's not how this works

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 5h

This is Princess Bride level

a couple of old people with the words " the chocolate coating makes it go down easier " on the bottom

Alt: a couple of old people with the words "the chocolate coating makes it go down easier " The Princess Bride

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 15h

Hmmmm 🤔

Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre in fighting stances

One of these things is not like the other

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 23h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

"Chatbot, show me something that is the *opposite* of what a Republican would do to help the disadvantaged?"

Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 23h

A man named Nicky Crawford transformed a school bus into a mobile laundry service for the homeless called “Flowing with Blessings” He teamed up with Georgia Tech engineering students and created the bus, which provides free laundry, showers, haircuts & meals for the homelessness

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 18h

The thing that most excited me about the internet back in the day and still does today is IMDb

Going down the rabbit hole of actors and their roles is so much fun and I too can recognize a face young or old - age has limited my name recognition but the eyes, I can always recognize those

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Diosa Luna @rainsong9.bsky.social · 1d

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22h

"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?"

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?

Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...

buff.ly

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

How MAGA sees things.

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 1d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/t...

US drops out of world’s most powerful passport top 10 list for the first time | CNN

Once a ticket to visa-free travel across the world, the US passport’s potency has dwindled in recent times. And now, for the first time, it’s completely fallen off the leaderboard of nationalities ran...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 1d

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 1d

It's extremely funny to email me from Vice Studios asking for help making a documentary out of my reporting from before Vice laid everyone off. Personally I would be embarrassed to do that but your mileage may vary lol

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 1d

I would always have two of whatever I was using so he would gobble up the first piece of hotdog containing the med when he saw the second 🥹

The best method was my determined autistic daughter whose persistence kept him alive a lot longer than the vets could even imagine ♥️

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 1d

We were getting desperate had tried every trick, steak, liver paté, cheese, peanut butter

Then a bit of a freshly baked peanut butter cookie fell on the ground and he gobbled it up

In the end I was baking peanut butter cookies just for him 💔

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