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✨keeley✨

@leeleykeel.bsky.social

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anti-violence, anti-racist, artist & gardener. laughter encourager w crispy edges. baffled Buddhist, probably napping, GenXer, over it. Small town Ontario, Algonquin Territory (🇨🇦) she/her I have three kittens to distract me from reality

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✨keeley✨ @leeleykeel.bsky.social · 29d

Ori loves you. He softly reminds you to maybe stretch a bit maybe, go get something decent to eat, fill up your water and try and look to the sky tonight if you can. Sunshine is annoyed but nevermind her.

2 cats lay intertwined in a basket . One has his head upside down back looking at you with wide eyes. The other cute cat being snuggled doesn’t care about us - she looks away and seems annoyed. 🐈‍⬛

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1h

The thing about Nazis is their speech is all hate speech, all of it, not free speech, because Nazism is predicated on violence and contemporary Nazism is predicated on knowing about genocide and approving of it and wanting to do it again.

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NPR @npr.org · 2h

Washington, D.C.'s vending machine LitBox distributes books, with a serving of hope as local writers struggle with arts funding cuts. n.pr/4nYSLHq

A book vending machine provides an outlet for D.C.-area authors after funding cuts

Washington, D.C.'s vending machine LitBox distributes books, with a serving of hope as local writers struggle with arts funding cuts.

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Investigative Journalism Foundation @theijf.org · 2h

A former MP who vacated his seat for Pierre Poilievre is now registered to lobby for a B.C.-based coal company in Alberta. Read the findings in our report.

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#abpoli

Former MP who vacated seat for Poilievre registers to lobby for coal company in Alberta

Damien Kurek, who vacated his seat as an MP so Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre could run in his place, has registered to lobby the Alberta government

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L'Institut de recherche du CUSM / Research Institute of the MUHC @rimuhc.bsky.social · 4h

🧬 Promising results from the first clinical trial of an HIV immunotherapy published in Nature Medicine.
@cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca
🔗 rimuhc.ca/en/-/immunot...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5h

This isn't a new insight, but: the people who are always ready to put a Black teenager on trial as an adult sure do like extending the "youth will be youth" excuse in other contexts— not just to college students like Kavanaugh, but to, e.g., 35-year-olds on a Young Republicans group chat.

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 6h

This report examines the human rights, environmental, and climate impacts of nickel mining and processing operations in Indonesia, focusing on Central Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, and North Maluku, three of the most prominent hubs of the Indonesian nickel industry
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“Does Anyone Care?”: The Human, Environmental, and Climate Toll of Indonesia’s Nickel Industry

Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of nickel, a key raw material in the renewable energy transition used in batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and for energy storage. It is now a massive par...

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✨keeley✨ @leeleykeel.bsky.social · 3h

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4h

deploying the editor's note like solid snake with the chokeout

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VassB @vassb.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve written about this! www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: In this economy, can we even afford dogs and cats any more?

Our governments need to do better when it comes to making pet care affordable

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Erin 🇨🇦 @spicyerin.bsky.social · 23h

Let’s do this here in Canada. They hold us hostage with our love for our pets.

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

I absolutely agree with this👇🏼👇🏼

Vets bills have rocketed by 50-60% since 2015 was £1,000 to have a bad tooth out for our dog (doesn’t cost anyway near that for humans) and with other treatment despite insurance we got a £3,000 bill

A driver has been Corporations buying up vets to fleece owners❗️😡

Vets should be made to publish prices, competition watchdog says

Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, the Competition and Markets Authority found.

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

As authorities end their large-scale search, volunteers and village public safety officers vow to keep looking for two residents whose home floated away in the storm.

Hundreds evacuating from hardest hit Western Alaska villages following storm

Nearly all the homes in both towns were damaged and a tribal administrator said it was unsafe to stay.

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albrucks @albrucks.bsky.social · 20h

I survived the "Hallway to Hell"! All of the nurses and Docs were angels but stretchers in the hallway with no bathrooms or call bells, lights on all night, and doors banging open and shut all night in a "civilized country"? Do better. #yxe
@premierscottmoe.bsky.social
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 4h

They knew the time had come for them to take command...
No matter what you say we won't obey.
Gonna hold a revolution now, king,
And we're gonna run it all our way,
With no more kings...

youtu.be/WvOZs3g3qIo?...

SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings

YouTube video by tennesseejed93

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

Just 20 years ago, Natalie Grabow was learning to swim. Now she's hailed as an inspiration after winning her age group at the famously grueling triathlon competition in Hawaii. n.pr/3KL9G1D

80-year-old grandmother becomes oldest woman to finish the Ironman World Championship

Just 20 years ago, Natalie Grabow was learning to swim. Now she's hailed as an inspiration after winning her age group at the famously grueling triathlon competition in Hawaii.

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 16h

The thing to remember about Canadian conservatism from Harper onwards is: It's whatever the Americans just did.

Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 18h

The DEI debate comes to Canada. www.thestar.com/diversity-eq...

Diversity, equity and inclusion are coming under scrutiny — and Pierre Poilievre is ready to push the conversation

Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are in the crosshairs south of the border and now the mantle has been taken up by the federal Conservative party, which has released a

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 20h

And I use the metaphor of a parent and child very intentionally because paternalism is a core value for anyone who believes white supremacy is a morally superior system of social organization.

They truly think we should be thanking them for all their domination.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 20h

I think we need to talk more about entitlement in the “do fascists feel shame?” debate.

Fascists aren’t ashamed of oppressing people. But they do feel entitled to adoration for their oppression.

When we reject them, they act like an abusive parent, mortified that their kids don’t really love them.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Radio Canada International @rci.bsky.social · 20h

Ireland is implementing basic income for artists. Could Canada do something similar? ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

Ireland is implementing basic income for artists. Could Canada do something similar? | RCI

As Ireland makes pilot program permanent, Canadian artists hope to build momentum for universal basic income

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 20h

#tdih 1902 Chemist warned that burning coal could lead to heating planet (later called "greenhouse effect.")

Shows how long industry has known of dangers of fossil fuel extraction.

One of many entries in our Climate Crisis Timeline.

#TeachClimateJustice

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Oct. 15, 1902: Chemist Warns Burning Coal May Lead to Boiling Earth

Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius calculated that burning fossil fuels (coal) will, over time, lead to a hotter Earth. His findings led the way for the emergence of modern climate science and a better ...

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago's Little Italy branch is mentioned in the brief but Chicago's Independence branch also has housing above it. We have a lot of cool things going on here.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 22h

A First Nation in northern Manitoba has declared a state of emergency after a severe winter storm knocked out power for the community over the weekend, leaving many families without power for the last four days.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 11d

Hernandez's parents worked on farms.

She hoped her print would "unmask the truth behind the wholesome figures of agribusiness" and show the health dangers faced by agricultural workers.

Sun Mad, 1982
Ester Hernández, b. 1944
Chicana and American with Mexican and Yaqui heritage

#SixtiesSurreal

Screenprint that looks like a red box of Sunmaid raisins that is changed to show a skeleton dressed as the Sunmaid holding a basket of grapes in front of yellow sun.
The box says: SUN MAD RAISINS, UNNATURALL GROWN WITH INSECTICIDES, MITICIDES, HERBICIDES, FUNGICIDES
Museum text:
Much of Hernandez's work is informed by the challenges of rural life, which she learned of firsthand through her parents' experiences working on farms. In this screenprint, the artist replaced the Sun-Maid Raisins mascot with a smiling "mad" skeleton. Hernandez hoped her print would "unmask the truth behind the wholesome figures of agribusiness" by suggesting the health dangers faced by agricultural workers exposed to pesticides. Though created slightly later than many works in this gallery, Hernandez's Sun Mad is part of a history of recognizable figures used to communicate revolutionary ideals during the 1960s and '70s.

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Techni-Calli @illleavenow.bsky.social · 22h

Super fun watching the company that made billions claiming “our AI will solve cancer” has pivoted to “our AI will make a bunch of shit that already exists, but worse” and apparently people are still pretending it’s not all a giant grift.

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