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Paul DeCampo

@pauldecampo.bsky.social

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ecological gardening, regenerative agriculture, community health, food sovereignty, & good times (he/him) Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada Avatar alt text: The body of Woodie Guthrie's acoustic guitar, on which is written "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

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Paul DeCampo @pauldecampo.bsky.social · Nov 7

Collective action to strengthen resilient communities is more important than ever.

In Toronto, we can take action to sustain a healthy, inclusive and ecological food system via:

karmacoop.org

Karma Co-op

A healthier food system is just around the corner ;)

karmacoop.org

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Annick Ecuyer @annickecuyer.bsky.social · 3h

With the israeli *colonial* settlements, there is no security for palestinians.

Israeli settlers are using violence and terror against them.

And settlements come with their own security and exclusion zones. Their main purpose is to take land away from the local population.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3h

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “There will be Jewish settlement in Gaza, because without settlement, there is no security.”

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efranti.bsky.social @efranti.bsky.social · 6d

youtu.be/ouuPSxE1hK4?...
Bad Bunny at the Tiny Desk. It will make your day.
#resist #learnspanish

Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Aug 3

"Bad Bunny: A Latin Artist Who Sings in the Subjunctive"

by Prof. of Spanish, Arts and Humanities Beatriz García Glick (Penn State), uses the song "Me visto así" to teach some
of the uses of the subjunctive.

#LearningSpanish #LangSky

www.jstor.org/stable/27095...

Bad Bunny - YO VISTO ASÍ Lyrics English Translation - Spanish and English Dual Lyrics - Subtitles

YouTube video by Learn Spanish with Music & Reggaeton

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, my colleagues at Pew track how party id relates to religion, including worship attendance. See, for example www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
cc @gregsmithpolls.bsky.social @chiprotolo.bsky.social
Also www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Religion, partisanship and ideology

Highly religious Americans tend to be Republican, while less religious adults lean Democratic. But this varies somewhat by race and ethnicity. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center.

www.pewresearch.org

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 4h

Tipping points are real but get garbled in reporting. This piece explained the nuance well.

"Every fraction of a degree in warming that humans prevent reduces the risk of runaway #climate conditions... #Tippingpoints highlight the stakes, but also underscore the [value of the choices we can make]."

Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 1d

Climate tipping points sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans – here’s why there’s still room for optimism

theconversation.com/climate-tipp...

Climate tipping points sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans – here’s why there’s still room for optimism

A report warns that coral reefs may have reached their tipping point, and ice sheets, ocean currents and the Amazon are at growing risk. But, what does that actually mean?

theconversation.com

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Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 7h

NEW! For TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social I look at the #BlueJays first playoff run, the "Drive of '85."

www.tvo.org/article/a-mo...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 7h

Hey Black Gen X

GO GET EVERYTHING CHECKED

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 5h

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 5h

Poor Tommy Robinson. What possible reason could the border police have had for stopping a known criminal who is being investigated by HMRC from taking £13,000 in cash abroad while driving a Bentley that wasn’t his and refusing to answer their questions? It’s an outrage!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6h

brother d covering perhaps my favorite song of all time with roy hargrove - another artist we lost way too soon.

the rh factor feat. d'angelo
I'LL STAY

youtu.be/7GOB0McTIHE?...

I'll Stay feat. D'Angelo - The RH Factor

YouTube video by rippersk8er

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Chandra Pasma @chandrapasma.bsky.social · 6h

Send George Darouze back to Queen’s Park with a message for Doug Ford: keep your hands off our schools!

Our public education system has been shortchanged by $6 billion since 2018. It’s time to invest in our kids.

#onted #onpoli

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h

What is it we're supposed to do again, when they tell us who they are?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 6h

there are currently about 12,000 registered supplement manufacturers. last year the FDA inspected only 600 of them!

when the agency does do inspections, it overwhelmingly focuses on domestic manufacturers. that's a problem because a LOT of these materials are sourced from foreign factories

$Manufacturers generally don’t even have to notify the FDA when introducing a new product. A 2023 Government Accountability Office report found the FDA’s oversight of the supplement industry so lacking that it urged Congress to expand its authority. The report noted that the FDA relies largely on voluntarily submitted complaints and inspections to identify safety issues and ensure companies are complying with manufacturing guidelines. Those inspections cover only a fraction of the industry. There are currently about 12,000 registered supplement manufacturers, according to an agency spokesperson. Last year the FDA inspected only 600 of them: 510 domestic and 90 foreign. With so little oversight, people who turn to supplements out of concern for their health are left to navigate the risks on their own. “When these products that should be straightforward contain more heavy metals than expected, that exposes the challenge for consumers these days,” says Cohen.$

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 7h

two of the products we tested — Huel's Black Edition meal replacement powder and Naked Nutrition's vegan mass gainer — had enough lead that our experts caution against using them at all

a single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600% of CR’s level of concern for lead

Two plant-based protein powders contained enough lead that our experts advise against consuming them. Naked Nutrition’s Mass Gainer powder contained 7.7 micrograms of lead per serving, which is roughly 1,570 percent of CR’s level of concern for the heavy metal. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition powder contained 6.3 micrograms of lead, or about 1,290 percent of CR’s daily lead limit.

Two other powders contained lead between 400 and 600 percent of CR’s level of concern: Garden of Life’s Sport Organic Plant-Based Protein and Momentous’ 100% Plant Protein. Consumers should limit these to once a week, Akinleye says. (See company responses below.)

The only non-plant-based protein powder with lead detected at over 200 percent of CR’s level of concern was MuscleMeds’ Carnivor Mass powder. Six additional plant-based powders, five dairy-based powders and shakes, and one beef powder contained lead above CR’s level of concern.

We also found measurable levels of cadmium and inorganic arsenic in some products. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition plant-based protein powder contained 9.2 micrograms of cadmium, more than double the level that public health authorities and CR’s experts say may be harmful to have daily, which is 4.1 micrograms.

Another plant-based option, Vega’s Premium Sport powder, had enough cadmium that one serving would also put you just over that level. In one dairy-based product, Optimum Nutrition’s Serious Mass whey protein powder, we also detected 8.5 micrograms per serving of inorganic arsenic, which is twice the limit of what our scientists say is safe to consume daily.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 7h

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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Chryon priestess to Janus d^=.=^b 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🏴‍☠️🍉🪽🪶🚲✋🪬🤚🧿🦊🍄🧚‍♀️🐌🦋🪾🍀🌲☠️ @witchesink.bsky.social · 6h

AI is always right

X.com

Mostafa

@mokatia

Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.

ChatGPT 5

↑Share

Did you make up these numbers?

Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 8h

'You say Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza?'

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 8h

During an EU Commission press briefing, a journalist questioned the double standards of European policy, asking whether Israel should also be held accountable for rebuilding Gaza — just as the EU demands Russia
The question was met with silence, as the EU spokesperson declined to comment.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Paul DeCampo @pauldecampo.bsky.social · 6h

Such a bad faith justification. How many Palestinian hostages remain in Israeli jails?

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 7h

Who is behind inciting this violent behaviour towards Canadian civil service? These kinds of gangster style violence backed intimidation tactics do not belong in Canada. It’s a kind of extortion. What is the govt doing to ensure it stops? @mark-carney.bsky.social @avilewis.ca @ndp.ca #cdnpoli

Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 7h

How the Ostrich Farm Cull Has Unleashed Threats of Violence via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

How the Ostrich Farm Cull Has Unleashed Threats of Violence | The Tyee

The CFIA union head says members and their families are being threatened.

thetyee.ca

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 6h

Running down people with my car in a test of traffic safety laws.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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