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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 2h

Meanwhile, Sobeys and Aquaterra are pulling hundreds of millions of litres of water from wells in Colchester County which they sell as bottled water. For that water, the companies pay the province a total of $769 annually. That's not a typo. It's $769. (Exactly, $768.85.)

Nova Scotia is practically giving away 'some of the purest water in Canada' - Halifax Examiner

Every year, two corporations withdraw hundreds of millions of litres of groundwater from wells in Colchester County. They bottle the water — which the companies market as “pristine” and “some of the p...

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 2h

The Nova Scotia government is handing out $700,000 in vouchers for people with failed wells caused by the drought, so they can buy bottled water.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1h

Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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Pen Monster @thewilliamgeorge.bsky.social · 2h

Mint is easy to install and similar enough to Windows you won't have any notable learning curve.

If it's gaming that keeps you tethered: Steam has a Linux option.

It it's Adobe?

You can't be helped. Sorry. You should have ditched it years ago.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 12d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 2h

Husband: Why do you keep buying plants when you just end up killing them?
Wife: Just to remind you what I'm capable of.
#joke

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 3h

Glenn Beck has been targeting these same groups for so long that a viewer of his attempted to murder people at the Tides Foundation in SF *a decade and a half ago* (and settled for a shoutout with cops on 580) www.democracynow.org/2010/10/12/p...

"Progressive Hunter": Gunman Cites Listening to Glenn Beck and Others as Inspiration for Armed Plot Against ACLU & Tides

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

oh thank god we’ve got a stuck boat

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting events on the Norwegian/Swedish border, where the Hagland Captain is still stuck next to the Svinesund Bridge having failed to successfully identify the wet bit that runs underneath it.

Photo of the unfortunate vessel, suspiciously close to the shore and even more suspiciously not moving...

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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 3h

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Cardiff set to impose SUV parking premium after council approval

Owners of large cars such as SUVs would be charged more to encourage switching to smaller vehicles.

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 9h

Two people check tide times with ChatGPT, almost die.

uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-b...

Restaurant boss saw two people about to do something deadly so he grabbed his megaphone

He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 3h

At the Ripley's Aquarium they have a walk-on scale where the kids can weigh themselves and find out that they're worth $500 in lobster market prices.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 3h

"I say ignorant things as satire" is the kind of poster I never understand.

"Oooh I made people mad with my ignorance but I'm only ~~pretending~~ so I got you!"

congrats. you successfully emulated the least creative people in the universe. clap clap.

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 4d

*this* is how to legally and humanly deal with suspected drug smuggling vessels

UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 4d

Royal Marine snipers aboard a Wildcat fired a precision shot to stop a high-speed drugs boat in the Gulf of Oman, as HMS Lancaster seized £35 million worth of illegal narcotics.
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Royal Marines sniper halts £35m drug boat in Gulf of Oman

Royal Marine snipers aboard a Wildcat fired a precision shot to stop a high-speed drugs boat in the Gulf of Oman, as HMS Lancaster seized £35 million worth of illegal narcotics.

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Wyl @wyl.bsky.social · 5h

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 11h

Putin decriminalized domestic violence in Russia yrs ago. It's a required step in the fascist playbook; @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social documented this over a century of fascism.

This regime of state-sanctioned gender terrorism serves the same purpose in oppressing women as Jim Crow did toward PoC.

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Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 1d

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 8h

Canadian refugee applicant in ICE custody says he crossed border accidentally nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/16/c...

Canadian refugee applicant in ICE custody says he crossed border…

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 9h

🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 German Chancellor Merz said he would call for the EU to use Russian assets frozen in the West to provide a 140 billion euro ($163 billion) loan to Ukraine to finance its war effort at the upcoming EU summit, - Reuters

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy and powerful men, and how everyone knew what was going on

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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 16h

Hiding behind Religion is a White Nationalist trait.

Gnomon Chronicles @gnomonchronicles.bsky.social · 16h

#Kompromat
From 2019-2023 Mike Johnson told 3 different stories about his “adopted son” Michael James, all lies. All contort truth to deny he “took in” an unrelated boy as a single man — they all insert wife Kelly in impossible ways. It looks very bad.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 9h

"We're Russians, we gonna kill you and every one of you": a Russian man is filmed on a train in Switzerland threatening a Ukrainian family with a toddler, and then beating the mother for filming him.
Interestingly, he's an EU resident (perhaps even citizen) and his official surname isn't Russian.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 10h

A Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 launching an AGM-88 HARM missile. These US-supplied anti-radiation missiles are used to target and destroy radar systems.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 8h

He says, with the authority but not the credentials of an expert.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 18h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 10h

🇨🇳⚠️ A senior NATO official said about 80% of the critical parts in Russia’s drones and modern weapons are made in China, - United24

❗️Since 2023, Beijing has supplied over $20 billion in components, tools, and materials.

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