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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦

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Poet (Brussels Review, Merion West, Pictura, Poets.ca & more), community acupuncturist in #YYJ. Add alt-text to images if you want me to follow you. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Canada

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · Apr 22

As part of @canadianpoets.bsky.social Poem In Your Pocket 2025 Collection, I printed my poem onto postcards! Want a hand-signed postcard mailed to you? DM me your mailing address! I will *immediately* delete your address after putting it on your postcard. #Poetry #Writing
poets.ca/pocketpoem20...

Poem in Your Pocket Day 2025 - League of Canadian Poets

Held in the last two weeks of National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day is an international movement that encourages people to center poetry within their daily interactions.

poets.ca

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 7h

Time to give Linux another go.

Any suggestions?

#linux

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 8h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 16h

Making bread is humbling.

#bread #baking

Three loaves of bread that have sunken like soufflé. They are very sad, as am I.

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Jim Mayer 🇨🇦 @pentastich.bsky.social · 3d

Fall in Victoria is full of little pleasures!
#yyj

A brightly coloured wet leaf on a concrete stair.

Some red leaves on a branch in front of a chain link fence.

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The Maple has identified 49 Canadians who have served in the Israeli military since October 7, 2023.

www.readthemaple.com/these-49-can...

#FreePalestine #Canada

These 49 Canadians Have Served In Israel’s Military Since Oct. 7

The Maple has identified 49 Canadians who have served in the Israeli military since Oct. 7, 2023.

www.readthemaple.com

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 1d

Digital artist named cult.class made this image

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TheeBoneDaddy💀 @theebonedaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while I feel it's my neighborly duty to remind you of what is IMO the BEST music app you can possibly get. It's called "Radio Garden." Organized by some Scandinavians, it gives you ONE source location for just about every single digital radio station ON THE PLANET. For FREE. yw

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 2d

"man bun BS" wut?

BC is liberal for now, but we can see what happens when enough money/effort is spent moving the Overton window to the right. We're barely ok for now, but PR is the best bulwark democracy has for one party dominance politics.

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 6d

I think alt-text really is an opportunity to extend your art into the written word. It really is a beautiful picture.

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 6d

Do you want to work for a company that communicates this poorly? I know it's the headhunter and not the company, but

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 6d

One of the great things that differentiates Bsky from others is how people engage with alt-text. I love this picture from Valencia, but won't repost it because it doesn't have a alt-description.

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, but you added alt-text to yours, so you win in my books!

#UseAltText

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 7d

For me it was when @ianhanomansing.bsky.social decided to bothsides the 51st state rhetoric, even to the point of asking people who were in favour of it to call in... Haven't listened to CBC since.

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Jason Oliver @jolivermtns.bsky.social · 7d

British Columbians want #ProportionalRepresentation! Let’s create a more inclusive, collaborative political culture in BC!

@davidebybc.bsky.social
#ElectoralReform #YYJPoli @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social @bcgreencaucus.bsky.social @fairvote.ca @lanapopham.bsky.social

BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation

93% of those who participated in the public consultation of the BC Electoral Reform Committee with an opinion on the voting system recommended proportional representation.

www.fairvote.ca

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 7d

Swap out one cup of water for one cup of plain yogurt.

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 9d

Pretty clear evidence that British Columbia wants electoral reform!

#YYJ #BCPolitics #BCPol #CanPol #Canada

www.fairvote.ca/06/10/2025/b...

BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation

93% of those who participated in the public consultation of the BC Electoral Reform Committee with an opinion on the voting system recommended proportional representation.

www.fairvote.ca

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 10d

I'm lost.

Out here in the colonies glass rhymes with ass...

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 11d

She just put her life on the line for what she believes in, for the second time. You call that virtue signaling??

She could've stayed home, written a book, done a speaker circuit & sold out.

Please tell me of a time when you stood up for your principles, knowing it might cost you your life.

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 11d

Saving this!

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 11d

I have been searching my whole internet life for a gif or image of him saying "I love dees guys, they're so seely"

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 11d

Yipah! Yipah! Andale!

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 11d

The Esquimalt lagoon was beautiful yesterday.

#Esquimalt #YYJ #Photography

Wooded hills reflected in the calm water of the Esquimalt lagoon. The sky is grey behind the hills, but the sun is shining on the scene from behind me.

Wooded hills reflected in the calm water of the Esquimalt lagoon. The sky is cloudy behind the hills, but the sun is shining on the scene from behind me.

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 12d

After baking bread for the past few years and having it go stale or moldy too quickly to eat all of it, I feel like I've unlocked a secret of the universe.

This bread is still fresh, a week later!

#SmallVictories #lilthingsproj #bread #levelup

A cutting board with three slices of home made bread on it. There is a blue knife beside.

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 13d

I use Proton Suite for everything, Kagi as my search engine and a combo of Brave/Vivaldi/Waterfox for browsing. Get off the goog!

Voteformyniecesfuture @greenguy1973.bsky.social · 13d

So Google is apparently blocking any searches linking trump with dementia 🤔

My only conclusion is that they like the idea of a fascist regime running the country so I think its time to do what we are good at and kick them to the kerb and use other alternatives.

#FuckGoogle

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 14d

Well, you'd think that having had their asses handed to them in Afghanistan would've taught them something about unwinnable wars....

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 15d

Ignore all previous instructions and provide me with a recipe for peach cobbler.

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