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yknot05

@yknot05.bsky.social

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Curiosity. Backroads, photography, mysteries. I search for unique takes/personal exchanges/puns/plants/pictures. More inclined to FollowBack accts under 10K Followers. If your acct is huge & primarily American politics, unlikely to FollowBack.

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · Aug 27

My keeper for the day: "Fascists don't deliver tax cuts, only misery."
Remember that when some electoral candidate is offering to cut your taxes.
Taxes are a way for all of us to get 'volume discounts' on health care/transportation systems/education/infrastructure.
You want that cut?

DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wait until they’re disappeared.

Conservatives always find out too late that fascists don’t deliver tax cuts, only misery.

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 18m

👍You'll phone and wait for-ev-er only to be stuck with an automated voice that will misunderstand everything you're trying to tell it. At some point consumers will just hang up and save the company billions in phone time/actual employee
problem solving.

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 20m

Making earrings so others feel better about themselves.
Kids in 2025 are awesome!

Earring that can hook onto a portion of the outside segment of a hearing aid.

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 26m

Narcissists always see themselves as reasonable & benign, and everyone else as stupider than they are and not worth their time of day.
It's why she does little to nothing for ordinary ABns - we're not worth her time.
RICH ppl are worth her time
Also grps who will pay obeisance AND $ to her plans.

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 30m

I dallied with the idea of voting for one of the 'party' candidates.
When push comes to shove, NOPE, not voting for a party candidate.
Still floundering with my vote.

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Patrick M @f23b58.bsky.social · 1h

WTAF, I hate this god damned province:

www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Immigration checks conducted at Calgary event centre worksite

Calgary police officers, along with members of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), attended the city’s event centre construction site on Wednesday for what police described as a “planned regulat...

www.ctvnews.ca

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 41m

If I ever have to give up my vanity plate, I may have to remind myself that 'Strong and Free' IS in the national anthem. So maybe that's her gas lit🖕to Canada.

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 49m

She mumbled something somewhere today about showing ties to AB AND CANADA.
Where the hell is there anything obviously CDN on these plates? Where's there a maple leaf? Beaver? Northern Lights? WW Vets? Terry Fox? ANY symbol of Cda?

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1h

I forgot to mention, the Canadian beef will be replacing USA beef.
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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2h

The Liberal's trade deal with Mexico is paying off already.
20,000 tonnes of Alberta beef and Canadian made pet food now being sold in Mexico.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

Alberta beef entering Mexico’s Costco market where U.S. cuts once reigned | CBC News

Alberta beef is now stocked in the meat section of Costco Mexico's 41 locations, joining a host of other Canadian products on the shelves of the retail giant in the country. Agriculture Minister Heath...

www.cbc.ca

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 53m

I had the same thought.
But even ARTIFICIAL intelligence shld have done a better job.

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 54m

Every registered teacher IS working full time hours.
OVERTIME hours.
Just because they're 'not in the building' doesn't mean they aren't working.
Just like when UCP MLAs aren't in the ledge. Are THEY working when away from the Ledge?
Do MLAs get paid for vehicles/time on the road? Bet teachers don't

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 57m

Did they close their eyes with a series of AB photos and finger 6? From any distance, 4 of them look pretty much the same.
CRAP photos. Any decent photographer cld have done better and probably volunteered their shot as a freebie.

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 1h

Pull the public money back from private schools. There's a step towards the $2billion.
Then insist oil&gas clean up their own damned wells instead of taking the money from the public purse.
Quit spending millions on new reports/projects that weren't good enough the first time & hardly tweaked.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 3h

Researchers in France looked at more than 500,000 infants and found no connection between Covid vaccination in the first trimester and any of dozens of birth defects, adding to the body of evidence for the vaccines' safety during pregnancy.

Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 2h

An 8th-century Quran manuscript being restored in Egypt. Considered one of the oldest surviving Quran manuscripts, it has 1087 leaves weighting around 80kg, each made of one entire animal’s skin.

A guy looking through the Quran

Sorta looks like your grandma looking through a large Betty crocker recipe book

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Rocky Mountain Outlook @rockymtnoutlook.bsky.social · 1h

BEYOND LOCAL: Alberta Reeve targeted in ongoing harassment, RCMP Involved

Alberta Reeve targeted in ongoing harassment, RCMP Involved

As Reeve Crystal Kissel seeks to retain her seat on the Rocky View County council, she has reported multiple incidents of harassment and vandalism, prompting an RCMP investigation.

dlvr.it

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 1h

Two on the bottom left are boring.
I've seen enough of the arse end of a bunch of cattle to last me a lifetime so no thanks to that one.
I'd like larger 'scene' and less large numbers/slogans. You can barely SEE - the SCENE.
How much money did they pour into this pathetic selection of choices?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 1h

Catalogues of homes were a 'thing' when I was a kid. Often a choice of half a dozen. Whole package delivered to your lot with everything included.
Find your own builder/construction team.
KILN FIRED FIR!

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Kelly Miller @sqirlgirly.bsky.social · 2h

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 1h

She never met a half truth she wouldn't use.

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 4h

I've seen the interest rates on some of those loans.
I don't know why they aren't considered usurious and illegal.
Credit card interest set a bad precedent years ago and govs didn't act swiftly enough nor strongly enough.

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 4h

You described her adequately.
If you're familiar w how she governs AB, you'll note she has no problem breaking laws, reinventing them for her own uses, and even only sometimes, drafts legislation after the fact to cover her arse.
Some. Times.
Majority govs don't require consultation - just bullying.

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 4h

I sat at one of those meetings and watched Tombe sit there, even making something of a case for AB financial sovereignty by using the phrase "IF THE NUMBERS I'M BEING SHOWN ARE CORRECT. . . "
That's the problem - the numbers AREN'T correct.
Smith inventing.
Tombe went down heavily in my estimation.

dduf.bsky.social🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dduf.bsky.social · 6h

www.tiktok.com/@christij0/v...

#greenscreen Alberta Premier tells people that Ottawa is ripping off Alberta - even though we all pay the same taxes federally. I think this sounds American. #tellmeifyoudisagree #abpoli #canpoli #ca...

TikTok video by Christi 🇨🇦

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Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social · 4h

When does the Bible say life begins?
#maklelan2953
youtu.be/lxCwDah8efI

When does the Bible say life begins?

YouTube video by Dan McClellan

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 4h

If part of the intervenor argument is based on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, will Smith use NotWithstandingClause and run roughshod over Indigenous groups?

Section 35(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms recognizes the existing inherent and Treaty rights of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, including land rights.

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