Steve Ricketts
stevericketts.bsky.social
Steve Ricketts
@stevericketts.bsky.social
refugee from Xitter. meteorologist. photographer. youth soccer coach. recovering poligeek. trying to be positive and to stay above the fray
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I've been trying to figure out why I'm seeing #ArtAdventCalendar when it's not December. Turns out it IS December! 🤣

Guess I'll just jump in a day late! Here's a polymer clay peacock (currently available), entirely handmade with rhinestone eyes. Not painted, just colorful clay!
December 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I support Mark's work. He has been helping people who are in desperate situations and have nowhere else to turn for many years. www.coalition4jhr.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Every time Donald Trump does something vile and despicable, feel free to post this love song from his number one fan boi Ezra Levant.
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Pete Hegseth later clarified that it was Admiral Mitch Bradley who ordered Franklin to fire a second missile to kill the helpless survivors
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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haha that's great, grandpa.
*continues wheeling him back into a home*
Trump: "Under Boot Edge Edge - another grossly incompetent. Get on his bicycle, ride to work. What they do is they take the fiber optics & they take fiber, try to hook it into copper. And fiber and copper don't mix. You can't do it...you saw that by the helicopter crash. You saw that into the plane"
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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"And the doctor took this little flashlight, a little flashlight with a magnifying glass on it, I guess, and he looked in my ear and he said, with tears in his eyes, he said he could see my big beautiful brain in there, working hard and churning out the smarts, the chimneys smoking and everything"
Trump: "I took my physical. I got all As. Everything. But they said to me, 'would you like to take a cognitive test?' I said, 'Is it hard?' They said, 'yes.' I said, 'Well, I'm a very smart person. Who was the last president to take one?' 'No president has ever agreed to take one' ... I aced it."
December 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"Parallel Universe" taken near Devon AB. i saw the solitary tree between two canola fields at different stages of maturity and sent my drone out. later, when i was editing the image, i noticed the lines in the fields and how closely they mirrored each other

farmers are artists

#ArtAdventCalendar
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Day 1 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Translucent Heart, 2025.

3D Lissajous Figures, constructed traditionally from their 2D projections which in turn have been constructed by dividing a circle. #MathArt #SciArt

Graphite pencil construction, colored with watercolor pencils, A4 watercolor paper.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Premier Smith: "we lose money on every barrel, but make up for it on volume"
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Pete Hegseth finally finishes a book and now he wants the whole world to know it
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
just putting it out there... i'm 100% okay with renaming Wayne Gretzky Drive
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
yes, my religious zealot MP Garnett Genuis believes that it’s okay for someone to promote hateful or antisemitic speech if they expressed “in good faith” an opinion “based on a belief in a religious text”
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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“Ms Smith hasn’t changed. As far as I can tell she’s an opportunistic bottom feeder. She saw opportunity up follow Trump regime to power and even thought she had power of a US governor: sweetie, you’re Canadian!”

Bonnie doesn’t hold back #Cndpoli #AB 🇨🇦 youtu.be/o2RW-_Jmtjk?si…
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Leavitt defending the 2nd strike that the Trump admin said yesterday wasn't ordered by Hegseth
Q: You said that second strike was in accordance with the law of armed conflict, but the Navy's own manual says that firing on survivors from a wrecked vessel is an example of a war crime

LEAVITT: I would reiterate that the strike was conducted in accordance with the law of armed conflict
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Are You Ready???

#ArtAdventCalendar
November 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
yes, Hegseth is a juvenile, dangerous POS
On no one’s Christmas wishlist
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
wow... Pierre actually has a sense of humour!
POILIEVRE: "I've been told since the election that I need to [be] more lovable and human. Naturally I've commissioned a poll on how to do that. Option A, I can get a dog. Or option B, find more meaningful ways to connect with people. So I immediately called the pollster and said, what kind of dog?"
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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My favourite "let's build export capacity" pet project is:

**Retrofit Roberts Bank to export Canadian crude rather the American coal!**

Overcomes capacity limits in YVR harbour, also less risk (no bridges!). Could even justify expansion of TMX (TMXX).

Thoughts?
February 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
what a horrible story

how can these medical charlatans exist in 2025?
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Stan Rogers became one of the most beloved Canadian musicians of the late-20th century.
His songs told the story of Canada, its culture, its people and its history.
Rogers was taken far too soon but his legacy endures.
This is his story.

📸 Stanrogers.net

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November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Madame Premier, we need industry at a level the world can afford.
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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It's budget time so at the end of our interview w/ Mayor Bachynski, we gave him a printed poster of the image below. It's the density vs services vs taxes venn diagram that @brenttoderian.bsky.social often shares around. It includes Regina-related explanatory notes. #yqrcc

youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw?...
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
it's obvious that the #oilers are not having a good season, but it's worse that you think, thanks to the Bettman loser point. first, here are the current standings. the Oilers are 25th
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM