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f0rcryin0utl0ud 🇨🇦 @f0rcryin0utl0ud.bsky.social · 13h

🤬 The cons here are trying to do exactly what has happened in the US. Everything is privatized with OUR TAX MONEY & we end up with absolute shit while the private sector gets richer off our backs.

Fuck this shit.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

No, just no!

#NovaScotia
N.S. child-care advocates warn against public funding for private daycare expansions

Education minister says there's a need for 'small percentage' of private operators

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

N.S. child-care advocates warn against public funding for private daycare expansions | CBC News

While recent child-care investments in Nova Scotia have been welcomed by many, some advocates warn the province risks undermining its progress by extending expansion funds to private daycares.

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 13h

OP: “Today I was thinking about small kindnesses, simple inexpensive things that brighten a day…”
First Replies: “Your editing skills suck. LOL.”

a man playing a keyboard with the words welcome to the internet above him

Alt: A man in sunglasses singing into a microphone on a stand, playing a keyboard, with the cosmos illuminated around him, and the words welcome to the internet.

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 17h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

“Final Edit” needed edits.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 18h

Coming Soon: A.I. killed the Internet star.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 19h

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that I have "Arkham" embedded in my name.

(not that there's anything wrong with that...)

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 2d

If you ever mention the IDU to a person who’s ranting about WEF you’ll see the closest thing to a stroke a person can have without actually having a stroke. It’s actually kind of frightening.

IDU chairman (former PM of Canada earning a life long, full, MP pension, plus a $240,000 a year taxpayer funded salary as an “advisor” to the Saskatchewan provincial government, plus another “advisor” salary to the Alberta provincial government) Stephen Harper as the evil emperor in Star Wars.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss nurtured the anti-vaxx rhetoric that directly contributed to 6 million children developing Long Covid. Her rise to head of CBS News is deeply disturbing. The Free Press promotes the most toxic neoliberal, climate denying, MAGA adjacent trash you can find.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief is a vocal critic of legacy media

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 2d

Unsolicited chick pic

A baby fluffy, yellow chicken in green grass.

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 3d

“A loan is nice, but a Grant is Devine.”

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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3d

This came up again this morning.
"the Sask Party has been telling the same lie since 2007 about the “closure of 52 rural Saskatchewan hospitals” in 1993."
medium.com/@sask6969/th...

The Sask Party won’t stop lying about NDP hospital closures in the 1990s

It’s early 1993. Saskatchewan is on the brink of bankruptcy.

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 3d

The Haunting (1963) is on TCM tonight. #Horror

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X HWGH @hwghpod.bsky.social · 3d

31 DAYS OF HORROR MOVIE EDITION DAY 10

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)

In this hillbillie horror comedy a pair of buddies looking for some R & R at their cabin in the woods are disturbed by a menacing presence.

director : Eli Craig

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 4d

I found a white nose hair before anything else 7 years ago. I guess that means I am aging terribly on the inside. 🤷‍♂️

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 5d

Why build houses when you have your base convinced housing is entirely a Federal responsibility?

a cartoon man with glasses is standing with his hands on his hips in front of a cave .

Alt: A cartoon man with glasses who looks like Scott Moe, but is really Hank Hill, is standing with his hands on his hips in a cavern, with flames reflecting in his glasses, laughing maniacally.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 5d

Instead of just building housing, Scott Moe is going to micromanage Moose Jaw's homeless shelter.
Hestia wept. Just ridiculous.

Premier Moe surprises Moose Jaw mayor, says province relocating homeless shelter

MOOSE JAW - Many were surprised Wednesday in Moose Jaw when Premier Scott Moe and some of his cabinet ministers arrived to inform locals the city’s downtown homeless shelter would

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 5d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 5d

Most of the USA can crops grow year round. The fact they’re more subsidized than Canada, but scream unfairness over things like not being permitted to pollute our dairy aisles with steroid jacked up milk is laughable.

a woman wearing overalls sits in a chair with her legs crossed

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Amber Mac @ambermac.bsky.social · 5d

"Meta is a cornerstone of the internet fraud economy": @ttp-updates.bsky.social adds to the list of exposés on Meta's deluge of scam ads on its platforms. @jeffmacarthur.bsky.social takes a look at how Meta has been coming up short when it comes to protecting its users. youtu.be/idkFdKYQ3J0?...

"Meta is a cornerstone of the internet fraud economy"

YouTube video by Amber Mac

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 6d

China and India are hard at work trying to save all life on this planet from extinction while America & Canada subsidize fossil fuels no one wants because their self-described leaders are afraid advocating for solar power makes them look wimpy

Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 6d

Global Renewables to Double by 2030 as U.S. Slumps, China and India Step Up www.theenergymix.com/global-renew...

Global Renewables to Double by 2030 as U.S. Slumps, China and India Step Up

While global renewable electricity installations will grow at a slightly slower pace than modellers previously expected between 2025 and 2030, total capacity is still on track to double by decade’s en...

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 6d

This RIGHT HERE!!!👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 6d

A painting of a bird beside the text "fix your shit"

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 6d

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 6d

How do you get credit for time served breaching your parole?! “You didn’t respect the rule of law in our society, and broke the conditions of your release, so let’s reward you.”

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 6d

I get flashbacks of “The Wizard” myself.

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