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Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 9h

Understatement of the year.

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 13h

Titan imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials

The submersible disappeared on its journey to the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board.

www.bbc.com

Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 19h

Brilliant! Congrats to whomever came up with this.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 19h

Nice! 5-2 #BlueJays

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Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 1d

#whendle no995
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Newfound News @newfoundnewsca.bsky.social · 1d

POLL: Are you pleased with the election results?

dlvr.it

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Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 1d

Well at least the Leafs won.

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Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 1d

More PP than red Tory unfortunately, and I'm stuck with it.

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Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 2d

Nice day for a walk to the polling station.

Dirt walking trail with evergreen trees and deciduous trees in gold to the right and red to the left under an overcast sky.

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Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 2d

It's election day in Newfoundland and Labrador. If you want your poll division number, check to see if you are registered and then download your Voter Registration Information Card.

Voters List - VoterServices

Voters List StartPage

ovs.voterview.ca

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Dominique Roger part owner of Canada @ddum316.bsky.social · 2d

We are rapidly approaching multiple Earth system tipping points that could transform our world, with devastating consequences for people and nature,” said Tim Lenton, a professor at the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter and an author of the report published Sunday.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world. https://cnn.it/42EJdJ4

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Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 2d

#whendle no994
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What a fluke!

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Spencer C 🍁 @spencercrewe.bsky.social · 4d

Spiderman cake?

Spiderman cake. 😎

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Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 4d

Here's to one of the great performances and scenes of our time. RIP Ms. Keaton.

"Our Marriage is an Abortion" - Diane Keaton in The Godfather Part II

YouTube video by Veronique Laurent

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 4d

In the original Broadway cast of Hair, 1968 (photo by Richard Avedon)

B & W photo of Diane Keaton with the original cast of Hair. She has her hands to her face and a startled, somewhat bleary expression, as if she's emerging from a daze.

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🇨🇦 @beauwest.bsky.social · 5d

I for one embrace the notion that the US has no place in my Canada.

torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2827...

Toronto Star ePaper

torontostarreplica.pressreader.com

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 6d

Today's top stories:

🔹 LeBlanc remains in D.C. for trade talks

🔹 Alberta pipeline proposal will need B.C. government support: Energy Minister

🔹 Displaced Palestinians return to northern Gaza

📰 Catch up quickly on the top headlines from Canadian politics ⤵️
open.substack.com/pub/canadano...

Morning brief: LeBlanc remains in D.C. for trade talks

Plus: Postal workers shift to rotating strikes Saturday

open.substack.com

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 6d

Caledon Hills
Valerie Palmer
1981

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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 6d

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Thiel said: "“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money...An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.”"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Karl Wells @karlwells.bsky.social · 6d

Many of us are struggling. Be aware. Be supportive. Be kind.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Travis Parsons @travisparsons.bsky.social · 6d

The Caribou

A caribou stag stands in the scarlet red barrens of the Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 6d

Tree at Vermillion Lakes
Margaret Shelton
1950

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suzanneelaine @suzanneelaine.bsky.social · 7d

Via Euronews: 'Not up for discussion': Brussels rejects Washington's pressure on climate rules
www.euronews.com/business/202...

'Not up for discussion': Brussels rejects US pressure on climate rules

In response to US demands to roll back the EU's environmental legislation, the European Commission defended its autonomous power to adopt laws.

www.euronews.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Rodney Barney @rcbstormpost.bsky.social · 7d

Gander #YQX only reached 20+°C on one day during this warm stretch, but was enough to achieve a new extreme record maximum for October (25.0°C on Tuesday).

Makes for 84 days ≥20°C in 2025. Same total as #YYT, but falls short of Gander's 1937 record of 91 days. Not going to make it now! #nlwx

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