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That little bit is 100% more than most people. Way to go.

and by making that choice, he has likely destroyed yet another company that he has invested vast sums of money into. Maybe special K isn't such a wonder drug after all.

🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 4h

It's pretty interesting that Musk, a man who' entire fortune lies in electric cars has decided to promote fossil fuel propaganda that directly hurts his "fortune". Unless of course he knows he's already destroyed yet another company.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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Drew Yewchuk @drewyewchuk.bsky.social · 6h

The need for metallurgical coal is coming to an end, and everyone knew that at the last hearing for Grassy Mountain.
I really hope they don't force me to go to another hearing about that mine...

CBC Bot posting select CBC RSS Feeds @scrubfire84.bsky.social · 13h

How Canadian steelmakers are 'greening' their steel amid tariffs, global challenges

Steelmaker Algoma says U.S. tariffs on steel are pushing it to more quickly transition to electric steelmaking. Here's why decarbonizing steel is such a big deal, ho...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 5h

“Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.”

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

They are actively doing this again right at this moment with climate change, only this time the impacts will be felt for centuries & measured in billions of deaths. No one seems to care about that either.

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stake in that debate. I'm going to have to leave that to people that are better at sorting through scum than I am. As far as I'm concerned both should be held accountable.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

I know lots of people like to get caught up in who's the bigger scumbag arguments, the anti-vaxers that deliberately lied & led to vast numbers of death & disablement or the mainstream that that deliberately lied & led to vast numbers of death & disablement. I don't really have a

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

And lets be really, really clear here. It wasn't just Biden. There was a whole host of "mainstream" medical & scientific authorities that went along with this deliberate & deadly disinformation. They should be held accountable.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

Politicians of all stripes DGAF about truth or even the lives of their constituents & that needs to stop.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

What people should really be asking is why did Biden announce the pandemic over during this exact time period.
www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-c...

Biden says COVID-19 pandemic is "over" in U.S.

In an interview on "60 Minutes," the president said, "We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lotta work on it. ... But the pandemic is over."

www.cbsnews.com

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

What the facts show is that this was due to COVID.

apnews.com/article/fact...

Vaccines didn’t cause increase in deaths and life insurance payouts

False. The claim wrongly attempts to tie COVID-19 vaccines to a surge in deaths in the U.S. in 2021.

apnews.com

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So these anti-vaxers are getting a lot of people with the claim that the vaccine caused this rise, the fact's however don't show that.

Image of anti-vax network claiming "During a live debate, Dr. Pierre Kory asked one simple question that stopped his opponents cold.

“If no one’s dying from the vaccine, why did life-insurance executives report a 40% spike in deaths among the healthiest Americans in late 2021?”

No answer. Just silence."

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

Just want to bring something over here from the bad place. These anti-vaxers, like they have from the beginning are lying using facts. It's easy to point out the lies, but we should also face the facts. Here's a thread I made there.

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Alberta Wilderness Association @albertawilderness.bsky.social · 1d

There’s no proven way to treat toxic oil sands wastewater adequately, so why is a provincial committee OK with dumping it into a major river?

We, alongside Indigenous leaders and other enviro + health groups reject this committee's plan and demand better.

albertawilderness.ca/joint-news-r...
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Joint News Release: Indigenous, environment and health groups reject inadequate industry-led recommendations for treat-and-release of tailings - Alberta Wilderness Association

On the two-year anniversary of Imperial Oil’s hidden toxic tailings leaks coming to light, communities and advocates downstream from the oil sands are pushing back against weak tailings treatment reco...

albertawilderness.ca

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

Hold political operatives accountable to bargaining away your children's future for their short term weak willed gains. There won't be another chance.

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The moment we steadfastly refuse to accept it, their power begins to crumble. TBH, I don't have a lot of hope for our capacities, but that doesn't change anything.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

They are open & willing to throw away your children's future. There is no reasoning with them. This has been tried & tried by every reputable body on earth. The only resistance remaining is your compliance with the deliberate & systematic destruction of your children's future.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

What we’re witnessing is not ignorance, it’s a calculated defense of power by those who would rather destroy the future than surrender their dominance. This includes MANY political groups including ones that label themselves as "progressive".

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

They understand that this decade will decide the fate of their industry, and they are responding not with responsibility, but with desperation. Open corruption, disinformation, and a turn toward authoritarian and fascist control.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

this. This has been well & extensively communicated to them by just about every reputable science body on earth. Much of the science behind this CAME from the fossil fuel industry. This industry KNOWS their time has come. They've known that for over a decade.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

We are currently in what many climate scientists call the critical decade. This is a decade (2020–2030) where the choices we make will lock in either a apocalyptic future for our children or a disrupted, but more optimistic future. Fossil fuel producers & their fascist/political operatives know

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

You should document any official coms & what you posted.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just had a post of mine removed by the NHS for saying ‘COVID is a predominantly airborne virus’.

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