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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 1h

Now you know.

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The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland

Charles Cunningham Boycott, who died on June 19, 1897, was an English land agent who became infamous in Ireland.

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 2h

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Luigi Mangione's lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione say a New York federal judge should dismiss criminal charges, including a death-eligible count, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination o...

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 2h

Looks like its time for Trumps buddies to buy more stocks again.

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Markets tumble after Trump threatens more tariffs on China | CBC News

Stocks fell sharply on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq suffering their biggest one-day percentage declines since April 10, while Treasury yields dropped and the U.S. dollar weakened as comments b...

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 2h

🤦‍♂️

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Dominion Voting Systems, at centre of false 2020 election claims, sold to former Republican election official | CBC News

Voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems (DVS), founded in Toronto and a target of conspiracy theories in the 2020 U.S. presidential election spread by Republican Donald Trump and his allies,...

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 2h

Bravo! Good for her!

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Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 2h

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Relocating Marineland whales an urgent matter as it's running out of food, Niagara Falls, Ont., mayor says | CBC News

Mayor Jim Diodati says Marineland representatives told him they’ve restructured and borrowed funds to continue to buy food for the remaining belugas, dolphins, sea lions, seals, deer and bears that re...

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 2h

PSA

13,000 Hyundai SUVs recalled for faulty terminal covers that could short circuit

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13,000 Hyundai SUVs recalled for faulty terminal covers that could short circuit

Thousands of Hyundai SUVs in Canada have been recalled by the carmaker due to a potentially faulty terminal cover on the starter motor of certain vehicles.

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 2h

‘Buy local’: Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service

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‘Buy local’: Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service

Neil Young says he plans to pull his music off Amazon’s streaming service as he urges fans to stop supporting the corporate giant.

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 2h

💯 he is.

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 3h

Photo of Portland doughnut ‘ICE fishing’ protest actually taken in Toronto

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Photo of Portland doughnut ‘ICE fishing’ protest actually taken in Toronto

A photo shared online in October supposedly showed protesters in Portland, Ore. ‘baiting’ United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with doughnuts suspended from fishing lines.

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 3h

Omg calm tf down. The antichrist? 😂

Greta Thunberg is servant of the ‘Antichrist,’ billionaire Peter Thiel says

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Greta Thunberg is servant of the ‘Antichrist,’ billionaire Peter Thiel says

Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel has branded Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and critics of artificial intelligence as “legionnaires of the Antichrist” during a series of private lectures.

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 3h

We all know they're lying about his health. What gets me is the publicly denouncing Covid is real...then he gets a booster.

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 3h

Ahem *cough, cough* . He did what?

Trump in ‘exceptional health,’ doctor says after visit to Walter Reed

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Trump in ‘exceptional health,’ doctor says after visit to Walter Reed

U.S. President Donald Trump is undergoing what he has described as a “semiannual physical” at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday.

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 3h

Automatic tax filing, affordability measures coming in budget, Carney previews

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Automatic tax filing, affordability measures coming in budget, Carney previews

Prime Minister Mark Carney is announcing a series of affordability measures Friday, making good on some spring campaign commitments ahead of the fall budget.

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 12h

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I treat Ai as I would a human. Respectfully.
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Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 1d

Thats my understanding too. I kept a bottle of Jack for4 years unopened. I'm still here, the Jack is not 😂

J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 1d

Quebec government tables draft constitution to protect values, boost autonomy

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Quebec government tables draft constitution to protect values, boost autonomy

The Quebec government has tabled a draft constitution that would enshrine the right to abortion and assisted dying while boosting the province’s autonomy within Canada.

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 1d

Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened species

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Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened species

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, acc...

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 1d

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Largest great white shark recorded in Atlantic resurfaces off Canadian coast

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Largest great white shark recorded in Atlantic resurfaces off Canadian coast

A nearly 14-foot adult great white shark, the largest male ever to be tagged in the Atlantic – Contender, has “pinged” from the northern areas of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off Newfoundland and Labrado...

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 1d

Guess who didn't win it. 😂

Venezuelan opposition activist wins Nobel Peace Prize after Trump-fuelled speculation

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Venezuelan opposition activist wins Nobel Peace Prize after Trump-fuelled speculation

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

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