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Lina Bee

@linabee.bsky.social

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Lina Bee @linabee.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hello new followers!
I hope you’re doing decent. If not, that you’ll feel more yourself soon.

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👩‍🌾 flowers
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🎧 music

I will post flower photos in season as I am able. Here is a fave from my amateur work.

An ant crawls across the soft pink petals of a peony flower. It looks like it is trying very hard to make the flower beautiful with its small efforts.

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Lina Bee @linabee.bsky.social · 5h

I have many words
None fit to type
About Thi*l

Lucien Ey @pollhereford.bsky.social · 6h

Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad, red and nude online.

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Investigative Journalism Foundation @theijf.org · 13h

Tech giant Oracle, owned by billionaire Larry Ellison, is lobbying Canada about AI – just as the company bids to take over TikTok. Read the story.

zurl.co/F6Ac2

#cdnpoli #TikTok

Amid TikTok takeover deal, American billionaire-owned Oracle lobbying Canada about AI

The technology company owned by Larry Ellison, who briefly overtook Elon Musk as the world’s richest man last month, reported communicating with senior federal officials to discuss cloud-based services and AI.

zurl.co

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 6h

October 10, 2025. Last updated 9/21/2025 @KFF
#GlobalCOVID19Cases
{https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/global-covid-19-tracker/}

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10h

This is dedicated to those who believed DJT and legacy media coverage that Project 2025 was nothing to be concerned about.

Also, this isn’t legal.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20h

Automatic tax filing for low income, permanent school food program coming in budget: PM Mark Carney #Canada

PM Carney said the federal govt is renewing the “Canada Strong Pass” which lowers the cost for families to visit museums, historic sites, parks & travel.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Automatic tax filing, permanent school food program coming in budget: Carney

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

www.ctvnews.ca

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10h

I love this image.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 10h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Lina Bee @linabee.bsky.social · 5h

The fuck are the CAQuistes up to now?
We had this referendum twice already guys
ca.news.yahoo.com/caq-governme...

CAQ government unveils Quebec Constitution as opposition parties unite to vote against it

A Quebec constitution is being tabled that the government is calling the 'law of all laws.' It's a set of principals purporting to outline Quebec's common values and customs. But as Tim Sargeant repor...

ca.news.yahoo.com

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 19h

You know how local media is getting decimated as disinformation floods in?

Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.

Check it out:

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8h

I miss when we could just post the silly jokey jokes and it didn’t feel like we were doing load-bearing democracy.

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Katherine DeClerq @katherinedeclerq.bsky.social · 13h

Some immigrants nominated for permanent residency under Ontario’s provincial program say they regret accepting their invitations, noting that year-long delays have left them out of a job and considering leaving the country.
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli #onpoli

A year of waiting: Ontario immigrant nominees left jobless and in limbo

‘It’s like they took our $1,500 and told us to just like, kind of go to hell,' said one Ontario Immigrant Nomination Program applicant

www.thetrillium.ca

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Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 12h

“Hey Doug, any stag and does coming up? Any weddings I can help you out with?” #onpoli

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 13h

NEW from Toronto Today:

The company behind Toronto’s speed cameras has tapped five lobbyists to help get the Ford government’s ear ahead of promised provincial legislation to end the program. #OnPoli #Topoli
www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...

Toronto's speed camera vendor registers to lobby province ahead of Ford's ban

City staff said it’s too early to tell if Ford’s ban opens Toronto up to legal risk for breaking a contract

www.torontotoday.ca

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 21h

It’s Fone Ford Friday! Give our premier an earful about how to actually support our kids and our public schools! #onted #onpoli

TAKE ACTION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CALL MINISTER OF EDUCATION, PAUL CALANDRA
416-325-2600
CALL PREMIER FORD
416-325-1941
Suggested Script:
I'm calling today as a parent/caregiver of a child(ren) in Ontario Public Schools, to voice my support for the role of democratically elected trustees in our school system and my opposition to Bill 33.
I am unhappy with the Minister's threats to eliminate trustees who provide parents and caregivers with a voice in education.
I'm asking the minister to commit to funding for our public schools that keeps pace with inflation, and the costs of providing the excellent public education all children in this province deserve.
I'm calling to voice my opposition to Bill 33 because it weakens our school boards and mandates policing in schools. We do not need policing in schools; we need funding for more supports and smaller class sizes.
I'm asking the minister to fund our schools and withdraw Bill 33 and reinstate our democratically elected trustees.

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 21h

Education Minister blocks broadcast of Special Education and Parent Involvement committee meetings at #Ontario school boards under supervision further decreasing parent access to resources and information to support children’s needs.

#onpoli #education
globalnews.ca/news/1147239...

Disability advocate concerned TDSB meeting changes will shut parents out | Globalnews.ca

A prominent disability advocate says the Ford government's decision to stop live-streaming meetings at the school boards it has taken over is "troubling and undemocratic."

globalnews.ca

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MPWERED @kelvin1.bsky.social · 22h

Coldplayed.

My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

The Trillium is hammering this story.

"Months before he was put in charge of Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, cabinet minister David Piccini was at a Toronto Maple Leafs game in front-row seats with a director of a company his office would later give $7.5 million in taxpayer-funded grants to. #OnPoli

Labour minister was in Leafs glass seats with director of company he granted funding to

The ‘lower-scoring’ company got $7.5M of tax dollars through David Piccini’s office and is a client of the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding the minister recently attended

www.thetrillium.ca

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Lory 🇨🇦 @loryanne.bsky.social · 1d

This is literally making me sick to my stomach. Please Ontario. Please wake the fuck up! #onpoli #fordnationcorruption

Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 1d

And scene.

Ontario hospitals will be "rescued" by private capita, as intended.

Mob Hospital has brought in customer service consultants, and cabinet is invested in the healthcare precinct.

UHN has space for your health insurance info on the new ID bracelets.

The bust out reaches its conclusion.

Cbc News headline: Ontario hospitals say they have $1B in funding needs

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 21h

Ontario man who was a member of a now-defunct neo-Nazi group, Atomwaffen Division, pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, admitting to producing white-supremacist propaganda www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ontario man, member of now-defunct neo-Nazi group, pleads guilty to terrorism charges

Matthew Althorpe admitted to producing white-supremacist propaganda that prosecutors say may have inspired several attacks around the world

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jaze 🇨🇦 @jaze.bsky.social · 22h

What exactly do police officers do if they aren't enforcing the laws????

Driver caught speeding on Ontario highway was suspended since 1985 | Globalnews.ca

The Ontario Provincial Police say they pulled over a driver who was suspended from driving more than 40 years ago.

globalnews.ca

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R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 22h

#Marineland’s belugas are alive after euthanasia deadline passes, Ontario says. 🎥

#NiagaraFalls #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #Belugas #Whales #Cetaceans #Marinelife #Wildlife #Seals #SeaLions #Bears #Deer #AnimalCruelty #AnimalWelfare #ONpoli #AnimalRights #Cdnpoli

globalnews.ca/news/1147174...

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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who cares about the integrity of infrastructure procurement in Ontario owes a debt of thanks to the Globe & Mail’s Karen Howlett, Greg McArthur and Robyn Doolittle, who first broke the story a decade ago www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #onpoli

St. Michael’s Hospital fraud surfaced with four brown envelopes sent to Globe and Mail journalists

An anonymous tip urged reporters to look into a $300-million contract awarded to Bondfield and triggered a lengthy investigation by The Globe

www.theglobeandmail.com

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 1d

Pentagon warns Toronto ‘dangerously close’ to winning World Series

WASHINGTON D.C. - Following last night's elimination of the New York Yankees, the United States Department of War has advised the White House that the Toronto Blue Jays are "perilously close" to acqui...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 1d

Fact checking the CPC and Poilievre is a full time job.

The fact that none of our news organizations do this is ridiculous.

There should be a ticker on every session of the HoC live that fact checks claims made.

The truth isn’t partisan. It’s the truth. Start telling it.
#cdnpoli

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 23h

I shouldn’t get as annoyed as I do when politicians tell blatant lies, but this guy telling Newfoundlanders and Labradorians that the unprecedented wildfire season they’re going through is totes unrelated to the fossil fuel industry makes me want to scream.

Wakeham says no link between N.L. wildfires, oil industry in campaign where climate change largely absent | CBC News

The 2025 provincial election is happening in the direct aftermath of one of the worst climate-related disasters in Newfoundland and Labrador’s recent history.

www.cbc.ca

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

Busy kitchens in #Waterloo region prepare special Thanksgiving meals for those in need

Hundreds of pounds of turkey and mashed potatoes among food prepared

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

Busy kitchens in Waterloo region prepare special Thanksgiving meals for those in need | CBC News

With Thanksgiving around the corner, dozens of volunteers in Waterloo region have prepared turkey meals for those experiencing food insecurity in their communities.

www.cbc.ca

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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 2d

This right here 🔥🔥

Facts ✅

Fuck ICE
#SheShed

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