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Mary Shine

@maryshine.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 Dis/mis-info harm democracies, societies & individuals. Covid isn't flu. Masks work. Kindness is free but so is blocking. Act accordingly 🙂

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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · Nov 15

🇨🇦 CANADA 🇨🇦

Feeling like uv lost hope? Struggling 2 cope?

If ur dealing with thoughts of suicide or ur worried 4 someone else u don't have to weather this alone.

REACH OUT
9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline

👉 A safe space to talk- 24/7/365

LINK UP with those who care about & can HELP YOU 💕
👇
988.ca

a calendar with today is the day you reach out written on it

Alt: a calendar with today is the day you reach out written on it

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 18h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22h

So disturbing. When hate & rage are seen as a path forward...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat politi.co/4onLnFu via @politico.com

"...an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening."

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 20h

Important thread for Nova Scotians:

Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 20h

In 2018, I asked an Australian Atlantic Gold exec why they weren’t mining gold in Australia. He said his boss liked living in Vancouver. So I asked why they were mining gold in NS, not BC. His reply: “Because the rules in NS are even more lax in N.S. than they are in BC.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

N.S. government website streamlines info about mine permitting process | CBC News

A new Nova Scotia government website will make it easier for mining companies to track the progress of permit applications, but for now there are no plans to give the public access to that information...

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 16h

Another Canadian province looks like it fell for the con artistry of #Conservatives.

People are so easily played it’s beyond depressing.

#Nfldpoli #NLelection #Newfoundland #cdnpoli

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Julie InThe Hi-Desert @missjulie420.bsky.social · 16h

Distraction... #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · 16h

🇨🇦 CANADIAN
#Covid-19 Forecast:
Oct 11-24, 2025

Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 18h

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025
SEVERE: NL, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This image shows gauges with the Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:

Canada: HIGH - 8.9
Alberta: HIGH - 7.0
British Columbia: HIGH - 8.4
Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 14.9
New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 11.3
Newfoundland & Labrador: SEVERE - 17.0
North: VERY HIGH - 12.3
Nova Scotia: SEVERE - 16.3
Ontario: HIGH - 7.5
Prince Edward Island: VERY HIGH - 11.8
Quebec: HIGH - 10.0
Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 17.0

A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · 16h

It's suspended now.

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Schmingy 🇨🇦 @sirschming.bsky.social · 1d

This needs to be fixed here in Canada. RCMP needs to stop this criminal activity utilizing the Port of Vancouver.

This “beer” company in Canada needs investigating too because how are they packaging up liquid meth in their bottles?

Canadian ‘beer’ kills 21-year-old in New Zealand

On March 2, 2023, Aiden Sagala did what many people do after a long, hot day at work. He cracked open a cold one. Little did he know, that swig of beer would kill him. Aiden didn’t realize that the ca...

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 1d

Violent threats against government workers and businesses and a shocking physical attack on an elderly neighbour of the farm have highlighted how tensions around a CFIA-ordered cull of hundreds of ostriches have taken a very dark turn.

@jenstden.bsky.social reports. #canpoli

How the Ostrich Farm Cull Has Unleashed Threats of Violence | The Tyee

The CFIA union head says members and their families are being threatened.

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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · 1d

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 1d

<< Reflexive control seeks to manipulate an adversary by shaping their decision-making framework: implanting premises, seeding perceptions, and guiding behavior from within their own reasoning process. >>

From Fixation to Manipulation: The Biological Foundations of Disinform

In the age of algorithmic propaganda and weaponized narrative, the human mind has become contested territory. Disinformation no longer functions as a crude tool of ideological persuasion. It now

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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · 1d

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 1d

Let’s say you're trying to trick someone into walking into a trap.

You could wave a flag and shout, “Come this way!”—but that’s obvious.

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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · 1d

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when Pierre Poilievre said bitcoin was better than Bank of Canada monetary governance?

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

All I can think is how ludicrous it is that people have sunk this much real money into imaginary electronic money in the first place. Everything about it has screamed "scam" from jump, that hasn't ever changed, and wild shit like this predictably keeps happening. $500B, good lord, people, WHY.

Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 2d

$500 BILLION price wipeout in one day in crypto markets. So I’ll reminds everyone once again that crypto is a Ponzi scheme.

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Serious BlackRock ETF Warning Issued After ‘Extreme’ $500 Billion Bitcoin And Crypto Price ‘Flash Crash’

Traders are bracing for further declines as the bitcoin price crash suddenly accelerates amid uncertainty over U.S. president Donald Trump’s fresh China tariffs...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Important

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Jeffery Zavadil @jefzav.bsky.social · 1d

Fascism is what capitalism does when its normal ideological control mechanisms start to break down.

Then the rabid alienation fascism agitates escapes the control of the capitalists themselves, and violently disintegrates all interconnection.

“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.” - Upton Sinclair

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16d

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand.

The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

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Robert Lepage, PhD., P.Eng. @rtmlepage.bsky.social · 17d

Peel back the cover on virtually every Western right wing polemicist and you find Russian interference.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · 1d

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X2Y @x2y.tech · 2d

Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has joiner Microsoft and Anthropic as a part-time advisor.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people."
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Gaza and Protest

Why freedom of speech matters

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2d

Yup

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 2d

is this how CBS is gonna work now? using bari weiss's personal blog to launder poorly sourced and lightly edited stories (complete with a misspelling of mamdani's name in the headline) that would never pass muster if reported directly by a real news source?

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

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