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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦

@tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social

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He/him ~ Canadian ~ Cat guy ~ Ontario 🇨🇦 I like Science, photography, birding, weird stuff, and cooking. #Birds🪶 All the photos I share are taken by me and I retain all copyright. LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/MJCPhotography

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 9h

This seems bad

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 9h

President Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other

President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen. The White House's budget office headed by Russ Vought is deciding who gets paid or fired in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 19h

The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

Magic mushrooms are even weirder than we thought, the hunt for the world's oldest story, calls for the UK government to pardon women executed for witchcraft, and much more:

www.dailygrail.com/2025/10/news...

News Briefs 14-10-2025

Feel free to take issue with any of today’s news briefs, but please don’t take it all too seriously… Thanks Kat. Quote of the Day There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would mee...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 9

Because I still find people who don't know how the story ends:

Christopher Columbus was returned to Spain in chains in 1500 AD, convicted of barbaric torture of colonists, but released 6 weeks later by order of King Ferdinand II.

Neither he nor his brothers ever governed a Spanish holding again.

Christopher Columbus awaits sentencing in jail.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under absolutely no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend drinking tea, reading books, and eating a scandalous amount of cinnamon rolls.

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds like maybe it should die, then.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 6d

@mindcryme.bsky.social I hear it's your birthday, and I hope it's a great one. 🎂🎉

That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 6d

Peace and tranquility to you.

A Great Blue Heron wading through shallow water, looking for lunch.

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 7d

Great Blue Heron wading through shallow water.

#Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Ontario🇨🇦

A great Blue Heron wading through shallow water.

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 7d

Did you look up last night?

#SuperMoon #HarvestMoon #AstroPhotography

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 11d

Take the initiative, don't wait for permission.

(via www.facebook.com/lesley.gunter)

Illustration of a person flying off a catapult, up into the air. A trajectory is indicated with a dashed line, ending in Jesus hovering in the sky. The caption for the image is, in large print, "Do It Yourself Rapture Machine". In smaller print at the bottom are the words "Results may vary"

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 11d

The lion concerns himself with a lot actually. It’s a problem. The lion won’t stop checking his phone. Oh god the lion is scrolling through the news now. Now the lion is shaking his head and muttering to himself. Now he’s writing a scathing comment about no wait now he’s deleting it.

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

They have no manners at all

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

Throwback to my 2012 trip to the west coast. This was in Banff, Alberta.

#Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

I still think this all started when he made fun of Trump at the Correspondents Dinner. If Obama had left that out of his speech, Trump may never have run the first time.

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

Say 'hello' to Mr. Tufted Titmouse, posing like a perfect gentleman.

#Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Ontario🇨🇦

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

Some Cardinals to break up the certain doom all over your feed.

#Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Ontario🇨🇦

A female Cardinal thinking about taking flight with her feathers slightly puffed out.

A bright red male cardinal sampling from a pile of seeds.

That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

Everything is terrible. Here's more birbs.

Dark-eyed Junco braving the January cold.

#Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Ontario🇨🇦

A Dark-eyed Junco braving the January cold, perched on an iron bar and showing deep brown and grey plumage.

That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

Welcome to the 2nd American Civil War.

That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

So, where is our confidence level now wrt the military refusing illegal orders?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

A Great Egret looking for lunch in shallow water.

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Ontario🇨🇦

A Great Egret wading through the shallows looking for lunch.

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

Mute Swan #BirdOfTheDay

#Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Ontario🇨🇦

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That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

A piebald Mallard and his girlfriend just lazing about on the water's surface.

#Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Ontario🇨🇦

A breeding pair of Mallard ducks, the male having piebald markings on its chest.

That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

Ok, just one more Great Blue Heron from Saturday. A living dinosaur right before your eyes.

#Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Ontario🇨🇦

A Great Blue Heron wading through shallow water on the hunt for fish.

That Guy, Martin 🇨🇦 @tenebrisvacuum.bsky.social · 14d

Black-capped Chickadee

#Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Ontario🇨🇦

A small Black-capped Chickadee perched on a tree branch waiting expectantly for a handout.