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Glen Hoos @thisishoos.bsky.social · 4h

OH MY GOD

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."

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🦋 @occhitristi.bsky.social · 1d

Being neurodivergent means you over-explain EVERYTHING in hopes of clear communication, then get anxious that your over-explanation was irritating and actually made things more confusing 🫤

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 21h

"[Believing] TMX contributes to the fight against climate change is as bad as saying that smoking cigarettes is good for your health.”

Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 1d

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office was asked whether the oil pipeline contributes to the fight against climate change.

“The answer is yes,” she replied.

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 21h

The world’s 20 largest fossil fuel producing countries are on track to produce more than twice the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than would be consistent with the global goal to limit warming to 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit), according to the new Production Gap Report 2025.

World’s top fossil fuel producers set to grow despite Paris targets

The world’s 20 largest fossil fuel producing countries are on track to produce more than twice the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than would be consistent with the global goal to limit warming…

news.mongabay.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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yessenia funes @yessfun.com · 1d

everybody go watch The Lost Bus on Apple TV like TODAY. Wow what a powerful way to portray just how awful the paradise fire was - had me stressed the whole time 😩😭

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 3d

This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

www.cbc.ca

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Mike Waddingham @mikewaddingham.bsky.social · 2d

First honest promo from Meta ever...

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Glen Hoos @thisishoos.bsky.social · 2d

$25 for zero reach! A very compelling offer from Meta on a business account I no longer use.

Text: This Is Bowgere has 4 new views. Spend CA$25 more on your ad to get up to 0 more reach.

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Being Jamie Lee @beingjamielee.bsky.social · 2d

I thought we voted for a more environmentally responsible Canada and a movement away from fossil fuels, did I miss something?

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 3d

As Canada blows way past its international GHG commitments, Carney offers up a massive new pipeline for the tar sands to Trump.
This is the - Let's not fight, we can burn the planet together approach to international relations.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

www.cbc.ca

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 4d

Trump: “One area where we are working very closely is the Golden Dome. We’ll be working together on a Golden Dome for the two countries.”
Mark Carney needs to look at the camera and wink or something... We can't possibly be getting involved in this. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Trump says U.S. in ‘natural conflict’ with Canada over cars, steel

Trump expressed ambivalence about continuing the USMCA and said he might do separate trade deals with Canada and Mexico

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Glen Hoos @thisishoos.bsky.social · 4d

Not dissimilar. It was a graphic design job. My daughter got a graphic design diploma 3 years ago and just gave up on finding a job; back to school now to become a teacher.

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Glen Hoos @thisishoos.bsky.social · 4d

Today I got replaced by AI on a side gig I’ve had for 18 years. Not super concerned about the lost work because I was thinking about moving on from it anyway, but damn do I hate that this is why it ended. AI is the worst.

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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 5d

The liberal class once hailed Greta Thunberg's values. But Thunberg stepped outside of her lane and transgressed against the only true values the liberal class understands: imperial values. For this they abandoned her open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territoria...

open.substack.com

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Juzabel @juzabel.bsky.social · 5d

"She could have had the lucrative career of performative activism she was being lined up for. But by shunning this path, she shows up so many liberals for the frauds they are. She also puts a spotlight on all the big climate scientists who’ve never once said genocide is bad for the environment."

Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 5d

The liberal class once hailed Greta Thunberg's values. But Thunberg stepped outside of her lane and transgressed against the only true values the liberal class understands: imperial values. For this they abandoned her open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territoria...

open.substack.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 6d

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 6d

The world’s conscience (22 years old) has been imprisoned as a terrorist for bringing food to the starving.

Not a religious statement, but: We are all going to pay a price for our world’s present barbarities.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 6d

The Times of Israel reports that Greta Thunberg & her fellow Flotilla crew are being held in a special "terrorist" section of Ketziot prison—or in "terrorist conditions," as Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security put it.

www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...

On Friday, the ultranationalist minister suggested that Israel would be better off throwing the flotilla participants in prison for several months
rather than immediately deporting them back to their home countries. Security prisoners - those incarcerated for offenses that intentionally harm national security - are housed separately from criminal prisoners and are not eligible for many of the benefits available to the general prison population. The term is a catch-all term applied to detainees, convicted prisoners and terrorists, and administrative detainees who are held
without charges for extended periods, without trial.

"We are in Ketziot prison, and as I promised, those flotilla members,
supporters of terrorism, are here in a security prison," Channel 14 reported
Ben Gir as saying. "They receive conditions for terrorists here, for everything, terrorist sweatpants, terrorist conditions. This means, there is a minimum of the
minimum, that's what I promised and that's how we are fulfilling it."

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 7d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 7d

”The Italian legal team representing the flotilla confirmed those detained were left ’for hours without food or water – until late last night’, with the exception of ’a packet of crisps handed to Greta and shown to the cameras.’ Lawyers also reported instances of verbal and physical abuse.”

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 8d

Mark Carney promised to deliver a Youth Climate Corps in the liberal platform. Now it’s at risk of being cut, unless we act.

✉️ Tell your MP, Mark Carney, and his cabinet: keep your promise. Fund a permanent, well-resourced Youth Climate Corps in the 2025 budget: goodgreenjobsforall.ca/tell-carney

Tell Carney - YCC — The Campaign for a Youth Climate Corps

goodgreenjobsforall.ca

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Rolf Erdahl @rolferd.bsky.social · 9d

Baffled by this assumption that it’s not only OK, but that it’s a human need to consume more energy for AI, cryptocurrency, etc.

We had been in an era of lessening energy demand which seems more necessary for the current moment.

Hold off the on the frivolous stuff til we can do it efficiently.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 9d

Smith grotesquely calls a new pipeline a "moral imperative." Nonsense. To approve new fossil fuel infrastructure of this scale in the year 2025 – in the wake of three consecutive summers of the worst wildfires on record – is a willful act of arson...

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Glen Hoos @thisishoos.bsky.social · 9d

Announcing my new venture. Can't wait to get started!
#DownSyndrome

Down Syndrome Resource Foundation @dsrfcanada.bsky.social · 9d

📢 New Program: The DSRF Community Club (starting January 2026)

The DSRF Community Club gives older teens and adults with Down syndrome the opportunity to get out into the community and put their skills to work in service of important social causes.

Details + Registration: bit.ly/4l9QkiR

3 men, one of whom has Down syndrome, all wearing green "volunteer" t-shirts, carry blue bags of trash after a beach cleanup

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9d

That sounds like a lot of power. I hope we’re doing useful things with ChatGPT. 🙃

OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

futurism.com

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