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Curiosity. Backroads, photography, mysteries. I search for unique takes/personal exchanges/puns/plants/pictures. More inclined to FollowBack accts under 10K Followers. If your acct is huge & primarily American politics, unlikely to FollowBack.

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yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · Aug 27

My keeper for the day: "Fascists don't deliver tax cuts, only misery."
Remember that when some electoral candidate is offering to cut your taxes.
Taxes are a way for all of us to get 'volume discounts' on health care/transportation systems/education/infrastructure.
You want that cut?

DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wait until they’re disappeared.

Conservatives always find out too late that fascists don’t deliver tax cuts, only misery.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 14h

Sunday night!

Bruce “Spanky” McAllister shut down one students mic during the “Alberta Next” panel so that young man couldn’t get his message across…

Well…

Evan’s back.

AND he brought a bunch of friends for a panel discussion on Alberta Education!

#abpoli #cdnpoli #abed

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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @mitchellab.bsky.social · 14h

"I think it's wrong to have the highest rate of funding for private schools in a province where we have the lowest rate of funding for public schools," the Calgary teacher said in an interview on Tuesday.
I agree.
#ableg #abpoli

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

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News

If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 19h

I like so many of these emblem shirts but why aren't more available as golf shirts?
I really prefer a collared shirt, and as more ppl end up with melanoma/skin pre-cancers, one wld think a higher collar would help protect the neck and hairline?

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 19h

I've read that heart attacks present very differently in women. Much research is conducted on men.
SIL had a heart attack this week - enough they put in a stent after they realized she WAS having a heart attack.
But she didn't have these symptoms & medical community tends to tut-tut women's pain.

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 19h

HAR!

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 19h

I'd call it a 'movie' but it's 4 DVDs together making up 'A Year in Provence'. John Thaw (Morse) ALWAYS entertaining, Lindsay Duncan a perpetually calm cheery partner. Solid cast. We watch it annually some time over the Dec/Jan holiday season.

What movie do you watch repeatedly, B?

Actors John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan sit with dog in front of the set of 'A Year in Provence.' Old stone home with greenery typical of the Provence area of France.

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 19h

Irony of freeedommer govs whittlng away at citizens' rights&freedoms using governmental powers.

Where are the convoy clowns shouting 'freeeedommmm' now?! Why aren't they demanding prov gov lders step down?
Why don't they protest provs overriding municipalities?
Whose funding prov authoritarianism?

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 19h

👍
At least you didn't arrive there late in the evening expecting a suite with everything else booked up by that time.
Congrats!

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 20h

I'm confused.
"... booking a suite in Canmore...they cancelled our reservation....
Now we have 3 bed 2 bath condo downtown Canmore."
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You booked a suite.
They cancelled reservation.
Now you've 3 bed 2 bath condo downtown..
As in the condo is better than suite so lucky previous cancellation?

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 20h

Awwww. That was nice of TorontoCulture to post that.
Cities helping cities. 🇨🇦

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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 21h

GOLD FOR CANADA 🇨🇦

BRONZE FOR CANADA 🇨🇦

It’s a double dip for the Canadian speed skaters here at the World Tour in Montreal. Will Dandjinou flies to 500m gold. Steven Dubois secures bronze. What a race. What a start for the Canadians.

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 1d

Typos aside, there is simply no such thing.

ECGs are not an indicator of age.

They literally do not contain that information, either directly or indirectly.

This is just made up gobbledygook.

So, my question is: why?

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endtimesview.bsky.social @endtimesview.bsky.social · 1d

It took Ultra Right Wing IDU Fascist Milei just 2 Years
to DOUBLE Poverty to 53% & BANKRUPT Argentina

Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 1d

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 22h

From the DM’s…

Hey #yyc!

Students are organizing their own rallies and protests!

Let’s make sure that they know they aren’t alone!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

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Summer Jackel @summerjackel.bsky.social · 22h

Here's some joy! Dams gone, Natives kayaking the length of the Klamath and catching fish as fat as 'footballs,' water cold and testing safe (from 58% safe to 100%!), hope for a near-extinct population of spring Chinook. Nature is resilient when humans see ourselves as part of it and help it heal.

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 22h

PSA: People on bikes aren’t swerving to annoy drivers, they’re just trying not to die or destroy their mode of transportation.
This is generally what the bike portion looks like of our “shared” roads. Glorious.

broken up piece of road next to the sidewalk.

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 22h

Can you imagine the impact this would have had around dusk when people saw that fly by their windows!

“There’s something you don’t see every day.” – Peter Venkman

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 1d

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 22h

The ridiculousness of those who continue to support her.
🤦

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 22h

Good for you to be paying attention!
Sometimes our minds are so busy 'getting on with things' we forget to marvel at the small things around us.
Thanks for sharing your photos!

yknot05 @yknot05.bsky.social · 1d

Well, we ARE going to be on the road to Turkeylurkey land today. And there will be traffic lights involved . . .

From verbub.

Joke: The bumper sticker on my car "honk if you think I'm sexy".
Me not moving my car after the traffic light turns green. . .

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Dawn Whiteside Rubin @dd-rubin.bsky.social · 1d

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

You asked. My thoughts on the Qatar expansion of Mountain Home Air Base.

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Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 1d

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