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@nsgov.bsky.social @novascotiapower.bsky.social
I reported a dangerous downed live wire over 14 hours ago. The wires are sitting on soaked earth, tangled in a tree, and draped over a vehicle. I am afraid for my own safety, as well as the safety of my neighbours. NSP claims this is not a priority
I reported a dangerous downed live wire over 14 hours ago. The wires are sitting on soaked earth, tangled in a tree, and draped over a vehicle. I am afraid for my own safety, as well as the safety of my neighbours. NSP claims this is not a priority
December 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
@nsgov.bsky.social @novascotiapower.bsky.social
I reported a dangerous downed live wire over 14 hours ago. The wires are sitting on soaked earth, tangled in a tree, and draped over a vehicle. I am afraid for my own safety, as well as the safety of my neighbours. NSP claims this is not a priority
I reported a dangerous downed live wire over 14 hours ago. The wires are sitting on soaked earth, tangled in a tree, and draped over a vehicle. I am afraid for my own safety, as well as the safety of my neighbours. NSP claims this is not a priority
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Canadian friends: here's a petition to stop AB and SK from Notwithstanding their anti-trans-healthcare legislation (this will make sense to Canadians). Don't let them shield their bigotry from Charter scrutiny!
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Canadian friends: here's a petition to stop AB and SK from Notwithstanding their anti-trans-healthcare legislation (this will make sense to Canadians). Don't let them shield their bigotry from Charter scrutiny!
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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The vaccine will keep you from getting sickER once you’re infected. The respirator (N95 or better) prevents infection.
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The vaccine will keep you from getting sickER once you’re infected. The respirator (N95 or better) prevents infection.
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Reminder that the vaccine won’t keep you from getting sick, but wearing a respirator will
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reminder that the vaccine won’t keep you from getting sick, but wearing a respirator will
See also: www.reuters.com/investigatio...
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
See also: www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to minimize "revenue impact" caused by cracking down on the scams."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue
A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to mini...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to minimize "revenue impact" caused by cracking down on the scams."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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I’m a strong skeptic when it comes to data. I try to stay away from purchasing goods that connect to the internet.
Amazon is selling your Ring data to Flock which is deeply involved in surveillance of immigrants, women seeking abortions. Flock shares this data with 🚔
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...
Amazon is selling your Ring data to Flock which is deeply involved in surveillance of immigrants, women seeking abortions. Flock shares this data with 🚔
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
techcrunch.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I’m a strong skeptic when it comes to data. I try to stay away from purchasing goods that connect to the internet.
Amazon is selling your Ring data to Flock which is deeply involved in surveillance of immigrants, women seeking abortions. Flock shares this data with 🚔
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...
Amazon is selling your Ring data to Flock which is deeply involved in surveillance of immigrants, women seeking abortions. Flock shares this data with 🚔
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...
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I'm always shocked when I go to a hospital and no one is wearing a mask (except the employees). I get breast MRIs because I'm very high risk for cancer and no one ever wears a mask! Those places are filled with cancer patients!
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'm always shocked when I go to a hospital and no one is wearing a mask (except the employees). I get breast MRIs because I'm very high risk for cancer and no one ever wears a mask! Those places are filled with cancer patients!
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Masking when *you* are ill has a very good effect on decreasing transmission to others.
It’s basic consideration.
It’s basic consideration.
One thing we learned through COVID is how many selfish people live in this country. Countries in East Asia care more for their fellow citizens & mask up automatically.
People urged to wear masks when they are ill as UK faces ‘tidal wave’ of flu | Flu | The Guardian share.google/MuAJR3HhTo2a...
People urged to wear masks when they are ill as UK faces ‘tidal wave’ of flu | Flu | The Guardian share.google/MuAJR3HhTo2a...
People urged to wear masks when they are ill as UK faces ‘tidal wave’ of flu
NHS Providers boss says those who are ‘coughing and sneezing’ should wear face coverings on public transport
share.google
December 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Masking when *you* are ill has a very good effect on decreasing transmission to others.
It’s basic consideration.
It’s basic consideration.
Funny how “take your vitamins” is a common refrain during “cold and flu” season, but “wear a mask” is not.
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Funny how “take your vitamins” is a common refrain during “cold and flu” season, but “wear a mask” is not.
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each nvidia blackwell chip consumes about 1,200 watts per hour which is on par with an electric space heater. now imagine 100,000 space heaters running in a single building
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
each nvidia blackwell chip consumes about 1,200 watts per hour which is on par with an electric space heater. now imagine 100,000 space heaters running in a single building
Reading with my bestie
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Reading with my bestie
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Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:
🧵
* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
1/
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:
🧵
* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
1/
🧵
* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
1/
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Winnipeg to backtrack on rules protecting birds in new construction. Window strikes kill 40 million birds in Canada annually, a billion+ across North America. The price of preventing this? Basically rounding errors on construction costs. But hey. Affordability. 😡 #Birds 🪶
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Researcher 'shocked' Winnipeg considering scrapping bird-friendly window bylaw after less than a year | CBC News
Conservation groups are raising concerns as the City of Winnipeg considers changing a development bylaw designed to help save birds from fatal window strikes.
www.cbc.ca
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Winnipeg to backtrack on rules protecting birds in new construction. Window strikes kill 40 million birds in Canada annually, a billion+ across North America. The price of preventing this? Basically rounding errors on construction costs. But hey. Affordability. 😡 #Birds 🪶
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Really love how this guy posted this on TikTok thinking the woman who broke his Meta glasses would come off as the villain, as opposed to him, the guy recording her without her consent for social media content via a surveillance device made by one of the worst companies on earth
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Really love how this guy posted this on TikTok thinking the woman who broke his Meta glasses would come off as the villain, as opposed to him, the guy recording her without her consent for social media content via a surveillance device made by one of the worst companies on earth
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🙏🏾I worry too. I'm an engineer because of École Polytechnique and December 6. I was 16 years old on that day, the day a murderer walked into an engineering class saying he hated women & killed our brightest and best in cold blood.
His manifesto had items that sound like the hate I receive today. 1/
His manifesto had items that sound like the hate I receive today. 1/
While Nathalie Provost says much has changed since an antifeminist gunman entered her Polytechnique classroom and killed her classmates 36 years ago, she worries about worsening social tensions.
Polytechnique survivor ‘worried’ about social climate 36 years after antifeminist massacre
While Nathalie Provost says much has changed since an antifeminist gunman entered her Polytechnique classroom and killed her classmates 36 years ago, she worries about worsening social tensions.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🙏🏾I worry too. I'm an engineer because of École Polytechnique and December 6. I was 16 years old on that day, the day a murderer walked into an engineering class saying he hated women & killed our brightest and best in cold blood.
His manifesto had items that sound like the hate I receive today. 1/
His manifesto had items that sound like the hate I receive today. 1/
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I get comments like, "DEI - didn’t earn it" and lectures on "merit". The murderer thought he didn’t get into engineering school and couldn't get a job because of women.
So don't talk to me about how things are better. My life as a Black woman and a vocal, visible professional is at risk daily. 2/2
So don't talk to me about how things are better. My life as a Black woman and a vocal, visible professional is at risk daily. 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I get comments like, "DEI - didn’t earn it" and lectures on "merit". The murderer thought he didn’t get into engineering school and couldn't get a job because of women.
So don't talk to me about how things are better. My life as a Black woman and a vocal, visible professional is at risk daily. 2/2
So don't talk to me about how things are better. My life as a Black woman and a vocal, visible professional is at risk daily. 2/2
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Every cop show: damn, this serial killer is crafty, very smart and sneaky
Every true crime podcast: despite dozens of complaints from neighbors, it took over a year for police to investigate the source of the foul odor
Every true crime podcast: despite dozens of complaints from neighbors, it took over a year for police to investigate the source of the foul odor
September 8, 2023 at 1:36 PM
Every cop show: damn, this serial killer is crafty, very smart and sneaky
Every true crime podcast: despite dozens of complaints from neighbors, it took over a year for police to investigate the source of the foul odor
Every true crime podcast: despite dozens of complaints from neighbors, it took over a year for police to investigate the source of the foul odor
I literally saw women in my community’s Facebook group saying we should move this to another day because December is a month for “celebration” and people are too busy with “other things” 🤯
Today is Canada's National Day of Action & Remembrance on Violence against Women. It marks the day in 1989 when 14 women at Polytechnique in Montreal were murdered by an "incel" (Proving that shit has a new name but is an old problem.)
There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.
There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.
December 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I literally saw women in my community’s Facebook group saying we should move this to another day because December is a month for “celebration” and people are too busy with “other things” 🤯
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Today is Canada's National Day of Action & Remembrance on Violence against Women. It marks the day in 1989 when 14 women at Polytechnique in Montreal were murdered by an "incel" (Proving that shit has a new name but is an old problem.)
There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.
There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today is Canada's National Day of Action & Remembrance on Violence against Women. It marks the day in 1989 when 14 women at Polytechnique in Montreal were murdered by an "incel" (Proving that shit has a new name but is an old problem.)
There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.
There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.
Cyber security, MTB and birb videos, music. Me in a nutshell. Not sure why it’s classing MTB vids as hiking adventures—pretty positive I’ve never watched a video of anyone hiking!
December 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Cyber security, MTB and birb videos, music. Me in a nutshell. Not sure why it’s classing MTB vids as hiking adventures—pretty positive I’ve never watched a video of anyone hiking!
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Drivers, please don’t try and wave us through. It’s dangerous. Cyclists, what I find works is to calmly summon all the authority you can and point-and-sweep at them with an outstretched arm like a traffic cop. Large, confident motions. It’s a language they understand
Three drivers tried to wave us through this crossing while blocking me from view for drivers in the other lanes of travel. Even if it's safe, I often refuse to go—little eyes are watching & she needs to learn how to cross safely & not trust that cars will stop. #yycbike
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Drivers, please don’t try and wave us through. It’s dangerous. Cyclists, what I find works is to calmly summon all the authority you can and point-and-sweep at them with an outstretched arm like a traffic cop. Large, confident motions. It’s a language they understand