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42four @424.bsky.social · 28m

That seems, like, a lot?

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 16h

Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

Violations include digging without permits and dumping wastewater into storm drains.

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42four @424.bsky.social · 2h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0o...

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

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42four @424.bsky.social · 3h

Does it come in your size?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 6h

We can have democracy or we can have billionaires.
We cannot have both.

NYT: Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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42four @424.bsky.social · 3h

We can get it here in Vancouver!

42four @424.bsky.social · 3h

Hell yeah.

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Princess Nokia - GIRLS

Listen to GIRLS by Princess Nokia.

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42four @424.bsky.social · 6h

Fuck yes.

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42four @424.bsky.social · 6h

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42four @424.bsky.social · 6h

JFC

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 7h

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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Mark Allerton @mark-allerton.bsky.social · 11h

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado is such a beautifully calibrated act. It's a perfect fuck you to Trump in it's anti-authoritarianism, that he has to suck up because it's Venezuela, and at the same time has tankies showing their underwear repeating Maduro regime propaganda.

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👻👻👻boonoteat👻👻👻 @donoteat.bsky.social · 13h

this is a dark day for california's many historic downtown parking lots and strip malls

California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 14h

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

cayimby.org

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Good for them

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

variety.com

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42four @424.bsky.social · 1d

One of our country’s greatest exports.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ontario man, member of now-defunct neo-Nazi group, pleads guilty to terrorism charges

Matthew Althorpe admitted to producing white-supremacist propaganda that prosecutors say may have inspired several attacks around the world

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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42four @424.bsky.social · 1d

Good job, everyone.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 1d

#NEW: Ontario declares measles outbreak over after more than 2,300 infections

Ontario declares measles outbreak over after more than 2,300 infections

The spread started on Oct. 18 last year after exposure to someone who got measles in New Brunswick.

www.thestar.com

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42four @424.bsky.social · 2d

A social media platform where Americans aren’t allowed to post about anything until they fix their shit.

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Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 2d

Good.

Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 2d

“A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.”

‘This will not happen again’: Vancouver Park Board apologizes for hosting Harry Potter event

A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

same energy

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C 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 @crouhana.com · 2d

Let the elections campaign begin....

CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 2d

Vancouver council votes for 0 per cent property tax increase in 2026

Vancouver city council has voted to advise staff to prepare a draft budget for 2026 to identify around $120 million in savings in order to freeze property tax rates.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 2d

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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42four @424.bsky.social · 2d

The best.