Bumblebike
@bumblebike.bsky.social
No longer a fed doing emergency mgmt or service design & accessibility, but still care greatly about both. Former Coastie. Fungi fan
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Former AHS director alleges he was under surveillance, harassed, because he is a potential witness in the lawsuit tied to Alberta's health care procurement controversy, according to court docs
Plus lots more -->
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social
Plus lots more -->
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social
Former AHS board member obtains rare court order, alleging intimidation by podcasters
The order allows Sandy Edmonstone to search and seize records and electronic devices from David Wallace and James Di Fiore
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Former AHS director alleges he was under surveillance, harassed, because he is a potential witness in the lawsuit tied to Alberta's health care procurement controversy, according to court docs
Plus lots more -->
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social
Plus lots more -->
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social
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For the final day of our 12 Language Days of Christmas segment, we hear from APTN CEO Monika Ille as she shares some holiday greetings in the Abenaki language.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in Abenaki | 12 Language Days of Christmas
YouTube video by APTN News
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
For the final day of our 12 Language Days of Christmas segment, we hear from APTN CEO Monika Ille as she shares some holiday greetings in the Abenaki language.
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The Department of Education said Monday that the Trump administration will begin to garnish earnings from student loan borrowers in January.
Millions of student loan borrowers are about to see their paychecks shrink
The Trump administration will resume wage garnishment for people in default on student loans.
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The Department of Education said Monday that the Trump administration will begin to garnish earnings from student loan borrowers in January.
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On last week's #buyastrangerabook day, @jenillustrates.bsky.social offered to buy a book for an adult and a child.
The children's book has gone, but Jen's offer to buy an adult a book is still up for grabs!
If there's something you'd like, get in touch!
UK only
The children's book has gone, but Jen's offer to buy an adult a book is still up for grabs!
If there's something you'd like, get in touch!
UK only
Another amazing #buyastrangerabook offer!
@jenillustrates.bsky.social is offering to buy two people a book each.
One for a grown up & one for a child.
I'll post them out so you get them for Christmas.
Any book (not just the ones on my website).
So get in touch if you'd like a book
UK only
@jenillustrates.bsky.social is offering to buy two people a book each.
One for a grown up & one for a child.
I'll post them out so you get them for Christmas.
Any book (not just the ones on my website).
So get in touch if you'd like a book
UK only
Hi Simon, @biggreenbooks.bsky.social
it’s been a while since I last joined in with #buyastrangerabook & I want to offer not one but two books in time for Christmas - one for a child & one for a grown up
it’s been a while since I last joined in with #buyastrangerabook & I want to offer not one but two books in time for Christmas - one for a child & one for a grown up
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
On last week's #buyastrangerabook day, @jenillustrates.bsky.social offered to buy a book for an adult and a child.
The children's book has gone, but Jen's offer to buy an adult a book is still up for grabs!
If there's something you'd like, get in touch!
UK only
The children's book has gone, but Jen's offer to buy an adult a book is still up for grabs!
If there's something you'd like, get in touch!
UK only
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I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about.
@dustystacks.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person a copy of Tender by Lauren Du Plessis.
I've added the description, so check it out.
If you'd like a copy, just get in touch.
UK only.
@dustystacks.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person a copy of Tender by Lauren Du Plessis.
I've added the description, so check it out.
If you'd like a copy, just get in touch.
UK only.
December 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about.
@dustystacks.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person a copy of Tender by Lauren Du Plessis.
I've added the description, so check it out.
If you'd like a copy, just get in touch.
UK only.
@dustystacks.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person a copy of Tender by Lauren Du Plessis.
I've added the description, so check it out.
If you'd like a copy, just get in touch.
UK only.
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Yall idk if this’ll happen every day until showtime, won’t hurt my feelings if it does: today we doubled our attendance +1 since I announced this everywhere.
🥰 thank you.
Get your ticket: sjtucker.bandcamp.com/merch/musica...
🥰 thank you.
Get your ticket: sjtucker.bandcamp.com/merch/musica...
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Yall idk if this’ll happen every day until showtime, won’t hurt my feelings if it does: today we doubled our attendance +1 since I announced this everywhere.
🥰 thank you.
Get your ticket: sjtucker.bandcamp.com/merch/musica...
🥰 thank you.
Get your ticket: sjtucker.bandcamp.com/merch/musica...
@ominousrabbit.com made me think of you :)
Mystery Solved resides inside a dark-blue Volkswagen Transporter T2 that Kariné Bulut and her husband bought from West Valley City automotive restorer VW Upfitters. Bulut’s husband, who previously built her a library in their home, helped add the shelves. www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...
December 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
@ominousrabbit.com made me think of you :)
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US Interior Dept weakens sage-grouse protection to open more oil and mineral development reut.rs/4p4aGfv
US Interior Dept weakens sage-grouse protection to open more oil and mineral development
The Trump administration on Monday rolled back protections for the greater sage-grouse in eight western U.S. states, opening up more federal land for energy and mineral development.
reut.rs
December 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
US Interior Dept weakens sage-grouse protection to open more oil and mineral development reut.rs/4p4aGfv
I found the vessel registrations of residential schools who swore up and down they had no vessels and never went out to seize children themselves, as well as the contracts & bills of lading with HBC and other companies to seize and transport children for them.
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I found the vessel registrations of residential schools who swore up and down they had no vessels and never went out to seize children themselves, as well as the contracts & bills of lading with HBC and other companies to seize and transport children for them.
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This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
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What a shining light for over a century. We need more Betty Reid Soskins in this world.
Betty Reid Soskin, once the nation’s oldest park ranger, has died at age 104
She co-founded Reid’s Records in Berkeley, dated Jackie Robinson, delivered cash for the Black Panthers and published a memoir.
www.berkeleyside.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What a shining light for over a century. We need more Betty Reid Soskins in this world.
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#DBCalert: Highway 1 Both directions | Closure | Between Yoho Valley Rd - Takakkaw Falls and BC/Alberta Border | 13 km east of Field | Vehicle recovery. Road closed. Watch for traffic control. Expect delays. | Next update Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 10:00 PM PST
December 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM
#DBCalert: Highway 1 Both directions | Closure | Between Yoho Valley Rd - Takakkaw Falls and BC/Alberta Border | 13 km east of Field | Vehicle recovery. Road closed. Watch for traffic control. Expect delays. | Next update Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 10:00 PM PST
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Austin Pets Alive had 145K volunteer hours pre COVID, but that number has dropped to 85K. If you are looking for a New Year's resolution, may I recommend volunteering? We have something for everyone. Animal care, greeters, facility care, laundry, making enrichment, data entry, clinic support...
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Austin Pets Alive had 145K volunteer hours pre COVID, but that number has dropped to 85K. If you are looking for a New Year's resolution, may I recommend volunteering? We have something for everyone. Animal care, greeters, facility care, laundry, making enrichment, data entry, clinic support...
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“KENT, Wash. — The Regional Animal Services of King County (RASKC) is limiting operations after storm damage wiped out more than half of the cat housing.” www.king5.com/article/news... - @king5news.bsky.social
#Cats #Flooding #Kent #KingCounty #WashingtonState
#Cats #Flooding #Kent #KingCounty #WashingtonState
Storm damage limiting operations at Regional Animal Services of King County
Storm damage at the King County animal shelter has led to reduced operations, forcing a focus on urgent animal cases.
www.king5.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“KENT, Wash. — The Regional Animal Services of King County (RASKC) is limiting operations after storm damage wiped out more than half of the cat housing.” www.king5.com/article/news... - @king5news.bsky.social
#Cats #Flooding #Kent #KingCounty #WashingtonState
#Cats #Flooding #Kent #KingCounty #WashingtonState
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My 16th Century mouse went on display at the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg in Germany today! It’s so amazing to see my work so well displayed. This has been a dream to see my work in a museum context like this! #jeffdeboer #kunstsammlungendervestecoburg #mousearmour #smallsculpture #armourer
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My 16th Century mouse went on display at the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg in Germany today! It’s so amazing to see my work so well displayed. This has been a dream to see my work in a museum context like this! #jeffdeboer #kunstsammlungendervestecoburg #mousearmour #smallsculpture #armourer
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#DBCalert: Highway 1 Both directions | Closure | Between Oak Dr and 14th St N for 141.7 km | #Golden to #Revelstoke | Avalanche control work. Road closed. Detour not available. Commercial Traffic held in Malakwa starting at 4:00pm PST. Passenger vehicles able to continue to...
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#DBCalert: Highway 1 Both directions | Closure | Between Oak Dr and 14th St N for 141.7 km | #Golden to #Revelstoke | Avalanche control work. Road closed. Detour not available. Commercial Traffic held in Malakwa starting at 4:00pm PST. Passenger vehicles able to continue to...
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#DBCalert: Highway 3 Both directions | Closure | Between Sunshine Valley and Manning Park Resort for 46.2 km | 64 to 17 km east of #Hope | Travel advisory in effect. Road closed. Debris on roadway. No estimated time of opening. Engineering assessment underway. West of...
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
#DBCalert: Highway 3 Both directions | Closure | Between Sunshine Valley and Manning Park Resort for 46.2 km | 64 to 17 km east of #Hope | Travel advisory in effect. Road closed. Debris on roadway. No estimated time of opening. Engineering assessment underway. West of...
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I've told this story before, but a year ago I was at a closed-door meeting with various governments reps at a meaningful level, and when social media regulation came up, one of the non-US government reps basically said: "but we're powerless"
Icymi, because I did: MI6 chief warns that tech giants are closer to running the world than governments.
MI6 chief: Tech giants are closer to running the world than politicians
In first public speech on threats to UK, top spy warns of dangerous power shift amid surge in disinformation
inews.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I've told this story before, but a year ago I was at a closed-door meeting with various governments reps at a meaningful level, and when social media regulation came up, one of the non-US government reps basically said: "but we're powerless"
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#BookyMcBookface is away out east to Deerness today for his last trip of 2025! 📚
If you're in the East Mainland of #Orkney today then go and say hello, and pick up some new books for over the festive season. 📚
If you're in the East Mainland of #Orkney today then go and say hello, and pick up some new books for over the festive season. 📚
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#BookyMcBookface is away out east to Deerness today for his last trip of 2025! 📚
If you're in the East Mainland of #Orkney today then go and say hello, and pick up some new books for over the festive season. 📚
If you're in the East Mainland of #Orkney today then go and say hello, and pick up some new books for over the festive season. 📚
Hey #yhm and Mac friends… vote w your feet. No more Mulberry or Paisley, not when the owner is content to treat the employees of his establishments like trash.
Irony thy name is management
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Hamilton café Democracy closes suddenly, laying off workers months after unionization | CBC News
In October, workers at a popular Hamilton café signed their first collective agreement. The location closed this week, leading some to wonder if it’s in response to their unionization efforts. The own...
www.cbc.ca
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hey #yhm and Mac friends… vote w your feet. No more Mulberry or Paisley, not when the owner is content to treat the employees of his establishments like trash.
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a first-time detection in Island County and second detections in Jefferson and Lewis counties. These detections add to ongoing HPAI activity
agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/n...
agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/n...
News Releases | Washington State Department of Agriculture
agr.wa.gov
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
a first-time detection in Island County and second detections in Jefferson and Lewis counties. These detections add to ongoing HPAI activity
agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/n...
agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/n...
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Which words have given you happiness this year? I’d love to hear them.
(And if you fancy some distraction over the holidays, do give my word game Two Words a try.
twowords2.page.link/play)
(And if you fancy some distraction over the holidays, do give my word game Two Words a try.
twowords2.page.link/play)
December 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Which words have given you happiness this year? I’d love to hear them.
(And if you fancy some distraction over the holidays, do give my word game Two Words a try.
twowords2.page.link/play)
(And if you fancy some distraction over the holidays, do give my word game Two Words a try.
twowords2.page.link/play)
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Meet Critter of the Week, Ivory!
Ivory is a gentle, shy bunny with a fluffy white coat. 🐇
She loves a cozy space where she can relax with fresh hay, tasty veggies, and fun toys. 🥕
She’s closing in on a year in our care, so we’d really like to see her in a furever home.
aarcs.ca/animal/a2000242814/
Ivory is a gentle, shy bunny with a fluffy white coat. 🐇
She loves a cozy space where she can relax with fresh hay, tasty veggies, and fun toys. 🥕
She’s closing in on a year in our care, so we’d really like to see her in a furever home.
aarcs.ca/animal/a2000242814/
December 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Meet Critter of the Week, Ivory!
Ivory is a gentle, shy bunny with a fluffy white coat. 🐇
She loves a cozy space where she can relax with fresh hay, tasty veggies, and fun toys. 🥕
She’s closing in on a year in our care, so we’d really like to see her in a furever home.
aarcs.ca/animal/a2000242814/
Ivory is a gentle, shy bunny with a fluffy white coat. 🐇
She loves a cozy space where she can relax with fresh hay, tasty veggies, and fun toys. 🥕
She’s closing in on a year in our care, so we’d really like to see her in a furever home.
aarcs.ca/animal/a2000242814/
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ProPublica reporters: you guys are fucking great
ProPublica management: what the fuck, you guys
ProPublica management: what the fuck, you guys
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
ProPublica reporters: you guys are fucking great
ProPublica management: what the fuck, you guys
ProPublica management: what the fuck, you guys
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🐋🎓There are still a few open spaces remaining for our Spring 2026 Whale University Course: 50 Shades of Gray Whale, and after confirming the speaker line up, we can't WAIT for this course to start!
Register online at our website:
www.orcabehaviorinstitute.org/whale-univer...
Register online at our website:
www.orcabehaviorinstitute.org/whale-univer...
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🐋🎓There are still a few open spaces remaining for our Spring 2026 Whale University Course: 50 Shades of Gray Whale, and after confirming the speaker line up, we can't WAIT for this course to start!
Register online at our website:
www.orcabehaviorinstitute.org/whale-univer...
Register online at our website:
www.orcabehaviorinstitute.org/whale-univer...