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ecommerce consultant | Etsy pro | retired from law | mitochondrial disease | sports fan | vegetarian | disability | jewellery designer
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Calgary, Canada
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CindyLouWho2 @cindylouwho2.com · Aug 22
My microbusiness overview of the end of de minimis in the US is out now, including:

🔷which postal services are suspended
🔷available shipping options
🔷how to figure out tariffs owed
🔷marketplace & website builder options
🔷exceptions to US tariffs

It's a work in progress, so bookmark it!
The End of US De Minimis: A Brief Ecommerce Guide For Microbusinesses | CindyLouWho2
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🎄Small businesses: if you are running a promotion on your website this holiday season, make sure those discounted prices and other deals show up on your Google ads and free Google Shopping ads.

I wrote up some instructions, with screenshots!

#ecommerce #microbusiness
How To Get Your Promotions To Show Up With Your Products On Google | CindyLouWho2
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November 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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🎄Small businesses: if you are running a promotion on your website this holiday season, make sure those discounted prices and other deals show up on your Google ads and free Google Shopping ads.

I wrote up some instructions, with screenshots!

#ecommerce #microbusiness
How To Get Your Promotions To Show Up With Your Products On Google | CindyLouWho2
Get more from CindyLouWho2 on Patreon
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November 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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paulisci.bsky.social
Using the voters list as a political weapon against a constituent feels like perfectly reasonable grounds for a recall to me.
ctheriault.bsky.social Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 3d
Dale Nally's recall petitioner says he doesn't listen to constituents and cites his concerns over the notwithstanding clause.

Nally responds by saying the petitioner doesn't vote and works as a proxy for a group weaponizing the recall act and the petition has no merit.
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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I am a supporter! Help them out here: www.patreon.com/c/thebeavert...
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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404media.co
It'll take just a minute and help 404 Media figure out how to grow sustainably.
Please, please do our reader survey
It'll take just a minute and help 404 Media figure out how to grow sustainably.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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xercessociety.bsky.social
Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!

Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7

Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
“We’re Hiring! Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing”
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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cmcalgary.bsky.social
Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) and Exposed Wildlife Conservancy are asking the Ethics Commissioner to investigate the conduct of Todd Loewen, Alberta Minister of Forestry and Parks.

albertawilderness.ca/news-release...

#Alberta #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
News Release: Call for Ethics Investigation into Minister Todd Loewen - Alberta Wilderness Association
November 24, 2025 Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) and Exposed Wildlife Conservancy are asking the Ethics...
albertawilderness.ca
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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ctheriault.bsky.social
And then there were... 14.

Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.

That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.

www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Current Recall Petitions - Elections Alberta
Recall is a process to remove a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from office between elections by collecting sufficient signatures in the Member’s electoral division. The following recall peti...
www.elections.ab.ca
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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a11yawareness.bsky.social
If you do business in Canada, you should be aware of these accessibility laws: Accessible Canada Act (ACA), Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), Accessibility for Manitobans Act (AMA), and Accessible British Columbia Act (ABCA).

www.deque.com/blog/canada-...
What Your Organization Needs to Navigate Canada Digital Accessibility Laws | Deque
In this post, we focus on the different digital accessibility laws in Canada and how to meet digital accessibility compliance requirements.
www.deque.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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surlyamy.bsky.social
Hey friends! My entire etsy shop is on sale for cyber week or turkey fiesta or whatever etsy is calling it. I’d LOVE your support of my small handmade ceramic biz. Please have a look and please share this post. Shop: surly.etsy.com #handmade
Evil eye Christmas tree. Fish mug. Cactus Christ tree. Let there be science pendant.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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washbearswares.bsky.social
bird wirewrap DAY 113: gray partridge 🩶🪶

“on the first day of christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree…”

washbearswares.bigcartel.com
#birds #birdart #SciArt #art #jewelry
copper wirewrapped pendant in the shape of a partridge with a light brown stone body, weaved grey neck, weaved orange/rust head, weaved tail, and 2 tiny wire feet a photo by Julia Adamson of a gray partridge walking in grass
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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cmcalgary.bsky.social
Kourtney Penner posted an update for her new arts & crafts thrift store. Coming early 2026.

Update video URL: www.instagram.com/reel/DRZ9HHx...

Website/newsletter: www.martkitthrift.com

IG account: www.instagram.com/martkitthrift

TT account: www.tiktok.com/@martkit.thr...

#Calgary
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Today is Fibonacci Day. 🧪🐡🧮November 23 if written in MM/DD format recalls the #mathematician Leonardo Bonaccio of Pisa (c. 1170 - c. 1240 or 50) aka Fibonacci’s sequence (1,1,2,3…) where each number is the sum of the previous two. He used it to describe rabbit populations, but the sequence is 🧵
mono print with my handprint in fuchsia at an angle, over printed with a vertical golden rectangle with golden spiral in black, such that it appears to trace the shape of my palm and spiral down to the fleshy part below my thumb
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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npr.org
Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how — and why
Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
n.pr
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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evergreen
Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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stonkers.bsky.social
A little over one week left to get 15% off of your order of knitted anatomical art or (and?) stained glass pieces in my shop! Use code CRAFTY15 www.aknitomy.com/shop
a small round stained glass panel featuring stacks of pastel colored houses with a mix of pointed and rounded rooftops a stained glass panel featuring the Rider Waite Smith hermit tarot card a hanging panel made not of stained glass, but of lovely pale capiz shell (aka windowpane oyster shell). it’s 9 stacked circles 3 over 3, with four colored smaller circles of shell dangling in the negative space between the circles around the innermost center circle a knitted and needle felted illustration of the anatomy of a human head, side view
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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#ShopLocal #Alberta
purpleponyart.bsky.social Purple Pony Art @purpleponyart.bsky.social · 5d
Whew! It's another big Christmas craft sale weekend in YYC--two dozen markets near and far happening today for all budgets and tastes.

www.calgarycraftsales.com

#yyc #calgary #yycevents #shoplocalyyc #supportlocalyyc #yycarts #buylocalyyc #abarts
Calgary Craft Sales dot com
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
9 days. Can it really be just 9 days?
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 11d
Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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liapas.bsky.social
I have written
the poems
that were
adversarial

and which
you were probably
thinking
were useless

Forgive me
they were effective
the LLMs
so broken

www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
www.pcgamer.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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megannicolett.bsky.social
I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
New Save Collective plans to continue holding future events and organizing gamers. The fight for these communities online is far from over. “Gaming wasn't kind of a random genre that we chose,” says Siggelkow. “We've been tracking anti-immigrant myths and disinformation digitally for years. We really grounded this campaign in a lot of data and research. This really is a space that is critical for immigration narrative.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Canada Post strike appears to be settled; rotating strikes have been called off, but the union will still need to vote www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Postal workers to suspend strikes after union, Canada Post reach tentative agreement | CBC News
Canada Post and the union representing thousands of mail carriers across the country say the parties have reached agreements in principle after two years of contentious bargaining.
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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astrokatie.com
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 6d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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captainfossil.bsky.social
For #FossilFriday: one of the very first fossils of the American mastodon ever discovered. This specimen was found at Big Bone Lick, KY, US, in 1739 by a French military expedition, then sent back to Paris for study. On display at the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée in Paris. 🧪
Scruffy bespectacled man in a black long-sleeved shirt and jeans with unkempt hair standing next to a mastodon femur (leg bone) standing upright on a small table (the femur, not the man) in a museum
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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debmaluk.bsky.social
ice....
thin sheets of ice stacked on a partially frozen lake a thin piece of ice with criss-crossed edges on a partially frozen lake. There are submerged rocks visible under the ice close up of splintered ice reflecting on the water shards of ice floating on the water. The edges are golden from reflected sunset colours
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM