Bruce Dust
@conductordust.bsky.social
Former Switchman/Brakeman/Conductor now with a desk job and normal hours. Snark mixed with dog, drink, and cigar pics.
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Where’s Our Outrage for the World’s Hungry, Dying Poor? www.commondreams.org/opinion/glob...
Where’s Our Outrage for the World’s Hungry, Dying Poor? | Common Dreams
The retreat from global development by wealthy nations is an insult to the founding vision of the United Nations. But the problem of ending poverty is not a lack of data or policy solutions; it’s the ...
www.commondreams.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Where’s Our Outrage for the World’s Hungry, Dying Poor? www.commondreams.org/opinion/glob...
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REPOST PLEASE for the Christmas Drive!
🧑🎄 SANTA’s NEEDED
Give a child a Christmas
$125/$600 Donation Match
35 Families for Christmas Turkey Dinner
35 Families for Christmas Gift Giving
Please help/sponsor a family or
Paypal/Etransfer
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🧑🎄 SANTA’s NEEDED
Give a child a Christmas
$125/$600 Donation Match
35 Families for Christmas Turkey Dinner
35 Families for Christmas Gift Giving
Please help/sponsor a family or
Paypal/Etransfer
[email protected]
a poster that says christmas is coming with a ninja riding a reindeer
Alt: a poster that says christmas is coming with a ninja riding a reindeer
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December 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
REPOST PLEASE for the Christmas Drive!
🧑🎄 SANTA’s NEEDED
Give a child a Christmas
$125/$600 Donation Match
35 Families for Christmas Turkey Dinner
35 Families for Christmas Gift Giving
Please help/sponsor a family or
Paypal/Etransfer
[email protected]
🧑🎄 SANTA’s NEEDED
Give a child a Christmas
$125/$600 Donation Match
35 Families for Christmas Turkey Dinner
35 Families for Christmas Gift Giving
Please help/sponsor a family or
Paypal/Etransfer
[email protected]
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This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
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Politicians who have gifted themselves platinum-plated health care plans for life will now lecture others on how to best afford unaffordable health care.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Politicians who have gifted themselves platinum-plated health care plans for life will now lecture others on how to best afford unaffordable health care.
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Please note that oil and gas are allowed to claim the 45Q tax credit without any verification that they actually captured the CO2 they said they did — and certainly without having to sequester the carbon 🤡
UPDATE: 3 things I learned today
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
Here at the US Capitol to talk with some senators about the risks and harms of carbon capture and storage, which is mostly used to extract more oil from ground, enjoys taxpayer subsidies, is prone to escape, threatens drinking water and public health, and is generally scammy.
Science belongs here.
Science belongs here.
December 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Please note that oil and gas are allowed to claim the 45Q tax credit without any verification that they actually captured the CO2 they said they did — and certainly without having to sequester the carbon 🤡
Lighter today but still 🐂💩. And it can stop snowing anytime now.
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Lighter today but still 🐂💩. And it can stop snowing anytime now.
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Our skynet is gonna be so fucking weird.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Our skynet is gonna be so fucking weird.
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"Because if you believe literally all of these recent uses by Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec are justified - not legally valid, not ‘constitutional’, but morally or normative justified - the truth is you simply don’t care about minority rights."
NEW POST: The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-parall...
The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause
I was reading about yet another round of Trump pardons and it is blazingly apparent the extent to which Trump has exercised this presidential power in a way that fundamentally strips away the importan...
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Because if you believe literally all of these recent uses by Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec are justified - not legally valid, not ‘constitutional’, but morally or normative justified - the truth is you simply don’t care about minority rights."
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The Carney government clearly has a major problem with the whole concept of accountability. Instead of strengthening 🇨🇦s laws, they keep legislating themselves new ways to circumvent them.
Rather than changing things like the Endangered Species Act, they just choose where it will & won't apply. 🧵1/
Rather than changing things like the Endangered Species Act, they just choose where it will & won't apply. 🧵1/
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Carney government clearly has a major problem with the whole concept of accountability. Instead of strengthening 🇨🇦s laws, they keep legislating themselves new ways to circumvent them.
Rather than changing things like the Endangered Species Act, they just choose where it will & won't apply. 🧵1/
Rather than changing things like the Endangered Species Act, they just choose where it will & won't apply. 🧵1/
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A new shakedown……
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A new shakedown……
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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www.cicnews.com/2025/12/thes... We will never let the US annex us, but we WILL extend voting rights to every American whose great-grandmother's dog had puppies in White Rock
These five famous Americans will become Canadian citizens, thanks to a new citizenship law
Some famous Americans— including Madonna and Hillary Clinton—will be considered Canadian citizens under a new law. On November 20, Bill C-3: An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025) was passed by th...
www.cicnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
www.cicnews.com/2025/12/thes... We will never let the US annex us, but we WILL extend voting rights to every American whose great-grandmother's dog had puppies in White Rock
Shenanigans are being planned.
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Shenanigans are being planned.
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hard to overstate how bad this is for discrimination against everyone but white people.
I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people.
Let me explain:
I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people.
Let me explain:
This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
hard to overstate how bad this is for discrimination against everyone but white people.
I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people.
Let me explain:
I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people.
Let me explain:
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They’re US owned so none of this means anything. There would be no protection of Canadian data from the US
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
December 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
They’re US owned so none of this means anything. There would be no protection of Canadian data from the US
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
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Social media post leads to 'overwhelming' number of turkey donations for Kitchener non-profit #Kitchener #Ontario
The Healing of the Seven Generations will be including the turkeys in their annual Christmas hampers
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The Healing of the Seven Generations will be including the turkeys in their annual Christmas hampers
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Social media post leads to 'overwhelming' number of turkey donations for Kitchener non-profit | CBC News
Last week, The Healing of Seven Generations realized it didn't have enough turkeys and toys to give out this year for its annual Christmas hampers. So it made a Facebook post letting families know tha...
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Social media post leads to 'overwhelming' number of turkey donations for Kitchener non-profit #Kitchener #Ontario
The Healing of the Seven Generations will be including the turkeys in their annual Christmas hampers
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The Healing of the Seven Generations will be including the turkeys in their annual Christmas hampers
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Absolutely wrecking yourself for a gimmick McDonalds ad because the revolutionary labour-saving technology doesn't work, is pretty funny tbh.
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
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The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Absolutely wrecking yourself for a gimmick McDonalds ad because the revolutionary labour-saving technology doesn't work, is pretty funny tbh.
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The Ellison family has promised Trump that if they get to purchase Warner Bros then they will revamp CNN to make it more friendly to his administration.
It remains to be seen if Netflix can match that offer.
It remains to be seen if Netflix can match that offer.
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
The Ellison family has promised Trump that if they get to purchase Warner Bros then they will revamp CNN to make it more friendly to his administration.
It remains to be seen if Netflix can match that offer.
It remains to be seen if Netflix can match that offer.
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Everything you need to know about the PALA Sixes Cup, starting on Wednesday in Puerto Rico 🧵⬇️
December 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Everything you need to know about the PALA Sixes Cup, starting on Wednesday in Puerto Rico 🧵⬇️
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
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Through the Mountains
Barbara Pratt
2010
Barbara Pratt
2010
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Through the Mountains
Barbara Pratt
2010
Barbara Pratt
2010
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"My animals drink the water, my mother drinks the water. So I'm not a guy flying in from L.A. on a private jet. I am a sixth generation rural Albertan, and I'm just trying to keep the water clean."
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Country singer Corb Lund gets OK to launch anti-coal petition drive in Alberta | CBC News
Alberta singer Corb Lund has been given the go-ahead to start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the province to pass a law banning new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountain...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"My animals drink the water, my mother drinks the water. So I'm not a guy flying in from L.A. on a private jet. I am a sixth generation rural Albertan, and I'm just trying to keep the water clean."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...