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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · 1d

Next up, wind swaths! 🌬💨

This was created solely using report clustering (no other gridded data). Plenty of events across the entire US, but can see the most intense storms from the Great Plains into the Midwest! 🟦

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 1d

This is an incredible loop! It's not a tropical storm, but what's its energy equivalent?

🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 1d

FYI, no need to use a URL shortener that may go dark on Bluesky. Paste the URL, wait for the card to load, then delete the URL entirely, with no character penalty. #nlwx #nltraffic

The Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · 1d

A ferocious, historic fall storm has battered Newfoundland with 170+ km/h wind gusts, heavy rainfall and snowfall, along with monster waves exceeding nine metres, with conditions expected to remain hazardous into Wednesday. #NLwx
https://ow.ly/N6me50XmTC0

Coastal flooding, power outages over Newfoundland as 'weather bomb' hits hard - The Weather Network

A ferocious, historic fall storm has battered Newfoundland with 170+ km/h wind gusts, heavy rainfall and snowfall, along with monster waves exceeding nine metres, with conditions expected to remain hazardous into Wednesday

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! how out of the ordinary is this storm?

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Eddie Sheerr @eddiesheerr.bsky.social · 1d

Private weather stations on the southern Avalon at Cape St. Mary's and Powles Head Lighthouse are measuring gusts well over Hurricane-force this evening!

NOV 4, 2025 | 6:04 PM

#nlwx

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Uncle Joe @sydseter.com · 3d

I am so tiered of explaining to people about privacy and cookies, so here is an allegory for you.

As in sex, the same goes for privacy, consent must be active, clear, knowing, ongoing, voluntary and is always REQUIRED!

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 4d

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 5d

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.

Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Authorities Investigating Explosion on Harvard’s Medical Campus, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University…

www.thecrimson.com

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 5d

It's the climate change of personal agency.

🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 6d

The argument that "The government/police/corporations can have all my data, I got nothing to hide" drives me up the wall, across the ceiling and out the door. To be so blase about this is mind boggling.

🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 6d

Ug. The Liberals aren't much different, also going headlong into more oil development, while only paying lip service to climate change. Yet the party that would do anything about it can't get elected.

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Ian Hutchings 🫐 @ianhutchings.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder that Tony Wakeham is on record denying/discounting/downplaying anthropogenic climate change and its catastrophic effects.

#nlwx #nltraffic #NLpoli #Newfoundland
#NewfoundlandandLabrador #YYT #climatechange
theindependent.ca/commentary/e...

Dear Mr. Wakeham: Climate changes aren’t coming — they’re here – The Independent

Not only are wildfires caused by climate change, new research links the heatwaves that cause them to oil companies active in Newfoundland and Labrador

theindependent.ca

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 6d

I ask my closest friends then to give me their email, bank and other account passwords and access to their home cameras. They won't. Do they trust me less than the above crowd? No, but I'm a real person vs. a faceless entity and makes things more real.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 6d

The argument that "The government/police/corporations can have all my data, I got nothing to hide" drives me up the wall, across the ceiling and out the door. To be so blase about this is mind boggling.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 8d

Mind has been officially blown by seeing Saturn and its moon Titan through the Mills Observatory Victorian 10" Cooke telescope. WOW! Every time I've visited before, the clouds have come too, but not today! This old technology still works perfectly with a clockwork tracking mechanism. Stunning 🥳👌 🔭

A long old and rather large (several meters long) telescope pointing out of an open telescope dome.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11d

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 9d

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

www.theguardian.com

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 8d

Good morning from the Avalon. #nlwx

Pre sunrise over the brow. Yellow horizon over a dark ridge in the distance, Greg clouds adding mood. lights from the sw side of St. John's still lit.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 11d

This extra height & heat will amplify the torrential tropical downpours. Many spots (esp hills) will see over 3 feet of rain with cascading flash flooding and mudslides. So despite winds 150+, the threat of rain flooding (and surge) may prove to be even more threatening.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 13d

Road conditions are live again on NL 511. #nlwx #nltraffic

Screenshot of the web interface 511nl.ca showng the map of NL with black lines representing road conditions, with a camara on the left side and the legend on the right side

🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 13d

There's been lightning and loud thunder off and on for the last half hour in the west end of St. John's, along with heavy downpours since 3 am or so. #nlwx #yyt

Weather Source @weathersourceca.bsky.social · 13d

Heads up if you're on the Avalon Peninsula, you could be seeing some lightning soon. #nlwx

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 24d

St. John's is car dominated. It wears a collar, a leash and it keeps getting screwed by cars.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25d

A reminder that I have "Arkham" embedded in my name.

(not that there's anything wrong with that...)

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Rodney Barney @rcbstormpost.bsky.social · 25d

Vibrant Sunday around Bonne Bay. But the season is progressing quickly; leaf-loss quite already quite pronounced over the higher terrain! #nlwx

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 25d

Banning AirBnB is a case where the “abundance” framing is useful.

I get the desire to prioritize residents over visitors in a housing emergency.

But shouldn’t the bigger long-term goal be more housing *and* more hotels? Rather than just managing scarcity?

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 25d

The answer is still no, but:

"It’s hard not to connect this to the fact that much of the political class remains on a platform now dominated by the political extremes. They might do well to remember: Twitter is not the real world."

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · Sep 29

Pixel's magic eraser went from great to absolute suckage with the last feature drop. Is this another symptom of Alphabet enshittifiying? Will it somehow boost profits in the short term? Or did they lay off the team responsible for it to save on capex?