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Cities, justice, bad jokes. Dad. Immigrant 🇨🇦⬅️🇺🇸⬅️Ru. Staff eng on break, advocate at @tritag.ca, bsky tinkerer at @feeds.mdruker.app. he/him. Support 🇺🇦 📍 Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario New here? My tips: https://bsky.app/profile/mdruker.app/post/3ljofscojis2j

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · Jan 27

I don’t know who needs to hear this but you should try — within reason — to make personal choices that are better for society, even knowing that personal choices are not sufficient for addressing large systemic issues. Just be normal about it.

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Dmytro Spivakov @dmytro-spivakov.bsky.social · 2h

If you’re reading this post I encourage you to contribute, this is a form of resistance available to anyone

savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 2h

Does anyone else read the posts down here?

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Cyber 💾 Soroka 🐦‍⬛ @cybersoroka.bsky.social · 3h

Ukraine needs adequate military support from its allies right now. It’s still not too late to hold Russia accountable. Every second of delay costs Ukraine its people and Europe its security and future. The hard decisions not made today will only be harder and costlier to make tomorrow.

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 3h

‘If you’re in charge of some complicated humans-and-processes machine, wouldn’t you be at least a bit curious how it really works?’

Measuring Up | blarg

exple.tive.org

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 3h

Wild to allow Chinese consumer goods of every kind but tariff Chinese solar

Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 4h

It’s _tax_ that’s the problem???

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 4h

Vote for me and I promise to put a stop to this nonsense by the end of the year

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 4h

Looks like there’s a weird loophole for kei trucks over 15 years old that these drive through

Importing a vehicle from countries other than the United States and Mexico

Assessing which vehicles can be imported from countries other than the United States; submitting a case-by-case vehicle import request.

tc.canada.ca

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 6h

Legalize it

Discover the Microlino

100% electric. Space for two and everything you need.

microlino-car.com

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 9h

Government run by cartoon villains and babies

Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 11h

If you don’t give me the peace prize, I will declare war on you

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 11h

These people are fucking monsters

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 14h

TIL there is such a thing as a museum franchise

Franchising Opportunity - Museum of Illusions

Find out more about the inspiring success stories of our franchisees and gain valuable insights into their experiences with Museum of Illusions.

www.museumofillusions.com

Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 15h

A useful discovery mechanism for what agencies and institutions are on here is looking at the following list for an account like @globalaffairs.canada.ca

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 15h

Wait there’s more!

Verified accounts with canada.ca subdomains for Global Affairs Canada, SSHRC, and Natural Resources Canada

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 15h

First canada.ca domains on here? 👀

Library Archives of Canada accounts in French and English shared by Verified Account Tracker

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 16h

I’m guessing y’all know this, but just to be explicit: there is already some (minimal) algorithmic selection for replies in the official app

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 1d

Don’t do it, it’s discourse all the way down

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

Underrated part of this story is that official USG business is done by Truth Social DM. It almost makes you miss the good old days of the PC small group Signal Chat.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 1d

Whether templated memes and copypastas are fair use or rip off the original poster