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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

🖼️ Bernhard Anton Funke

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

🖼️ Tunnicliffe

Autumn woodland scene: fox, ferns, toadstools, other bracket fungi, pine marten, woodsmen in distance, jay in tree, pigeons in flight, illustration.

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 5h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under absolutely no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend drinking tea, reading books, and eating a scandalous amount of cinnamon rolls.

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Melanie Nicole 🇨🇦 @melanienicole76.bsky.social · 16h

Yup.

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16h

I fucking love buying books.

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Melanie Nicole 🇨🇦 @melanienicole76.bsky.social · 16h

I am so very sorry for your loss. My thoughts are with you and your family.

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Bruce D. Cowherd @brucedc77.bsky.social · 1d

Inuit-led solutions aims to avoid the euthanizing of Marineland's 30 beluga whales.
Jason Etok, who grew up in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik, suggests the whales can be reintegrated into the wild areas such as Hudsons Bay, Ungava Bay or the St. Lawrence River.

#cdnpoli #Canada 🇨🇦 #onpoli #Ontario

Inuit-led solution aims to avoid killing of Marineland’s 30 belugas

A Nunavik man says Inuit leaders should step in to provide habitat to 30 beluga whales at Marineland that are at risk of being euthanized because the amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont. can’t afford...

nunatsiaq.com

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Mike Vlasic @mikevlasic.bsky.social · 21h

The anti-democratic Dorg government stopped a parent from livestreaming school board meetings.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The OCDSB stopped livestreaming meetings, so this parent began filming them herself | CBC News

When Cathy Varrette learned she could no longer tune in to the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board's committee meetings, she decided she'd try to livestream them on her own.

www.cbc.ca

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 23h

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1d

This is why archives need funding support. There is knowledge in analogue media that we are racing against time to preserve.

#digipres #archives #library #DigitalPreservation 📚

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Peter Schamerhorn @randchange.bsky.social · 1d

In light of the speed camera fiasco, I’m sort of hoping that more provincial government staffers have problems like affordable housing, and anxiety about climate change so ‘Captain Ontario’ Doug Ford can sweep in and solve their problems.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Tim Peach @peachyshotz.bsky.social · 1d

Great Blue Heron - 1/16/25

Wakodahatchee Wetlands - Delray Beach, FL

Canon R8 w/ RF 600mm - 1/1250 at f/11, ISO 5000 #birds #peachyshotz #wakodahatcheewetlands #wildlife #shotoncanon #nature #photography #greatblueheron #wadingbirds

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 2d

This is big.

‘Daniel Sampson was innocent’: leading lawyers and law organizations in Canada call for executed man to be exonerated

'Daniel Sampson was innocent': leading lawyers and law organizations in Canada call for executed man to be exonerated - Halifax Examiner

My investigation of the Sampson case lays out the incontrovertible truth that Sampson was an innocent man framed by the RCMP, and then murdered by the state.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Melanie Nicole 🇨🇦 @melanienicole76.bsky.social · 2d

Does the one have an emotional support can of Dr Pepper? This is so surreal.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 2d

HANG UP YOUR HAMMER, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE ANXIETY. AND YOU WILL WIN.

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Melanie Nicole 🇨🇦 @melanienicole76.bsky.social · 2d

I picked up the greatest print ever for my partner from artist Natasha Gibski. It is perfect and he loves it. Check her out on Insta. I want it all. ❤️

www.instagram.com/n_gibski_art...

Picture of books on a table with sprayed edges, a black anitomical heaeg vase with flowers, an old camera and a purple skull candle holder. In the foreground is the masterpiece, a print of Nicholas Cage as Superman with lightning behind him.

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ProtestArt Afficianado @ahouseunited.bsky.social · 3d

Love this sign. A few others do too!

It is fun to text people in Portland and ask them if they’re ok and if the warzone has affected them and see how they respond 🤣

P.s. Obviously this refers to Powells books, the largest independent bookstore.

#protestart
#nokings nationwide oct 18