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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 6h

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 1d

Here is your Saturday Spider, a fluffy Aphonopelma sp. tarantula in southeastern Arizona. They're usually on the ground, but this one climbed about a foot up into a spindly dry shrub. I thought B&W suited this portrait. #Arachtober 🌿🐙🕷️

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Scott Clevenger @scottclevenger.bsky.social · 1d

MAN: This is Orion 1! MAYDAY!
NASA: We read you, Orion 1. What's the nature of your emergency?
MAN: An iceskating monkey just stole my Betamax!
NASA: ...
MAN: He's wearing silver skates like Hans Brinker and a yellow scarf, but he's NUDE!
NASA: Uh, Orion 1, please check the CO2 levels in your suit

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

American spirit exports to #Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group

Distilled Spirits Council of the United States CEO urges 'lasting return to tariff-free trade'

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

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MicRohBot Monster @microh.bsky.social · 1d

“I was drunk.”

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

🔴UPDATE 🔴

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told @bylinetimes.bsky.social it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about Gill’s pro-Russian statements

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about Gill's pro Russian statements

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in 1929, Raymond Moriyama was born in Vancouver.
One of Canada's most acclaimed architects, his buildings include the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, the Ontario Science Centre, the Bata Shoe Museum, and the Canadian War Museum.
He died in 2023.

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Suitably Spoopy ProtoMillennial @leadpaintshed.bsky.social · 1d

Universal basic income is also a boost to the economy.

GodHammer6 🇨🇦 @godhammer6.bsky.social · 2d

House the unhoused.

Full stop.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

One more thing: people are homeless because they have been deprived of housing.

You solve homelessness with homes.

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MicRohBot Monster @microh.bsky.social · 1d

Another reason to say "Fuck the University of Phoenix."

Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 1d

“Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities. Apollo Global Management, which Rowan co-founded in 1990, own[s] the for-profit University of Phoenix.”

Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 1d

Private equity gets its toothhold into firms through economic squeezing, devalues them, then breaks them into parts to sell off. This compact is the squeeze that will simultaneously advantage for-profit ed *and* make it easier to PE-ify non-profit ed. The ideological component is a means to an end.

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MicRohBot Monster @microh.bsky.social · 2d

Wasn’t a Russian company promising the same thing a few years ago?

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MicRohBot Monster @microh.bsky.social · 2d

Only 76 days until Christmas!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

President Trump said that he’s placing an additional 100% tax on Chinese imports starting on Nov. 1 or sooner, potentially escalating tariff rates close to levels that in April fanned fears of a steep recession and financial market chaos.

Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1 or sooner

President Donald Trump says “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

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According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 2d

Calling these things “mistakes” is disingenuous and lazy. A 45 year old fragrance in a bottle that is scented like the fucking fragrance is not a damn drug and everyone knows that. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

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MicRohBot Monster @microh.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for encouraging me to watch that one. Holy cow.

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MicRohBot Monster @microh.bsky.social · 2d

Worth watching to see people not wanting to be near the tirade.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

"You're a dark, sick person, man, you know that? ... Some of you [reporters] are so sick and dark—and you're the leader of that. ... Your personal sick vendetta and the sickness of how you think, of oversexualizing a Black man ... that's typical of the sickness and the darkness of your sick mind."

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MicRohBot Monster @microh.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when? May 14, 2006.

Women Return To Medicine After Taliban Ban

After years of hardship, students from Kabul Medical University received their diplomas at a ceremony in the Afghan capital, including 90 women, who became the country's first post-Taliban female medical graduates.

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Meghan L. Hall @itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s your 2025 All-WNBA Teams:

FIRST:
A’ja Wilson
Napheesa collier
Alyssa Thomas
Allisha Gray
Kelsey Mitchell

SECOND:
Nneka Ogwumike
Jackie Young
Sabrina Ionescu
Aliyah Boston
Paige Bueckers

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 2d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

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Sinevibes @sinevibes.bsky.social · 2d

Development of two new KORG plugins is in full steam! NTS-1 mkII and microKORG2 versions are ready; NTS-3, NTS-1 mkII, minilogue xd and prologue versions to be done very soon as well, we hope.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 2d

Girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa.

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The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 2d

They make you watch ADS in the CAR you paid like a hundred thousand dollars for?!??

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguitars.day · 27d

Westone The Rail bass

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Jeff 💀 @gojeffgo.com · 2d

Wrong photo for this story? Who am I to say?

photo of Bono above a "Stunned Woman Finds Missing NASA Equipment in Surprise Location" headline

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MicRohBot Monster @microh.bsky.social · 2d

Is this the first Mark Carney Very Good Thing? May more follow.

Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 2d

Announcement from PM Carney moments ago and this is good news. I've been working on this issue with @saulschwartz.bsky.social and @agenestgregoire.bsky.social for years. We've documented how many Canadians don't file and miss out on or loose benefits, .. 1/3

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 2d

“No, she just stopped returning my calls one day, I have no idea what I did to deserve this.”

Cynthia
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Thought Leader at Living, Laughing, Lovi...
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Today my daughter had an abortion.
As a mother, I felt a whirlwind of emotions: grief, compassion, confusion.
But as a marketer, I felt... inspired.
Because in that painful moment, I realized: every decision is driven by story.
My daughter didn't make her choice because of stats or infographics. She made it because of narratives, values, and clarity of identity - the same forces that drive great brands.
It reminded me that:
-Customers don't want features — they want empowerment.
-Messaging must be clear, courageous, and deeply personal.
-Marketing is about helping people make hard decisions with confidence.
So to my daughter: thank you. You reminded me why I do what I do.
And to my fellow marketers: remember that every campaign should come from a place of truth - even if that truth is uncomfortable.
#Marketing #Storytelling #Leadership

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