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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 8h

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 52m

Deny your right-side functioning all you like, but that’s a novelist’s eye with the license to fly.

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.
The summer's gone, and all the roses falling

youtu.be/PweUGhCZNiM?...

Danny Boy - Sinéad O'Connor, 1993

YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 14h

The great Christy Moore’s endorsement of Catherine Connolly 🇮🇪🍀
Posting his cover of the great Canadian 🇨🇦 Newfoundland 🏴‍☠️ songwriter Ron Hynes — Sonny’s Dream 🎶
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2oL...

Christy Moore , Sonny's Dream ,Royal Festival Hall London,18th April 2014

YouTube video by GC Met

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 14h

And here I thought I couldn’t love Christy Moore more!

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 17h

The legendary Irish musician Christy Moore endorses Catherine Connolly TD for Irish president. There is now very strong support from musicians, poets, writers & artists for the independent candidate.

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 14h

There are no words for this. Only the shock and grief of witnessing what should never have become normal. Horror, not just for those lost — but for what we are becoming if we stop feeling it.

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 14h

A visceral reaction — nausea, grief, horror. Every sign a life. Every life a warning. What we tolerate is what we become.

CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 16h

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 15h

Jesus
Did not one of these MAGA fools read Sun Tzu?

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 16h

International day of the girl
For the future
And for the little girls we once were

NPR @npr.org · 16h

October 11 is the "International Day of the Girl" on the United Nations calendar. These photos pay tribute to the spirit of girls in a world where they face many obstacles. n.pr/470GXx1

Photos celebrate the glory of girls on 'International Day of the Girl'

October 11 is the "International Day of the Girl" on the United Nations calendar. These photos pay tribute to the spirit of girls in a world where they face many obstacles.

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 16h

Day 1 after laser. I look like a cautionary tale wrapped in a marshmallow. Healing, in all its forms, is rarely pretty. Rosacea — just one of the curses of the Celts

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 16h

Mostly the USA, but yeah

Dr. Hedy Fry @hedyfry.bsky.social · 17h

The world is becoming more dangerous and we must reinforce our sovereignty & strengthen alliances. Last week, PM launched the Defence Investment Agency to accelerate delivery of critical equipment to the Canadian Armed Forced and invest in 🇨🇦 defence industry, workers, innovation, & supply chains.

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 16h

This is the existential crisis from which we cannot recover

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 23h

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 16h

To write poetry, I must listen to the birds
And in order to hear the birds
The warplanes must be silent

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 16h

Right? He’s certainly out- Mosley’d Mosley

Black Panther🍁🦫🇨🇦antifa✌️ @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 16h

If they gave out a Nobel prize for fascism, Felon 47 would definitely be in the running for that award.

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 1d

He was a good boy

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 17h

This is brilliance in resistance that fully embraces the absurdity of militarism

🇨🇦 andyrogers.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @andyrogers.bsky.social · 1d

I love Portland.

ICE-holes can go fuck themselves.

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 17h

The 12 year old is out of this world

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve visited Rommel’s grave in Herrlingen 🇩🇪🕯️ That’s where my daughter’s grandmother is from. I’ve a lot of time for Rommel. A soldier who tried to keep his honour intact in a corrupt system. Integrity. Backbone. Spoke truth to power. (Likely have a photo somewhere).

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Apr 28

if you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 20h

Ok, that’s pretty funny.
It made me laugh out loud.

Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 20h

GIVE ME RIBBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH.

Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social · 20h

We 💯 support Amphifa! Give me ribbety, or give me death. 🐸

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 21h

Waking up this morning after yesterday’s dermatology laser skin treatment; my eyes are so puffy I can barely see. I don’t look like a lobster anymore; more like a marshmallow.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 22h

As today is Hans Kelsen's birthday, a reminder:

"The elimination of war is our paramount problem. It is a problem of international policy, and the most important means of international policy is international law."

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Working on a mix of straight and cocktails

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Appreciate the field support from YXU. The research continues. ☘️🥃

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Two nice strong Irish Manhattans. What a buzz. Between that and the laser facial treatment and painkillers this afternoon…

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

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