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Paul DeCampo

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ecological gardening, regenerative agriculture, community health, food sovereignty, & good times (he/him) Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada Avatar alt text: The body of Woodie Guthrie's acoustic guitar, on which is written "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

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Paul DeCampo @pauldecampo.bsky.social · Nov 7

Collective action to strengthen resilient communities is more important than ever.

In Toronto, we can take action to sustain a healthy, inclusive and ecological food system via:

karmacoop.org

Karma Co-op

A healthier food system is just around the corner ;)

karmacoop.org

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 8m

A system designed around growth will keep looking for ways to accelerate.

A system rooted in the biosphere and human well-being will look for ways to develop while staying in balance.

You can decide which this is...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 8h

Someone once described the libertarian as like a house cat: wholly convinced of her own fierce independence while being entirely dependent on a system she neither understands nor appreciates.

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James Kennedy ✊️ @jameskennedy.bsky.social · 10m

I agree, Stop The Boats

Bloody oligarchs coming over 'ere on their mega yachts, stealing our public assets, influencing our government, exploiting our work force, dumping their waste into our rivers & expecting the tax payer to foot the bill for their billion pound government contracts & bail outs

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 53m

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 ...

www.cbc.ca

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 46m

Cars. Ruin. Everything.

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

www.bloomberg.com

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 52m

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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Edge O. Erin @edgeoerin.com · 43m

"Tech billionaire Thiel calls activist Greta Thunberg servant of ‘Antichrist’."
That the Axis of Oligarchy is, after targeting immigrants and the LGBTQIA+ Community, coming after Environmentalists, should not come as a surprise to anyone.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 49m

Moving quickly to a world where students use AI to complete work, profs use AI to grade it, no one learns anything and we will live in a world of mediocrity and incompetence where only the billionaires benefit.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 22h

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 37m

Trump cites a murderous war criminal to attack the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision. Truly absurd and disturbing. And narcissism of a pathological degree.

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

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 22h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 58m

I want to know WHY this far right monster and architect of Project 2025- Russel Vought - was invited to Canada to speak by the Liberals!

This is what the Cons had planned for us!

Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 8h

Russel Vought—the same Project 2025 architect—once said he wanted federal workers to feel traumatized.

Tonight, it appears that mission is being accomplished.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1h

🍄 Psilocybin and suicide risk

A review of 9 trials (N=593) found psilocybin therapy led to a small but significant drop in suicidal thoughts. More data and long-term follow-up are now needed.

🔗 www.psypost.org/psilocybin-t...

#SciComm #MentalHealth #Psilocybin 🧪

Psilocybin therapy linked to reduced suicidal thoughts in people with psychiatric disorders

Psilocybin therapy may reduce suicidal thoughts in people with mental health diagnoses, according to a new review in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology. The analysis combined results from clin...

www.psypost.org

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🇨🇦 @beauwest.bsky.social · 1h

I for one embrace the notion that the US has no place in my Canada.

torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2827...

Toronto Star ePaper

torontostarreplica.pressreader.com

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 11h

Re the latest Noem TSA video in airports, the Trump admin has such a grasp of comms combined with sheer don't-give-a-shit brazenly enabled and encouraged attitude (thanks, congress and the SC) that we get to live in our own dystopian media hellscape Verhoeven could only dream of

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 11h

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The world’s extremely poor are also often extremely remote, with limited access to healthcare & health education. In many developing countries, the government—often with the help of the UN and, until this year, USAID—maintains health posts that bring these services to people living off the grid.

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Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 10h

No such thing as a good billionaire.

No such thing as earning a billion dollars.

You cannot amass that much wealth without exploitation. Even if you did, holding it while others starve makes you evil. There’s no way around it.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 12h

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 11h

For studies about CO2 and disease transmission… plotting a graph that shows continuous readings per day as three lines would be better than using medians. Maximum recorded, minimum recorded and average.

Because a lot of transmission of COVID can happen in a very short time.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 15h

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

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Paul DeCampo @pauldecampo.bsky.social · 11h

hottest day EVER on october 10

cool cool cool

Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 11h

44.2C today in Culiacan Int. Airport is also its

HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY for any month

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 5d

Interested in pitching a review of the book? Or an interview? 👀🥺

Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 18d

I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread

The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 11h

Fascism basically super sucks but this is kind of cool that we can sometimes still use technology to connect with each other & have a good time even when fash say we can't do it in person

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h

The Canadian boycott of travel to the U.S. continued through September—cementing an enormous economic loss for American tourism in 2025 as visitors from around the world choose not to travel to the States amid geopolitical tensions.
www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

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Paul DeCampo @pauldecampo.bsky.social · 11h

So glad this doc is on @kanopy.com

WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through funk’s history, from its African and jazz roots to James Brown’s early work and the rise of Parliament Funkadelic.

www.kanopy.com/en/torontopl...

Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries

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