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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 1h

As noted in @graphicmatt.com's City Hall Watcher, Chow "asks staff to send every MPP stats about road deaths in their area & to send notifications to every household near a camera location letting them know about the potential safety impacts they could face if/when the cameras are switched off."

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

most normies are mad at thiel for being incomprensible

we are mad at thiel for not understanding philosophy and theology

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 8h

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h

Pope Leo at Jubilee Mass: “Let us take care to avoid any exploitation of the faith that could lead to labelling those who are different — often the poor — as enemies, ‘lepers’ to be avoided and rejected.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 7h

Religious movements are *always* internally contested. It is not for historians/outsiders to decide which party to the contestation represents the “true“ version or deserves exclusive use of the movement’s name/label. Their job is rather to describe the internal diversity as accurately as possible.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22h

Denying entrance to a Eucharistic Procession is to Catholicism kinda like what desecrating the flag is to the American civic religion, except with even more weight of history and tradition behind it!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22h

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 1d

I really wish people would familiarize themselves with popular anti-authoritarian movements.

You succeed, in part, by being funny.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 1d

Noblesse oblige is worse than true equality but better than "I earned it, I built it, it's mine, go get yours/if you don't that's on you"

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 1d

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 1d

Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 1d

"Why aren't progressive Christians..." sounds a lot like "Why isn't anyone talking about..." Tbh

We are. We have been. For literal centuries. Y'all just won't listen, believe us, read, follow, show up, volunteer, donate, or support our work. 😑

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Julie Witmer @witmaps.ca · 1d

Things that are cash grabs: Ford selling 99 year lease of public park (Ontario Place) to private company; successive governments taking taxpayer money earmarked for health and education and giving it to private companies. Things that are not cash grabs: fines for breaking the law.

Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 1d

“Those who are using terms like ‘nanny state’, and this is a ‘cash grab’, I hope they look at these numbers and realize this is absolutely not. This is about the safety of our most vulnerable, including little kids to older adults and everybody in between." -Waterloo mayor McCabe

Regional committee discusses speed cameras

Regional committee members discussed how the speed camera enforcement program has progressed in its first six months of operation at a meeting on Tuesday.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2d

Weird random meme-y shit (laudatory) like this is how it might eventually be called The Great Frog Resistance, where everyone wears a frog pin, & remembrance events in 50 years begin with reverent croaks. Just from some dude's choice of a frog for a costume. Humans are weird.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 2d

I'm trying to secure a shared Google account at work with Yubikeys as passkeys.

It turns out Google won't let you add passkeys if your computer doesn't have Windows Hello, which is not enabled on work computers.

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The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 2d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 2d

I don't want to be harsh to that little community. They genuinely care and were spending their free time trying to be helpful, and there were ways it felt like they were trying to grow past the dual evangelical and tech saviour complexes. 15 years ago it may have been a good step forward for me.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 2d

I said I would hire and pay well one or more people from the group I was trying to help, as I stared at my group of almost all white, educated, Christian men. I quickly realized that the question was meant to be "what cool expensive tech thing would you build that magically solves social issues?"

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 2d

I once went to an event for Christians (mostly evangelical but in the broad sense, not in the social conservative sense) working in tech. There was a group breakout thought experiment: what would you do with enough money starting a non-profit to help a group in need?

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 2d

I'm already convinced: next year's Nobel Peace Prize winner should be the Portland Frog(s).

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 2d

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 2d

The very phrase "there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will" is counter to any substantive concept of peace, which requires some fundamental belief in human equality and collaboration. "Peace through strength" is not real peace.

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 2d

Totally normal official response.

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President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.

He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.

The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

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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Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · 2d

So… smartphones for teenagers are going to be *banned* in schools, but *mandatory* everywhere else. Got it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 2d

I'm sure Trump will have a completely normal response to the Peace Prize going to a Venezuelan woman who stands up for democratic rights and fair elections against an authoritarian - you know, actual peace stuff - and not to him doing the opposite.

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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | CBC News

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, it was announced Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

www.cbc.ca

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