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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦

@slimdude.ca

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🇨🇦Musician, producer, recording studio owner, retired IT Pro, political junkie, Eco-Socialist dog lover, punster, straight he/him. Founder and bassist for Sissiboo. No party affiliation. Equal opportunity mudslinger. Now living in beautiful Nova Scotia.

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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · May 31

Check out my band Sissiboo’s music on all streaming platforms.
Apple Music: music.apple.com/ca/artist/si...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6OtX6...
YouTube Music: music.youtube.com/channel/UCfH...

Sissiboo on Apple Music

Listen to music by Sissiboo on Apple Music.

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 13h

Stocks plunge amid Trump's latest tariff threat

Wall Street investors were rattled Friday after Donald Trump threatened a "massive increase" in tariffs on Chinese imports over a rare earths dispute

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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 13h

Eastern most point in Canada. We saw whales frolicking offshore when we were there. Cool lighthouse too. Definitely worth the visit.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

Today on Volts: geothermal startup Quaise is using microwaves to pulverize rock, drill down miles, & access levels of heat that cause water to go supercritical, so it holds exponentially more energy. The promise is geothermal power with 10X the productivity -- enough to lure FF giants into the biz.

Super-deep geothermal drilling ... with microwaves

I talk with Quaise CEO Carlos Araque about a technology that could persuade the oil and gas industry to drill for heat instead of fuel.

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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 16h

Nice looker. What year is it?

The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 16h

Thank you. 🙏

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 17h

Canada’s Department of National Defence says it will continue a long-standing operation with the U.S. Coast Guard to capture drug smugglers in the Caribbean, despite a string of deadly U.S. airstrikes www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats have Canada ‘between a rock and a hard place’ | CBC News

Canada’s Department of National Defence says it will continue a longstanding operation with the U.S. Coast Guard to capture drug smugglers in the Caribbean, despite a string of deadly U.S. airstrikes ...

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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 16h

I’m always sad when we lose another bass player. Especially as I myself grow older.

The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 16h

Rest in peace John Lodge.

Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 17h

John Lodge, singer and bassist of Moody Blues, dies at 82

John Lodge, the singer and bassist of British rock band Moody Blues for more than 50 years, has died. He was 82.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17h

Uhh, what is this unconstitutional horseshit?
"The constitution bill would also have the Quebec premier recommend who should be appointed the province's lieutenant-governor. ...
The new legislation would also rename the lieutenant-governor the "officer of Quebec.""
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quebec tables draft constitution to affirm its 'distinct national character,' premier says | CBC News

The constitution, filed at the National Assembly on Thursday and lambasted by opposition parties as a piece of political theatre filed without proper consultation, includes language asserting Quebec’s...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?

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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 16h

We were doing that anyway.

The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 16h

Now that you mention it, a champagne float sounds delicious!

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 1d

Why is it OK to do this on live TV but not OK to do it on a Pride float?

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

🍁🙌🏼🤭😁

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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 16h

Damn dams!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I'm talking about the Epstein list. I genuinely don't understand why there's been any effort to hide this & prevent it from coming out. But b/c of the efforts for years now to hide it, it certainly makes you feel afraid when you're one of the ones truly on the frontlines."

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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 17h

One of the things I hadn’t considered when moving here was the night sky. We’d have had to drive 2-3 hours from Cambridge to get away from the light. Now we just go outside and look up.

The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 17h

That’s what city living does to you.

The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 17h

Which went through the roof during the boom. But you won’t get that if you put it on the market today. Time for assessment values and corresponding taxes to come back down.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

The federal investigation into the death of convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was marred by significant lapses, experts told CBS News, including the failure by investigators to interview potential witnesses, properly preserve certain evidence and run basic forensic tests.

In cell where Jeffrey Epstein died, a scene of disarray that never underwent thorough inspection, experts said

Photos of Jeffrey Epstein's cell show a scene of disarray that never underwent a proper inspection, according to experts.

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🇺🇲📎Gigi Alexander 🇺🇦 Democracy Defender! 🌊 ❤️America.🌈 @gigialexander123.bsky.social · 20h

Trump doubled down this week on his vows to empty Gaza permanently of its more than 2 million Palestinians, saying they would not be allowed to return and suggesting at one point he might force Egypt and Jordan to take them in by threatening to cut off U.S. aid.

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Trump doubles down on plan to empty Gaza. This is what he has said and what's at stake

Rights groups say that behind U.S. President Donald Trump's vows to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” lies a plan to forcibly drive a population from its land.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19h

BREAKING: Philippine seismologists report a new offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 in same southern region as 7.4-magnitude earthquake earlier Friday.

7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes offshore from southern Philippines

An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 hit off a southern Philippine province Friday morning, seismologists said.

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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 19h

Three Hoover dams for less than a tenth of the cost.

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Harold Coxeter is my math hero 🪷 @deepgreendesign.bsky.social · 19h

6.2 GW ≈ 3 Hoover Dams

China is laughing at America.

1 GW of solar is installed daily worldwide.

It took 70 years to install the first TW of solar & 2 years to install the second.

America is no longer a world leader, it is now AmeriKKKa.

#Project2025 #Solar #CdnPoli

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 19h

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🇨🇦DUNK🇨🇦 (Proud Old White Hippie) @noofieninja.bsky.social · 21h

🇨🇦 Happy Friday Canada 🇨🇦

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