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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 10h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9h

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 7h

Give this a read. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?

Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

www.bloomberg.com

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 8h

Not a sweep, but plenty decisive. Goodbye Yankees! Go Jays!

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 9h

The whole thing needs to be rethought.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 9h

Indeed it is. Nice avatar BTW.

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 15h

Indigenous woman from Canada Mskwaasin Agnew is among 6 Canadians abducted by Israel while on a legal humanitarian aid mission @freedomflotilla.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social

This is in violation of International law.

We call on Canada to ACT NOW @mark-carney.bsky.social

#BreakTheSiege

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

In case you needed another reason to avoid Pepsico www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

PepsiCo in Russia: All you need to know - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

www.business-humanrights.org

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

Nanaimo Nah nye moe.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

In BC we're still stuck on the original Cowtown pronunciation.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 12h

The Liberals have left a huge swath to their left and Avi could legitimately claim it, but a lot would have to change for the NDP to be a contender.

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 12h

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 12h

Quick before anyone thinks it through, lets build more LNG infrastructure!

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 12h

So close. They're not saving the girls FROM wealthy sexual predators, they're saving the girls FOR wealthy sexual predators.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 12h

Canadians are seeing what he's doing and are right to have trust issues. He's governing to the right of where Mulroney used to stand and undermining parliament and rights in C5 and C2, he's announced austerity on a crushing scale, and still more fossil fuel infrastructure. No one voted for this.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 12h

He gives a good interview. The Economist is also his playground.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 12h

They certainly have a flair for the work, but don't dismiss the others. The BC NDP under Horgan and Eby built a very expensive dam (on shale who knew?) that they swore wasn't to electrify LNG, but guess what was just announced, electrified LNG! Then there's the militia breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...

Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects ⋆ The Breach

A widely-criticized police unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against major resource projects—including those fast-tracked under new legis...

breachmedia.ca

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 12h

It's a pot calling the kettle black situation. The PRGT pipeline Eby already said yes to is MAGA owned. He's also every bit as captured by fossil fuel interests as Smith.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 13h

When Danielle Smith threw roadblocks in front of Alberta solar projects she didn't do it for Albertans. She did it TO Albertans. She did it for fossil fuel interests. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 13h

Oh look, our Fifth Column is trying to build some plausible deniability.

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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 13h

“I don’t want any foreign interference in our politics here,” Smith told POLITICO’s Alex Burns..."

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And who is it running to Daddy Trump with all of her grievances while blaming Trudeau for a movement that's been brewing for decades? 🖕

#abpoli #cdnpoli
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Alberta premier to Trump: Stay out of our separatist fight

Danielle Smith says she does not want “foreign interference” — even from Washington.

www.politico.com

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 13h

Told ya.

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Keystone pipeline conversation revived | CTV News Calgary Noon Update for Oct. 8, 2025

YouTube video by CTV News

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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 1d

China’s no longer just exporting goods — it’s exporting energy independence. From panels, EVs & batteries to full cleantech ecosystems, it’s overtaking the U.S. fossil model built on extraction—ashes to dust. The Petro Age is ending; the Electron Age has begun.⚡ #EnergyTransition #EV #Lithium #Solar

China's Cleantech Exports Overtake US Fossil Fuel Energy Dominance with Lasting Implications - CleanTechnica

Recent reports out of thinktank Ember on China’s record-breaking $20 Billion in August clean technology exports and the underlying data have stimulated discussion online. Electrek focused on the EV ex...

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 13h

The simple, effective beauty of flooding the zone. Such evil intent.

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