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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 7h

looooool

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 7h

Another Rosa antifa for consideration.

Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 8h

They arrested Rosa Luxemburg!

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 11h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 7h

Maybe they dug up poor Rosa Thälmann! de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Th...

Rosa Thälmann – Wikipedia

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 7h

Well played.

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 7h

Wow. Ernst Thälmann's wife died in 1944, but ok. Must be some other woman in her 100s.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 11h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 7h

Made this tonight, but I tossed in lots of zaatar with the olive oil before I roasted it cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020... Also I made 2 cups of couscous in vegetable stock and then added in more zaatar and salt, then cut up the sausage and tossed it all together. Some mustard on the side was good

Sheet-Pan Sausage With Peppers and Tomatoes (Published 2019)

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 10h

Once again through some egregious error I have been left off the list! 😄 👉🏻MacArthur Foundation Announces 2025 ‘Genius Grant’ Winners www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/a...

MacArthur Foundation Announces 2025 ‘Genius Grant’ Winners

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 14h

Well the Swifties gonna Swift Swift Swift Swift Swift

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15h

Taylor Swift's new album “The Life of a Showgirl,” which came out Friday, broke a sales record set by Adele’s “25” a decade ago, according to initial reports.

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Has Already Sold 3.5 Million, Beating Adele

In its first five days of release, Swift’s new album broke a record set by Adele’s “25” a decade ago. Swift’s equivalent sales include 1.2 million on vinyl.

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 14h

Or shooting a projectile that hits a priest in the head and knocks him down.

Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Miller goes on camera saying ICE is fighting Antifa on the streets because the country is a war zone with dangerous criminals out to destroy America and then the video will just cut to a video of a group of ICE officers suplexing a 110-year-old blind nun

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 14h

This is a wild thread.

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 15h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 15h

Good thread! Also a good time to share the elephant curve en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ele... people in Northern America tend to focus on the right side but the entire global shift of equality is important to consider.

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 17h

Schiff did it best. Bondi was playing to the media (and her boss), so Schiff neutralized that and played to the media as well.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 18h

Hope that helped. Yes, you know what I am referring to. :) Also I see IT companies and staff possibly jumping on the quantum computing bandwagon soon but who knows. We need to get through the upcoming recession first.

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 18h

Yes, we're in a bubble; yes, data center requirements are going to shrink dramatically; no, agents are not going to replace all the workers; no, it's not going to go away; yes, it will replace certain roles, but new roles will emerge; yes, IT companies and staff will soon move on to other tech.

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

That is some stat.

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

Literally flying home

Fred Thompson @yourbestfred.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao Vladdy is absolutely out of his mind

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

MTG's latest actions reminded me of Churchill's quote: “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons." lite.cnn.com/2025/10/07/p...

Analysis: Marjorie Taylor Greene just complicated the GOP’s shutdown messaging | CNN Politics

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

It’s is good

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

It’s the administration’s M.O. to pretend the law is what they prefer and act accordingly. Glad to see all the pushback in this lawlessness.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

A similar thing is associated with his use of the word “nasty”

Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

When Trump referred to a congressperson as "low IQ" today, I didn't need to look up her sex and skin colour.

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

haha! Yeah! Lots of Nobel winners seem to get calls at the most inconvienient time for them!

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

Can't help but think Trump is warming up his military on American streets for some day sending them to Canadian streets.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

TRUMP: The merger of Canada and the United States! I'm only kidding

CARNEY: That wasn't where I was going

Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

haha! That would be the BEST! :)

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

Can I just say that big awards like the Nobel and others need a new way to notify people.

Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 1d

We are all Dr. Brunkow 😴
“Dr. Brunkow said she did not expect to win a Nobel Prize. ‘My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep,’“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

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Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · 1d

The future brings new terrors.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

Videos show panic among onlookers in China’s Liuyang city after a drone show malfunction sent burning embers to the ground, igniting fires.

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