Erny
@bugsyc.bsky.social
Canadian, married 59+ years, 7 children, 7 grandchildren, foster parents, retired, school bus driver, computer systems programmer, world traveller, member Community of Christ, long time supporter of community development through World Accord
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Erny
@bugsyc.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
YouTube video by PettyYou007
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A song for our time...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. - Andor
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December 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. - Andor
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
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An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. - Bryan Stevenson
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December 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. - Bryan Stevenson
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The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest - Sen Mon Mothma, Andor
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December 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest - Sen Mon Mothma, Andor
Pic of the day
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Pic of the day
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💯💯. Correct I love James Baldwin, one of my favourite writers. A proud strong gay man 🏳️🌈💙
December 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
💯💯. Correct I love James Baldwin, one of my favourite writers. A proud strong gay man 🏳️🌈💙
Absolutely.
DJT is just a symptom.
MAGA and the GOP are just 'useful idiots'.
Look to those who cultivate an atmosphere of hate, who shred consensus and the rule of law.
Who prospers when chaos reigns?
Privatized prisons and armies. Manufacturers and merchants of arms.
DJT is just a symptom.
MAGA and the GOP are just 'useful idiots'.
Look to those who cultivate an atmosphere of hate, who shred consensus and the rule of law.
Who prospers when chaos reigns?
Privatized prisons and armies. Manufacturers and merchants of arms.
We need to recognize this isn’t a Trump issue only, this is every Republican in Congress allowing this. It’s not a Donald Trump problem, it’s the Republican Party!
December 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Absolutely.
DJT is just a symptom.
MAGA and the GOP are just 'useful idiots'.
Look to those who cultivate an atmosphere of hate, who shred consensus and the rule of law.
Who prospers when chaos reigns?
Privatized prisons and armies. Manufacturers and merchants of arms.
DJT is just a symptom.
MAGA and the GOP are just 'useful idiots'.
Look to those who cultivate an atmosphere of hate, who shred consensus and the rule of law.
Who prospers when chaos reigns?
Privatized prisons and armies. Manufacturers and merchants of arms.
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Carney’s “groundbreaking” new methane regulations are expected to reduce oil and gas production growth by an estimated 0.2% between 2025 and 2035. -CBC
Wow, that much hey? 🙄
Wow, that much hey? 🙄
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Carney’s “groundbreaking” new methane regulations are expected to reduce oil and gas production growth by an estimated 0.2% between 2025 and 2035. -CBC
Wow, that much hey? 🙄
Wow, that much hey? 🙄
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Rob Reiner on Christian nationalism
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Rob Reiner on Christian nationalism
All TOO real.
Except that it purports to be set in DJT's 3rd term.
But after one year of his second term we are well on our way there already.
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
Except that it purports to be set in DJT's 3rd term.
But after one year of his second term we are well on our way there already.
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
How Alex Garland's Civil War offers a warning about the US political divide
The action film imagining a near future in which the US has descended into chaos is the year's most controversial film so far – and the polarised response is just as interesting.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
All TOO real.
Except that it purports to be set in DJT's 3rd term.
But after one year of his second term we are well on our way there already.
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
Except that it purports to be set in DJT's 3rd term.
But after one year of his second term we are well on our way there already.
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
I just started watching Civil War.
It was released in 2024.
It is uncannily presaging.
m.imdb.com/video/vi4004...
It was released in 2024.
It is uncannily presaging.
m.imdb.com/video/vi4004...
▶️ Civil War - Official Trailer 2
Watch Trailer | 1:24
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December 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I just started watching Civil War.
It was released in 2024.
It is uncannily presaging.
m.imdb.com/video/vi4004...
It was released in 2024.
It is uncannily presaging.
m.imdb.com/video/vi4004...
Progress is possible. It's vital to look for and to celebrate what we are achieving, to feed our hope. There is a future for our children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit
There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have made
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Progress is possible. It's vital to look for and to celebrate what we are achieving, to feed our hope. There is a future for our children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Premier Smith keeps talking about a ‘bitumen pipeline,’ but the facts don't add up. Sending dilbit through a pipeline puts communities and waterways at serious risk. We need leaders who protect people and the environment, not ones who downplay the dangers.
December 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Premier Smith keeps talking about a ‘bitumen pipeline,’ but the facts don't add up. Sending dilbit through a pipeline puts communities and waterways at serious risk. We need leaders who protect people and the environment, not ones who downplay the dangers.
Excellent reporting.
Top marks for courage, persistence, clarity.
Where are national news organizations.?
Top marks for courage, persistence, clarity.
Where are national news organizations.?
Good reporting on a local news station......not going to see this on mainstream
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Here's who attended a white nationalist conference at a Tenn. state park
YouTube video by NewsChannel 5
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December 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Excellent reporting.
Top marks for courage, persistence, clarity.
Where are national news organizations.?
Top marks for courage, persistence, clarity.
Where are national news organizations.?
Them as has the gold makes the rules.
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Them as has the gold makes the rules.
What can be done if the will is there.
In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy.
Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What can be done if the will is there.
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May our Candian government realize that to place all our defenceman capabilities at the mercy of American arms manufacturers is to render Canada more vulnerable DJT's whims. Just as Ukraine has been to Putin's ambitions.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump hints at walking away from Ukraine and calls Europe ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’
US president presses Zelenskyy to accept his peace plan and recycles far-right tropes on European immigration
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
May our Candian government realize that to place all our defenceman capabilities at the mercy of American arms manufacturers is to render Canada more vulnerable DJT's whims. Just as Ukraine has been to Putin's ambitions.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We need more of this: low (no) tech, community resistance.
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We need more of this: low (no) tech, community resistance.
From /. today...
The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen
The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen
December 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
From /. today...
The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen
The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen
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"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” .. (quote Howard Zinn) .(cartoon Guy Parsons)
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” .. (quote Howard Zinn) .(cartoon Guy Parsons)
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happy bday writer James Thurber, b.1894, Columbus, OH.
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
December 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
happy bday writer James Thurber, b.1894, Columbus, OH.
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”