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Dr Elisabeth Kosters

@elisabethkosters.bsky.social

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Earth Scientist, living on the shore of hypertidal Minas Basin in Nova Scotia; writes about it on www.earthsciencesociety.com Born at 312ppm. Widow, (grand)mother, leftie. Fossil fuel burning causes global warming. 🇨🇦 🌈 🚲 🇳🇱

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 4h

Awesome, thank you!

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 4h

Great - I definitely don’t want to buy physical tickets

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 5h

Thx!
Yes, iPhone

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 8h

I just tried to find the / a Halifax transit app but there appear to be several.
As a Valley resident who needs to be in the city every once in a while, I don’t really know how to use the transit system, nor how to get tickets. Hints welcome

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 8h

He might as well have said “young WHITE pregnant … etc.

Effing racist, effing male chauvinist.

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 8h

Yep, very recognizable - sadly.

I wish you - and her of course - the best!

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 9h

Children around the world have died because Trump and Musk needlessly destroyed USAID. These are some of their stories.

apnews.com/article/myan...

AP: Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 9h

My mom moved to a retirement+care facility in her beloved neighbourhood, where several of her also widowed women friends already lived. Early dementia made it impossible for her to accept this change. She stayed angry until dementia caused her into mental oblivion.
It’s so difficult

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Faith has always had the power to challenge empire. When people of conscience stand together that power multiplies. it cannot be bought. It cannot be commanded. It cannot be stopped by this regime.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

It does not want churches that defend the poor, speak against violence, or stand up for justice. It only wants your obedience. It's willing to shoot protestors and even priests to force compliance.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

This government is following the same pattern. It uses religion to build support and silence dissent. It talks about protection. It campaigns on faith. It holds prayer events and makes public claims to moral authority.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Under Nazi rule, clergy who refused to support the regime were surveilled, arrested, assaulted, and in some cases, executed. The Nazis publicly aligned themselves with Christian values while targeting religious figures who defended the vulnerable or spoke against state violence.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 13h

As we watch the growing resistance to Danielle Smith's MAGA agenda in Alberta let's remember the powerful roots of true prairie populism. We have national health care because that generation stood up for a better vision of Canada.
My latest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj4D...

HOW PRAIRIE POPULISTS BUILT PUBLIC HEALTH CARE

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

www.youtube.com

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 13h

September climate warming stripes. It's as if something has changed. 🤔

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 12h

Last month observed above average temperatures across large portions of both the #Greenland and #Antarctic Ice Sheets. Anywhere in dark red shading is more than 5°C warmer than the 1981-2010 climatological average.

Data available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Map of Greenland showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in September 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer than average temperatures, and blue shading is shown colder than average temperatures. Anomalies are calculated relative to 1981-2010.

Polar stereographic map of 2-m air temperature anomalies in the Antarctic for September 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer anomalies, and blue shading is shown for colder anomalies. There is a sharp gradient in temperature anomalies across the region. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 14h

Let's check in and see how September temperatures have changed in the U.S. and Canada over the last 75 years. 🔥😢

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 13h

I have often thought about what I’d do if someone in my house says something reprehensible. I hope I’d be enough with it to throw them out instantly.

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 13h

Yes
Also here across Minas Basin

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 14h

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

What's it like living in Chicago today? This image gives us a strong sense of the fear that Chicagoans fear from Trump's secret police.

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 23h

Hi there @thejeffdouglas.bsky.social, re investment interview today. “Gold”.
You could have mentioned that Tim Houston approved another gold mine in NS near Isaacs Harbour and that, by the way of nothing, gold isn’t a critical mineral and that the “shortage” only pertains to jewelry and investments

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 1d

The Canada Post strike is still on. I’m a dual Dutch-Canadian citizen. The Netherlands has elections. My ballot is in the mail. I won’t be able to vote on time, together with a few 1000 others.

I know, it’s not a human life but I’m getting angry about the shut down of an essential service

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly fire in Russia: the moment a Russian air defense missile hit a residential building in Belgorod.

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