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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦
@jamesbicycle.bsky.social
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Clinical-community psychologist, cycologist. Saskatchewan by a lake, Kelowna by a mountain. Retired from clinical practice. Consultant re mental health & physical injury recovery. Past board member Saskatoon Cycles. Let's be kind to each other.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3h
Apple uses its app store control to extract 30 cents out of every dollar spent by its customers in the apps they use...30%.. worldwide tax on news outlets, podcasts..apps and games.
Google plans the same thing for Android phones.
Billionaires got to billionaire. 🤬
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Pluralistic: Apple’s unlawful evil (06 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 16h
Saskatchewan needs to end government (tax payer) funding of private schools too.
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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 1d
Elections Alberta has approved a citizen-initiated petition application to gather signatures in support of the proposal to end public funding to independent/private schools.

Calgary teacher Alicia Taylor says she brought it forward because it could help improve funding for public schools. #AbEd
Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News
If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 17h
Best to not to pay attention to anything said about building another pipeline that has no private company interested in funding. Cenovus guy said they support but that's about getting gov't to pay for it- corporate welfare. Taxpayers have already paid for Transmountain. No economic case for one.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 1d
Provoncial politicians abuse the Charter of Rights and Freedoms "notwithstanding" clause. They're doing it more & more often. For cheap political reasons. The supreme court absolutely needs to rule on limits.
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5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News
Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 1d
David Bowie 2002. Prescient. Thoughtful.
"One of the dangers of the American way is that it's America first in everything it does. There is virtually no interest in the ambitions, feelings, needs or sensitivities of any other nation.. It's one of the things that makes us resent Americans much"
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 1d
? When ? the info is the judge was possibly intoxicated and had an altercation in Arizona (not while sitting as a judge), details of which come in 2 versions. I thought it might be useful to note that no one is immune from medical conditions- stigma is a problem.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 1d
Being educated, smart etc spares no-one from any medical condition, diagnosis, symptoms.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 1d
The flowers taste like morrel mushrooms
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 2d
Looked it up. $18.7 million of Sask exports went to Israel 2024. With $20 more million not fulfilled. Mostly chemicals AFAICS. Don't think there's any expansion.
-- this is, again, politics, not really about trade. He's targetting a particular voter group.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 2d
Dandelions flowers fried in butter, garlic & hot peppers. Then flash fry the bitter leaves in basalmic vinegar. Mix. The contrast is like angels shooting arrows through my tongue.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 2d
Sardines, pickled herring, gravlax, raw shellfish, and very very goaty cheese. Eat with burnt fermented drinky things and stinky friends.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 2d
They didn't dress beautious red & fur when I watched them a couple of months ago. This may be their fancy Star Trek uniforms?
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 2d
Refine + ship finished petroleum products somewhere else is more expensive than ship somewhere else + refine there. Think it's partly about handling & shipping gasoline & other products versus shipping one thing. Same problem with wheat & flour => baked goods, pasta etc.
(Economics only re this)
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 2d
AFAIK, shipping refined gas, oil etc isn't economically viable or they'd be doing it.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3d
An excellent, expert series of posts. "In Dec 2024, Universal Ostrich Farms had a confirmed H5N1 outbreak on their remote farm in BC. They did not report to CFIA as required by law. They lost 69 ostriches. CFIA found out anyway & tested 2 dead ostriches. They were positive. CFIA issued a cull order"
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d
As the accursed ostrich situation continues to get simultaneously more stupid and gravely serious, I decided to write up a very long analysis of many of the key issues. Bottom line: so long as this flock lives, it is a threat to Canada's national security. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
Last Stand in Bird Flu Ostrich Land
The BC ostrich convoy enters the "find out" stage of FAFO and so have we all
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3d
Using ChatGTP / OpenAI. Comments: re things I'm expert on, it includes "other sides" & false info. It uses personal pronouns & emotions to refer to itself- I tell it to stop.
Impression- it's like anyone who "knows" things bc they "researched" it by Google etc. It's 0 to 50% B.S. depending on topic
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3d
A bog is fed by precipitation. A fen by groundwater. Second most important fact I learned.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3d
A bog is an acidic wetland. A fen is an alkaline wetland. This is my most important weekend fact I learned.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3d
A bog is an acidic wetland. A fen is an alkaline wetland. This is my most important weekend fact I learned.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3d
Poillievre doesn't have a security clearance.
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 3d
So:

Carney introduces a border bill designed to placate Trump, despite fact his border claims are BS

Trump ignores; tariffs remain

Poilievre objects, not to the BS rationale for said bill, but because it's an assault on Canadian civil liberties

You follow?

#cdnpoli

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Conservatives won't support Liberal border bill without major changes: Pierre Poilievre | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the federal Liberals must either heavily amend their border bill or introduce a new piece of proposed legislation if they want support to pass it into law.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3d
clickbait / troll post. Do better.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3d
Compare: internet pornography changes expectations and then actual sexual behaviour. Consider the current dangerous choking trend. Much data for other shifts.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 4d
So there's only a business case if gov't pays for it?
"Alex Pourbaix is the executive chair of Cenovus Energy, and part of a supervisory panel for Alberta's pipeline application. He told The House he would "disagree entirely" with B.C.'s argument there's no business case."
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Energy minister dismisses 'hypothetical' question of repealing B.C. tanker ban | CBC News
Energy Minister Tim Hodgson is brushing off questions over whether the Liberal government will repeal the tanker ban in B.C.’s northern waters, calling it “hypothetical” since Alberta has not formally...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d
This is good —the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on “Car Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack.
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Screenshot of LinkedIn post from Yellowknife Mayor describing the costs and consequences of trucks having gotten so much bigger. In the link, he explains the backlash he received for his post.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 4d
The first news on this that's justified a report. Sex offender sentenced to only 4 years. Effects of sex offences can last a lifetime. Courts and lawyers re sex offences isn't really about justice.
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Soap Opera Spy @soapoperaspy.bsky.social · 4d
P Diddy Sentenced To Only Four Years In Prison #CelebrityJustice #CassieVentura #celebritysentencing
P Diddy Sentenced To Only Four Years In Prison
Sean “Diddy” Combs, AKA P Diddy is officially headed to prison after his sentencing hearing in New York. A federal judge handed down a four-year sentence, rejecting the defense’s push for leniency. Read on for more details  Sentencing Reported By ABC ABC’s Whit Johnson opened his report on YouTube by confirming the verdict: A judge […] The post P Diddy Sentenced To Only Four Years In Prison first appeared on Celebrating The Soaps.
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