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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 2h

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 12h

PM Carney's agreements with EU countries, and increased defence spending, are already showing benefits.
German and Swedish defence leaders have come to Canada to look at Canadian underwater drone tech for defence/security applications.
Canada has cutting edge
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ANALYSIS | Canada and Germany talk maritime drones as Europe worries about threats to undersea infrastructure | CBC News

Senior defence officials from Germany and Sweden visited Canada in the last week where discussions included rapidly evolving drone technology and capabilities. The discussions unfolded against a backd...

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Trish 🇨🇦 Sorry! 🍁 @trishly.bsky.social · 12h

Wednesday humour

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TIME TO FIGHT BACK @timetofixit.bsky.social · 1d

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Geoff Palmer @geoff-palmer.bsky.social · Apr 16

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 4h

Everything MAGA does is performative. They think they are all on reality TV.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 3h

Necessary viewing

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That guy Dan from 🇨🇦 @fiorito62.bsky.social · 4h

Happy Halloween 🎃

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Dr. Hedy Fry @hedyfry.bsky.social · 4h

Margaret Atwood has, for decades, challenged oppression through her writing. She has received honours and distinctions in Canada and around the world for her work, which she continues today through her political activism. #WomensHistoryMonth

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Andrew (Arumar the Grateful) @arumar108.bsky.social · 16h

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

pen.org/report/the-n...

Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.

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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 3h

Canada has real freedom of speech, Yankees need to recognise.

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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 4h

The University of Prince Edward Island is rescinding the demand that an artist in residence take down a painting that the school said offended some American faculty members. The painting, shows lemmings gathered around an American flag references Donald Trump's threat to make Canada the 51st state.

enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · Apr 12

Sanity and a balanced attitude to political art return to PEI University. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/entertainmen...

P.E.I. university backs down after artist accuses administration of censorship

CHARLOTTETOWN - The University of Prince Edward Island is backing away from a demand that an artist in residence take down a painting that the school said offended some American

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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 15h

Tim Houston has no respect for Nova Scotians: he thinks, like Trump, now that he’s elected he can do anything he wants, supporting corporate profits. We’ll have to stand firmly in his way if we want to stop him. Clearcutting unceded lands? NO WAY. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/i...

I'm a citizen scientist working to protect Nova Scotia's forests. Tim Houston is threatening to put me in jail. - Halifax Examiner

Jammed into a bill titled the Protecting Nova Scotians Act are amendments to the Crown Lands Act that will do just the opposite. The current law states that “No person, without lawful authority, shall...

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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 4h

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

B.C. Premier David Eby is clearly beyond frustrated with Danielle Smith's pipeline dreams threatening the B.C. economy.

In a fiery statement, he called her out directly stating...

"This is not the Danielle Smith show!"

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #bcpoli

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 14h

Rare white beaver wows #Ottawa wildlife watchers

The leucistic rodent has been spied on several ocassions near Perth, Ont.

#SpiritBeaver #Canada 🦫 🍁

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Rare white beaver wows Ottawa wildlife watchers | CBC News

Ottawa wildlife photographers have captured stunning images of a rare leucistic beaver.

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 6h

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Aug 30

Happy weekend!

From c. 3,600 years ago, here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙

Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC.

National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

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#Archaeology

My photo shows a blue spherical bead in the form of a hedgehog curled up in a defensive ball displayed on a grey background. It is made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material with a shiny blue glaze. The hedgehog’s face, ears, feet and tail are shown in relief, and the quills are represented by black dots painted over the surface of the bead. A hole for threading runs through the sphere - it can just be seen on the right hand side of the bead. The hedgehog’s long ears suggest this is a desert hedgehog. Desert hedgehogs may have symbolized rebirth because they reappear after hibernating underground in winter. Dated c.1985 - 1650 BC. On display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry not a drag queen

M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 6h

It is just ridiculous. It’s a bunch of US companies ripping off artists for absolutely no reason China has AI and they’re doing it completely open source who is gonna wanna pay for AI when they can get it for free? The tack economy of the US makes no sense.

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

"Look, if I have to get permission or pay royalties to some artist every time I try to pass their work off as my own what's even the point."

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 7h

Authorities announced the arrest of the Uber driver, 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, of Florida who is suspected of setting the initial fire that eventually became the California Palisades fire causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and killed 12 people.
Newsflash: NOT a Democrat.

Florida man accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades — Los Angeles Times

Jonathan Rinderknecht accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

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