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DB 🇨🇦

@rebelliousdb.bsky.social

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I should probably delete that.🤔 Contemplations on life and the human condition. + 📷 🍁 Calgary / Alberta / Canada 🇨🇦 Alt universe: @[email protected] My contemplations: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaapzd3kupcwi

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DB 🇨🇦 @rebelliousdb.bsky.social · Jan 2

Thanks for the follow.
My last decent post was back in 2012.

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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 6h

have you tried jumping in a big pile of leaves about it?

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Annalise Klingbeil @annaliseak.bsky.social · 4h

I think people don't realize we're at 1.6 million because you can't leave your house in this city without bumping into someone you know. Seriously, Calgary is the biggest small town ever.

Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 2d

Calgary’s suddenly a few years away from a population milestone planners had expected to come by mid-century. I don’t think ppl realize we’re already a 1.6M city.
By me:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | Calgary is racing to 2 million people. Will next council prepare for it? | CBC News

City's population has hit 1.6M far faster than expected. City hall will face pressure to manage continued growth and the strains that come with it.

www.cbc.ca

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DB 🇨🇦 @rebelliousdb.bsky.social · 4h

Darn family members who care about us. 🙄

DB 🇨🇦 @rebelliousdb.bsky.social · 6h

Follow the yellow line.
#Photography

A paved pathway stretches into the distance, flanked by rows of trees with golden-yellow leaves.

The pathway appears to be relatively straight with a single yellow line marking the center.
The trees line both sides of the pathway, creating a tunnel-like effect. Fallen leaves are scattered across the pavement.
Above the trees, a blue sky is visible with scattered white clouds.

DB 🇨🇦 @rebelliousdb.bsky.social · 7h

I have been informed that it is only Wednesday and not Thursday.
My schedule is in chaos.

DB 🇨🇦 @rebelliousdb.bsky.social · 7h

Sure, it's all medical stuff in your calendar, but at first glance it does look like you have quite the social life.
I can relate to this too much. 😕

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DB 🇨🇦 @rebelliousdb.bsky.social · 7h

I might be willing to take the moral high ground more often if it weren't for my debilitating vertigo.

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Fickle Filly @ficklefilly.bsky.social · 19d

If you listen carefully, you can hear hindsight laughing at you.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 7h

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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DB 🇨🇦 @rebelliousdb.bsky.social · 7h

"Oh, you and your wife have different last names?"

My wife was okay with me keeping my name when we married.

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Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 1d

Asking a dude if he would ever take his partner’s last name eliminates a large portion of red flags at the outset of dating tbh

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 9h

If you feel a disturbance in the force in Edmonton today, it’s because two librarians named Jen Waters are at the same conference. I haven’t met her yet but this is my only goal over the next two days.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 13h

I do not respond well to people ignoring me or paying attention to me.

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Forrest Plump @nahyoudoit.bsky.social · 2d

Did it hurt?

When you ordered Chinese for yourself but they included 3 forks and fortune cookies?

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DB 🇨🇦 @rebelliousdb.bsky.social · 10h

Yikes. Clearly I am moving forward through time faster than I realized.

DB 🇨🇦 @rebelliousdb.bsky.social · 10h

The team already shares disdain for corporate management, especially those suggesting team building, so any further team building efforts are kind of redundant.

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CapnMarrrrk @capnmarrrrk.bsky.social · 11h

2025 Corporations still think Team Building Exercises is a good idea.

"I know, let's take a bunch of people who work in the same space, who have zero job overlap and make them talk to each other." 👍

I haven't done one in 10 years and the last one, I never spoke to those people again.

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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 4d

Alas, poor Barbara. I know the feeling well

Brass memorial sign screwed onto the back of a bench:
"For Barbara
Who was awful when hungry
but otherwise pretty solid"

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Canadian Snark Lady and Potato Lover @kristadb1.bsky.social · 2d

The furnace kicked in. Please keep me in your thoughts.

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Melicious @honeybadgermel.bsky.social · 2d

I get my steps in by going back to get what I forgot and forgetting what I forgot again.

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 2d

It's true! When I studied economics, I was stunned by the ROI of social programs. Every dollar spent on childcare returns about $2.80 to the economy, and healthcare delivers even greater returns with broader social impact.

A universal basic income is simply smart fiscal policy. Why the reluctance?

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...