Robbo
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@bsky.app Freelance journalist David Hogben reports from Odessa on weekend drone and missile strikes and how Ukrainian civilians are coping.
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Ukraine Diary
Day 31, Dec. 13
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December 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
@bsky.app Freelance journalist David Hogben reports from Odessa on weekend drone and missile strikes and how Ukrainian civilians are coping.
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Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.
December 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.
Quote of the week from Campbell's soup:
"We do not use 3D-printed chicken, lab-grown chicken, or any form of artificial or bioengineered meat in our soups."
I, for one, am not entirely reassured.
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"We do not use 3D-printed chicken, lab-grown chicken, or any form of artificial or bioengineered meat in our soups."
I, for one, am not entirely reassured.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Campbell's exec on leave after allegedly mocking 'poor people' who eat its soup | CBC News
A lawsuit filed by a former security analyst at Campbell's alleges he was fired for reporting inappropriate conduct by a senior executive, including an hour-long rant in which the executive allegedly ...
www.cbc.ca
December 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Quote of the week from Campbell's soup:
"We do not use 3D-printed chicken, lab-grown chicken, or any form of artificial or bioengineered meat in our soups."
I, for one, am not entirely reassured.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
"We do not use 3D-printed chicken, lab-grown chicken, or any form of artificial or bioengineered meat in our soups."
I, for one, am not entirely reassured.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
I had hoped to meet Stephen Thorne. I knew him through his work. I knew him pretty damn well.
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Writer and photographer Stephen Thorne remembered as dogged, keen-eyed storyteller
OTTAWA — Journalist Stephen Thorne, who movingly chronicled some of the most difficult episodes in recent Canadian history, died Friday after being ill with prostate cancer. He was 66.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I had hoped to meet Stephen Thorne. I knew him through his work. I knew him pretty damn well.
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www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-new...
Yessss! Whitecaps tie it @ 1-1
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Yessss! Whitecaps tie it @ 1-1
Hey Edmonton!Vancouver's old hockey barn is getting a new name. Perhaps they'll call it the Perfectly Good Coliseum. #yegcc
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Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum is getting a new name | Sports
Applications are now open for businesses to bid on naming rights for the Pacific Coliseum and Agrodome, the PNE announced on Friday.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Hey Edmonton!Vancouver's old hockey barn is getting a new name. Perhaps they'll call it the Perfectly Good Coliseum. #yegcc
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Thanks, Spotify for the mix of covers. FYI: they are not better. Most egregious, The Fugees' Killing Me Softly with its brutal out-front beats. (Yeah, we all like Disturbed's Sounds of ilence.)
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thanks, Spotify for the mix of covers. FYI: they are not better. Most egregious, The Fugees' Killing Me Softly with its brutal out-front beats. (Yeah, we all like Disturbed's Sounds of ilence.)
I still can't get over this. The president excusing his Saudi guest, first saying the writer was asking for it then saying MBS didn't do it.
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Would it have killed these journalists to ask MBS about murdering their colleague NICELY? #dailyshow
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I still can't get over this. The president excusing his Saudi guest, first saying the writer was asking for it then saying MBS didn't do it.
youtube.com/shorts/tAGJU...
youtube.com/shorts/tAGJU...
Thanks to Anu Garg for this quote from Voltaire:
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize."
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize."
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Thanks to Anu Garg for this quote from Voltaire:
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize."
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize."
“Detours will be clearly marked, accessible, and communicated in advance,” said the regional district.
I wanna believe. I really want to.
I wanna believe. I really want to.
The Capital Regional District is gearing up for sweeping upgrades to the Galloping Goose Regional Trail next year.
CRD gearing up for $53.5M upgrades to Galloping Goose trail starting next year
The Capital Regional District is gearing up for sweeping upgrades to the Galloping Goose Regional Trail next year.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“Detours will be clearly marked, accessible, and communicated in advance,” said the regional district.
I wanna believe. I really want to.
I wanna believe. I really want to.
B.C.'s Sunshine Coast - top Canadian place to live - saw school enrolment drop this year.
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Sunshine Coast school district reports enrollment decline, alternative school growth
Enrollment dips overall, but targeted supports boost alternative school numbers
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November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
B.C.'s Sunshine Coast - top Canadian place to live - saw school enrolment drop this year.
www.coastreporter.net/local-news/s...
www.coastreporter.net/local-news/s...
ABC reporter Mary Bruce asked Saudi Prince MBS why we should trust someone who ordered one of his citizens killed and dismembered. Trump weighed in insinuating writer Jamal Khashoggi deserved it and Mary Bruce is a "terrible" person. She's a red, white and blue hero.
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Trump attacks ABC reporter after question about killing of Saudi journalist Khashoggi
President Donald Trump denounced ABC News chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce as a “terrible reporter” and threatened the network's license to broadcast after she asked three sharp questions in...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
ABC reporter Mary Bruce asked Saudi Prince MBS why we should trust someone who ordered one of his citizens killed and dismembered. Trump weighed in insinuating writer Jamal Khashoggi deserved it and Mary Bruce is a "terrible" person. She's a red, white and blue hero.
apnews.com/article/medi...
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Most Epstein stories say he killed himself. Kudos to the Palm Beach Post: "...found hanging dead in his jail cell."
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Epstein wrote Clinton 'NEVER EVER' went to his island. But, like Trump, he flew on his jet
Donald Trump has again claimed Bill Clinton went to Jeffrey Epstein's island, but the former president denies it. Here is what Epstein's emails say.
www.palmbeachpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Most Epstein stories say he killed himself. Kudos to the Palm Beach Post: "...found hanging dead in his jail cell."
www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2...
www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2...
Hullo ferry in the Victoria boatyard Nov. 17. Why so pointy? Do they want to skewer whales?
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November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Hullo ferry in the Victoria boatyard Nov. 17. Why so pointy? Do they want to skewer whales?
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The decline continues, and solutions escape us.
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The decline continues, and solutions escape us.
At the supermarket: Some mysteries never get old.
November 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
At the supermarket: Some mysteries never get old.
Sunday morning comin' down. Sigh.
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Sunday morning comin' down. Sigh.
Checking out the fruit tray in the bottom of the 16th...
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Checking out the fruit tray in the bottom of the 16th...
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Ok. This is funny!
Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel
Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel
BERLIN—Just weeks after announcing his split with fiancée Katy Perry, English actor Orlando Bloom was photographed Friday dining with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Angela kept Orlando laugh...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ok. This is funny!
So sensible. So much better than a ring road.
Happy 100th birthday to the Yamanote Line!
The Yamanote Line is Tokyo’s equivalent of the Underground’s Circle Line, but carries far, far more passengers. It’s been heavily engineered to maximise capacity, and carries 5 million passengers every day.
youtu.be/wuhCtUo74jQ
The Yamanote Line is Tokyo’s equivalent of the Underground’s Circle Line, but carries far, far more passengers. It’s been heavily engineered to maximise capacity, and carries 5 million passengers every day.
youtu.be/wuhCtUo74jQ
山手線環状運転100周年記念動画（90秒）
YouTube video by JR東日本公式チャンネル
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October 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So sensible. So much better than a ring road.
I know how this person feels. Outside the James Bay Thriftys.
October 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I know how this person feels. Outside the James Bay Thriftys.
Just watched a detailed YouTube video on an engagement in the Second World War, May 12, 1943 in which seven U-Boats were allegedly destroyed. It never happened. But the detail in the account was crazy – AI, I guess.
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Just watched a detailed YouTube video on an engagement in the Second World War, May 12, 1943 in which seven U-Boats were allegedly destroyed. It never happened. But the detail in the account was crazy – AI, I guess.
Who knew? And I thought I was paying attention but I must have missed it.
October 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Who knew? And I thought I was paying attention but I must have missed it.