The Broad Majestic Shannon
@shanathalas.bsky.social
Historical Research Consultant/Archaeologist.
Australian-Canadian beverage goblin.
Professional Cassandra.
Interested in sustainable urbanism, housing, birds, and eating the rich. Vancouver, Canada.
Australian-Canadian beverage goblin.
Professional Cassandra.
Interested in sustainable urbanism, housing, birds, and eating the rich. Vancouver, Canada.
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Once more for the people in the back: GenAI is the weapon of the oppressors. You cannot support a progressive message with GenAI images.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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Just Six Corporations Remain https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741/
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Just Six Corporations Remain https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741/
"I'll take 'Graft' for $500 please Alex"
Getting little anecdotes from the contestants on Jeopardy! between rounds
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"I'll take 'Graft' for $500 please Alex"
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Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
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It's enough to make you sick, it really is, but it's a helpful moment to clarify our current moment of global moral collapse
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It's enough to make you sick, it really is, but it's a helpful moment to clarify our current moment of global moral collapse
Holy Hell. They didn't even give Hitler a participation medal at the 1936 Olympic games. FIFA is a such a farce
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Holy Hell. They didn't even give Hitler a participation medal at the 1936 Olympic games. FIFA is a such a farce
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This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
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welcome to the surveillance state
December 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
welcome to the surveillance state
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Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? (BC)
Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? - BC News
Joshua Wright says a yellow cedar tree he photographed last year was "incredible," the largest he'd ever seen in a decade of hiking around Vancouver Island.
www.castanetkamloops.net
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? (BC)
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Over the next six months, The Tyee will be publishing a series of stories on the games and their impact on Vancouver, including the financial, social and cultural costs and benefits of hosting the #FIFAWorldCup.
But first, we answer basic yet critical questions. ⚽️ @tyolsen.bsky.social reports.
But first, we answer basic yet critical questions. ⚽️ @tyolsen.bsky.social reports.
How the World Cup Will Change Vancouver, for Better or Worse | The Tyee
The world’s largest sporting event is coming to BC in 2026. Here’s what you need to know.
thetyee.ca
December 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Over the next six months, The Tyee will be publishing a series of stories on the games and their impact on Vancouver, including the financial, social and cultural costs and benefits of hosting the #FIFAWorldCup.
But first, we answer basic yet critical questions. ⚽️ @tyolsen.bsky.social reports.
But first, we answer basic yet critical questions. ⚽️ @tyolsen.bsky.social reports.
I have no idea what my Spotify Wrapped is this year as gave that POS the boot last month. Should have done it ages ago.
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I have no idea what my Spotify Wrapped is this year as gave that POS the boot last month. Should have done it ages ago.
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John Rustad is Schroedinger's leader at the moment. He both is, and is not still leading the BC Conservative Party.
December 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
John Rustad is Schroedinger's leader at the moment. He both is, and is not still leading the BC Conservative Party.
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I miss the days when folks made money by doing something of value.
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I miss the days when folks made money by doing something of value.
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Speak up fur endangered species! Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act would severely weaken our most powerful tool for saving wildlife.
Make your voice heard before the public comment deadline on Dec. 22
Make your voice heard before the public comment deadline on Dec. 22
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Speak up fur endangered species! Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act would severely weaken our most powerful tool for saving wildlife.
Make your voice heard before the public comment deadline on Dec. 22
Make your voice heard before the public comment deadline on Dec. 22
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all my cat wants from life is to destroy my curtains and scream and I couldn't be more proud
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
all my cat wants from life is to destroy my curtains and scream and I couldn't be more proud
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It’s actually up to governments to regulate AI and stop it from destroying lives.
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It’s actually up to governments to regulate AI and stop it from destroying lives.
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I’m 56 years old, and for my whole life we’ve been asking some version of the question “what would WE, our generation, have done to stop the Nazis, either in Germany as they were rising, or around the world to fight for freedom.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’m 56 years old, and for my whole life we’ve been asking some version of the question “what would WE, our generation, have done to stop the Nazis, either in Germany as they were rising, or around the world to fight for freedom.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
Politicians bandy about the term “reconciliation” but it means nothing if they don’t listen to our First Nations on this.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal | CBC News
Assembly of First Nations chiefs are demanding the withdrawal of Canada and Alberta’s recently announced new pipeline deal and expressing full support for First Nations on the British Columbia coast t...
www.cbc.ca
December 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Politicians bandy about the term “reconciliation” but it means nothing if they don’t listen to our First Nations on this.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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My bank's website is one letter off from a gross German porn site and it's annoying because I keep accidentally visiting my bank's website.
October 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
My bank's website is one letter off from a gross German porn site and it's annoying because I keep accidentally visiting my bank's website.
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What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession?
For archaeologists, it’s definitely "you must love digging up dinosaurs, right?"
For archaeologists, it’s definitely "you must love digging up dinosaurs, right?"
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession?
For archaeologists, it’s definitely "you must love digging up dinosaurs, right?"
For archaeologists, it’s definitely "you must love digging up dinosaurs, right?"
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world