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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Sound advice from Rutger Bregman: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ross's Gull at Newlyn Harbour today with the harbour wall making a nice back drop to make the bird stand out.
This first winter gull showed well visiting the harbour a few times today.
@birdguides.bsky.social
@cbwps.org.uk

Always support your local library.
When I need a book for research, I request it, and it is shipped to my library so I can pick it up.
I couldn't do my job without the library.

‘High-quality’ counterfeit money circulating in B.C., police warn Police in Nanaimo, B.C., are warning the public about a surge in counterfeit currency in the community, with investigators reporting more than a dozen cases of customers using “high-quality” fake $50 ...

NANAIMO: “Police in Nanaimo, B.C., are warning the public about a surge in counterfeit currency in the community...” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social

#BCNews #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I am told that The Raven in Deep Cove is now an Italian Restaurant called Il Corvo.
Here's what it looks like now, and what it looked like back in the day...

When the summer sunrise cooks the road

Multigenerational family grocer to reopen in Abbotsford’s Matsqui Prairie | CBC News Almost six decades since Howard Wong Sr. and Darlene Wong started Howard Wong Farms in Abbotsford's Matsqui Prairie, grandchild Brendan Wong and wife Tamara Wong are taking over the business, set to r...

Wongs is reopening 😍

Canada will be closed on Sunday for hockey.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

Grey's Anatomy's 'McSteamy' Eric Dane dies of ALS at age 53 | CBC News Eric Dane, the celebrated actor best known for his roles on Grey's Anatomy and Euphoria and who later in life became advocate for ALS awareness, died Thursday. He was 53.

This is so sad. 💔

Grey's Anatomy star Eric Dane, who went on to be an advocate for ALS awareness, dies at 53
Was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disorder in April 2025

www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

The Victoria Man with a Plan for Your Old Sofa | The Tyee Meet Elwyn Thom, the 23-year-old founder of Recertified Furniture.

#WhatWorks💡: For more than three years, Elwyn Thom has collected furniture destined for the dump, fixing it up and reselling the pieces at a discounted price. 🛋️ @joshkozelj27.bsky.social reports.

Pierre Poilievre gave up a House Member for Lent.

In this episode, Nate is joined by biologist and farmer Jason Bradford, to discuss his ‘Farming Club,’ which offers hands-on learning for ecologically based agriculture, where members also get to take home food and build a relationship with the land.

www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/211-...

Detail of an unfinished painting of Prussia Cove in Cornwall. Painted looking along the wall as it curves into the hillside, leading the eye back to the rounded cliffs. The slopes are covered with rough vegetation and trees; a cottage is visible behind the tree line along the ridge, blurred by clouds and rain. The palette is a mix of greys, greens and gold, with extra scribbles in oil sticks to add detail and texture.

Latest #workinprogress of #PrussiaCove #cornwall #oilpainting

B.C. declares Feb. 12 a day of mourning to honour victims of Tumbler Ridge mass shooting | CBC News B.C.'s legislative assembly will stand for a moment of silence on Thursday to honour the victims of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, followed by a speech honouring the community.

B.C. declares Feb. 12 a day of mourning to honour victims of Tumbler Ridge mass shooting #TumblerRidge #BritishColumbia

Province cancels throne speech, instead will deliver speech dedicated to residents of Tumbler Ridge

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In other Saturn Neptune news, an initiative called the Ocean Cleanup is aiming to reduce 90% of the plastic in the ocean in the next 15 years 🥹🌊 they’ve already removed tens of millions of kgs

Jim Robson, veteran Vancouver Canucks announcer, dead at 91 | CBC News Robson called more than 2,000 NHL games over his 47-year career in broadcasting, but is best remembered for announcing Canucks games for more than 30 years — starting with their very first major leagu...

Thank you for making listening to the hockey games so vivid and exhilarating, as if one is watching the game as it's happening.

🫶🏻💔

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Good Morning.
The Early Edition is Province-wide this morning.
Needless to say, our focus will remain on the Tumbler Ridge tragedy.
You can share your thoughts & condolences on our text line: 236-330-2623
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All of BC is wrapping the families of Tumbler Ridge with love.

Supports are available:

BC Mental Health Support Line: 310-6789

Kids Help Phone: Text “CONNECT” to 686868

Thank you to the emergency responders on the ground for the work they are doing.

"Democracy & justice in Alberta are being threatened. Alberta is being abused by its own government much the same way the United States of America is being abused by its current president."

Over 180 Lawyers have penned an open letter calling out Smith's attack on the law.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Morning Coffee Run
10”x8” oil on wood panel
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Available

Frosty sunrise. -6°

Controlled burns to destroy debris collected from 2022’s Keremeos Creek wildfire - Penticton Western News The burns will be visible on Highway 3A and from Apex, with the start dependent on the weather

BRITISH COLUMBIA: “Controlled burns to destroy debris collected from 2022’s Keremeos Creek wildfire” pentictonwesternnews.com/2026/02/02/c... - Penticton Western News

#BCWildfire #KeremeosCreekWildfire #Wildfires

At first glance, my painting looks like a fragment of the Scottish uplands. In fact, the twisted stems of this Betula grow in a central border of the University Botanic Gardens, Dundee, smelling more of moorland than city.

Yup.

'The Winter King (of the Hill)'
Oil Paint

A compilation of stills of schitts creek with Moira rose and several of her eccentric wigs

Starting a rewatch of Schitts Creek

❤️

Thanks to Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara’s years of playing unwitting, over-the-top eccentrics in Christopher Guest movies, Schitt’s Creek had a similarly left-of-center vibe.

Why the show was so great: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Freedom Album Cover -Neil Young

Rockin' In The Free World
-Neil Young🎸🎶🎵💙

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