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Aslief πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

@arborvitae10.bsky.social

Eco-geek | Nevertheless persisting | Librarian | Gardening | Nerd | 🧑NDP🌈 For my cottagecore nerd feed see @arborvitaebloom.bsky.social

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Why are London's public institutions still using X? This man says it's time to stop | CBC News A Londoner is calling on the city to stop using the website X, formerly Twitter, to send out official communication because of the site's associations with hate speech and bigotry.

If you look at the engagement metrics on the City of London's posts on X/Twitter, they're generally low. The replies are outright nasty and dangerous.

London City Council already received a recommendation from its community advisory committee to divest from using X.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

05.03.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
#71 - George Monbiot - How we beat The Invisible Doctrine
YouTube video by The James Kennedy Podcast #71 - George Monbiot - How we beat The Invisible Doctrine

"We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths"

The great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social dropping truth bombs on this weeks show. Check it out (and please subscribe) ✊️

youtu.be/l5_jS5SQfDQ?...

08.02.2025 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 974    πŸ” 296    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 21

What a triumph! Thank you, archivists, for restoring the CDC website.

Science: 1
Fascism: 0

05.03.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1397    πŸ” 553    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 30

Is there anyone on here in the #Medsky community that could help out @zteirstein.bsky.social ?

05.03.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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CIA Director Reveals U.S. Has Cut Off Intelligence Support to Ukraine After Trump-Zelensky Clash Ratcliffe revealed Trump halted intelligence support as part of his decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine following last week’s Oval Office confrontation.

For the umpteenth time: No way should our allies share their intelligence with us. No fucking way. Trump can’t be trusted with our allies’ intelligence. He’s not on their side. He’s on Putin’s side. www.mediaite.com/tv/cia-direc...

05.03.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 990    πŸ” 208    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 12
Photo of a replica of Statue of Liberty in front of French embassy in DC gowned in. Ukrainian flag.

Photo of a replica of Statue of Liberty in front of French embassy in DC gowned in. Ukrainian flag.

French Embassy, Washington DC

05.03.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 585    πŸ” 149    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

One more Conservative leaning towards the US rather than showing solidarity with Canada … a reminder that 44% of Poilievre’s base is pro-Trump/51st state.

So Poilievre is not MAGA he says.
Big deal - his party IS MAGA and should not get in power or it will be the end of our country.

#ABC #CDNpoli

05.03.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Vote to Save the CBC
YouTube video by Friends of Canadian Media Vote to Save the CBC

I’m weeeeeeeezzzze laughing - Canada is awesome

Fu** the CBC

youtu.be/UFJ4YL6yRro

05.03.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump Outlines Bold Vision For Golden Age Of China WASHINGTONβ€”Promising a glorious future marked by limitless prosperity for the East Asian nation, President Donald Trump outlined a bold vision Tuesday night for a golden age of China. β€œUnder my leader...

Trump Outlines Bold Vision For Golden Age Of China

05.03.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5627    πŸ” 651    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 42

Number of active-duty troops authorized for border mission is now about 9K, with some arriving in coming days, defense officials say.

That includes 3K from a Stryker brigade combat team and aviation battalion approved by SECDEF last week. WaPo scooped that news Saturday.

05.03.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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The boycott is strong and getting stronger every day.

02.03.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 27073    πŸ” 5987    πŸ’¬ 899    πŸ“Œ 349
A picture of my tweet on Twitter that reads:
β€œI will no longer be posting on this platform which has become increasingly toxic & is owned by a member of President Trump’s inner circle. The US decision to unleash economic warfare on its closest ally will hurt people on both sides of the border. Please follow me on Bluesky.”

A picture of my tweet on Twitter that reads: β€œI will no longer be posting on this platform which has become increasingly toxic & is owned by a member of President Trump’s inner circle. The US decision to unleash economic warfare on its closest ally will hurt people on both sides of the border. Please follow me on Bluesky.”

After much consideration, I'm stepping away from Twitter (or β€œX”), now a space that amplifies misinformation, hate speech & corporate and Trump's interests over real conversations & accountability. I'm sticking with Facebook, Instagram and BlueSky plus face-to-face engagement in our communities!

05.03.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 176    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 4

Is your NGO forced to sign a statement agreeing to transphobia, opposing climate justice, or anything like that in order to get US funding?

You can send me a msg on Signal at @ ayoub.02

05.03.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 380    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Basic indicator of the viability of a permanent human presence on the Moon/Mars: do a quick survey of your inter-regional travel infrastructure. Not just its existence - its upkeep and quality. Would you want the same people charged to build & maintain *that* to be ensuring your oxygen?

05.03.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

As a Classical Studies major I deem this very literary. Catullus would be proud.

05.03.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Classical Studies major here. That was very literary of you. Catullus would be proud.

05.03.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

04.03.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 28242    πŸ” 5899    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 234

You skate really hard into the opponent with your elbow up and hit them as hard as possible either with your forearm or the point of your elbow. Often used to slam the opponent into the boards.

05.03.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨

I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.

My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

04.03.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4118    πŸ” 1251    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 86

Wab Kinew: The great news about us stopping the sale of US booze is our booze is way better🀣

Wab shows no fear. Ever. He's always smiling. He's ready. We need him on our team

#cdnpoli #onpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #skpoli #mbpoli #polqc #nbpoli #nspoli #nlpoli #peipoli

04.03.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Democracy Is Under Siege Globally. Canada Is Being Tested | The Tyee How the well-honed playbook for whipping up authoritarian populism is being employed here and around the world.

And don’t forget what Harper continues doing as chair of the Int’l Democracy Union (IDU), global club for crypto-fascist political parties: Harper has been happy to support such champions of democracy as Orban + Modi, and his IDU deputy chair was Mike Roman (Trumpist charged re 2020 US election).

01.02.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 17
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Also, don't forget that Harper and the IDU supported Trump and the GOP heading into the last US election. He cares not one damn bit about Canada. It's all about his oligarch pals.

02.02.2025 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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« "On prendra les πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA sans tirer un coup de feu. Nous n'aurons pas besoin de vous envahir. On vous dΓ©truira de l'intΓ©rieur". Kroutchev l'a prΓ©dit, #Trump vient de l'accomplir.Β Β»
by Gilles Chevalier

04.03.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

This isn’t #France β€˜s first rodeo going against the US.
It’s funny. We always said that it would take an alien invasion to get the world to work together. Looks like the aliens were from here. Alien to common decency, and basic humanity.
Human-looking monsters.

05.03.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#Harper #Cdnpoli #Healthcare

05.03.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

PP an MP under Harper when they cheated in 3 elections in a row. In-Out scandal-2006, violation of campaign finance laws-2008, Robo-Call scandal-2011. Harper put PP in charge of Democratic Reform to overhaul the Elections Act. Bill C-23 was so bad it was referred to as the Unfair Elections Act.

03.02.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

At a certain point media outlets are exposing listeners to so many lies that are so dangerous and insidious that it is morally irresponsible to air this content

05.03.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1408    πŸ” 238    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 4