Dr. Bast 🇨🇦
@bastsbest.bsky.social
I'm here! Dedicated to saving Alberta's pristine mountains. #CanadaSky. #YYC-based, for now... Dejected historian, wannabe political pundit, enduring feminist who is pressing on... Can't be tamed.
What are we even doing as a species anymore??
Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny!@malena.bsky.social · yesterdayPolymarket has millions of dollars in wildfire-related bets & more than $1M in beds were placed on the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires! DESPICABLE! THE PREDICTION MARKET PROMOTES THE OBSTRUCTION FIREFIGHTERS OR FOLKS TO GO OUT AND COMMIT ARSON! It's absolutely nuts!
Oh, are we getting under your skin, Donny? Good. Make mine a double double.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h agoHello to all the nasty Canadian people 🇨🇦 👋😵💫
"Mike from Florida" meme in 3, 2, 1...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h agoEl-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
I think this new generation of Democrats grew up listening to and believing in Obama. He is their muse.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 23h agoEl-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
Strange how none of those 10,000 chemicals make the US food supply any safer. Can't even win by eating lettuce. If you can't trust your food supply, you can't trust your government.
Diane@dianesf.bsky.social · 15h agoIn the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.
April Fools Joke: 'It's Fine' Meme
Alt: 'It's Fine' Meme, with a cartoon dog sitting at a table surrounded by fire.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 2d agoMIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE Brutal conditions with over 50C daytime and over 35C nightime continues. Widespread records allover the area. Some of the most extreme MINIMUMS tonight in the EMIRATES: 38.5 Swiehan 36.8 Al Ain Next days,we might see some MINIMUMS of 40C. Absolutely brutal
The social democrats need a big re-brand. The Governing for the People Party. GPP. (Would have cost you $5M for a big ad firm to do that for you. You're welcome.)
Marc Auerbach@pugetopia.bsky.social · 2d agoKatie Wilson gets the work done. Seattle's Do Nothing Party, led by the Seattle Times, does not like it and that's why they are talking shit every day all day.
Such a bang on article by Andrew Nikiforuk. "Although Smith declared in a major speech last May that 'muzzling the voices of hundreds of thousands of Albertans wanting to be heard is unjustifiable in a free and democratic society,' she did just that." #abpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
In Alberta, Referendums Must Serve Smith’s Aims Only | The Tyee
Witness the battle over the Water Not Coal petition as Corb Lund leads a fight to keep it alive.
thetyee.ca
Still can't believe there's a US Senator called Whitehouse.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoWhitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
Very similar to Canada's history. Corps could start paying for it by cutting back outrageous CEO salaries. Stop having other CEOs and C-Suiters on boards. They just ramp up compensation for each other.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d agoThe effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Now wanting a Toronto women's pro baseball team called...the Canada Jays...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Interesting...
Cancer-fighting chewing gum cuts HPV levels by up to 93%
A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a sa...
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Oh. My. God. This is pretty on the nose. The more things change...
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d agoThis Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.
Honestly, I think that the world would be a better place if we were all inherently cynical and critically questioned every piece of info consumed these days.
Interesting. My friend who had been stranded here by WestJet just got a rebooking notice for tomorrow. WestJet is chartering Air North to take her to Victoria. I wonder if AC and Porter are being chartered too?
Yaaaaaassss!! Go Corb! Dani infuriated the wrong cowboy.
Courtney Theriault@ctheriault.bsky.social · 7d agoNEW: Corb Lund officially files a judicial review challenging the Chief Electoral Officer’s decision to deem the Water Not Coal Citizens’ Initiative unsuccessful. The reasons? He argues the decision was unreasonable, procedurally unfair, and inconsistent with purpose of Citizen Initiative Act.
I really want the referendum to get single digit support, so we can finally say to the separatists: "Now shut the f*ck up. Or leave."
Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 7d ago“In other words, had the premier not intervened to boost the separatist effort, it would have failed by a considerable margin.” ca.news.yahoo.com/breakenridge...
It's always fun when WNBA players do stuff that's so impossible that you almost never see it in NBA games either. That's been Olivia Miles' passing all year.
This is the way. (And Ruh-Roh, Dani...)
skippyoz@skippyoz.bsky.social · last wk.This is how to help save life on our planet. Australia now has 40% of housing with solar panels & are supplying 50% of their power usage for free & by next year they estimate all domestic electricity usage will be free. C'mon America you can do it. Stop using life destroying, dirty fossil fuels.