RoxyB 🌷
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Pronounced Bouquet ☕| Manics fangirl 🏴| Shipper extraordinaire 💜| Overeducated feminist ✊| Français (parfois) ⚜️| Disgruntled pelican 🧀
Not exactly surprising: www.geekwire.com/2026/he-it-b...
He, it, but rarely she: When AI models write kids’ stories about animals, female characters vanish
A new University of Washington study testing leading AI models across nearly 24,000 story completions found that AI guardrails designed to reduce bias have accidentally erased female characters — defa...
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"Les personnes qui souhaitent donner leur point de vue sur des considérations susceptibles d’orienter la décision du gouvernement peuvent les soumettre à WCOPComment-CommentaireOCO@mpo-bgp.gc.ca d’ici le 18 septembre." gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/202...
La Gazette du Canada, Partie 1, volume 160, numéro 31 : SUPPLÉMENT
Le 1er août 2026, Partie 1, Volume 160, numéro 31, Gazette du Canada
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Alexandre Shields@alexandreshields.bsky.social · 16h agoLe fédéral lance une consultation publique pour déterminer si le futur pipeline vers la côte ouest sera inscrit comme projet «d'intérêt national». La consultation est pilotée par le Bureau des grands projets, dirigé par l’ex-p.-d.g. du pipeline Trans Mountain. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
Since industrial logging began more than a century ago, most of Vancouver Island’s productive old-growth forests — those capable of growing the large trees characteristic of the island’s rainforests — have been cut. About 20 per cent of those forests remain.
B.C. is logging its last old growth and protesters are trying to stop it
Vancouver Island’s old growth rainforests are among the rarest ecosystems on Earth and protesters are trying to stop the logging there.
aptnnews.ca
I had the chance to spend the day with Cycling Without Age Vancouver. It would be an understatement to say I was moved. @cyclingwithoutage.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE-e...
The Bike That Makes Everyone’s Day
YouTube video by Nic Laporte
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"That's the kind of day it's been." www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92
Canadian journalist Lloyd Robertson, who covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 9/11 terrorist attacks during 35 years as chief anchor of CTV National News, has died. He was 92.
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Of course. Fucking loser. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
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Le principal projet de logements hors marché à Montréal est mis dans le broyeur de SMF. De 50% de hors marché, Ensemble vise maintenant 20%. C’est juste enrageant qu’un parti se droite en 8 mois fouttent en l’air 8 ans de travail.
L’hippodrome, le logement abordable et la rentabilité
C’est tu possible d’avoir autant de logement abordable sur le site de l’ancien hippodrome et quand même avoir des projets rentables?
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To "defend" girls and women, we're going to violate their intimacy. Yep. Sounds like good old patriarchy to me!
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Thank goodness you know it's unpopular
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 4d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia
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EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN 52 DEGREES AT DAY 38 AT NIGHT in Iran,Kuwait,Oman,... HUNDREDS OF RECORDS pulverized allover the area. MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN WORLD HISTORY and will get worse and worse.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
I have seen the Odyssey and my main takeaway is that it’s time to give John Leguizamo an award for not only being great but singlehandedly improving EVERY FILM HE IS IN.
Comment un défi peut-il être «populaire auprès des jeunes» et n'engendrer qu'une poignée de cas, aucun confirmé, dont un qui date de 2025 et un qui n'aurait rien à voir? Pourquoi ne peut-on pas nous montrer une seule publication de ce «défi en ligne» qui est, on le rappele, «très populaire»?
Help! My symbolism! It's so overt! And very explicit!
Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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Starts off as a story on the continuing trend of assortative mating in the U.S., ends up explaining why cultural & political movements to push women out of college & the workplace are going to continue to appeal to working-class male voters: finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...
College-educated women are snapping up the highest-earning men without college degrees, leaving the rest further behind
A new NBER study finds that as college men grow scarce, college-educated women marry high-earning men without degrees—leaving noncollege women with a shrinking, poorer pool of potential husbands.
finance.yahoo.com
Pourquoi supporter PP quand tu peux avoir la version améliorée sans jambon déjà au pouvoir 🤔
Cult MTL@cultmtl.com · 6d agoSupport for Pierre Poilievre as PM reaches all-time low of 18%
«Le refus du gouvernement caquiste d’imposer un contrôle des loyers et d’investir massivement dans la construction de logements hors marché étant l’un des facteurs majeurs qui précipitent de plus en plus de Québécois à la rue.» www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/07/31/c...
«Cohabiter» avec la misère humaine mène à sa banalisation
Décider qu’il faut «cohabiter» avec l’itinérance mène à l’accepter, la banaliser et la normaliser, quitte à oublier les visages derrière la crise.
journaldemontreal.com
I LIVE for uhhuhhannah and her masterful detective work, retracing all the Dream Phone dudes, one by one. www.instagram.com/reel/DY0TTrp...
Hannah Young on Instagram: "Steve, if you’re out there, call me. You have my number. 555-9999"
75K likes, 2,675 comments - uhhuhhannah on May 26, 2026: "Steve, if you’re out there, call me. You have my number. 555-9999".
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Sales Are So Low, California Wineries Are Burning Their Vineyards www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Sales Are So Low, California Wineries Are Burning Their Vineyards
The rise and fall of pinot noir symbolizes the larger struggles of the wine industry as younger generations turn to other beverages.
nytimes.com
