Kaylee Skylyn
@kayleeskylyn.bsky.social
Naturalist, reader, gardener, owned by two cats. Trying not to lose hope as I watch the world collapse. Trying to be a better person. Pro-human rights for ALL. Anti-fascist. She/her. 🇨🇦
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Perhaps Ontarians can take their used tires to Queens Park, Doug Ford's office! 😠
#FordFailedOntario #onpoli #cdnpoli
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#FordFailedOntario #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Used tires piling up in Ontario after Ford government lowers recycling targets
Industry experts say stockpiled tires could be sent for incineration, despite eco fees consumers pay to ensure they’re recycled.
www.thestar.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Perhaps Ontarians can take their used tires to Queens Park, Doug Ford's office! 😠
#FordFailedOntario #onpoli #cdnpoli
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#FordFailedOntario #onpoli #cdnpoli
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NEW – Guest post: Why cities need more than just air conditioning for extreme heat | @willrlewis.bsky.social @sean-p-goodwin.bsky.social @martaolazabal.bsky.social
Read here:
Read here:
Guest post: Why cities need more than just air conditioning for extreme heat - Carbon Brief
While air conditioning may be appropriate in certain contexts research has shown that a universal focus on technical solutions risks deepening inequality
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December 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW – Guest post: Why cities need more than just air conditioning for extreme heat | @willrlewis.bsky.social @sean-p-goodwin.bsky.social @martaolazabal.bsky.social
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If only people hated the people who rip them off, who under pay them, who constantly call them lazy, who wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire, as much as they hate people with a different skin shade.
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
If only people hated the people who rip them off, who under pay them, who constantly call them lazy, who wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire, as much as they hate people with a different skin shade.
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Russian drones have attacked four Turkish vessels in the past 48 hours.
This is an attack on a NATO member state.
NATO must strike back against the Russian shadow fleet.
This is an attack on a NATO member state.
NATO must strike back against the Russian shadow fleet.
December 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Russian drones have attacked four Turkish vessels in the past 48 hours.
This is an attack on a NATO member state.
NATO must strike back against the Russian shadow fleet.
This is an attack on a NATO member state.
NATO must strike back against the Russian shadow fleet.
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IMHO, visitors from around the world, NOT just America, should have their vaccine status checked at the border. Those who are not up-to-date with their vaccinations will need to be quarantined. They do that with imported animals! Are human less important?
#cdnpoli #uspoli
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#cdnpoli #uspoli
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Health minister says she worries about U.S. public health decisions harming Canadians | CBC News
Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she worries about how recent actions by U.S. public health agencies, like removing a universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for American infants, could harm ...
www.cbc.ca
December 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
IMHO, visitors from around the world, NOT just America, should have their vaccine status checked at the border. Those who are not up-to-date with their vaccinations will need to be quarantined. They do that with imported animals! Are human less important?
#cdnpoli #uspoli
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#cdnpoli #uspoli
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Listening to the New Yorker Radio Hour. Guest Leon Penetta is accusing Trump of being an appeaser of Putin.
He is saying that the US is making the “[making] peace by surrendering” mistake. That Putin smells US fear and is emboldened by it.
He is saying that the US is making the “[making] peace by surrendering” mistake. That Putin smells US fear and is emboldened by it.
Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones.
The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.
The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.
December 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Listening to the New Yorker Radio Hour. Guest Leon Penetta is accusing Trump of being an appeaser of Putin.
He is saying that the US is making the “[making] peace by surrendering” mistake. That Putin smells US fear and is emboldened by it.
He is saying that the US is making the “[making] peace by surrendering” mistake. That Putin smells US fear and is emboldened by it.
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“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
www.euronews.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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"My Grandfather's Cat" is a cross-Canada organization that helps dying seniors find homes for their beloved animals. They also offer a senior's pet food pantry, to help support low income seniors.
Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life.
www.mygrandfatherscat.ca
Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life.
www.mygrandfatherscat.ca
support fill the dishes — My Grandfather's Cat
www.mygrandfatherscat.ca
December 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"My Grandfather's Cat" is a cross-Canada organization that helps dying seniors find homes for their beloved animals. They also offer a senior's pet food pantry, to help support low income seniors.
Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life.
www.mygrandfatherscat.ca
Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life.
www.mygrandfatherscat.ca
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Requiring a person’s DNA and five years’ social media history to be eligible to enter the United States is extreme government overreach. Stay the hell away from that country.
December 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Requiring a person’s DNA and five years’ social media history to be eligible to enter the United States is extreme government overreach. Stay the hell away from that country.
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Ok, nothing to see here, no threat, just hundreds of dead wild birds - including more than a hundred in the past 24 hours. He (Miguel Higueras Ortega, head of forestry operations in Madrid) added the outbreaks did not appear to pose an environmental threat for now. Whew.
Hundreds of storks found dead near Madrid amid wider bird flu surge
Spanish authorities have detected four outbreaks of bird flu in wild birds in the central Madrid region, where forestry agents collected hundreds of dead storks over the past several weeks including m...
www.reuters.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Ok, nothing to see here, no threat, just hundreds of dead wild birds - including more than a hundred in the past 24 hours. He (Miguel Higueras Ortega, head of forestry operations in Madrid) added the outbreaks did not appear to pose an environmental threat for now. Whew.
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Looking at the shitstorm in the United States causes some Canadians to be smug. Look at the turkeys we have for provincial premiers: Danielle Smith in Alberta, Scott Moe in Saskatchewan, Doug Ford in Ontario, François Legault in Quebec, etc. And don’t get me started on Pierre Poilievre.
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Looking at the shitstorm in the United States causes some Canadians to be smug. Look at the turkeys we have for provincial premiers: Danielle Smith in Alberta, Scott Moe in Saskatchewan, Doug Ford in Ontario, François Legault in Quebec, etc. And don’t get me started on Pierre Poilievre.
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Trump is using the same lies that Putin and Hitler used to start their wars.
Nazis use lies as a weapon, to switch the roles of victim and attacker. www.fascism.link/p/putin-used...
Nazis use lies as a weapon, to switch the roles of victim and attacker. www.fascism.link/p/putin-used...
Trump is using the same lies that Putin and Hitler used to start their wars.
Nazis use lies as a weapon, to switch the roles of victim and attacker.
www.fascism.link
December 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Trump is using the same lies that Putin and Hitler used to start their wars.
Nazis use lies as a weapon, to switch the roles of victim and attacker. www.fascism.link/p/putin-used...
Nazis use lies as a weapon, to switch the roles of victim and attacker. www.fascism.link/p/putin-used...
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NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
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People need to boycott the US right now.
Don’t wait for these demands to go into place.
Don’t go for the World Cup. Don’t go for the Olympics.
Don’t go to Disney or Vegas or Broadway.
It’s not safe, and your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism.
Vote with your dollar.
Don’t wait for these demands to go into place.
Don’t go for the World Cup. Don’t go for the Olympics.
Don’t go to Disney or Vegas or Broadway.
It’s not safe, and your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism.
Vote with your dollar.
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
People need to boycott the US right now.
Don’t wait for these demands to go into place.
Don’t go for the World Cup. Don’t go for the Olympics.
Don’t go to Disney or Vegas or Broadway.
It’s not safe, and your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism.
Vote with your dollar.
Don’t wait for these demands to go into place.
Don’t go for the World Cup. Don’t go for the Olympics.
Don’t go to Disney or Vegas or Broadway.
It’s not safe, and your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism.
Vote with your dollar.
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
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Writer Julian Brave NoiseCat's new book looks at the ways colonialism has disrupted Indigenous lives, pushing many nations to the brink of annihilation and erasure — as well as the resilience and power of people who continue, writes @michellecyca.com:
thenarwhal.ca/we-survived-...
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‘We Survived The Night’: the Tlingit fight to protect herring | The Narwhal
An excerpt from “We Survived The Night” by Julian Brave NoiseCat
thenarwhal.ca
December 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Writer Julian Brave NoiseCat's new book looks at the ways colonialism has disrupted Indigenous lives, pushing many nations to the brink of annihilation and erasure — as well as the resilience and power of people who continue, writes @michellecyca.com:
thenarwhal.ca/we-survived-...
thenarwhal.ca/we-survived-...
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The flu... "coming up" on CBC Metro Morning. They're going to talk about "why it's up".
I can tell you why -- or at least, in part. Because people have normalized going to school and daycare and work sick. They're not taking precautions. Clean air? No. Masking? No. Vaccination? No.
I can tell you why -- or at least, in part. Because people have normalized going to school and daycare and work sick. They're not taking precautions. Clean air? No. Masking? No. Vaccination? No.
December 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The flu... "coming up" on CBC Metro Morning. They're going to talk about "why it's up".
I can tell you why -- or at least, in part. Because people have normalized going to school and daycare and work sick. They're not taking precautions. Clean air? No. Masking? No. Vaccination? No.
I can tell you why -- or at least, in part. Because people have normalized going to school and daycare and work sick. They're not taking precautions. Clean air? No. Masking? No. Vaccination? No.
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I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist | George Monbiot
The dirty industries that dominate politics deceive us into accepting dangerous pollutants such as ammonia as part of life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
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Blow up boats, seize oil tankers... next they'll just take over the Panama Canal. You really think an invasion of Canada is an impossibility? We still buying planes from these motherfuckers?
December 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Blow up boats, seize oil tankers... next they'll just take over the Panama Canal. You really think an invasion of Canada is an impossibility? We still buying planes from these motherfuckers?
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"The Ford govt gave ~$2.5M from its Skills Development Fund to businesses owned by an entrepreneur that the Ontario Securities Commission penalized a few years ago for allegedly misleading investors with inaccurate press releases."
#FordIsCorrupt #onpoli #cdnpoli
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#FordIsCorrupt #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Two companies under firm of Ontario Securities Commission-sanctioned CEO got Skills Development Fund grants
Another of Sayan Navaratnam’s companies was hit with hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for allegedly ‘misleading’ investors
www.thetrillium.ca
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"The Ford govt gave ~$2.5M from its Skills Development Fund to businesses owned by an entrepreneur that the Ontario Securities Commission penalized a few years ago for allegedly misleading investors with inaccurate press releases."
#FordIsCorrupt #onpoli #cdnpoli
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#FordIsCorrupt #onpoli #cdnpoli
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When a developer carved a path through a wetland, the extent caught neighbours and Severn Township by surprise — but there was little anyone could do. Wetlands are disappearing across Ontario, along with the rules meant to protect them. thenarwhal.ca/severn-ontar...
Ontario is losing wetlands: Severn's is an example | The Narwhal
A developer built a trail through a wetland near Orillia, catching neighbours and the township by surprise. Across Ontario, wetlands are getting harder and harder to protect
thenarwhal.ca
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When a developer carved a path through a wetland, the extent caught neighbours and Severn Township by surprise — but there was little anyone could do. Wetlands are disappearing across Ontario, along with the rules meant to protect them. thenarwhal.ca/severn-ontar...
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Individual medical model insurance approved “evidence based” psychotherapy cannot save us from collective problems that we pretend are individual problems.
Only collectives, communities can do that
Only collectives, communities can do that
December 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Individual medical model insurance approved “evidence based” psychotherapy cannot save us from collective problems that we pretend are individual problems.
Only collectives, communities can do that
Only collectives, communities can do that
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We've seen how putting a tech CEO in charge of the gov't turned out for the U.S. - now Carney is championing this idea for Canada
"The public service is not a business. It is a democratic institution that serves Canadians"
"The public service is not a business. It is a democratic institution that serves Canadians"
“These aren't charities. They're not altruistic organizations. Why would a tech company want to allow their employees to work for the government and pay 100 per cent of their salary..." — Simon Enoch at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government
Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We've seen how putting a tech CEO in charge of the gov't turned out for the U.S. - now Carney is championing this idea for Canada
"The public service is not a business. It is a democratic institution that serves Canadians"
"The public service is not a business. It is a democratic institution that serves Canadians"
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Of course, the Trump regime is meddling in Canada’s internal affairs. Pete Hoekstra is trying to gaslight people. We Canadians know better.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Hoekstra downplays fears of Trump administration meddling in Canada’s politics
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra is downplaying concerns that America’s new national security strategy could lead to his government supporting politically aligned parties in Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Of course, the Trump regime is meddling in Canada’s internal affairs. Pete Hoekstra is trying to gaslight people. We Canadians know better.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...