Nick Dubuc
@nickdubuc.bsky.social
Agricultural engineer + product specialist + part-time farmer. Love to travel the world and discover agriculture 🚜✈️🐄🌾🌽📗
The war against weeds 🌱🌿
The amount of money, labour, and resources used to manage and control (not eradicate) weeds is mind blowing when you think about it.
The amount of money, labour, and resources used to manage and control (not eradicate) weeds is mind blowing when you think about it.
July 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The war against weeds 🌱🌿
The amount of money, labour, and resources used to manage and control (not eradicate) weeds is mind blowing when you think about it.
The amount of money, labour, and resources used to manage and control (not eradicate) weeds is mind blowing when you think about it.
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Aerial view westward over the Blatten deposit and the newly formed lake upstream! 🧊🌊
📷Via Christian Petit/Linkedin
📷Via Christian Petit/Linkedin
May 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Aerial view westward over the Blatten deposit and the newly formed lake upstream! 🧊🌊
📷Via Christian Petit/Linkedin
📷Via Christian Petit/Linkedin
My favourite tariff:
10% on the Australian external territory of Heard & McDonald Islands, 4000 km SW of Perth.
Population: 0
GDP: $0
Last known export: elephant seal oil, exported until the entire seal population was wiped off in the 1880s.
10% on the Australian external territory of Heard & McDonald Islands, 4000 km SW of Perth.
Population: 0
GDP: $0
Last known export: elephant seal oil, exported until the entire seal population was wiped off in the 1880s.
April 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My favourite tariff:
10% on the Australian external territory of Heard & McDonald Islands, 4000 km SW of Perth.
Population: 0
GDP: $0
Last known export: elephant seal oil, exported until the entire seal population was wiped off in the 1880s.
10% on the Australian external territory of Heard & McDonald Islands, 4000 km SW of Perth.
Population: 0
GDP: $0
Last known export: elephant seal oil, exported until the entire seal population was wiped off in the 1880s.
There's an infinite supply of greater fools.
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Newsmax: Trump-endorsed news outlet sees 2,200% share surge
Conservative US cable TV channel Newsmax started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
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April 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
There's an infinite supply of greater fools.
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We should respond with "not speaking metric is a trade barrier too"
www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
U.S. lists Quebec’s Bill 96 as trade barrier ahead of Trump tariff announcement
The inclusion of Quebec’s language law on a list of trade barriers comes as U.S. President Donald Trump is set to announce new tariffs this week.
www.montrealgazette.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We should respond with "not speaking metric is a trade barrier too"
www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
"It is not clear how these massive tax hikes, reaching as high as $600 billion according to the White House’s own estimates, will “liberate” anything other than money from the wallets of American consumers."
catalyst.independent.org/2025/04/01/t...
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Trade Freedom and The Myth of Tariff Reciprocity
Genuine trade reciprocity would entail the United States lowering our current tariff rates and remove non-tariff barriers.
catalyst.independent.org
April 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"It is not clear how these massive tax hikes, reaching as high as $600 billion according to the White House’s own estimates, will “liberate” anything other than money from the wallets of American consumers."
catalyst.independent.org/2025/04/01/t...
catalyst.independent.org/2025/04/01/t...
"The law had recently been toughened – by the very politicians who were now complaining about its application – to make the penalty for misuse of public funds very severe. Well, said the judge in so many words, now let politicians suck up their own medicine"
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Shock Marine Le Pen verdict rocks French far right
The far-right figurehead has been barred from running for public office for five years, throwing her plans into disarray.
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March 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"The law had recently been toughened – by the very politicians who were now complaining about its application – to make the penalty for misuse of public funds very severe. Well, said the judge in so many words, now let politicians suck up their own medicine"
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Someone needs serious help with outdoor clothing @dieworkwear.bsky.social
Nothing I can write makes this funnier than it already is.
March 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Someone needs serious help with outdoor clothing @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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Thanks to automation and globalization, China has lost more than 7 million manufacturing jobs since 2011;
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March 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Thanks to automation and globalization, China has lost more than 7 million manufacturing jobs since 2011;
www.ft.com/content/7640...
www.ft.com/content/7640...
“He needs to put his hand to the hot stove and leave it there until he can’t bear it. The question is how long will that take?”
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Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress
CEOs and investors are fretting over what they see as whipsaw policy changes and complacency about the risks of recession.
www.wsj.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“He needs to put his hand to the hot stove and leave it there until he can’t bear it. The question is how long will that take?”
www.wsj.com/economy/wall...
www.wsj.com/economy/wall...
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This is great. They're gonna be a busy family for the next 4 years 😅
Here’s a song about #Signalgate – the flamboyant US security breach – adapted from one of our all-time fave Bee Gees songs, titled “You Were Not Supposed to Message it Through!”
A quick turnaround, but only 5 of us as Alfie (really our best fake Bee Gee) is away 🔥👊💪🙏🎶
youtu.be/rPfwtXulKS4
A quick turnaround, but only 5 of us as Alfie (really our best fake Bee Gee) is away 🔥👊💪🙏🎶
youtu.be/rPfwtXulKS4
"You Were Not Supposed to Message It Through" - Marsh Family parody of the Bee Gees on #Signalgate
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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March 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is great. They're gonna be a busy family for the next 4 years 😅
This is the content I'm here for.
My fellow US historian, Ben Marsh, has a long-running Partridge family sort of situation where he and his family make hilarious songs parodying US politics. Their latest is a Bob Marley cover about tariffs. It even has a Smoot-Hawley shout out! youtu.be/_DyNjjSxO8s?...
"I Put Up Tariffs" - Marsh Family adaptation of Bob Marley and the Wailers, "I Shot the Sheriff"
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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March 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is the content I'm here for.
"Let's just be a sovereign nation, pursue our own best interests. Because even when we do everything for them, it may not have any kind of reward at all."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Should Canada ease its 100% tariff on electric vehicles from China amid trade war with U.S.? | CBC News
Canada's trade war with the United States has some economists questioning whether the federal government should ease or lift its 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, a move some say could...
www.cbc.ca
March 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"Let's just be a sovereign nation, pursue our own best interests. Because even when we do everything for them, it may not have any kind of reward at all."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Elbows up, Canada.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Elbows up, Canada.
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Tray grown strawberries reduce pressure and speeds up harvest www.deere.com/en/publicati...
The Furrow: Tray-Grown Strawberries
Quebec strawberry producer pioneers new method
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March 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Tray grown strawberries reduce pressure and speeds up harvest www.deere.com/en/publicati...
Spaghetti physics, mozzarella phase, and the origins of life 🍝
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Spaghetti science: What pasta reveals about the universe
When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties.
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March 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Spaghetti physics, mozzarella phase, and the origins of life 🍝
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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