Oriol Salvador
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Journalist. Pop culture nerd and social media jedi. Working for @weathernetwork.bsky.social and BNN Bloomberg. Personal views, etc.
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2025 summarized by ChatGPT using words banned by Trump
ChatGPT recapped 2025 using words Trump tried to ban from U.S. government documents. Edited by a human with links to real news.
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I couldn't sleep due to jet lag, so I asked ChatGPT to recap 2025 using so-called “woke” terms that Trump tried to ban from U.S. government documents. This is the result, with some human-made edits and links to real news.
“Every second we spend fielding questions about traffic, hornets or bad haircuts is time that could otherwise be helping someone in a life-threatening emergency situation.”
‘That is super inappropriate’: B.C. 911 operator releases audio of 10 worst calls of 2025
B.C.’s largest 911 operator has released its annual top-10 list of inappropriate emergency calls, highlighting the public’s worst uses of the service in 2025.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Every second we spend fielding questions about traffic, hornets or bad haircuts is time that could otherwise be helping someone in a life-threatening emergency situation.”
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The findings could help scientists pinpoint the potential location and intensity of future earthquakes.
The Iberian Peninsula is slowly rotating clockwise: study - The Weather Network
The findings may help scientists better understand the location and intensity of future earthquakes
ow.ly
December 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The findings could help scientists pinpoint the potential location and intensity of future earthquakes.
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Cuál es el punto de gastar bromas hoy si estamos todos los días aguantando fakes, vague posts y ragebait???
December 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Cuál es el punto de gastar bromas hoy si estamos todos los días aguantando fakes, vague posts y ragebait???
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El día de los inocentes en la era de la desinformación se siente como regar las plantas en un día de lluvia
December 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
El día de los inocentes en la era de la desinformación se siente como regar las plantas en un día de lluvia
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
Champs Bar in Montreal will present a marathon of all six episodes of #HeatedRivalry on Dec. 26, beginning at 6 p.m.
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@cultmtl.com
Champs Bar in Montreal to host 'Heated Rivalry' marathon on Dec. 26
Champs Bar in Montreal will present a marathon of all six episodes of the hit Crave series Heated Rivalry on Dec. 26, beginning at 6 p.m.
cultmtl.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Champs Bar in Montreal will present a marathon of all six episodes of #HeatedRivalry on Dec. 26, beginning at 6 p.m.
@cultmtl.com
@cultmtl.com
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Hey, QCers—if you were not vaccinated for measles, or if you think you weren't fully vaccinated for measles, please go to ClicSanté and sign up! You can absolutely still get vaccinated. Below image is exposure sites (source follows), link is about the eight case outbreak:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
December 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hey, QCers—if you were not vaccinated for measles, or if you think you weren't fully vaccinated for measles, please go to ClicSanté and sign up! You can absolutely still get vaccinated. Below image is exposure sites (source follows), link is about the eight case outbreak:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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"Someone like me just wouldn't have been able to carve out a space for themselves on Saturday Night Live years ago. Hopefully now it will be more common to see a queer Asian person succeed on SNL, or any TV show.”
— Bowen Yang ♥️
— Bowen Yang ♥️
December 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"Someone like me just wouldn't have been able to carve out a space for themselves on Saturday Night Live years ago. Hopefully now it will be more common to see a queer Asian person succeed on SNL, or any TV show.”
— Bowen Yang ♥️
— Bowen Yang ♥️
Philippe J. Fournier: “Our politics are so focused on the image of leaders that we can’t get out of this situation: an unpopular leader cannot lift a party up.”
2025 proving difficult for the CAQ: leader François Legault under pressure
Nothing is going right for Premier François Legault: his party, the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ), is ending the year in third place in the polls, behind the Parti Québécois (PQ) and the Quebec Libera...
www.ctvnews.ca
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Philippe J. Fournier: “Our politics are so focused on the image of leaders that we can’t get out of this situation: an unpopular leader cannot lift a party up.”
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A rediscovered wall, replete with handprints from some of Quebec's most famous artists, has made a downtown building a historic artifact. It was where Chez Bozo once stood.
Quebec artistic hub from the 50s rediscovered by chance on Crescent Street
A rediscovered wall, replete with handprints from some of Quebec's most famous artists, has made a downtown building a historic artifact. It was where Chez Bozo once stood.
bit.ly
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A rediscovered wall, replete with handprints from some of Quebec's most famous artists, has made a downtown building a historic artifact. It was where Chez Bozo once stood.
Sharyn Alfonsi, 60 Minutes correspondent: "Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch'' for any reporting they find inconvenient."
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Sharyn Alfonsi, 60 Minutes correspondent: "Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch'' for any reporting they find inconvenient."
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CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
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The trigger: CBS News suddenly shelved a segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador. https://cnn.it/44DLntx
December 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The trigger: CBS News suddenly shelved a segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador. https://cnn.it/44DLntx
El Partido Popular gana las elecciones pero, sin mayoría, seguirá necesitando a Vox.
Debacle del PSOE, que pierde diez diputados y más de 108.000 votos.
A pesar del resultado histórico de Unidas por Extremadura, que logra tres escaños más, la izquierda no suma.
Debacle del PSOE, que pierde diez diputados y más de 108.000 votos.
A pesar del resultado histórico de Unidas por Extremadura, que logra tres escaños más, la izquierda no suma.
Guardiola fracasa en su intento de quitarse el lastre de Vox pero consolida el giro a la derecha de Extremadura
La izquierda retrocede por la debacle del PSOE, que pierde diez diputados y más de 108.000 votos, a pesar del resultado histórico de Unidas por Extremadura, que logra tres escaños más
www.eldiario.es
December 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
El Partido Popular gana las elecciones pero, sin mayoría, seguirá necesitando a Vox.
Debacle del PSOE, que pierde diez diputados y más de 108.000 votos.
A pesar del resultado histórico de Unidas por Extremadura, que logra tres escaños más, la izquierda no suma.
Debacle del PSOE, que pierde diez diputados y más de 108.000 votos.
A pesar del resultado histórico de Unidas por Extremadura, que logra tres escaños más, la izquierda no suma.
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We need your help! So far, we’ve raised $16,000 from 164 donors, which tells us that a lot of people understand the importance of this work. We train incarcerated writers and publish their stories. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by Dec. 31. Can you support our work?
Donate | Prison Journalism Project
Prison Journalism Project is supported by people like you. Support Prison Journalism Project today.
prisonjournalismproject.fundjournalism.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We need your help! So far, we’ve raised $16,000 from 164 donors, which tells us that a lot of people understand the importance of this work. We train incarcerated writers and publish their stories. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by Dec. 31. Can you support our work?
I couldn't sleep due to jet lag, so I asked ChatGPT to recap 2025 using so-called “woke” terms that Trump tried to ban from U.S. government documents. This is the result, with some human-made edits and links to real news.
2025 summarized by ChatGPT using words banned by Trump
ChatGPT recapped 2025 using words Trump tried to ban from U.S. government documents. Edited by a human with links to real news.
oriolsalvador.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I couldn't sleep due to jet lag, so I asked ChatGPT to recap 2025 using so-called “woke” terms that Trump tried to ban from U.S. government documents. This is the result, with some human-made edits and links to real news.
Reposted by Oriol Salvador
John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The way I cried happy tears with the ending of this week's episode of #HeatedRivalry! Totally worth waking up at 6 a.m. to watch it before any spoilers
December 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The way I cried happy tears with the ending of this week's episode of #HeatedRivalry! Totally worth waking up at 6 a.m. to watch it before any spoilers
Campaign in the U.K. to make Together For Palestine's "Lullaby" this Christmas' Number 1. Streams and buys count until 11:59pm, local time, on Dec. 18. Money raised from sales will go towards charities supporting Palestinian children.
Buy Lullaby now and make Palestine solidarity Christmas Number 1
Purchase and stream Together4Palestine’s new single, Lullaby, by 11:59pm on Thursday 18 December to help make it Christmas Number 1
The running for this year’s Christmas number 1 single includes an...
www.counterfire.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Campaign in the U.K. to make Together For Palestine's "Lullaby" this Christmas' Number 1. Streams and buys count until 11:59pm, local time, on Dec. 18. Money raised from sales will go towards charities supporting Palestinian children.
Concert-Manifest X Palestina el 29 de gener de 2026 al Palau Sant Jordi de Barcelona, amb Bad Gyal, Oques Grasses, Lluís Llach, Amaia, Tinariwen, Zaho de Sagazan, Morad, Zeyne, Lina Makoul i molts més. Ja podeu compartir l'spot a YouTube:
CONCERT-MANIFEST X PALESTINA –– 29 DE GENER DE 2026 –– PALAU SANT JORDI –– BARCELONA
YouTube video by Act X Palestine
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Concert-Manifest X Palestina el 29 de gener de 2026 al Palau Sant Jordi de Barcelona, amb Bad Gyal, Oques Grasses, Lluís Llach, Amaia, Tinariwen, Zaho de Sagazan, Morad, Zeyne, Lina Makoul i molts més. Ja podeu compartir l'spot a YouTube:
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Los Oscar se retransmitirán gratis a todo el mundo por YouTube ver.20m.es/bger_5
➡A partir de 2029, la ceremonia de entrega de los prestigiosos galardones dejará de emitirse en la cadena ABC, donde lo ha hecho desde 1976
➡A partir de 2029, la ceremonia de entrega de los prestigiosos galardones dejará de emitirse en la cadena ABC, donde lo ha hecho desde 1976
Los Oscar se retransmitirán gratis a todo el mundo por YouTube
A partir de 2029, la ceremonia de entrega de los prestigiosos galardones dejará de emitirse en la cadena ABC, donde lo ha hecho desde 1976.
ver.20m.es
December 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Los Oscar se retransmitirán gratis a todo el mundo por YouTube ver.20m.es/bger_5
➡A partir de 2029, la ceremonia de entrega de los prestigiosos galardones dejará de emitirse en la cadena ABC, donde lo ha hecho desde 1976
➡A partir de 2029, la ceremonia de entrega de los prestigiosos galardones dejará de emitirse en la cadena ABC, donde lo ha hecho desde 1976
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The wall of honour at Chez Bozo, Quebec’s first songwriters’ club, which saw the emergence of the immense talents of the time in 1959 and 1960, has been found and will be classified as a heritage site.
Mural displaying handprints of artists who performed at Chez Bozo has been found
The wall of honour at Chez Bozo, Quebec’s first songwriters’ club, which saw the emergence of the immense talents of the time in 1959 and 1960, has been found and will be classified as a heritage site.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The wall of honour at Chez Bozo, Quebec’s first songwriters’ club, which saw the emergence of the immense talents of the time in 1959 and 1960, has been found and will be classified as a heritage site.
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Big tech is spending millions to push back against rising opposition to data centers.
Meta has spent over $5 million in the past month on ads promoting data centers.
An industry trade groups is also ramping up lobbying, and sending talking points to members of Congress.
Meta has spent over $5 million in the past month on ads promoting data centers.
An industry trade groups is also ramping up lobbying, and sending talking points to members of Congress.
Data centers have a political problem — and Big Tech wants to fix it
A growth engine for the economy is becoming a political albatross. Can messaging change that?
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Big tech is spending millions to push back against rising opposition to data centers.
Meta has spent over $5 million in the past month on ads promoting data centers.
An industry trade groups is also ramping up lobbying, and sending talking points to members of Congress.
Meta has spent over $5 million in the past month on ads promoting data centers.
An industry trade groups is also ramping up lobbying, and sending talking points to members of Congress.
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i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
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Martin Kaiser, head of @greenpeace.org Germany, told dpa the #ParisAgreement remained a global compass for #climate policy but said it would only stay relevant if major economies, particularly the G20, closed the gap between ambition and action. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/clim...
The world is far off track from its climate goals, scientists and environmental groups warn - The Weather Network
Martin Kaiser, head of Greenpeace Germany, told dpa the Paris Agreement remained a global compass for climate policy but said it would only stay relevant if major economies, particularly the G20, clos...
www.theweathernetwork.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Martin Kaiser, head of @greenpeace.org Germany, told dpa the #ParisAgreement remained a global compass for #climate policy but said it would only stay relevant if major economies, particularly the G20, closed the gap between ambition and action. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/clim...