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Richard Lam
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Actor / musician / conflict manager / labour rights fan / transformative mediation enthusiast / Irish Bouzouki noodler / reluctant theatre optimist / secret gamer / extremely slow distance runner - Toronto, ON, Canada

Co-founder of www.groundfloorteam.com
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Some Irish Trad for you as you scroll past
This guy did a really good thing!
I am really happy (not entirely but that’s a whole other tangle) with this outcome and article. My only caveat is I am given too much credit in this one.
#Breaking: Toronto will allow new corner stores in residential neighbourhoods
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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more to the point: "this doesn't do anything" / "this is performative (derogatory)" is a criticism of land acknowledgements I find compelling from people actively engaged in reparations projects and pretty much no else
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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she better run
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This is insane and it explains everything
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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OUT: entering your Jesus year (33)

IN: entering your Bluesky year (38)
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.

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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Here he is queuing up at an ATM two years after he was elected. We got the President we deserved, and he will be missed.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Honestly I’d rather audience members be plotting our downfall than bored
i don't enjoy live theater because i have intrusive thoughts about how i could completely ruin the performance, and believe i have a moral prerogative to do so
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Sorry I can’t go. I have horse rehearsal. I have rehorsal. We rehearse the horses, all kinds. Usually there are a few of us at rehorsal and everyone has different kinds of horse for it. For horse rehearsal. Rehorsal
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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bluesky branding refresh unveiled
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I can get you in touch with him, Kevin. Just meet me in the alley at shuter and sherbourne tonight at 2AM and bring $10,000 in a huge sack with a big dollar sign on it, held visibly in the open
 Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This one really held up
i am 39 years OLD. i post ONLINE. i have a stable job in a big CITY. i have a mild form of mental ILLNESS that can be treated with LITTLE to NO medication. i am going to kill myself because of postseason BASEBALL.
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Very important thread
Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The axis of Liberal/Conservative/Authoritarian/Billionaire politicians just abandoning the climate crisis really spells disaster for life on this planet. It is shocking how countries have just given up on trying to stop global warming.
Opinion: The fight against climate change appears to be officially dead
Rich countries are feeling less inclined to fight emissions in the years ahead, which will affect the world’s most disadvantaged
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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File alongside putting in clauses that prevent people from suing the Ford govt when its policies will kill & injure people.
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
He didn’t just cancel them - some were sitting there built, ready to be plugged in, and he literally destroyed them
Doug Ford cancelled green energy projects as one of his first actions. Now he’s subsidizing hydro rebates to the tune of $8 BILLION. Our money.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I MAY BE STUPID , - dashare.zone ADMIN
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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boss: hey, the guys in IT have some questions for you

me: ah, yes you see i thought hentai was garfield’s last name
November 8, 2024 at 6:22 PM