Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦
@rmcbean.bsky.social
Software and Database Developer in #yyc. Born in #yeg.
"She said the odds are long and stacked against us, still we try because we must."
"She said the odds are long and stacked against us, still we try because we must."
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Red Poppies
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Red Poppies
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
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Gord. 🇨🇦 #EdmundFitzgerald
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost 50 years ago today — around the time Gordon Lightfoot was at work on a new album.
An experienced Great Lakes sailor who knew those waters well, he later told NPR he was surprised that media coverage gave “short shrift for such a monumental event.”
#RIP
An experienced Great Lakes sailor who knew those waters well, he later told NPR he was surprised that media coverage gave “short shrift for such a monumental event.”
#RIP
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Gord. 🇨🇦 #EdmundFitzgerald
Shut up McBean. Go to bed.
#oilers having some real problems generating offense. Will lose this one 4-2.
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Shut up McBean. Go to bed.
I guess the McDavid contract discount isn't working out for now.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I guess the McDavid contract discount isn't working out for now.
Imagine you're an older person and you suddenly collapse - and the only Doctor around is Dr. Oz. Get this man some green tea supplements!
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Imagine you're an older person and you suddenly collapse - and the only Doctor around is Dr. Oz. Get this man some green tea supplements!
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Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says reut.rs/4p5rxit
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
reut.rs
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says reut.rs/4p5rxit
A local man may sleep in on Monday morning, according to sources. Problems could result, according to experts.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A local man may sleep in on Monday morning, according to sources. Problems could result, according to experts.
American Health Care premiums are more than people spend on food, and more than most people's mortgage or rent. No idea how people survive.
The health insurance Marketplace is open. Americans, who are already facing a cost of living crisis, are seeing drastically higher, unaffordable premiums. With millions of people counting on us, it’s time to extend these tax credits.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
American Health Care premiums are more than people spend on food, and more than most people's mortgage or rent. No idea how people survive.
Bruce Cockburn - Each One Lost
YouTube video by Best Playlists Ever
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November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status on Monday, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status
If the country loses its status, public-health researchers say the return of endemic measles would carry serious health consequences
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status on Monday, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Albertans who want our oil industry to endure should fear the U.S. president’s plan to topple the government in Caracas. #abpoli #cdnpoli @djclimenhaga.bsky.social
rabble.ca/politics/can...
rabble.ca/politics/can...
Donald Trump’s regime change plan for Venezuela spells bad news for Alberta’s oilsands
Albertans who want our oil industry to endure should fear the U.S. president’s plan to topple the government in Caracas.
rabble.ca
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Albertans who want our oil industry to endure should fear the U.S. president’s plan to topple the government in Caracas. #abpoli #cdnpoli @djclimenhaga.bsky.social
rabble.ca/politics/can...
rabble.ca/politics/can...
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Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say.
A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. Drax, Britain’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood. Continue reading...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
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I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...
Intercepted communications link Indian government to B.C. Sikh leader’s assassination | Globalnews.ca
British intelligence provided Canada with initial tip tying India’s government to temple leader's 2023 killing.
globalnews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...
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I think folks should be making a bigger fucking deal about how our Premier is saying out loud that the judicial branch shouldn’t be a check and balance against the legislative and executive branches. That notion is one of the pillars of modern democracy itself. calgaryherald.com/news/premier...
Premier Danielle Smith says courts should be more 'constrained' in making decisions
Alberta premier Danielle Smith commented on the justice systems involvement in deciding matters like the use of the not withstanding clause.
calgaryherald.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I think folks should be making a bigger fucking deal about how our Premier is saying out loud that the judicial branch shouldn’t be a check and balance against the legislative and executive branches. That notion is one of the pillars of modern democracy itself. calgaryherald.com/news/premier...
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Now we get Lanny McDonald and Darryl sittler in a hearing aid commercial. Get off my lawn.
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Now we get Lanny McDonald and Darryl sittler in a hearing aid commercial. Get off my lawn.
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Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
BREAKING: James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix whose work reshaped medicine, forensics and genetics, dies at 97.
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people