Dale
@deanorthey.bsky.social
Retired after delivering education Fleming College for 28 years. All💉
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Dale
@deanorthey.bsky.social
· Dec 18
I've decided on an early Christmas present for myself and will make Bluesky my new main SM home. Too many shenanigans on the bird app. Looking forward to finding more of my expats from there. Suggestions welcome.
It's a mystery.
"City has no idea why people aren't using the new bike lane - looking into giving out free lights to encourage uptake of the freshly painted lanes."
December 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It's a mystery.
A great use for old buses.
Adrian Macovei (@adrianmacovei)
substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A great use for old buses.
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There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.
So happy for this guy. Followed him since Big Break.
Gainey, 50, wins first PGA Tour Champions title
Gainey, 50, wins first PGA Tour Champions title
Tommy Gainey, 50, holed a long eagle putt from off the green at the par-5 13th to take the lead, and he closed with a 6-under 66 for a two-shot victory in the Constellation Furyk & Friends in Jacksonville, Florida, for his first PGA Tour Champions title.
www.espn.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
So happy for this guy. Followed him since Big Break.
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And restricting the age of eligibility for OAS was utterly execrable.
What kinda ghoul looks at a somebody nearing the end of a long career and says, "Hey gramps, f'you could stick around a couple more years that'd be great."
Not to mention young people left to kick rocks while jobs "go greyer."
What kinda ghoul looks at a somebody nearing the end of a long career and says, "Hey gramps, f'you could stick around a couple more years that'd be great."
Not to mention young people left to kick rocks while jobs "go greyer."
October 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
And restricting the age of eligibility for OAS was utterly execrable.
What kinda ghoul looks at a somebody nearing the end of a long career and says, "Hey gramps, f'you could stick around a couple more years that'd be great."
Not to mention young people left to kick rocks while jobs "go greyer."
What kinda ghoul looks at a somebody nearing the end of a long career and says, "Hey gramps, f'you could stick around a couple more years that'd be great."
Not to mention young people left to kick rocks while jobs "go greyer."
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Trump’s deranged speech to military commanders, demonstrated that he retained enough of the fascist plan (clearly designed by others) to deliver salient points: use the US military on fellow Americans & allies - ie including 🇨🇦.
Do not be distracted by the sideshow. This is a regime of sociopaths.
Do not be distracted by the sideshow. This is a regime of sociopaths.
October 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Trump’s deranged speech to military commanders, demonstrated that he retained enough of the fascist plan (clearly designed by others) to deliver salient points: use the US military on fellow Americans & allies - ie including 🇨🇦.
Do not be distracted by the sideshow. This is a regime of sociopaths.
Do not be distracted by the sideshow. This is a regime of sociopaths.
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"The seemingly simple calculus — that every patient getting care at a pharmacy would take pressure off the public system — remained unproven, officials said in internal emails this year."
October 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"The seemingly simple calculus — that every patient getting care at a pharmacy would take pressure off the public system — remained unproven, officials said in internal emails this year."
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Imperial Oil is pulling jobs and closing its headquarters in Calgary. Families are paying the price for Danielle Smith’s instability.
We need a government with a plan for economic growth and attracting investment.
That's the only way we'll rebuild the Alberta advantage.
We need a government with a plan for economic growth and attracting investment.
That's the only way we'll rebuild the Alberta advantage.
Families are paying the price for Danielle Smith's instability.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Imperial Oil is pulling jobs and closing its headquarters in Calgary. Families are paying the price for Danielle Smith’s instability.
We need a government with a plan for economic growth and attracting investment.
That's the only way we'll rebuild the Alberta advantage.
We need a government with a plan for economic growth and attracting investment.
That's the only way we'll rebuild the Alberta advantage.
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UPDATE: Bessent asked on CNBC if he could justify the $20 billion bailout for Argentina, which benefits "wealthy Americans" with "interests down there"
Bessent says it is "false" that he is helping wealthy Americans.
FACT: The bailout benefits Bessent's friend, hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.
Bessent says it is "false" that he is helping wealthy Americans.
FACT: The bailout benefits Bessent's friend, hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.
October 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
UPDATE: Bessent asked on CNBC if he could justify the $20 billion bailout for Argentina, which benefits "wealthy Americans" with "interests down there"
Bessent says it is "false" that he is helping wealthy Americans.
FACT: The bailout benefits Bessent's friend, hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.
Bessent says it is "false" that he is helping wealthy Americans.
FACT: The bailout benefits Bessent's friend, hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.
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I don’t hate cars. Like most North American males I was raised to think cars are cool, and as a design nerd, few objects are more eye-catching.
I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.
Car dependence isn’t freedom.
Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency
I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.
Car dependence isn’t freedom.
Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency
October 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I don’t hate cars. Like most North American males I was raised to think cars are cool, and as a design nerd, few objects are more eye-catching.
I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.
Car dependence isn’t freedom.
Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency
I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.
Car dependence isn’t freedom.
Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency
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October 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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This would be a good time to not have an upfailing talk-radio shock jock with strongly held, poorly researched opinions about vaccines and public health as Premier, hey Alberta?
I mean, ANY time after May 29, 2023 would be a good time for that. But NOW would be *especially* good.
I mean, ANY time after May 29, 2023 would be a good time for that. But NOW would be *especially* good.
#BREAKING: Alberta resident dies from measles, marking the second Canadian death from the disease in 2025
Albertan dies from measles
An Albertan has died from complications due to measles, government data released Thursday says.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This would be a good time to not have an upfailing talk-radio shock jock with strongly held, poorly researched opinions about vaccines and public health as Premier, hey Alberta?
I mean, ANY time after May 29, 2023 would be a good time for that. But NOW would be *especially* good.
I mean, ANY time after May 29, 2023 would be a good time for that. But NOW would be *especially* good.
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By teaching us to view poverty as a moral failure of the individual, society keeps us from realizing that poverty is actually an ethical failure of society itself. We can choose with UBI to prevent everyone from ever experiencing the poverty that 60% of us will experience in life, and we just don't.
Poverty is not a moral failure of the individual—it's an ethical failure of society itself
YouTube video by Scott Santens
youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
By teaching us to view poverty as a moral failure of the individual, society keeps us from realizing that poverty is actually an ethical failure of society itself. We can choose with UBI to prevent everyone from ever experiencing the poverty that 60% of us will experience in life, and we just don't.
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"Evil doesn't always wear Nazi boots"
James Vanderbilt's new film (with a superb Russell Crowe) is a compelling historical drama, a warning against present-day authoritarianism, and a breath of a fresh air in a film industry drunk with nationalism - from San Sebastian:
dmovies.org/2025/09/24/n...
James Vanderbilt's new film (with a superb Russell Crowe) is a compelling historical drama, a warning against present-day authoritarianism, and a breath of a fresh air in a film industry drunk with nationalism - from San Sebastian:
dmovies.org/2025/09/24/n...
Nuremberg - DMovies
Starring a superb, German-speaking Russell Crowe, James Vanderbilt's historical drama about Hermann Goering's Nuremberg trial reminds viewers that "evil" doesn't always wear a Nazi uniform - from the ...
dmovies.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"Evil doesn't always wear Nazi boots"
James Vanderbilt's new film (with a superb Russell Crowe) is a compelling historical drama, a warning against present-day authoritarianism, and a breath of a fresh air in a film industry drunk with nationalism - from San Sebastian:
dmovies.org/2025/09/24/n...
James Vanderbilt's new film (with a superb Russell Crowe) is a compelling historical drama, a warning against present-day authoritarianism, and a breath of a fresh air in a film industry drunk with nationalism - from San Sebastian:
dmovies.org/2025/09/24/n...
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They don’t believe in any gods and can’t read the Bible. How can they possibly do the morally correct thing?
June 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
They don’t believe in any gods and can’t read the Bible. How can they possibly do the morally correct thing?
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PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
June 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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I’m just watching this G7 summit, and man, our country is being embarrassed like never before
We’ve never had more pathetic leadership than what we’ve got right now
A totally unprepared “President” that honestly has no clue what’s going on
Other countries are laughing at us
You deserve BETTER!
We’ve never had more pathetic leadership than what we’ve got right now
A totally unprepared “President” that honestly has no clue what’s going on
Other countries are laughing at us
You deserve BETTER!
June 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I’m just watching this G7 summit, and man, our country is being embarrassed like never before
We’ve never had more pathetic leadership than what we’ve got right now
A totally unprepared “President” that honestly has no clue what’s going on
Other countries are laughing at us
You deserve BETTER!
We’ve never had more pathetic leadership than what we’ve got right now
A totally unprepared “President” that honestly has no clue what’s going on
Other countries are laughing at us
You deserve BETTER!
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Wow. Even Israel's built environment is all about ethnic cleansing. They didn't build shelters in areas with non-Jewish majority populations, in the hope that Iran will exterminate minorities for them. Just wow.
June 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Wow. Even Israel's built environment is all about ethnic cleansing. They didn't build shelters in areas with non-Jewish majority populations, in the hope that Iran will exterminate minorities for them. Just wow.
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Mark Carney, channeling Jane Austen, diplomatically ushers the ignorant Trump away: “You have delighted us long enough.”
June 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Mark Carney, channeling Jane Austen, diplomatically ushers the ignorant Trump away: “You have delighted us long enough.”
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This is obscene. We don't have to live like this. And we don't have to die like this.
He needed air. The price was $539.
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler
In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...
www.nbcnews.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is obscene. We don't have to live like this. And we don't have to die like this.
Just saw the @colbertlateshow.bsky.social interview with Walton Goggins where he seems to have reached @williamshatner.bsky.social level comfort with "Just say yes"!
June 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Just saw the @colbertlateshow.bsky.social interview with Walton Goggins where he seems to have reached @williamshatner.bsky.social level comfort with "Just say yes"!
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One of the "features" of our system is that it is a bigger crime to truthfully accuse a politician of lying than it is for politicians to lie to the people!
Much respect to @solmamakwa.bsky.social
for speaking truth to power!
#onpoli #cdnpoli
Much respect to @solmamakwa.bsky.social
for speaking truth to power!
#onpoli #cdnpoli
Here's the moment it happened. MPP Mamakwa spoke the truth about Bill 5 and the government can't face the truth.
Bill 5 must be scrapped.
Bill 5 must be scrapped.
June 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
One of the "features" of our system is that it is a bigger crime to truthfully accuse a politician of lying than it is for politicians to lie to the people!
Much respect to @solmamakwa.bsky.social
for speaking truth to power!
#onpoli #cdnpoli
Much respect to @solmamakwa.bsky.social
for speaking truth to power!
#onpoli #cdnpoli