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Fernando Medrano
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Intersections: art, politics, culture, tech, food, cities, sustainability, language. Vocations: videogames, 3D, product design. Avocations: cooking, baking, making, gardening, dogs. 🇨🇦🇵🇭 Vancouver BC
Selection bias much?
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Agreed on both points. This is a good lesson.
I’m no fan of Elizabeth May but she’s educating us on proposed projects
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Their psychiatrists all ran away as soon as they saw the writing on the wall (two months after October 7th)
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Calling them “drug boats” is propaganda
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Wait a few years — even decades. The real tsunami hasn’t really hit yet.
November 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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So does his mom.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok ranks him as world history’s greatest human
Grok suggested Elon Musk was more fit than LeBron James
www.independent.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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I think we can safely disregard all of the other streets on this list www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/arti...
Vancouver’s Cambie makes list of ‘coolest streets in the world’
A Vancouver thoroughfare has been crowned one of the “coolest streets in the world” by a travel magazine.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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The $28,000 in annual repairs is about 2% of what we spend on the police... in a single DAY.
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Preemptive loin-girding.
Google’s Sundar Pichai warns of “irrationality” in trillion-dollar AI investment boom
Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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If you’re looking for things to worry about, the combo of speculative assets and stocks that offer financing to riskier parts of the economy getting dumped at the same time should probably be high on the list.
sherwood.news/markets/the-...
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Here is one of the Gen Z protestors in Mexico, former president and ex Coca Cola executive Vicente Fox. He has been reported to have helped ignite the cartel wars and to have conspired with the Sinaloa cartel, using state power during his administration to target its rivals.
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Absolutely incredible graphic👇 of emissions from a giant 🇦🇺 LNG project. Because it accounts for CO2e AFTER the gas is exported + burned, it’s a great reminder of the true, global climate impact of similar fossil projects in 🇨🇦. @fvca.bsky.social
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social
@cape-acme.bsky.social
A powerful visualisation from the Guardian – revealing the astonishing scale of emissions from Woodside's North West Shelf project in just a single YEAR.

It's time for Australia's big banks to finally cut ties with Woodside Energy. #divest
Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project
The annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Also worth knowing re LNG…
Absolutely incredible graphic👇 of emissions from a giant 🇦🇺 LNG project. Because it accounts for CO2e AFTER the gas is exported + burned, it’s a great reminder of the true, global climate impact of similar fossil projects in 🇨🇦. @fvca.bsky.social
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social
@cape-acme.bsky.social
A powerful visualisation from the Guardian – revealing the astonishing scale of emissions from Woodside's North West Shelf project in just a single YEAR.

It's time for Australia's big banks to finally cut ties with Woodside Energy. #divest
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Agreed. Looks like Australia at least punishes greenwashing!
Well, well, well. A big pension fund facing fines for greenwashing!
The 🇦🇺 Securities + Investments Commission fined the HESTA fund for ads indicating it “planned to remove all investments in carbon emissions by 2050, despite that not being the case.”
If only 🇨🇦 punished pension + bank greenwashing!
$100 billion super fund HESTA has been fined for misleading advertising about its carbon emissions investment.

HESTA is greenwashing by failing to use its position as a shareholder to demand an end to Santos and Woodside's dangerous oil and gas expansion.

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/910636...
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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"After white students displayed Confederate flag at school, Black students suspended for planning protest" #Kafkaesque thehill.com/changing-ame...
After white students displayed Confederate flag at school, Black students suspended for planning protest
Black students were suspended from their high school for planning a protest after another group of students came to school waving a Confederate flag. Last week, a group of students at Coosa Hi…
thehill.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Yep, being an active Nazi endangers your kids. 100% your fault.
lol cry me a river bitch
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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"The psychiatrist said they routinely direct Vancouver patients an hour south to hospitals in Langley or White Rock, where they are more likely to be detained long enough for their hallucinations and delusions to dissipate."#BCpoli
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel remained against a Palestinian state after far-right coalition allies shunned a U.S.-backed statement indicating support for a pathway to Palestinian independence.
Netanyahu faces far-right backlash after U.S.-backed statement on Palestinian state
The Israeli leader spoke after the U.S. and many Muslim-majority nations endorsed a draft U.N. resolution backing a plan that offered a route to Palestinian statehood.
ebx.sh
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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It's a good thing we're listening to *this* assertion, now that six months have passed since his last big proclamation, and sure enough... 90% of all code is being written by AI. www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10% to 20% in the next one to five years, predicts Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. cbsn.ws/44c6Vgk
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Unrwa says Israel still blocking critical aid despite ceasefire
<article data-history-node-id="431551" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unrwa-says-israel-still-blocking-critical-aid-despite-ceasefire" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unrwa-says-israel-still-blocking-critical-aid-despite-ceasefire" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Unrwa says Israel still blocking critical aid despite ceasefire</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="455" data-start="225">A ceasefire was supposed to ease Gaza’s chokehold and allow desperately needed supplies to move in. But Unrwa says Israel continues to hold back convoys, particularly those linked to the agency, prolonging the humanitarian crisis.</p> <p data-end="845" data-start="457">Tamara Alrifai, Unrwa’s director of communications, said the agency still faces sweeping restrictions despite its central role in the enclave. “Unrwa is under double the amount of scrutiny and restrictions than other agencies despite being the largest agency there,” she said, noting that stockpiles in Egypt and Jordan could immediately fill 6,000 lorries if Israel allowed them through.</p> <p data-end="991" data-start="847">Bottlenecks at the few crossings that remain open have left long lines of aid trucks idling for days, she added, as Israeli inspections drag on.</p> <p data-end="1353" data-start="993">Alrifai said Israeli authorities continue to block basic goods by branding them as “dual use” items, an approach aid groups say has no connection to civilian needs but everything to do with deepening the siege. “Israel, during the inspection and the scrutiny, would take out many items that are extremely needed, especially in this winter situation,” she said</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
November 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Even from the gov that brought you the "Zionist Palestinian state", this is utterly appalling.

A Trumpian border interrogation?

Richard Falk is no national security threat. He's a legend of international law.

The PM should apologize personally.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM