Laura Cowie
@LHCowie
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lover of reading, teller of tales, discovering retirement and wondering who I am becoming! and happy happy Grandma❤️ FB and Bluesky @lauracowie.bsky.social
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joined November 2013
In 1941, the most dangerous man in the Nazi intelligence service wasn't a double agent or a master saboteur, but a failed chicken farmer from Barcelona who had convinced the Third Reich he was a fanatic fascist leading a network of twenty-seven imaginary spies. Juan Pujol
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The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters
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We now know that Katie Johnson not only sued Donald Trump for raping her at 14 — and gave sworn testimony under the penalty of perjury — but that she was interviewed by the @FBI FOUR TIMES and her story was found to be credible. Donald Trump raped children.
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Home Hardware!!! Raise the flag🇨🇦
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“They gave every white athlete a bus ticket. They told him Black runners didn’t qualify. So he walked 1,765 miles to prove them wrong.” In 1928, after winning the Rocky Mountain Olympic qualifier in the 5,000 meters, Kelley Dolphus Stroud was denied a bus ticket to the U.S.
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It’s time for another Truth Matters musical education moment courtesy of Never Stop Asking. TikTok - https://t.co/KZdUgj25Mq
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INSANE: British grandmother BEGS people not to go America, after being imprisoned for six weeks -- for committing no crime, and holding a valid visa. Karen Newton was on the trip of a lifetime. Yellowstone. Old Faithful. A bison beside the car. She had a British passport and a
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A young girl uses scientific method to figure out why the noise from bathroom hand dryers hurt her and her friends’ ears so much. Brilliant work, Nora! Science matters💖
Nora Keegan was not trying to change public health policy. She was just paying attention. In elementary school in Calgary, she noticed something adults kept dismissing. Children rushing out of public restrooms. Hands clamped over their ears. Faces tense. Complaints whispered
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@aakashgupta can we PLEASE stop value as purely economic value humans are more than our work and our economic impact, AI is nothing more than a tool, for god's sake, we do not need to play this comparative game at all
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MAGA chief of staff to an Alaska state senator arrested—for sex trafficking at least 12 children. Police report calls him "compulsive child exploitation offender" engaging in "high-volume conduct" with 13-year-old girls. Last victim was supposed to be a "birthday gift"—but the
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You need to understand that Silicon Valley is increasingly being run by creepy, dead-eyed men who hate families, who hate kids, who have no respect for life, who would like to see much of humanity dead or enslaved. It’s our job to defeat the dystopia they’re so eager to build.
🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
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With the Lord of the Flies being newly released, it’s a good time to examine the creator’s assumptions about the human heart. And to see if there are other examples that tell a different story.
The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story. A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened?
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I’m not going to stay quiet on what’s going on in Alberta. Neither should Scott Moe. This is ugly politics — we need to call it out. This is not who we are.
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So... you're Canadian, and you happen to be in Milan, but don't have $5000 to go to the game I might have a place for you to visit. 🇨🇦🇮🇹 #teamcanada
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Wow. “There will be more defections… nothing good is coming.” From one of the most astute & brilliant journalists ever in Canada @ChantalHbert. The Cons can ignore some blood loss but not when the heart starts failing. Lethal. It’s Poili-over. And send all MapleMAGAs with him.
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It's not every day you have a call with three gold medalists. Another massive congratulations to Ivanie Blondin, Valérie Maltais, and Isabelle Weidemann on your back to back gold medals. 🥇🇨🇦
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