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Seems hard to believe this is a city view. This is from my hospital room as the sun came up. My home is 7.5 km away in the distance. Home now. My face looking gross, stitches in for 3 weeks!!

A wee bit of London Ontario, looking very forested, and the morning sky with pink and orange hues.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I took two pics of me but won't post them. Kind of gross and getting grocer (haha). Seriously, swelling up and bleeding quite a bit. Yuck. It is ugly.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had surgery on my nose this afternoon. Basal cell carcinoma removed. Such a good surgeon and staff here (gotta love healthcare!!!) They are keeping me in a room overnight, 6th floor. Guessing this is a north view in London Ontario.

A room with a view, hundreds of trees seen from a hospital window.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good information. Applicable for those of us in Canada too obviously.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nooooo! I used this immersion blender for the soup and the steel rod that spins detached. Broken. My wife estimates her parents bought it in the 1970s. We got a lot of use out if it. I'm assuming the warranty is up. 😂

Still have the box it came in, about 50 years ago

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I roasted veggies for squash soup. The squash, tomato, and garlic are from my garden. #cooking #foodie

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeesh!!! Had me worried, with the first three letters in the right spot on the first guess. Going for a 200 day win streak I lost because of a word like that at 196. Wordle 1,927 5/6 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The game was close until the London Knights scored FIVE goals in under 15 minutes. A bit awkward. The next door neighbour gave us the tickets and went as well. I've known for years that he has a thing for my wife. Annoying.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ha! Dinner tonight is a handful of peanuts, a stick of celery, and an apple. ... And a lime daiquiri. We were gifted good seats for a hockey game, last minute. So no time to even pick up food. Oh well. Daiquiri is yum. I bought a different rum bottle. Nice.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Etymology of the day: the expression ‘you have another thing coming’ was originally ‘you have another think coming’: today’s version appeared within a year of the original, back in the 1800s. A short piece on the joyful messiness of linguistic evolution. susiedent.substack.com/p/another-th...

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Another think coming

How linguistic evolution is as messy as it is joyful

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A 12 years old, Cai Thomas has a treble voice so pure and clear that the moment he begins singing Laudate Dominum, the whole atmosphere seems to become more serene.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The woman behind the Lake America sweatshirt controversy has lost her job. She posted the family photo privately, but it was reposted publicly. Oops. She thought it was funny.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dedicated arts advocate Jane Fortune died #OTD in 2018. In 2009, she founded the Advancing Women Artists Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to researching, restoring & exhibiting previously overlooked or lost works by historical women artists, with a primary focus on Florence. #art

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From a trip to Italy. I wish we had canals lined with cafes where I live!

A canal with a boat approaching and pedestrian walkways on either side.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why do I get the feeling that "Show less like this" is just for show. It does nothing! A cloudy area in Bluesky.

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A note to the anonymous donor: Working decades as a GP, I have witnessed the devastation of cancer ...the lives cut short, grief-stricken parents, despairing husbands & wives, & grief that won't let go. Thank you Thank you Thank you 🕊️ www.thestar.com/news/gta/pri...

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Anne McKinnell 🇨🇦 @annemckinnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finally! I've spent a lot of time on the water, yet I've never seen a humpback whale lunge feeding. Until now. What a treat to be floating around, engine off, doing some fishing in Blackfish Sound and have this happen near the boat. I could even see the baleen! 🦑 #wildlifephotography #marinelife

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ahhhhhh!!! Tax issues. I got a Notice of Collection yesterday. I paid the money months ago but it went to a financial purgatory. Three phone calls later, about 2 hours on hold. It might be solved! The first call this morning was 45 minutes and it just ... ended. So I had to start over again.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 22/09/2026

Here are the amazing Shuffle Demons and their jazz classic ‘Spadina Bus’ #77BontheTTC m.youtube.com/watch?v=GU6i...

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THE SHUFFLE DEMONS - SPADINA BUS [HQ] (1986)

YouTube video by Retrontario

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't actually like peanut butter. But I love peanut butter and PB cookies. I made 52. 😋

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Home alone on a Sunday afternoon. What else am I going to do? Peanut butter oatmeal cookies. #baking #food Yummy

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is beyond my comprehension how men can be so awful.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a screenshot from ESPN of Mina Kimes. Really? That's rude. #Mina #NFL

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Meet Michael Sabia. The Architect Behind Carney’s Capital Machine. #cdnpoli He’s never won an election. He runs the entire federal civil service. And Mark Carney didn’t hire him by accident! carolineboudakian651916.substack.com/p/meet-micha...

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Meet Michael Sabia. The Architect Behind Carney’s Capital Machine

He’s never won an election. He runs the entire federal civil service. And Mark Carney didn’t hire him by accident!

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Rebecca Thompson 🦋 @rebalynn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

David Bowie in Mr. Rice's Secret (1998) #MusicSky

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Out for a walk and this one was quite close to the path. Kept eating.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

10 things other people like but I don't: 1 coffee 2 erratic lane changing 3 'modern' country music 4 pro baseball 5 raisins 6 right-wing politics 7 Taylor Swift 8 Seinfeld 9 fast food (97% 😂) 10 flip flops

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I keep reading comments from Americans saying that after the midterms, hopefully Canada will recognize their friends to the south and things will get better. No. This chaos, racism, sexism, survival of the richest, bullying, ignorance — that is America. It will still be thriving. No thanks.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shopping used to be so much easier. I put a package of dates back on the shelf. Israel. My wife turned away from a display, "I wanted that but..." USA #Canada #options

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thursday. Gonna be VERY interesting! Mark Carney is going to be directly addressing the EU parliament. Could be a moment of change we’ll later see in the history books. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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Exclusive | Mark Carney’s Audacious Bid to Make Canada an ‘Associate Member’ of the EU

As trade talks with the U.S. collapse, prime minister pursues a major—and risky—pivot to Europe; an Ottawa book club plays its part.

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I stepped off my porch and jumped to one side. Practically stepped on this garter snake. Looks like it recently ate — the bulge is further down its body in the second photo.

A garter snake, about 55 cm long, moving on to a front walk.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 13/09/2026

A 10% extinction risk is apparently still inside the venture-capital comfort zone.

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Leftbobgolfer🇨🇦 @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My wife left me for apparently being "too insecure." No wait, she's back. She just went to get some coffee! :)

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AlanG 🇨🇦 @alan1513.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The jellyfish look so stunning with the blue water. I took this at the Vancouver Aquarium.

Two yellowy jellyfish photographed at the Vancouver Aquarium with dark blue water around them.

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