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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas.

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's always about making public space uncomfortable and out of bounds for "some" "other" people

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks Barry two thumbs up - remarkably... somber? clear headed? probably both

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Those are quite the comments quite the column: "The fish rots from the head", General Manager and Council.

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I can attest that William James is still being read: The Varieties of Religious Experience, A study in human nature, 1902/Centenary Edition 2002

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn.

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Carney is a central banker by trade and a goalie by formation, and both jobs are the same job: stay calm, watch the play develop, and price time better than the bloke skating at you. He has priced Trump’s remaining time and found it cheaper than servo sushi." A sweet tender read.

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Most of Canada is missing the larger story. American demands arrived as a package:" Mandatory reading.

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"He could have walked away from the table when he realized that was the American bottom line. Instead," Timing is everything. Carney has a great sense of that.

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

tuned out sense of entitlement mostly

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Big numbers at the end and a very big answer

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 18/06/2026

Nearly a thousand pages long, Jay Leyda's The Melville Log may be the longest biography never written. Never written in that Leyda assembles an enormous set of evidence about Herman Melville's life and work—but leaves it to us, the reader, to create the narrative from it. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Mandatory Full thread read -- if you can stomach it

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

priceless commentary in replies -- brightens my day

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

and so tired knowing when spring will come..

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Thumbs up. Even the simplest of parks or transportation interventions (at least in Toronto) seem to hit these design roadblocks. Good food for thought. Yes brilliant.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This is absolutely fucking brilliant.

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

" it's a bit like pronouns... "

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?" Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth Plummeting. 📉 It is a hideous scandal that they can publish a chart as obvious as this and not even mention the words 'covid infections'.

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

2 of 2 and "as the applicant leads, Sacyr Canada Inc, and Amico Design Build Inc. as the construction team, Johnson Controls Canada L.P. as facilities management, and Agentis Capital Advisors as the financial advisor."

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

and just who are the actors? "The full Ontario Science partners team includes John Laing Limited, Sacyr Infrastructure Canada Inc. and Amico Major Projects Inc.," 1 of 2

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I think we have a VSP Very Smart People meme going on here -- thanks !

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Happy Days! - July 2008 - and those prairie side roads are in their own wild crazy category... lovely article

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Prime Minister Carney meets Bonhomme Carnaval. (credit: Gray_Mackenzie on X)

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

his "brain" was processing "a piece of ass"

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

If you want to understand what is happening right now & what’s at stake, please listen to this conversation I had with historian Robert Kagan. Europe has to wake up FAST.

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

yes - "well worth watching in its entirety"

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ddf @alepposong.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

good straight up commentary

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Also for thanksgiving: Certain government actors again perpetuate the myth of the thin blue line — aka that American society is always near collapse into chaos and brutality keeps order — so please revisit my take on what the line between order & chaos really is www.greatpower.us/p/thin-blue-...

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Thin blue-and-yellow line

The line between American chaos and American greatness runs through Ukraine

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

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