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Appalbarry

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Writer, Nova Scotia, France, Vancouver. and now Cambridge UK, Barry’s writing is focused on how people live, and how the environment around them influences their choices. Clips at: appalbarry.com Blog at : www.threesquirrels.ca

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 10h
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 9h
You find in New Orleans people live among the dead there. They celebrate & break bread with their dead. They visit cemeteries for fun & boogie down dancing & playing jazz at funerals, they know their dead will still be around. New Orleans voodoo. @bodyindc.bsky.social @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 02/10/2026
Some days are just the right day for some DOA. youtu.be/4Wzt6SExtwQ?...
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D.O.A.-Already Dead
YouTube video by Happy Now?
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 02/10/2026
West Coast forest in the rain.
West Coast forest in the rain. Fallen log
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 02/10/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut
a photo of Kurt Vonnegut smoking
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 30/09/2026
The ultimate in Canadian customer service. Needless to say, their website does nothing. Never loads the alleged form to start a "ticket". #chatr


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Chatr Mobile does not provide a customer service phone number, but you can reach their customer service team by mail at 333 Bloor Street East, Toronto, ON M4W 1G9. For assistance, you can also visit their website for help and support options.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 30/09/2026
"Mrs Peel. We're needed."
Diana Right and Patrick Macnee in The Avengers
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.
There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it. A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I meet someone from France, I like to offer them spaghetti so they feel welcome.
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Delicious Chicken Parmesan with Vodka Sauce Pasta
Alt: Spaghetti
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Jalopnik @jalopnik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Changes included dropping current average fuel economy standards goal for 2031 by nearly 33% from 50.4 miles per gallon to 34.5 mpg.
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Trump Administration 'Resets' CAFE Standards, Claiming It'll Lead To The Affordable Cars Americans Asked For - Jalopnik
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Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The day after the North Van bear warning, someone stuck this up in the elevator.
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 28/09/2026
Dear God. The Hell that is setting up Internet service in Canada..... #Rogers #Telus www.threesquirrels.ca/how-canada-d...
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How Canada Does Business Redux
Dear God. In the years abroad, in England and France, I had forgotten how truly horrid the Canadian Internet/Phone/Cel Phone etc companies are. The trio of Bell, Telus, and Rogers control literally ev...
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Fuck the annoying realization dawned on me again that I have to look for a goddamn job for some time over the next couple of days because I have no income but mutual aid & unemployment & I'm still working out my income streams to make it as a full time writer & capitalism is the devil incarnate.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely terrific stuff at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Including a small bit really original exhibition on Berlin between the wars, far beyond usual Otto Dix etc. This little piece by Jeanne Mammen from 1931 is titled “Transvestite Bar.” Berlin had 170 specifically queer bars then.
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 27/09/2026
"most"?
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 25/09/2026
Yes.
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 24/09/2026
Sigh. My Xiaomi Hyper OS 3.0.3.0 phone will use an eSIM. Telus will sell me an eSIM. However neither of them will tell me how I would get it installed and working. Every set of directions says things that my phone lacks. @telussupport.bsky.social
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 22/09/2026
One day Canadians are going to wake up and realize our sovereignty and democracy is entirely an illusion, and that the country is run by the American shareholders of our banks and oil companies #cdnpoli
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 22/09/2026
Why in Gods name does it take two weeks to get Internet set up in a new home? In other countries this takes minutes. #Telus #Rogers
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 21/09/2026
Enterprise Rental in Duncan. Dropped off: no car. No sympathy. No nothing seriously crap service.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy birthday to Daniel Lanois, who was born on this day in 1951! He produced albums for U2, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and others. He has also released nine albums. He has won eight Junos, seven Grammys and has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. 📸 Brian Rasic
Bearded musician adjusting a keyboard/synth onstage under purple and blue lights, wearing a trucker hat and jacket with a focused, intent expression.
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 18/09/2026
Via Facebook
Classic meme, with Trump as angry girlfriend on right, wearing stars n bars. Guy looking back over his shoulder wears maple leafs. Hot girl in foreground is blonde, wearing tight EU flag tshirt.
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
in today's episode of LTAS, we watch Mike Jittlov's The Wizard of Speed and Time, a truly astonishing masterpiece of stop motion special effects and outsider comedy hijinks! if you've never heard of this film, you are REQUIRED to experience it with me for the next thirty minutes.
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getting weird with The Wizard of Speed and Time | LTAS 3
YouTube video by Let's Talk About Stuff
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 17/09/2026
@suzannerent.bsky.social Bluebirds Went Extinct on Vancouver Island. Now They're Back via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Bluebirds Went Extinct on Vancouver Island. Now They’re Back | The Tyee
Seventy landowners and many other volunteers have helped return their gentle, chortling song to the Cowichan Valley.
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 15/09/2026
Because if there’s one thing that’s improved airports, it was turning them into shopping malls run by non unionized workers #cdnpoli
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 15/09/2026
This is where I always ask: Tell me about one example of a government service being privatized, and offering the same or better service for less cost. Just one example. Response: <crickets>
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 14/09/2026
@tomflood.bsky.social Re: city considers ending garbage collection...
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In 1906, 27-year-old Canadian Peter Lymburger Robertson invented a new screw and screwdriver. Considered far superior to the Philips screw, the Robertson screw is now regarded as one of Canada's greatest inventions. This is the story. 🧵 1/8
Screwdriver with metal shaft and bit lying beside several green, square-recess screws on a white background, suggesting tools for fastening or assembly.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 14/09/2026
Elbows up. Yeah, right.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I know there are a lot of people who want to make the world better but don’t know where to start so just…don’t. I also know every group I work with that is making the world better is kept afloat by exhausted people who desperately need help. If you’re in group A, please find an org to help group B
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 13/09/2026
Honestly, we now know that whether it's big movers or small movers, they all suck. And then there's U-haul....
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i'm thinking we, as a species, lost the plot. don't know where. but if we're talking about AI rights while the rights of trans people, pregnant people, immigrants, and Black and brown people are daily eroded, we messed up somewhere.
theguardian.com
Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights
Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
13-year anniversary of Subway getting really mad at us.
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New Subway Promotion To Honor Subtember 11
MILFORD, CT—Citing a wide range of deals customers will “never forget,” fast food chain Subway announced an exciting new promotion this week to honor and commemorate Subtember 11. “With a number of te...
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 11/09/2026
Going out for some mini muffins
A plate of mini muffins next to a sign reading “In remembrance of those we lost on 9/11
the hotel will provide complimentary coffee and mini muffins from 8:45 - 9:15am.”
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 11/09/2026
Forced to use #Outlook on-line for @viuniversity.bsky.social communications. Dear God... what a mess. Can anyone suggest a resource to help a long time #Thunderbird user adapt to what Microsoft has wrought? In particular, their version of "threading" has me baffled.
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
😂 dear god, someone drove in the multi use path but then got stuck behind a walker. Good for them
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Jalopnik @jalopnik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Researchers tested the state of health on more than 500,000 EVs between 2022 and 2026, and found that after 31,000 miles, median SoH varied between 91% and 97%.
jalopnik.com
Weird Myth That EV Batteries Die All The Time Refuted By Yet Another Study Conducted By Actual Scientists Who Didn't Graduate From Facebook University - Jalopnik
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You know who was at 9/11? Within an hour of the tower strike, Canadian firefighters were loading up gear to get to New York to help. In this photo: Ottawa crew - Brian Foley, Steve Carmichael, Gordie Thorpe and John Hamilton. You know who didn't show up? Donald Trump.
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Appalbarry @appalbarry.com · 10/09/2026
Yesterday, the world celebrated International Literacy Day. Despite these numbers, the Houston Government continues to cut program funding to vital non-profits, as well as rural libraries where the help and access is often needed most.
Short version: NS tend to be illiterate. Ask the government why.
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A tweet from @pookleblinky from Sept. 25, 2020: 

Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.
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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🧪
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Civilization.
No right on red on the island of Montreal
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This shit is too easy. I want to see “cut 16mm on a steenbeck” and “listened to Imus when he was relevant”
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