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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 4h

Bradford wants to hire a THOUSAND new cops?! No. Hell, no. On top of gutting revenue with his cuts, he wants to explode the already massive police budget? Toronto, we HAVE to re-elect Olivia Chow. (Also, citing Malcom Gladwell in a serious policy discussion is instantly disqualifying.) #TOPoli

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 6h

Me just shrieking “Wombat!” at the poor lady while in a dissociative fangirl fugue.

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 6h

My kid would sometimes stop and hug the book if the characters were having a hard time.

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 7h

I love this pic of you!

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A year is not too much, in my experience

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rain Clouds A.J. Casson 1976

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There’s something intensely American about that, in a good way. These may be hostile weirdos, but they’re hostile weirdos with an aesthetic, and if they have to create it next to a strip mall salon, they will!

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pepys is annoyed that his servants didn’t take the supermarket dinner out of the containers before serving it

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Morning (New Yorker cartoon, by Rose Anne Prevec)

A man sits at a restaurant table holding two chips. A woman sitting opposite, with the chips directly in front of her, while he has an empty plate, says “I can't believe how much more relaxed I feel since you told me to calm down.”

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, Canada too! I grew up on those

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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Lauowolf @lauowolf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am going to pay tribute to the whole situation by forming my opinion of the blog post without bothering to read it

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I heard that Rees-Mogg had changed tacks (don’t ask me how, I don’t even go there), and my first thought was “I wonder what Mr. Howard thinks about that.”

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We also have a two-level cat

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

*sad music* with your cultivation of native Aristolochia, we can get this living piece of tissue paper some ass

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Somberness Sunlit Emily Carr 1938-40

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O.R. Melling @ormelling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shakespeare's opinion on the thugs attacking poor refugees desperate to live (and the RNLI for doing their work). ❤️

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TIL there’s a fish that lives in the lowest depths of the Congo River that has stunted growth, no color pigment, and no eyes. And locally it’s called “mondeli bureau,” which translates to “white man in an office” LMAO

A very small blind pasty white yellowish fish in the palm of someone’s hand.

Lamprologus lethops, a fish that lives in the lower Congo River, is pale and blind like fish that dwell in caves deep underwater.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Melanie Stiassny)

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mist Fantasy J.E.H. MacDonald c. 1943

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026

waking up every day in 2026 like:

a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That is a cat who knows how good she has it

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am tired of space heroes being American and space villains being push Brits. We should take it in turns. First round Space heroes are Jamaican, space villains are Belgian

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this has the exact energy of the kind of fact I’m always learning from @swordsjew.bsky.social because it turns out there’s a sandwich named after it somehow I can’t explain but you know what I mean

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 01/10/2026

(Read what you like, write what you want, and leave other people alone. There you go.)

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wychwood Barns at St Clair and Christie has a farmer’s market that was and I think still is year-round? Saturday mornings, wonderful stuff. Restaurant recs would depend on cuisine or neighborhood!

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What do you want to do? Shopping, food, museums, outdoor things?

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Read somewhere “I can’t be bothered to read something no one could be bothered to write.”

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

God: I gave you flight, but I had to take away your hands Bird: was that necessary? *bat lands on table, chews a strawberry* God: it was, yeah *dragonfly lands nearby on all six legs* God: Bird: just be real with me

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I much prefer the historically accurate version where the British conquered the world for spices and still couldnt use any of them until the people they stole the spices from went there to show them how to use pepper

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know you mean if-the-government -let’s-you. I also wanted to say that as far as I’m concerned, anyone who wants to live here is as Canadian as I am.

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I highly recommend checking out her other work, too! It’s funny, it’s hot, and dignity is a thing for everyone.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“They just recalled soap for bacterial contamination” tired

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These stories make me want to throw up, every time

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Toronto Archives @torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca · 29/09/2026

Opened in 1999, the Toronto Music Garden is a fascinating waterfront space inspired by the music of Bach, in collaboration with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Each dance movement within Bach’s First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello corresponds to a different section in the garden.

Aerial view looking north over Marina Quay West, west of Spadina, ca. late 1990s. A garden and adjacent buildings next to the marina are under construction. Series 1465, File 145, Item 37.

Aerial view looking north of Marina Quay West, west of Spadina. The marina is filled with boats, and a landscaped park runs adjacent to the water. Several tall condo buildings and the SkyDome are in the background. Series 2311, File 3084, Item 366.

Tri-fold brochure detailing the Toronto Music Garden project with images, descriptions, and park design plans. Text "About the Music Garden" reads: Fronting on Toronto's inner harbour, the 20+ acre Toronto Music Garden is scheduled to open in the spring of 1999. The City of Toronto park is the latest addition to the proposed 40-acre Harbourfront Parks System. The creation of the Music Garden is the results of a unique collaboration between Julie Moir Messervy and landscape architects from the City's Parks and Recreation Division. The park design is inspired by Bach's First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello, with each dance movement within the suite corresponding to a different section in the garden.

Fonds 1047, Series 1822, File 395.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
9.8K Retweets
32.7K Likes

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By rights, each post in this thread should be nail in the coffin of Brad Bradford’s campaign. Great work, @nationalobserver.com.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the world is a rough place these days, but there are tiny glimmers of light everywhere if you know where to look for example, my sister just texted that their youngest decided to take up the trumpet and was honking away all evening in the garage, driving them nuts, and that did bring me real joy

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it’s also not NOT giving Moopsy which RED FLAG

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please help if you can! Queen City Cat Lounge is an adoption center I visit frequently here in Vermont and their window was vandalized last night. Fortunately they had double glass for the cats' safety, but the broken outer window needs to be fixed ASAP. www.gofundme.com/f/repair-and...

Poster with a black and white screenshot of security footage showing a man peering into the front window of a cat adoption center. Text says "please help Queen City cat lounge recover. last night someone broke the window at Queen City cat lounge - an adoption center that has placed hundreds of cats in loving homes. the cats are all safe but the window needs to be replaced quickly!"

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