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@beitris1.bsky.social
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not sure about this. FYI: there will be gardening, archaeology, politics, music etc .... Canada, Toronto, Nova Scotian 🎻🌿🍻🏺🏛🇨🇦☀️🤷🏼‍♀️ a repost doesn’t always = agreement

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request. Lithuania/Canada were also pressured to withdraw…days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website.” So the US used disinformation to undermine a disinformation conference telling the truth about US disinformation.
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
To recap: Drag Shows ❌ Miss Rachel ❌ Books ❌ Public executions ✅
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
OP-ED: “Removing Toronto's bike lanes puts children's health at risk.” Actually, well documented evidence shows that EVERYONE is put at risk. And it costs EVERYONE. “The Ford government decision to tear up bike-lanes is bad for kids, families, cyclists, drivers, taxpayers & the planet.” And more.
torontotoday.ca
OP-ED: Removing Toronto's bike lanes puts children's health at risk
Two members of the volunteer group For Our Kids Toronto argue the Ford government's decision to tear up bike lanes is bad for kids, families, cyclists, drivers, taxpayers and the planet
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The monthly Art Crawl in downtown Hamilton. The event that’s not really an event because no-one organizes it but everyone just kind of knows and shows up.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 29/09/2026
Sadly, this is another casualty of the most right-wing government in Finnish history. Homelessness is on the rise again, as is child poverty and so many other measures of societal failure.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s hard enough for cities in Canada to do smarter things given how often bad city leaders hurt their own cities. But it’s extra infuriating watching awful provincial premiers sabotaging cities by ripping out good things they FINALLY managed to achieve. Premiers should not have that power, period.
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fsnaris @fsnaris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh look, the President of Toronto wants to spend $48M ripping out bike lanes in Toronto when that money would probably help communities in Northern Ontario, just so he and his cronies can (seemingly) speed thru the city on their way to do absolutely nothing.
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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lest we think that America has cornered the market on wasteful stupid:
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As ever, Gary Kasparov understands exactly what's going down.
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"But nobody bikes in Toronto 6 months a year"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX CARNYX #LlynCerrigBach #ExDruidSacrifice
Me playing a carnyx beneath a storm blackened sky
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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This #penannular #brooch, made from bronze and decorated with blue enamel and silvery inlay with a dog-tooth pattern, was discovered at #Trimontium by excavator James Curle, and dates to the late 1st of 2nd century CE.
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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s World Migratory Bird Day! 🐦️ 🌍️ From Redwings and Fieldfares in our cities to the ducks, geese and wading birds gathering on our coasts and wetlands, Scotland is welcoming some incredible seasonal visitors. And these arrivals are part of a bigger story 👇️
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Toronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I did it for the sticker. And I did it early in case they run out of stock. Now don't forget to get out there and vote in this municipal election. Doesn't matter who you vote for, just vote. It's the bare minimum you can do in a democratic society. #TOpoli #TOphoto #Toronto #Vote
The coveted I voted sticked has been acquired.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A very stylish #Roman woman's shoe with a decorative pattern punched into the leather. Found in 1907 in a well in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort, dating first half of the 2nd century AD. Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg
The picture shows a single leather shoe with a decorative pattern of holes of different sizes and shapes (e.g circles, triangles).
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a frontal view of a clay flask with warm-yellow coloured slip with black hand painted decoration depicting an octopus. The octopus is swimming diagonally with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional black painted motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the 'Marine Style'. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side and a small base so that it can stand upright.

“Its shape is somewhat unusual, constructed by slipping together, while still leather hard (clay that is not quite dry), two shallow plates which had been made on a fast spinning potter’s wheel and with highly refined clay. The circular bases of these shallow plates are still visible in the center of both sides of the flask” (Smart History article “Octopus Vase” by Dr Senta German https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/)

The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The excavations between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ladybird Book pictures on request: The Magic Porridge Pot (1971) Artist: Robert Lumley
A woman, styled as a Russian peasant, eats from a bowl of porridge as a little ceramic porridge pot begins magically to produce porridge non-stop 
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beitris @beitris1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Save the ICC! Block Trump’s sanctions now! actions.eko.org/a/save-the-i... #ICC The world doesn't have to give in to Trump's corrupt criminal regime. @ec.europa.eu
actions.eko.org
Save the ICC! Block Trump’s sanctions now!
Trump is treating the ICC like a terrorist organization—for daring to arrest Netanyahu. He wants it destroyed. And his sanctions may soon make it impossible for the court to pay its staff or keep its
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“A full harvest moon is rising, though it is still only twilight” (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL GrantWatson
A barn owl is perched on a wall in front of a small Village at sunset  
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There's a reason why Somerville hasn't had a traffic death in 4 years. The city isn't perfect, but they've made a concerted effort to design many streets around people and not cars. You can still drive, but you're going to have to do so slowly and while paying attention.
bostonglobe.com
Somerville is intentionally making roads harder to drive on. It’s getting results. - The Boston Globe
To make roads safer, the city says, sometimes you have to put some obstacles in drivers' way.
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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
📍 City Hall | Nuit Blanche #Toronto
One curved tower of Toronto city hall illuminated with rainbow lights.
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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lot's of nice wildflowers around still in Cambridge. And the sun came out, so a chance to try out the new phone camera! Names in ALT text. #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Top left and clockwise:
White Dead-nettle, Viper's Bugloss, Dwarf Mallow;
Wild Mignonette,  Ragwort, Dewberry;
Common Carrot, Pink (?) Campion, Creeping Cinquefoil;
Agrimony;
Lanceolate Aster (nat.), Dandelion, Bristly Oxtongue,  Yarrow.
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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
(cartoon Andy Marlette)
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is our extraordinary 🌎 Why are we destroying it? Why are we killing whales in 2026? Polluting and warming oceans? #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis #WarOnNature
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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This Late Classic Maya tripod vessel is made of fine orange-colored ceramic and decorated with engraved motifs in the Sonaja style. #Maya #Archaeology
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SB Brian X @sbbrianx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hibiscus, detail-
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The backlit standing menhir, one of two at Kergadiou #StandingStoneSunday - cue the "Also Sprach Zarathustra 2001 Space Odyssey" music writes Stonetracker! More 1/
The backlit standing menhir, one of two at Kergadiou
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extraordinary material intensity of this still life of a melon and pears (or quinces), painted in 1772 by Luis Egidio Melendez of Madrid. It's his day today.
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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#LondonEye #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery
The London Eye against the background of a turquoise blue sky.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Maya vessel from Uxmal, dating to the Late Classic period (1000–1542 CE). The anthropomorphic figure is richly adorned with an elaborate headdress and large ear ornaments. #Maya #Archaeology #Mexico
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
💔🕯️💔🕯️💔
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Baby goats anyone? 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: @sattleplatz20
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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For #wildflowerhour if there is such a thing as having favourite stamens (!!), these are mine on Great Mullein, Verbascum thapsus
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pasta sauce! Tomatoes & a bowl of aubergines and onions, painted in 1780 by Luis Egidio Melendez of Madrid. Today is his day.
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Paul Chamberlain @paulchamberlain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Callanish , sunset last week , the details on this stone are worth a visit alone #StandingStoneSunday
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beitris @beitris1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
as Canada abandons its commitments to international law, humanitarian aid, peace keeping, pays lip service to Palestine but states anti-zionism is antisemitism, is silent on the illegal blockade of Cuba...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
TN-9 candidate Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “Gas is too high. Groceries are too high. Wages are too low… and blaming immigrants is part of the problem. The reality is people are struggling because the billionaire class is greedy.”
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This one is doing the rounds
A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice. 
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
White Shaman: Blasting from the construction of Trump's border wall looks to threaten many rock art sites, some up to 4000 years old . The painting faces west.
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’ve been bowled over by the standard for this year's Botanical Photographer of the Year. It's now time for public shortlisting. Use the links below to view the entries into this year's competition and vote for all those you think are particularly impressive. Shortlisting will run until 31 Oct.
bsbi.org
Botanical Photographer of the Year
The BSBI is for everyone who cares about the wild plants of Britain and Ireland.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Meme with the text  “Motivational speaker: Unleash the lion inside you!” followed by "The lion inside me:" above two medieval drawings of weird looking lions.
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I walked Offa's Dyke in Sep and didn't expect how it would change me. I think that everybody should experience this remarkable landscape - so I've created an immersive page with images, words and maps to take you there from you armchair. www.digest.andymarsh...
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Toronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Out for an October punt on the Don. It's amazing what 40min can do to clear the skies after a quick rain shower. #paddleTO #SUP #StandUpPaddle #Biidaasige
Paddling down the Don river to harbourSkyline after the rain has cleared.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A big thing WaPo's Ed Board is missing here is that the *WaPo Ed Board specifically* writing stuff like "Out of spite for President Donald Trump ..." is *part of why* Canada is responding the way it is. Major US papers refusing to even engage with Canada's perspective is itself part of the hedge
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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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