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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An update: the Edmonton public school board passed the motion to examine registration policies, and may make recommendations to align them with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (if that's in the board's authority). Timeline unclear: chair Saadiq Sumar says it won't rush this work. #AbEd

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My current knit wip is a pair of split-toe house socks (no pattern, making it up as I go along). I sent my sister a photo of them on my feet and she said they look like socks for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 😭😵 (she’s not wrong, though) #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶🧦

A pair of unfinished split-toe socks arranged on top of a stack of paper on my lap. The socks are a mottled blueish-grey at the toes, and striped with dark blue through the rest of the foot.

Me modelling one partially finished sock, still on the needles

The teenage mutant ninja turtles sit on top of a building, eating pizza. Their two-toed feet are visible.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today was a nice day to get outside.

Photograph of a wide, fast-moving river, taken from the middle of a bridge spanning its width. The water is a blue-green colour, and clear enough to see the riverbed below.

Photograph of the river, taken from the bank, which is gravelly with small shrubs.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve been off the bike for a few weeks but today I went on a 17 km trip (buying fb marketplace yarn) and what a rush!!! Perfect weather! Not too sunny or warm or cold. No need for gloves or a brimmed hat, and no worries about getting sweaty. Got some good leaf crunches too. I love early autumn.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me finding out (again) that one’s borrowing history on EPL’s website only goes back a few months

Low quality image of a yelping pug, with caption: (screeching)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

“Yes, I like Buffy, but not for the stupid reasons you plebeian ignoramuses do,” he says, while wearing a fedora and khaki cargo shorts (did Yud ever go through a Hawaiian shirt phase?)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

here we find Eliezer Yudkowsky engaging in the classic 90s and 2000s genre of “insecure straight guy getting really defensive about liking Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

$3.3: What's your favorite television show? Actually, there's only one television show worth watching. This show is by far superior to every other television show I've ever seen, up to and including Babylon Five. If you've ever seen this show, you already know what my favorite show is. Not even the fraction of a doubt has crossed your mind. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 3.4: You watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer? "Eliezer watches Buffy? That's wonderful! So he is mortal, after all." I get that reaction often, always from people who have never seen the show. Anyone who has seen the show, especially the second season, knows better than to be reassured. NOTE: In recent times - the fourth season - the quality has gone far downhill, alas. The comments below should be taken as referring to the first through third seasons. But just to set a few matters straight: Buffy is an extremely intelligent and high-quality show. Magic has rules on Buffy; they're never explained, but they're very clearly there. All the people behave like real human beings. Buffy is "realistic" ", in the sense that it depicts exactly what would happen, given the show's premises. The characters are intelligent and emotionally mature. Finally, I do not watch Baywatch, and I see no reason why people should assume that I watch Buffy for the same reason they watch Baywatch. (30). That said... "I wish I could be a lot of things for you. A great student, a star athlete, remotely normal. I'm not. But there is something I do that I can do better than anybody else in the world..." - Buffy Summers, to her mother, in Graduation Day I Do you even need to ask? Well, yes, you do. It'd be a mistake to focus too much on the fact that Buffy Summers is the one girl in all the world with the strength and speed to hunt the vampires, and I'm the one Specialist working on Al. Remember, I have no emotional need to be special. I've spent my whole life being special. We all have secret little ridiculous dreams. It's a large part of who…$

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I see Calgary is finally joining our efforts to stop this province from shooting itself in the face

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today I learned how much sterling silver thimbles cost 😵‍💫

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Genuinely fascinating stuff happening over there, can’t wait to discuss with my besties

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s me. I had the info sheet posted on the wall next to my recycling bin for years. 🫣

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I like it when people leave their library receipts in books so that the next person who borrows that book (me) gets some related book recommendations. “People who borrowed this also borrowed…”

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today I showed my dad the split-toe tabi-style socks I’m knitting (toe-up). The look of confusion on his face was so beautiful. 🧦🧶

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Smh we didn’t mock her enough when she spoke at my high school. Instead we waited politely until she left before talking among ourselves. That was stupid.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh no, I’ve just realized that I unravelled my cuff-down vanilla practice sock to reuse the yarn for my toe-up sock without writing down the number of rounds between the heel and toe. I wrote down literally every other detail of the sock except this one. Screaming, crying, throwing up, etc.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I knew it was more affordable than ON/BC, but THEE most affordable major city in the country??

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Paper bag fee discourse on the local subreddit again kill me now

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Will ETS let me get married at Corona (the shiniest station)?

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I appreciate the fact that cobblers still exist and are still affordable but the one I went to did scratch the hell out of one of my leather flats, so… idk 🥲

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Meet my new buddy: gas station Canada Goose keychain

A rubbery 3D goose keychain with cartoonish features stands on a green tablecloth.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So much to comment on here, but first: is that “Bob Iveson of Parkallen” as in “father of former mayor Don Iveson from Parkallen” or am I tripping?

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A 293 g apple from my tree, the largest it’s produced in the three summers that it’s been in my yard 😮

A large red and green apple rests on a glass electronic kitchen scale. The scale reports the apple’s mass as 293 g.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Finally got my thimble 🥳

Photo of my fingers. I’m wearing a silver-coloured open top adjustable ring-style thimble close to the top joint of my middle finger.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You all better stop putting those photos of Elizabeth Holmes in front of my eyes

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This will be gone by tomorrow. I cannot be controlled around apple crisp.

Pre-oven photo of my apple crisp in a red and white ceramic baking dish.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just noticed this on the website of an Ontario-based yarn shop. I’ve shopped there in the past but I’m seeing this notice for the first time today. It’s the part about ICE that made me go “whoa.” I would be glad to see more Canadian businesses be this candid and straightforward about the US regime.

Shipping Costs - Domestic or International

SUSPENSION OF SHIPMENTS TO THE USA:

Due to the cancellation of the de minimus exemption and the outrageous demand from the US government that we are required to collect and pre-pay all tariff charges that US customers will owe to their government before we ship, we have suspended all sales to the USA.

As a matter of principle, we refuse to collect and remit taxes on behalf of a foreign government; this is not and has never been our responsibility. We also, as a matter of principle, refuse to collect taxes that the US government will use to fund ICE.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a bit awkward for me and my apparently-not-Africa-shaped jewellery

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Kathy Reid 🇨🇦🧶🚴‍♀️🏊‍♀️ @kathyreidknitter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Trump tariffs: Canadian wool and yarn producers walk away from U.S. customers www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps... #knitsky #knit 🇨🇦🧶 Great article here - we need to increase CDN wool Processing and buy Canadian wool!

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Trump tariffs: Canadian wool and yarn producers walk away from U.S. customers

More and more Canadian producers are shipping their raw wool to China and the Czech Republic to evade U.S. tariffs and trade tensions.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I saw a pedestrian (and maybe bike) counter at Beaumaris Lake last weekend but I don’t see it listed in this table of local counters. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place? Is it too soon for it to be collecting data? data.edmonton.ca/Monitoring-a...

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Bike Counter Locations (Eco Counter) | Edmonton - Open Data Portal

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’ve been exposed to a lot of Selling Sunset recently and I think that’s what compelled me to buy this sewing pattern today. Just a casual little outfit for the grocery store, y’know?

Front side view of a sewing pattern envelope. McCall’s 8505 has three views: all three are cleavage-forward dresses with flowy A-line skirts

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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

People not joining Danielle Smith’s music industry fact-finding mission to Nashville on behalf of Calgary: - Minister of Arts and Culture - Alberta’s newly hired Music Commissioner - CEO of the Studio Bell and the National Music Centre in Calgary - Mayor of Calgary - Board of the Calgary Stampede

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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Edmonton Police Commission just announced the remainder of its 2026 public meetings will be online only. Says this is due to "abusive and insulting" public commentary. Unstated, but this is about people opposed to Chief Warren Driechel's Israel trip edmontonpolicecommission.com/public-meeti...

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It recently occurred to me that if I don’t start now I WILL run out of time to refinish my sewing machine cabinet before it gets too cold to work in the garage. Good luck to me and my tools.

Me in my garage, throwing up a peace sign. I’m absolutely covered in dust, and wearing gloves, a hair scarf, and a face mask to protect me from it.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hate receiving an email where the sender has put all 250+ members of the mailing list in the To: field instead of at least BCC-ing us. But it’s actually on me for not using one of my alias addresses.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Silly flicker, that’s not a tree

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Dustin Bajer (he/him) @dustinbajer.com · 29/08/2026

Not so gentle reminder that boulevards are public/green infrastructure that support trees and climate change adaptation. It is illegal to park or drive over boulevards because doing so compacts soil and damages tree roots. Damages elm and ash trees are more susceptible to diseases. #yeg

Two cars parks on the roots of an elm tree in Albert Avenue.

A U-Haul parked on the roots of an ash tree in McCauley.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Video thread featuring @tressiemcphd.bsky.social grieving the loss of Dolly Parton but also grieving the loss of the civic and cultural structures that made it possible for a genius like her to rise. Ditto for Prince and Michael Jackson.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sorry, I’m having some difficulty imagining a scenario where I watch my friend collide with a car (leaving the car looking like the hulk punched it) and my next steps are to abandon said friend to their unknown injuries and flee because EYE don’t want to get in trouble. Are the youths okay?

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sent in a request to test-sew an indie sewing pattern for the first time this morning. It’s really rare for me to come across a pattern tester call (whether for sewing or sock knitting) that hasn’t already been updated to say “no more testers needed, thanks,” so I hope this one works out! 🤞

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

More thoughts from me--- and a breakdown of the arbitrator's decision. The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

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The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.

Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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