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Historian, ethicist, at PSU for now, from Ottawa, almost retired from rugby, still a fan of the Giant Metrozoids. 🇺🇦

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OneSoccer @onesoccer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Niko Sigur to Toulouse FC, confirmed ✅ But also... what 😐 #CanMNT 🇨🇦
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 25/09/2026
That’s Gabibbo, and it was a WHOLE thing. @chrisvannini.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/188...
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(Published 2020)
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 21/09/2026
Campaign for Putin, be a star in Washington? "Sports should not be a platform for normalizing crimes. We should stop pretending that sports exist in a separate bubble where no one knows anything and no one is responsible for anything,"
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Campaign for Putin, be a star in Washington?
Last week, offices across Washington were actively discussing the signing of the Lindsey Graham sanctions bill, which would significantly increase pressure on Russia. And, a bit unexpectedly, sports h...
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Catherine 🇨🇦 🌎 @capeacadia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In case anyone needs a reminder of what a class act politician looks like… #USDemocracy
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Terry Reintke of the Greens/EFA. Interesting because we often only see these pics as "gotcha" things after some creep gets into the group shot, but she seems into the alliance/association here all right
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OfficeBob @officebob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
kevinboucher32.substack.com/p/canada-isn...
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Canada Isn't Turning to China. It's Doing Something Much More Dangerous.
The fight over Canada isn't about trade. It's about whether a sovereign country can diversify its way out of dependence — and what happens to American power if it does.
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“A beaver reshapes the environment. It creates stability. It builds systems that others depend on.” 🇨🇦 What a great comment from a viewer of The OShow youtu.be/jevkyswzNLk?si…
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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger
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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This classic pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30545967/ (The authors' point is that you don't need an RCT for this question but it's subtle)
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Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial - PubMed
Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jump …
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
235,880 signatures now 😏🔥 Turf Hoekstra petition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7531 - Petitions
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
SNYDER: You can't imagine Trump or Hegseth visiting Kyiv. It's not that it's not going to happen. It's just unimaginable. It's psychically impossible for them. They can't be in a world where people are actually taking real risks for real things. That would be too much for them.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 09/07/2026
I'm not sure "he's not even a real bin" is the winning electoral argument some of Count Binface's opponents imagine. I think the voters of Clacton had pretty much already realised that on their own.
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
fascinatingly* the French news is translating "Count Binface" as « le Compte Tête-de-Poubelle » rather than « Visage-de-Poubelle) which is, in fairness, more accurate (his entire head is a bin, not just his face) typical British media not asking the important underlying questions * ta gueule
Screenshot from Le Parisien. A photo of Count Binface, a man in a sort of black Darth Vader suit but with a silvery grey cape and a bin on his head with eye slit and mouthhole. 

Headline:

Législative partielle au Royaume-Uni : qui est le « Comte Tête-de-poubelle », principal adversaire de Nigel Farage ?

Subheader: Ce candidat fantaisiste devrait être l’un des seuls à disputer le siège de Clacton-on-Sea au leader de Reform UK, pris dans un scandale. Les autres partis boycottent le scrutin.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"This is going to be a dark and ignominious July 4. It is entirely possible that the next one will be even darker. But the Declaration is still there, and it will outlast Vance, Schmitt, and the rest of their ilk. They don’t have anything better to offer." publiccomment.blog/p/cosmopolit...
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Cosmopolitan America
Some thoughts on the revolution at 250
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I've liked Kone since he came into the side, but it's a while since he's done anything much
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Good lord Will Arnett is bombing this WC intro
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
And the Gritty memes continue
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Gabriel Siqueira @gabrieldread.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Eu tenho dentro de mim 2 lobos. Um está andando em direção à caminha, o outro está deitado na caminha.
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I think there are a lot of reasons, but one intuition off the bat is that the kind of person radicalized by the trauma and tumult of the early twentieth century could be a great artist while the kind of person radicalized by having to press 1 to speak English could never make significant art.
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is amazing, but it shouldn't be. (Also, note that the ice skating track can be the access path to the berry patches)
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I still like this
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Carney's good at these events. Note the pictures above the cabinet, the one on the left is a favorite of mine, Yvonne Housser's Cobalt and what I think is a Lawren Harris of a Toronto street. Those are cool picks from the NGC collection, probably on a small northern town/ big city pairing.
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I would agree, this is a very bad look. We need to know which tool is doing the talking.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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THE MANY by Sylvain Neuvel
THE MOUNTAIN CROWN, THE DESERT TALON and A COVENANT OF ICE by Karin Lowachee
THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell
THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
hehe
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Give this kid a trip to Toronto in June
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Makes sense considering it's Cleveland @andrewdlinden.bsky.social
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Wow already no undefeated MLB teams
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Starting to think about the intersection of this and sport bureaucracies www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt03...
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C. Thi Nguyen: 'Value Collapse' - The Royal Institute of Philosophy Cardiff Annual Lecture 2022
YouTube video by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990". www.mcri.edu.au/news/insight...
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World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
MCRI's Professor Andrew Sinclair SRY gene identifier critiques World Athletics’ new gene testing rule. Read more.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We shouldn't be basing higher ed decisions solely on numbers like these because higher ed isn't a business, but we *definitely* shouldn't let people use 'run higher ed like a business' as a pitch and then bury the numbers that show they're killing profitable programs.
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Fairly sure that Kirsty Coventry is not going to say anything in this speech. She's popping it because she's scared she can't stick the landing.
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Also I miss Adrienne Arsenault. Petrillo and Bucsis indulge themselves in lowbrow insults too often. The 50km skiers didn't sign up "just so they could get their medals here" and there was more to winning that event than "wanting it"
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Chantelle James @tinystart.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Damnit CBC your split screen ads during the Olympic Opening and Closing ceremonies (followed by full screen ads) is disruptive, disrespectful, and annoying af.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
CBC Olympics posted this and this needs a review by the Olympics committee - 8 Czechia players were on the ice during their 3rd goal!!! WTF 🤬 CAN VS CZE
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Ben Steiner @bensteiner00.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I somewhat get missing an extra player on a rush... but missing eight players on the ice in an Olympic quarterfinal is a feat I couldn't have even imagined. Thank goodness this wasn't a deciding goal.
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This is unfortunate. A bad start for Kirsty Coventry, who will have to wear this for a long time, along with her tearful "I wasn't speaking as the IOC president" statement.
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Yup, and there's some easy fixes here too, like fixing up already-built venues such as Calgary's Oval and sliding track and the old Big Thunder ski jump in TB.
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I think Coventry may be hoping the CAS bails her out tonight. The Games themselves are going quite well, but this is the second mis-step (after the Haitian coats) this week where she's made a controversy where one didn't naturally exist.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I thank our national team’s standard-bearer at the Winter Olympics, Vladyslav Geraskevych, for reminding the world of the price of our struggle. This truth cannot be inconvenient, inappropriate, or called “political action at sports competitions.”
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🇺🇦 Zelensky: On his helmet are portraits of our athletes killed by Russia. Figure skater Dmyto Sharpar, who died in the battles near Bakhmut, 19-year-old biathlete Yevhen Malyshev, who was killed by the occupiers near Kharkiv, and other our athletes who were taken away by the Russian war.
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Good call, I don't recall this kind of postponement in a a major tournament, ever
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Some good news from Minneapolis
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This Minneapolis bookstore sounds like a good place
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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My home-state-in-law is on the front lines of oppression, and they are standing up over there. The rest of us can do no less. Refuse intimidation. Stand up for the real American ideals.
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