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Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.

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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 14h

This is clearly how pon-farr should go on the Enterprise.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Over the past couple years I have gone from bemused skeptic to an unironic fan of the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum in Torrington, Alberta and the tiny team keeping it going. This is such a bummer!

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22/09/2026

All the spaceships from For All Mankind and Star City in one article! That's a lot of spaceships from an alternative universe, and concept art, and cool stuff. 🖖 This is just a (very long) overview, but expect to dive deep into the creation of these designs in the coming weeks and months.

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All the spaceships from For All Mankind & Star City | The Spaceshipper

As a reminder, For All Mankind has been renewed for a sixth and final season, set to air in 2027. Filming wrapped up in August 2026. And we'

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Matteo Farinella (he/him) @matteofarinella.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My advice as a science illustrator is that if you ever get a chance to draw the Cambrian explosion, you should go all in and spend hours researching every single one of these insane animals. 🦞🐙🦀🦑 Evolution is such a trip. I'm so grateful to have briefly existed on this gorgeous planet. 🤯 #sciart

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We’re not going down without a fight

A bunch of people protesting in front of the Academy of natural sciences

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At the beginning of the month Drexel University made public that they want to close the Academy of Natural Sciences at the end of the month. The academy is the oldest natural history museum in the Americas and this would end more than 200 years of research and outreach.

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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I tried - it’s okay for car navigation! The business info is often out of date though. Didn’t realize how often I rely on Google Maps for restaurant recommendations.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

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Paths for People @pathsforpeople.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Support for bike lanes was near-universal — even people who came to ask the city to rethink a planned 79 Street bike lane in Hollyrood acknowledged their benefit and one motorist took the time to voice his support for them” edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

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Hands off our bike lanes, says critical mass of Edmonton cyclists

Amid rumours city scaling back bike lanes ahead of provincial bike lane legislation, Edmonton cyclists tell council to get their elbows up

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Edmonton Bike Coalition @yegbike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Between the Province threatening to reduce traffic safety by removing bike lanes, & the CoE suggesting they don't want to finish the best parts of the Active Transportation Network Expansion, there is a lot going on. Join us for a protest ride this Friday, #yegbike! buff.ly/RLTWFCl

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cigarrinha Brasileira. Brazilian treehopper in the sketchbook. #InverteFest #sketchbook #sciart

sketchbook page photo with a black and white pen drawing of the Brazilian treehopper, a strange insect with a complex globular formation on its thorax, like a strange horn with three tips and bulbs alongside it

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Edmonton Bike Coalition @yegbike.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The City is proposing to cancel many of the planned routes from the $100 million project. Please register to speak on August 26 if you can! Register in OPPOSITION to item 7.6 here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Agenda & reports are here: pub-edmonton.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx... #yegbike

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Active Transportation Implementation Acceleration Program Update - Infrastructure Committee - August 26, 2026

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 19/07/2026

The legendary Syd Mead (1933-2019) was born 93 years ago today.

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Love me some purple mushrooms! Not sure what species this is but I'm confident it's some type of Cortinarius #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms #nature #naturephotography #photographersofbluesky #mushroomsofbluesky #cortinarius 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

Growing out of slightly sloped soil, a short but stout mushroom takes in bright light from a thinly overcast sky. Its stipe is white, fibrous, and marked by occasional spots of orange. The cap, which still sits connected to the stipe by thin, hair-like fibers, is purple, wet, and shiny, reflecting the light and forest canopy above it.

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Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 35 images
11/20/24
Olympia area, Washington

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Cristian @cristianpintos.com · 30/06/2026

Hundred years of Solitude II #art #drawing #illustration

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If it were not so, the painting of all those rocks would be torture, especially for someone like me with an impatient nature. 2/2 www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/do...

Detail from DOORWAY TO THE WEST featuring rough stairs that lead to an uneven stone doorway set in ancient ruins as a solitary flame contained in a transparent sphere floats across the threshold.

Detail from DOORWAY TO THE WEST with a tighter focus on the stone doorway and the sunset sky beyond, colored warm yellow over cool placid water.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

DOORWAY TO THE WEST (2006)  Acrylic on Panel - 12” x 9”   Another search for the light. Creating the illusion of texture in paint, the process of actually painting it, can be an act of meditation. 1/2

A solitary flame contained in a transparent sphere floats across the threshold of an uneven stone doorway set in ancient ruins. Shadow cuts across the broken remains of the facade. The sky beyond is partially cloudy, lit golden over placid water defining the horizon. In the immediate foreground, three stone steps lead up to the portal, but the ground is overgrown with wild vegetation. Flowers add an occasional splash of blue, white, and yellow at the stub of wall and on the short path to it.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week. Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C UK will ridiculize its June national record Germany 10 days 37C+ This is CRAZY

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

EXTRAORDINARY DAY IN FRANCE 45 DEGREES 345 MONTHLY RECORDS 147 ALL TIME RECORDS 41 STATIONS >43c This is an absolute insanity which completely rewrites European and World climatic history Thread with many pages with the records (courtesy of Meteociel) 👇 Worst tomorrow !

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I get why this seems great & on principle, I agree. I've seen the rampant phone addiction amongst kids & it's frankly jarring. And that's not even talking about the exploitation. But play that out - It would mean giving your ID to people notorious for dogshit infosec. It would be a nightmare!

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CJSR 88.5FM @cjsrfm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Celebrated country singer Corb Lund calls CJSR to talk about the fight against coal mining in the Rocky Mountains and rounding up Water Not Coal petition signatures. Wednesday, June 10 at 3-3:30pm MT 📻 88.5 FM in Edmonton 🛜 stream listen.streamon.fm/cjsr #waterNOTcoal www.cjsr.com/2026/06/corb...

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Corb on coal

WATER NOT COALAiring Wednesday, June 10 at 3-3:30pmListen in when celebrated Canadian country singer/songwriter Corb Lund calls CJSR to talk about the fight against coal mining in the Rocky Mountai…

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 09/06/2026

Please read this update regarding our policies against the use of "Generative AI" technologies in our work, including in non-journalistic tasks. TNN remains steadfastly against "generative AI" as a predatory and damaging technology backed by the worst of the gentry. Thank you for your support!

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Miles 🩻 @blacksmoke1033.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Since people were asking for scarf / bandanas of my lens cloth art, I came home to a bag of samples! They’re way better than I thought, here’s the Anomalocaris one

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

watching The Price which is a fairly mid ep of TNG but it does have this amazing scene where some loser who’s fucking Troi tries to get into a dick-measuring contest with Riker, who straight up beats this dude to a pulp after trying not to play. Kirk coded behaviour I love him so much

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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

BREAKING: Water not Coal (aka Corb Lund's petition) says it has reached the signatures required under the citizen intiative act. If signatures are counted and approved, it would theoretically lead to an 11th referendum question in Alberta this fall.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Is the strategy really to push GenAI use onto people who don't want it, ignore the massive carbon pollution and water consumption, and offer absolutely no compensation or protection to Canadian artists and writers whose work has been stolen to train LLMs?

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Blanche @blanchebees.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Bacio cavalleresco #knight #armor #pridemonth

Two male knights about to kiss, their hounskull visor raised. A comet passing through behind them, pink clouds adorning the sunset sky.

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lower decker astra 🖖🏼 @goodboyporthos.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

happy pride month everybody

commander ransom has just been infected with strange energies and is ascending to godhood! he is levitating and has his arms out, blasting rainbow light from his palms while his eyes glow. in the foreground, mariner and dr. t'ana look on.

star trek: lower decks 02x01.

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

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Paula Kirman @apaulagetics.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Fight Back Now A province-wide day of action against Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP government for pushing Alberta separatism as well as other government policies concerning health care, workers' rights & other issues. Organized by the Alberta Federation of Labour. -- #yeg

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YEG Bike Counter Bot @yegbikebot.jacobdawang.com · 29/05/2026

Thursday, May 28, ↑28.0°C ↓15.1°C Total: 17,372 #YEGBike High Level Bridge West: 1,635 103 Street N of 100 Avenue: 1,616 83 Avenue W of 99 Street: 1,172 102 Avenue E of 121 Street: 985 110 Street N of 86 Avenue: 980 83 Avenue W 106 Street: 948 MacKinnon Ravine: 766

Scatterplot of daily Edmonton cyclist counts over the past 12 months with LOESS trendline

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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

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Greatest Trek and The Greatest Generation @greatesttrek.com · 28/05/2026

Allamaraine, we’ve just hit 5,000 supporters! Thank you to all the Founders who helped us on our way to becoming an independent production, we couldn’t do it without you! It’s never too late to become a supporter, just head to greatest.supercast.com! #startrek #startrektng #friendsofdesoto

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Michael Burk, MD @mjburkmd.medsky.social · 28/05/2026

Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social is a perfect #beachread for anyone looking for ideas. There is great warmth and a feeling of home carved out by a closely 'networked' found family. It's a succinct 150ish pages while never compromising on depth. #Booksky

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Here are some nice mushrooms

A large colony of golden oyster mushrooms grow like a crowded band of yellow trumpets, upturned to the sunlit forest canopy. All photos by me

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Joe Dator @joedator.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

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Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Alberta separation is mostly about fossil fuels and rejecting climate goals.

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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

(3/3) Fewer Than 2 in 10 Canadians Want Their Tax Dollars Going To Largely Foreign-Owned Companies To Build More LNG Projects: cape.ca/press_releas... Majority oppose oil/gas subsidies: www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/20... But oil & gas interests would like us silenced by this to which I say "No."

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Fewer Than 2 in 10 Canadians Want Their Tax Dollars Going To Largely Foreign-Owned Companies To Build More LNG Projects - CAPE

With Canada’s first LNG export terminal opening in a matter of weeks, fewer than two in 10 Canadians, or 18 per cent, want their tax dollars going to largely foreign-owned oil and gas companies to bui...

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