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Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social · 17h

I just discovered the #BloomScrolling tag and I’m delighted. Here’s my first entry, first successful attempt at growing a dahlia. No idea which one and no idea what happened to the others that went in.

A large dahlia flower. Lemon yellow petals heavily striped with red surround an inner ring of spiky lemon yellow petals that surround a golden yellow centre. A similar smaller bloom is in the background. Behind them, mid-green foliage.

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We did this today and it was SO good and the kids loved it. Informal exit polling in the neighbourhood suggests sugar maple is a pretty strong contender.

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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 09/10/2026

ps we're also huge fans of your linguistics colouring book pages 🖍️

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The Moose That Roared 🍁🇨🇦🍁 @alecausten.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s not like Canada has to reinvent the wheel.

Products showing Australian Country of Origin label with bar chart indicating percentage

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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looking for some hot stuff? Kitchener's Ginger Goat is the only Canadian hot sauce maker using Pepper X, the world's hottest chilli! Chatted w/ Kris from GG, Smokin' Ed Currie on developing Pepper X, & Blair Horvath from Chilly Chiles about heat-seeking Canadians. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ginger goat's Pepper X products:
Miso Maple
Hot Honey
La Cabra Loca

A bin of Pepper X chillies --mustardy-greeny-orange, and "short, fat, and ugly."

Blair Horvath, standing in front a wall of hot sauces at his Ottawa shop, Chilly chiles (one of Canada's largest hot sauce shops).

Smokin' Ed Currie holding a Pepper X pepper

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s Pavlov’s birthday. Pavlov was famous for making his wife, the ballerina Pavlova, salivate and ring a bell whenever he fed his dog a meringue-based pudding.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.

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

Karen Pleass, contemporary Irish textile artist #womensart #Autumn

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape with a central small white house among hills in purples and blues

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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My personal rule is, always vote. Pick the least worst candidate. Pick the best referendum answer. The worst people don’t want you to vote. Vote

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 20/09/2026

Love that the @cwc-berkeley.org Spotlight Member, Debi Mason, not only starts her performance with a song, she encourages everyone to sing along. If you could open your reading w/a song what would it be? #storytelling #writersky

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kɛbɹah zmɪeʒd @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Another day, another time I'm telling a nonfiction author that facts follow feelings. People take an interest in facts when they have strong feelings associated with them. People also remember abstract ideas better when they have clear images and examples. sesquiotic.com/2024/11/08/f...

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Facts follow feelings

Originally published on The Editors’ Weekly, the blog of Editors Canada I was 14 years old when I found out what it feels like to hit a wall in a car that’s moving at 8 kilometers per hour. Th…

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Or is it...

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

… ordered a ´for here’ latte and settled inside. I read quietly until 3:30, and they didn’t say a word to send me away! Lovely surprise to discover that afterwards.

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

… cleaning up. One of them takes my dirty cup and says: ‘You may have to turn the lock on the door.’ Indeed, the door was locked, the café officially closed. When I asked, they told me they closed at 3. Fun part, they never mentioned their closing time when I arrived around 2:45…

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cool! A nice surprise recently: I went to a lovely café in Aylmer. Mid-afternoon, a few clients seated on the patio, a few seated inside. I order a latte and sit inside, relaxing, reading, sipping my excellent latte. When I leave, I notice I’m now the only client inside, with a few employees…

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A very worthwhile exercise, examining how personal knowledge and positions have changed over time. We don’t do it enough!

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sadly, I’ve seen similar things happen at least once in other coffee shops: Bridgehead, Oat Couture, even the fab Jackson Café. Some time before closing, they may stop using real dishes, or clean up/shut down the grill or another piece of equipment. Disappointing. My most frustrating: Oat Couture!

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Oops @oopsland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

J'aime beaucoup ce genre de petite bêtise.

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Making a special effort to be obnoxious a**holes. Proud of it, too. How very (representative of the worst kind of) American.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/09/2026

Why is 'lb' the abbreviation for 'pound'?

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Louis Cornellier @cornellier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ce genre de promesse… N’importe quoi. Les règlements sont bons ou mauvais. S’ils sont bons, qu’on les garde. S’ils sont mauvais, qu’on les retire. Pas j’en ajoute un, j’en retire deux. Ce n’est pas sérieux.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you've used my drawn statement on Ai for a class or other Ed context – I'd appreciate learning a bit about that (here or directly), I'd like to document a bit of where it's ended up. And if it's new to you, feel free to make use of it, all online here! Tnx! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🚨 Switzerland's federal government is replacing Microsoft on 3,000 computers - start of a larger pilot for the federal administration. One of many European governments reevaluating the risk of depending on US tech.

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Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers

This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looking for a Labour Day treat? Sharing a labour-themed episode of my favourite queer noir podcast set in the Edmonton of the 1930s, Hardboiled. (Possibly also the only queer noir podcast set in 1930s yeg.) Join detective Jack Cassidy, from Robber’s Roost to Packingtown, in search of the truth.

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1. Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks?

Podcast Episode · Hardboiled · August 14, 2020 · 37m

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A Canadian map company that keeps all data in Canada. Currently in beta, please support 🇨🇦🍁. 🔗 maplemaps.ca

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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This excellent initiative was championed by my colleague Marty Carr.

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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The atmosphere, the earth, the water & the water cycle-those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them." -Wendell Berry #RIP

Tall slender moss covered trees on a misty morning with filtered sunlight. Bramble covers the ground and there is no trail...smack dab in the middle of the forest

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Nightmare Before “Chris”tmas @justokonline.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

One reason why it’s so dangerous for state governments to replace actual people with automated phone systems and websites. You need to make services available to people in a way they can actually access them.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

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Martine St-Victor @martinemontreal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Breaking news.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Image: lots of scientists milling round a very cold air conditioned room that also contains moss, stones and snow. One scientist makes notes on a clipboard.

Caption:
Every summer, professor Singh noted the correlation between rising temperatures in the rest of the institute and the increased number of colleagues visiting his "Moss growth in Arctic conditions" experiment.

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René-Daniel Dubois @rddmtl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Bonne semaine à toussétoutes ! 😁

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finally read this… New to me, and fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had no idea CBC had an app for learning French that uses real shows and stuff to help with learning it. One way to ensure Canada protects French is if we all make an effort to truly be bilingual — and we can make Quebec feel like we understand their struggle too. “Mauril” app from CBC:

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A thread for the day: Folks, things are tough out there. Many are stressed, anxious, angry. Try to be kind—to yourself, first. See if you can quiet your negative thoughts & self-criticisms. And then maybe we can all try directing some of that kindness, joy & compassion out into the world as well

Georges Seurat, Study for 'Bathers at Asnieres,' 1883. Collection of the National Gallery, London. A scene of figures seated on a riverbank. In the distance, a rainbow rises over some factories

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Editors/Réviseurs Canada @editorscanada.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Due to recent technical issues, we’re extending our surprise summer webinar recording sale through Monday as a thank you for your patience. You can save 50% on all Editors Canada webinar recordings until Monday, August 24, 2026. Browse our full collection now: webinars.editors.ca/webinar-reco...

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sitting at a table, bottle (of wine or something stronger?) on the table, holding a glass… Not quite the current passport photo aesthetic!

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I got curious about the dates… It was released around 1988-89: www.sequentia.org/recordings/r... We carried it in the small but excellent classical section of my (!) HMV, in Québec City, when I worked there in the early 1990s. I don’t think I ever listened to it, tho…

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English Songs of the Middle Ages

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wow… a glimpse from the past. I remember seeing that CD when I was working in an HMV, classical section, in the early 1990s. A million years ago!

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Dominique Joseph @clearerworld.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wow… Not what you expected, I guess? Can they bring it closer to you?

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