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City of #Halifax going to the trouble and expense of removing a crosswalk (I'm assuming that's why they are replacing the curb cuts with standard curbs.) That'll improve congestion?

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Editing Cover Charm at the St. John Free Public Library. Not sure why they have free in their name, but it's accurate - no admission was charged. #amwriting #amediting

A photo of open laptop, in front of a window. A text document is on the screen, but blurred. The view is a harbour with a container dock across the water.

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Spending some time on the west coast. At the Fraser River in Richmond BC.

The Fraser River, seen from brush on the shore, on an overcast day. A warehouse and wharf are in the foreground.

The Fraser River, seen from brush on the shore. A wharf is in the foreground.

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Didn't I write a #poem about ice cream and summer? Yes, I did, but it's actually a winter poem. Oh well. Published in LiteLitOne 2020.

Picture of an ice cream cone by Colin James, Australia, Cotton Candy Ice Cream.

Tim Covell Bio

Canada
Tim Covell writes a variety of fiction and non-fiction, including short humour, biography, and journal articles. He is working on romance novels. He holds degrees in English Literature, Film Studies, and Canadian Studies, and researches film classification and censorship. More at www.covell.ca

Poem text:

Ice Cream

I eat ice cream

In the winter

So it does not melt

Like it used to

Dribble down between your breasts

And pool at your navel so

I could dive in

And drink in the memories.

And it still tastes delicious

Though it was so long ago

I no longer remember

If you were an innie or an outie

Or if we did this

Or if it is

Only in my dreams

Of summer and ice cream.

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Wondering why the headline notes 'scientists,' as opposed to people in general - anyone with a modest understanding of climate change understands why forest fires and their smoke are becoming a bigger problem.

Newspaper headline: "Wildfires: Scientists decry Trump's 'blame game' after he claims Canada 'poisoning' US Air." There's also a small photo of a person on a scooter, against a city backdrop of buildings, all in a brown haze.

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The new puzzle solving tests on the website for Air Canada Aeroplan @aircanada.bsky.social are absurdly complex, and you need to complete it 5 times... unless the puzzle solver is stuck in a loop and resets back to login after every puzzle, in which you never get to log in... maybe that's the point?

Screen shot of a web page with a small puzzle matching test in the middle of it. The test requires picking an image from slideshow, where a specific icon is covered by another icon.

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My marketing still needs work, but I put the dog on the new cover - apparently that helps sales. books2read.com/b/4j9QBY #booksky

Book cover: Illustration of a young couple walking along a beach, with a large dog walking front of them.

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For decades, I've been driving alongside Lake Témiscouata (on the Trans-Canada in Quebec), and thinking there should be a scenic lookout. Turns out, there is - with picnic tables and even a bike rack.

A small grassy rest area beside a road, with picnic tables, including a covered one. Sunny day, blue sky, lake in the distance.

Different angle on reast area, with bike rack in the foreground.

Scenic landscape of a large lake surrounded by trees, from a high angle. Freeway in the foreground. Not actually taken from the rest area, but close by.

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Eating dinner and enjoying the view, 1200 km from home. "You cannot escape it, run where you will; for wherever you go, you take yourself with you, and you will always find yourself." “The Imitation of Christ” by Thomas à Kempis, 1400s; 1881 translation by W. H. Hutchings.

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My original thought was that the electrical transmission towers spoil the view, but their inclusion, and the simple bench on the other side, add to the story and the various time periods represented at Tinkinswood Burial Chamber.

A grassy green field on a misty morning. In the foreground is a small cairn, the middleground is the capstone of a burial chamber. There are trees in the distance, as well as powerlines and a bench. The photo is a wide-angle shot, with some distortion.

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Cogswell District has been dubbed Sewage Plant Estates by @timbousquet.bsky.social, and I proudly tell people I live next to Sewage Plant Estates. So, that would be Sewage Plant Estates View Park. Also - love the bike racks for no particular reason, and the graffiti observation: "Trash cans?"

Bike racks and park benches along a path. On one of the benches, someone has written "Trash Cans?" in black marker. There are no trash cans along the path.

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Another NS Power outage, and they still haven't fixed their security certificate for the outage map. Looks like they are struggling to manage basic IT security. #nspower

A web browser warning message stating the site may be unsafe due to an invalid security certificate.

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Baloney. You just don't like me using a VPN, because now you can't see my IP address or other location details. I know perfectly well that if I pause my VPN, your website will suddenly become available. Question is, do I want to see it enough to give up location details? Probably not.

Web page error: "Oops. Our website is temporarily unavailable in your location. We are working hard to get it back online."

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Am I the only one who thinks most modern SUVs seem to use a 1938 Buick as the design inspiration?

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Alberta Film Classification notes for the original release of Star Wars: "Space fantasy with appealing robots, fun for everyone." Six prints were sent to province in June. By November there were twelve prints in the province.

Index card showing the classification of Star Wars in different provinces, and other technical details about the film.

Index card with a one-line summary of Star Wars, and a list of the four main characters.

Index card showing delivery details of prints 11 and 12 to Alberta, and the classification (PG).

Index card showing delivery details of prints 1 through 10 to Alberta, and the classification (PG).

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The NS Power outage map has an invalid security certificate. Doesn't create confidence in their security practices.

Screenshot of a browser warning that a website has an invalid security certificate.

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Picked up a copy of The Cult Film Reader, a collection of essays, at Sweet Thea Bakery (Vancouver) because 1) it was possibly violating their free book library policies, and 2) cult films! Also, muffin was good.

A table of free books, with a "Take a Book, leave a book" sign.

Closeup of book sign, with a request to not leave textbooks, study guides, reference books, weird self-help books, books written by chatGPT, books you never got around to reading because they're not very good, etc.

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Offline @museumbums.bsky.social is great, but there's a suspicious amount of text before the pics, as if I'm supposed to be learning something about art history, body representations, politics, feminism, and other interesting stuff.

Photo of the book Museum Bums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art.

Photo of the book Museum Bums, showing two pages of mostly text, and a couple of photos of a statue. The text and the images have been blurred.

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I've long been amused by the freeway level crossings in Quebec and New Brunswick. Today I learned they really are used. (I stop a long way back when there's a line of semis coming up behind at 100k.)

Stopped cars in three lanes of s freeway, as a freight train crosses.

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Little things amuse me, like the juxtaposition of this @halifaxexaminer.ca Morning File title and the start of the daily summary below.

A large headline: The whole world is going to hell.
Immediately below, in smaller type, is the start of a summary of items in the morning file: Also: Atlantic Road Construction and Paving puts ‘No Trespassing’ signs along Dartmouth Cove.

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Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

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Another great set of local poems from Open Heart Forgery #Halifax (and I'm not just saying that because one of mine is there). ohforgery.com/2026/02/27/m...

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This is an interesting juxtaposition: A Toronto Star post reporting 57 people killed at a girls school by the American/Israeli attacks, followed by a post from PM Carney, bizarrely claiming Canada supports the USA.

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I'm unjustly proud of this reference to Valentine's Day in my romance novel Ocean's Lure. #eBook currently 99 cents, all retailers, all markets. #Booksky books2read.com/u/3Jplle

After the package at Christmas, she’d wondered if he might
make some romantic gesture on Valentine’s Day, but it came
and went as usual: her and Cerebus watching Groundhog Day
and sharing a pizza. The following day, she received an email
from the Toronto lawyer who had set up the promissory note.
Though it was short and simple, she read it three times, trying
to figure out what it meant.
Please be advised that, effective March 1, your note is held by
902555 Canada Inc, and all payments should be made to that
company. They will contact you to provide payment details. No
other conditions have changed.
She called the lawyer and confirmed that this company
was unrelated to Dylan. It seemed he had sold the loan to a
small finance company in Alberta. The lawyer confirmed that
none of the conditions of the loan had changed but could not
provide other details about the sale. Marianna ended the call
assuming Dylan wanted nothing further to do with her, and
by selling the loan he had ended all connections between them.
So much for her speculation about the books at Christmas.
He wanted nothing to do with her. I won’t see him again, she
thought, and tried to convince herself that was for the best.

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The city's delays in plowing sidewalks (while staying on top of road clearing) is annoying; private contractors blocking sidewalks is adding insult to injury. #halifax

A cleared driveway, with plowed snow piled up and blocking the sidewalk.

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My serious and well-researched Children's Rights article is catching up on my slightly tongue-in-cheek (but factually accurate) porn article. Meanwhile, no one cares about my most thorough and most significant paper, the main focus of my research. Still, happy to be cited anywhere for anything.

A Google Scholar results page, showing three entries.

Children's participation rights in film classification systems
T Covell - The International Journal of Children's Rights, 2017 - brill.com
Film classification helps countries meet their obligations to protect children under Article 17(e) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Classifying films is an …
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To Know Ourselves: Possible Meanings of Canadian Pornography
T Covell - Sexuality & Culture, 2016 - Springer
All television broadcasters in Canada are required to meet Canadian content regulations. This requirement includes sexually explicit adult channels. Whenever this requirement comes …
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Government versus Industry Self-Regulation: Film Classification in Canada and the United States
T Covell - Journal of Canadian Studies, 2020 - utppublishing.com
Film censorship in Canada and the United States was similar in the early decades of film, but while the United States moved from state government censorship to industry self-regulated …
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I assumed this headline referred to the USA, but it's actually Iran. An easy mistake to make.

Online newspaper headline: "Regime accused of 'campaign of revenge' as doctors arrested for treating protestors."

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Post a female character you love. "She was twice the man of any of them, and now she's twice the woman."

A youth with long hair, fastening a medieval cloak. They are standing outside, in front of an old tree. Still from the movie Dragonslayer.

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A little damp days doggerel from December 2014, Open Heart Forgery. mastodon.art/@ohforgery

Damp Days
Limerick by Tim Covell

It rained all day long and all night
High winds gave to many a fright
Recall west coast wit
“You don’t shovel it”
And face these damp days with delight.

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Scotia Square is either unusually quiet today or the free space information is not precise.

A digital sign in a parking garage, showing free spaces per level. Most levels have between 10 and 249 free spaces, but one level has 5579 spaces available.

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The older I get, the more faith I have in older faiths and observances such as solstice. This is St Lythans burial chamber, built 1,500 years before Stonehenge (and not yet excavated). When I visited, a recent previous visitor had left an offering. As I left, two visitors arrived and sang there.

Three large stones, about 6 feet high, arranged as three sides of a square, and supporting a large capstone. A smaller stone, about a foot in diameter, is in the foreground. The structure stands on a gentle hill in a field.

A closer view of the base of one of the stones. A wreath of evergreen leaves, flowers, and fruit has been placed by the stone, at the entrance of the chamber.

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I'm used to Halifax having more litter on the streets than any city I visit, but this abandoned piano board still stands out...how did it get here? And how many weeks will it linger? (one, so far).

A piano sound board, with some framework and broken strings.

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After decades in Cape Breton NS, my parents are not missing the winters.

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I find it really odd that Vancouver has two places (which I know of) where you can buy seafood off the boat from the people who caught it, and Halifax, which has the fishing community reputation and image, has nothing like this.

A boat yard with many small fishing boats, some of which are selling their catches under awnings. A sign identifies the location as Fisherman's Wharf in Steveston.

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In the old days you could drop a quarter in and see another article through the slot.

Wooden coin-operated peep show booth. A coin box has 25 cents written in marker above it.

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