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Deeply into pottery, boardgaming, and reading.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 3h
James Burke with one of the greatest pieces if timing in Television history as he turns, points, and Voyager 2 takes off from Cape Canaveral in August 1977.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kiln firing went very well. This one piece from it -- a little espresso mug I made for a friend. Crystalline matte glaze on the outside, rich blue glossy on the inside. One of 54 pieces I fired. There were some flaws and one failure, but mostly good. I am so thrilled. Onwards.
A photograph of my hand holding a small mug (espresso cup, really) with a light grey mottled matte glaze with small white crystals on the outside, and a nice blue glossy glaze on the inside. It's a little one-finger mug, just over 2.75" tall. I love it :D
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This tiny N.S. community was frustrated with big-box grocers. So they opened their own store Fiddlehead Market Co-op opened in Bear River — population 1,000 — in July #BearRiver #NovaScotia www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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This tiny N.S. community was frustrated with big-box grocers. So they opened their own store | CBC News
Fiddlehead Market Co-op opened in Bear River, N.S. — population 1,000 — in July. Members say the prices, the quality of the produce and the convenience are a breath of fresh air.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think the hardest part of pottery is waiting for the damned kiln to cool down enough to open. (I WANT TO SEE MY THINGS, DAMMIT.)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a GIF
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Highlander: There Can Be Only One - Lightning Power
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small and ancient figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The museum lighting makes the amber glow translucent orange against a dark display case background. The bear is displayed on a small metal stand viewed in profile facing right. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The neck has a polished groove suggesting it was once suspended on a cord. The characteristic shoulder hump of a brown bear is clearly defined. There are some finely incised horizontal lines along the belly. The legs are incomplete. Length 6.5cm. Amber has many properties which may have been associated with 'magic' for ancient peoples. For example, when rubbed against fur, amber produces static electricity which can give off sparks in the dark, make hair stand on end, and attract small things towards it.
The bear was found in 1991 on a west coast beach of the Danish North Sea island of Fanø. It is one of a small number of amber animal figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach and /or other contextual information.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can we stop platforming billionaires, please?
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Christ, look at Linkedin for like 30 seconds and the spam erupts. Good lord.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My copy of Totem arrived today (ordered from the UK, doesn't publish in NA 'til Nov 3). Immediately at the top of my TBR. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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Totem
For forty thousand years, we have been carving and moulding, shaping and chiselling, feeling our way and sensing our place in the world through sculpture. In th
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Really, this is the most Canadian thing I've seen in quite some time. www.cbc.ca/music/events...
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Quebec duo Angine de Poitrine wins 2026 Polaris Music Prize | CBC Music Events
Angine de Poitrine, the masked and ornately costumed band from Saguenay, Que., has won the 2026 Polaris Music Prize.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I backed this instantly. Not only is Judson a great game designer, he hand-draws all the art and is utterly fastidious about production quality (including avoiding plastic entirely). We have his earlier Deep Regrets game and it is a good time. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tet...
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Personal Demons
Join a therapy ritual to summon and conquer your inner demons in this spatial puzzler game for 1-4 players.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've finally found the time (and brainpower) to scale up some of my glaze recipes for proper testing (on actual things like mugs and bowls). Six 1000g batches are done and ready to use (1000g is 10x a test batch, and makes for about 1.5 litres of glaze.) Planning to fire this weekend.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Really i need to figure out a good foccacia and just riff on that.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fav local pizza place is like minimum $40-45 now, so let's see how this goes.
Photograph of 2 packets of pizza yeast, one of the front, one of the recipe on the back.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just realized that somehow I'm literally never seeing posts from some people I follow on here. This algorithm might be stupid.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you like weird little dicey roguelikes, Dice & Fold is a super good time. Steamdeck verified! Installable on Mac! Also currently on sale! store.steampowered.com/app/2693930/...
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Save 60% on Dice & Fold on Steam
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made...
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Camping for a week...selecting books. This is the long list. Comics are locked, the rest are in flux. (Katabasis is locked, really, who am I kidding?)
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm on vacation. Booyah.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Devil Takes You Home is only $1.99 everywhere! I could tell you it won the Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards and was an Edgar, Locus, Dragon, and Goodreads finalist, but I won’t. Instead, I’ll share my favorite 1-star reviews! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09N... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
what is even happening
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
what's an example of perfect casting?
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Wolverine: Logan's Intense Gaze
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m a scientist, so I very rarely say that anything is 100% certain. It is 100% certain that no human being on this earth could defeat a chimp in hand-to-hand combat. I can’t believe this comes up periodically.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.
Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member. 
It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before. I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
y'all, seriously, you can stop being upset about the Lake Ontario thing on our behalf -- we legit dgaf
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@minibubbly.bsky.social Any chance you know of somewhere to buy high quality Canadian made sweaters? 😍
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A small business in Canada called The Stork Bag is overwhelmed with gratitude for the kindness of Canadians ordering from her store due to the help from Tod Maffin and his wife. This is what Canadians are about being there for each other. #SupportLocal #BuyCanadian 🇨🇦💪🏻🍁
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@minibubbly.bsky.social Not sure if you've boosted Mitchell's Soup Co. yet, but they're Canadian and their soups are stellar. We are huge fans. www.mitchellssoupco.com
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Handmade Canadian Artisan Food | Mitchell’s Soup Co.
Mitchell's Soup Co. hand-makes healthy, hearty, small-batch dried meal mixes that nourish the mind, body and soul. Home cooking made easy!
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
For Christmas I want 3 tote bags and 15 mins in the Criterion Closet.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
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Serenity Spaceship in Flight from Firefly
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is 1h15m of Canadian presser, but it's quite something. www.youtube.com/live/RG5A7Q2...
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Minister Joly announces investments in innovative health – August 27, 2026
YouTube video by cpac
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Had a random day off (Red Hat quarterly recharge day...it's pretty excellent). Puttered. Dropped a bunch of stuff off for donation, went to the plant store (I bought no plants, I know jack about houseplants and got overwhelmed), got groceries, went to the farmers market, played some video game.
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ravenspoint.bsky.social @ravenspoint.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"It's personally scary to be a scientist in America" biomedical scientist Professor Philip Zamore explains why he is leaving University of Massachusetts for a job in Canada. He's not alone. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d7abbef...
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Ottawa taps 64 leading scientists and scholars to bolster Canadian research
The first group of Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada includes researchers from 13 countries, with most leaving institutions in the U.S.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Also hydronym. What a morning on the ol' social medias.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
RACCOON PROTOCOL
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've been at Red Hat for 5 years. I had the option of getting a celebratory plastic puck 🙄 or they'd send the dollar equivalent to a charity that plants trees in places that need trees. I opted for the trees. These are my trees! (This is legit cool and I love it.)
A screenshot of info cards for 2 trees in Tanzania, including coordinates and photographs. I have named my trees Skogen and Falkenna. They are very small right now. One is a Chinese Lantern shrub and the other is an Acacia tree. This is the best.
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
can this timeline get any stupider?
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For those who might have forgotten, Dolly was always punk as fuck
"I made jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know who she was, just this woman who was blonde and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I've ever seen. Mama used to say, 'Aw, she's just trash,' and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash."
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Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech · 26/08/2026
State of SaaS
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation.org · 25/08/2026
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby...)" On Aug 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student shared his side project to a Usenet newsgroup. 35 years later, Linux powers the global cloud, space exploration, and billions of devices. Happy 35th Birthday, Linux! 🐧✨ bit.ly/4gkst16 #Linux35
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lake Dolly
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
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dria 🇨🇦 @dria.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Making dal, house smells amazing. Discovered this recipe a couple of years ago and we've had it on regular rotation since. Only change is that I use 1.5c of dal (it's a bit soupy for my taste otherwise), & I always go a little bananas with the garlic and ginger. www.ambitiouskitchen.com/dal-recipe/
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The Best Dal Ever | Ambitious Kitchen
Nourishing dal recipe made with yellow moong dal, warming spices, creamy coconut milk and a boost of veggies. The perfect plant-based meal!
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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