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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 4h

I don't see enough discussion that, aside from establishing facts and removal from office, the point of impeachment is to *disqualify* all these people from ever holding federal office again. Whiskey Pete wants to run for President and he should be barred from doing so.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 3h

Shawn's coinage of "agitslop" for AI political slop is perfect (derived from the old term agitprop - agitation propaganda). Let's make that a new standard term for that kind of garbage.

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 6h

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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Jan Gray @jangray.bsky.social · 4h

Best seen and heard in one of the new Ontario Place pavilions prior to queuing for the new IMAX film North of Superior in the new Cinesphere and then to the infinite excitement of hours of bedlam in the new Children’s Village before the free concert in the new Forum rotating circular amphitheatre.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 03/10/2026

Russian authorities still haven't confirmed reports that a 28-yr-old woman in Shelekhov died of pneumonic plague. But the local hospital is quarantined, a nearby city briefly warned residents not to travel there, & local pharmacies are running short of key antibiotics. t.me/Baikal_Peopl...

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 5h

On this day in 1873, the Argonauts Football Club was established in Toronto. The team played its first game on Oct. 18. The Argos are the oldest professional sports team in North America still using its original name. To date, they have won 19 Grey Cups. Pic is of 1906 team.

The Toronto Argos featuring twelve men arranged in three rows. The back row has six men standing, the middle row has three men seated, and the front row has three men sitting on the floor. The men in the back and front rows are wearing matching uniforms with a large "A" on the chest, striped socks, and early football or rugby-style attire. The three men in the middle row are dressed in formal suits and ties, with one appearing older and possibly a coach or official.

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Kate Gregory @gregcons.bsky.social · 21h

New blog about learning www.gregcons.com/KateBlog/Bei... doing something I haven't done for over 30 years.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 22h

The linguist in me loves this: This junction box in Lommel in Flanders is emblazoned with a phrase in the local dialect with a translation into regular Flemish. It says, "Grudgingly done is still done." #Linguistics #Lommel #BelgianPublicArt

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Kate Gregory @gregcons.bsky.social · 22h

I had that experience over 20 years ago, accidentally, while chaperoning a field trip. It remains the highlight of the trip.

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Kate Gregory @gregcons.bsky.social · 22h

Have you stood in front of it? It is painted with a knowledge of what our eyes do, and if you stand in front of the full size real thing, you will get it. And if you see little thumbnails in magazines and online you will think a 4 year old could do it, and you will be missing a terrific experience.

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Kate Gregory @gregcons.bsky.social · 22h

TIL that this is a service people use: christmasdecorpeterborough.ca they bring the lights, install them, take them down again later. So when you wonder how your neighbour achieves their display, well, maybe they don't, they just pay for it :-D

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Home - Christmas Decor Peterborough & Kawartha Lakes

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

happy to find out that the Government of Canada has a webpage advising the proper spelling of whisky

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Maybe more than a whiff of treason. Alberta separatists are flat-out traitors to the nation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/10/2026

How many local models do you run?

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't describe a lot of stories as a must-read, but this one should be for Toronto voters. I heard the words 'ideologically rudderless ambitionist' used to describe a different politician. But I think they apply to Brad Bradford, too. #GiftLink 🎁 #ToPoli #BikeTO www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

I’ll have more on Chow in a later column. But the Bradford conversations have been striking for their near uniformity. Most of the people I’ve spoken to, from across the political spectrum, don’t disagree with Bradford so much as they dislike him as a person. Several supporters told me they found Bradford weirdly intense. Chow backers — including many who once stood with Tory — and those with no horse in this race went much further. They told me — almost to a person — that they find Bradford unprincipled and disloyal.

This is more than just the normal political griping. For whatever reason, many who have worked closely with Bradford over the past eight years think he is almost uniquely unlikable. I’m not sure I’ve ever covered anyone who inspires so much personal vitriol. Many — and not just progressives — think he would be a terrible mayor, not because he believes in awful ideas but because they don’t think he believes in anything at all.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 02/10/2026

I'm trying to locate these original paintings - I didn't write down who had purchased them from me at the time. Purchased in Ottawa about 20 -25 years ago. I'm wondering if anyone has either, could you let me know? Thank you.

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 02/10/2026

What if biology textbooks teach gender inequality through flowers? Pollen competes, penetrates, and succeeds. Female plant parts wait and nurture. Shuster, Wonderlin, and Masani show how cultural myths about gender become scientific “facts.” ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Opening page of the Contexts article “How Biology Textbooks Reflect Gender Inequality and Myth” by Stef M. Shuster, Nicole Wonderlin, and Shahnaz Masani. Above the orange title is a close-up photograph of a pale pink flower with vivid pink stamens against a soft green background.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just off the coast of Deer Island, New Brunswick is Old Sow. The largest whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere, it is the size of a football field and has existed for hundreds of years. It also has quite an interesting history. This is the story. 📸 Walter Baxter 🧵 1/6

A swirling white-capped whirlpool churning in turquoise coastal waters with a rocky headland rising in the background under a pale sky.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The real face of what the league should be

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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NSFW language but sound up. This guy nails it. #cdnpoli

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Kate Gregory @gregcons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Right. Back in the day when you could buy software, it depreciated at 50% a year. (In Canada, I don't know other country rules.) Most tangible things, 30%. Some stuff even less. There's a giant lookup. Pens and pencils and whatnot you just deducted as office supplies. Definitely room for wiggling.

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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

did you know that we get the word "cockamamie" from a bastardization of a term ("decalcomania") for a period in the 1930s after temporary tattoos were invented by the French and kids were running around putting them on fucking everything?! 🐦🐦🐦

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey Alex I have more in common personally with someone from Barbados than someone from Latvia. I mean Barbados speaks English, uses the British parliamentary system, and has close links to UK because colonialism. If people mean white people you should just say that!

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On this day in 1961, CTV launched as Canada's first private TV network. The first program to air was a documentary about the new network. After CBC objected to the original name Canadian Television Network, it became known simply as CTV with no official expanded meaning.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WARNING: Moose will try to diagnose what is wrong with your broken vehicle.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are Still Here Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe 2021

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

nothing they value or aspire to or revere about Masculinity™️ is the behavior of wise, mature, grounded adult men. it’s what little boys think is cool about being an adult man and they were allowed never to grow out of that

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So striking to pass by school yards at recess and see all the kids in orange shirts.

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 30/09/2026

Who wants to come to the Netherlands next month? Check out TechoramaNL! I'll be giving a full day software architecture workshop and presenting, along with a ton of amazing speakers!

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

International travelers are as interested in visiting America under Trump as they were in visiting America under COVID.

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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was AFTER Confederation, took 10 years of stop-and-start planning first, and the 1881-1885 construction phase went HALFWAY across Canada—just Ontario to B.C.—without labour standards or consideration of Indigenous people. This mythologizing of the CPR is in itself a mark of unseriousness.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So this month the Toronto Sun published a piece about the Allison Inquiry that called vaccines "a crime against humanity at worst" and demanded arrests, and the National Post published a piece deeming Avi Lewis not just an enemy but a danger to Jewish people, with a thinly coded appeal to violence.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So much respect for this, and the framing. ABC, the right wing version of Progress Toronto, has used health care workers/hospitals as reason to rip them out. This puts a lie to that (and on University ambulances can bypass cars in the wide bikelanes if needed). So many lies.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On Sept. 30, 1958, Canadian children were treated to a new show. It featured a giant who told them to "look up!...waaaaaay up!" For the next 27 years, the show was a fixture on CBC and is beloved to this day. This is the story of The Friendly Giant! 📸 CBC 🧵 1/12

Bob Homme as The Friendly Giant, wearing a rustic, beige tunic with brown accents, holding a small xylophone and two violins, with a colorful giraffe puppet with a harmonica and a chicken puppet on his shoulders, set against a plain blue background.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is very good to see but I remain extremely concerned. From Bill Gates interview with Ezra Klein

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With alt text. I know someone who actually did this

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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).

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Kate Gregory @gregcons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Feels like I'm watching the Traitors. "Oh I've GOT YOU NOW!" "I'm bringing EVIDENCE" you can't make this up

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know, researchers since the 1980s have found that men can tell when they don’t have consent. They just choose to continue anyway because they prioritize consent as less important than power, domination, and sexual gratification.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have engineered a virus that invades and destroys glioblastoma one of the deadliest brain cancers while turning the immune system into a relentless tumor-killing force. This could be a historic shift in cancer treatment.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 29/09/2026

this is tonic masculinity + semiotically clever as hell 👍

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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