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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 5h

Canadians proudly posting on bsky about Canadian Anne Carson winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, and then promptly searching Google for information on Anne Carson.

Graph showing increase in Google searches for Canadian author Anne Carson

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 8h

Some weird stats for the Dabrowski/Stefani win over Errani/Paolini

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 11h

Don't get me started on Miyazaki/Ghibli and bicycles!

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Percent of my energy spent thinking about how to leave, as I enter the party.

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well, since folks are posting photos of their 5 year anniversaries with their cargo bikes, thought I'd do the same of my 40th anniversary of my Miele, bought used at the CO-OP in Grande Prairie, AB.

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh well, at least there wasn't a lawsuit:

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Damn, William Gibson had this all sorted out in the 80s.

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is how you make us jealous:

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know it's a graphic novel in three short volumes, but "Snowpiercer". (The screen movie was excellent, until the stupid ending. Don't even bother with the Netflix series. That said, just read the books)

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Literacy has always been a problem for the UCP

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But we had those triangle windows at the front that opened fully, giving a working person's kind of air con.

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Me, coming down the stairs in the dark and miscalculating the first step

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's okay - I have an antidote to that:

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the best novellas that I've read recently is from Ray Naylor (who also wrote the stunning book, The Mountain in the Sea).

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh yeah, the Coutts blockade where at least one UCP MLA (Grant Hunter) visited in support of people like this

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Capitalism has never valued something that could negatively affect its bottom line. See:

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This book by an economist/philosopher clearly explains how a wealth tax on billionaires is justified and what it would do for public social programs and services. Real well done, and ignored when it came out in 2024

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If anyone needs to see the playbook:

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you forgot the missing image link:

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@besshamilton.bsky.social That this is AI generated does not surprise me. That the two of them (and the Conservative Party) think this is a good career choice, does surprise me.

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I fully understand points and rankings, but this just seems wrong...

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For someone who always has to play above her 1.68m/5'6" height, slight build, and related limited power, Leylah Fernandez has an amazing record, and she's still only 24 years old!

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the ferry to the annual Saltspring Island Apple Festival!

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I understand Darwin's work on natural selection (and Wallace's work), but when I see a stunning bird like this I still wonder how the hell does random genetic mutations, heritable traits, and competition/cooperation gives us this? @racheldeering.bsky.social

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I loved using this in teaching about what radical means when talking about the environment. Carson was seen as a radical environmentalist in the late 60s. Source: Schultz (Peanuts)

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exactly. Marx's "false consciousness"

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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"In his first 14 months as prime minister, Carney has abolished the consumer carbon price, repealed the electric vehicle mandate, scrapped the oil and gas cap, amended the Clean Electricity Regulations to allow for new natural gas, and agreed to a discounted industrial carbon price in Alberta."