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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Having Thanksgiving dinner on the Saturday is my new holiday weekend hack, because having Sunday and Monday to just chill is brilliant. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Took my 3 and 6yo to participate in the Kids Vote today, and I love this initiative! So good to create the practice of civic engagement young. #Toronto

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m about to cancel my Sportsnet subscription over the constant barrage of Brad Bradford ads. (Not to mention all the sports betting ads 🙄)

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

More helpful info for voters in Scarborough SW (via Scarborough Junction Community group)

Printable pdf at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14IZ8FFZpx64sDqxQlR9W1VlTTvmlN21V/view?usp=sharing

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something Rotten is very fun and funny. Definitely worth seeing (if you haven’t already).

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Tempest was good. Impressive staging of the opening storm. Prospero was especially good. Interesting choices around Caliban. I think you’d like it @dramys.bsky.social :)

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Does the Skydome have any weird roof rules? #BlueJays I feel like @wilnerness.bsky.social would know the answer.

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Hobbit was a total miss. First time I’ve been disappointed by a play at Stratford.

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Off to Stratford for the weekend! On the agenda: -The Hobbit -The Tempest -Something Rotten

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching the postseason when you have no skin in the game is very popcorn.gif in the best possible way.

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are thousands of stories like this. Literally. This comes from an incredible Gitxsan artist, Michelle Stoney, whom I’ve had the honour of meeting (I own one of her paintings). Her best-known work is probably the Gitxsan Hand, in memory of residential school survivors.

Facebook post from Michelle Stoney reads:
September 30th is a hard day, I had grandparents who went , great aunts who escaped, a mom who went to Indian day school. I’m lucky to have grown up with them, but the generational trauma is real. I didn’t know about residential school when I was growing up. My ye’e was a master carver, Victor Mowatt, he was like a dad to me (my mom was a single mother). He showed me love even though he suffered a lot growing up, I didn’t know until I was an adult, but he told us he had to dig the graves… even before all the news about kids being buried at residential schools… he was one of the one who had to do this:( my great uncle too. My granny was somewhere else , and she always said she didn’t mind residential school… but she said she had no friends , not because she was shy or anything , but because she didn’t want to get into trouble ! Can you believe that? Going through all that with no friends to lean on? No one to talk to? She was a worker in the nurse station. My granny worked in the nurses station and my ye’e dug graves. Does that sound like school to you? There is a lot of negativity out there and it’s hard to see, people want proof. Well we all feel the proof, I see what it did to my family. The hurt it caused. We are all still just trying to survive. But it is because of their strength that I get to be here today doing what I love. Here are some murals I painted this Summer. The Gitxsan hand is extra special , painting it on Gitxsan land.

An Indigenous mural of a hand where the palm is mountains and flowers, and the fingers are feature. Two children stand next to it.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 30/09/2026

abolish frats imo

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are sports actually left-wing coded now, or is that just some Bluesky bubble talk?

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Teared up during all those dugout hugs 😢 #BlueJays

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

George Springer, at times through tears, spoke about how much his time with the #BlueJays has meant: “One of the best things for me… After the World Series last year, I was back here a month later, just how many people said thank you. I should be saying thank you to them.”

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As he should be. I’m going to miss George so much 😢 Hoping for one more Springer Dinger!

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

While this was undoubtedly a disappointing season for the #BlueJays, I think I’ll always look back on 2026 with fondness because it was the season my kids got into baseball. We went to their first games (and won both times!), ran the bases, and learned all the words to OK Blue Jays.

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s a Dutch comfort food kind of night

A pot of delicious boorenkool—sausage, mashed potatoes and kale

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Mike Wilner @wilnerness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#Bluejays are likely to be mathematically eliminated from playoff contention today. I wrote about how they channeled Monty Python’s “Black Knight” to get back into the playoff race, but it was ultimately unsustainable.

thestar.com

Mike Wilner: ‘Tis but a scratch’: How the Blue Jays refused to give up on the season

Toronto suffered injury after injury down the stretch run, but they kept their playoff hopes alive — barely — after the trade deadline.

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Seems like most of my fellow Blue Jays fans are pivoting to hockey, now that baseball season is coming to an end. But my team (Canucks) is so abysmal, I don’t know if I can do another disappointing sports season right now. Raptors, anyone? 😂

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I doubt anyone following me would be voting for BB anyway, but JFC this guy is awful.

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I feel so bad for Dylan. Weird to say it, but maybe it’s better if we don’t make the postseason. Everyone just seems so tired. #BlueJays

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Final TIFF thoughts: 3 films is not enough! Sigh. Appreciated how two very different films (THE DREAMED ADVENTURE and BRACE YOUR HEART) dealt with surprisingly similar themes. WILD WILD EAST made me want to rewatch COLD WAR (TIFF ‘18).

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#TIFF26: THE DREAMED ADVENTURE - maybe a bit too long, but if a slow-moving, gritty, realistic, feminist critique of male power and posturing in a post-Soviet Bulgaria sounds like your cup of tea, there’s a lot to appreciate here.

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#TIFF26: BRACE YOUR HEART - the translated title doesn’t quite capture the original, which more literally means “harden your heart.” Important, as the film explores the possibility and limitations of forgiveness, reconciliation, moving forward, after a grievous harm within a tightknit community.

A large group of people, many dressed in traditional Sami costumes, on stage in a theatre

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#TIFF26: WILD WILD EAST - as the title suggests, there’s an homage to the Western (a man literally rides into town on a horse, searching for gold). But as the story unfolds, it undoes and ultimately transcends your expectations. Carefully plotted with lots of foreshadowing/“Easter eggs.”

A woman hosts a Q&A with three men and a woman as film credits play on screen in the background

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not sure about impressed or disappointed, but certainly surprised at how differently my life turned out, compared to what I expected at 20.

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Three films in less than 24 hours and my TIFF adventure has come to an end for this year. Three very different and interesting films—I’ll post some mini-reviews later. (Absolutely swamped at work today.)

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Three back to back HRs!!! What is happening?!?!? 🙌🙌🙌 #BlueJays

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thrilled for Bateman! He really is one to watch #BlueJays

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An existential crisis? In this economy?!

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Insane storm here in Toronto 😳

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I happened to be on the road to pick up my kids from daycare when the storm really hit, and I’m not exaggerating when I say it was one of the most terrifying experiences I’ve ever had.

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It rented older movies for just 50 cents, so we would bring whatever bottles we could find to the nearby 24-store for a refund (cans got you 5 cents, 2 L bottles got you 30!), and then hit the video store for as many movies as we could afford

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Madeline @itsmemadeline.bsky.social · 30/08/2026