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OcTBR Challenge @octbrchallenge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🍂📚🎃 HAPPY OCTBR CHALLENGE! 🍂📚🎃 It's the best month of the year and a time to look lovingly at all the books in your TBR piles and go: "Yeah, you know what, I'm going to actually try to read some of you!" That's it really. Cosy up and read the books you already own (to make room for more obvs).

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Jane The Basic @janethebasic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@octbrchallenge.bsky.social It's early for my time zone but I know it's October somewhere already! #OcTBRChallenge

A stack of books and a tablet. The tablet has Leviathan Wakes and Crooked Kingdom loaded on it.

The books are, from the bottom up:
* At A Loss for Words
* NO!
* A Paradise Built In Hell
* The Elegance of the Hedgehog
* Witch King

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hope you have a nice day. I also hope your tea is always warm, your cats are mostly agreeable, and you can always find room for one more book on your crowded bookshelves.

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Association of Canadian Archivists @archivistsdotca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Association of Canadian Archivists is sharing our Residential School Denialism Statement.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ideas for my midlife crisis: -Become swift like a coursing river -Develop force like a great typhoon -Build all the strength like a raging fire -Mysterious like the dark side of the moon

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today’s wildlife rehab loot box contained: • 1 mildly offended juvenile eagle He’s here for emergency care after a car strike, but he would like to file a formal complaint about the Uber ride, packaging, delivery, and bedside manner. One star to all. 🪶

A disgruntled juvenile bald eagle with one wing dropped, sitting in a cardboard box for transport

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the final story in a five-part @bengoldfarb.bsky.social series 👇 about infrastructure and wildlife. Each dives deep into a different element of the human-made world—the roads and dams, buildings and fences we’ve placed in front of animals, and how to reduce the impacts of those obstacles.

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Wildlife at the Crossroads | bioGraphic

One year after the Trump administration slashed biodiversity protections at home and abroad, people and organizations are figuring out where to go from here.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Your daily affirmation: If the universe is infinite, then that leaves a lot of room for your nonsense and tomfoolery.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Your daily affirmation: It's good to let off a little steam sometimes. It's up to you to decide if you're a charming little teapot, a thundering locomotive, or a ground shaking geyser.

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elcanaco.bsky.social @elcanaco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reminder: There is an official petition to oppose the sale of Canada's airports. Share it widely. #cdnpoli #vanpoli #yeg #yyc #yeg #topoli #ottawa #mtl #hfx www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-7453 - Petitions

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Jane The Basic @janethebasic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some days you just have to have le poisson steve on repeat m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4yg...

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le poisson steve

YouTube video by vigz

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Olamide Olaniyan @olapalooza.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For The Tyee’s Place Detective series, I wrote about a strange event that terrorized a young worker on a remote lighthouse island more than a century ago. It’s a story that still feels too weird and dreadful to fully unpack, but I think it’s important that we try.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In all the years (25, somehow?) and all the stories about 9/11, you may not have heard about the Korean Air scare that prompted an evacuation of downtown Whitehorse. I wrote about it for @cangeo.bsky.social:

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9/11 in the North: how terror touched Whitehorse and Yellowknife

In the Yukon and NWT, unexpected arrivals and a major hijacking scare brought the terror attacks closer to home

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Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“While Macdonald’s rail project was undeniably momentous for Canada, Carney’s decision to invoke this particular man, framing him as one who ‘raced to unite this land,’ was revealing — particularly given who paid the price for this unification.” @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

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Why Mark Carney Is Comparing Himself to John A. Macdonald | The Tyee

Canada’s prime minister is invoking history to explain his own policies, but glossing over the harms of the past.

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Jane The Basic @janethebasic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

til about Hoatzin. Hello stinky new friends!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A wonderful way to spend part of the day!

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

VULTURES ARE AWESOME and an indispensable part of making the whole cycle of nature work. So here are some very sweet Black Vultures to celebrate #VultureAwarenessDay! #birds #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay 🌿

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Black Vultures Grooming Each Other

YouTube video by Get To Know Nature

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry passed away today. I love and return to the Peace of Wild Things at least every couple of months. A gorgeous work of art. He lived a long life and I hope it was a good one. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 31/08/2026

Don’t worry! I have a long guide with plenty of alternatives.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

She sings from the perspective of people doing shitty jobs in offices, people building cars in Detroit, and she sings about the experience of being poor and exploited in general, but there's three songs, all covers, that strike me as really interesting choices. The first is Dark as a Dungeon.

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Jane The Basic @janethebasic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think I'm curating my bsky experience well as I haven't seen the eagle/Canada goose image, just some excellent goose content in response to it

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Jane The Basic @janethebasic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yay for alt text!! Now I can share these, I love them so

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 27/08/2026

Good news. Also a really good point made. Drivers are speeding at record levels, driving more aggressively than ever & driving monsterously over sized trucks. Maybe the need wouldn't be so great (it would but still) if drivers weren't so incredibly dangerous sharing a road with.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is very detailed, has the receipts, and is definitely worth your time to read.

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Loxy @loxy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I made Yukon glasses holders. For people who take their glasses off and on. Will have a pin, chain or act as a pendant.

Different textures of polymer clay cut into the shape of the Yukon with a hole in the middle.

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Alison Purnell is chasing that PhD! @14thcdisability.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

We need some levity in these days. Join me for the story of when the Catholic Church put a corpse on trial for heresy. aka You think slandering your political predecessors is ridiculous now aka I don't care if he's dead, he can still stand trial

Image is Jean Paul Laurens's painting "Pope Formosus and Stephen VI" (1870). It shows a skeletal corpse dressed in full papal robes sitting on a throne on a dais, while to its left there are a crowd of bishops and cardinals in a group, with one standing in front pointing angrily and accusingly at the fancy pope-corpse. There is a man in black standing behind the podium between the pointing man and the pope-corpse. It is dramatic and kind of hilarious.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 19/08/2026

We have a deal 🙌! Nations have secured an historic victory for Pacific bluefin tuna! In an incredible turnaround, international delegates broke a high-stakes stalemate during emergency August talks to officially adopt a binding, permanent #harvest strategy for Pacific bluefin tuna: bit.ly/467jVEG

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From stalled talks to a historic deal: nations advance landmark…

Last-minute negotiations result in historic deal supporting science-based recovery

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A site created by his former students

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 17/08/2026

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 21st! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes?

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. DO YOU NEED TO CLEAN YOUR GLASSES?

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/08/2026

In honor of @birderk.bsky.social's plover saving and hoping she can beat her boss by the deadline, I'm unveiling my first snowy ploverling of Baby Bird Season 2026, I call it "Plover Against The World." 🪶

A young snowy plcoer chick stands alone as the sun stars to set and is washed over by the orange hug. They look alone but their parent and sibling were nearby. This was inside an enclosure and as the suns et they began to run out, but this individual baby stopped and pivoted, seeing what must have been a scary world out there.

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Jane The Basic @janethebasic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Love this so much. The joy! The beans!

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It's ok to look after yourself. It's ok to get some rest. It's ok to buy another book. It's ok to fill your rooms with books. It's ok to be surrounded by creaking towers & tunnels of books. There's always room for one more.

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