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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Canadians of a certain age will understand.

Barnett Newman
Voice of Fire, 1967
As displayed in the National Gallery of Canada

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hot off the press! Mayoral candidates responses to Bike Ottawa’s questionnaire. The process behind our questionnaire, and how cycling has been turned into a toxic issue. Ready set go! 🚲 #ottcity #ottpoli bikeottawa.ca/2026/10/01/2...

People cycling on Rideau Street (during Step Thruu worst infrastructure ride), a missing link between the short cycle track on Rideau and the cycle track on Cumberland

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Michael Adair @madair336.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Almost 2 decades of austerity budgets is what's caused this infrastructure deficit and your continuing austerity plan is not going to fix the problem

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t care what colour your politics are, the PP bit with the apple will never not be hilarious.

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You know, people give Millennials a hard time about keeping a good box, but have you met Boomers?

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Peep these late 1970s design beauties from Agriculture Canada

Seven pamphlets published by Agriculture Canada in the late 1970s. Included in the collection are “home preserving of fruits and vegetables“—which was actually reproduced with permission by the Consumers Glass Company Limited—“pork”, “home baked bread”, “beans, peas, and lentils”,“let’s barbecue”, “growing garden tomatoes”, and “home–made dairy products”.

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

Time for this classic again.

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Helping an ADHDer declutter this week and my favourite* thing is the grocery bag of DOOM inside another grocery bag of DOOM. Matrioshka DOOM piles. *not my favourite part.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She was like, “I hate it here!” And I thought but did not say, “you don’t even want to know the other gaps I know about in the research”

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Mads Mikkelsen Smoking

Alt: Mads Mikkelsen Smoking

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my colleague: I have a question me: MC: yk period blood & stem cells? is it true no one has researched it because it is icky? me: OK WELL, Menstrual-blood stromal cells were first found in 2007, but the science way to say "icky" is "research is limited due to gender bias & sociocultural stigma"

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also true of helping your mother declutter. I have new insight into how she was able to retire early!

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 27/09/2026

Murphy Brown, one of the most popular tv shows for a decade winning two Outstanding Comey Series Emmys and star Candace Bergen won five Emmys, cannot be found on a streaming platform bc of music rights. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8T3txGW/

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Why Murphy Brown Is Impossible To Watch on Streaming Today #murphybrown #murphybrownshow #candicebergen #cbs #cbsshow

TikTok video by Mike Bedard

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The lesson for profs is to tell students, if they are up to it, to go to the police and not to the uni despite how many stickers they paste in the bathrooms of campus resources. I haven't had a student come to me in a situation like this, but I have seen other places I work fail badly re harassment

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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On this day, thirty years ago, some of us were thinking Alanis Morissette was a new Canadian treasure while trying to ignore the fact her wildly successful song Ironic really only described a whole bunch of unfortunate coincidences.

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The longest war is the war on women.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A Different Kind of Gaze Lee Munn 2026

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This whole “He may hate immigrants but at least we agreed the tapas was great!” media sub-genre is the lowest level of normalizing bullshit and needs to go. And, it’s based on the idiotic premise that left-wingers and right-wingers never interact. Really? Let me introduce you to families & work.

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I turn 49 this week and just had to Google « zoosha ». #winning

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Important news! I am delighted to announce the launch of my new podcast: The Untitled History Podcast. It's me, and guests, falling down all the history rabbitholes you can imagine. Please, please spread the word, subscribe and listen. Because... SHIPS CATS!! cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-...

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Episode 2: The History of Cats on Ships by The Untitled History Podcast

From as early as 7000 years before the common era, we have evidence suggesting cats served alongside humans on ships. This isn’t just in a civilian capacity. As long as there have been warships, cats ...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a person born in the 1900s, in-flight wifi continues to baffle me, particularly when it’s free.

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh good! She’s decided she doesn’t need to wear it *now that we’re in the plane*. Honestly, how do some people make it out of childhood. (Yes, I know there are HEPA filters. Her face is less than a metre from mine.)

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

CATSA at YOW at 07:00 on a Saturday in September is going to spoil me for life. 20 minutes from drop off to at the gate, including checking a bag! A whole three minutes waiting for my carryon to be scanned 😱.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another Brock Turner arc in 2026. Truly grotesque choices from the administration; excellent work from this editorial board.

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David @dsalmon1449.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You can tell its AI because they’re on beat

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haven’t even finished paying off the last overpayment and I already have another pay issue. 😭

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I promise, no matter what they say they are doing, Meta is using this to scrape everything they can find on your devices and recording everything you do or say. It is what they’ve done with every product they’ve ever released. Nothing of yours is safe if you use this, no matter how careful you are.

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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To

Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Elections Ottawa @vote.ottawa.ca · 24/09/2026

Are you planning to vote during Special Advance Voting Days? Bring your little ones with you! The Voters in Training event for the 2026 Municipal Elections will take place at all voting places from October 1-4, during which time Ottawa’s future voters can cast their own ballot. #ItStartsHere

Photo of a child standing behind an “Électeurs en herbe” sign from Élections Ottawa. The sign reads “Voters in Training / Électeurs en herbe” and “I voted / J'ai voté.”

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Jennifer S @jenniflaneuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m pretty sure the Venn diagram of this group of people and professors who think it’s OK to sleep with their students is a perfect circle.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A 12 years old, Cai Thomas has a treble voice so pure and clear that the moment he begins singing Laudate Dominum, the whole atmosphere seems to become more serene.

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