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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I prefer the phrasing “the province could cease propping up the neighbouring state’s economy.”

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I continue to be astounded (though not surprised) at the degree to which drivers don’t even consider the existence of pedestrians - much less their safety. Crosswalks and pedestrian-crossing signs have become hieroglyphs, with meanings lost to time; right-of-way a concept from an extinct people.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Logan, after a fetch session. His stride has lost much of its spring, but he’s still a rockstar after all these years.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Back in the workshop on this gorgeous fall Sunday. I’m confirming some measurements, this time using my most recently-completed build: a hardtail Strat-style guitar (S/N 0011). It has a one-piece Honduran mahogany body, rock maple neck with ebony fretboard, and Fralin Blues Special pickups.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Damn. I bought this Ilford mug in ‘95 or ‘96 in Whitehorse, YK. It came with a few rolls of HP5+, and has been my favourite mug ever since. After 30 years of daily use, it slipped out of my hand while drying. It’s now chipped and cracked. Any chance of a reissue, @ilfordphoto.com? I’d buy several!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you guys broke watergate

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西村ツチカ @tsuchika.com · 24/09/2026

エフェクター

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

D'oh: that should've been "-henge" 🤦‍♂️ As an aside, this was the 2nd year in a row where a thin low cloud layer obscured the Sun as it set. The brightest spot in this image is that cloud layer, illuminated from behind (which is why it appears that the Sun is setting a touch north of due west).

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Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦 @bobmakichuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Timeline cleanse.

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I keep meeting smart informed Albertans who tell me they do not intend to vote, because they don’t want to legitimize the process, or because they know the premier is not bound by the results. But what if making us give up on voting is the whole point? My argument to vote - no matter the absurdity.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can’t wait to get back to this baritone guitar build. It’s very different than the Fender-style builds I’ve been up to for the last while, and much more rewarding and committing*. * “committing” as in how much more significant the question “How do I not f#@% this up now?” becomes with each step

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I do love the look of a Honduran mahogany body, white pickguard, maple neck, and pau ferro fretboard. (This Tele-style guitar is an early build; I’d not yet come up with my signature headstock shape and it lacks my “JK” logo.)

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Luminescent side dot material cut to length (just shy of 1/4”) and ready for installation. An uncut rod of the material is in the clear tube to the right.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A somewhat disappointing lack of “ear” on this one, but I do love listening to it sing (sound up for subtle crackling noises).

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s too beautiful of a day not to go for a ride.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16/09/2026

It seems like this is a good time to tell you all why LLMs are never, and can never be, conscious.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 17/09/2026

As an academic I feel like that I'm living in that scene in The Big Short where they see all the empty houses and know it's a bubble, but for me it's hearing about all the innovation and growth in higher education, then teaching a class where only 8/250 students show up weekly

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/09/2026

This week I handed the newsletter over to climate policy & politics expert Leah Stokes. She says, talking about climate change doesn't lose elections. It wins them. Read on!

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Climate action comes in waves | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe

Leah Stokes on voting for climate, where policy failed, and the Carbon Wave Calculator This week I’m excited to be handing this newsletter o

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If stress makes an appearance during my daily cyclecommute, its origin is pretty much always the same: some interaction with an automobile - or, more accurately, the automobile's driver. Typically because the driver is wielding the automobile like a weapon. Knowingly, purposefully.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Speaking of “dope,” @behindthebluemotel.com, check out this WWII photographer’s two-Leica setup:

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

GEFILTE PHISHING

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm apparently seven years late to this party, but damn - what an ensemble. Every bit of it is fantastic - the voices, accompaniment, and mix - but Nick Campbell's bass work is absolutely stellar, and that open-E/upper-G# combo he hits several times are my favourite dyad on the instrument. Enjoy:

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Monster | Pomplamoose & dodie

YouTube video by PomplamooseMusic

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m out at Rad Torque Raceway today, watching some of the Edmonton Motorcycle Roadracing Association’s final races of the season. On now: intermediate 600 Superbike.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The first sourdough boule of the season, fresh from the oven.

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11, when Canadians responded, united, to support and protect our American neighbours. Tonight, I was reflecting on the sacrifices our country made - only to see them now derided by US leaders. I wrote this 6 years ago. I think it’s worth a reread now.

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Finding Fortitude - Alberta Views

Canada’s most powerful memorial.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Given that we're already strong and free, why again are we wasting so much time and money on the upcoming referendum? Oh, that's right. Silly me.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My Seiko mechanical watch can’t do this (which makes me very happy).

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm loving this picture of Jerry, wearing Doug Irwin's "Wolf" guitar - though apparently before Jerry had slapped the namesake sticker on it, and before Doug subsequently peeled the sticker off and reproduced its likeness with inlaid pieces of wood - thus creating the "Wolf" we know (and 🩷).

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yikes. But as a daily, year-round bicycle commuter, also “Yep.”

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Despite the fact that Linnaean classification doubles down on the common name for these beautiful birds — “Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus” means “Yellow-headed yellowhead” — I still like to think of them as “Black-bodied yellowbirds.”

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Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦 @bobmakichuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is a cogent piece for Americans to absorb. It is also a good roundup for Canadians to reflect on where we've come over the last year and where our future lies notwithstanding the economic punishment coming our way from Trumplandia.

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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026