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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Summer is dead. Winter struggles to be born. Now is the time of soup.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the highest crimes humanity has ever committed

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 01/10/2026

The letter calls on the province to allow municipalities to make their own decisions regarding bike lanes and urges Ford to stop the project, arguing that bike lanes protect the health and safety of everyone on the road.

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Medical professionals urge Ford to reconsider Toronto bike lane removal

More than 600 healthcare workers have signed an open letter demanding the Ontario premier stop his plan to remove three major bike lanes in Toronto.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 01/10/2026

We need more stories about parents trying to understand what their autistic kids need, so things become easier for their kids as well as for themselves. Link below. thinkingautismguide.com/2018/03/the-...

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The Toxicity of "Autism Parent" Memoirs

We need more people to stand up and tell the world that memoirs exploiting your autistic child for "honesty" and profit are unacceptable.

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Johanna Whitson @johannawhitson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading this while tears fell onto my orange- every child matters- shirt was painfully ironic. If we really believed this, it wouldn’t keep happening.

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Peggy Boooooo!!!!! Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I too know of a homeless man whose wife's ashes were taken when his tent encampment was torn down. They have also lost library cards and ID that is vital ... as well as the new sleeping bags and tents that strangers (like us) had purchased for them.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone employed at a postsecondary institution (& esp deans of students) should read Kate Manne's powerful essay: "Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. ... become a place where our sons are not initiated into rape culture."

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 22/09/2026

happy autumn, everyone. please pardon me if i am a little too exuberant, in too good of a mood, or if i'm crying and listening to the national. fall is a season of contrasts and i go all in on every mood it brings me. this is my time to thrive. where are my autumn people at?

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/09/2026

When we stop talking about climate change like it’s a political issue and start talking about it as a shared challenge that we all need to work together to solve, that’s when we’ll finally be able to start talking about saving ourselves. That is our conclusion here!

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Sami Baaj @politics-with-sami.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

BREAKING 🚨 The University of Waterloo will not renew its partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, following a referendum in 2024 in which 83.9% of participating undergraduates voted in favor of ending the collaboration.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025

The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates:

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Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif

Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 17/05/2025

Governments on one hand: "We desperately need more physicians/engineers/nurses/teachers/this/that/the-next-thing." Governments on the other hand 👇🏼

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

If these guys had their own apartments and a steady income, they'd be watching the game like everyone else in this city. That's all it would take to give them both a shelter from the storm of the world. And yet, we actively refuse to do that. We prefer that they simply die.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

To have a hope of combating the greedy, traitorous end times fascists we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all. Faithful to here.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I have a joke about Persephone but y'all are gonna drag me to hell for it

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/04/2025

Time to check in on social media for my little hit of dopamine.... what??? All cortisol???? Again??!?!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 27/03/2025

More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.

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The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge

Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚

A flyer for a set of documents "Demonstrating the value of cataloging". Six folders are labeled "talking points for administrators, top 5 reasons why you need a cataloger, annotated bibliography, resources list & acronym cheat sheet, side-by-side comparisons of good administrators bad metadata, and introduction to metadata zine. At the bottom text reads you can find these resources at the link in the post, and they were created by the ALA SAC Devaluation of Cataloging Working Group, 2025.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/04/2025

More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever conflict” for reporters in history.

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Israel’s Genocide Has Reportedly Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined

At least 232 journalists have been killed amid the genocide, a new Costs of War report finds.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 31/03/2025

The *real* problem is that publicly-subsidized research is being hidden behind radically exorbitant subscriber walls, in turn paid for by publicly-subsidized institutions like university libraries. In effect, public money is paying *twice* for research, and the public STILL doesn't have access! 3/3

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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Andrew Halberstadt @ahal.ca · 28/03/2025

Poilievre's candidate in my riding of Kitchener South-Hespeler is Dr Matt Strauss. In 2023 Strauss sued Queens University, claiming he was canceled for his views on vaccine mandates and masking. His lawsuit was funded by none other than Elon Musk. Details in thread. #cdnpoli #canadapol #canpoli

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

It’s understandable that lots of people fell for the Woke free speech gender whatever drivel. It was everywhere people looked, often all they ever heard. Nonetheless, if you fell for any bit of it, you now need to reflect on how you were taken in and the uses that your credulity are being put to.

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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

When we say Canada is just three corporations (and their bankers) in a trenchcoat, we’re not kidding. HBC was granted 1.5 million square kilometres of land in 1670, setting off the dispossession and genocides of Indigenous peoples that enables our country today.

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Asher @skydome.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Canadians like to joke that our country is just three companies in a trench coat, but there was a time when we were literally just one company in a fur coat.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

My first post as a regular contributor to ACRLog is about LC not only implementing the changes to "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley," but *fast-tracking* those changes. acrlog.org/2025/03/28/a... #critcat #LCSH

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Anticipatory Obedience at the Library of Congress - ACRLog

On February 18, the Library of Congress (LC) sent an email announcement through its regular channels about a special list of revisions in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). This list con...

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Bright Pages, a local group started by Kitchener high school students, provides educational materials (including books of all genres) to inmates. There is a Softcover Book Drive on Saturday, March 29 at Country Hills Public Library. Drop off at 1500 Block Line Rd Kitchener from 12 to 2 p.m.

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a girl wearing glasses is reading a book with the word shiba on the cover

Alt: a girl wearing glasses is reading a book

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Christina Zoricic @czoricic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

At some point, perhaps sooner than we think, we will have to decide whether we will continue to accept changes from LCSH/LCNAF to our catalogue, and start doing it ourselves or relying on other vocabularies. #critcat thoughts

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This moment is SO FULL of possibilities right now and its absolutely enraging that our politicians refuse to think beyond doing late stage capitalism harder. Like the collapse of US tourism should trigger a national domestic tourism strategy, complete with nationally-owned services!

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I attended a library vendor AI demo/upsell today and I wish I could explain to them that everything they are selling could be achieved by hiring like two more people in our library

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My latest! A feature for The Walrus, a piece that I've been working on since July. How do we count a death in a war zone, how do we mark a genocide? thewalrus.ca/gaza-casualt...

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How Casualty Counters Measure Deaths in Gaza | The Walrus

The data detectives recording the true cost of war

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OCUL @ocul-libraries.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We had the chance to join in the @trentuniversity.bsky.social "AI Hopes and Fears" speaker series last year and can't wait for their AI mini-conference on April 7. It's free, online or in person, and a half day of learning. Mini-conference registration and info: aiminiconference.sched.com/about

Two abstract landscapes generated by AI and the text: Between Hope and Fear - an artificial intelligence mini-conference

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Ian Gibson @iangibson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I wrote a thing with Jaclyn McLean. Tl;dr what are some things libraries can do to provide sufficient resources to the constellation of small scholarly (Canadian) journals to keep them independent of the large commercial publishers.

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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A massive fallacy, is that there is a finite amount of money, or there isn’t enough money to go around to fund things, there absolutely is, the notion of ‘tightening’ belts is totally fictitious

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Brooklin Wallis @handle.invalid · 21/03/2025

WARNING: The WRCSB is voting Monday on a motion that would ban pride flags, slogans, and symbols from being hung or shown (even on a sticker!) on school property. Even teacher's personal flags would not be allowed. Please show up on Monday to show support!!!

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THE WCDSB IS TRYING TO BAN PRIDE FLAGS

PACK THE ROOM AND STAND UP FOR QUEER YOUTH

Please show up to 35 Weber Street, Kitchener on Monday, March 24th at 5:30pm to voice your opposition to this

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TO DELEGATE, EMAIL STEPHANIE.MEDEIROS@WCDSB.CA BY MONDAY AT 9AM

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

“I’m on a post-structuralist metaphysical mission,” writes Priya Subberwall in a particularly great sentence from this piece, “trying to tangle timelines into friendship bracelets, dirt under my nails, and daddy longlegs in my bra.” On the shape of time. orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 21/03/2025

hi folks! big changes happening at the #Homosaurus that have been in the works for a year+. We're moving towards an entirely community-owned and led model to invite more people in, decentralize leadership, invite broader participation and translation. The #HomosaurusCollective is the result

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Every time a tragedy occurs, I point out that “look for the helpers” is for children and it’s time to be a helper. Children are given little agency and it’s not fair to expect them to react beyond their years. Adults, on the other hand, routinely give up agency to act helpless.

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