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Nora Kenworthy @kenworthy.bsky.social · 1h

Raise your hand if you’re an actual researcher who hasn’t seen a tax break for it EVER.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is Sportsnet seriously just giving us the home broadcasters all year?

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just bibliographied all day and my eyes are wired

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Teens Retirees 🤝 Watching their phones with full volume in public

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know Man City hasn't been sentenced yet and could still just get a slap on the wrist, but I'm actually kinda buoyed by the verdict because I totally thought they'd get to stall and manoevre their way out of this with sheer force of deep pocket lawyering

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Kenny @dexdesignkg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On a day like today, just remember that Jurgen Klopp achieved 97, 99, 92 points without cheating........ #legend #ynwa #lfc

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Jurgen Klopp's Reaction at Liverpool Match

ALT: Jurgen Klopp's Reaction at Liverpool Match

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Richard Shaw @richards7370.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi folks, for the last time (apart from the year end poll 😉) it’s time to vote, it’s the big one, #5DebutAlbumsFinal We’ve whittled the albums down to a final 100 (see list to follow), a veritable treat to the eardrums each and every one. Your task, pick your top 5 in order of preference, mine are..

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Missed Kiwanuka at Folk Fest; turns out he had a stroke. Looks like a long road but I'm glad he's getting through it

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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you’ve seen or shared news about programme closures at Edinburgh (not least in Theology & Religious Studies) please see this appeal from Prof Rachel Muers. The reports are misleading.

Text reads: ‘Appeal to anyone who has seen or shared the news reports about programme closures at Edinburgh, including in TRS: Please stop circulating them. They are very misleading, and are causing actual damage to our otherwise healthy department. (And for what it's worth, colleagues in Scottish Literature are saying something similar). I am now fed up with responding to anxious prospective students who think we, or some of our areas of teaching and research, are being closed down. We aren't. There are institutions where our subject is at risk but Edinburgh is not one of them. Please don't try to fit us into a narrative of "attack on the humanities" or "secularisation gone mad". Thank you.’

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

👀 cupe.ca/news/cupe-wi...

"The national executive board of Canada's largest union, CUPE, has passed a unanimous resolution vowing to defy the Liberal government's Bill C-39 limiting the constitutional right to strike if it is passed unamended through Parliament."

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Apparently celebs don't realize how silly these betting/banking/AI commercials make them look

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe I missed a memo but it seems the American Academy of Religion is content to lean into the 'American' part and not acknowledge the problem internationals have with traveling there right now. Ok. But maybe groups with International in their title could hold their annual meetings somewhere else.

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Obed-edom @keithejefferson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is absolutely ridiculous. Especially for a league that has partnerships with beer & gambling entities. Juice needs to get a deal with a juice company & waive the celebration in their faces while getting paid to do it.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m going to rename cancer Donald Trump

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Canada needs a real opposition party

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“But prime minister Mark Carney is using our fear and disorientation around the trade war to push through a series of unpopular measures that he did not run on, has no mandate for, and would never get away with under normal circumstances.” 2/2

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Elbows up baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bloomberg headline reads: “Morgan Stanley, CIBC Win Mandate for Sale of Canada Airport Concessions”

Wikipedia page for Morgan Stanley opens: “Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial…”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As far as I can tell, reporters have only asked Trump on camera three times about the air strike that took out an entire girls' school in Iran. As opposed to, you know, asking every day.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's a shame we somehow eliminated Bobcaygeon, Long Time Running, and Its a Good Life, but the final 8 should be fun. (Go Wheat Kings I guess)

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Growing up in Billy Graham evangelicalism, the epitome of a great Christian leader-man was if they had a story where they shared the gospel on an airplane. As an introvert this was a recipe for accepting my not-greatness pretty early on – which is something I'm kinda thankful for.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!

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Joel Mayward @jmayward.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard dying within two weeks of one another is just so sad. RIP to two of our greatest appreciators of the natural world.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This extraordinarily articulate woman is clearly being marginalised by the people she thought were her friends and neighbours because she refuses to to give into the fear-mongering of racists. The UK is in a very precarious place culturally and politically. The journalist doesn't realise this.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reading all the statements from the young, lesser-known artists dropping out of Ed Sheeran's tour, which could have been an incredible and lucrative career opportunity for them, fills me with such admiration.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I tell ya, whether the Jays get there or not, this wild card race has felt like months of playoff baseball

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My biggest self-contradiction is that I'm boycotting US products and I think the NFL is a military-hyping, BLM-denying, injury-factory, but I can't wait for Red Zone today

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show

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Devin is Playing Piano in September @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'Creatives' at Disney are having "difficulties cracking the premise" for The Muppet Show? Just do *THE MUPPET SHOW!* You know, the thing that just won four Emmys? The thing that everyone likes???

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Your 2026 Toronto Blue Jays! (pictured L-R: bullpen, starting pitching, offence)

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sorry but Greengrass's United 93 and the Naudet bros' 9/11 doc are both perfect (and we absolutely do not need to see if someone can bottom out worse than Oliver Stone did already)

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/09/2026

don't care how good your point is if you're publishing on Substack, don't care how good your post is if you're doing it on Twitter I can't control the world but I do have power over what I support with my attention

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Spare me your flip from smart AI critics to "but it's great for coding." I'm quite sure the world does not need whatever you're coding as quickly as you're now making it. Welcome to Bezos's moral universe.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ok I'd be cool with a retroactive Oscar for Copper from Fox & the Hound or for Mater from Cars

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"

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