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Goodreads lets you give half-stars now. I'd maybe refine past ratings but it'd just clog up everyone's already clunky feed.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 11h

On first read of Magnifica Humanitas I was impressed by the precision and buoyed by the constructive hopefulness. On second read I felt it underplayed the systemic obstacles of finance capitalism & political opportunism, and thus undersold its call for focused resistance from education & ecclesia.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They also do not care that lots of fans move w/i Canada and take their team with them. Such people must pay extra to avoid blackouts

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rogers and the NHL hate fans

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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, I know everyone is doing a series on this, but I do think we've landed some pretty awesome speakers for ours. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 22/06/2026

The Alberta government is barreling ahead with its changes to provincial ID cards. Get ready for the inevitable U-turn. My latest. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/one-card-m...

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One Card, Many Problems

Why the UCP's changes to provincial ID are bound to fail.

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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

… yes, exactly.

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Danielle Smith is breaking our health care system and Mark Carney is letting her. The Canada Health Act is federal law. Carney has a responsibility to enforce it and protect universal, publicly funded health care. Both Smith and Carney are betraying Albertans. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

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‘If you can pay, you get health care. If you can’t pay, you wait’: Local MP criticizes Smith’s health-care bill

Albertans can now pay out of pocket or through private insurance for preventative diagnostic testing and do so without a doctor's referral. It's part of evolving health system changes that include leg...

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've read 246 books this year with Z. This is revolutionary!

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

begging people covering sports to stop referring to athletes maybe facing consequences for their (alleged) violent actions as "adversity"

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"For Christians, freedom of religion is not reducible to a spiritualized liberty standing apart from its political appearance, but becomes manifest in a genuine freedom for other people, in a political vocation, to serve the task of discovering what makes ... for political freedom." – Hans Ulrich

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The NHL brass hate both fans and the sport of hockey

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mark Carney wants us to believe expanding planet killing fossil fuel extraction is somehow noble

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Carney begins his announcement of a new oil pipeline by acknowledging the climate-linked wildfire that came close to levelling the town where he's announcing the new oil pipeline. A flat circle.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christ reconciles all creation

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Nora Kenworthy @kenworthy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

I see others have mentioned Aberdeen itself, but also rising costs. Not sure what TCB costs tbh

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

You might look into Trinity College Bristol. Requires one on site visit per year and is validated by Aberdeen. There's been some faculty turnover of late but not long ago it was thriving and there were several who did what you're looking to do (from what I can tell)

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

They made him look like Trudeau 🤣

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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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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @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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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wheat Kings is also objectively one of the goats worldwide

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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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