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Stayed up all night checking weather radar and certain drainage situations every fifteen minutes to make sure all the fixes did their jobs. Spent the night watch working on my business and, in the cold light of day, most of the work will keel.

Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The only opinion I'll ever maintain on Joe Rogan comes from @greatdismal.bsky.social's COUNT ZERO: "...she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were not even remotely human."

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Good morning everyone, I have the privilege of leading HESA's Focus Fridays this year and I'm excited to launch today. At 12:30 Eastern I’ll be joined by Sterling Crowe and Jennifer Browne for a discussion on The Student Experience This Year. Registration here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Focus Friday: Student Experience this year with Sterling Crowe and Jennifer Browne. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining t...

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I'm just sad. I keep thinking about how, in the Great Depression, the women's student organization at UAlberta set up a quiet free soup kitchen for unemployed, unmarried women students. How did we get back to this? How the hell?

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It's one fifth, at least where I work. One fifth of undergrads are severely food insecure by Health Canada standards. One fifth is also the number who are currently skipping meals at least once a week due to the cost of food. Don't even get me started on how bad things are for Indigenous students.

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MSU Soup and Bread program expands to Fridays

Love and respect McMaster's student union running free soup and bread, and Waterloo's running pay-what-you-can meals. But man do I wish student food insecurity stats were not so crushing and they didn't need to do this. www.thesil.ca/news/msu-sou...

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Starting this week, the Food Collective Centre’s Soup and Bread program will run from Tuesdays to Fridays from their location in the Hub. This years offerings also include a new flavour. This change w...

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Caster @darianvjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Update! My partner and I have saved up about $1,000 this month! It's nothing to sneeze at but we have a long way to go. So far we've raised $230 thanks to all of your help! Thank you! Every bit helps truly. If you can repost this, please share! :D gofund.me/1370f0b84

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Donate to Help Me Stay Safe in my Partner's Country, organized by Caster Jones

If I am forced to return to the U.S., I am likely to get my passport … Caster Jones needs your support for Donate to Help Me Stay Safe in my Partner's Country

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This novelette is my second Recommended Story in Locus; the first was 'Crickets in Lost Light,' another Ander Carmora piece. 'Fletcher's Flights' finds our turncoat tithe-collector older and dustier, skulking in the prairie coulees between the Five Deserts and the ravenous Churchlands.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Fletcher’s Flights by Jonathan Olfert

In smoky light, Carmora watched for jackals and looters (which he'd been at times) and Churchmen (which he'd also been), one hand by the short-sword on his thigh. For months, he'd ranged back and fort...

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So, so excited for Alberta Time (permanent UTC-6) to kick in, you have no idea. Cutting the time difference for half the year has a couple of positive effects for my family and work. Can't wait.

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh look, that very appealing job has been reposted for the third time in a year and a half...

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Mermaid Siren

Alt: Mermaids swirl dangerously around a boat from below

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Defeat the curse of knowledge bias by having the guts for the basic conversations.

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN ALBERTA: Two weeks left to apply for your special ballot. The line about being unable to vote is a mistake and is NOT included in ballots going out now. Long lineups on voting day. The other 9 questions are important to know about too. abreferendum.dignityforum.org

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The 2026 Alberta Referendum: the facts about all 10 questions — Dignity Forum

Alberta’s 2026 referendum asks voters whether temporary residents should face higher costs — or reduced access — for healthcare and education systems. Explore the facts before you vote on October 19.

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If this was a cyberpunk dystopia worth a damn we’d all have cobbled-together black market personal surveillance scramblers by now

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Four days of shoveling have forcibly reminded me why I no longer do this for a living. I'm only capable of remaining vertical because my blood is currently 38% pumpkin spice latte by volume.

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On the one hand, all my deeply held feelings about consumption as identity. On the other, a shuttlecraft of baked mac and cheese.

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Now there's a satire begging to be written

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This man cloned Sam Rockwell, printed Robert Pattinson, commanded the Callister, did NOT help Sharon Stone forget the Sphere, has a great job lined up with Weyland-Yutani, and left Matt Damon back on Mars on purpose.

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Read KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social while fighting water. Think 'The Long Dark' in Ontario, with the same personal, authentic sense of place as TO THE LAST MAN, Zane Grey's love letter to every nook and cranny of the Tonto Basin. The Canadiana I needed this flood season.

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KAYAK - a novel by Kristal Stittle (print + eBook)

For eighteen-year-old Keith—floating alone on a series of lakes and rivers, lost and without supplies—his kayak is his means of survival. Solid ground means certain death at the scissor-claws of vicio...

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Good thing I was raised Mormon; praying to a god of money is like riding a bike.

O god of money, merciless though Thou art, please send my like $4k USD of assorted accounts receivable forthwith, as this entire goddamn day is shoveling, due to flooding, again. There is also an axe involved.

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Pretty accurate. Western Canada, Eastern Canada, couple of years in California, lifelong friend and gig work in Florida...

I haven't seen their equivalent if any - I don't know much about SFWA - and would enjoy doing so

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That HWA NDA is significantly nastier than when I got Secret clearance. Good lord.

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don't really know why 'In My Country' hit me so much harder than the first time I read it. I think of how my life has changed, and my understanding of some people. I dwell on things. "There was no reason for the association."

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"This is not just gutter social science: it is a drive-by smear. Some people would call it clearly racist and sexist. You can count me among them."

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The mind boggles trying to guess the customer avatar for the tremendous flop that is the Mr. Beast/James Patterson collab. People trying to buy books for their great-grandkids' early Christmas presents?

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We were somewhere around Fafnir's territory when the heartblood began to take hold.

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Evergreen: "Then we realized what the connection was: all of these behaviors are the actions of someone who feels entitled to other people’s property – regardless of whether it’s someone else’s ideas, work, money, or body. Another common factor was the desire to dominate and control other people."

hypatia.ca

The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment

We developed the Al Capone Theory over several years of researching and recording racism and sexism in computer security, open source software, venture capital, and other parts of the tech industry…

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No track ever devised has such power to unwind the tension of a long workday's end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N26N...

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TOOL - Vicarious (Audio)

YouTube video by TOOLVEVO

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Norah Woodsey @norahwoodsey.com · 31/08/2026

Any Vietnam War Historians available to look at this image? It’s a magazine clipping attributed to someone and I wanted to learn more about it. The original clipping has been lost, but is at least 20 years old.

A magazine clipping of a black and white photograph, showing what appears to be a radio operator. He looks at the camera with sadness or resignation. He has a watch on his left wrist and his hair is closely shaved. There is a pot of some kind behind him on the left. Beyond that is some kind of backpack. Other men sit behind, facing away from the camera, mostly in shadow.

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And a Worldcon volunteer just said that the backstage area is for "walking participants" only, to me, while I was sitting in my wheelchair. #Worldcon #LACon #Hugos

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 30/08/2026

Three-Lobed Burning Eye's 2027 Kickstarter launches Tuesday and you can chip in to get a short story critique from ME (I was allowed to pitch in with the Kickstarter even though my eyes have only the usual number of lobes and aren't even on fire)

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Coming soon: Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2027

Publishing original horror, fantasy, and science fiction since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Four men learn how to drive trucks slowly across a bridge.

There was certainly a cluster of writing that, over the course of a few years, made certain things thinkable and changed my life completely. Westover's Educated, Aslan's Zealot, Inside the Neolithic Mind, the Tokens and Signs commentaries...

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Quick on the draw. May they make one million dollars.

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Another shot I liked running around the Peggy's Cove area.

A view down a small Atlantic harbour with docks and weathered buildings on either side, clouds reflected in the water, and a red fishing boat centred.

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