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The reflecting pools at the Aga Khan museum (which spill over the edges so they are #fountainsTO) look stunning at night, plus with a beautiful installation for Nuit Blanche.

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The Vampire LesMak @lesleynope.bsky.social · 4h

I love how none of these elderly snowbirds mentioned (or maybe it wasnt included in the article) that with lowering local resident taxes the state will become absolutely unlivable in a few years.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 4h

I could rent a snorkel set for $40-$60 during my upcoming vacation, or I could buy one off Facebook Marketplace for $10-$15.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 12h

a weird thing about a family cruise out of Florida in early December is trying to buy summer things like swim shorts and sunscreen when many stores have stopped stocking them

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 16h

The critics are right. Toronto sucks. Souless condo wasteland. Unliveable.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23h

I remind everyone, again, that they tried year-round daylight saving time and stopped it because it got bunch of kids got killed in just a few weeks

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 19h

Nine of the people who died from heat this summer in Cook County did so inside their homes or apartments and many had no working air conditioning, according to a review of records from the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 20h

I don't know what my life will be like in the short and long-term, but I now aspire to see a total solar eclipse. I'm apparently too late to book stuff for the one next summer in the Middle East and some hotels are already fully booked for the one happening in Sydney, Australia in 2028.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21h

I've seen advertisements for this on Facebook and I want a version of this for reporters who want to excitedly talk about non-work interests. I miss Drunk Education events in New York.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22h

Newest Halloween costume ideas: -Sexy Costco Executive Membership -Sexy Costco Sample Person -Spooky Gas Prices Sign

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/10/2026

This will make kids a lot safer on Halloween. Other cities should do this!

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026

@nickdiakopoulos.bsky.social posits that the elimination of moats around the economics of news leaves journalism with only the most expensive role: information gathering, with no remaining subsidy to sustain it.

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Sophie Nadeau 🇨🇦 @sophienadeau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The platforms have options to fix this. Enthusiastic compliance & partnership on gov’t regulation is an option. It’s good for business because trust will increase. They can demonetize & down rank BS & push trusted journalism. But they don’t listen so we keep fighting www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

ctvnews.ca

Byline or bot? AI-generated 'journalists' start to appear in Canada

Quebec correspondent “Geneviève Tremblay” — who has been reporting on multiple news stories a day lately — seemed to be experiencing a glitch.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I heard about the Lindsay Ellis video on cruising. I didn't know it was almost 2.5 hours.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gen X and Millennials yearn for. personalized Triptiks from CAA and AAA.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some of the Nuit Blanche exhibits are on display on Queen Street by City Hall.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

non-AI emergency bad takes: -cruises are bad for the environment but pretty good vacations for people with disabilities -granola bars are not healthy and never were -apple pastry pie > apple crumble pie -the optimal bedtime for adults is 11pm -there are better options than turkey for Thanksgiving

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Dexter Thomas @dexdigi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i am now uninterested in all journalism or television awards. i want to be featured in Costco Connection Magazine. this is my new career goal.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s like Vance really wanted everyone to understand what Mason was talking about: bsky.app/profile/tomj...

vance:%20%22For%20a%20long%20time,%20we%20institutionalized%20Anti-White,%20Anti-Male%20discrimination%20in%20this%20country.%20If%20you%20look%20at%20the%20way%20that%20we%20spoke%20about%20White%20men%20in%20the%20United%20States%20of%20America...%20It's%20kind%20of%20insane%20that%20we%20didn't%20have%20a%20revolution.%22

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is now officially October, which means I need to make something in this thread or go back to Sexy Anglerfish, my plan for last year's Halloween before I got laid off.

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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I reposted an old interview I did with Bong Joon Ho about PARASITE from 2019 today and this quote hit like a wrecking ball: "I think maybe there is no borderline between countries now because we all live in the same country, it’s called capitalism."

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Dexter Thomas @dexdigi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yes. i wrote this article back in 2018 and it still holds up. ten minutes and you will have a simple profile. i wrote it for journalists, but it's even easier for academics (less updates). and yes, i stand by the 'ten minutes'. that includes getting a snack. ijnet.org/en/resource/...

ijnet.org

Creating a not-terrible journalist portfolio in 10 minutes

Greetings, fellow journalist. Do you already have a website? Yes? Great!

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So grateful I get to include this comic in my book as a way of saying thanks ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it confuses me why David Ellison is renaming Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery into Skydance, something with absolutely no brand recognition, but I have to keep reminding myself some things are not about logic and reasoning no matter how much I try and think about them

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Look here. I am telling you the tide is turning. Humanity is not going to give up without a fight. The poorly adjusted,self loathing,other-being hating dude bros don’t get to have the future.They just don’t.Man behind the curtain, Emperor’s clothes, pick your allegory. In any case, know the story.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i can scrub through a 4hr city council meeting in five mins thanks to YT transcripts but also so can everyone else, and so can an AI slop generator. So this doesn't make my life easier than a reporter in 1999 who went to the city council meeting and wasn't publishing into a fucked up info ecosystem

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 01/10/2026

‘Just hours after Paramount Skydance issued $52B of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions in losses, triggering a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.com

Angry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount Losses

Just hours after Paramount Skydance Corp. issued $52 billion of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, triggering a flurry of...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mean sure, but flights are enormously expensive and so is everything else with the exchange rate of $1 USD = $1.40 CAD.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve been extremely critical of Brad Bradford and I stand by all of it. But this @rwarnica.bsky.social piece almost (but not quite) makes me feel sorry for the guy. “They told me — almost to a person — that they find Bradford unprincipled and disloyal.” Yeesh. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

thestar.com

Richard Warnica: Does Brad Bradford believe in anything other than himself?

Bradford's relentless pursuit of success may also be his downfall.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here is tortured tautology Keeperman offers for why Desi college kids — wearing cowboy hats, throwing up the "Hook 'em Horns" hand sign, cheering the Longhorns — are not "assimilated": because he said so talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Weird, who would have guessed kicking out all of the immigrants wouldn't create jobs for native-born workers? (Hint: Everyone knew this.) bsky.app/profile/dean...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am not yet 40 but mostly I wear a lot of black, have designated outfits and dresses for conferences and dates, very basic makeup in 15-20 min, and wear my hair in a ponytail or bun 90% of the time. I also wear a lot of clothes from Costco and Uniqlo.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This entire Daily Show interview is great, but CMAT's comments about Ed Sheeran and the collapse of his supporting acts after Macklemore's comments on Palestine (starting at 9:20) are especially worth watching: youtu.be/bhINc77YZYc?...

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CMAT On Embodying Funeral Humor in “Euro-Country” | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wish journalists could buy layoff insurance. So many of us move to other cities and other countries for jobs, but we can be laid off at any time, while still on the hook for leases, car payments, student loans, and other expenses. I couldn't apply for unemployment because I was on a work visa.

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