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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The most freaky thing is happening: my left ear is hearing pitches at somewhere between 1/4 and a 1/2 tone higher than my right ear 😳 I'm recovering from a bad cold but I still have congestion in my head and my ears still hurt a bit and are plugged. 1/

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Watch our Summer Strings fiddle camp interview with Nolan Kehler at 107 FM! youtu.be/IGGMSSofjsI?... Article here: Classic107: Winnipeg's only dedicated classical and jazz radio station. share.google/f1CXE0eOFVC7...

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Winnipeg Conservatory of Music readies for Summer Strings fiddle camp

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

So many of us who advocated for N95s were told to avoid COVID by hand washing. This apology doesn’t rectify the ongoing problem; the general population still thinks COVID isn’t airborne and even our hospitals aren’t instituting masking to protect our most vulnerable patients. #CovidIsAirborne

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

" . . the outbreak highlights the need for WHO and other public health agencies to adopt a precaution-first approach . . begin with stringent airborne protections, then scale back . . rather than starting with minimal precautions and escalating only after transmission has occurred. "

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Any time these both happen the same day, I must share it. Connections Puzzle #1009 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Wordle 1,731 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My husband whips up a batch of Saturday morning biscuits like it's no big deal.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I'm having a blast playing fiddle with Great Big C++ for a great cause - Manitoba CancerCare! Saturday night - tomorrow - join us at Club Regent! Info: techapalooza.ca/techapalooza... support.cancercarefdn.mb.ca/goto/Karen_W...

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Just say "yellow advisory for snowfall", don't bother with saying yellow-coded. Yellow is referring to the advisory, not, you know, anything else.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17/02/2026

Colbert posted the interview online. I do wonder if CBS and the FCC are aware of the Streisand effect? The interview has been up for 8 hours and has just over half a million views.

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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

That blissful moment when you can hug your cup to warm your hands and the coffee is still hot.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy International Women's Day! A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people. A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈 www.wired.com/story/the-te...

On the video call, tensions rose. At one point, Lidia Morawska, a revered atmospheric physicist who had arranged the meeting, tried to explain how far infectious particles of different sizes could potentially travel. One of the WHO experts abruptly cut her off, telling her she was wrong, Marr recalls. His rudeness shocked her. “You just don’t argue with Lidia about physics,” she says.

Morawska had spent more than two decades advising a different branch of the WHO on the impacts of air pollution. When it came to flecks of soot and ash belched out by smokestacks and tailpipes, the organization readily accepted the physics she was describing—that particles of many sizes can hang aloft, travel far, and be inhaled. Now, though, the WHO’s advisers seemed to be saying those same laws didn’t apply to virus-laced respiratory particles. To them, the word airborne only applied to particles smaller than 5 microns. Trapped in their group-specific jargon, the two camps on Zoom literally couldn’t understand one another.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Connections Puzzle #955 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 😌

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Greenlandic politician and former MP Tillie Martinussen: “We do not want to be rich like [USians]. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends. We would not sell ourselves.”

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Didn't expect to see a wild turkey outside of the school I was working at today but the secretary said this is the last of the six that have been around for the last few years.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Here's to the constant of coffee and Sudoko mornings in 2026.

A completed 2025 Sudoko calendar and a new 2026 Sudoko calendar.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I would like an app that will tell me where Madagascar Lindt chocolate bars are on sale in Winnipeg at any given moment in time please.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I tell you, it is all I can do to keep from kicking the snow and ice off of random cars' wheel wells

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I live with two people who insist that the correct orientation of a spice grinder is the one on the right. How can that be right in any world.

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Sharon Schmidt @skaysmall.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Of the Canadians detained during this period, some 44 per cent had no criminal records or pending charges against them, The Globe has found. The detainees include four children ranging in age from under two years old to about 16 years old.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

A Google software engineer won his battle against MetLife to receive disability benefits for Long Covid. This is huge Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability. You’re told to “try harder”. It’s “not that bad”. You can “still work”. Not everyone can

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MetLife Owes Disability Pay to Software Engineer With Long Covid

A Google LLC software engineer suffering from long Covid won his lawsuit seeking long-term disability benefits from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

My mom passed away last October. I took her tiny Thanksgiving plant home. I was somewhat disappointed when it didn't produce October blooms, until these first two flowers appeared last week and I realized the plant wasn't named for Canadian Thanksgiving . . I can imagine mom laughing at this.

Two pink flowers on a Thanksgiving plant.

A woman laughing while riding a bicycle in 3-4 inches of floodwater in Paraguay.

Thanksgiving plant with two pink blooms.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/11/2025

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

New York Post headline:

Nearly a million New
Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor
- possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Minimizing COVID-19 is maximizing social harm One of the best articles I've read all year because it centers social justice and equity. Published today Gift link 🎁 www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

Hamilton Spectator article titled "minimizing COVID-19 is maximizing social harm" with photo of crowded indoor space and people in medical and respirator masks

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A litany of cluelessness. Truly terrifying.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I'm so looking forward to Shivering Strings 2026 in January! Daniel Gervais will teach the master class 🎻

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Using the heater AND the heated seat feature In the car today. On September 4th. 😳 7C and rain. Dismal.

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

For Americans who don’t know who Jack Layton was, he was leader of the New Democrats, he was our generation’s Tommy Douglas, and he died before he could become Prime Minister. He left us instructions.

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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

We get to hear this cool pipe tune every night this week, played by the fabulous Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Pipes and Drummers. I'm playing fiddle with the Flying Haggis Show Band at the Pavilion of Scots at Folklorama in Winnipeg until Saturday. Sold out shows! Get your tix now!

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I’ve posted this video on socialism for years and there were mild heart attacks on Twitter, somehow I think people will be more amenable now.

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John Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Roger examined the ocean. Then he examined his life. Not once had he ever broken a rule or challenged authority. But now, it was time for this “good boy” to cross the line. Time to go rogue.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Excellent article. "So here we sit, on a merry go round of history not understood, language corrupted and limited to words and phrases failing to encompass any complexity of the concepts and the human costs of crimes.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"If Covid damaged our immune systems, we would be seeing record outbreaks of other diseases." That was the argument in 2022. Three years later, we're having the worst resurgence of flu, tuberculosis, measles, and whooping cough in generations.

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

So excited about what @holypostmedia.bsky.social is doing these days. Love this vision and these people: youtu.be/WCh2Q1jiK5I?...

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Introducing Holy Post Media

YouTube video by Holy Post Media

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Adding the old soap to the new bar and you realize the old old soap is still there too

An oval bar of Pears soap with an almost finished sliver of an old bar, with an even tinier older bar on top.

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Crude but effective cage, the rabbits were thwarted and the tulips were finally able to produce potential blooms! First time in (cough) years during which I forgot to protect them. *tulips glaring at me

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 29/04/2025

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

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Karen Warner @karenrwarner.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Pretty happy with this one. Connections Puzzle #680 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨

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