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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wookiee is very proud of his new stick, but is also ready for a nap. #WookieeTheNBGSD

Image shows a 9.5-week-old long-coated sable German Shepherd puppy named Wookiee. Wookiee is standing on leaf-strewn green grass, next to his coffee wood stick.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 09/09/2026

Super weird to have a book I wrote in front me while I have coffee - but it’s happening! Now available @thewritecupsj.bsky.social. Thanks Shannon for giving this little guy a place to land in town. #SaintJohn #NewBrunswick #poetry #CanLit #chapbook #thewritecupbookstorecafe

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The president of the US is not well. I say that in as even and neutral a tone possible. He is making decisions with a malfunctioning brain and the malignant, distorted vision of a narcissist. He is rapidly destroying everything the USA has built in 250 years. Neighbours, you need to stop him NOW.

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PoliLEGO @polilego.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

As his official portrait is unveiled in Parliament, we salute former Prime Minister Stephen Harper whose perfectly coiffed hair inspired the creation of @PoliLEGO in the first place. #cdnpoli #CPC

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

13 Canadian nonfiction books to read this summer From musical memoirs to the impacts of AI, there's a book for every reader this summer www.cbc.ca/books/13-can...

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13 Canadian nonfiction books to read this summer | CBC Books

From musical memoirs to the impacts of AI, these titles offer a range must-read Canadian nonfiction.

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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Beetle - we feel the same way. We are trying to do that with AI and data centers.

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Imagine watching your neighbour's house burn down and, instead of helping, complaining about the smell of the smoke.

A cartoon shows a dog representing Canada calmly sitting at a table with a coffee mug labeled "Canada" while flames engulf the house around it. A thought bubble above the dog says, "OUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE!" An angry looking person wearing a hat labeled "USA" leans through the front door and says, "CAN YOU KEEP THE SMOKE ON YOUR SIDE OF THE STREET?"

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Pretty sure I sprained my “willing suspension of disbelief” sometime in the last few months.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"The overall economic benefit that can arise from this trade is such as to stimulate the capacity of the productive parts... to achieve productivity growth." A well-designed UBI establishes secure income and satisfying work via new guarantees, writes Dr Bronwyn Kelly.

Independent Australia opinion article arguing that the time is ripe for implementing a universal basic income.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Happy birthday to the essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, born #onthisday in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. Here's a typically rhapsodic entry for Christmas Day from his journals. #otd (More Christmas Day journal entries here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...)

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Dignity for people. Stability for families. Stronger demand for the economy. Gail Vaz-Oxlade gets it.

Gail Vaz-Oxlade quote supporting basic income for dignity and economic benefit, with portrait pointing at viewer

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

From the man who brought public medicine to Canada. We hear you Tommy and the work goes on.

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Yesterday I was feeling a bit glum, as it was #Thoreau's birthday, and the closing day of the Annual Gathering of us #Thoreauvians in Concord, Massachusetts. I last attended in 2023; I really miss my friends. Then this book popped up on Facebook Marketplace. Best loonie I've spent this month!

A Polaroid-style snapshot of a book being held up in a car, with the steering wheel in the background. The book is a slim, mostly square, volume, with a grey and white illustrated cover. The title is _A Man Named Thoreau_, by Robert Burleigh, and illustrated by Lloyd Bloom.

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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Stack the Week Daily is a daily version of Stack the Week where we try to say things slightly less obvious than that and demonstrate why we were a bore at story meetings! Here's the one for July 8: www.johndickerson.com/p/stack-the-...

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Stack the Week Daily Edition

July 8, 2026

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This mango/strawberry/caffeine concoction is sorcery, I swear.

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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 04/07/2026

🚀 10,000 Reposts for Universal Basic Income in 3 Days! Every repost helps more people learn about Universal Basic Income and builds momentum for the movement. 📅 July 4, 2026 If you support UBI, repost. basicincomeaction.org/sharables/6a...

Champion Challenge for UBI
Basic Income Action - Shables
10K Reposts In 3 Days
If you support UBI, share this

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Read the first edition pamphlet of Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” speech. After he finished speaking there was “a universal burst of applause” and 700 copies of the pamphlet were subscribed to on the spot: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #July4th

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Felt like making something today. It’s amazing how using my hands to make things gives my tired brain a time-out. Not sure what these ATC bases will become. They might just become ATC bases today. And that’s okay.

Image shows deconstructed granola bar boxes and a small guillotine paper cutter on top of them.

Image shows granola bar box pieces cut to trading card size and with their corners rounded. The corner rounder sits on top.

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Watching Sail4th 250 on YouTube, on @dutchmazz’s stream. He has a good view, if you’re looking to watch: www.youtube.com/live/I7f1QSC...

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🔴 NYC Live: Sail4th 250 Parade of Sail: Class B Tall Ships - 7/3/26

YouTube video by dutchmazz

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pottersfieldpress.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Navigating endless olive groves, vineyards, bottles of wine, gypsy dogs, nudists, wild boars, the "Valley of the Moon" and cancelled flights, Camino Chaos is laced with Torti's signature sarcasm, Super Bock, watermelon-eating sheep, U-turns, profanity, insanity history and heroics.

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Dave Shoots Books @daveshootsbooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#ErnestHemingway died on this day in 1961. We have his entertaining 1961 #biography! I learned a few years ago that he'd worked for the #TorontoStar in the 1920's. #Canadian #journalist, #GregoryClark, tried to convince him to give up #fiction! $15. #Booksky #authors #AmericanLit #literature

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This video really has me thinking. Thank you, @jaredhenderson.bsky.social Signed, a GenX Neo-Luddite. youtu.be/vhYS1diXZMM?...

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The Revolt Against Technology

YouTube video by Jared Henderson

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

One of the most important Canadian contributions to the International Space Station is Canadarm2. But it is not the only one. Another significant contribution is Dextre, the two-armed robot that handles repairs on the space station. This is the story. 📸 NASA 🧵 1/7

Dextre, the Canadian robotic maintenance system, mounted outside the International Space Station against the dark blue curve of Earth. The white multi-jointed robot has two long arms extending from a central body, with equipment and hand-like tools attached at the ends. Sections of the space station structure fill the lower edge of the image, while the planet’s atmosphere forms a bright blue line across the top.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Pages from the wonderful History of Ink: Including its Etymology, Chemistry and Bibliography (1860), creation of Thaddeus Davids and Co, one of the largest ink manufacturers of its day. See the rest here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Treaty of Versailles you say. What, Munich wasn’t available?

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A classic of the genre

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I’ve crunched the numbers, and in order to even out the past 56 years, Karma needs to provide me with an eight-figure lottery win. Just sayin’.

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Just for the record, if I were to become a trillionaire, I would put it to good use. You know, feed people who are starving, et cetera. No one human can possibly benefit themselves more with a trillion dollars than they could a billion, and who really needs a billion dollars’ worth of anything?!

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

#Vancouver bookstore that put its stamp on 2SLGBTQ+ history honoured by Canada Post Little Sister's bookstore is the subject of 1 of 4 new Canada Post stamps honouring historic 2SLGBTQ+ sites www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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B.C. bookstore that put its stamp on 2SLGBTQ+ history honoured by Canada Post | CBC News

An iconic Vancouver bookstore that won a landmark legal battle for 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Canada is being honoured with a new stamp from Canada Post.

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 05/06/2026

🎶 “The Three Queens of Ireland” — By ACHES in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 New Street Art, Murals and Public Art Vol. 9: streetartutopia.com/2026/06/05/n...

Large music tribute street art mural by ACHES in Dublin, Ireland, showing three layered singer portraits, tribute to Dolores O’Riordan, Sinéad O’Connor, and Dolores Keane, in transparent yellow, cyan, red and green spray paint colors.

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

One of these days, the Blinker in Chief is going to die in the middle of a meeting and no one will realize it.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Juvenile kestrels surprised by a butterfly. Original post

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Intaglio print from William Blake’s series For the Children: The Gates of Paradise (1787-93). More from the series here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w…

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Tyee's home run on UBI 💯 "Economic freedom begets more freedom... basic income didn't bring on a golden age of laziness; it did the opposite." "Economic freedom turned into all kinds of other freedoms: time, pleasure, joy and connection."

Screenshot of a The Tyee article titled "It’s Time to Revisit Universal Basic Income" by Dorothy Woodend.

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

6:28 AM ADT, and I’m craving carrot cake. This is inconvenient.

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KJ McLean 🇨🇦 @kj-mclean.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The window placement makes me smile.

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pottersfieldpress.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Available now! I'll Be With You in a Moment is a bittersweet and darkly funny coming-of-age story about the strange power of friendship and the fear of being seen. What happens when time stands still? Eventually it has to start again, and then it goes all too fast.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Why did they call it Bluesky and not…

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