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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller.

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So very grateful for persons like Dr. Andrew Boozary ". . .the driving force behind Dunn House, Canada’s first social medicine housing initiative. . .a leader in integrating health care and housing to address social determinants of health and advance health equity." Thank you for all you do. #UHN

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Toronto hospital to greatly expand permanent housing program that reduces ER visits | CBC News

A Toronto hospital network is set to greatly expand its unique permanent housing program that largely serves homeless people who visit hospital emergency departments an inordinate amount of time.

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Later before they left Brian made certain I understood that whatever sphere of discourse I fancied I shared with any interlocutor, I was wrong. Brian said (admiringly, I thought), "Did you write that story?" I started to answer, when he continued,"Or did you type it?" —The Writing Life Annie Dillard

Photo of the book The Writing Life by Annie Dillard on a table top

A favourite quote from the book:
Later, before they left, Brian made certain I understood that whatever sphere of discourse I fancied I shared with any interlocutor, I was wrong.
Brian said (admiringly, I thought),
"Did you *write* that story?"
I started to answer, when he continued,
"Or did you type it?"
— The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"She writes about a work's vision: 'It is a glowing thing, a blurred thing of beauty. Its structure is at once luminous and translucent; you can see the world through it.' "And then, two paragraphs later: 'You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page.'

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Why The Writing Life by Annie Dillard was the 'punch in the gut' choreographer Crystal Pite needed

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you for this. Caring and helpful, encouraging and a gentle, wise guide. 🤲

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@doctorow.pluralistic.net's book The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI "challenges us to think about AI before it's too late" 13 min and so very worth a listen. Reorganizing of work Lucy & Ethel Used by the machine Used up by the machine Vaporized $$$$ @eff.org www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My latest newsletter is here (sharing my Guardian piece yesterday): We mobilize to put fires out, but not yet to prevent them. While many leaders are comparing the wildfire crisis to WWII, most fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action. sethdklein.substack.com/p/we-mobiliz...

We mobilize to put fires out, but not yet to prevent them.
While many leaders are comparing the wildfire crisis to the Second World War, most fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Human-driven climate crisis fuels Canada’s deadly wildfires, study finds. ** Current blazes roaring across country more than twice as likely to occur because of fossil fuel-driven global heating. ** www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Human-driven climate crisis fuels Canada’s deadly wildfires, study finds

Current blazes roaring across country more than twice as likely to occur because of fossil fuel-driven global heating

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"...at this critical time, we must consider the profound importance of the development of moral sensitivity so that we can feel deeply the magnitude of the threat of nuclear annihilation that we are facing at this time." By Roshi @joanhalifax.bsky.social

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80 Years Later: On Marking the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima by Roshi Joan Halifax

At 8.15 AM Japanese time, on August 6th, 1945, a U.S. plane dropped a bomb named “Little Boy” over the center of the city of Hiroshima…

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"To the legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to the ongoing vow to build, in their place, a world less willing to repeat them. "Roshi @joanhalifax.bsky.social's essay from last year’s 80th anniversary remains a powerful companion to this reflection — read it here."

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80 Years Later: On Marking the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima by Roshi Joan Halifax

At 8.15 AM Japanese time, on August 6th, 1945, a U.S. plane dropped a bomb named “Little Boy” over the center of the city of Hiroshima…

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Honored to have another piece in the Guardian today 👇 While many leaders are comparing the wildfire crisis to the Second World War, most fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action. 🧵... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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We need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires | Seth Klein

While many leaders compare the wildfire crisis to the second world war, governments fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yes, read @sethdklein.bsky.social’s The Guardian article. Next, read/re-read his book A Good War, to make clear “foundational truth [that we must] mobilize to dramatically expedite the transition off fossil fuels…” and get ahead of the disastrous curve we’re on. No more debate www.sethklein.ca/book

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The Book - A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency by Seth Klein — Seth Klein

In A Good War, Seth Klein explores how we can align our politics and economy with what the science says we must do to address the climate crisis.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Imagine a progressive mayor who gets this

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thank you. Also of interest to read the Competition Bureau mandate . . . none of which appears to include direct addressing of environmental issues of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport or the climate emergency or housing crisis at large.

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

From @billmckibben.bsky.social "Our last, best chance to cool the Earth" Worth every minute to watch. Thank you!! www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
Bill McKibben
“…most of us don't recognize how huge this moment is. In part, that's because we've spent decades calling this stuff "alternative energy," and it's blinded us to the fact
that it's now the obvious, commonsense, straightforward way to power the future.

“Roughly 90 percent of new electric generation around the world last year came from the sun and the wind. And that, in turn, is because earlier this decade, we crossed some invisible line where it became cheaper to produce power from the sun than from burning coal and gas and oil.

“Let me repeat, we live on a planet
where the cheapest way to make power is to point a sheet of glass at the sun.”

https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_mckibben_our_last_best_chance_to_cool_the_earth

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“ “Who” is a mutating protagonist, constructed by operatives and bot farms and imposters. Your humanity is decreed by robots. Prove you are human, demands the captcha.” Thank you for your gifts of understanding and your expression of it. Your words help.

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Quicksand

Gen X was right after all.

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I m in shock, this is amazing

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Every letter. Every post. Every sign. Every call. It all counted.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Friday night lights aka late breaking news release. Ka boom. Toronto anger was not for naught. You moved a monolith: the Liberal caucus. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

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Federal government grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion

The just-concluded public survey suggested strong public opposition to the project, according to a federal government official.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 17/07/2026

Climate change does not cause wildfires, but hot and dry conditions make them much more likely to spread. In Canada, 9 of the 10 worst wildfire years were both dryer and hotter than normal. And these fires are burning in areas that were historically not managed or suppressed.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 17/07/2026

Over at the Climate Brink I take a deep dive into climate and wildfires in Canada, and why complaints about Canadian forest management largely miss the mark as conditions rapidly have become more favorable for megafires: www.theclimatebrink....

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“Extreme weather. Fire weather” “Rather, it’s a landscape that waits, and then burns catastrophically under extreme weather.” “We are not necessarily seeing more fire than ever everywhere, but rather a rapid rate of increase with the increasing prevalence of fire weather driving it.” Important.

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Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management

Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

An open letter about jets at Toronto’s Island Airport: Veteran planners Ron Soskolne & Howard Cohen on why the proposed expansion will reverse decades of urban rejuvenation on the waterfront spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

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An open letter about jets at Toronto's Island Airport - Spacing Toronto

We are City Planners who have spent many years involved in the planning of Toronto’s downtown waterfront. We have also recently chosen to live there. We hope the Government of Canada will reject the G...

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 17/07/2026

Canada's boreal forest is roughly the size of Europe (or 4.5x the size of Texas). Most fires are in remote areas far from habitation in that have never had a history of fire suppression or management. And the amount that is burning is directly linked to temperature and rainfall.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 17/07/2026

The forest management argument, largely valid in a California pine stand, mostly falls apart when you move it a couple of thousand kilometers north. Today's Climate Brink post provides in-depth details as to why: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo...

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Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management

Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“the future depends. . .upon leaders who possess the courage to be accountable. Such accountability is not merely an ethical obligation. It is an expression of compassion, of wisdom, and of our profound interdependence.” A wonderful and noble essay from Roshi @joanhalifax.bsky.social

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Ethical Leadership: Understanding Power, Actualizing Accountability and Trust—by Roshi Joan Halifax

Over the years, I have witnessed many forms of leadership. I have seen leadership expressed with humility, courage, and wisdom. I have also seen leadership distorted by fear, entitlement, self-protect...

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

“Really fundamental to his life was, how do we make the world work for 100% of humanity and all of life without destroying the world and without disadvantaging people.” — Introductory video about Buckminster Fuller and his work, with Jaime Snyder from BFI

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About Fuller

About Fuller R. Buckminster Fuller was a renowned 20th century inventor and visionary born in Milton, Massachusetts on July 12, 1895. Dedicating his life to making the world work for all of humanit…

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management

Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"So next time someone tells you Canada’s fires can be solved by raking the forests, you can point out that the thing filling their sky with smoke is a lightning-struck, drought-primed boreal forest doing what a warming climate is making it do more and more often." 🔥

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

There is so very much to be considered here, including “Existential risk warnings function as free advertising” “The report mistakes engineered behavior for emergent behavior” I am grateful for your work & that of all those @techpolicypress.bsky.social for bringing important issues to the fore.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

When AI can instantly mimic creative work, "it's hard to imagine many current markets for creative human expression surviving," write Thomas W. Malone and Frank Pasquale. Their answer: give creators a "learnright" and make AI companies pay to train.

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In a market-based framework, companies would pay for the creative content used to train their AI systems, write Thomas W. Malone and Frank Pasquale.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social say that part again about climate action not being economical? "It would have been too expensive for Canadians. Canadians who are already struggling with affordability."

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

AT THE TOP OF EVERY FEED: 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Action providing a precise roadmap for how government and institutional leaders in Canada can—and must—confront the climate crisis. —from Climate Emergency Unit, David Suzuki Institute, and @sethdklein.bsky.social’s A Good War

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6 Markers of Climate Emergency

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🔥 The climate emergency hasn't gone away - it's here & now. But our gvts aren't acting with urgency. Our 12-min video on the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency shows what real action looks like. Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdK... And visit: www.davidsuzukiinstitute.ca/ceu

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m re-reading your profile here and am here to remind you that you are a gift in so many ways to so many persons and endeavours. Please re-read your profile regularly and remember this. Also, remember that words are like birds … free to fly once they’re written. No wondering required. :)

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hard to describe the sorrow I feel watching the boreal forest burn, summer after summer. I was paddling on a lake yesterday when the smoke came in, and knew what was happening despite not having cell reception. Climate change is a heartbreaker.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026

Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Exfoliate the timeline with this absolutely incandescent performance from Raye and co. at Montreux a couple of nights ago.

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RAYE & Guests - live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2026 - ARTE Concert

YouTube video by ARTE Concert

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thank you for sharing this on ❤️

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is amazing! A great intro plus your Archive FAQ looks both inviting and rich. Also, of extra note for me is your use of the word notional. This is the third time it’s come up for me in a meaningful way. . .the first time yesterday and twice today :) Thank you for this. So cool and important.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I am a media critic and journalism academic who has been publishing things on the internet since 1996...What I mean by an “internet archive” is this: Everything of mine you can find online by clicking. pressthink.org/2026/07/jay-...

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“. . .as if facts announce themselves.” Thank you for this. I don’t recall ever hearing / seeing this phrase before, and it is full and packed with meaning and import.

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“The refusal of accountability often creates a second wave of suffering that can be even more destructive than the original offense. It affects those who have been harmed, those who seek accountability, and the institutions that depend upon trust.” —Roshi @joanhalifax.bsky.social

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Ethical Leadership: Understanding Power, Actualizing Accountability and Trust—by Roshi Joan Halifax

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“…a leader with a Bodhisattva attitude moves toward suffering, listens deeply, acknowledges responsibility, participates in repair, and places the welfare of others above the preservation of self-image or the image of the institution.” —Roshi @joanhalifax.bsky.social

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Ethical Leadership: Understanding Power, Actualizing Accountability and Trust—by Roshi Joan Halifax

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Ethical Leadership: Understanding Power, Actualizing Accountability and Trust—by Roshi Joan Halifax

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In Mark Carney's latest "Forward guidance," he claims that we need oil and gas development in the short term to "establish stability amidst this chaos." I worry that stability is hard to find in the current climate chaos. The thermometer is telling us that we have run out of time.

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Net Zero in 2050 is meaningless; this heat tells us that we have to cut carbon emissions now.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to thread his way through short-term crises, but it will bite him in the long run.

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