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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Many men would rather engage in violent fantasy about what they WOULD do instead of doing what they easily COULD.

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“I'd kill for my daughter."

OK. Will you risk social inconvenience by calling out your peers loudly and to their face? Or is that bare minimum real-life scenario scarier than your hypothetical one? 1/2

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We're going on a Road Trip to Niagara next Sunday! Get on either the Eastside and Westside TO bus and join us for Harvest '26!

A drawing of vineyards and a wine wagon of Therians by Michel Tolmer. Therianthropy, Ricky+Olivia and Archive Wine Bar are hosting a harvest party in the vineyard in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Sunday Sept 27.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of the great delicacies of the Ontario fall, the giant puffball.

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25yrs ago I was opening The Only Café in NOGO/PTBO when Dave told me to come look at the TV. We stood and watched as the 2nd plane hit and then as the towers fell. I made this video because it seemed crazy that it didn't already exist. youtu.be/3vLs4U7-CPw?...

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O Superman 9/11 - Laurie Anderson

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#tdih 1823 at 6.30 pm, “Jack Gladstone walked up to the large bell that hung at the centre of the sugar plantation, and rang it. This was the signal for the start of the Demerara uprising” against British slavery in Guyana. #TeachOutsideTextbook Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/de...

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Aug. 18, 1823: The Demerara Uprising

This was the largest uprising of the enslaved against their British overseers in Guyana. The uprising was ended after a few days, though it served as a catalyst for the abolition of slavery in British...

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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

On this day in 1834, slavery was abolished across the British Empire, including such places as Trinidad and Tobago, and Nova Scotia (now part of Canada). This was due to centuries of resistance by the enslaved not altruism on the part of the powerful.

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Exploring The Theme Of Emancipation Day 2026

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026

Someone in this lady’s Utah community got a letter from ICE saying “We have your property, come get it,” so she went on their behalf. Watch to the end here: www.instagram.com/reel/DbMaHLq...

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22/07/2026

#10, Martin Ødegaard, is both the captain of Norway's national team & the captain of Arsenal. Here he is pushing his own teammates away from a brawl with Brazil. Captains are leaders because they know how to communicate with the referees, set the team culture, keep up morale, stop petty fights.

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Julie (Aakadewin-O Waawaashkeshi Kwe) Francella @juliefrancella.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My friend Joseph Caldwell died on July 13 at 97 years old. The headlines remembered the novelist, playwright, and Dark Shadows writer who helped create Barnabas Collins. This is the Joe I want people to know. Please share: The Joe Caldwell I Want You to Know open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...

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The Joe Caldwell I Want You to Know

Joseph Caldwell helped create one of television's most iconic characters. But the work that also defined him happened every Saturday for 50 years at a soup kitchen in Greenwich Village.

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Amy Lawrence @amylawrence.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Saka said it himself. “Love always wins.” A cathartic way to get a World Cup hat-trick. ❤️

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 20/06/2026

"AI can make a product that looks a lot like a book, but, because it has no needs, it cannot make a book that needs to exist. The best thing any writer can do right now is lean as hard as you can into the humanity in your work." @mandylen.bsky.social on writing. ✏️💛 thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

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Why I Write | The Tyee

The act of writing, and sharing it with others, protects us from the dehumanizing effects of AI.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

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Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation

Power to the People, Y’all, a documentary about the Black Panther Party in North Carolina, explores what that means in practice

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 30/05/2026

my grandmother was called Nasreen, that she died two years ago in Tabriz and I couldn’t go to say goodbye, that she knew nothing of power, nuclear or otherwise… —Marjorie Lotfi, “On seeing Iran in the news, I want to say” THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2023 #BookWormSat #poem

Marjorie Lotfi
On seeing Iran in the news, I want to say

my grandmother was called Nasreen,
that she died two years ago in Tabriz
and I couldn’t go to say goodbye,
that she knew nothing of power,
nuclear or otherwise. I want to say
that the bonfires for Chahar Shanbeh Suri
were built by our neighbour’s hands;
as children we were taught to jump over
and not be caught by the flames. I want to say
my cousin Elnaz, the one born after I left,
has a son and two degrees in Chemistry,
and had trouble getting a job. I want to say
that the night we swam towards
the moon hanging over the horizon
of the Caspian Sea, we found ourselves
kneeling on a sandbar we couldn’t see
like a last gift. I want to say
I’m the wrong person to ask.

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Easter Saturday Ana C. My tr Listen here, Judas Before you move on to your dance. Death absorbs us fully. All is arid coziness. Set table, and the claws of desire. The craving of finding them one by one and pronounce the scandal. To speak without being heard. Fanatical indifference to the not yet

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

With Fabio Gea in Toronto. Poetry in a bottle.

The legend to his village, a kind of story

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I think the register is a Desire for the Difficult, the idiom archaic, and the poet hopeless. But never shall I ignore the call of @victoriaspires.bsky.social #PromptCombo #InTheStyleOf #poetry #WutheringHeights

I am Heathcliff
(in the style of Christopher Wilton)

Ah be bonny lad
You were ever elsewhere
Scratching in another's earth
Casting aside moral comforts
For your purloined ear.

None of us were fooled
By your craven exhibitions
The jealous eye, the haughty smirk
Lingering o'er long
Your dusky trail of pride.
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So look longingly to the heath
And pay no mind to the cudgels
Hanging lifeless from our hands
Be ye Lascar, Malay, or Turk
Our dogs shall make short work

And never upon this island
Shall ye yet step foot
But continue to supplicate
Your alabaster betters,
Continue to write,
O brave and bonny lad,
Your dark and glowering letters.

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Funny, we were thinking the same thing! @avilewis.ca

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Another school year draws to a close on a nearly perfect Spring day in Ontario. It always seems to conjure Alice Cooper and convertibles and throwing notebooks away for me. But receiving notes like this one truly make it all worth while. #SchoolsOut #DurhamCollege #CentreForFood

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Justin and Katy who? The onions of Nicolas should make your eyes water instead.

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Notes from Spanish Civil War: "If liberal democracy is declining now in the endgame of capitalism and a ghost of the past, fascism, returns to haunt us, it is to the solidarity of the Int'l Brigades we must look. To anti-ICE watchers, to BLM protestors, to marchers for Palestine, we must look.🧵 1/5

Youth Choir of the Antifascist Committee of Canton, Ohio, around 1937. Many Spanish immigrants had joined the waves of European economic refugees in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

95 years ago today, the 2nd Republic "La Niña Bonita" of Spain was declared. As people danced in the street, progressive Spaniards believed they had left the darkness of the church, corrupt monarchical and colonial institutions behind them while the rich turned to fascism to protect their interests.

Art deco depiction of young Spanish woman's face wearing a crown with stylized sun behind her reading "Republica Española 14 de Abril de 1931"

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

When I was a teenager, I took LSD and lost and found my mind. A bad trip, destination salvation, and years of flashbacks. Obsessed with Yeats, visions and gyres, and experimenting with the Golden Dawn, I wrote this poem. @rfsmith.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Visions

Vision Song June 14th, 1988

A wondrous poem of awesome fate
met hand in hand with me
One fearful moment of my weary life
forever stilled in memory
Years before I knew no love nor God
and neither did I care
For these couldn't give me immediate gain
of wealth I dreamt, pleasure was there!

Yet when there came a time of sorrow
I found myself alone
The intoxication of cold power
had given me a silent home
So out I went with insane intent
death held heavy in hand
I did not plan to fall above the stars
and see this song, you understand?

An uncanny song, dancing in light
playing for lovers ears
My spirit left its material cage
the bars of flesh and evil fears
To return once more to majesty
across the abyss deep
I threw into the pit this mortal chain
and was I AM in eternal sleep.

But so afraid of unreality
I chose then to come back
To only just be sure of who I was
and never again to paint it black
Now I sing this song of constant love
to which there is no end
Hoping against darkness to find my way
Along this path, past every bend.

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

My fellow Canucks, new car headlamps are a menace on our roads and I hope you complete this survey so something can begin to be done about it. tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It's so refreshing to have a politician finally say out loud: no one ever asks if the police turn a profit so why should the post office

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I will admit to being an @avilewis.ca sceptic. He changed my mind after hearing him speak in Nogo. You will too, who has ears to hear. Don't believe the corporate media: they're terrified. Believe the centrists NDPers who want to dissolve the left into LibLite: they're pulling out. Forward.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Yeah, that was a fucking great speech. The new NDP leader, folks. Avi Lewis.

Image shows Avi Lewis celebrating with his wife Naomi Klein after concluding his victory speech

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Today I referenced the 1960 victory of The New Party in PTBO at @trentuniversity.bsky.social. But honestly, if @ndp.ca and @ptbondp.bsky.social can't be bothered to post about the NDP leadership convention happening this weekend, can they complain of being ignored by the msm? @avilewis.ca

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The beautiful closing of Umberto Eco's _6 walks in the fictional woods_ --- the book is explores what makes narrative work, how it operates relative to truth, why we distinguish betw fiction and nonfiction. A great read for writers, scientists, anyone w/ an interest in narrative

At any rate we will not stop reading fictional stories, because it is in them that we seek a formula to give meaning to our exis-tence. Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived. Sometimes we look for a cosmic story, the story of the universe, or for our own personal story (which we tell our confessor or our analyst, or which we write in the pages of a diary). Sometimes our personal story coincides with the story of the universe.
It has happened to me, as the following piece of natural nar-rative will attest.
Several months ago I was invited to visit the Science Museum of La Coruña, in Galicia. At the end of my visit the curator announced that he had a surprise for me and led me to the planetarium. Planetariums are always suggestive places because when the lights are turned off, one has the impression of being in a desert beneath a starlit sky. But that evening something special awaited me.

Suddenly the room was totally dark, and I could hear a beau-tiful lullaby by de Falla. Slowly (though slightly faster than in reality, since the presentation lasted fifteen minutes in all the sky above me began to rotate. It was the sky that had appeared over my birthplace, Alessandria, Italy, on the night of January 5-6, 1932. Almost hyperrealistically, I experienced the first night of my life.
I experienced it for the first time, since I had not seen that first night. Perhaps not even my mother saw it, exhausted as she was after giving birth; but perhaps my father saw it, after quietly stepping out on the terrace, a little restless because of the (to him at least) wondrous event which he had witnessed and which he had jointly caused.
The planetarium used a mechanical device that can be found in a great many places. Perhaps others have had a similar expe-rience. But you will forgive me if during those fifteen minutes I had the impression that I was the only man, since the dawn of time, who had ever had the privilege of being reunited with his own beginning. I was so happy, that I had the feeling-almost the desire-that I could, that I should, die at that very moment, and that any other moment would have been untimely. I would cheerfully have died then, because I had lived through the most beautiful story I had ever read in my entire life. Perhaps I had found the story that we all look for in the pages of books and on the screens of movie theaters: it was a story in which the stars and I were the protagonists. It was fiction because the story had been reinvented by the curator; it was history because it re-counted what had happened in the cosmos at a moment in the past; it was real life because I was real, and not the character of a novel. I was, for a moment, the model reader of the Book of Books.
That was a fictional wood I wish I had never had to leave.
But since life is cruel, for you and for me, here I am.

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In my cheese pairing class yesterday a student decided to pair two different cheeses with each other (aged blue and Morbier) and it was honestly a brilliant combination, producing a subtle smokiness while supporting piquancy with creamy fat. 1+1=3. More of this, please! #FoodAndBevPairing #cheese

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/03/2026

Amnesty International's Agnès Callamard says it's possible to condemn the government of Iran for its human rights violations without seeing the U.S.-Israeli war as "anything else but an act of aggression which will also victimize people and civilians."

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Amnesty Head Agnès Callamard on Iran War, Global Fight for Gender Justice & Killing of Yanar Mohammed

Democracy Now! recently sat down with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International and a former United Nations special rapporteur, while she was in New York City to mark Internation...

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

My first real Windsor pizza from Capri!! Courtesy a very kind @eriepelee.bsky.social 💗🎉🍕🙏🏽

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions. Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!

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Ontario to introduce bill exempting Premier, cabinet from FOI requests

Government’s proposed changes follow its loss of court battle over call logs for Ford’s personal cellphone

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hola Julio @hool415.bsky.social , with inspiration from @dragonslayerma.bsky.social and @davidbirch.bsky.social responses to your #Free40 #PromptCombo, a memory from a glad summer's past but let's call it Now.

Deep in the run
Of a summer stock play
You forgot your line
My face turned
to your face
Wild-eyed and bewild
Erred
Shivering
The moment dilated
Peering over the edge
Laughter bubbling up
And we could say anything.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Projection or confession, every time

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Tax billionaires out of existence.

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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

At the strong end of a deep winter to remember, I take note of the first morning bird call of the year, one of a mated pair of northern cardinals living in my backyard. Yes, friend, survivor, the good times will return.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Lovely thread on Jesse Jackson after the cameras mostly moved on

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Well, there's this thing I wrote. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/other-thie...

Other Thieves Are Bolder
Five very brief meditations on seeing otherwise in an age of authoritarianism. A London diary, Pt. 3

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