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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 19/01/2025

Respectfully & from the bottom of my heart, if you think anything in the world could justify this, you’re a monster or an idiot or some impressive combination of both.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 19/01/2025

They took a big lurch into the centre after Layton died, to the point where Trudeau was able to (successfully) campaign to the left of Mulcair. Obviously they’re not right wing, but they’re centre-left on a good day.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 13/01/2025

I did that last night for dinner, but with S&B curry powder. Doesn’t taste as good in milk

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 11/01/2025

My experience is limited to white English speaking countries but of the non-Canadian places I’ve spent time in, RTÉ, ABC (or Triple J), and the BBC have been pretty important cultural touchstones. But I’m old and still remember pre-internet days so I think that applies much less these days.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Another mixed media #painting I did a few years ago. "Talbot St and Connolly" was painted because that street was one of my favourite streets when I was a kid and I still get a buzz walking along it today. Apart from its atmosphere I really like the visual mishmash of it. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in black ink lines and various water media. View down street. On left side is a Dublin Bikes station, looking full, and beyond a footpath are buildings behind with top 2 stories red brick above the shop fronts at street level. Right side of street has black metal bollards and lamp-posts along a pale footpath, with shop fronts in shadowy blues to the right. On both sides of the street is a dark grey narrow litter bin. At the end of street we see under a metal railway bridge, through the gap in its wide supporting piers either side, to Amiens Street and above its metal arch a grey Italianate square tower of Connolly Railway Station. The sky, street surface, and footpaths are white of paper left blank except for bike station, cycle lane, and double yellow lines, which are yellowy-orange, and traffic islands beside bike dock which are pale blue. Three small trees of yellow-green foliage populate the street between the bike dock and railway bridge. Signed bottom left: Liam Daly

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 11/01/2025

Instantly recognizable. I went to an Internet cafe just under those tracks for a few months when I first moved to town. Probably walked down there every weekend for the couple of years I was there.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 11/01/2025

I’d say my kids’ cohort are happy to be Canadian but also much more aware of its many failings than I was at their age (late teens early twenties.) Their experiences of Canadian-ness are probably more filtered through parents, rather than picked up from their largely online communities

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 11/01/2025

Seems like old folks are much more invested in symbols, and younger people in ideas. Though I have to say I’m disappointed about that CBC figure.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 11/01/2025

On the other hand, our “Three by Cameron Crowe” is only two. We’re missing Almost Famous.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 11/01/2025

Another reason for Canada to reject closer ties to USA

A listing of films that skips directly from Beauty and the Beast to Because Men in Silk Shirts on Lagos Nights

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 08/01/2025

No, this is the same argument conservatives make about the CBC being Liberal propaganda. It's wrong in both cases.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 08/01/2025

Oversight by (well-funded and legislatively empowered) government inspectors would be a good solution. Ideally they would already be public utilities but politically it's much harder to nationalize than to privatize. And given the tax environment we've lived in since the 1980s, tougher to fund.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 08/01/2025

No thanks, not going to register my political affiliation with the authorities like down in the USA. They’re private organizations, they can have who they like as members and decide to choose a leader in any way they like.

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Apple TV is free this weekend and that means you can watch Dickinson, which is such a unique and delightful show that I will tag #poetry so the poets see this, too.

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a woman in a dress is standing in a room and talking to emily dickinson .

ALT: a woman in a dress is standing in a room and talking to emily dickinson .

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 03/01/2025

I had forgotten this, thanks I hate family guy but I do remember laughing at a cutaway gag of him spelling his name. “Robert Loggia. That’s R as in ‘Robert Loggia’, O as in ‘Oh my god it’s Robert Loggia’…” no idea if it was actually him but I think so

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 03/01/2025

Pachinko and Dickinson are fantastic too. They haven’t put out a ton of shows but they’ve got a much better good/bad ratio than Netflix or Amazon imo

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 02/01/2025

Also rights holders who run their own streaming platforms so won’t license their films to anyone at any cost to keep it exclusive.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A man, concepts of a plan, a canal, Panama

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 21/12/2024

Damn someone posted this yesterday I am not original

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 20/12/2024

E-readers don’t have lcd screens. Lighting is reflective like a physical book, not transmissive like a screen. Way easier on the eyes

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 20/12/2024

asking three billionaires what they think of socialism? that's America, baby!

old CNBC screencap showing a moderator asking three billionaires to judge capitalism vs socialism

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 17/12/2024

30 years ago a friend of mine bought a 16 year old car for one hundred dollars. Can you do that any more? (Not that I would recommend it – I think it burned as much oil as gas and was painted with red primer.)

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Ben Dolphin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️⛰🌲 @countrysideben.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Peculiar start to the day this morning. Monochromatic in the glen, but colour rising above the horizon.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 11/12/2024

god the look I got from my kid when I played this a few months ago and Patti Smith busts out the n word repeatedly

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 10/12/2024

Simply the worst people. Also wondering what the odds are that the unhoused person in the picture was asked for permission to use their photo...

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 10/12/2024

That document is dated May 2023. Adding TOTP is a very simple thing to do; I’ve done it myself with a couple of days’ work. The project was not to the scale of Bluesky, but the back end work is the same regardless

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 07/12/2024

At least my car is a little Mazda 3, 15 years old. Less of a burden on the world than buying a big truck every 5 years. That said, personal responsibility only goes so far; we need to look at the emissions of corporations and the 1% more than me driving 15000 km a year with my little 2 litre engine.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 07/12/2024

Always been a one car house even when I was married with 2 school age kids. Now I’m still driving my kids around even though they’re (young) adults. Plus I take at least a half dozen long (like 500-1000 km) trips a year so I don’t know that a car free life would work. Also, I’m in Calgary 😔

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 07/12/2024

Yup these high-end rent-a-cops aren’t going to stop someone before they act. If this guy had had security, the only difference would be more dead people. The shooter, maybe a bystander or 3…

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 07/12/2024

Something similar in London near Waterloo station. This was up there in October, probably something different by now!

A tunnel about 200 metres long. The roof has a portrait of a woman’s face painted against an azure background that’s about 5 by 20 metres in size.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 05/12/2024

The whole system would fall down if even a tiny fraction of them cashed in their wallets. It’s imaginary money.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 05/12/2024

The closeups are just how tv was done back then. 27” was a large tv, 20” was probably average. Agree 100% on Fontaine though. 💯

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 02/12/2024

They are, they just don’t sell as well. This is much bigger than anything I’ve ever driven, but it’s 1.9m tall with a 2 litre engine which is a far cry from some those F-150 monsters.

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2024 Ford Maverick® XL Truck | Model Details & Specs

Standard with a 2.0L EcoBoost® engine, the 2024 Ford Maverick® XLT has an 8

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 30/11/2024

Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the holy trinity.

Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, and Anita Mui in a promotional photo for The Heroic Trio

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 30/11/2024

Loved it too. When Tendi asked Data to chew through those ropes I was so disappointed he didn’t say he was fully functional. But then they turned it around like 2 seconds later. I never should have doubted

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 27/11/2024

I know nothing about Star Wars; there probably isn’t even a Star Wars City in these shows 😓 But there should be

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 27/11/2024

“You really are the most devious bastard in Star Wars City”

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 25/04/2024

POV: you are a little muffin #cats #CatsOfBluesky

A closeup “fisheye” style photo of a grey tabby cat named Ricky. She is stretched off a countertop to a seemingly impossible extent in an attempt to get at my little muffin.

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𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙩𝙤𝙣 @mike.eire.ca · 24/11/2024

What we do every night, Pinky. See the horseless carriage museum.

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