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Essential Opera @essentialopera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

World premiere of Fiona Ryan's In Her Hands Nov 6-8, 2026 essentialopera.com for ticket info incl livestream & accessibility details. In-person @ Sanctuary Arts Centre in Dartmouth, NS. One-night-only livestream Nov 6. @maureenbattsoprano.bsky.social @erinsopran.bsky.social @mjhfx.bsky.social

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🧵2/2 I know beaches are open but I’d like to be able to get to the second beach which involves a trail. It won’t be worth it to drive all that way if I can’t get past the busier first beach.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🧵1/2 Anyone know if there’s a list with more specific information as to what parks (or parts of parks) are open/closed? I have a shoot booked for Crystal Crescent next week. #halifax #halisky

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

3/3 Is there an app that combines the features of both? I need something truly annoying to make me get certain done and I want to be able to schedule things on certain dates in advance. #adhd

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🧵2/3 I use alarms instead, because it requires me to interact with it to turn it off. But you can’t set alarms for specific dates so it’s not a perfect system. I have to remember to set the alarms each day for the tasks I need reminders for. #adhd

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🧵1/3 As someone with ADHD the Apple reminders app should be helpful to me but it’s useless. It’s not persistent enough, I can easily ignore reminders, most of the time I don’t even see them anymore. #adhd

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

F(my wife): Did you know back in the day they didn’t eat the leaves of dill but only the stems? E(me): What, really? F: Yeah, it was frond upon. 😂 E: Ohhhh! Dammit, you haven’t done that to me in a long time! F: Yeah got to keep you on your toes! Keep the marriage spicy! Spicy with puns!

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Packed and ready for the Halifax Pride Parade! #halifax #photographer #pride

A flat lay image of all the things to be packed in a camera bag including cameras, lenses, cables, and personal care items. Everything is laid out on a striped rainbow carpet.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

If you need me I’ll be at Pride! Stoked to be back as a photographer again this year! #halifax #halifaxpride #pride #photographer

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Halifax mayor Andy Fillmore votes against his own municipality having a say in the way it is governed

A voting result screen from Halifax council for a motion directing the mayor to write a letter to the Minister for Municipal Affairs requesting that if the province is considering Strong Mayor Powers that the Province engage in consultation and discussion with HRM and Nova Scotia's other municipalities prior to making any legislative changes; and that the Mayor write a letter to the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities Board encouraging the federation to adopt a similar position." All sixteen councillors voted "yes" on the motion, while the mayor voted "no".

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🧵2/3 Filmore believes this will allow for residents’ voices to be better represented despite the fact that it will be diminishing the voices of each districts’ elected council representative.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It was a perfect evening for a golden hour couples session at Crystal Crescent! Excited to look through all the images! #halifax #halifaxphotographer #goldenhour

A landscape shot of a blue sky at sunset over a view of long grasses and a beach in the distance

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Met so many sweet pups on the waterfront this afternoon! If I photographed your dog you can access the gallery via my website! Click on the HaliDogs gallery on the homepage! www.mjphotographics.com #halifax #dogsofhalifax #halidogs #halisky

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Always love shooting daytime shows at St. Matt’s so I can grab a quick shot of the interesting light that comes into the space in the afternoons. #halifax #halifaxphotographer

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The Musical Ride at Halifax Lancers is always such an amazing event to photograph! Looking forward to the next one coming up in just a few weeks on July 1st! #halifax #halifaxphotographer #discoverhalifax #halifaxnoise

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Lucked out and captured a crow trying to steal an osprey’s lunch the other day! #novascotia #discovernovascotia #wildlifephotography

A crow attacking an osprey carrying a fish mid flight against a blue sky.

An osprey on a birch tree branch with its wings extended looking toward a crow about to land on an upper branch.

An osprey taking off from a birch tree branch with a fish in its talons and a crow perched on the branch above looking at the osprey.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Black and white images are so underrated. Here’s a few favourites from some recent hikes. #novascotia #wildlifephotography #naturephotos

A black and white image of a crow perched high on a dead tree branch

A black and white image of a fallen tree with its branches dipping into water and their reflection in the water.

A black and white image of a person’s hand resting on a cut tree stump, counting the rings.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Went for a hike in Victoria Park for the first time last week and was lucky enough to pass by a doe and her fawn who has grown out of their spots. The doe was very unbothered by me and the fawn, while cautious, still let me get pretty close to snap these shots! #novascotia #wildlifephotography

A young deer in the woods, facing straight onto the camera.

A doe in the woods facing straight onto the camera, another young deer is behind her in the background.

A young deer in the woods peeking out from behind a tree.

A white tailed deer walking away from the camera in the woods.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Here’s an introduction thread! I’m a photographer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia! I shoot headshots, portraiture, and events professionally and have been dabbling in wildlife as hobby lately. I would love to connect with more photographers! Here’s some of my favourite shots! #photographersofbluesky

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Photographers, what are your strategies for staying on top of social media? I will post my work regularly for a few weeks & then suddenly it’s been a month since I’ve posted. I’m in lifestyle & headshot work mainly so I do think it’s relevant to stay active. #photographersofbluesky #photography

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CCPA Nova Scotia @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

“We're losing that more affordable housing stock faster than we are building new units,” said Dr. Catherine Leviten-Reid in an interview with CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #NSpoli

N.S. rapidly losing some of its most affordable apartments, while cost soars for new ones
Median rent of Halifax's oldest apartments up over 40% since 2020, data shows

Andrew Lam · CBC News · Posted: Mar 03, 2025 6:00 AM AST | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

“We're losing that more affordable housing stock faster than we are building new units.”
— Dr. Catherine Leviten-Reid, CCPA-NS Research Associate & CBU Professor

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Out of contest quote from my wife (Fiona). The context does not make it any less funny or weird. F: Apparently I can’t just go around acting as if I have no bones.

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SmartVoting.ca @handle.invalid · 18/02/2025

Our SmartVoting.ca projections have updated, and we have seen a 10+ seat drop for Doug Ford. The The Liberals and NDP all gained in this update. There is a trend emerging. The drops for Ford were gained by the strategic vote in all ridings. 9 days left. Let's keep this going.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

2/2 E: So a wet sense of humour would be really expressive. Like the face you make when you make a pun! F: No! I feared I might have a wet sense of humour!

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

F (my wife): *out of the blue* Does anyone have a wet sense of humour? E (me):…………..Oh! As opposed to a dry sense of humour? F: Yeah, what’s a wet sense of humour? It sounds gross. E: Well what is a dry sense of humour, how do you describe it? F: Like, not reactive, or deadpan…. 🧵1/2 #couples

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Stoo Metz 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @stoometz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"The implications for the public are that they will have a harder time than they already do getting any objective sense of what is going on in their government," said NDP’s Claudia Chender. "It appears that Tim Houston wants to have less scrutiny than he already has." #Halifax #HaliSky #nspoli

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Houston government eliminating provincial communications arm | CBC News

The Nova Scotia government is dissolving the department that was created in 1996 to provide 'objective and non-partisan' communications and marketing for the province.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A swastika t-shirt is the only item on the Yeezy website. Powered by Shopify. It's not the first time Shopify has powered stores selling items with Swastikas. I've reached out to them about this before, and they kept powering the stores. The only thing they changed, eventually, was their rules.

Image shows the Yeezy website with a swastika t-shirt for sale as the only item on the page. It also shows the website source code, which has the "shopify" mentions highlighted. There are 127 matches.

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SmartVoting.ca @handle.invalid · 09/02/2025

*Strategic Vote Update* Announcement at the end! Overnight we got a massive dump of polling data entered the system. Our model adjusted all ridings and shows that Ford and the PC have dropped up to 5 points in all ridings. Those voters seeming to have supported the strategic vote in that riding🧵

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If you look like your photo and your name matches the ticket what is knowing your sex going to assist with? Knowing someone’s sex gives you little information about them.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If you like puzzle games and languages I highly recommend Chants of Sennar on Switch. It’s a beautiful game where you have to decipher different (fictional) languages in order to solve puzzles. It’s challenging and works your brain! #nintendoswitch

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

CBC's Fifth Estate has traced a wide web of anti-LGBT hate working to censor or close down libraries in Canada to a right-wing U.S. movement

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A shadow war on libraries

Some Canadian politicians and influencers, inspired by an American-born movement, are trying to roll back 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Canada — one book at a time.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’ve noticed my posts on Bluesky getting way more traction than on any Meta platform. Not that I’m going viral, or even trying to, but it’s nice to actually have conversations rather than putting something out there and getting nothing back. #blueksy #socialmedia

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m kind of glad I’ve waited to switch. By the time I do I’m hoping the worst of the bugs will sorted and I won’t miss my DSLR.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

That’s good to know! Everything I had read about mirrorless said they either didn’t have an EVF or it didn’t work well so I’m glad to hear I may not have to give up shooting via viewfinder if I make the switch.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

5/5 So is this just a learning curve? Does it get easier? Are mirrorless cameras lighter and easier to hold away from your body? Anyone else experience discomfort when shooting this way? Helpful tips and suggestions welcome!

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

4/5 Secondly, I find the photos I take with live view are not as crisp, likely due to camera shake from it being a difficult position for me to maintain.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

3/5 I’ll admit, I’m a small human with not a lot of upper body strength so while that’s something I could work on, I also know that some ongoing shoulder issues may mean this will never be comfortable for me.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

2/5 I’ve shot my whole career with the viewfinder but in anticipation of eventually switching to mirrorless I have been trying out shooting using the screen and I’m finding it very difficult. First off, my body hates it. My shoulders and arms hurt almost immediately when I shoot this way.

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hey #photographersofbluesky here’s a dilemma I’ve run into recently, tell me your thoughts! 🧵 1/5 I haven’t made the switch to mirrorless yet. I shoot with a DSLR but it has a live view option where you can shoot looking at the screen rather than through the viewfinder. #photographer #photography

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Oh fun! I just downloaded it too!

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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Here's your 🇨🇦NS indy grocer map! Use it, or..... Well, there really isn't an alternative, is there? So, just use it.

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Independent grocers in the HRM (and beyond) - Google My Maps

Independent grocers in the HRM (and beyond)

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Emily Jewer @mjhfx.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Did I fully lay on the ground to get shot? Yes ✅ Did I get run over in the process? Also yes. ✅ Was it worth it? 💯 #photography #petphotography #dogsofbluesky

A German shepherd border collie cross puppy runs through tall yellow grass toward the camera after a dirt covered orange tennis ball. Two people in winter coats are blurred in the background behind the dog. The sky a cloudy with bright blue patches peaking through.

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Laura White, P.Eng. @lecwhite.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Coffee drop-in tomorrow morning, 6 Feb, 10-noon Bird’s Nest Cafe, 1547 Barrington St. Please come to say hello. I’ll be the one with her nose in the “draft capital budget book”!

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