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Nate V.

@nvan.northsky.social
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Instructional designer. Consumer of coffee and podcasts. Aspiring life-haver. Aeropress evangelist. Open streets and open borders. YEG -> YUL

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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 29/09/2026
From describing the border as a “sieve” for fentanyl and illegal immigrants to slamming Canada’s retaliatory tariffs, PSPP’s rightward pivot echoes American-style populism. What happened to the man who identified as a “progressive and democrat” just ten years ago? ow.ly/p27u50ZSvim
On the left: Black and white images of politician Paul St-Pierre Plamondon crowded around each other on a red background. On the right: text that reads “How Paul St-Pierre Plamondon learned to stop worrying and blame immigrants. The Parti Québécois leader built his comeback on the bigotry he once condemned.”
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Nate V. @nvan.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hello, yes, somehow I've been a parent for a full DECADE now, and...what?
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 25/09/2026
Carney: The rules-based international order is crumbling. International Criminal Court: As a participating member you are required by the rules to arrest those with a warrant if they pass through your territory. Carney: Fuck you.
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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Starred-review for Kate Beaton and Sydney Smith's Rebecca "a lovely reflection on grief and loss." Read the full review here: bit.ly/4xBynQt
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161 Archive @161archive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
161 Archive is an independent archiving project created for the purpose of preserving anti-fascist sites for historical and research purposes. Check out the collection at: 161archive.tngl.sh We will be periodically posting information about blogs and posts for indexing purposes.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"The Nation argues Alberta’s restrictions violate the spirit and intent of Treaty 6’s Medicine Chest clause and says it is asserting its sovereign right to regulate healthcare on Treaty lands" #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli colenotcole.substack.com/p/breaking-f...
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BREAKING: First Nation defies Alberta’s Restrictions on Gender-Affirming Care
Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights in an attempt to create a safe haven for gender-affirming healthcare, directly challenging restrictions already imposed by Danielle Smith’s Alber...
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 02/09/2026
carney is a climate villain
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/09/2026
If you voted for a rapist ... i have a difficult time envisioning you as a Christian www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
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Opinion | The Political Power of Christian Kitsch (Gift Article)
Precious Moments figurines and Christian romance novels aren’t overtly political, but they shape how Christian women see themselves and the world.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The CBC should start calling Trump's boat bombings acts of terrorism. Since the Republicans (and Conservatives) are so keen for them to editorialize about that kind of thing. And these murders do fit most definitions of terrorism.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/08/2026
beyond the bigotry i find this to be a completely bizarre worldview. what do you mean that the actual material forces of history are immaterial to your ideas of national development? are you fucking stupid? (the answer is yes)
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 27/08/2026
Guys I hate to break it to you, but under capitalism, automation improves productivity but doesn't actually reduce the amount of time workers must work to survive. Instead, productivity gains are captured as profit. Only worker organizing will reduce our labor time. Yes, this applies to 'AI'
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Charlie Chaplin Working in Modern Times
ALT: Charlie Chaplin Working in Modern Times
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Canadians are not rallying behind Carney. Carney was behind Canadians and is only now catching up.
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I personally like the Taylor Lorenz brand where she does or says something she knows will make people mad, makes people mad, writes about what it’s like to have people be mad at you all of the time
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You really want to know why kids are depressed and isolated? It's not social media. Or phones. Adults have created a world with fuck all future. No job security. No owning your own home. No real action on climate. Adults need to take responsibility for what they have done.
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Kudos to Great West Media, which is pooling its eight newsrooms in rural and suburban Alberta to cover the province's secession referendum as one. Smart move. Coverage here --> www.stalbertgazette.com/alberta-deci...
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Alberta Decides
Alberta Decides - Referendum news and info brought to you by St. Albert Gazette
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
they were doing the "learning about the Bible in school is important to understand the legal and justice system in America" thing when I was in high school and obviously these people never feel the same about, let's say, English common law, which has had by far a more meaningful direct impact
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Sophie Cunningham botching the world's most wide open layup leading to a Dallas Wings 3 pointer by Odyssey Sims to tie the game is the funniest sequence to have happened tonight
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
At this point, anyone advocating for more fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction is just an evil person. There's no other word for it. It goes beyond greed, beyond ignorance. It's just plain evil. Crops are being cooked IN THE GROUND.
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Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia
South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days
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Embrrrrrrr @embrrrrrrr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... The crimes of this fandom are innumerable and beyond forgiveness
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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report, August 6, 2026:

Jeff Vandermeer's ABDICATION, the last novel in the Southern Reach series, in which an ornithologist exiled to a remote coast stumbles on a terrifying secret,  a self-proclaimed king pursues a mystery hidden in a strange weather station, and a man who can become a cormorant is tasked with a deadly mission through a future landscape transformed by Area X, for publication in October 2027, in a significant deal, to Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus, by Joseph Veltre at the Gersh Agency and Alex Kohner at Yorn Levine (world).
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Nate V. @nvan.northsky.social · 06/08/2026
I regret to inform you that Cathal Kelly is at it again: www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baske...
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Sophie Cunningham’s opinion helped create a spectacle. The WNBA should be thanking her
Veteran guard fired up the publicity generator that is any discussion of transgender participation in women’s sport
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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🕯️Manifesting 🕯️
THIS IS THE
EMPLOYMENT JELLY
Drawing of a slime with a briefcase and pencil
REBLOG WHENEVER THE HELL YOU LIKE AND YOU'LL GET A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND DESERVE.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/08/2026
Oh, that's Bill from Guess Who
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Nate V. @nvan.northsky.social · 05/08/2026
There's no way I'm not late to the party on this one, but @notalawyer.bsky.social confusing Drowning Pool with Disturbed on the The Body Keeps the Score episode of @ifbookspod.bsky.social caused me to sigh and shake my head sadly.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Love drone footage of new builds in exurban Texas, gives me a very particular kind of dread to look at that is hard to replicate with other photos.
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Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
That’s a good answer, but aloe me to present…
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
1. Most bicycles are not going 25 mph 2. Bike crashes involving pedestrians are rarely fatal because of lower speeds and mass 3. The risks posed by bicyclists and cars to pedestrians are not equivalent 4. Why does no one ever say, "I support cars but they need to operate within traffic laws."
You can’t hear a bicycle coming at you and at 25 mph, there is enough force there to kill you. Both vehicles and bikes are hazardous to pedestrians. 

I support bikes but they need to operate within traffic laws as everyone else has to.
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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
maybe I’m just too used to rigidly apolitical Catholic masses (which I’m aware is not the norm for everyone), but I would not call a Bible Study “rigorous” if the guy in charge started talking about how Israel killed Jesus
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Cool use of ChatGPT means invading your kids privacy through AI because you’re afraid to talk with them. The privacy impact of AI needs talking about much, much more. Lots of other fears are discussed, but privacy is (as so often) forgotten.
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Nate V. @nvan.northsky.social · 01/08/2026
I've been thoroughly enjoying the first 5 (?) weeks of @showmestateofmind.bsky.social. Dan is an outstanding host and the concept is great. Listen and support! Dan deserves it after subjecting himself to Info Wars for 10 years for our benefit!
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
RIP Charlie “Cunningham called bicycles the “perfect means for ‘right living.’” “They make people healthy and happy, and they free us from the tyranny of cars and the guilt of waste,” he said. “Of course, there’s a time and place for cars, but most of us use them too much.” “ @biketalk.bsky.social
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Charlie Cunningham, Mountain Bike Innovator, Dies at 77 (Gift Article)
In the late 1970s, he built what is considered the first off-road bicycle with a frame that was aluminum rather than steel, one of his many inventions.
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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social
Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 28/07/2026
Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
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Christian preachers are turning airplanes into unwanted worship services
Evangelists are exploiting captive audiences who can’t walk away—and broadcasting it online
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is not a dig at this reporter or this story, which is fine, but the Canadian media as a whole has transitioned seamlessly from decades of mostly ignoring and downplaying the climate emergency to ”here’s how to cope with the apocalypse.” It’s infuriating.
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Climate anxiety caused her to switch career paths. How this existential angst is affecting young Canadians
Existential eco distress is affecting Canadians’ life decisions, and can spiral into hopeless ‘doomerism.’ Experts share how to manage it.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
balrog: people love to say oh Durin's Bane, Durin's Bane, but Durin was in very poor health already and people forget rogan: yeah balrog: the dwarfs dug greedily and deeply, they awakened many things, many nameless things rogan: that's crazy balrog: he said a lot of nasty things about me, Durin
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
One thing I notice though: every story I read about bike lanes tends to be illustrated with a photo of a white person in neon cycling gear and a helmet when a lot of the folks it actually helps are day laborers on cheap bikes and working folks on share bikes
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 23/07/2026
"Hadjira Belkacem didn't wait for the humiliation of being fired because of her religion." "She quit." "All of these things that Belkacem did — from wiping away tears to lighting candles on birthday cakes — she did while wearing a hijab." #Quebec #Canada #Labour #Media #Education #Courts
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The "Social Death" of Muslim Women in Quebec
Beset by job losses and attacks on their Charter rights, Muslims ponder their future in a province that's left them feeling isolated and afraid.
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Paul Chislett @pchislett.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
mondoweiss.net/2026/07/no-i... Israel has no right to exist - no state does. People have a right to exist
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No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually.
Unlike the Zionist claim that “Israel has a right to exist,” my assertion is rooted in international law. Of course, given Israel’s propensity for violating such laws, it’s no surprise they’re still c...
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/07/2026
I worry about the narrative on this stuff because young people are so impressionable and not going to college is just such a huge mistake over your lifetime earnings. It’s deeply immoral to see Ivy-educated conservatives argue against college because they know they need angry, undereducated voters.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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🍉 Vancouverismism 🍉 @vancouverismism.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"It bears repeating that the entire reason this government was elected was because people wanted and expected it to stand up to the Trump administration." ~ Luke Savage
Screencap of Luke Savage X post: "It bears worth repeating that the entire reason this government was elected was because people wanted and expected it to stand up to the Trump administration."
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
every gardener i follow is going absolutely hogwild flexing that they eat lettuce from behind their house. i've never seen gardeners act like this in my life. this is our super bowl. this is our olympics. gold medal in shitting normally
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Carbon capture is expensive and largely ineffective at making a real difference on emissions. Especially when the captured carbon can be used for enhanced oil recovery, which lets companies access oil that would have otherwise stayed in the ground!!!
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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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