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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What about the 24th of May? 😎🇨🇦

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is so so dark

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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ovechekin cant have it both ways. He cant say that "Well, I'm not in politics. I can’t say who's right and who's wrong,” and then appear in political ad for Putin.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s mind-blowing that this guy helped fund the American president’s son’s wedding. Imagine Reagan’s reaction to this. The US has become a complete embarrassment, and voters have no one to blame but themselves for re-electing a corrupt pro-Russian traitor who attempted a coup

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Freedom of information? We filed an FOI for refused FOIs to find out what Ontario's government doesn't want you to know. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/freedom...

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Freedom of information? Here’s what Ontario’s government doesn’t want you to know - Investigative Journalism Bureau

We filed an FOI for refused FOIs. Here’s what we found.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We don’t need to "save the planet." The planet will be fine. We need to save the conditions that allow human civilization to thrive. Let's be clear about the stakes.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We are so fucked.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

She hasn't mentioned it so I'll brag for her. @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social took first prize in Personal Narrative category at the Online Journalism Awards. A story of the experimental brain surgery to address her chronic depression. awards.journalists.org/entries/hole...

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Holes in my head. Wires in my brain - Online Journalism Awards

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Soon, poetry will be solved, and no one will ever have to read a poem again. Soon, landscapes will be solved, and no one will ever have to look at a mountain again. Soon, love will be solved, and no one will ever have to have an emotion again.

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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fellas is it woke to train jumping out of a helicopter into a lake in full battle order to insert behind enemy lines to mark drop zones ahead of an airborne assault?

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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I were looking for a photo to make the Canadian Army look weak I certainly wouldn't choose candidates on the Patrol Pathfinder course, one of the physically hardest courses out there that requires airborne and recce quals just to be eligible to attend.

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Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Work as Wendell Berry writes:

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/09/2026

rest in peace to Wendell Berry

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peace to the inimitable Wendell Berry

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Food so good you grow an extra finger!

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I will just point out that canonical saints are SUPER weird. This is a thing people forget. Saints aren't nice and tidy, they are in fact almost always messy, melodramatic tricksters, though it's true Dolly beats most everyone for trashy.

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Catharine Tunnacliffe @ctunnacliffe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ontario, forever.

A summer evening scene with a child cannonballing into lake Ontario while another swimmer looks on.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We keep creating more stupid instead of fixing existing stupid.

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026

This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

On this day in 1939, the USSR and Nazi Germany signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and carved up Europe as allies. Moscow wants the world to forget this. Russia holds no moral high ground on Nazism and only fought Hitler after he betrayed them in 1941

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Today is #Ukrainian Flag Day. The blue and yellow flag means a lot to us. We hold it high. Happy Ukrainian Flag Day to everyone for whom our flag has a special meaning. 📹: from 2022. This lady from Kherson kept the Ukrainian flag hidden during the Russian occupation.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2026

“Is the national leader talking like someone who would be capable of convincing a bartender that he can handle another drink, y/n?”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2026

Watching Prime Minister Carney discussing the breakdown of the Canada-US trade deal at a press conference and just really appreciating living in a country where the leader can speak coherently and knowledgeably about what is actually happening.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Oh hell no. U.S. vetos on Canadian trade deals is actually insane. Absolutely justified in walking away.

Tweet saying that US wanted to put in language that would restrict our ability to ha e other trade deals.

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Intriguing to imagine what might happen as a bunny boiler meets an extreme narcissist

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They can put it back on the shelves as a bargaining chip. That doesn’t mean we’ll be buying it or serving it. That national taboo will be harder to break.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Grown ass people telling me that they want schools teaching AI so kids "know how to use it..." These tools are as smart or as stupid as your prompts. Good prompts require broadly educated people, not "AI-educated people." Instead, study economics of AI & its impact on economics, power, culture.

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

From me at theijf.org The end of musician Ashley MacIsaac’s defamation lawsuit against the search engine giant Google has left some questions unresolved in the area of libel and artificial intelligence. zurl.co/EuKbE

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End of musician Ashley MacIsaac's defamation suit against Google leaves unanswered questions

Tech giant’s AI summary wrongly claimed famed Canadian fiddler has serious criminal record

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Moscow region. A Wildberries warehouse burning in the background of a huge line to get gas. The "special military operation" going exactly according to plan.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Calling North Korea "unthreatening and respectful" when they send missiles, shells, and troops to kill Ukrainians is a special kind of lunacy.

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I have removed the bike lanes that were in the road and which you were probably using to get to work Forgive me they were delicious so crunchy and so cold

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And the 2026 Award for Worst 'Bothsides' in Religion goes to... "Both Senate candidates have been criticized for falling short of being an authentic or true Christian-Talarico for his progressive Christian message, and Paxton for 2 alleged extramarital affairs." religionnews.com/2026/08/13/p...

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Paxton, Talarico tap contrary versions of God and Christianity in appeal to Texas voters

AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — In a state where two-thirds of the adult population identifies as Christian and 45% say religion is 'very important' in their life, the candidates are asking voters to choose bet...

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

For one billion dollars I can do this for you, even faster: Romeo & Juliet: two teenagers, shit goes seriously wrong. Oliver Twist: Child abuse bad; London nuts; shit does work out tho if you keep at it. More super concise reading summaries after your check clears!

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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We're hiring a temporary/freelance OSINT reporter (contract runs from end of Aug/start of Sept through end of year) on the Visual Investigations team at the @nytimes.com. Come work with me! You must be US-based, and pay is on same scale as full-time hires. job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

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Open-Source Reporter, Visual Investigations (Temporary)

New York, NY

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It is not an understatement to say that the promenade at Biidaasige Park is one of the best new public spaces in North America.

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Mistress Divinity, Queen of Autism @queenofautism.myatproto.social · 09/08/2026

Germaine Tillion did not write In The Underworld, a dark comedy and musical about her experience in a concentration camp, on scraps of paper while surviving Ravensbruck for you to tell me ai is "inevitable"

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

READ THE WHOLE FUCKING ARTICLE AGAIN Build cognitive endurance again Sacrifice ease to not support environmental racism again Rely on your own skills and limits again.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I sure hope Canada is prepared to bring said booze bans back when Trump inevitably threatens tariffs again five minutes later because he has the reliability and mental stability of a squirrel on cocaine www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Canada prepared to halt booze bans, meet other U.S. demands in exchange for tariff relief: sources | CBC News

The Canadian government is preparing to meet some U.S. demands — including ending bans on American alcohol sales — as trade talks heat up ahead of the latest tariff deadline, according to sources.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps

Top is a map of the US with “Google search volume for “eyes hurt” April 3 to April 10 2024” with a hot line running from Texas north east through to Maine. The bottom map shows the path of the total solar eclipse which runs in a lone from Texas through to Maine

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