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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/06/2026

A 2021 #ScienceReview showed how the rapidly changing soundscape of modern oceans impacts marine life globally—and how mitigating these impacts is key to achieving a healthier ocean. Learn more on #WorldOceansDay: scim.ag/4ueX7ML

The illustrations from top to bottom show ocean soundscapes from before the industrial revolution that were largely composed of sounds from geological (geophony) and biological sources (biophony), with minor contributions from human sources (anthrophony), to the present Anthropocene oceans, where anthropogenic noise and reduced biophony owing to the depleted abundance of marine animals and healthy habitats have led to impacts on marine animals.

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Was quite surprised & delighted to find that my poem "We Go Down to the Sea of Myrrh," which opens with the ever so endearing line, "Molly, I hate your husband" (& which appeared in @cv2magazine.bsky.social), will be in Best Canadian Poetry 2027. Many thanks to @tolu.ca, Anita Lahey & Biblioasis.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 20/04/2026

Some new ink paintings with a brighter blue: pyramidal neurons and mitosis in drosophila #sciart artologica.etsy.com

blue black and white ink painting with oval shapes

blue black and white ink painting with neuron shapes

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Another writing first: I'm going to have a poem in Best Canadian Poetry! "We Go Down to the Sea of Myrrh," which originally appeared in @cv2magazine.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue, will be reprinted in the forthcoming 2027 anthology.

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Just in time for Labour Day, the anthology THE BOOK OF JOBS: Poems about Work is out and includes my poem "Word Problems." Sneak peek is in the photo below; the rest of the poem and anthology are available to read for free online: oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-...

The Book of Jobs: Poems about Work (edited by Erin Murphy)

Jade Wallace
Word Problems

1. Suppose that worker I, who has $7
in their bank account, uses a combination
of cash and credit to pay the $40
monthly phone bill. I then metes out their 10
gigabytes of data, app by app, until one bounces
back a task that I completes in 19
minutes on the way to their temp job.
For completing the task, I receives a $5.03
transfer of funds (after taxes and fees), of which $4.19
will eventually be used to pay for gas and the
long-term maintenance of I’s car. I earns $32.00
(after taxes and deductions) for working 3
hours at the temp job, though will not receive
that money for approximately 8
months, which is how long it will take for
the labour ministry to investigate I’s 15
page claim and issue a 25
page order requiring wages to,
in fact, be paid, as per section 22
of the Employees Are Not Volunteers Act.

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WIRED @wired.com · 24/08/2025

Everyone has a stake in how tech is shaping education today—from parents, kids, and teachers to tech moguls and policy-makers. Join our "Back to School in the Age of AI" livestream AMA on Thursday, August 28. Have questions? Leave them below: wrd.cm/4mPhjSa

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Join Our Next Livestream: Back to School in the Age of AI

Bring your stories and questions on August 28 as we explore our latest investigations into how tech is shaping education today.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14/08/2025

Canada is facing one of its worst wildfire seasons on record, and my home province is particularly hard hit. Seeing how false and misleading information about the fires is spreading online has only further convinced me social media, especially Facebook, is a social cancer.

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Wading through the social media haze

Wildfire responses in Canada stifled by misinformation, particularly on on Facebook

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Polly Beats @pollybeats.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

"According to Indigenous Services Canada, as of May 30 there are 37 long-term drinking water advisories remaining in effect in 35 First Nations communities across Canada. Neskantaga First Nation in northern Ontario has been on a boil water advisory for nearly 31 years."

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Christy Kelly-Bisson @garlicbreath644.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"And critically, a public grocery option could change how people see food in Canada: from something that is a commodity to something that is a human right that all people deserve access to, regardless of their income." @nolore.bsky.social #cdnpoli #foodsovereignty #foodsecurity #publicfood

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Food too expensive? It’s time for public grocery stores

City-run stores could be an affordable alternative to large, corporate grocery chains

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

"As human beings, when you’re in such terrible times, the only way you have is through poetry, writing, and art." For my column this month at @ebertvoices.bsky.social I spoke to Hind Meddeb’s about her powerfully poetic documentary SUDAN, REMEMBER US

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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Hind Meddeb on "Sudan, Remember Us" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

An interview with the voice behind the TIFF-favorite doc about Sudanese activists fighting for freedom.

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Amy @amyonfire.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Sunset from the dirtiest hotel window in Manchester A vibe 🎞 kodak ultramax #filmphotography #photography #believeinfilm #sunset

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 27/07/2025

“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”

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BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis

Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.

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Polly Beats @pollybeats.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The StoryGraph is so much better looking than Goodreads 🫠💙 And getting better all the time!! (You can import all your Goodreads data over 😉)

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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🔥Today is 2025's official #EarthOvershootDay🔥 Today we pass the point where the resources we demand from the Earth exceed what it can regenerate in a year. This is the earliest Earth Overshoot Day ever recorded. But this doesn't have to be our destiny. #MoveTheDate. 🧵

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

How can we call on this when we are still sending Israel weapons?!

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 19/07/2025

Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels. roll_safe.gif

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After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

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🇺🇬🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🅢🅢🅐🅛🅘 🇷🇼 @chrisssali2024.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Our demands for #GlobalPlasticTreaty isn't just ⚓️ anchored on words but with solidarity campaigns.Thanks @stopfossilsubs.bsky.social @ucjglobal.bsky.social @extinctionrebellion.uk 4 amplifying our voices & consistency. Let's get #UnitedAgainstPlasticPollution to #StopFossilFuelsSubsidies

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19/07/2025

every day israel is slaughtering more palestinians and you barely hear a peep from supposed western “leaders” who love to talk about human rights and international law whenever it comes to china, russia, or iran, but go mum about them when israel comes into the mix

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"The Temple of Time" (1846) by Emma Willard.⠀ From our essay by Susan Schulten exploring the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today: publicdomainreview.org/essay/e...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19/07/2025

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit. It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

It's been a minute (1.5 years) since I've had a poem out in a mag, and what a mag to be back with: @midnightsunmag.bsky.social has published "Villiform," a deconstructed villanelle whose central conceit is about disability as a kind of poetic constraint for living. www.midnightsunmag.ca/villiform/

Villiform
Or: Refiguring Our Disabilities as Poetic Constraints

Jade Wallace

We are confined, the well and the
unwell, by the cadenced demands
our bodies make. Countable as

the beats of a villanelle are
the hours that pass until need will
compel us to pause and cast for

water to slake the thirst that con
stricts us, both well and unwell. While
we may delay, we cannot dis

Header says "Midnight Sun" and beneath is an image of a sanderling (small sea bird) running across a beach.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14/07/2025

Liberals have been very concerned about mis- and disinformation in recent years, so when Mark Carney says carbon capture will allow for “decarbonized” oil, we should be clear that he’s engaging in active disinformation about climate change to please Danielle Smith and the Alberta oil industry.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A very emotional read - but a crucial one

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Extinction Rebellion Global @xrglobal.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

While this cartoon is probably referencing a particular activist group in the UK, it tends to hold true for others, protesting different issues non violently around the world.

Cartoon. A woman holds a placard reading “Stop Killing People” as two men wearing suits walk past, one says “bloody extremists”.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 07/07/2025

Was just informed that my essay "The Two Wolves Inside Me: Writer Vs. Translator" is the second-most read essay in Wasafiri this quarter! "Maybe I could give up translating and write full-time instead. I could really get all soft and nice and gooey like my author friends."

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The Two Wolves Inside Me: Writer vs. Translator by Anton Hur

Both a novelist and translator…

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Canada Day just happened. But as folks celebrated near Parliament, a man was just elected to it who trivialized residential schools. Bill C-5 just became law, despite vocal opposition from Indigenous leaders. So I’m THRILLED @pampalmater.com is on the show this week! Here's a sneak peek:

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

"Bill 5 will have enormous consequences for Ontarians & the natural world around us. Together, we can overturn Bill 5 and replace it with legislation that respects the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the right to a healthy environment for all Ontarians." ontarionature.good.do/repeal-bill-...

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Join me in calling for Premier Ford and MPPs to repeal Bill 5

This disastrous legislation scraps the Endangered Species Act, creates lawless “special economic zones” for developers to exploit and undermines the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

How fortunate we are to celebrate #pride, and how tragic that so many people over the millennia have been shamed for loving whom they loved. And yet love they did. Here are some stunning LGBT love letters from those who came before us: www.themarginalian.org/2014/02/14/g...

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The Greatest Queer Love Letters of All Time

Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Mead, Allen Ginsberg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and more.

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DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Two documentarists taste the least savoury ingredients of the food industry, and find out that the practices stem from colonialism World premieres takes place at Raindance: dmovies.org/2025/06/24/i...

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In Symbiosis - DMovies

Two documentarists taste the least savoury ingredients of the food industry, and find out that the practices stem from colonialism - from Raindance

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Polly Beats @pollybeats.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Uptown Waterloo, inside the cathedral of government services.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 23/06/2025

I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going! No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.

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Getting off US tech is no easy task

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make the effort

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Perfectly explained, impeccably executed, hilariously animated

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Matthew Mousseau @matthew-mousseau.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Artists! Keep up the good art! And bad art... I'm not picky!

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Wet Tribe @wettribe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We are surfers, sailors, divers, scientists, and activists on a hero’s journey to recover ocean plastic, restore habitat, and mitigate ocean warming & acidification. “We are not strangers separated by countries; we are a tribe connected by ocean.” #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Oil is violence against the earth and the violence of war and the brutal geopolitics in pursuit and defense of the dirty stuff. Climate activism is peace activism.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/06/2025

Music streaming services are even easier to ditch than video ones because they all have mostly the same catalogues. I dropped Spotify for Apple Music years ago, and recently made the move to Deezer instead to get off US tech.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/06/2025

give trains all the money, we need more trains

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