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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Music to lesson plan to: the latest (2023) album by a band I've long admired but whose more recent work I've kinda taken for granted. Remedying that now.

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Cousin by Wilco on Apple Music

Album · 2023 · 10 Songs

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Western University @westernu.ca · 30/09/2026

Today, Sept 30, we observe National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (#NDTR). Established as an official holiday in 2021 in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action, NDTR honours the children who never made it home and the Survivors of residential schools.

The Survivors' Flag flies at Western University

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watched the 1993 Disney version of HUCK FINN for the first time since its release as prep for teaching the novel this week and realized my dream adaptation would land somewhere between DAYS OF HEAVEN and the Coen's TRUE GRIT. At the very least, picture Linda Manz as Huck!

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maaan did my students hate THE SEARCHERS.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Music to lesson plan to: The Dambuilders, AGAINST THE STARS (1997). One of my fave examples of what happens when a weird band makes their big pop move but still stays weird.

The Dambuilders: Against the Stars (CD, 1997)

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like this genre/era is due for a Yacht Rock-like reappraisal. This is a great place to start.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trans rights are human rights. The fuck are we even doing here?

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Carly Rae Jepsen's new album comes out Friday. Seems like a good time to revisit this playlist I once made of her post-"Call Me Maybe" (and pre-NIGHT AND DAY) highlights.

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Break My Heart and Start Again: Carly Rae Jepsen (2015-2023) by Jeremy Fairall on Apple Music

Playlist · 18 Songs

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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What's the point of being Ed Sheeran if you still can't stand up for anything?

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026

Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Certain musicians need to take a look at the world around them and wonder if this is really the best time to be calling for artists to be punished for their views.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Late to the party, but this is a rad playlist.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

45 covers of the songs of 1956 that demonstrate the long shadow the year cast: The Beatles, The Who, Kinks, and Led Zeppelin all took early inspiration. Also starring Madonna, Boyz II Men, Billy Joel, Raffi, Sebadoh, Kenny & Dolly (RIP), Jaye P. Morgan (RIP)…look, it’s quite a ride.

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What Will I Be: Covering 1956 by Jeremy Fairall on Apple Music

Playlist · 45 Songs

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

ALA is heartbroken at the passing of country music legend and literacy champion Dolly Parton. Her Imagination Library initiative, inspired by her father's inability to read or write, has put millions of books into children's hands and was considered by her to be among her greatest achievements.

An ALA READ poster featuring Dolly Parton holding copies of "The Little Engine that Could" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don’t remember how old I was when I found out the Bangles’ “Hazy Shade of Winter” was a cover, but I was today years old when I found out Harry Nilsson’s “Everybody’s Talkin’” was. Those and 38 other covers of the songs of 1966 in my latest playlist.

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Substitutes: Covering 1966 by Jeremy Fairall on Apple Music

Playlist · 40 Songs

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

40 covers of songs from ‘76. A few of these (The Clash, Blondie) have eclipsed the originals in the public consciousness. Ronnie Spector’s E Street Band-backed take on Billy Joel’s (Phil) Spectorian “Say Goodbye to Hollywood” should have.

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Turn it Upside Down: Covering 1976 by Jeremy Fairall on Apple Music

Playlist · 40 Songs

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

30 years seems like a long enough time to have produced more interesting covers of songs from 1996, but I could only find enough for this short but sweet mix.

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Picture of a Photograph: Covering 1996 by Jeremy Fairall on Apple Music

Playlist · 20 Songs

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

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Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.

Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

With another terrific new @themountaingoats.bsky.social album out today, here’s a playlist I made a while back of highlights from their prolific 2015-2023 period. Enjoy!

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Found My Breaking Point: The Mountain Goats (2015 - 2023) by Jeremy Fairall on Apple Music

Playlist · 29 Songs

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Libraries v AI #BookSky

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer

Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) dressed in a pig costume for the game show 'Pig in a Poke' in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S EUROPEAN VACATION.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18? Also, the first movie I bought a ticket for as a newly minted adult.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"How dare Nolan cast trans actor Elliot Page in a Greek epic! Don’t they realize that the Greeks were never anything but ramrod straight? They pretty much invented heterosexuality."

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

How'd I miss that there was a new Buffalo Tom record in 2024? Other than 2024 being an especially chaotic year for me, that is. Anyway, remedying now.

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Jump Rope by Buffalo Tom on Apple Music

Album · 2024 · 14 Songs

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is every bit as disgusting as it is, frankly, unsurprising.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Next up on the turntable: an album I first received a copy of (on CD) for my 16th birthday and which still knocks me out every damn time.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm on a writing/editing roll this AM, so it feels like a good time for this classic double album.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Doing some Sunday morning manuscript editing while spinning this obscure 80s R&B record.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Still job applying, so why not make it a Bobby twofer?

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

HEATED RIVALRY's Emmy ineligibility automatically makes this year's awards 98% less interesting than they would have been (with a 2% margin of error).

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Me flipping to a movie that seems new but nobody in it looks both frightened and tired as hell: "This must be pre-2016."

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The funniest moment of the Weird Al show I saw on Saturday was overhearing a child lamenting, on the way out, "He didn't play 'The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota.'"

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

With a hotly anticipated new Madonna album out tomorrow, here's a 50 song primer I put together recently, culled from a 2013 I Love Music poll that I took part in. music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...

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Madonna Louise Ciccone by Jeremy Fairall on Apple Music

Playlist · 50 Songs

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Feels like an EXILE kinda day.

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A while ago, I started making these silly Apple Music playlists of 80s era soft rock and mainstream pop, affectionately titled THE BORING ‘80s. Here’s the Canada Day edition. music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...

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The Boring '80s: Northern Lights by Jeremy Fairall on Apple Music

Playlist · 44 Songs

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Jeremy Fairall @post-doc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I don't think I've played this, the most recent release from one of my essential artists, since around the time it came out in 2021, so onto the turntable it goes!

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