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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦

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Hoarder of unfinished knitting projects. Sometimes a bit sweary. You will see dog pictures, sorry. Probably bikes & birds too. I also maintain a Science Fiction Fantasy feed, see 📌 below

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have discovered the joy of Japanese mechanical pencils, pray for me
A Kita-Boshi cedar-body mechanical pencil in very beautiful and clever Japanese-language packaging
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this national day of reconciliation we remember that the fundamental journey in Canada is between Indigenous and settler. We must learn to walk together for a better shared future.
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The Toronto Zoo @thetorontozoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
POV: When Mom asks you to practise your smile ahead of School Picture Day 📸🍁 #TZTinyTank
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just made the first soup of the season and it was great, I gotta go acquire a pumpkin spice latte now and really get into this fall shit
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oh my stars if I'd remembered I changed over to the flannel sheets I'd've gone to bed an hour ago, this is *heavenly*
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Share with everyone you know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JI4...
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Elizabeth Banks in "Just a Little Heart Attack"
YouTube video by American Heart Association
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
12 grams of wing and muscle. Just enough to get from the boreal forests of Canada down to Venezuela. Never ceases to amaze. (Bay-breasted Warbler)
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
honestly who wouldnt want this buckaroo to be your ASSOCIATE MEMBER?
cover of CANADA POUNDD MY BUTT AND COVERS MY PANCAKES WITH REAL MAPLE SYRUP IN AN EROTIC WAY ALSO IT IS DELICIOUS featuring a shirtless buckaroo on the right and a handsome sentient canada on the left
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In these trying times, the knitters crave something that is whimsical as fuck.
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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Peter MacCallum discovered a trove of images of Yonge Street on a November evening, 1965, by press photographer Nick Loek, capturing the nightlife mix of neon glamour, vitality, and sleaze on this busy strip at the time. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
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Yonge Street, Evening, November 6, 1965 - Spacing Toronto
A few of weeks ago, while searching the Toronto Telegram online archive for aerial photos of the historic industrial waterfront, I came across a remarkable series of about 40 images from 1965 by Teleg...
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The self-response rate also reached a new record of 91.2%." oh my homeland, my beloved nation of dork keeners, I love you so much
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 10/09/2026
An article on the solving of the Navier Stokes equations by a mathematician who knows what's going on bms.ulb.ac.be/data/uploads... (Yes it's in LateX I am sorry)
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"When we were being stolen from our parents and experienced Genocide in Indian Residential Schools, we wondered "Who are the people who will help us?" Today, we are those people. Today we offer our help, support, and jurisdiction to override these dehumanizing laws."
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Madame Mantis hunts amongst the tomatoes
A quite large brown praying mantis looks at the camera from within a thicket of tomato plants and marigolds. She does not give a fuck that I am so much larger than she is.
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Here's what I wonder: What's the *process* behind these posts? Is it a bunch of folks making a pile of them every day for him to pick thru & choose? What algorithm drives what he sees on his socials & who tweaks that algorithm? Who curates the choices? Who's steering the ship of memes?
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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
While Star Trek Day (Sept. 8) celebrates the premiere of The Original Series, Star Trek's world premiere was actually September 6—when "The Man Trap" aired on CTV in Canada.
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Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 06/09/2026
Good news about the Queen’s Park Crescent East sign: They remembered the apostrophe 
Bad news: They had no idea where to put it
A sign that reads: Quee’ns Park Cr. E.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So basically… The National Observer found a bunch of websites designed to confuse voters as poison AI that had possible linkages to Keith Wilson’s “Let Alberta Decide”… And when they asked for comment those websites suddenly went offline. Cool. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
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A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In January 2017, Barbara Kentner, a 34-year-old Anishinaabe woman from Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation, was walking with her sister Melissa in Thunder Bay when a group of intoxicated teenagers drove past them. 1/21
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davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Michael Geist: Be Careful What You Wish For: Why Asking Google Maps to Defy the U.S. on Lake Ontario Would Undermine Canadian Digital Sovereignty mgeist.substack.com/p/be-careful...
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Why Asking Google Maps to Defy the U.S. on Lake Ontario Would Undermine Canadian Digital Sovereignty
The Google Maps case on Lake Ontario isn't a loss of digital sovereignty. It's the opposite: Canadian rules were respected in Canada and the platforms didn't pick whose rules to follow.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Paris sunset, can’t equal a Saskatchewan prairie sunset, but it has its own charm.
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I've got nearly 2k hours in this game & I feel like there's so much left to explore - it's a tremendous value for the money. You can tailor your play to your mood: do you want a heart-pounding everything-kills-you challenge, or do you want a zen-like exploration with campfires & hot tea?
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The Toronto Zoo @thetorontozoo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For scale: #Maple currently weighs 16.1 kg, and is approximately 12 hockey pucks high 🍁🦛 Meet the newest rookie on Canada’s starting lineup 🏒 #TZTinyTank
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A juvenile ring-billed gull tolerates human passers-by strolling on the Niagara river bike path 🪶
a juvenile ring-billed gull with speckled caramel and cream plumage gazes pensively out over the river from its perch on the breakwall, probably thinking about french fries
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
First batch of this year's hot sauce set up to ferment: jalapenos, Big Jims, Cherry Bombs, Biquinhos, and a handful of Coronation grapes
A 1-liter jar packed full of mostly red peppers, a few green peppers, and a handful of purple grapes. It has a Masontops fermentation lid on top.
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A big handsome late-summer visitor: Common Whitetail sunning himself on a patio stone
A quite large dragonfly with dark flag-like wings and bright white body, soaking up the warmth of a limestone flagstone
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Y'all. I know you're tired of my running on about this, and I *want* to give you a break over the weekend, but I CAN'T fail these cats. They need a HOME. They're affectionate, relaxed and in decent health, and their issues are MINOR and EASILY MANAGEABLE. All we need is to find That Person.
Torbie cat standing on bed, looking up.Gray cat with white flash on throat, sitting on bed, looking up.
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Strait of Our Rules
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Toronto Archives @torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca · 28/08/2026
The CNE Cat Show is celebrating its 125th anniversary! The Globe and Mail photo collection, Fonds 1266, documents some past contestants - just search 'cat show' in our digital image search tab. ow.ly/TIPb50ZwBYZ
Black and white photo of a tabby cat with a bow around its neck, sitting on a person's lap.

CNE, Cats, Brown Betty, Mrs. Lillian Angus, Toronto, 1931.
Globe and Mail Fonds 1266, Item 25127Black and white photo of a long-haired tabby cat with a bow on its neck, sitting on a person's lap.

CNE, Cats, Orange Bill, Mrs. Alice Bradley, Toronto, 1931.
Globe and Mail Fonds 1266, Item 25128Black and white photo of a cat and three kittens, all fluffy tabby cats, sitting in a rectangular picnic basket turned on its side.

CNE, cat show, Lady Fluff and three kittens, Mrs. Robert Taggart, Toronto, 1932.
Globe and Mail Fonds 1266, Item 27970Black and white photo of a long-haired cat with a round tag on its collar, being held in a person's hands. The cat's fur appears to be blowing in the breeze.

CNE, cat show, Princess Sylvia, shaded silver Persian, Miss Marg Betty, Toronto, 1932.
Globe and Mail Fonds 1266, Item 27978
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Peace by Chocolate @peacebychocolate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We created this bar to keep the name Lake Ontario visible as part of our long-standing Canada Collection. “ONTARÍ’IO” is an Indigenous name that existed long before today’s borders. That history should not be erased. peacebychocolate.ca/collections/...
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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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Flavio Volpe, C.M. @flaviovolpe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Here’s why auto parts tariffs on Canada will shut down the US auto sector. My piece in today’s @TorontoStar.com: “We know what we are worth and we won’t discount the price under threats. Don’t be mistaken, what we make is for sale. Who we are is not.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"oh we'll continue to fuck you over, but ✨respectfully✨" is certainly a position one could take
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some interesting items: ✳️ appliances, plywood, LVL - this will cost US homebuilders ✳️ vast list of steel & aluminum products ✳️ cheese, including squeaky curds - we keep poutine ✳️ cardboard boxes - what ecommerce runs on ✳️ toilet paper because we are haters
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List of products from the United States subject to counter-tariffs effective September 8, 2026 - Canada.ca
Effective September 8, 2026, Canada will impose 15, 25, and 50 per cent tariffs on products drawn from those targeted by U.S. Section 338 and Section 232 tariffs, with individual product rates based on the matching U.S. rate for the same goods.
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Happy 212th Anniversary Of Burning Down The White House And Quite A Bit Of Washington DC In Retaliation For What They Did In Upper Canada to all who observe
The White House ruins after the fire of August 24, 1814, depicted in a watercolor painting by George Munger, is now on display at the White House
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"What if fitness wasn't fucking boring?"
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"No deal is better than a bad deal"
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I re-read Murderbot's diaries the same way Murderbot re-watches Sanctuary Moon
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⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🎮 @purestinnosense.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
Every day we stray further from God’s light
Poptart buzzballs in frosted brown sugar cinnamon and frosted smores
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
205k - come on folks those are rookie numbers, we can do better
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E-7531 Removal of U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7531 — Removal of U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra — with 205,346 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Elizabeth May. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
As always, thank you Todd for reading this so I don't have to 🫶
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
we all know this classic way
cover of POUNDED BY THE ACHES AND PAINS I GET AFTER DOING A SIMPLE PHYSICAL TASK THAT I WOULDNT EVEN THINK TWICE ABOUT DOING WHEN I WAS YOUNGER featuring a bummed out buckaroo holding his back on the left he is shirtless and handsome. to the right is a physical manifestation of his aches and pains ALSO HANDSOME
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Bsky culture of "block & move on" has done more for my mental health & enjoyment of this platform than any other single thing. Did I just see an absolutely rancid take, shake my head, hit the mute account button & watch that dumbass evaporate? yes. yes I did & I'm happier for it
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? a shitty little hammer that you use all the time bc you're too lazy to go down to the basement to get the good hammer you ordered one day when you were mad about the shitty hammer
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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...
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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
i can be pretty hit or miss on the old masters of sci-fi but still ain't nobody doing it like bradbury
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A brief history of FA job action in Canada: Air Canada FAs: pay us for our work Air Canada: No AC FAs: Strike Gov't: Go back to work AC FAs: Fuck you, make me AC: Well shit. ok we pay you for your work AC FAs: Okey dokey! WestJet FAs: pay us for our work WestJet: No WestJet FAs: oh really *grin*
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WestJet flight attendants to end strike after reaching tentative wage deal
WestJet flight attendants will end their strike ‌after reaching a tentative agreement with Canada's second-largest airline on Monday, the union representing them said, following hundreds of flight can...
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Had a good grift going for a decade, then delved too greedily & too deep
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RedPlaidGoose 🇨🇦 @redplaidgoose.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
How corrupt do you have to be to be too corrupt for ✨FIFA✨
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What you need to know about FIFA's private investment plan — and the backlash | CBC Sports
Less than two weeks since the conclusion of the FIFA World Cup 2026, soccer is once again front-page news thanks to a new private-investment proposal by FIFA president Gianni Infantino that's triggere...
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