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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 14h

Every time I see the stuff about how it saves so much time I can't help wondering what that time is for. Like, if you don't want to actually learn and think and write a good essay, what do you want to do with your time? Why aren't you doing that instaed of typing llm prompts?

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 15h

This entire thread and alllll the comments brought me great joy. Got on the b boards as soon as I got to university in the early nineties, coded a whole catalogue of rare books in html (nested tables, people) in my first ever job. Have loved what it can be and do always.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well that's an eye-opening suggestion...

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Taking the drive to Elk Island on a brisk October night for a talk about the stars by a pair of enthusiastic young parks employees is definitely a 10/10.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/09/2026

OH ALSO I forgot to yell about this: cats and video instead of just voices! On @gryftkin.bsky.social 's YouTube! :D Chatting about WICKHILLS and cities and physics and monsters and spies! youtu.be/I6Rb2oJW-Rw?

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Interview with author Premee Mohamed: Wickhills - this city does not obey the laws of physics

YouTube video by Gryftkin

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unchecked development destroying essential ecosystems in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa. Regulation sorely needed.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.

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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Music/dance/theater people: there is *one week* left to add your voice to the Impact of AI on the Performing Arts survey.

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GenAI Usage in the Performing Arts

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There seems to be a bit of misinformation circulating on social media about my latest @albertaviews.bsky.social column and what it actually says. So perhaps you’d like to read it for yourself and draw your own conclusions. (Feel free to share, it you are so moved.) #ableg #abpoli #Canada #cdnpoli

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Alberta's Referendum Questions - The Noxious Nine - Alberta Views

Nine disingenuous, malicious referendum questions, push-polls, designed to incite social division and undermine confidence in the country.

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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.

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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/09/2026

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The planet just experienced its hottest August on record, and likely the hottest August in the last 120,000+ years, coming in at 1.64°C above the 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline. Hot times ahead!

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We have lost one of the 20th century's most important voices for ecological sanity. Wendell Berry, RIP.

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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Everything you wanted to know about bike lanes but were afraid to ask, read budgets and crash data or do math for. aaronpaquette.ca/mng #yegBike

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Movin and Groovin — Aaron Paquette

Roads, LRT, buses, bike lanes, shared pathways and sidewalks, drawn to scale with the receipts attached.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Farewell to another absolute legend. This week is sucking. #franknfurter #timcurry

Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Please, somebody check on Patti Smith. Without Dolly, Patti is our only hope....

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

And if this means I don't attend events organised by people I am otherwise in sympathy with, it saddens me but nonetheless... (seeing slop posters for climate action events locally makes me both mad and sad). #yeg #aislop

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For an act of resistance to the tyranny and vanity of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter — undistracted notes on the search for meaning (art, science, philosophy, poetry, wonder) — free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter

themarginalian.org

sunday newsletter

If you yearn for depth and delight without the distraction of a social media feed, if you are weary of algorithms deciding what you see and read and constellate into reality, try the Marginalian Su…

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Climate solutions can do far more than just abate climate change. They can improve lives, support communities, and repair the natural world, too. Here's a place to start: a huge set of opportunities to address climate change *and* extreme poverty simultaneously. drawdown.org/publications...

drawdown.org

Climate–Poverty Connections Report

Download Climate-Poverty Connections: Opportunities for Synergistic Solutions at the Intersection of Planetary and Human Well-Being to learn how climate solutions contribute to poverty alleviation in ...

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

No can donations at #heritagefestyeg this year, but we can still donate in cash. And we know the food bank still needs a lot of help so try to remember to bring a little extra cash to #hawrelakpark this weekend.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The thing about AI bros that I find so unsettling is that you only really have to connect with one great piece of art - stand breathless in front of a painting, lock eyes with a singer in a concert, sob at the end of a film - to understand the value of the humanity of it. And they just…never have?

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

Attacks on libraries, library staff, collections and patrons are ramping up around the world. Anti library campaigners appear to be sharing their playbooks and only need to be lucky once while library campaigners need to be lucky every single time.📚📜

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

FWIW: As a bookseller in a relatively small (though admittedly quite well-read) city in Canada, I can say with some confidence that @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social needed no help to sell her translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad. They've been steady sellers from the get-go. #odysssey

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

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Paths for People @pathsforpeople.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We need your 🫵 help speaking up for safe streets and municipal autonomy! 1. Add your voice to our postcard campaign 🌅 2. Send the Minister and your local representatives an email using the provided template ✉️ This simple action helps keep our communities safe 💪 #yegbike

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This scares the absolute living shit out of me, and it should be the same for everyone else with even half a brain.

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Conrad Nobert @conradnobert.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I filled this out in defence of Edmonton's bike lane program, and I encourage you to do the same. pathsforpeople.org/initiatives/...

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*UPDATED JULY 2026 – Stand Up for Safe Streets & Municipal Autonomy | Paths for People

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

#yeg folks (and I'd guess this applies to many others too) please go to your farmer's market and support your local small farmers. Buy what they have, show them you care. They are struggling with these rains and it looks like some may lose their farms. #buylocal #smallfarms #farmersmarket

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

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The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible

The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.

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michael oshea @osheafoto.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is a hell of a piece of writing from an essay by German Philosopher Jurgen Habermas,

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Patruck Dewitt is a treasure and this book a must-read. Bob Comet is a delight to get to know, with his quiet life and his knack for attracting lively friends. This book gently revealed many wise notions, in between making me laugh out loud. #booksky #librarianist #patrickdewitt

A copy of tThe Librarianist by Ppatrick DeWitt lies on a wooden surface.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Meanwhile, back in South Africa, my mother has befriended a pair of storks and has taken to giving them snacks of cheese and shaved ham. I'm not sure this is a good diet for storks, but my mum is enjoying her new pals so I'm leaving her to it. #woolystork #family #goodgrief

Just beyond my mother's back door, her friends the wooly storks await their snack.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026

And so it begins... everyone who is about to be offered a job should ask for DOUBLE, then join a union. 🙂

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Feeling the love for Bafana Bafana today. An excellent game from both teams and a deserved win for Canada.🇿🇦🇨🇦 #fifaworldcup #bafanabafana

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Kind of scary that this guy clearly wants to be president, and seems to think he has a chance.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Never a bad day to quietly participate in a subtle work of achieving socialist utopia via careful attention to the craft of producing useful beauty in the world

William Morris designed forty-one wallpapers and five ceiling papers, working from 1862 with Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company and from 1875 with Morris & Company as sole owner. "Marigold" stes large single blossoms amid leafy meanders over a ground of smaller flowers. The forms demonstrate close observation of native flowers and the monochrome pattern was offered in blue (as seen here), dark red, or light brown. A belief in beauty, imagination, and order shaped Morris's work and the popularity of his designs helped to raise British production standards in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The cream area at the top of this sheet reveals the edges of the wooden blocks used to print the design.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This whole thread just an absolute joy...

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