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Sharon McCartney

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California grown. Vancouver Island now. Writer. Only disconnect.

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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 10h
The Glass Essay. Fundamental for me. I love this news.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Physics could answer every question we know how to ask without settling whether those are all the questions there are. How would we recognize a limit that prevents us from even forming the question?
notesfromthecircus.com
Complete the Way a Crossword Is Complete
On the questions physics cannot be asked
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In San Diego. Blue all the way.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Totally worth a read KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS share.google/yGhkzhTMCQka...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hey Victoria! Hidden Treasures (new thrift store on Fort) is amazing. Got this comfy loveseat/ottoman combo for $140 today. Like new.
Red loveseat/ottoman in thrift store.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You mean the yellow kitchen that my realtor snorted at is coming back?!
Kitchen with fake yellow tile backsplash and yellow walls.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I don't get excited about poetry anymore, but I'm excited about this:
Are in Blossom:Last Poems and Fragments, by Franz Wright.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Disappointed in Netflix's Little House on the Prairie, as I am? Read my book instead! Find out what Pa's penis or Ma's rocking chair really think. harbourpublishing.com/products/978...
harbourpublishing.com
The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Description 2008 Winner of the Acorn-Plantos Award for People's PoetryThe Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder is an unusual collection of poems that combines craft, innovation, humour and down-to-earth ...
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Easy, quick, never a dud. Always great! My copy is falling apart from overuse.
Quick Vegetarian Pleasures by Jeanne Lemlin
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
44. Yay for Middlemarch! I got stuck on it at one point. Couldn't stop rereading it, even though I dislike Dorothea. What a drip of a heroine.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Anything with Albert Finney. That's the rule.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
And here is the Yeats poem: Malachi Stilt-Jack am I, whatever I learned has run wild, From collar to collar, from stilt to stilt, from father to child.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My favourite JT lines: Yeats. Yeats. Yeats. Yeats. Yeats. Why wouldn't the man shut up? Ghazal IX
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
And to the dude in the apartment below me who plays computer games at 2 a.m.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 15/04/2026
Oh HELL yes, you better believe I have some THOUGHTS about these fucking headlights lol Canadians, you can take part in this consultation until April 20th! tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...
tc.canada.ca
Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night
Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A 1st century BCE Roman marble sculpture of four puppies asleep together, discovered in the House of the Faun in Pompeii, and now preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. 🐾💕
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 09/04/2026
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Exactly. My employer (the government of British Columbia) makes it impossible to get rid of.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Clear, cogent, timely and heartfelt. Always the first read of the day.
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Pasquinel 🦇🎃👻 @pasquinel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Bruce Springsteen singing WAR with Edwin Starr (Wayback in 1999) #BruceSpringsteen #90s #Nostalgia #Concert #England #MusicSky #EdwinStarr #Oldschool #War #Throwback
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My life is complete.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Whew. Judge Biery (Clinton appointee) is not messing around, dropping on the feds the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Fourth Amendment, Ben Franklin, and the Bible. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/01/2026
O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows!
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Third.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
youtu.be/l1PrUU2S_iw?...
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Ohio
YouTube video by Crosby, Stills & Nash - Topic
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/01/2026
Now, justice on the doers!
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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 23/12/2025
Day 23: #ArtAdventCalendar Sharing a new small painting from my Lighting the Dark series today. Tisha Mark ©2025, Light the Way No. 2502, oil on gessobord, 7"x5" View the series here: tishamark.com/lighting-the... #art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Light the Way No. 2502" 7"x5" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). A seascape with a brilliant blue, orange and yellow sunrise sky. The colors of the sky are reflected in the water below.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Ditto ditto.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Yes, I read it years (decades?) ago, but I recall it as an excruciating portrait of a person's unbearable (and extremely destructive) inner torment. In a different way, A Fine Balance had me shaking my partner and saying "you would not believe what these people went through. "
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
❤️
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
why are they "trad wives" and not "girls gone laura ingalls wilder"
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/10/2025
This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever
Mexican WWII poster
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Croc. A poem by me in Carin Makuz' "The Litter I See" project. And a painting! thelitteriseeproject.com
thelitteriseeproject.com
The Litter I See Project
litter inspired writing by Canadian writers, for literacy
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I thought, wow, night bowling. That sounds fun.
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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 22/09/2025
dudes rock
Tumblr post from every-lemon 
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."
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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Maybe it’s capitalism that causes autism
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Me too.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Just mailed my overseas ballot. YES on 50!
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Just put my overseas ballot in the mail. Big YES!
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Excuse me.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The word for today: enantiodromia. Look it up. It gives me a sense of hope. If only I can live that long.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I had a sister who died of pediatric brain cancer. In our family of six, this meant six destroyed lives. Permanent devastation.
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Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
You can make them VERY uncomfortable by sitting, standing or walking right beside them. Look right at them. Make it clear that you are listening to what should be an indoor, private conversation. An effective deterent, but the drawback is that the dialogue is always banal.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
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