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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If an angel statue is removed from a fountain, does that make it a sans seraph font?

Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watched a few of the great documentarian Alanis Obomsawin’s films this week. On Truth and Reconciliation Day, I strongly recommend Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair; short, direct, and powerful overview of this country’s legacy of cultural genocide and historical erasure. www.nfb.ca/film/honour-...

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Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair

As the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Murray Sinclair was a key figure in raising global awareness of the atrocities of Canada’s residential school system. …

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Justice for Toast of London

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Modern Times (dir. Chaplin, 1936)

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dude casually dropping in “One day I had to pump gas—it was a few years ago” like it was some youthful transgression, a blip of slumming

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Poisonous mushroom that spawned a thousand Civics Centers.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"If politics cannot deliver on the block where you live, why would you trust it to deliver anywhere in your city?"

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

two years gone, forever here

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To be specific, family annihilations are committed by men more than 90% of the time and are committed roughly every five days in the US.

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Let the spooky viewings begin

Two wooden bookcases frame a tv, speakers, and sideboard against a white wall. Around the tv are a flock of black paper bats affixed to the wall.

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So tired of the drab platitudes of our populist PM

In his writings, Goethe borrowed a word from the chemists of his day:
Wahlverwandtschaften. The elective affinity of different elements that combine because of their inherent attraction.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

JOB. York University Humanities Department Asst. Professor, Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance, Dept. of Humanities www.academicwork.ca/jobs/asst-pr...

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Asst. Professor, Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance, Dept. of Humanities

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why, yes, your email did indeed find me well, unusually well, in fact, because you see I have recently come into possession of a very fine cask of amontillado wine. If you would kindly reserve your place on the outlook calendar to come and view it in my unorthodox cellar arrangement…

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam. When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let AI step in and do the job.” —Werner Fucking Herzog

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

posted in the lefty folk group chat

Karl Marks, the communist manifesto, Dolly Parton, 9-5

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP to a real one. Love how Dolly’s fingerpicking skills and heart shine through in equal measure on this duet with Chet Atkins, “Do I ever cross your mind?”. youtu.be/g3hJrAChpPM

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YouTube video by Chet Atkins - Topic

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📣 We’re hiring in Russian Studies at McGill! ✨ Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Russian Literature and Culture. Join our vibrant, multilingual community in Montréal. Bonus ⭐ I’ll be your department chair for at least your first year Please share widely mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

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Assistant Professor

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 22/08/2026

Carney says the US tried to restrict Canada's ability to make trade deals with other countries as a requirement for negotiation. Sources tell CBC this included making Canada impose new tariffs on other non-US trade partners in compliance with the United States www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

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U.S. tried to restrict Canada's ability to get new trade deals - Carney says U.S. 'asked too much and offered too little' after trade talks fall apart

In the final hours of negotiations, the U.S. tried to include restrictions on Canada's ability to strike trade deals with other countries, Carney said. "Unacceptable," the prime minister said flatly.....

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C. Bukowski @thishurt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Television used to MEAN something in this country. 🧐

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Benjamin Jancewicz @benjancewicz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Montreal 1976 Olympic poster

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Belated birthday gift, and one I’m excited to dig into.

A copy of Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel propped up against a backdrop of a bookshelf.

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think about this point by Adorno so often of late.

My thesis about this would be that all
humans deep down, whether they admit this or not, know that it
would be possible or it could be different. Not only could they live
without hunger and probably without anxiety, but they could also
live as free human beings. At the same time, the social apparatus has
hardened itself against people, and thus, whatever appears before
their eyes all over the world as attainable possibility, as the evident
possibility of fulfillment, presents itself to them as radically impossible. And when people universally say today what was once reserved
only for philistines in more harmless times, "Oh, that's just utopian;
oh, that's possible only in the land of Cockaigne. Basically that
shouldn't be like that at all," then I would say that this is due to the
situation compelling people to master the contradiction between the
evident possibility offulfillment and the just as evident impossibility
offulfillment only in this way, compelling them to identify themselves
with this impossibility and to make this impossibility into their own
affair. In other words, to use Freud, they "identify themselves with
the aggressor" and say that this should not be, whereby they feel that
it is precisely this that should be, but they are prevented from attaining
it by a wicked spell cast over the world.

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This evening’s impulse auction purchase should liven up the garage

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you were King Solomon And I was a lady Would you marry me anyway Would you halve my baby

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This response by Chief Ron Sam of Songhees First Nation to recent fearmongering about treaties and Aboriginal title in BC is excellent. “A treaty is not charity from the Crown. It is the lawful resolution of a debt this province has carried, unpaid, for generations’”. cheknews.ca/opinion-trea...

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Opinion: Treaties with First Nations are not secret ‘giveaways’

Caroline Elliott looks at the Modern Treaty our Nation is negotiating with British Columbia and Canada and sees loss, so let me offer a different starting point, and a richer story than the one Ms. El...

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well when you put it that way

Meanwhile, the state's gubernatorial race proved a rebuke of Dorld Trump's endorsement power as Mike Lindell, an election denier and pillow salesman, lost to Lisa Demuth, the Minnesota house speaker.

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Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The map is now set up in the office ready to start 'mapping' sound heritage survey responses 🤩 If you haven't completed the survey please do. I'd be particularly grateful for responses representing sounds outside of Europe tinyurl.com/2twuzpfd

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/08/2026

Builders: here’s a chance to make something new from a massive public archive. Internet Archive Canada @internetarchiveca.bsky.social is offering a $5,000 fellowship to build new tools using 22M+ pages of open Canadian government publications. Applications close Aug. 21 → bc-ai.ca/fellowship

The public record is huge. Make it do something weird and useful.

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All Grim Prints @allgrim.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Beginning of the formatting. Marxology deck of cards incoming. Hand-carved first because AI is embarrassing.

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026,” said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California.” Happy “There Will Come Soft Rains” day, all.

Comic-book-style illustration of the scene in Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” describing the imprinted silhouette left by the abandoned house’s evaporated owners at the moment of the incineration by, presumably, a nuclear blast. The silhouettes show the parents gardening and the children playing with a ball suspended in silhouette above their imprints. The wreckage of the neighbourhood is visible beyond the remains of the house.

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Magalí Armillas Tiseyra @magarmtis.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A few months ago, I started writing an essay I thought would be about reading non-fiction in translation, and landed somewhere else entirely (here’s to crying in public)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As someone who used to work in academia, and now gets 3 weeks of vacation a year (only one of which I’m taking this summer), I get to feel both sides: the end-of-summer panic still sits bone-deep, but is now layered over with Working Stiff Resentment™️

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.” William Eggleston, born 27 July 1939.

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This note gets it just right. You apologise for eating the plums, express sympathy for their owner and explain your motivation for eating them. Just one note: consider offering to replace the plums. This small gesture could do a lot to smooth things over

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026