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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
@taprootedmonton.ca Where can I find a list of all the mayoral candidates?
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Are you ok with publicizing your phone number? Cuz it's there.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This lyric is from a kid's animated K-pop movie, by the way.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
So...."fit check for my napalm era"... people are actually fine with and leaning into this lyric? It doesn't evoke, like, *this* for example, for anyone else? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Th...
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc - Wikipedia
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Just found out the Alberta College of Pharmacy no longer allows pharmacies to accept scans of prescriptions (like from a patient through an app) so that they can be prepared in advance. Cuz God forbid we try to bring Canadian healthcare into the 21st century #abhealth
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SlashFilm @slashfilm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The first reactions to the John Wick spin-off Ballerina, which stars Ana de Armas as an assassin, have arrived...but there's a catch.
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The First Ballerina Reactions Are All Saying The Same Thing (And There's A Reason For That) - SlashFilm
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"the University of Alberta (U of A) will be ending funding support for all affiliated child-care centres in January 2026. Right now, funding for child care costs the university $298,600 per year or 0.02 per cent of the total expenses in 2024" edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: U of A puts up barriers to access by cutting child care
We call on the U of A to make the choice to continue to support families and the larger community.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Hey #yeg folks, @taprootedmonton.ca wants to know what issues matter to you in the upcoming municipal election. They'll use the responses to help craft a survey for the election candidates so we can understand where they land on them. Fill out the form! edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/questio...
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What do you care about in this election?
Taproot is gathering information from the community to better understand what issues are most important as voters make their decisions for the municipal election on Oct. 20, 2025.
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/. I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that. Thread below...
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Canada Strong | Liberal Party of Canada
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Found this article from June on how the AB gov is trying to tackle the opioid crisis via @inklesspw.bsky.social's recent Substack subscribers report. Boy was I surprised by the extent of investment in tackling this issue open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...
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Alberta's system builder
Alberta and opioids II: Marshall Smith's ambitious campaign
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
What did Harper call?
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It's been suggested by commenters that it's possible the majority of complaints were actually by trolls against Rachel.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Really incredible to have CTV, an entire broadcast news outlet, say they 'don't have the bandwidth' to deal with the type of harassment that Rachel Gilmore deals with as an individual journalist all the time.
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Janis Irwin @janisirwin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
On April 1st, tens of thousands of Alberta families lose the childcare subsidy. Why? Because the UCP have cut it. I've heard from so many of you who are struggling to make ends meet. This cut has just made your lives a whole lot less affordable.
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Indivisible Acton Area ❌👑 @indactonma.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
💪 We stand with Rumeysa Ozturk 🚫 ICE abductions 📣 Due Process for All 🪧 Protesting is a right
Photo from Stand with Rumeysa Ozturk Rally
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 22/03/2025
It boggles the mind how Premier Smith can take a harder line stance against the prime minister of her own country than the president of an enemy nation. If she's unsure who is the bigger threat, her advisors have failed all Albertans miserably.
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
In a world of Gavin Newsoms, be a Jared Polis
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I really miss the vibrant comment sections about tv shows on the AV Club. I've basically got Reddit now and it's a hell hole.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I know that allowing cats to roam about food products is unhygienic, but I still ❤️ photos of cats in bodegas.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Just finished S1 of Severance. Wow it is overrated. It's not bad, but it is certainly not amazing. A slow pace can be good, but the slowness of this show does it a disservice.
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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I wrote about the NYPL’s incredibly uplifting report on public libraries and their impact on well-being, exploring how marketing campaigns could be built around the words and phrases the research highlights as embodying libraries. 📚 www.ned-potter.com/blog/refuge-...
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The Public Library Brand: refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion — Ned Potter
In my Strategic Marketing training , we conduct an exercise around the library brand. It begins with a key question: what do you want your library's brand to be ? What would the ideal sum-total of...
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I've come up with my New Year's resolution. Don't buy from Amazon what I can get locally. I knew about many of the company's issues already, but it was very helpful for my car-free lifestyle. Between this anti-trans BS and political baffoonery, though, I guess that's the nail in the coffin for me.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Love to see it
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“According to Edmonton Win House, they were able to answer 2,531 crisis calls, however, due to capacity issues, they had to turn away 1,982 or 78.3 per cent of callers.” WIN house is a women’s emergency shelter. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/01/07/d...
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‘Domestic violence epidemic’ advocates concerned over recent homicides in Edmonton and Calgary | CityNews Edmonton
Two women were killed in just two days in Alberta and police allege both were killed by their intimate partner.
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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I mean, if a guy did this in front of me, I would marry him too. Congrats to Zendaya and Tom Holland for their engagement🙏
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Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Update: this seems closer to where I'd suggest we set the tone for countering the bluster from the South. Good on Minister Wilkinson. www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...
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Canada Energy Minister Warns Trump Against an Oil Trade War
Donald Trump’s claim that the US doesn’t need anything from Canada is “simply false,” said Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s energy minister and a potential candidate in the contest to replace Justin Trude...
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
My reaction as well
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 08/01/2025
Earthquake in Tibet, fires in California, ongoing pandemic and genocide, bird flu, rambling American dictator, unstable Canadian federal politics, billionaires controlling the media. There’s not enough whiskey soaked fuck muffins for this week so far.
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Ugh. This looks like they are preparing a round of cutesy tariffs on Kentucky bourbon and Wisconsin Harleys. That is too indirect and too cute. Need bigger threats. The incoming WH is aiming a bazooka at our heads and we are going to threaten ping pong balls aimed at pinky toes.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Unbelievable. Irresponsible. Offensive. Posting a screenshot instead of reposting in the hope that it may reduce appearance of engagement with this item.
TVO advertising a segment where they will talk about what it's like to become the USA's 51st state
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
CAT ADVISORY: Temperatures in the UK could drop to -10c tonight. All cats should IMMEDIATELY find the warmest spot in the house and stay there. Tell humans to bring you snacks and to keep the second warmest spot free in case you want a change of scenery.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Ooookie dokie I think it's time I take a break from the socials today.
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a woman with her arms in the air and the words keep it together girl
Alt: A gif with the text "keep it together girl" and an animation of a woman making a deep exhale
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David J. Doorey (aka The Law of Work) @thelawofwork.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
No non-necessary travel to the United States for the next 4 years, right my fellow Canadians? Not giving one tourism dollar to a regime run by that lunatic.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
He could be doing it for more than one reason
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Mike Anderson 🇨🇦 @andersonmike.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Canadians should peacefully protest against the impending Trump “organization” overreach, including threats to the sovereignty of Canada, Panama, and Greenland. Protest at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa and Consulates in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, and Winnipeg.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I feel seen.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
So what's the vibe in Greenland's social media right now?
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I barely follow art accounts of any kind and definitely have not engaged with any posts in that particular niche.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Why does the Bluesky algorithm think I like sexy cartoon furries art?
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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
What is Justin Trudeau’s legacy on climate? - Transformative climate policies. This is the fed govt that finally moved from announcing targets and plans to actually adopting policies - Achilles heel on oil and gas. - The legacy is fragile but is that Trudeau or Canada? Bear with me for a long 🧵.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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a man in a suit is carrying three pizza boxes in front of a door with the number 303 on it
Alt: Gif from an episode of Community showing Troy blisfully walk into his apartment with a stack of pizza boxes before seeing the horror that now fills his apartment. It's on fire and a friend has been shot.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
That one.
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sparklemooncat.bsky.social @sparklemooncat.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Smell fatigue (or whatever it is called) is a thing. Also, though, some people just generally have a better or poorer sense of smell than others, so I imagine that factors in as well.
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