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Hannah, but ghostly @hannahr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The lockdown at Halifax West yesterday was the result of a swatting call placed by some fuckhead in Florida (Weirdly this was very close to one of the rumors we heard yesterday, so someone blabbed) BUT WHAT THE SHIT Keep your nonsense in Florida, assholes

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yep, lots of appointments are available early next week. Yay!

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At a Christmas tree farm in October

An evergreen tree, with its branches lopped off for the first 15 feet or so from the ground, and topped by a perfectly formed Christmas tree. In the background, rolling hills covered in mixed woods, with a lot of orange and gold hardwood foliage mixed

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I really want to get mine before the 15th, but I clearly have not been surveilling the site as closely as you have. So I appreciate the good news!

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As species disappear (are disappeared), they become “heritage” and, eventually, signs of value

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Forty years ago (yesterday!), the people of Canada were awarded the Nansen medal "in recognition of the major and sustained contribution made to the cause of refugees in their country and throughout the world over the years." The chatter about refugee decisions brought it to mind.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The muddier, research-based story is the more interesting story, of course. Yes, technologies change the kinds of work people do. But the specifics of the tech matters in where the changes land and the kind of social relations that ensue.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's always rewarding to pay attention to that sceptical inner voice saying "Really?!" "The majority" becomes "6 out of 10" becomes "we measured changes in the category labels used in the US census, and found two different kinds of change" Sources and links threaded below

This is partly a failure of imagination optimist saying. A 2024 study by economists at the Massachusetts institute of technology found the majority of job occupations in the US - including novelties such as tattooists and hypnotherapists - only emerged after 1940

*We estimate that about 6 out of 10 jobs people are doing at present didn't exist in 1940," says Autor, co-author of a newly published paper. "A lot of the things that we do today, no one was doing at that point. Most contemporary jobs require expertise that didn't exist back then, and was not relevant"

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just finished this staggeringly good and important book.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wise pedestrians be scairdy cats!

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a great anecdote in a birth control volunteers memoir (recalling the 1920s) who recalled suggesting to a farm wife that she cover a pitcher of milk sitting on the counter because flies were swimming in it. The farm wife thought those flies weren't doing any harm!

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Interesting -- what years? Into the 1960s?

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is it coincidental that I just posted something that mentioned social credit? Before it was a party, it was absolutely a movement.

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Folks just can't let go of the idea 'social movement' means 'left progressive.' False, egotistical, dangerous. I need to make a sign to tap.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Having immersed myself in letters from the public to Canadian finance ministers, 1917-71, I can confirm that exposure to "stupid" was an occupational hazard Esp in the 30s-50s, their offices were remarkably patient in composing substantive, patient replies Social credit tried their patience tho.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nine years since I hiked in Alberta, but it was unforgettable. Sentinel Pass trail in Banff National Park

A single yellow large tree amid a forest of black spruce in the foreground and in the background majestic mountain peaks

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bluff Wilderness trail, Indian Hill loop. In the area of the pale pink dot I've added to this map. (If you want to do it as an out and back and are willing to braid some rickety bridges on part of the Pot Lake loop, you can do it as a shorter out-and- back) But Upper Marsh Lake area is great, too

A detail of the trail map for the Bluff Wilderness Trail

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hope you were out to enjoy it. Classic NS fall day!

Just an ordinary scene on the trail. White granite and pale green lichen in the foreground. Long dark shadows. Midground, a riot of red yellow light green and dark green. And a bright blue sky, cerulean at the top, with white fluffy clouds

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paid a visit to a couple of my fave boulders yesterday. 17km round trip, but worth it.

Two large, somewhat square, erratic boulders. In the foreground a smaller Boulder and small spruce tree. In the background hints of orange Fall foliage. A bright blue Autumn sky

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excellent! (auto correct turned Le Bic into Le Nice 🤷)

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was hoping you'd head uphill from Le Nice and post photos. Gorgeous country!

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Swords into ploughshares, forts into parks.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If we live in a world where, RW concludes, "the bond market truly can intimidate everyone," doesn't that story belong on the same shelves with histories of smallpox, great battles, and refrigeration? History of medicine doesn't go in the health section. Business history is History, ppl!

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Q: What's the most important urbanism concept you'd want to get across to people? A: The urban geometry problem. As cities grow in population they have to get better and better at using space. Most of the things you hate about cities come from a failure to understand and apply this concept.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, look at RW's subtitle: "The epic history of how bonds built the modern world"! Does this belong on a shelf next to Excel for Dummies and Crucial Conversations? No.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excited to have in my hands @robinwigglesworth.ft.com's A Fabulous Debt. Grumpy that the bookseller had it in the Business section, not History. in 2017, I was similarly annoyed when my tax history book was treated this way. I wrote about it: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/p...

A copy of a book by Robin Wigglesworth called A fabulous debt: the epic history of how bonds built the modern world

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh my. Couldn't get a python-sitter, I guess?

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cuddle-eagle. I am so confused. What's next? Snuggle-snake? I blame Teddy bears

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excellent! I'd sign up for the Grand Manan Defense Force in a flash

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(this is probably more tactical discussion of the islands in Passamaquoddy Bay than at any time since the Fenian raids of 1866)

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grand Manan definitely more defensible. Those west-side cliffs! But I dunno. Retreating from Campobello lands you at the top of a tacyical slippery slope. As goes Campobello, so goes Deer Island.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

😅 maybe we should enlist Argentina to help out?

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The solution is gonna be to annex Campobello Island, isn't it? 🙄🙄🙄

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A little fog is good for a cemetery walk

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