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Sue Gawley

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 04/10/2026
More #cat costume ideas for Halloween. #cats #caturday
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Please share wisely to publicize the attempts by musk to suppress votes and spread disinformation popular.info/p/the-hidden...
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Important wildlife update: Spotted Tussock Moth caterpillar has important caterpillar business to attend to #invertebrates
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nice quote...
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Happy birthday to Keanu Reeves, born on this day in 1964! Raised in Toronto, he began his acting career in that city and was a correspondent for CBC's Going Great. He is one of the most successful and popular actors in the world. 📸 Mario Anzuoni
Keanu Reeves in a dark suit, white shirt, and patterned tie smiling slightly while posing in front of a bright pink–purple premiere backdrop.
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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Libraries are an oasis of knowledge, imagination, culture. They are welcoming to all in a society increasingly developing culture and education deserts everywhere. Libraries are a must for any healthy society, and librarians are professionals who deserve to be compensated as such. #UnionStrong
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Don't start what you can't finish.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Library funding is tied to usage.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/08/2026
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
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repugfascistrebel.bsky.social @repugfascistrebel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A POST ON BOOKS...BOOKS ARE POWER!
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Librarians are heroes.
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Jean Ibosh @fedup90611.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Good night 💤 When we ban books in libraries or schools before we ban guns, we admit we are more afraid of our children learning than we of them dying.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Haven't tried but thought I'd share. There are other links downthread. Librarians are the heroes we need right now. They know things, true things.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Fun thread!
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“Fire has been one of those things that Indigenous people have used on the land,” Cardinal Christianson said. “We use fire for our ceremonies and other things, but we also use it to improve the health of our territories that we relied on culturally.”
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Ottawa ignores Indigenous knowledge about wildfires: fire scientist
Métis fire scientist Amy Cardinal Christianson argues Indigenous communities are prevented from applying their knowledge of fire management.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"I come in peace" - A dance of friendship 🐶💙🐶 A Border Collie and an Australian Shepherd meeting for the first time. #dogs #friends
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Tiffany C. Graham @bluenote123.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but that’s rape. www.salon.com/2026/07/15/m...
Quote from a paragraph in the attached article.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This, exactly. We all matter or none of us do.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Lab work
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Jon Poole @total2total.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Morning 🤣.
Cat sat next to football.
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Green is a mission @greenisamission.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." 💚🌱☘️🌿🌲🌳🍀💚 Our leaders, governments and decision-makers should remember this
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
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hibbary.bsky.social @hibbary.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Sometimes I check out local free Craigslist just for fun. Found a hot tub that doesn't want to hear about Greg and hates Emmas
Giving away the hot tub. It's a 6 seater, paid $4,200 new in 2014, jets all still work, heater works mostly. You haul. It's around 700 lbs empty, so you'll want a trailer and at least three guys. There's a spigot on the back left for draining.

One thing to know up front. The tub has developed preferences.

I'm not trying to mislead anyone so I'm being straight with you. Starting in early 2022 it started doing things. The jets on the north side, the side facing the house, shut off when my ex-wife Cheryl would get in. Not when anyone else got in. Just her. I had two repair guys out, both said nothing was wrong with the unit. The second guy said "sometimes appliances pick up on stuff" which I didn't really process at the time.

By that summer she was barely using it. She said the water "felt judgmental." I thought she was being dramatic. Then in October she sat down across from me in the tub and told me about Greg. The tub went completely still. No bubbles, no hum, the underwater light dimmed about halfway down. I'm not saying it reacted, I'm just telling you what happened in the order it happened.

After she moved out it came back to normal mostly. Bubbles are good, heat is good. But it will not warm past 98 degrees if a woman named Emma uses it. Doesn't matter which Emma. My sister Emma, my neighbor Emma, and the Emma who delivered a package and asked if she could test it because she was thinking about buying one. All three. 98 and it stops climbing. You can test this yourself, bring a Emma.

Couple other things to mention. Around 2 or 3 am it sometimes cycles the jets on its own for about 40 seconds. I used to think it was a timer issue but the timer's been unplugged since January. Also the cover remembers. I don't really want to get into the cover.

I'm not asking anything for it, I just want it gone. I think it would be happier somewhere new, somewhere it doesn't have to think about Greg. If you take it, please be kind to it. It's been through a lot. We both have
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
absolutely...
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Timeline cleanse.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Blair is an excellent writer and storyteller; worth a follow if you're interested in podcasts (as is her friend and podcaster Sarah Marshall, whose podcast is called "You're Wrong About..."
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Elizabeth @lizard714.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Me too, Snoopy.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture. 1890-1996 (Kanien’kehá:ka): Denied nurse training in Canada because of the Indian Act and that she was a Status Indian, Monture determinedly went to the United States and trained as a nurse in Philadelphia. After graduation, she served 18 months
Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture. 1890-1996 (Kanien’kehá:ka): Denied nurse training in Canada because of the Indian Act and that she was a Status Indian, Monture determinedly went to the United States and trained as a nurse in Philadelphia. After graduation, she served 18 months overseas in France in the US Army Nurse Corps during WWI. Monture was sent to Buffalo Base Hospital 23 in Vittel, France and where she was responsible for treating soldiers who were shot or gassed.

Monture wrote in her diary about the long hours she had to work, and the badly injured soldiers she took care of. She was sometimes asked to help other medical centers near the front, or travel through the battlegrounds looking for hurt soldiers. After armistice in 1918, she returned to the Six Nations Reserve in Canada. She continued to work as a nurse and a midwife at a hospital in her community, among a lifetime of other community activities. She was a well-respected Elder on the Six Nations reserve in Ontario. She lived to be a 106.Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture. 1890-1996 (Kanien’kehá:ka): Denied nurse training in Canada because of the Indian Act and that she was a Status Indian, Monture determinedly went to the United States and trained as a nurse in Philadelphia. After graduation, she served 18 months overseas in France in the US Army Nurse Corps during WWI. Monture was sent to Buffalo Base Hospital 23 in Vittel, France and where she was responsible for treating soldiers who were shot or gassed.

Monture wrote in her diary about the long hours she had to work, and the badly injured soldiers she took care of. She was sometimes asked to help other medical centers near the front, or travel through the battlegrounds looking for hurt soldiers. After armistice in 1918, she returned to the Six Nations Reserve in Canada. She continued to work as a nurse and a midwife at a hospital in her community, among a lifetime of other community activities. She was a well-respected Elder on the Six Nations reserve in Ontario. She lived to be a 106.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#UglyDogs this artist ShouXin has this husky on his instagram, and I think you'll recognize the energy...
ShouXin is an artist who does, among other art, pencil line drawings of animals. This drawing is of a husky, capturing with intricate pencil shading the dog's wide eyed, manic focus on a ball. Wider pencil shades manage to give you the idea that the dog is in high speed motion and ready to cause intensive and loud chaos. Very husky.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Filmed by Dan Felska @film-often.bsky.social. I know they're deadly serious, but... bunny martial artists avoiding the blow.
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JC (baseball season type) @conductress.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is a #SpreadLove thread, with a beautiful and touching ending that made me cry. I'm glad there are people in the world like Jay.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Interesting thinking, congrats to students rising to the challenge. Personal connection affects our lives so profoundly - our learning, our political and justice systems, our sense of accountability to a community ethos - but we undervalue it until a Minneapolis shows us how connected we are.
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Stephen Vincent @chelseaman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
We’ve welcomed a quintet of tiny trunks into the world since the start of December – and little Kiki is one of them. Her mother, Kihari, was rescued as an orphan of poaching in 2011. Now she’s raising the next wild generation. Each wild-born baby is a victory for conservation.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/12/2025
For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
If I were writing a character whose first language isn't English (or was pretending to be such) I would SO use these!
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The whole thread is fun!
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Saving this list!
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I admit, it got me.
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Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Thread...
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🌮 Chef Bruce 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 @chef-bruce.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Maranda 🖤 @whatevermaranda.com · 15/11/2025
Love this so much. 💜
Meme: a quirky hand-drawn cat beneath the script "AHEM - please don't give billionaires more of your money this holiday season - buy something cool and handmade from some fun weirdo instead & help them eat. Shop small, y'all."

Image credit: "Small businesses need your support more than ever 💗
By Sugarhouse Ceramic Co."
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