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Kootenay Greg @kootenaygreg.bsky.social · 15h

October 1st this year

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A memory of timber, built in stone. Earls Barton’s rare Anglo-Saxon tower from around AD970 has an air of gingerbread! Unearth it in my Treasure Hoard: www.digest.andymarsh...

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Tardiflora @tardiflora.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

MJMA is by far the better design.

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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Serious question. If Doug Ford and Paul Godfrey are breaking up, who gets custody of Brian Lilley?

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Arti🟠facts @rickcainejourno.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

S. Michele Arcangelo (Saint Michael the Archangel) Maestro della Madonna della Croce Second half of the 13th century Wet-plaster wall painting technique (buon fresco), natural earth pigments 1.8 meters tall (5 feet 11 inches) Chiesa di Santa Lucia alle Malve Sassi di Matera, Italy Photo: Oct 9, 2026

The Archangel is depicted in imperial Byzantine-style court attire, holding a staff in one hand and an orb with a cross in the other, standing with wings spread.

Carved into the limestone cliffs between the 8th and 9th centuries, the church was Matera's very first female Benedictine monastic settlement. For hundreds of years, it was a cloister for nuns. By the 14th century, the nuns relocated up the hill. Then, the locals faced a housing crisis as people flooded into the Sassi. With space at a premium, the rock-hewn monastery was secularized and converted into family homes and agricultural stores.

For generations up until the forced evacuations of the 1950s, families lived inside the three hollowed-out naves. The magnificent frescoes, including this one, were subjected to black soot from cooking fires coated the centuries-old artwork.

This fresco is made using an ancient, specialized wet-plaster wall painting technique (buon fresco), combined with natural earth pigments applied directly onto the rock. Because it was painted inside a rock-hewn church (chiesa rupestre), to prepare the limestone, a layer of lime mortar and sand plaster was laid down. Medieval artists mixed local materials into the plaster, sometimes blending straw or animal hair to help the mortar bind tightly to the porous, damp cave rock.

The colors were achieved using durable raw ingredients ground into water. Iron oxides for the ochre reds and yellows, and ground minerals for the rich, dark blue background. Plant extracts and charcoal dust were used to outline the detailed geometric borders and shadows.

The painting was made while the plaster layer was still wet (a fresco). As the wet lime plaster dried, a chemical reaction occurred as the lime absorbed carbon dioxide from the cave air, forming a glassy, protective crust of calcium carbonate. This process chemically locked the pigments into the wall, allowing the artwork to survive centuries of damp cave conditions and the soot of fires.

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Dave Bidini @davebidini.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Congrats to Anne Carson! A brilliant writer who graciously contributed several poems to our latest album. Canada is home to the world’s greatest writers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JO9t...

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The Moon Dreams

YouTube video by Rheostatics - Topic

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Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW: It’s been three years since the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Premier Doug Ford’s Greenbelt land swap. A former Ontario attorney general says the Mounties should properly update the public on the status of the probe. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

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Three years later, RCMP says investigation into Doug Ford’s Greenbelt scandal is still ‘ongoing’

It has been more than 1,100 days since the Mounties launched their probe into Ford's $8.28-billion land swap on Oct. 10, 2023.

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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The Ford government rejected several proposals from the city of Toronto that would have restored traffic lanes on Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue, while also maintaining protected bike lanes." This isn't about 'congestion' for Ford. #ONpoli buff.ly/IenqRZB

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Doug Ford’s government rejected Toronto’s proposals to restore traffic lanes and keep bike lanes: sources

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says the province walked away from compromises to restore traffic lanes while keeping bike lanes on major streets.

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Now Toronto @nowtoronto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Liberal MPP Tyler Watt addresses Doug Ford’s OSAP funding distribution, highlighting that 95% of new student grant money went to private career colleges rather than public universities and colleges. #onpoli

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is there an upsetting post that keeps turning up on your timeline? (There’s a really bad one today.) You can make it disappear for you. Click the three dots below the post and click Hide This Post. More tips in the thread below.

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The new owners also own the grocery chain that was found guilty of bread price fixing. 🤨🤦‍♀️ #TheWestonMonopoly #cdnpoli

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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This little guy is snoozing under the hedge at the back of the garden, out of the rain

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wow. This is so sleazy and alarming. #BradBradford is a slimeball. He’s backed by the same developer sleaze that put Rob & #DougFord into power. Chris Alexander dropped out of the Toronto mayoral race & now a mysterious other ‘Chow’ appears on the ballot right above Olivia?? #TOpoli #VoteOlivia

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There is a Braeden Chow listed right above Olivia
Chow's name on the voting ballot for Mayor in Toronto.
Since when were there two Chows and why wasnt this flagged? It's small type, his band appears first and people in a hurry could easily see Chow and vote for him thinking it is Olivia. Somehow, the names should have been separated, or one printed in bold. Considering how close the margin is between her and Bradford, details like this could make or break an election.
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I'd love to know who Braeden Chow's money backers are.
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So would I. I had never heard of him until I voted this morning. I thought I was seeing double.

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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Ford government had been warned for years that a few private career colleges were ripping off the system. Instead of cracking down, the Ford government used it as an opportunity to cry poor and cut OSAP for all students (Video: CTV) www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti... #onpoli

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Cathy Crowe, C.M. 🍁 @cathycrowe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca today. In the lobby. This is fantastic.

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Still life with meadow flowers and roses - 1886 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…

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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Try to remember all the people, organizations and astroturfs that tried to sell you BradBrad. After the election, don't forget about it. Now you know they're all working together. Notice what they're working on.

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Onion Sports @onionsports.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NBA Reminds Rookies Not To Blow First Paycheck On Big-Ass Snake theonion.com/nba-reminds-...

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Club Saanich @thesaanichdaily.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm checking labels, avoiding travel, even adjusting my portfolio, heck I went three months without romaine lettuce just to boycott American products and this guy is giving them billions. So tired of this shit and the manipulation of Canadians. #cdnpoli

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Christi Belcourt, Métis visual artist who creates paintings inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork #UnlockingWomensart

Painting with a symmetrical design featuring flowering plants with different coloured blossoms against a black background

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback

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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s been two years since Ontario Place West Island was destroyed for a planned private spa. Hundreds of trees were cut down - here’s a snapshot of the many species who lost habitat. 🧵

Side-by-side comparison of a landscape on the Toronto waterfront. In one scene, an island is covered in trees reflected in a still channel of water. The other image of the same place shows a barren stretch land with a pile of rubble in the centre.

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 04/10/2026

cortland apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1930

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“His persona as a tough-on-crime, penny-pinching populist feels entirely disconnected from the eager urban planner who entered office at 32 full of ideas about expanding bike lanes, raising property taxes on the rich and cutting funding to the police.”

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An 'ideologically rudderless ambitionist.'.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We were taking last nite at a party about Bradford’s bizarre framing of his dramatic change of opinions/flipflops. That a restaurant would take a smoothie off the menu if it didn’t sell. Smoothie politics, not leadership or sign of a moral foundation.

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kanadakev 🇨🇦 @kanadakev.com · 15/09/2026

A brief moment in the incredible Gordon Lightfoot epic "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" performed beautifully by The Rheostatics September 12, 2026 Paradise Theatre Toronto, Ontario

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.

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Tardiflora @tardiflora.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True story: student signed off an email to me with "happy PSL season to you if you celebrate!"....."no, I do NOT celebrate" was the reply I so wanted to send, but only after an internet search for what PSL season even is

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Tardiflora @tardiflora.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ooooh. Those little sweethearts are my favourite! Always a special day when they arrive.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Toronto Mike @torontomike.com · 30/09/2026

Friday is @nikostratis.com's Toronto Mike'd debut

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FrameToFrameNature @frametoframenature.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A sure sign that winter is coming the Dark-eyed Juncos have returned to our #Ontario garden for the winter. #birds #birding #nature #birdphotography #Canada #BirdsSeenIn2026

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JayBeeArsenal @jaybee1886.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Read, read, read.

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Tardiflora @tardiflora.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And nothing will be done. Tragic and criminal.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why the Globe and Mail looked past rising right-wing violence, the shooting at the Quebec City mosque, the connection between antivaxxers and white supremacy, to blame Canada's highest profile Jewish politician for the synagogue shooting in Belleville ... noraloreto.substack.com/p/turning-a-...

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Turning a peaceful movement violent

Canadian elites blame Palestinian solidarity for Belleville synagogue shooting

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The mistral made painting in Arles a fight. Van Gogh drove 50cm iron pegs into the ground and roped his easel to them so he could work in the wind. He blamed it for Cézanne's clumsy touch too: "It's his easel that's wobbling."

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026

Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"If your campaign is breaking your own privacy policy, or swamping your Instagram with fawning, machine-generated praise, it's your mess to clean up. The opposite impulse — to lie & attack — is not a quality voters expect of someone vying to lead Canada's largest city," writes @jameswsthomson.com.

When pressed by Habibinia to respond to CNO’s reporting, Bradford dug in.

"They're inaccurate. It's a mischaracterization. I'm surprised they published it."

It goes without saying that calling a news outlet's reporting false is a dagger to the heart. The implication that we got something wrong would give any reporter, any editor cold sweats.

Having watched White labour over every word and sentence of both investigations, it was particularly offensive to have the candidate attack his work — and our publication — so casually.

Of course we make mistakes. When we do, we issue corrections and take ownership over the failure.

But this was not one of those times. So we published a recording that should put the question of veracity permanently to bed.

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By rights, each post in this thread should be nail in the coffin of Brad Bradford’s campaign. Great work, @nationalobserver.com.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Disgusting, desperate behaviour from Bradford here. Please share and support the incredible folks at the National Observer!

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not a great look, Brad!

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