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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 16h

Sentence of the Day: The prosperous patronage with which he said it, made him look twice as big as he was, and four times as offensive. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Sentence of the Day: Every fine straight line in the clear, whiteness of his face was cruelly, craftily, and closely compressed, while he stood looking quietly at his nephew, with his snuffbox in his hand. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day:

Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score.

A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens.
#Booksky

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SandyLee🍁 @leeram.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He gets it.

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sentence of the Day: Any strongly marked expression of face on the part of a chief actor in a scene of great interest to whom many eyes are directed will be unconsciously imitated by the spectators. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sentence of the Day: Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sentence of the Day: "A—a—a—business, business!" he urged, with a moisture that was not of business shining on his cheek. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sentence of the Day: But, the time was not come yet; and every wind that blew over France shook the rags of the scarecrows in vain, for the birds, fine of song and feather, took no warning. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

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

Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day:

A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens.
#Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sentence of the Day: (**I’m beginning with this first sentence because it is so oft quoted but rarely in its entirety, and it seems to me that this as a whole reads more accurately, “rar like the present period.”) A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sentence of the Day: I've a notion, William said, that a person only escapes in circles no matter how far the rope spins. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sentence of the Day: It was not until the girl had come battering at his peace that he'd wondered at all about the pain of a growing root. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... ‘Calling any of these “guardrails” is doublespeak in the strict sense: a word chosen because it means the opposite of what the clause does.’

thestar.com

Mark Carney says he’s protecting Canadian workers. It’s Orwellian doublespeak

Subject to ministerial review, the right to strike is likely to be much weakened by Bill C-39.

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sentence of the Day: What is time, she thought, but two hands shaking us from sleep. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: But along the shore like a night-watch drifted the brown figure he sought to escape. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: The thing about stairs is that they separate you from things. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: The remembrance of event and the slash of rain merged. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: The earth fell away in hills and clefts as if it had been dropped carelessly wrinkled on the bare floor of the world. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: It was, they agreed “a terrible waste of human life brought on by greedy people and tolerated for too long by silent majorities." Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What Natalie Harp is committing is elder abuse.

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: Looking down from the slopes of the ridge, he was reminded of a tumultuous sea suddenly frozen and turned to earth. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If there is a singular image that defines Mark Carney’s term, let it be this one: #cdnpoli

Grandma being arrested on Parliament hill

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: Now these hewers of wood and drawers of water were assigned to do what the other battalions had been unable to do: attack and seize the stubborn defences in front of Hill 145. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: The man was so relieved to be captured that Moir thought he was going to kiss him. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: The blind man propped him up; Sivertz gave him eyes. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: When they stumbled from their dugouts, stunned by the fury of the bombardment, they weren't prepared to find thousands of Canadians rolling over them. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: One second elapsed, and then the world exploded as the greatest artillery barrage in the history of warfare burst upon the unsuspecting Germans and the Battle of Vimy Ridge began. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day:

They played "Mademoiselle from Armentières,"
"Pack Up Your Troubles," and “Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty," and they played ragtime and jazz as the troops sang and adjusted their equipment and drew their Mills bombs and extra rations, packed away their bully and bis-cuits, and wrote letters home, carefully avoiding any suggestion of the possibilities the dawn might bring.

Vimy; Pierre Berton.
#Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: But he would never forget that cold morning when he, William Richard Bird, aged twenty-five, late of Amherst, Nova Scotia, stared not only into the faces of the men he was about to kill but also into the deepest recesses of his own soul. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: A group of ten gunners digging a pit for a trench mortar in a French cemetery worked their way down through six layers of corpses and thought nothing of hanging their canteens on protruding shinbones: the dead were part of the landscape. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day:

The preparations for the battle would require the combined talents of loggers, locomotive engineers, tunnellers, carpenters, track crews, tailors, telegraphers, train dispatchers, road builders, and, sadly, grave diggers, for the cemeteries must be ready to receive their tribute.

Vimy; Pierre Berton.
#Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The cause of the plague of food borne illnesses in the 🇺🇸 right now is not due to a reduction in inspectors. It is because food companies took the decision to stop handing your food properly the moment they thought no one was looking.

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: The feeling at the top was that the Germans would never be so ungentlemanly as to use gas against their enemies. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: Yuletide or no Yuletide, they raided the German lines and stole all their Christmas presents. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: The British tommies saluted every officer they saw, even across a broad roadway; the Canadians saluted only when they felt like it. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: As the train moved slowly out of the station the women began to run along the platform beside it, clutching their sons' hands, refusing to let go until the train had to be stopped to disengage them. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day:

Hughes fought back at the slightest reproof with long, vituperattive letters of self-vindication refusing ever to apologize for his sins, announcing that he was "loved by millions" and comparing his critics to yelping puppy dogs vainly chasing an express train.

Vimy; Pierre Berton.
#Booksky

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'd go farther. This report should be accompanied by a meeting -- call it a Summit -- of global leaders, led by a PM using his unprecedented global political capital to address the most pressing crisis ever, one that directly threatens Canadians. Instead, we're getting a sales conference.

nationalobserver.com

Carney government accused of burying climate report warning of worsening impacts

The report, which analyzes the impacts of climate change in Canada, was posted to a government website with no fanfare on Thursday evening ahead of the Labour Day long weekend.

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: Almost every man who trudged up the slopes of Vimy Ridge on that gloomy Easter Monday in April 1917 had been a civilian when the war broke out, and this included four of the five Canadian-born generals who helped to plan the attack. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: Few thought they could succeed. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Today it’s Lake America, but tomorrow the propaganda coming from south of the border could be both more serious and insidious, and the actions of Google, Apple and other companies show plainly that they will not be on our side." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

tvo.org

ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today

The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: The future can be ours, if we never stop remembering that the most important fact about a technology isn't what it does, it's who it does it for, and who it does it to. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI; Cory Doctorow #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sentence of the Day: Anyone who trusts an AI therapist run by an AI company needs their head examined. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI; Cory Doctorow #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sentence of the Day: For Al to be anything other than a bubble, the world will have to rearrange itself, at farcical expense, to make life easier for chatbots and their cousins. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI; Cory Doctorow #Booksky

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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sentence of the Day: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI; Cory Doctorow #Booksky

Sentence of the Day:

Musk dressed a person up in a robot suit and pretended it was a robot, in order to pretend to investors that his company would soon be able to grow by convincing manual laborers' bosses to fire them and replace them with robots, and split their wages with Musk.

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI; Cory Doctorow
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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sentence of the Day: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI; Cory Doctorow #Booksky

Sentence of the Day:

In July 2025, Delta Air Lines announced a partnership with Fetcherr, an Israeli surveillance pricing company, claiming that they would be charging each passenger a different price based on the commercial surveillance data they held on them, which would be converted to a price by means of Al analytics.

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI; Cory Doctorow
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tedbeaton.bsky.social @tedbeaton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sentence of the Day: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI; Cory Doctorow #Booksky

Sentence of the Day:

It's true that there is no consensus about what consciousness is, but it's also true that advocates for the idea that consciousness is a matter of guessing words really well haven't offered any evidence for their assertion.

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI; Cory Doctorow
#Booksky

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