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David Suzuki Foundation @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social · 9h
This National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we’re lifting up the work of One Day's Pay: a national campaign to mobilize settlers and non-Indigenous people to give one day’s pay (or what you can afford) to an Indigenous-led organization. Check out www.onedayspay.ca to make your donation today.
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Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 6h
Some really great bloggers here!
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 6h
we’ve been going more analog—having students hand write notes, teaching them HOW to take notes, sometimes even getting rid of computers ENTIRELY in the classroom We teach critical thinking and GD it if we are going to let tech rot stop us
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 5h
If a woman did this at a minimum someone would snatch it away form her. later they would suggest she check her self in for observation or quit her job if she finds it too stressful. or just fire her. #politics
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 21h
#bewitched #tvshows name a tv show from prior to 1980.
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Nicole Bedera @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Art by Jay Lee. #art
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Iron scrubber painting technique / Painting deep in the woods / Easy creative art
YouTube video by Jay Lee Painting
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#beading #beadwork #gifts
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black is hard enough, but with this yarn. Wow. #crochet #crochetsky
A small black cat ear in progress. It is slowly narrowing to make th ear shape.
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am a Feminist: Claiming the F-word in Turbulent Times. Review in ALT. #bookreview #booksky
This book was a great starting primer on early waves of feminism. Ideal for youth and adolescents seeking to get started on their knowledge base. There is much more depth to be gleaned from further reading on the subject than can fit in this book.
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Entering the final stretch of #whatsonyourhook. weeks 40-52: each week post either a WIP or FO that fits one, or several of these themes; Tapestry, Stuffie, Amigurumi, Cosplay, Color work, Black and White. and of course all things autumn or Halloween. #crochet #crochetsky 🧶
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stib @stib.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
If you're a sewist in Australia it's getting harder to find decent fabric supplies in-store, now that Lincraft is going online-only. But give Spotlight a miss (and Anaconda and Harris Scarfe) "It was reported in the news today that Lincraft has gone into […] [Original post on aus.social]
social media post by Just Media Watch. Text is in the main post
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stolen Neighbors Quilt. If the size of this quilt, and the fact it even exists, doesn't make your heart hurt, you live under a rock. #activism #defundICE #quilting
fightbacknews.org
Giant community-made “MN Stolen Neighbors” quilt unveiled at the state capitol
By Alvin Sheng and Owen Lubozynski Saint Paul, MN – Dozens gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday, September 22 to unveil th...
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay let's see: Hamlet; act 1, scene 5. Ghost: appears Hamlet: "FUCK!"
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Involve them from the shopping stage. when making the list ask what they want to eat for the week. Then later on if it comes up that what they want isn't there you can remind them they helped pick what is and to choose something they have.
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wish that the About That videos from @globalnews.ca would go back to being full screen videos in a slightly longer format. All I can find are the mobile Tiktok style videos. I don't like video shorts at all. especially not from desktop.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
George Michael deserved better than this.
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Planned VMAs Tribute To George Michael Called Out For Not Featuring Any LGBTQ+ Artists
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Idc, I will get angry RESEARCH WOMEN FFS
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Zoo Boise @zooboise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Caturday from Amur tiger Akasha. Of all cat species, these tigers are the biggest and strongest! 📷: Zoo volunteer Jamie
A female Amur tiger lies on a large rock in a zoo yard.
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
can we please have colored repost/quote post icon to indicate if we already reposted or quote posted something? as a treat @bsky.app.
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😂
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gross. Instead of wasting time on this. Let's focus on actual humans. like how too many doctors and scientists still insist early stage cancers have no symptoms. #science #smh
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am "Get yelled at for picking up the phone while the internet is running" years old.
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Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So help me every god ever if I see one more headline that says some AI shit went "rogue" I will by myself tear down every data center on the planet. Seriously IT CANNOT GO ROGUE IT IS NOT A PERSON IT CANNOT THINK STOP IT!
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Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Donate or share so we can get more videos from Michelle. 🥰
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
guess who just got new yarn? Me. cat ears incoming! #crochet
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that is totally a ride that bug has taken before. it knows just when to shift.
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nobody expects you not to caffeinate, just do it beforehand like a professional.
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What are you doing to celebrate #DollyDay
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is contributing to low moods, and reduced night visibility. #science #intrigue
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is cartoon super villain levels of dangerous. don't you dare do this without proof reading. Allergies are serious, potentially life threatening conditions. Not everyone has an epi-pen. #restaurants #greed #stupidity
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AI-generated food imagery at restaurants has some customers losing their appetites | CBC News
Diners have taken to social media to share photos of overly-shiny sandwiches and circular shrimp, lamenting the suspected use of AI. But some in the restaurant business say it's helped them reduce cos...
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
QP with a gif of your favorite Pokémon! (wrong answers only)
Pudge the Fish with his Sandwich from Lilo & Stitch.
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Randy Rainbow @randyrainbow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🎶 Oh, what a beautiful moron… 🎶 ALL NEW! “Dummy with the Wig on Top” 🌽🤠 #DummyWithTheWigOnTop #RandyRainbow
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Dummy with the Wig On Top - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
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Global News @globalnews.ca · 23/09/2026
Northwest Territories latest to stay on daylight time year-round. globalnews.ca/news/1207066...
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Northwest Territories latest to stay on daylight time year-round | Globalnews.ca
Clocks will not have to go back an hour on Nov. 1, the government says, when time change would occur in the Northwest Territories.
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#cdnnews
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Okay i was briefly excited to discover winamp media player was still a thing. Briefly. already uninstalled as it won't work on my desktop and I can't use the app without making an account. Forget it. #enshittification
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If anyone happens to know a proper name for this cast on let OP know. #knitting #knitsky
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ripped this waay back to try a different decrease method #crochet
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Scarlett Wells - The Fabric Cobbler 💙🆘💙 @fabricbosslady.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s hard to keep up with 12 platforms and this is a vulnerable conversation about that. If you do support my shop, please take the under 3 minutes to watch all of the way through and comment. That support is free. As always, love you mean it. #shoplocal #fiberart #quilting #sewing #crafting
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You know you wanna #crochet www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
The Garment (crochet edition)
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
added some ALT. #noai
magicmooshka:

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

animatedamerican:

Hey OP? Thank you for articulating something I've been trying to get clear in my own mind for a while now.
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Jason - Owner/Creator @jbfiberstudio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My website is live! Check it out! Share! And the customer blanket form is linked as well 🧶 Really hoping to migrate away from Etsy soon! jbfiberstudio.square.site #fiberart #art #handmade #madebyme #macrame #blankets #chunkyknit #baskets #wallart #keychains #yarn #paracord #rope #knots #braids
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Home | JBFiberStudio
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#knitsky #knitting
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Salient discussion regarding ai harms from tumblr. Plus a reading list for anyone interested in educating themselves on the matter. #noai #aiharms #aieducation
moonshinemagpie:

I'm finding it immensely helpful to read books about AI, because my past grumblings of "it's bad for the environment" really pale in comparison to what I'm learning.

But im not finding it easier to talk about AI with the people in my life who use it. The evils are both enormous and complex. I cannot, on the spot and in casual conversation, recite the colonial and political history that led to entire towns in Chile being devastated by AI data centers. It is unseemly to bring up how many women have had miscarriages because of lack of access to drinking water worsened by data center usage in places like Uruguay. How racist surveillance of the public in South Africa has been used as training data for AI companies. How AI companies would not limit their use of drinking water even during Arizona's most severe drought in history. How this whole paragraph isn't even scratching the surface of what is evil about AI companies. 

It's actually so much harder now to articulate my absolute hatred or to know how to approach these conversations. 

EDIT: So far this year I've read, in order of quality/relevance:

Empire of AI by Karen Hao
More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
More Than Words by John Warner
planning to read these next:

Data Empire by Roopika Risam; not sure how specifically AI-focused it will be
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Pollution Is Colonialism 
It's been important for me to learn about AI companies more deeply because I see a lot of AI critics ask questions that reveal that they don't really understand what's going on in basic ways, and that makes me nervous about whether we're all going to be able to organize against it.

Example: In response to an article about Sam Altman asking Congress to regulate AI, I saw a lot of comments like, "What, even HE doesn't think his own company can get its shit together?! He's that desperate for outside help?" 

And that's not what's going on. Sam Altman talks to Congress because he's directing the conversation around AI concerns. He wants laws passed that make it harder for other companies, especially Chinese companies, to compete with OpenAI. He wants us all to be worried about theoretical future AI models triggering apocalyptic scifi scenarios because that kind of panic distracts us from tackling the problems that are actually happening now, like extreme surveillance, water shortages, destruction of land, and abuse of workers. 

Anyway, even if you hate AI—especially if you hate AI—it's important to learn about what's happening.
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This one requires the full video for respect and appreciation: This is a dance battle see this post a dance.
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SYTYCD4 - Joshua & Twitch - Ukrainian/Russian Trepak (Trepak) [HD]
YouTube video by AJ Hersi
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just started #NorthofNorth. So far I like it, that husband though.
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In defense of the Kennedy center look at this display of #unity #solidarity #kennedycenter #worldnews #usnews
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hold your horses. we do not need another provincial election right now. Signed, somebody who worked the last one. #justwaityourturn #bcpoli
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why does this thing look kind of like a young Christopher Walken mixed with the brawny paper towel mascot?
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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a big part of why generative AI is a huge problem. Dr. Deepfake may sound like Marvel's latest super villain but the phenomenonsi very real #noai #justsayno
cbc.ca
Does that ad feature a real doctor or is it a deepfake scam? It's getting more difficult to tell, experts warn | CBC News
Physicians warn AI-generated ads featuring the likenesses of prominent doctors are scamming patients out of their money, putting Canadians’ health at risk and eroding public trust. Yet there’s still n...
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