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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I think of all the water we will lose and all the good things we could do with that kind of money and I can't decide if I want to flip a table or start sobbing. What a waste.
theglobeandmail.com
Ottawa’s AI strategy includes more than $2.3-billion for training, adoption and startups
The long-delayed plan includes $500-million growth fund for AI companies but proposes no new regulations for the tech
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I am once again roasting the Nova Scotian tourist economy in the Beaverton
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Avi Lewis: "We have shoved Canada Post so far into the market mindset that every few months we have a national conversation about why isn't Canada Post making money. Does the ambulance service make money? Do the police services make money? We're talking about a fundamental public service."
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.
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Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Bob Bancroft has spent a lifetime fighting - often in vain and against very powerful industrial interests - for the health of Nova Scotia’s forests, biodiversity, and wildlife. With N.S. Premier Tim Houston’s latest all-out assault on nature, Bancroft now asks “What will be left?” Read and weep.
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Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Upping this 2025 piece on N.S. Premier Tim Houston and his yes- and yesterday men, which foreshadows his latest budget, which attacks programs - for very little cost savings - for First Nations, environment, climate, the arts, education, culture & heritage. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...
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Tim Houston and his yes-men are yesterday’s men, gearing up for an assault on the environment, and those who would protect it - Halifax Examiner
Not even a year into his second mandate as premier, Houston is proving himself to be yesterday’s man, surrounded by yes-men with yesterday’s plans, which weaken democracy and spell climate and environ...
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 20/02/2026
Fun fact you can do everything you want with just HTML tables and people liked that version of the Internet a lot better
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Michael Gorman @michaeltgorman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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N.S. government closing some museums, most visitor information centres | CBC News
The province says the closures are related to the 'modernization' of the museum system and visitor information delivery.
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Halifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 19/02/2026
‘Shock and awe’ at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction By @joanbaxter.bsky.social
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'Shock and awe' at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction - Halifax Examiner
Retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft describes the elimination of the division and today’s changes to the department as “absolutely disgusting.”
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I wrote an essay about menopause, writers block, and being a late bloomer. You can also find it in the newly released anthology, The Big M, edited by Lidia Yuknavitch: electricliterature.com/menopause-wr...
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Menopause, Writer’s Block, and Being a Late Bloomer - Electric Literature
I’m supposed to believe my womanhood is ending but instead, I have been handed a new beginning
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Andy Bowers @evilpez4.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/12/2025
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
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Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
When a few Canada Post employees in Vancouver started answering letters to Santa in the early-1970s, it eventually led to the most famous postal code in Canada. H0H 0H0. Each year, thousands of letters to Santa from around the world are answered. This is the story. 🧵1/8
A pair of small hands holding a beige envelope addressed in red crayon to "Santa Claus, North Pole, HOH OHO". The return address in the top left reads "123 Main St, Anytown, A1A 1A1 ON". A small stamp is in the top right corner. A pink crayon lies on the dark table nearby, with another child's drawing partially visible in the background.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/11/2025
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · 13/11/2025
The 2025 #TreeForBoston is on its way! 🌲 This week, @mayorwu.boston.gov and Interim Parks & Recreation Commissioner Cathy Baker-Eclipse joined Nova Scotia officials and the Feener family in Lunenburg to help cut the 45-foot white spruce now bound for Boston Common. (1/3)
45 foot white spruce being cut down in Nova Scotia. Mayor Wu and Cathy Baker-Eclipse pose in front of Tree for Boston with Nova Scotia Officials. Mayor Wu uses a chainsaw to help cut down the tree. Mayor Wu and Cathy Baker-Eclipse hold sapplings and pose with Nova Scotia officials and the Feener family (nominated the tree).
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
every Canadian over 30 knows all the words to this Great Value muppets song about not eating grandma's heart medication www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuL...
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Don't Put It In Your Mouth (Full Version, 1992)
YouTube video by RetroWinnipeg
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/11/2025
Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide. They're hard to diagnose and treat, and they're on the rise. Now, scientists are decoding the biology behind these debilitating diseases in hopes of eventually treating the causes, not just the symptoms.
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Disease of 1,000 faces shows how science is tackling immunity’s dark side
It's one of medicine's biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies. Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
ahh another beautiful day in the glorious age of technology, sure hope my doorbell doesn’t stop working because an online bookstore took over and then broke the entire internet
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 09/08/2025
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids
Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I found something @catsofyore.bsky.social will like, I hope! from a book in our newsroom library …
a photo of a cat sliding down a firehouse pole. caption:

"TAPPER"-THE POLE-SLIDING CAT
Although he seems a bit grim in this picture, Tapper's firemen friends say he really enjoys sliding down the brass pole. Tapper is the pet of Engine 37 and Hook & Ladder 26 in Boston. After he had watched the firemen come down the poles for a while, Tap-
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per was taught to do it by himself. He lands on all fours on the rubber mat at the base of the pole and from there on gets around like any other cat. Tapper's name is derived from the firchouse jargon which calls each stroke of the alarm bell a "tap."
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
New video is now live! It's the story of BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER, a film that even the director doubted could be made & went on to become an international camp classic. Here's the first minute, and you can watch the rest of the story here: youtu.be/bOzHhHgmKK4
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
No hell hot enough.
latimes.com
ICE raids are leaving some L.A. cats and dogs homeless
Chuco, a pit bull, was dropped at a shelter after his owner was deported last month. Many other dogs and cats in L.A. are facing similar circumstances as their caretakers vanish or flee.
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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel. Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...
A collage of four Victorian circus performers standing in front of a circus tent, with flames rising up in the foreground.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/07/2025
Del Monte Foods, the nearly 140-year-old company whose canned fruits and vegetables have long been grocery store staples, has filed for bankruptcy as it grapples with mounting debt, post-pandemic headwinds and shifts in consumer spending.
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Del Monte Foods, maker of popular canned goods, files for bankruptcy
The company, founded in 1886, said it was voluntarily initiating Chapter 11 proceedings, citing mounting debt, economic headwinds and consumer spending shifts.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/07/2025
I'm so fucking tired can't we please just have good things I mean fucks' sakes we're all so goddam tired we're just trying to fucking survive and thrive and be happy and together and jesus fucking christ why can't we just have that just let us fucking have that you evil goddam BORING wannabe dragons
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Andy Bowers @evilpez4.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
and so I wake in the morning and I step outside, but it’s not over yet; it’s still 2025, and I scream at the top of my lungs, FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
have been confused for days about insane cats invading our yard and destroying the plants for no reason only to find out I have accidentally planted fucking catnip all over the place, I am this neighborhoods feline drug lord, ive devasted their society
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Brady Klopfer @bradyklopfer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
Tweet from the Durham Bulls that reads "Y'all means all. #PrideNight"Tweet from a user saying "Please delete," and Durham Bulls responding "No."Tweet from a user saying, "Actually, no it does not! Stop dividing people." with a response from the Durham Bulls saying, "Inclusion's actually the exact opposite of division"Tweet from someone saying "Maybe don't promote gay sex to children?" with the Durham Bulls responding, "Okay, sexyman159861581242902587231848675309"
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
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Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
it's 3pm I better see what Cass is up to
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/06/2025
It's kitten season in warm-weather areas and animal shelters need all the help they can get.
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Welcome to kitten season, when animal shelters need all the help they can get
It's kitten season in warm-weather areas and animal shelters need all the help they can get. Now is the time of year when most cats give birth.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Nova Scotia Power leaked my bank account information on the internet and so I have spit-roasted them in the Beaverton.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/06/2025
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/05/2025
On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well adapted to conditions there.
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New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station
On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well adapted to conditions there.
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Emily Kidd White @emilykiddwhite.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Seething with rage. To those who spread hate to win points in your drummed-up-of-a-distraction culture war, this was always the well-foreseen end of your vile rootless obsession. I am so sorry, Kady. We failed you.
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A quote from a 1996 interview with Majel Barrett, in which she gives the gays everything they could want by quoting Bea Arthur in Mame
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NPR @npr.org · 20/05/2025
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
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Doctors urged to treat pain for IUD insertion and other procedures
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Apparently there was talk in the 90s about a Star Trek sitcom starring Lwaxana Troi????? The fact that this never got made is a violation of my human rights
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/05/2025
“Sesame Street” has signed a new distribution deal with Netflix, as well as a separate deal with PBS, the show announced on Monday. This gives the children’s show a much needed-boost as it battles a financial crisis. nyti.ms/3Zswh7l
Elmo and other “Sesame Street” characters with their puppeteers on set. Text reads: "‘Sesame Street,’ Facing Crisis, Signs New Deal With Netflix." Photo by Jonah Markowitz for The New York Times.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 14/05/2025
Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl
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a cheebs that is chaos @chaoscheebs.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Don't let a motherfucker steal your joy. Watch cartoons, build LEGO kits, get your friends together and play board games, coo at your pets and call them your precious stinky babies, blow off dandelion fluff, whatever sparks joy. Cringe is dead, be free.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I really don't have any words about this story. It's just so deeply upsetting. Fuck the women who decided to police the bathroom and fuck the guard for doing this.
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Woman says Boston hotel security guard confronted her in bathroom, asked her to prove gender
A Boston couple said they were in a women's hotel bathroom when a male security guard came in and started banging on the stall doors.
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