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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I mean, the emperor has no clothes *and* a micropenis. There’s a decent argument to be made that our fastest peaceful way out of this is for all of us to just proceed honestly and accordingly. Man will either blow a literal gasket or get laughed out. But, okay: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Nato leaders agree not to mention World Cup to Donald Trump to avoid irritating him

As alliance gathers in Ankara, European leaders have an informal strategy to try to keep US president on side

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

PW has a little sidebar this week about book bans focusing on nonfiction. And they dropped this little interesting fact: "Of both fiction and nonfiction titles that were removed, 44% were by or about people of color, and 39% were by or about LGBTQ+ individuals— both up from the previous year"

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Just accidentally used Should I Stay or Should I Go vs Every Breath You Take to explain how (and how not!!!) to navigate romantic ambiguity with the kiddo.

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Cadence Weapon @cadenceweapon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I’m putting on a vintage market today at Standard Time in Toronto to celebrate the release of my new album Forager! There will be vintage clothing, Buck 65 will be selling records, Lo Fi Bagels will be there, it’s gonna be a blast. It’s all starting at 11 am!

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I was having the loveliest chat with a fellow at terminal 1 today who was waiting for his love. Beside himself with excitement. “How long have you been together?” “Well, since 1989, but we couldn’t marry because we wanted kids and we’re first cousins.” Top 10 record scratch moment, gang.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I've been mulling another half-marathon, in my waning 40s. This story’s decided it for me. I’m not doing months of intervals and 10k+ runs in all weather so some bro-propelled (bropelled?!) bag of wires that can’t even feel the burn can eerily trot past me. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

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Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon

Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Man friend is in Scotland, kiddo’s at their dad’s. I took myself to a show, dang it. Glad I have. Man has a hell of a voice, and we’re in the kind of church venue that does it justice.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This is a shocking story. Congrats to @thenarwhal.ca on exposing this. LNG Canada in Kitimat – 🇨🇦's first major LNG facility – is now one of the highest sources of GLOBAL emissions for flaring, undermining claims that we produce the cleanest natural gas in the world: thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-b...

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LNG Canada exceeds estimated 2024 global record for burned gas | The Narwhal

LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., burned more gas in 2025 than any other liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on record in 2024

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Until there’s some kind of demonstrable commitment to keeping the Strait of Hormuz open, like jointly checking for mines and jointly dropping the three pages of hedge statements, I’m just gonna assume they’re fucking around with markets for their friends and assume no practical change has happened.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

As someone who lived with friends the last couple years of HS, requiring attendance is a tricky one. I kept a high-80s average missing lots of class so I could work. I wouldn’t have gotten scholarships, or maybe even gone to uni, if attendance was mandatory. www.thestar.com/news/ontario...

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Attendance to be worth up to 15% of Ontario high school students’ grades, exams required in most classes

Education Minister Paul Calandra also announced that most secondary school courses will need to have exams, scheduled during a dedicated exam period,

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 14/04/2026

We recently released a new online tool at Bellingcat that helps measure probable destruction in Iran and the surrounding gulf states. It is free to access here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

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When Satellite Imagery Goes Dark: New Tool Shows Damage in Iran and the Gulf - bellingcat

Bellingcat is introducing an updated damage assessment tool — called the Iran Conflict Damage Proxy Map — focused on destruction in Iran and the Gulf .

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

And making prisons less humane is also criminogenic. These kinds of vengeance-based "savings" end up costing more in increased recidivism rates.

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Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Canada’s carceral system disproportionately impacts indigenous peoples and communities. Preventing incarcerated people from accessing libraries is about more than saving a paltry couple million bucks per year. This is disgusting.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It’d be neat to see a shift in reporting away from treating Trump and his gang of drag administration impersonators like the main characters. They get off on being the main characters. Report instead on all the moves the adults in the room are taking to keep things on the rails. It’d be more useful.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

this may have been written about already but in the last 15 years thanks to cell cams and body cams, the public has seen with its own two eyes the way police have treated black people. for a long time, we were told that we were exaggerating, seeing racism that wasnt there. now you watch it.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This ass is throwing words around like he hasn’t been operating as though he’s functionally withdrawn from NATO for his whole second presidency. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Trump says he is ‘absolutely’ considering withdrawing US from Nato

The president, a longtime critic of Nato, has stepped up his rhetoric after allies refused to join the US-Israel war on Iran

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I mean, so much of our politics centre around how we treat others, what we owe them, and how we conceive of and extend care. Those are pretty central things for a relationship. If we’re a long, long way apart on those, I don’t think there’s potential for a relationship there, no.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

My child, at 11, just got something down for me that I can’t reach. They’re officially taller than me. We’ve crossed that line.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This is the beginning of good news, maybe. But when I read it’ll work on the model of the IPCC, oof. It would be so, so wonderful to create something international, democratic, and *with teeth.* Otherwise we’re letting the ultrarich wank us all to death. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert

Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I just think it would be so funny if we all sent Trump penis pumps with concerned notes about how we see his pain. What an angry, deeply stupid, small man. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Trump cites UK’s ‘stupidity’ over Chagos Islands as reason to take over Greenland

US president says on social media that Britain’s decision to cede islands to Mauritius is ‘act of total weakness’

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Me: Hey! Holy blizzard! Wonder if the county roads are open? Perth Co: We declare a significant weather event! Me: So, like, are the roads closed? PC: Super significant. See our roads page. Roads page: Significant. Weather. Event! Me: So… yes? PC: Definitely an event. Wow. Me: /stares PC: /stares

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This is gutting StatsCan

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The Giller jury appears to be all-white, and that is… a choice. Especially after the last few years they’ve had. Do they all deserve it? Sure, could be. Did literally no one else, this year?!

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Librarian here, confirming. My partner’s a prof for college journalism, which gives us lots of chances to work together. The most popular class he and I puttered on together for his students was the one where the students saw how frequently AI hallucinates, and how to research around that.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The 11yo and I went to go see Flow at the Stratford Film Festival last night. It looks like a cute kids movie. It is *actually* something akin to a spiritual experience that is kid-appropriate. Remember Baraka? Gives you that feeling. www.imdb.com/title/tt4772...

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Flow (2024) ⭐ 7.9 | Animation, Adventure, Family

1h 25m | PG

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I am not qualified to weigh in on merits of free trade *at all,* but to the economist on CBC who just warned of a 1985 standard of living without CUSMA: in 1985, my high school drop-out parents owned a house and a car and were raising two kids on one income. Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Finland is one comparatively successful model, but not just because schools teach critical thinking. Finland has high social trust, strong public-service media and coherent institutions. The whole system supports verification and open deliberation, you can’t copy the surface without the structure.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

11 yo has discovered we have a device in our house that will just, like, pluck random music and information out of thin air. You can pick what stream, but not what the streams are playing. It’s all a surprise. And there are no monthly fees. Radio, man. Magic.

Child with long hair and a grey hoodie plays with fascination with an old-fashioned radio in a messy old house

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Tree decorating playlist went from “Santa, Baby” to “Backdoor Santa” and my 11 yo has never been so scandalized. I’m dying.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Oh noooo, Kevin, whatever will we do without all the people who get in the way of the effective policy and don’t pay any fucking taxes?! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘The Mamdani effect’: wealthy New Yorkers show renewed interest in Miami’s Billionaire’s Beach

Sales spike at the Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons and Cipriani as luxury buyers weigh moves from Manhattan

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

And, if you live in Canada, the authors you read will get a little kickback, even if you borrow from a library instead of buying! Not enough people know that. publiclendingright.ca/about/overview

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Program Overview

It pays to have your books in Canada's libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

About as disappointing as any news can be. Hard to believe neither he nor his family ever dug further into Elvin’s family history, given everything he’d made of the connection he thought was there. www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

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Thomas King, who built prolific career telling Indigenous stories, reveals he is not part Cherokee

In an essay published in the Globe and Mail, the author of “The Inconvenient Indian” said a whistle-blowing organization shared his ancestry.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Your Sunday good news story: Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Neither my 11yo nor my partner of 5.5 years knows my birthday. This means I drop hints quarterly until they figure out that it can’t possibly be my birthday again.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Man was not expecting Canada *and* Mamdani.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I... am pretty sure David Frum just tried to say Mamdani said that all our problems are Israel's fault, on Metro Morning? Did I hear that wrong? I am thinking I must have... I can't imagine David Common would have just let that stand. Though at this point, we know what plays like that are worth.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Public good is cool again. Eat shit, Reaganomics.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Please tell me the NDP is taking notes. Please.

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