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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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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I love this, so much ❤️ Long may it stay that way!

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Oh man!!! Welcome! Most folks are delightful. There are a few turkeys, and they’re vocal and organized about it. Which sucks. But mostly, people are wonderful.

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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

As ever, thank god for The Clash

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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

Using the word bro reminded me that my brilliant, stentorian-voiced, gravitas-bestowed man friend accidentally called me “bro” last time we went to a show. My kid calls me bro now. Or, chillingly, “bruh.” So I guess that’s my name, now. Bro the Librarian.

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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

Do I remember bud’s name? I do not. They said Spanish guitar at a Stratford venue with good acoustics and I just smashed the button. And here we are.

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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

“Dick measuring contest over,” declare local men still carrying tape measures

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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 · 16/04/2026

I know UK is football-mad, but it’s more than a bit strange that this popped up in the Guardian but not CBC or the Star. Maybe it just broke.

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

And, for anyone who wonders how you can make a good average missing class? Curricula are publicly available. Libraries exist. Study groups are a thing. Working teens can piece it together if they’re determined. I did. And I think we do want determined folks to be able to be mobile, yes?

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

Even kids that live at home often have to work so families can make ends meet these days. I don’t know why they’re so determined to make university impossible for kids who don’t have funds. But I suspect it has a lot to do w/ making the boys club look like a meritocracy without them getting smarter.

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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

Like, stick Melania on Page 6. It’s a stunt, we know it and should treat it like one. Tell me where we’re at with releasing the files themselves, and prosecuting the bad actors.

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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 · 07/04/2026

The man friend and I were talking about that over the weekend. Like, the options are grim. There’s a malignancy to the American system right now that can’t be solved by, say, invoking the 25th amendment, as some hope to. Not that we can descend into despair, but the way out is… yeah.

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Shauna @twinklybugs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Gods willing we cross out of this age of small men soon, before we lose much more of the wonder of everything else in the world.

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

Shit or get off the pot, you flaccid pocket tyrant. No one cares about your flailing anymore.

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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

It is a wild, wild feeling.

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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

And I guess, if you’re the big cog in the CanLit machine the Giller is, you need to look at your jury as a whole, and ask if those people, assembled together, can properly appreciate all the amazing stories written here on their own terms. If the answer’s no, good luck staying relevant.

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

Much is being made of them all being indie booksellers. Which, again, sure. There are sooooo many amazing indie booksellers out there from communities of colour. And *especially these days* they need and deserve their flowers.

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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

Most of the students decided to just either steer around AI for now, or use it to speed up repetitive tasks for which they’ve already generated the accurate data. And then they *still* check the results. Because AI can do very goofy things.

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