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WornRagged🇨🇦

@wornragged.bsky.social
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Dare-devil. Spy. Noted kook. Doctor of medieval bizarreties. Writes things down. Albertan in Canada. Canadian in Occitanie.

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WornRagged🇨🇦 @wornragged.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Paris, 4:45am. Fire alarm in hotel. I just learned SO MUCH FRENCH. (Also: Monsieur Room 355 will probably never sleep in the altogether again, though he eventually looked quite chic in the nice lady’s yellow bathrobe.)
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alberta's most recent former environment minister now works for....an oil and gas company. Mais bien sur.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Invasion." "Remigration." They're terms you'd more commonly associate with America's toxic debate around immigration policy than Canada's. But they're starting to pop up here. You can thank Danielle Smith and the UCP for that. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/06/o...
nationalobserver.com
America’s anti-immigration politics are coming to Canada — and Alberta invited them in
The separation question has consumed most of the attention around the province's October 19th referendum. The immigration-related questions also on the ballot might be just as dangerous and divisive.
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WornRagged🇨🇦 @wornragged.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This one really made my day.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/10/2026
#VanityFair
Vanity fair cover with Sam Altman stealing everything
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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@KatyET www.abresistance.ca @katyet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you haven’t received the AB Resistance Update yet, here it is! We’d really appreciate a SHARE, friends!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
US Republican organizers are in Alberta to help separatists mobilize their vote. They’re not even hiding it. They are openly working for the national interest of the United States. Cast your vote for Canada. Reject these treasonous imposters. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Howdy! Alberta separatists + American Republicans. Read all about it. --> www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By Nathan VanderKlippe, Grant Robertson, and friend.
theglobeandmail.com
The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When you look at the October calendar there is little wiggle room left to get the special ballots into the mail. www.elections.ab.ca
October 2026 calendar highlighting important dates for Alberta referendum special ballots. October 9 is highlighted with a yellow handwritten-style box reading “MAIL BACK BALLOT,” with a red arrow pointing to the date. A text box explains that October 9 is the Canada Post recommended date to mail back special ballot packages to guarantee delivery by the receiving deadline. October 13–17 is highlighted in green as the advance voting period, with a large arrow spanning the dates. October 16 is marked with a red star. A second text box states: “October 16 - 5 PM — Last day for receiving special ballots by mail at Elections Alberta.” October 12 is marked as a holiday. The calendar uses coloured highlights, arrows and handwritten-style annotations to make the key mailing, advance voting and ballot-receiving dates easy to identify.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From the DM’s… Allegedly these illegal door hangers are now showing up across Alberta… Without identifying who is distributing them. Sure would be a shame if someone had some doorbell footage… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dear Alberta UCP, It is becoming increasingly clear that the MAGA movement will be remembered as an incredibly dark, dysfunctional, destructive, corrupt and unjust period in history. Why are you tethering your legacy – and our province – to this rotten and sinking ship?
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Standing outside the gates of the Qu'Appelle Indian residential school.This a haunted dark place. A 5-year-old taken through these gates had a lower chance of survival than a Canadian soldier fighting in WW2. The red dress and the orange shirt hang on the gates. We remember #orangeshirtday
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amirite tho
White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026
You first, fuckfaces.
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JennyB @iheartmaps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't know how to deal with you if you read these and don't feel an immense ache for the lack of humanity we are showing to our neighbors.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I watched this last night. It's terrifying, but hopeful. I feel it's my duty, as a human, to share it. I'd appreciate it if you shared it too. It's specifically made for people in the UK, but it's about everyone, and, the more people see it, the better chance we'll have. www.nebriefing.org/the-film
nebriefing.org
National Emergency Briefing
A 50-min film centred around the National Emergency Briefing. The frank facts, but also the huge opportunity if Government steps up and leads a WW2-scale response. Designed to be watched by communitie...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You don't say globalnews.ca/news/1207056...
globalnews.ca
$11.5M from Sturgeon Lake trust helped fund Rath firm’s Tallcree payment: receiver | Globalnews.ca
Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath’s firm took $11.5 million from one First Nation trust to help him make a court-ordered refund to another First Nation, court documents show.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We used to be a proper planet, one that rewarded its top scholars in style.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The biggest lie told by Danielle Smith and the separatists debunked. No, Alberta Does Not 'Subsidize' the Rest of Canada via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
thetyee.ca
No, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The Tyee
The vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I keep meeting smart informed Albertans who tell me they do not intend to vote, because they don’t want to legitimize the process, or because they know the premier is not bound by the results. But what if making us give up on voting is the whole point? My argument to vote - no matter the absurdity.
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Advice, please. How do I get my neighbour, Jason Kenney, to remove his Red Ensign flag? It's a known white supremacist symbol. It's embarrassing to see regularly as I pass his home. Do I give him Progress Pride Flag as a gift & replacement or just talk to him about his bad, racist flag? 🇨🇦
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you gotta buy my pots cause actually they may one day grow to be Emrakul The Promised End and destroy all of humanity thats how powerful and important they are. Every time i throw a pot i am tempting eldritch power. Invest now in pots
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For the sake of basic accuracy, shouldn't the lede say Smith recounted a long list of what she claimed were historic indignities. Or has Canadian Press decided Albertans have suffered at the hands of the federal government? Basic journalism failure here. Sheesh.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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WornRagged🇨🇦 @wornragged.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Barry Cooper’s long game, folks. He’s been at it for 40 years from his tenured position at UCalgary.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW says it has been denied White House access.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 18/09/2026
The first time someone uses it, it looks like "magic." The second, third, fourth time, you can see the trick, and you realize it's just spicy autocorrect.
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The SPP did not just produce a 26 page report on the economic implications of Alberta separatism. It also has almost 200 pages in additional documentation, tables, and appendixes. You can access it here open.alberta.ca/publications...
open.alberta.ca
The economic and fiscal implications of Alberta separation - Open Government
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 17/09/2026
Just reupping this cuz it seems relevant rite now buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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Defending Trans People Is Good Politics, Actually
Please tell your local comics store to reserve a copy of Star Trek: Zero Point #1! It’s going to be so fun! Lessons in Magic and Disaster is coming in...
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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: New cat species just dropped! 🧪 What is a tilcayo, exactly? Well, it's a small wild cat in the genus Leopardus and a member of the tiger cat species complex, but it is NOT a tigrina, oncilla, kodkod, Geoffroy's cat... www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
nationalgeographic.com
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here's what I'm blinking in disbelief about today, locally at least. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Former Elections Alberta staff raise ‘mismanagement’ concerns about 'Water Not Coal' petition verification | CBC News
Five former Elections Alberta employees are raising “mismanagement” concerns about how Corb Lund's citizen initiative petition was validated, alleging procedures changed and that there was a lack of t...
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WornRagged🇨🇦 @wornragged.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just saw an ancient prototype of Feathers McGraw at the Lyon Beaux Arts museum.
Ancient bronze (I think) chicken with stylized trefoil comb. It has an unsettling air of dark mischief.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just a couple of UCP provincial board members attending a separatist event while Danielle Smith swears she and the UCP are campaigning for Canada… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At best, the Elections Alberta is an underfunded, over-employed shambles. At worst, it was responding to government pressure to ensure a desired outcome. If the latter, it’s a 5-alarm fire. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Former Elections Alberta staff raise ‘mismanagement’ concerns about 'Water Not Coal' petition verification | CBC News
Five former Elections Alberta employees are raising “mismanagement” concerns about how Corb Lund's citizen initiative petition was validated, alleging procedures changed and that there was a lack of t...
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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And you dare call yourselves book nerds!
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 11/09/2026
AND ALSO I had a book come out THIS VERY TUESDAY! How can that be?! Would love to see folks picking up WICKHILLS -- a ? magical Cold War fantaspionage in a magical city ? I don't know -- but, you know, without blowing your cover. Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@ximenaka.bsky.social did some really good work picking apart Danielle Smith’s claims. You should read it. And share it. (And give credit to her work because this is important stuff that someone needed to do.)
thetyee.ca
Does Alberta Provide $10 in Services for Every $1 of ‘Guest Worker’ Taxes? | The Tyee
Ahead of a divisive referendum question, we fact checked Danielle Smith’s claims.
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 14/09/2026
Can hardly begin to articulate how excited I am for Dominik's memoir about walking the Camino de Santiago with chronic pain. You can pre-order it now & I'm very comfortable saying you absolutely should because Dominik is a magnificent poet, meticulous & insightful editor, & my very dear friend.
penguinrandomhouse.ca
In the Ordinary Instant by Dominik Parisien | Penguin Random House Canada
A man with unpredictable chronic pain sets out to walk the Camino de Santiago alone, confronting the body—and belief system—that has shaped his life.
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Sara Cress @saracress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You, too, can get a Flock camera taken down by knowing too much about public infrastructure and doing something about it.
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tatsoi @tatsoi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There's a lot of praise for Justin Avoth's narration on Tom Cox's Everything Will Swallow You I think you'd like the book too. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social www.audible.co.uk/pd/Everythin...
audible.co.uk
Audible | Listen to Audiobooks, Podcasts, & Originals
Try Audible free for 30 days. Discover best-selling audiobooks, free podcasts, and exclusive Audible Originals. Listen offline with the Audible app.
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026
(it does feel sort of silly to post about them when i do but) i am always hoping my books will find their readers! my last book thinks about and with the truly monstrous force field of the ports in Los Angeles, interacting with "nature", the ocean, and oil press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Oil Beach
Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade?   San Pedro Bay, which contains the co...
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