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Shelley Youngblut

@youngblut.bsky.social
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CEO & Creative Ringleader @wordfest.com An exclamation point between the book being written and the book being read. Translation: I create special sauce. Side hustle: Teaching women to play poker.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Thought this was quite lovely. Always good to remind yourself that not everything is awful right now. youtu.be/Qp7K6pEWEuk?...
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What happens when you set a river free? | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This is the truest thing I’ve read on the Internet in a while
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
this 72-page book, The ABCs of Media Literacy, is given to every grade nine student in Finland media literacy is a core component of the national curriculum. everyone has the toolbox and training needed for practicing responsible citizenship its CIVICS (a bullshit detector) abcsofmedia.com
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ABCs of Media
The ABC’s of media literacy. A new primer for every 9th grader in Finland
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
For decades, Redford had a tortured relationship with acting--one critic described him as behaving like the handsome high school senior who'd grudgingly agreed to star in the class play. Here's some raw transcript from when I asked him about Mike Nichols directing him in Barefoot in the Park. (1/2)
We tried out in New Haven. Now, I was not sure about my own self at that time...So, when I was called out to do the play, part of me was resisting everything, everything. My thought was, I'm going to show everyone why I shouldn't be in this play. When we opened in New Haven, I basically just laid down. I said said “Okay, I'm going to be so bad they're going to get rid of me." So I got terrible reviews. Elizabeth [Ashley] did well. They all loved her and she was great. But, my perversity had everyone down on me. I thought, well, this is good, now they'll replace me. Mike took me to lunch and said, “Look, I think I know what you're doing, and it's not going to work. No matter how bad you try to behave, I'm not going to replace you." So I said, "Well, I'm now going to get worse.” I decides I'm not gonna let him win this one, I'm going to show him. I'm going to be so bad he's gotta replace me.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚨National Statement from Canada's Healthcare community: #ScienceMatters! Too often lies – about vaccines, COVID, ivermectin, etc. – harm patients, policies & the public. Canadian medical, research, clinical and healthcare organizations stand up for science!📢 Signed by over 20 leading orgs...👇
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Shelley Youngblut @youngblut.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Dec. 10: Calgary. Margaret Atwood. Hosted by Heather O’Neill. Much in common. Sold out.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 20/08/2025
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
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Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that the measure was aimed at fixing Denmark's 'reading crisis.' The Scandinavian country's 25% sales tax on books is currently the highest in Europe.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
“The big lie is that Albertans think that the regulator is going to look at what’s submitted and, if those promises and requirements aren’t met, then the company is going to have to fix it. Well, here’s the paper that says that’s not true.” Why are we so bad at regulating our resource economy?
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Alberta’s coal mine reclamation regulations failing to protect water, fish, scientists say
High levels of contaminants are damaging aquatic life and their ecosystems, study says
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Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Sometimes you get lucky, even in a time when it’s hard to believe in luck anymore. I got lucky last week and saw Tyler Childers playing in the shadow of a giant T-Rex on the side of a highway. I was so happy on the way home I didn’t even think about my bitin’ list. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
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Opinion | The Heart-Lifting Magic of a Pop-up Concert
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Source (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
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Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Forty years of My Beautiful Laundrette, 'the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved'. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
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‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40
We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
In summary: 1. Something that is effectively eliminating jobs (AI) and causing more climate change problems, 2. Is putting more of a burden on the average consumer, especially those who are in lower income brackets, 3. Who have to suffer environmentally as a result. wapo.st/4kY7C2k
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The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity
Across much of the eastern U.S., electricity bills have jumped. The reason? Data centers required for AI and other tech wonders are driving up electricity demand.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Big Tech is building massive data centers, and 40% of the planned and existing centers across the US are in areas with "extremely high" or "high" water scarcity. Mounting evidence points to these data centers exacerbating water shortages across the country.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
“Vaccines have done more to improve public health than any other medical intervention.” Cancer vaccines and the future of immunotherapy - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... This exciting research gonna be a challenge for the antivaxx community...👆
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Cancer vaccines and the future of immunotherapy
Vaccines have had a major impact on the control of infectious disease, most recently by helping to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Prophylactic cancer vaccines have prevented several malignancies by pro...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/06/2025
"For the life of me, I can't tell you what led me to reflect on the moment when Nicholas II lost control over a once-burgeoning empire due to widespread unrest that he himself had a hand in shaping."
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I Have No Idea Why I’ve Suddenly Started Thinking About the 1917 Russian Revolution
So there I was, minding my own business, when, for some inexplicable reason, I found myself idly thinking about the fall of the Romanov dynasty. Fo...
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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.
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Colette Derworiz 🇨🇦 @cderworiz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
What a wonderful @wordfest.com event with Robert McFarlane for his new book, “Is a River Alive?” Music by Corb Lund, an excellent interview by Kevin van Tighem AND a beautiful opening with the amazing Leroy Little Bear. Way to go, @youngblut.bsky.social and team! Truly brilliant ❤️
Corb Lund opens a Wordfest event with a song.
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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 17/06/2025
Books are seeds. Shelves are soil. The reader is rain.
CC0 Photo. A densely packed bookshelf filled with hundreds of books arranged in various orientations—some stacked, some upright—showcasing a mix of genres, including history, thrillers, and literature. The black-and-white image highlights the texture and aged character of the well-used volumes, many of which have Polish titles, hinting at a personal or regional library.
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Shelley Youngblut @youngblut.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
He should have been our Prime Minister. Marc Garneau was accomplished, focused, adept, and so very curious. Thank you, sir, for embodying the best of Canada throughout your too-short time on earth. 📸: David Kotsibie
Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau.
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Criminally tone deaf
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Want to know what you should read this summer? Ask a bookseller. Ask a writer. Ask a librarian. Ask a living, breathing human being. Hell, ask me! It's been a while since I've done one of these, so let's do it: one like = one summer reading book rec.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Wherever we go, the music is too loud and makes conversation almost impossible. What do we have to do to get some quiet in our lives? by Mark Kingwell www.thestar.com/opinion/a-go... via @thestar.com
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Mark Kingwell: A Good Life: Wherever we go, the music is too loud and makes conversation almost impossible. What do we have to do to get some quiet in our lives?
A Good Life is our new advice column in which our philosophical advisors help you navigate everyday dilemmas about romance, career and how best to spend your fleeting time on earth, guiding you out of...
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Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🏊🏽‍♂️ Homework: Read THE SWIMMER by John Cheever (1964) a short story originally published in The New Yorker. Free online: www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...
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“The Swimmer,” by John Cheever
From 1964: “Making his way home by an uncommon route gave him the feeling that he was a pilgrim, an explorer, a man with a destiny.”
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Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com · 06/04/2025
Hi. Books are incredibly important. Please let them be.
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Ack, sorry, here's a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...
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The Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write (Gift Article)
For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 02/04/2025
I logged on here to post this. RIP.
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Almoonir Dewji @almoonir.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Great evening tonight with funny and articulate @scaachi.bsky.social at @wordfest.com. Masterfully moderated by @youngblut.bsky.social.
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Shelley Youngblut @youngblut.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Sigh. This reminds me of a fave Sprawlcast. @klaszus.bsky.social www.sprawlcalgary.com/the-local-co...
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Sprawlcast: More than just a corner store | The Sprawl
This is where community happens.
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"When you start working, everybody is in your studio——the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas——are all there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you're lucky, even you leave." —John Cage
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Calgary, AB -- Wordfest Tuesday, April 15 at 7 pm | Memorial Park Library Tickets wordfest.com/2025/event/w... Hosted by Christina Frangou @cfrangou.bsky.social -- and my heart belongs to Shelley Youngblut @youngblut.bsky.social and her crew. #wordfest #calgary @wordfest.com #booksky
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Wordfest presents Claire Cameron - Wordfest
“True wilderness has no narrative. It is immediate, and visceral, beyond words at the time, and often beyond description later. So, it speaks to Claire Cameron’s courage and skill as a writer that she...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
TikTok fuels ADHD self-diagnosis with misleading content, study shows www.news-medical.net/news/2025032... "...most TikTok content is misleading and inaccurate, which likely contributes to a rise in self-diagnosed cases of ADHD."
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TikTok fuels ADHD self-diagnosis with misleading content, study shows
Psychologists find most TikTok videos about ADHD to be misleading, often overgeneralizing normal behaviors as symptoms. These videos shape young adults’ perceptions and contribute to rising self-diagn...
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Canada is everything.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Elbows up, Canada.
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 22/03/2025
Since people on the Hellsite are apparently saying a bunch of nonsense about WW1, this is your daily dose of punk youtu.be/gsXEGvX_ksI
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And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues, 1985
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Shelley Youngblut @youngblut.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Please read the whole thread. 📗🌱
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 21/03/2025
The great Katherine Boo: “Wean yourself off of the tit of your own ego" niemanstoryboard.org/2017/07/25/k...
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Katherine Boo's 15 rules for narrative nonfiction — now this is a "must-read" - Nieman Storyboard
At the Mayborn Conference for storytellers, the Pulitzer winner warns against falling in love with the craft too much, and says that “getting it right matters way more than whether you can make people...
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LiveWire Calgary @livewirecalgary.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Prominent Alberta Indigenous artist Jason Carter has been selected to create the Calgary Stampede's three new entrance art statues for the park.
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Calgary Stampede to add three new entrance art statues - LiveWire Calgary
The Calgary Stampede announced a new era for public art to entice and welcome visitors, with three new public artworks set to adorn the Erlton, Stampede Trail, and Flores LaDue Parade entrances to…
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Carol Off @caroloff.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The great Jeff Douglas (aka Joe) has done it again. This is brilliant. Elbows up, Canada. youtu.be/_OzbmriDgQc?...
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We Are Canadian
YouTube video by Jeff Douglas
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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 04/03/2025
But check those edges:
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Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
John Candy passed away on March 4, 1994. On October 7, 2025, my book John Candy: A Life In Comedy (House of Anansi) celebrates his tragically short but incredibly full life. Pre-order now wherever you usually do that sort of thing.
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Sophie Gabrielle @coderedearth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
'A big surprise is coming for guys like Pete Navarro, J. D. Vance, and the Trump trolls who think they can bully, threaten and push us around. Mike, we got the message. It’s already moving down the line.' Elbows UP Canada. All Canadians should join this substack and Americans in Resistance.
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Shelley Youngblut @youngblut.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Connection. The most life-affirming action we can take now. “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” -David A. Robertson’s wrist tattoo, a Edward Everett Hale quote
Man and woman on stage, holding hands across a table.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 27/02/2025
it is time for me to share my father's golden rule of film which is: Always default to a Gene Hackman movie because good actor, yes, but more importantly amazing taste in movies.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If Canada is tearing down interprovincial barriers, let’s start with health care. It's well past time we created a semblance of robust national medicare, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: If Canada is tearing down interprovincial barriers, let’s start with health care
This current outbreak of Canadian patriotism should be channeled into making real progress on a truly national medicare system
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 24/02/2025
Revisit “A Wonderful Country,” a masterful piece from Mavis Gallant’s early writing days that paints a vivid picture of 1940s suburban Montreal: thewalrus.ca/a-wonderful-coun...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Men: Ugh I struggle to even finish a book anymore my attention span is so cooked Women: It's called A Field of Fury & Roses and it's the prequel to A Palace of Thorns which I enjoyed almost as much as its sequel, A Maze of Mist & Fire. Each book is 800 pages of inter-species elven smut
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Shelley Youngblut @youngblut.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We have antidotes in the form of stickers at @wordfest.com
Read More sticker.Keep Intelligence Human sticker
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