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@charlesgaba.com the dreaded open enrollment is approaching. Just wondering if you know of any surveys on self-employed who are limiting economic activity to keep their MAGI under the subsidy cliff? Or maybe it’s too early to get a picture of that

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 30/09/2026

I hate that policy in America is made through taxes but how about changing tax law? There’s only a 35% tax credit on $3000 of childcare expenses, which is laughable. Don’t cap that expense and if a family member provided care, like my mom did after my husband died, they should get that credit. 1/

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 29/09/2026

This is the regime telling on itself again. It’s America that been interfering in Canada. US officials tried to negotiate directly with the premier of Quebec on tariffs and a MAGA think tank has urged Americans to support Quebec sovereigntists in next weeks election to destabilise Canadian unity

cbc.ca

Trump trade adviser says Canada will 'pay even more dearly' if 'you interfere' in U.S. midterms | CBC News

One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections — though it's not clear what he anticipates the country...

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 27/09/2026

I will not be wearing a meta-teletubby

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 26/09/2026

Drink whatever beverage you like during your interview at Zoë Keating Cello Enterprises but during the interview you’ll need to demonstrate your ability to make a cup of tea

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 26/09/2026

When I was a girl I was so certain that I would grow up to be a tall lady in a feathered hat who lives in a crescent house in Bath but here I am a tall lady, without a feathered hat, living in Vermont

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 25/09/2026

I was in line for coffee at a cafe near Dartmouth when I stepped fwd to get a better look at the delights in the pastry case. When I went back into my spot a preppy young man, approx 19, said “excuse me, there is a line”. I considered, as an elder, smacking him with my tote bag but I did not.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 25/09/2026

Are you registered to vote? Check again, just in case!

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 25/09/2026

In addition to the use of federal funds for this political ad, which is illegal, using this artist’s song without a sync license is also illegal. I hope JMSN can find a lawyer to sue Team DJT for damages

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 22/09/2026

Happy Hobbit Day to all who celebrate I’ll be having a second breakfast shortly

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 21/09/2026

The more people obtain music directly from artists, the more those artists will be able to survive to make more music. Similar to buying food directly from farms via a CSA or farmers market, the less our lives are mediated by billionaires, the better.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 21/09/2026

I’ve been releasing music DIY for 25yrs and I believe that should always be a viable option for artists. The double sale of Bandcamp was a wake up call so earlier this year, I joined Subvert.fm, a member-owned music distribution platform. As a co-op, Subvert can’t simply be sold to investors. 1/

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 21/09/2026

Don’t forget Facebook grew by launching Pages in 2007 and encouraging public figures like musicians to join. As soon as everyone was there and using FB instead of their own mailing lists, FB-now-Meta torched it all and made creators pay to reach folk who already followed them. 1/

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 20/09/2026

It’s tax time and been a minute since I did this so here is some data. What was the gross income breakdown for this DIY musician in 2025? Licensing & Composer Fees - 48.3% Live Performance - 22.9% Performance Royalties - 18% Streaming Royalties - 9.3% Direct-to-Fan Downloads (Bandcamp) - 1.5% 1/

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 20/09/2026

Happy Birthday to Maggie Cheung. She was in our Natoma warehouse home in 2000 for the filming of “Sausalito”. We weren’t allowed to take any pictures while she was on set filming the love scene in the corner of our living room but Jeff got snapshot of director Andrew Lau and the crew

Director Andrew Lau and crew setting up at the 964 Natoma warehouse in March 2000 to filming a scene for the film Sausalito with Maggie Cheung

Maggie Cheung in the love scene from Sausalito filmed in the living room of 964 Natoma

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 17/09/2026

🫂 I just learned this emoji is the hug emoji! All this time I thought it was a reel to reel film projector emoji 🤓

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 17/09/2026

Inky’s cancer got a lot worse and we had to send him off to the astral plane where I imagine him eating his fill of tuna fish and rolling in fields of catnip. We love you Inky ❤️ Oct 19, 2020 - Sept 15, 2026

Inky, a very much loved black cat, lying on a colorful rug with his head on a red fish-shaped pillow

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 16/09/2026

My orange cat has more time with the brain cell than the president of the United States.

A very cute and not very bright orange cat, looking at you

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 16/09/2026

If only we let companies self-regulate we could enjoy more lead raining down on us and even bigger holes in the ozone layer

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 16/09/2026

Yeah, let AI companies self-regulate, just like the Hooker Chemical Company who self-regulated themselves and dumped 19,800 metric tonnes of chemical byproducts into Love Canal

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Transgender people deserve to have a nice life. That is the entirety of the argument. If you disagree, you’re saying that you do not believe in liberty or justice for all.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 14/09/2026

Great day to buy @atrupar.com a coffee or two for the valuable public service he provides.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists. I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

pbs.org

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 11/09/2026

Wow, I will be watching this film, and as an extra bonus, @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social made the score

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 10/09/2026

Oh, maybe he meant he will be giving HIMSELF $5000 for every American after the election

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 10/09/2026

So we’ll be getting 5000 imaginary dollars on top of our 2000 imaginary dollar tariff rebate checks and the 5000 imaginary dollar DOGE check? That’s 12000 imaginary dollars! 🙌

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 09/09/2026

Envious of other countries who have functioning copyright registration websites

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 09/09/2026

UPCOMING CONCERTS! Oct 6-8 At the 30th anniversary of Pop!Tech Oct 23 At the 20th anniversary of Maria Popova’s The Marginalian Dec 5 At the new Takeda Theater in Cambridge, MA Dec 6 At a soaring cathedral in Brooklyn tickets at zoekeating.com LOVE LOVE LOVE Z

A photo of Zoë Keating wearing a white shirt and a teal and white striped jacket. She is standing in front of a magenta door

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 09/09/2026

During yesterday’s border crossing the CBP officer asked if I was bringing anything back from Canada “Good vibes”, I said.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 03/09/2026

We are watching Silo and I had a little chuckle at the Peter Gabriel cameo. In real life he is one of the few artists regularly invited to Davos so it makes sense that a fictional Musk-like billionaire might invite him to be part of the exclusive cohort that will survive the apocalypse

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 02/09/2026

Not now, honking-geese-gathering-to-fly-south, not now

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 31/08/2026

90s SF: “Let’s watch a movie” And then going with my boyfriend or housemates to Le Video with its thousands and thousands and thousands of films. Browsing through the categories, like we had all the time in the world, for a movie we agreed on. Spaghetti western? 70s dystopia? French new wave?

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 30/08/2026

How long until he starts selling naming rights to bodies of water?

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 30/08/2026

Google says it must show “Lake America” on maps for US-based users because the data makes them do it and apparently they must do everything data tells them to do. Ok how about this: my phone is set to Canadian English, so Google should be showing me the Canadian name instead of insulting me?

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 28/08/2026

Explaining to my kiddo how in the olden times no one needed AI, they just asked strangers on the internet

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Things you could do this week to honor the impact Dolly has had: *Donate to the Imagination Library or a local kids reading initiative *Read with a kid you care about *Support and protect LGBTQIA kids *Support a Black owned business *Schedule your vaccine appointments *Show up authentically as you

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 23/08/2026

Is that cat vomit or is it the leaking fridge or underfloor heating? - actual questions I asked the universe today in case you wonder how my Sunday is going

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