Appalbarry
@appalbarry.com
Writer, Nova Scotia, France, Vancouver. and now Cambridge UK, Barry’s writing is focused on how people live, and how the environment around them influences their choices.
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Blog at : https://www.threesquirrels.ca/
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Appalbarry
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· Jul 19
This is where I always ask: Tell me about one example of a government service being privatized, and offering the same or better service for less cost. Just one example.
Response: <crickets>
Response: <crickets>
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WINAMP VOICE:
lotioning a dragon’s ass
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
WINAMP VOICE:
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Oh my god some people who used to have boobs don't have them & some people who didn't have boobs have them now! Well that's it, no more boobs for me! Boycott boobs!
Damn how y'all let trans people ruin boobs for you? Sounds like a personal problem. Boobs are the gift that keeps on giving.
Well, y'all did it AGAIN!
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Oh my god some people who used to have boobs don't have them & some people who didn't have boobs have them now! Well that's it, no more boobs for me! Boycott boobs!
#NovaScotia. Should we fund highways, or libraries?
« I don't know where people will go if libraries start cutting programs or reducing hours »
A critical resource that should be adequately funded as a no-barrier public service and community space.
#nspoli
A critical resource that should be adequately funded as a no-barrier public service and community space.
#nspoli
N.S. libraries ask users to contact MLAs, municipalities about impending cuts | CBC News
The head of a regional library service in western Nova Scotia says that without increased funding from the province and municipalities, branches will have to reduce operating hours and services, and e...
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#NovaScotia. Should we fund highways, or libraries?
This is a really fascinating article, and well worth your time.
‘Before the kits, almost a third of the evidence collected from sexual assault victims in Cook County, Illinois had been inadmissible; after they were introduced, that figure fell to 2 per cent.’
Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ transformed sexual assault prosecutions
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ transformed sexual assault prosecutions
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tess Little · Nutshell Crime Scenes: The Rape Kit
The rape kit is a cardboard box containing ordinary items anyone might own: envelopes, combs, swabs, nail clippers....
www.lrb.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is a really fascinating article, and well worth your time.
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‘Search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a “classical” search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps prompted you to evaluate what you found there.’
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · The Future of Search: Will we still google it?
I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
‘Search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a “classical” search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps prompted you to evaluate what you found there.’
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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*trying to imagine the least welcome person at a party* what if a guy was somehow both looking at his phone the whole time AND insulting people
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
*trying to imagine the least welcome person at a party* what if a guy was somehow both looking at his phone the whole time AND insulting people
#UK Home Office is doing surveys about the new Labour immigration proposals.
Where, exactly, would you place writers, artists, or musicians?
Where, exactly, would you place writers, artists, or musicians?
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
#UK Home Office is doing surveys about the new Labour immigration proposals.
Where, exactly, would you place writers, artists, or musicians?
Where, exactly, would you place writers, artists, or musicians?
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good ol' oosa, the most technologically advanced third world country in the known universe
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
good ol' oosa, the most technologically advanced third world country in the known universe
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RIP Jimmy Cliff - one of the greats. Your message "the harder they come the harder they fall" is needed more than ever.
Go to the angels.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Znh...
Go to the angels.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Znh...
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff - one of the greats. Your message "the harder they come the harder they fall" is needed more than ever.
Go to the angels.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Znh...
Go to the angels.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Znh...
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Jimmy has crossed his final river
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Jimmy has crossed his final river
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
A bit of #Alberta history - and wow, could the Calgary Herald write a lede in 1943! #Journalism
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A bit of #Alberta history - and wow, could the Calgary Herald write a lede in 1943! #Journalism
Whoa. Just looked at prices for turkeys at Waitrose. They START at £60.00 this year!
www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/br...
www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/br...
www.waitrose.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Whoa. Just looked at prices for turkeys at Waitrose. They START at £60.00 this year!
www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/br...
www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/br...
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Bsky a year ago used to be holes and poles at this hour and nothing was censored, and now an artistic shot of a woman in lingerie causes weird pearl clutching.
BRING BACK THE NAKED COMMUNISTS.
BRING BACK THE NAKED COMMUNISTS.
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Bsky a year ago used to be holes and poles at this hour and nothing was censored, and now an artistic shot of a woman in lingerie causes weird pearl clutching.
BRING BACK THE NAKED COMMUNISTS.
BRING BACK THE NAKED COMMUNISTS.
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The Finns are built different
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Finns are built different
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Will I get in hot water if I point out that the only addictive behavior that is not only not penalized but actively lauded and financially rewarded in U.S. culture is "workaholism"? (Thanks again, John Calvin!)
Doctors say it's possible to get hooked on pot. There's a widespread misconception that marijuana is not addictive, and it's expanded as a growing number of states legalize pot.
It's possible to get addicted to pot. Here's what to know
Doctors say it's possible to get hooked on pot. There's a widespread misconception that marijuana is not addictive, and it's expanded as a growing number of states legalize pot.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Will I get in hot water if I point out that the only addictive behavior that is not only not penalized but actively lauded and financially rewarded in U.S. culture is "workaholism"? (Thanks again, John Calvin!)
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"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic."
—James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.
—James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic."
—James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.
—James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.
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Yay! Enjoy!
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Yay! Enjoy!
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bob from chicago knows how to party
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
bob from chicago knows how to party
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Sorry but also you're welcome to everyone tonight who had to listen to me talk about Coast Salish wooly dogs. Something about thousands of years of women paddling out to little islands to take care of these white dogs just touched my heart.
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Sorry but also you're welcome to everyone tonight who had to listen to me talk about Coast Salish wooly dogs. Something about thousands of years of women paddling out to little islands to take care of these white dogs just touched my heart.
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One of the best bands from the 2000s.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One of the best bands from the 2000s.
The Rubber Duck Museum in Point Roberts, Washington is moving across the border to Tsawwassen Mills, BC.
The owners say Canadians have stopped coming, and tariffs have driven up the cost of ducks.
Listen Here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
The owners say Canadians have stopped coming, and tariffs have driven up the cost of ducks.
Listen Here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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florence pew: thread
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
florence pew: thread