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bookishblip.bsky.social
I'm really enjoying these posts. Highly recommend!
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 3d
#ArtAdventCalendar is averaging ~400 posts per day so we'll be at a minimum 10,000 images posted by the end of the event. That's a full 10% of the entire collection of the National Gallery of Canada. I expect as more people join we'll have closer to 12-15k.

All that art. For free. On your phone.
December 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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merriam-webster.com
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
bookishblip.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

J. Geils Band
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
Duran Duran
The Flatliners
Sinéad O'Connor
clpolk.com C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 11d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Nine Inch Nails
Duran Duran
Gary Numan
James Brown
Mötörhed
mikerunderwood.bsky.social Mike Underwood @mikerunderwood.bsky.social · 11d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

Barenaked Ladies
Nickel Creek
Great Big Sea
Florence + the Machine
Fitz and the Tantrums
November 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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brittlestar.com
Happy Thursday, Canada 🍁
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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tyleraking.com
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
authorsguild.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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arstechnica.com
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
bookishblip.bsky.social
I am disappoint
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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gbayliss.bsky.social
Further study reveals that “Toronto Blue Jays” is an anagram for “joyous talent, bro.”
gbayliss.bsky.social Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · Oct 30
“Los Angeles Dodgers” is an anagram for “draggled looseness.”

Do with this information what you will.
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
bookishblip.bsky.social
AAAAAAAHHH!
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
bookishblip.bsky.social
a blue jays logo with a red maple leaf on it
Alt: A Toronto Blue Jays logo with a red maple leaf. It looks like it's on a billowing blue flag.
media.tenor.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
Toronto ER costs, visits by frequent patients reduced with new housing model #Housing #Toronto #Ontario

Local hospitals saved $1.66 million after 48 residents moved into Dunn House, says doctor

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Toronto ER costs, visits by frequent patients reduced with new housing model | CBC News
The Dunn House, a long-term housing project with easy access to healthcare, is helping 48 of Toronto's most-frequent visitors to the ER. The program has greatly reduced the number of hospital visits a...
www.cbc.ca
October 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
bookishblip.bsky.social
BLUE JAYS!!!
September 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
bookishblip.bsky.social
Alejandro Kirk!
September 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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ourmankoto.bsky.social
Please repost WIDELY
September 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
bookishblip.bsky.social
Had a pretty productive day but all I can think of is everything I didn't get done
September 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
bookishblip.bsky.social
Apparently I'm also now a person who writes to the prime minister
September 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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azteclady.bsky.social
#JoyScrolling (for fucking morale)
Hillcrest College - Marimba Challenge Cup Winner
YouTube video by National Institute of Allied Arts Zimbabwe
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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rozlovesfood.bsky.social
In the Highlands area of Edmonton, Alberta Canada, Fiasco (‪ @premeemohamed.com 's cat) is still missing. His 'sister', Franca, is home safe.
Here are more images of Fiasco.
Fiasco is chipped but not collared.
He is deeply loved and sorely missed.
edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima...
August 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
bookishblip.bsky.social
Large heron friend hanging out this morning
A great blue heron in profile. It sits on a large slab of rock. There is some greenery in the foreground and the blue waters of a lake ripple in the background.
August 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
bookishblip.bsky.social
Canadian authors take note
katrinaarcher.bsky.social Katrina Archer @katrinaarcher.bsky.social · Aug 12
Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below.
If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es).
www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...
Meta AI Copyright - CFM Lawyers
www.cfmlawyers.ca
August 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
bookishblip.bsky.social
I'm gobsmacked. So happy about this and especially that it's royalty free.
July 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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matttomic.bsky.social
A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.
July 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Strong Thoughts
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2024
July 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM