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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 1d

It looks so good. I'm an adaptation skeptic but hopeful about this one!

Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 1d

Not fanfic, original characters, though I believe the author has acknowledged that seeing the Sid/Ovi doc was a spark for the idea.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 1d

Hello, and happy Heated Rivalry trailer drop day to all who celebrate!

Official Trailer | Heated Rivalry (Crave Original)

YouTube video by Crave

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 2d

"It's not that another huge offensive explosion from the Blue Jays would've seemed fake, but there's something especially real-seeming about needing an alternate path to victory, and finding it, and against the Yankees." @christhompson.bsky.social:

The Blue Jays Have The Juice | Defector

The Toronto Blue Jays needed a different script for Wednesday’s Game 4 against the New York Yankees. They’d gotten their lead in the series by socking the ball all over the damn place—six extra-base h...

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 2d

(When were you here? I thought you went to UBC!)

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhhh, that makes sense too. Also, I think there's just a general keeping-up-with-the-Joneses thing where people who used to shop at MEC will now buy from an Arc'teryx store, etc.? (But friends have also said the $ waterfront bars are full of students, which was...not the case when we were young! 😂)

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah!!

Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 2d

Rusted to bits already?

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 2d

(RIP tho to like 85% of the small-business haunts of my youth, and welcome to an astonishing assortment of high-end retail chains. Dang, Hali! Partial hypothesis: The students here nowadays have a lot more money to spend than they used to?)

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 2d

I am in Halifax! Yesterday I visited @kingsbookstore.bsky.social and then I visited a queer-worker-owned coffeeshop co-op and, while it's easy to lament some of the good local stuff that's gone away in the 20 (😱!) years since I graduated, there's some very cool newer stuff happening here, too.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

Yeppp. I think Macmillan, at least, has said they'll pay the equivalent for their titles that weren't registered in time? Not sure who else. (Your book also has to have been in the set that was downloaded at a specific time, which also narrows this list down somewhat from previously available ones.)

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 7d

Doing some research, I just came across this image of shad fishermen checking their nets in the Bay of Fundy. I'm sharing because it's cool. Have a good day.

Three fishermen are checking nets strung high above the ground. The tide has gone out. One is on a mule-pulled cart, one is climbing a pole, and a third watches from the ground. Credit: Library and Archives Canada/National Film Board fonds/e011176116.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

I contain multitudes (listening to the album while also chuckling at this semi-pan) link.newyorker.com/view/5be9dbb...

Petrusich: Swift is too practiced and savvy to ever really make a “bad” record. (So is Max Martin, incidentally—they are both virtuosos of the form.) If you are a connoisseur of pop music, you will surely find things to enjoy here; but if, say, Sonic Youth is your favorite band, I’d probably keep it moving. Mostly, I think she sounds stuck. Maybe it’s healthy that Travis Kelce is not proving to be her muse, but I found myself hungry for a new, more mid-thirties-ish point of view. That she calls out his podcast by name in a song about his sexual prowess is hilarious.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, Brian!

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks, Ed!

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

Huh! Well I guess it wouldn't surprise me if the Westons have more pull in ON than AB, ha.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

For me the key if I'm on a sidewalk or shared path is to ride to conditions accordingly! ie, I slow down.

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Rachel Monroe @rachelmonroe.bsky.social · 7d

New Mexico, one of the poorest states in the country, is banking on a progressive approach to health care-- strong protections for reproductive rights & gender-affirming care (including for minors), vaccine access. & it's the 1st state to offer universal childcare! www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

How New Mexico Became a Sanctuary State for Health Care

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the number of abortion clinics there has doubled. With strong protections for gender-affirming treatment, and now universal child care, the state is betting on a prog...

www.newyorker.com

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

Wild. I wonder when the Canadian grocery lobby lost that fight!

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

I've never forgotten the reaction of a cycle courier I knew to the glib "running reds, killing peds" line in the very silly film Premium Rush. He'd known people who (accidentally, obvs) killed people while riding, and he did NOT think it was something to joke about, at all.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

Ohh, interesting, I thought it was still illegal for them to sell produce in Canada! I don't think the Whitehorse one has anything fresh besides some dairy.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 7d

*whispers* One thing I'd like to see a lot less of from cycling advocates is the idea, which gets repeated a fair bit, that it's basically fine for pedestrians to be hit by bikes. Any time you fall hard on pavement as a human with a brain inside a skull, you could die.

Vancouver Island college student dies after collision with cyclist | CBC News

Students and instructors at North Island College's campus in Courtenay, B.C., are grieving the death of a student who died of a brain injury following a collision with a cyclist on the night of Sept. ...

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 7d

Freelancers based on Vancouver Island or the BC coast, please get in touch if you're available over the next few weeks!

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