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Kate Gregory @gregcons.bsky.social · 10h

Pumpkin pie and decaf coffee as a bedtime snack, enough time having elapsed since the turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, roasted [potatoes, onions, parsnips, squash], sauteed brussels sprouts, frozen [peas, corn carrots] for the little ones and two kinds of dinner rolls. Yum!

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 18h

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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A festive Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a roasted turkey as the centerpiece, surrounded by an array of dishes including green beans, stuffing, sliced ham, and a pumpkin pie. The table is decorated with pumpkins, sunflowers, candles, and autumnal flowers, with wine glasses and plates set for a meal.

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City of Toronto @toronto.ca · 18h

⚾️💥 #GoJaysGo!

Join the excitement and watch our @BlueJays in the ALCS live on the big screen!
➡️ Bring your crew
➡️ Wear your blue
➡️ Make some noise!
Info: https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/festivals-events/festivals-events-calendar/#search=Toronto%20Blue%20Jays%20Viewing%20Party
#WANTITALL

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SwedenCpp @swedencpp.bsky.social · 18h

🆕 on the #Cpp conference video radar:

🎦 from cppnorth:
📺 Daniel Nikpayuk - A universal data structure for compile time use

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAmyfaXpPiA

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 18h

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Steven Bodzin, sandwich bearer @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 1d

I think about all the people who have worked so hard to protect darkness. The Jackson Hole airport replacing its runway lights. The bike path in Singapore that has no illumination so that wildlife can migrate. And then some tech bro can ruin it for everyone.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 1d

In the 70s boys were allowed/expected to wear colours. Now, like adult men, they are in a state of war readiness with khaki, grey and blue.

Stephen Cox But Spookier @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Counting your blessings. My brothers. Just worked through the final stuff so my parents house can be cleared and sold. V complex. Yet no rows. An amazing team. No notes.

Supported by three amazing women.

Cheerful picture of three boys in seventies clothes on an outdoor staircase, arranged with oldest/tallest on the lower steps and youngest on the higher. Looking at camera. big lapels, extraordinary flares, long hair the lot. Biggest boy is in shadeds of purples, the middle boy is red with a white short, the smallest in blues. A tribute to seventies fashion

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 12d

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

ivacheung.com

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

On #BookshopDay

Ladybird book character Jane, choosing herself a new Ladybird book

Artist: Harry Wingfield,
(Read and Write, 1965)

Jane stands browsing at the stand of Ladybird books in a small shop. She is wearing her customary outfit of pristine white frock, bright yellow cardigan and red shoes.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to the Mariners on winning the Battle of the Somme of baseball games. I think the Jays will have a tougher time against them because they will not be fueled by pure liquid Yankee hatred. Mariners are downright likeable.

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 1d

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 1d

If you accidentally post AI slop and are told “hey that’s AI” the correct answer is to go “aw shit I didn’t know” and delete it. Not “oh oops oh well, watcha gonna do” and keep it up because it’s giving you engagement. Stop it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Kate Gregory @gregcons.bsky.social · 1d

A family member likes cream in her tea. When she orders tea with cream and sugar they repeat back "tea with milk and sugar" and she is "no, cream and sugar" and they are "two milks?" and it goes on for a while until they understand she means actual cream.

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Mike Ananny @mikeananny.bsky.social · 1d

Canada’s continued lack of progress on strong AI & data regulation leaves its sovereigny vulnerable.

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Article expert: “The 2018 CLOUD Act gives the American government the authority to access data from anywhere so long as it's maintained in a server owned by a U.S. company. Canada and the U.S. have been negotiating a bilateral agreement on the CLOUD Act for three years, but none exists yet.
A huge chunk of cloud storage servers and data centres in Canada is owned by companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google, according to Beaumier - meaning that Canadian data, even if processed on Canadian soil, is ultimately being governed by the United States.”

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 1d

“I call upon the prime minister to make this right and stop victimizing me and other #Inuit who were treated as lab rats for the benefit of an unexplained biological program. I am not a monkey.”
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Former premier of Nunavut calls on Carney to stop victimizing Inuit

Paul Quassa is among the Plaintiffs in a class action filed almost six years ago over biological experiments.

www.aptnnews.ca

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SwedenCpp @swedencpp.bsky.social · 1d

🆕 on the #Cpp conference video radar:

🎦 from cppnorth:
📺 John Pavan, Heather Crawford - Why are software engineers so hard to replace?

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xByD37syeqA

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Muddy York @muddyyork.bsky.social · 1d

On this date in 1873, the newly-formed Argonauts football team played their first game, losing 10-0 to the University of Toronto.

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kawarthaNOW @kawarthanow.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning our #kawarthapeeps. Our photo of the day is not a beautiful local scene but it is a beautiful sign from a strong community after their downtown area was ravaged by fire.

Thanks to "The Lakefield Restaurant" for this photo. #LakefieldStrong #Lakefield #Selwyn #ptbocounty #thekawarthas

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Julie Witmer @witmaps.ca · 2d

Things that are cash grabs: Ford selling 99 year lease of public park (Ontario Place) to private company; successive governments taking taxpayer money earmarked for health and education and giving it to private companies. Things that are not cash grabs: fines for breaking the law.

Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 2d

“Those who are using terms like ‘nanny state’, and this is a ‘cash grab’, I hope they look at these numbers and realize this is absolutely not. This is about the safety of our most vulnerable, including little kids to older adults and everybody in between." -Waterloo mayor McCabe

Regional committee discusses speed cameras

Regional committee members discussed how the speed camera enforcement program has progressed in its first six months of operation at a meeting on Tuesday.

kitchener.citynews.ca

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

TIL actor Paul Giamatti is the son of former Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti, who became commissioner of Major League Baseball.

The story of Green Fields of the Mind

Bart Giamattis bittersweet ode to baseball.

yalealumnimagazine.org

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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

Canadians are ambidextrous measurers.

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#Canada

Americans: I use miles and pounds
Europeans: I use kilometres and kilograms
Canadians: [snorting a line of assorted measuring systems] I'm 5'8, I weigh 150lbs, horses weigh 1000kgs, my house is an hour away and I drive 80 km/h to get there, I need a cup of flour and 1L of milk

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

sonjadrimmer.com

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