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Victoria Ward
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I live in a log cabin in the Boreal Forest. By choice. Over 40 exhibitions Canada/UK, professional art worker for 30+ years.🇨🇦 Working with communities throughout Ontario. I paint and waste time online.
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Beaumont Quay, Essex, October 2025, just me, the British landscape and my Canadian hunting toque. #UK #landscape
"I'm relatable, I eat airport muffins", PM Mark Carney
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The feds opened the door for 5,000 new doctors while the ON gov is blocking them with OINP delays and zero urgency. US physicians have told me about barriers their facing before they can practice in ON. The healthcare crisis is a leadership test, and Ford is failing. #ONpoli
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Obsessed with this podcast. It's story telling at its best. www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
Let's hear it for The Rest is History
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are defining our national story
www.newstatesman.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thanks #Spotify for telling me my tastes make me 73. 🙄 What the hell?
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Anti-trust etc. aside, we don't get HBO but we have been loyal to Netflix, so this is a win win for customers like us. I guess?
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Wow, the comments. So many haters. The concept of 'gen' anything means nothing anymore since MAGA is full of us, boomers, millenials and gen z.
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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All the young people I know hate it. They use it but reluctantly. But mostly because they can see right through it - and know very well this is all about stockholders and dividends and making money, not helping anything. #AI
I was worried my kids would rely on AI as a shortcut but they hate it. They use "AI" to mean stupid or cheap ("aimbot" means good). I tried to say AI is helpful for some things and my daughter said "yeah, for making you stupid." This is how they talked about Drake after "Not Like Us" came out
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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📍 Trillium Park, Ontario Place #Toronto
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Such a great point.
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Excellent thread on why, if you hate tech things, you have good reasons no matter what anyone says. We've been bullied from day one.
But the psychologically invasive/manipulative effects of a TV ad pale in comparison to the impact of an algorithmically tailored assault on the specific insecurities of an alienated 15 year old looking at a screen alone in their bedroom. I don't know what the solution is, but this is bad.
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I love @thebeaverton.com so much and I am not surprised in the slightest that "the AI bot which wrote this story would quote us". Well done everyone there!!!
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Nihilism.
Five-byline alert: 🚨

“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The robbery is believed to have been carried out by a four-person team — with two breaking into the museum’s ornate Apollo Gallery where the jewels were displayed and then being whisked away on motorbikes by two associates who waited outside. https://to.pbs.org/48jcSJK
Arrested man is thought to be 4th member of Louvre heist gang, Paris prosecutor says
The prosecutor's statement didn’t say what role, exactly, the man is thought to have played in the daylight heist.
to.pbs.org
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Totally love it when bands who rail against the system get litigious.🤣 www.nme.com/news/music/k...
Kneecap announce legal action against politician behind Canada ban
Kneecap has announced they are launching legal action against Vince Gasparro, the politician who acted to ban them from Canada
www.nme.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Thank you @gramshelper.bsky.social for sending me this. If you think he is caving and ignoring the environment, please read.
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I don't understand the deal with Alberta that @mark-carney.bsky.social has created. And I still trust him. Maybe being from there means something different. One thing for sure, I have lost all hope of learning anything about it from our media opinion writers.
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The trouble with some women is they get excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
-Cher
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It last erupted over 12,000 years ago. 12,000. Pre Holocene. Good luck to peeps living in "dormant" volcanic areas. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
Ethiopian Volcano Erupts for the First Time in Nearly 12,000 Years of Scientific Records
The plume from the Hayli Gubbi volcano drifted east over the Arabian Sea and extended roughly 2,200 miles
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
People in Toronto want to live in a big city but not as a real big city I guess.
Isabella St. A perfectly good apt bldn empty, people displaced & being demolished all because so much of Toronto is off limits & forced here. Aka house neighbourhoods. Such a shame. Such waste. And the shame of every elected official here. Shame of Ford for not pushing reforms. All the same.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM