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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

This looks amazing.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

Now we all need to check out our own books in libraries to see where the barcodes are placed!

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

So grateful WaPo has reminded us that no one ever dies unless they’ve given advance notice that allows others to travel and gather around them. We can all stop looking both ways before we cross the street.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

More than 15 million people 55 or older don’t have a spouse or biological children; nearly 2 million have no family members at all.

Who will be there for these solo agers as their lives draw to a close? How many of them will die alone?

An age-old fear grows more common: ‘I’m going to die alone’

As families fracture, people are living longer and are more likely to find themselves without close relatives or friends at the end of their lives.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

You are fighting the good fight! Yes, something’s always going to get covered, but I do notice when cataloguers make an effort and when they don’t.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

This is the best rabbit hole I could possibly fall into on a grey Canadian Thanksgiving weekend (I’m thankful for non-billionaire run media platforms). I love how @slate.com will binge on a topic, and now I’ve got this fantastic #StevieWonder playlist to peel potatoes to. Thanks, @nitishpahwa.com!

Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

this was before my time but Slate once did a whole tribute week to Stevie Wonder with delightful entries from @aishaharris.bsky.social, @matoswk.bsky.social, @samadams.bsky.social, @thehighsign.bsky.social, and @sethstevenson.bsky.social among many others slate.com/culture/wond...

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

Truly. I think this one will live in my head.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was, would that work with self-checkout machines, but of course it would! I put a stack of six books on those things and it reads them all in a flash. It’s so simple. And this particular position has deeply grated on me every time I look at this book. I hate to diss librarians but …

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 2d

"Star-craving mad: so mad as to want
to devour the stars. Gripped by a single
fixation, an insuperable sidereal tongue-lust."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...

Poetry pamphlet Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (Opaat Press) sits on a purple desktop, surrounded by bright red and green peppers

Handwritten transcription of the poem Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan, with coffee and the Saturday Globe and Mail nearby

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I love this.

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 1d

#SundaySentence

~Lisel Mueller

found in the first few pages of The Paper Birds, a novel by Jeanette Lynes

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t wait to read this novel - I love Jeanette Lynes.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

PS: This library copy of We Could Be Rats deftly illustrates a little-acknowledged creative challenge library cataloguers face - where to put the barcode without totally messing with the cover design. Fail? Best of a number of bad options? #SundaySentence related questions …

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 1d

Rather than feel like a powerless baby bird, I chose to believe, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that I was invulnerable and capable of anything.

#SundaySentence from We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin.
#BookSky💙📚

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 2d

Came on here to say this!

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 9d

#SundaySentence

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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 8d

Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 8d

"So the plan wasn’t a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing."

“Exit Strategy”
Martha Wells @marthawells.com

#SundaySentence
💙📚

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 8d

The second part of this #SundaySentence from @sachajudd.com - frat bros, not moms! - needs to become part of the lexicon. I have wholeheartedly adopted it. 2/2

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 8d

So I’m challenging myself to try and articulate what I find hopeful about the current moment, in a way that a frat bro who can’t tie his own shoelaces could understand (see how that works better than saying “in a way your mother will understand”?).
#SundaySentence thanks to @sachajudd.com 1/2

Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 12d

I challenged myself to explain atproto in a way that wouldn't put you to sleep, or make you hate me or yourself. Let me know if I succeeded.

newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/noth...

nothin' but blue skies from now on

Some of you know that I work part-time with the team at Graze Social. It seems gauche to talk about a day job in your passion project newsletter, but in this...

newsletter.sachajudd.com

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to this, and to seeing you there!

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 8d

Very much looking forward to this poetry launch by @jenbdelisle.bsky.social today at Audrey’s Books in Edmonton. Poems about stock images? I’m deeply intrigued.

Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 8d

I’m launching Stock this afternoon at Audreys at 2! The wonderful @prairievixen.bsky.social and @kimmannix.bsky.social will be reading too, and helping me perform pieces in multiple voices. Hope to see you there! www.audreys.ca/events/34197...

Poetry Launch: Jennifer Bowering Delisle | Audreys Books

Edmonton's Oldest Independent Bookstore selling new books for adults and children

www.audreys.ca

Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 18d

Horny elk + geese = the songs of autumn :)

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 21d

“Smith's long-abiding belief in safeguarding rights, it appears, is complemented by a belief that politicians' interpretation of rights should trump the courts'.”
Gross. #sendhelp

Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 21d

The Premier With the Liberty Tattoo: Danielle Smith readies the notwithstanding clause to protect her transgender laws against Charter rights rulings. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | Why rights champion Danielle Smith is eyeing notwithstanding clause for trans laws | CBC News

A proudly libertarian premier is preparing to wield the notwithstanding clause this fall, after expanding her own province's rights protections last year.

www.cbc.ca

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 22d

An important dive into the serious problems with Canada’s temporary foreign worker system, from my talented friend @marcellodicintio.bsky.social

Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 22d

Temporary foreign workers are shackled to their employers. Why Canada's closed-permit system is broken. https://macleans.ca/society/canada-runs-on-serf-labour/

Canada Runs on Serf Labour - Macleans.ca

My grandfather arrived with the right to stay. Today’s foreign workers are handcuffed to bad jobs they can’t leave.

macleans.ca

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StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social · Sep 7

"How strange a world... that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality... that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree."
-from JAMES, Percival Everett
#SundaySentence

Cover of book, JAMES by Percival Everett. The word JAMES with an oversized J and a runaway slave in the circle of the J. Gold letters on black.

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