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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 3d

Duchamp Flies, by Carmen Cicero, 2009, 📸 by Frank Franklin II

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James G @orth.ca · 2d

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · 3d

Robert Munsch taught me that

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 6d

Gurl…this is a WINNER!!!! 🤣 #LetsGoBlueJays

evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 8d

ok it’s time

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · 8d

I can't find a statement from my mayor so I have written to him. Hope he signs on.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 9d

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · 12d

😂😂

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Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 12d

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · 12d

Let's go Blue Jays! (pic from Thurs)

The lit up CN Tower above the open dome of the Skydome (Rogers Centre) in a sold out stadium on Thursday Sept 25, Let's Go Blue Jays

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · 12d

No, but it was obviously AI voices of the host and Trump, and it presented miracle beds that would cure ppl with everyone getting a card delivered shortly to access said new healthcare.

Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · 14d

I did a deep dive on the crystal structure of different forms of ice as a function of temperature and pressure years ago. There are so many of them, and they are very complicated! And the topological space isn't fully mapped out either

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks for doing this thread!

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 18d

Im surprised that people are surprised as to why there’s a huge political gender divide that we see today.
I got an answer: women gained power, men felt threatened that their place on top of the hierarchy and the intrinsic power that came with it is gone
The reason there is more racism is the same

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · Sep 11

I made and canned crabapple jelly this weekend - just as my grandmother used to. Next step is distributing the jars to family and friends

40 jars full of crabapple jelly, with a beautiful translucent reddish pink colour

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's been too easy to be distracted by the spectacle down south (with all its horrors) and not pay enough attention to the gov't up here. Time to change that.

Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · Sep 10

Tom Mulcair: Mark Carney’s Liberals are swinging right with no guardrail left

In the Jack Layton era, the NDP saw itself as the ‘conscience of Parliament.’ Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair says that conscience is mostly a memory now; and the Liberals are having a 'grand old time swinging right.'

www.cp24.com

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · Sep 8

(not to take responsibility away from the companies) I don't understand how parents let their children on these open platforms. My 8yo and 6yo do not play online games with strangers. Local only. There's still plenty of options for them.

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Sep 8

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · Sep 7

Can someone tell Carney this? Anyone? Bueller?

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · Sep 7

My basic algorithm for our allies is if you are in power trying to negotiate with these fascist fucks, you aren't an ally.

And if you are not then you are a friend.

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · Sep 6

Our leaders are failing us.

I'm waiting for the vaccines to roll out. My kids Dr thinks they'll be able to get it at a pharmacy. He tried to get them for his clinic last year and couldn't.

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fuuuuuuuuckkkkk

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not only are the Liberal Party inviting the author of Project 2025 to their work retreat, they're inviting something called an "AI-focused venture capital firm", a truly grotesque collection of words!

Carney's cabinet is also hearing from pollster Jean-Marc Léger on the mood of the country, Scotiabank's Jean-François Perrault for an economic outlook and private sector leaders, including an artificial intelligence-focused venture capital firm.

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · Sep 1

🇨🇦 Covid Forecast is out, not liking it’s already high in Ontario which means kids at school will be spreading Covid around since no one masks, no air filtration in schools & no vax yet. Year 6 & we’re still as unprepared as ever for Fall surge 😮‍💨😷 #ONpoli
Find your province in tabs: shorturl.at/xLUlQ

Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 30-Sep 12, 2025
ONTARIO
HIGH: 8.6 (no change)
About 1 of every 74 people is infected ~134,900 - 181,350 infections this week

How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections HIGH 6.8X higher
Long COVID estimate HIGH 7.8X higher
Hospitalizations, ICU HIGH 9.6X higher
Deaths HIGH 9.9X higher

HOW TO HELP EVERYONE:
- UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
- WEAR N95-type masks
Who is HIGH RISK?
- People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
- ALL AGES: immunecompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection last 6 months

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · Sep 1

I was on the ferris wheel during the air show yesterday, the kids enjoyed the prop planes making hearts in the sky, didn't really care about the snowbirds.

photoblair.bsky.social @photoblair.bsky.social · Aug 31

Toys of war. Toys of joy.

#Toronto #CNE #RoyalCanadianAirShow #Photography

The RCAF Snowbirds curve behind a ferris wheel at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto Ontario

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Aug 30

Empathy is sin.

Trusting experts is totalitarianism.

When the satire is actually real life, does satire even have any power anymore?

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 29

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · Aug 28

What a wildly incorrect conclusion. On almost every point Trump has in fact proved enormously successful: he's already outright fired tens of thousands in the bureaucracy and replaced its upper echelons with incompetents and corrupt bagmen, he has sent the military into cities,... 1/n

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Aug 28

I find this @donmoyn.bsky.social piece helpful in clarifying why I disagree with the "America is already in competitive authoritarianism" thesis.

Don's checklist shows things that Trump has tried to do, but he hasn't *succeeded* in most areas

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

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Megan @mhostetter.bsky.social · Aug 23

Just got home from a week on a lake very much like that one and hard agree. It's just so calming and restorative

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