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Nadia Halim
@nadiahalim.bsky.social
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Eccentric spinster, bookstore worker, Toronto, she/her
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d
A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware
Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.
www.flightaware.com
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Nadia Halim @nadiahalim.bsky.social · 2d
The summer is over and Sadhbh finished writing her long book! Just in time for spooky season!
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Sadhbh Frost 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Now in Pumpkin Spice @sadhbhgirl.bsky.social · 2d
The Wolf Bane is unleashed at sadhbhstories.itch.io/the-wolf-bane !
Trope map for The Wolf Bane, by Sadhbh Frost: - lesbian - corporate villainy - family secret - arcane magic - trans 4 werewolf - goofy gadgets - forbidden library - bloody revenge - shit’s fucked - mild spice, real thirst - over 100 years of slang - so many bodies
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d
I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
The Crime of Human Virtue
Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.
www.the-reframe.com
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Nadia Halim @nadiahalim.bsky.social · 3d
...I'm sorry what
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d
chat it's happening

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Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report
After months of rumours, proof seems to be in that Katy Perry is dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The loved-up couple were spotted kissing and cuddling on board Perry's 24-metre y...
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 4d
Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.
From the AskReddit community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community
www.reddit.com
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9d
the usual useful list:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d
This is a problem with so much legacy media raising journalists with underdeveloped personal morality, trained to seek “iDEoloGIcaL diVErsitY” and not right and wrong. Because this argument is stupid and puny, and any columnist who can’t call it out immediately is not a serious person.

Watch: 1/2
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 5d
Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers
Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.
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Nadia Halim @nadiahalim.bsky.social · 5d
Why is this so on point this week
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 5d
My life, by Matt Tarpley
Angry frog, cartoon and four panels. The frog says I am looking my best. I am working my hardest. I am expressing myself. I am trying my best
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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 6d
“Scientists soon knew they were witnessing something both unexpected and profound: seeds and plant scraps, trapped underground for more than a century, had roared back to life.”
#Toronto

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton
www.theguardian.com
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 6d
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 7d
The @nytimes.com continues to report with all the credulity of a seven-year-old on Christmas morning dutifully announcing that Santa’s reindeer ate the carrots that were left out.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d
Over the past week, ICE and border patrol agents have clashed with Chicago residents, and federal guard troops arriving in the city might inflame tensions further. Our reporters describe the situation on the ground.

Listen to "The Daily."
Trump Claims ‘Rebellion’ in American Cities
President Trump said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to deploy the National Guard in Chicago and other places.
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SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · 10d
today is Snoopy's 75th anniversary 🥲
Screenshot from Snoopy's wikipedia page showing his first comic appearance in Peanuts on October 4th, 1950
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 14d
This, but just about every definition, is fascism. The only question now is whether everyone lets it continue. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: We need to stop being so naive about what America is becoming. Trump and his secretary of war just showed us why
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright observed some years ago that fascism is quite hard to define. It is not an ideology, she said. “I think it is a method,
www.thestar.com
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15d
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 16d
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 19d
I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
thewalrus.ca
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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 20d
For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.

I encourage everyone to read the whole thing

#CanadaPost

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail
Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.
www.newyorker.com
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 19d
It's not fascist to call fascists fascist.

It's not "dehumanizing" to say that terrorizing entire groups of people - which ICE does - is evil.

No executive order can change these facts.

However, people *can* mess things up for fascists by standing up for community and truth. Like this.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19d
"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!"

Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · May 2
Interview with the Vampire but the interviewer is Isaac Chotiner
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · Sep 13
Behold a lovely stamp sheet by Chris Ware ...

... where each stamp shows a moment in the day of a postwoman

apparently it's the first time anyone has tried to tell a story with a stamp sheet

item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
sheet of stamps in a 5 by 4 grid. Each shows a female postal deliverer walking her route and delivering mail, through the grid of a small town's streets. Each panel includes her interacting with different residents of the town, including children on the way to school, people shopping, and more. Different parts of the town show each of the four seasons
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26d
You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 26d
“"I'm disappointed that I came to Canada — a Canada that it is very, very difficult to find Canadians who are passionate about the American-Canadian relationship,"

🥴

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
U.S. ambassador 'disappointed' with anti-American sentiment in Canada | CBC News
The U.S. ambassador to Canada is expressing frustration over the anti-American sentiment he sees in this country, including from politicians, after U.S. President Donald Trump hit most of the world wi...
www.cbc.ca
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 27d
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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John Pettus @johngpettus.bsky.social · 28d
Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists.

I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.

Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
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Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 29d
been listening to a ton of post-talking-heads David Byrne in prep for seeing him Wednesday. the 4 possible David Byrne solo song subjects are

1. David asks "am I a boy, a girl, or some kind of alien sloth"
2. post apocalyptic phantasmagoria
3. mixed-use urbanism is good
4. David makes a Weird Sound
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