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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 16h

Embarking on your journey
@christophergold.bsky.social
@briankeene.bsky.social
@stephenking.bsky.social
I too am feeling old and doddering.
Thank you, to all the contributors.

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 16h

Isn’t Civil War what he wants?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18h

Canada vs. America

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 1d

When her husband died, I figured she would soon follow. Sometimes they just can’t go on without their soulmate.

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 1d

…there will be coffee and Timbits in the parking lot!

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 2d

How will that help them keep their jobs?
How about selling more, so the plant doesn’t close?

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 2d

Premier Doug Ford is getting specific about his vow to make international booze giant Diageo “feel the pain” over its plan to close an Amherstburg plant where 200 employees bottle Crown Royal, threatening to stop selling the iconic Canadian whiskey in LCBO stores.

Doug Ford threatens to pull Crown Royal from LCBO stores over bottling plant closure

Premier Doug Ford is getting specific about his vow to make international booze giant Diageo "feel the pain" over its plan to close an Amherstburg plant where 200 employees bottle

www.thestar.com

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 2d

Stay strong Marisa. You got this.

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 2d

Thoughts and prayers🙏🥹

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 2d

There are many different initiatives per Province, to help those in need.
🍁🇨🇦👍🏻

Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 2d

🇨🇦 No concrete proof in Canadian sources that “clothing forests” (coats hung on trees along public trails for people in need) are a formal program. Small informal acts like the “Chase the Chill” initiative in Regina have hung donated winter items on trees or poles.
globalnews.ca/news/2378719...

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll take him over,,, well just about anyone in the States.

Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 5d

Wow! This is interesting.

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 5d

"...high coffee and/or tea intake has been linked to a 24% reduction in the risk of cancer progression..."

via www.newsweek.com/cancer-drink...

From study: "This meta-analysis suggests a protective role for coffee and tea in cancer survival."

#TeamCoffee #TeamConfirmationBias

Drinking tea and coffee linked to improved cancer outcomes

High intake of the popular beverages appears to be be associated with a 24 percent reduction in cancer progression.

www.newsweek.com

Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 5d

Thought you were previously engaged in the back yard?
Better start ironing your shirt.

Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 5d

He will be wearing a Maple Leafs jersey, and a bringing a 20 pack of Tim Bits.
That’s as good as it’s going to get.
Oh, bring up the 51st state, that will go over well. ( sarcasm.)

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d

Mark Carney will head to the White House next Tuesday, his second visit as Canada’s prime minister, as officials from the two countries negotiate on trade and security issues

Trump, Carney to Meet in Washington as Trade Fight Drags On

Mark Carney will head to the White House next Tuesday, his second visit as Canada’s prime minister, as officials from the two countries negotiate on trade and security issues.

bloom.bg

Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 5d

Chaotic all the waaaayyyy!

Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 5d

Which one are you guys? :) #booksky

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 5d

Go Jane & Bab’s.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Jane Fonda and hundreds of members of the entertainment industry have revived the Committee for the First Amendment, a free-expression group that was originally formed by Hollywood stars including her father, Henry Fonda, during the McCarthy era.

Jane Fonda Revives Her Father’s McCarthy-Era Free Speech Group

The actress joined Spike Lee, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal and others in reviving the Committee for the First Amendment, a group that her father, Henry Fonda, was a member of in the 1940s.

nyti.ms

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry, going to the Taylor Swift movie.
* giggle *

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 5d

Since when are they concerned with legalities?

JuneSongbird @junesongbird.bsky.social · 5d

WTF are we doing? How is this legal?

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Hegseth announces another US attack on alleged drug boat off Venezuelan coast

The defense secretary alleged that four "narco-terrorists" were killed.

www.yahoo.com

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 5d

Take a break Molly. Self care. It’s a thing😁😘

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 7d

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 7d

So sorry. The world has lost a giant.

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 7d

She would have laughed so hard at this.
I can’t stop crying, we lost a giant.

Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 7d

Far Side cartoon. One gorilla grooms her gorilla friend and notices something amiss. "Well, well-another blonde hair....
Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 7d

My deepest condolences to the family.
I had the pleasure of meeting Jane years ago.
The most beautiful soul.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 7d

Tickets are on sale now!

French Alt poster for BLACK PHONE 2 - Finn in a phone booth (out of focus) with the Grabber looking over his shoulder.

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 7d

Same kid actors? They were great in the first one.

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Beth @booknerdy.bsky.social · 7d

She died? Oh noooo

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