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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13d

Morning walk

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Ego Rodriguez @egorodriguez.com · 1d

Visiting a drawing I lost to pair with the WIP in working on.
#art #illustration

An illustration of a low view of a diver underwater

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 3d

October 6 was declared International #GeodiversityDay by the UNESCO in 2021. On this day we celebrate the abiotic beauty and diversity of Earth - including rocks, soils, landscapes, rivers, lakes, minerals & fossils ⛰️🪨🐚💎

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Nicola Dinicola @nicoladinicola.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Monday!
I’m doing a funicular fan shoutout today to @karenbdc.bsky.social for liking my posts and who I recently met IRL. Good morning!
Follow me if you’re a funicular fan. I post every morning I ride the funicular.
Funicular and elevator are both fine
7: 17 am
#YEGFunicularStatus

(Oct 6)

The view from the top of the funicular looking eastward at the river

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Paula Kirman @apaulagetics.bsky.social · 3d

Fight for Education
October 5, 2025
Alberta Legislature
Thousands of teachers and supporters on World Teachers' Day, the day before teachers go on strike province-wide for the first time in Alberta's history.
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#yeg #ableg #abed #teachers #education #students #protest

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 4d

Here are some nice mushrooms

A dense cluster of scaley pholiota grow off the side of a fallen log in a misty blue forest. All photos by me

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 5d

Data from the Cassini spacecraft shows that there is complex organic chemistry happening in the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

It took 17 years to get the result! The finding boosts the case that life could possibly exist inside this little ice-covered world. 🧪🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Left: Cassini image of Enceladus showing its geysers. Right: This illustration shows the process of light, soluble and reactive organic compounds making their way onto ice grains emitted in jets of water from Saturn's moon Enceladus, where they were detected by the Cassini spacecraft.

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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 5d

Better Edmonton, I thought

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 6d

Hi from a Ward D school trustee election candidate forum at the Cloverdale community league.

I’m not live-posting but I’ll try to include some highlights. There are four candidates in Ward D, and no incumbent trustee.

- Nickela Anderson
- Colette Bachand
- Nancy Hunt
- Rufino Ranon #yegvote #epsb

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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 6d

Night ride. Elevator and funicular both working fine! #yegfunicularstatus

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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 7d

This US admin doesn’t even know or care who they’re harming. They just want to be demonstrably cruel.
www.intersexequality.com/intersex-his...

For Intersex Awareness Day: The History of the X Passport Marker – Intersex Campaign for Equality

www.intersexequality.com

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Pe Metawe Games @pemetawe.bsky.social · 7d

Know a youth aged 13+ who'd enjoy meeting a cartoonist AND playing an RPG? Then join us for a Tale Quest session this Sat Oct 4! Running 10am-1:45pm, this FREE event is a chance to work on skills and have fun 😀. Organized by the Young Alberta Book Society. #yeg

www.eventbrite.ca/e/tale-quest...

Tale Quest - with Fred Curatolo

Come adventuring! Join us for a fun RPG one-shot followed by an illustration workshop with Edmonton cartoonist Fred Curatolo!

www.eventbrite.ca

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Taproot Edmonton @taprootedmonton.ca · 8d

Edmonton's responsibilities on Indigenous relations: Where the candidates stand edmonton.taproot.news/briefs/2025/... #yeg

Edmonton's responsibilities on Indigenous relations: Where the candidates stand

Candidates are narrowly split when it comes to their responses to Taproot's candidate survey on Edmonton's responsibilities regarding Indigenous relations.

edmonton.taproot.news

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 9d

Carefully keeping my decorative gourds away from my non-decorative gourds

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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 8d

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio.
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply

card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"

WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 8d

The second is Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social's intro to their new @nichecanada.bsky.social on the #envhist of residential and day schools in Canada.

Read "Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation" - niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...

#cdnhist #indigenoushistory #indigenous

Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

niche-canada.org

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 8d

In the first, for @yegcityasmuseum.bsky.social, Fraser demonstrates why we need to think about residential school history in terms of forced labour.

citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/09/30/m...

#cdnhist #yeg #indigenoushistory #everychildmatters #indigenous #labour

“More Than Half a Day”: Child Labour at the St. Albert Youville Indian Residential School

A letter written by a lawyer in 1939 shows Indigenous families challenging the legality of forced child labour at St. Albert Youville Indian Residential School. For decades, at this school and others,...

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 8d

I had the privilege to work as an editor on two important articles by Crystal Gail Fraser that come out today for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

#cdnhist #envhist #indigenous #indigenoushistory

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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 8d

Props to Dr Fraser for writing this very well-researched story, Elijah C-W for illustrating it with care, and @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social for editing.

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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 8d

If you feel out of the loop with all the orange shirts today, read this new story on ECAMP.

This is not the distant past. My grandparents were alive when children were forced to do dangerous work at this "school” in St. Albert. #yeg #yeghistory #trday
citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/09/30/m...

“More Than Half a Day”: Child Labour at the St. Albert Youville Indian Residential School

A letter written by a lawyer in 1939 shows Indigenous families challenging the legality of forced child labour at St. Albert Youville Indian Residential School. For decades, at this school and others,...

citymuseumedmonton.ca

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