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Creator, Pages Past, a podcast where your favourite people revisit their old favourite books. Editor, college instructor, library lurker, luddite. Opinions mine. Torontonian.

Listen: https://pod.link/1753505445
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PagesPast
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nothing will ever beat this one for me
Cleuci de Oliveira @CLEUCl · Follow A correction for the ages, by Brazilian news magazine Veja "The candidate likes to spend his free time reading Tolstoy, and not watching Toy Story, as originally reported"
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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new episode of Pages Past is out far and wide! Everybody's @newestolympian.bsky.social fave, Dr. Steven Parra, revisits The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese, a memoir that inspired him when he was starting out in his medical training. as always, no need to read the book! pod.link/1753505445/e...
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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the art style is even kind of similar to this one! maybe it's inspired by that. I'm sure it's a great pick for kids
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is a children's picture book published in 1967 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc.[1] Written by Bill Martin Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle,
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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latest podcast episode is out and FREE on Patreon! wide release tomorrow morning! @newestolympian.bsky.social star Dr. Steven Parra reads The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese through the theme of denial, and does NOT give us medical advice www.patreon.com/posts/exclus...
green background info graphic with picture of dr steven parra smiling and wearing headphones and an image of the cover of the 1998 book the Tennis Partner
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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"Olivia Nuz—" NO
DW from arthur on a sticker that says I can't read
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Gordon Ramsey meme that says delicious, finally some good fucking preaching
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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how it feels looking for royalty-free but human-made music for your podcast in 2025
mysterious image of woman from circa 90s (confirmed not AI) dressed as scully and pointing gun at computer
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I was possessed by a demon and forced to make a TikTok with all the wildlife footage. I have shot in my neighbourhood on my smashed-up iPhone
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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good morning! I set this calendar alert on Sept 25 hehe
google alert saying edit Mamdani story to say he was elected
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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also I have seen Steve Martin in exactly one movie
cheaper by the dozen (2003)
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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millennials panicking about Gen Alpha brainrot ... I fear we are losing recipes
you just lost the game dat boy charlie the unicorn says you took my kidney powerthirst man milk meme
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Canada looking at skilled immigrants who are getting harassed and marginalized in the U.S. and U.K.:
well give me some flork of crows meme -- drawn carton man with empty plate
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I didn’t know baseball games went that high???? I thought “bottom of the ninth” was the end of it??!! Toronto what is happening
Blue jays tied at the end of the 15th
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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looking w/pride at all our collective investments and retirement accounts:
October 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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"well give me some" flork of crows meme with the caption "well give me yours then"
October 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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the details in this story are heart-stopping.
Several residents said that agents had left some apartments alone while bursting into others. Miyah Hill, 22, said some residents who peeked into the hallway during the raid were ordered to go back inside. One man who asked not to be identified because he was still living in the building, said he had found a floor plan of the building in the aftermath of the raid with some apartments shaded in green, others in white and some in red. Brian McGraw, 64, who lives on the first floor and was not targeted by the agents, said that he later found orange tape on his door with the words “NO GO” written on it; two other doors on the first floor had similar tape, he said. “They must have had some advance intelligence or information, where somehow they knew I wasn’t one of the ones they were looking for,” he said.
October 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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you WILL hurt your own feelings if you look up what lists you are on haha (this is what you get for criticizing Taylor Swift)
personality based in hating something easily avoidable 87 Please pick them! They are not like the other girls. They think that stuff is dumb and say so. Over and over. So they can get picked.
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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also: oh to be a 1970s All Things Considered staffer enjoying a nice cigarette in the break room in my muu muu
four staffers in colour photo from 70s with shelf of LPs in the background. black woman holding to go cup in foreground, Susan in background wearing a muumuu, man at desk smoking
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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really appreciate ProPublica's AI summaries (Awesome Investigative reporter)
Reporting Highlights Americans Detained: The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by immigration agents. We found more than 170 cases this year where citizens were detained at raids and protests. Held Incommunicado: More than 20 citizens have reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer. In some cases their families couldn’t find them. Cases Wilted: Agents have arrested about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, for allegedly interfering with or assaulting officers, yet those cases were often dropped. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. Were they helpful?
October 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Me and my dog frolic every day in the beautiful wreckage of Hurricane Hazel, which my grandfather survived at 17. The firefighters were Clarence "Tiny" Collins, Frank Mercer, Roy Oliver, David Palmateer, and Angus Small. Those men made i through the war years only to die in the line of duty at home
October 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I spotted it right away (I teach composition to college students, God help me). Overuse or contextually inappropriate use of negative parallelisms is an AI red flag. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Negative parallelisms Shortcut WP:AIPARALLEL Parallel constructions involving "not", "but", or "however" such as "Not only ... but ..." or "It is not just about ..., it's ..." are common in LLM writing but are often unsuitable for writing in a neutral tone.[1]
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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🫵 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Negative parallelisms Shortcut WP:AIPARALLEL Parallel constructions involving "not", "but", or "however" such as "Not only ... but ..." or "It is not just about ..., it's ..." are common in LLM writing but are often unsuitable for writing in a neutral tone.[1]
October 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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yesterday was a disconcertingly beautiful day for a two-person Canadian friendsgiving
table set with bone china cranberry sauce dish, mocktails, silver servingware with mashed potatos and stuffing, flowers and candles and just one other person at the table
October 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I mean
itty bitty labubu propped up on karl marx's grave with the big bust of his head
October 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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there's at least one catchy (in the sense of influenza) melody on the new taylor swift album. every time this goes through my head, it knocks a few IQ points out on its way by
Keep it one hundred on the land (Land), thе sea (Sea), the sky Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes
October 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM