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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 3d

#SundaySentence

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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 3d

Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 3d

"So the plan wasn’t a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing."

“Exit Strategy”
Martha Wells @marthawells.com

#SundaySentence
💙📚

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 3d

The second part of this #SundaySentence from @sachajudd.com - frat bros, not moms! - needs to become part of the lexicon. I have wholeheartedly adopted it. 2/2

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 3d

So I’m challenging myself to try and articulate what I find hopeful about the current moment, in a way that a frat bro who can’t tie his own shoelaces could understand (see how that works better than saying “in a way your mother will understand”?).
#SundaySentence thanks to @sachajudd.com 1/2

Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 6d

I challenged myself to explain atproto in a way that wouldn't put you to sleep, or make you hate me or yourself. Let me know if I succeeded.

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nothin' but blue skies from now on

Some of you know that I work part-time with the team at Graze Social. It seems gauche to talk about a day job in your passion project newsletter, but in this...

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to this, and to seeing you there!

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 3d

Very much looking forward to this poetry launch by @jenbdelisle.bsky.social today at Audrey’s Books in Edmonton. Poems about stock images? I’m deeply intrigued.

Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 3d

I’m launching Stock this afternoon at Audreys at 2! The wonderful @prairievixen.bsky.social and @kimmannix.bsky.social will be reading too, and helping me perform pieces in multiple voices. Hope to see you there! www.audreys.ca/events/34197...

Poetry Launch: Jennifer Bowering Delisle | Audreys Books

Edmonton's Oldest Independent Bookstore selling new books for adults and children

www.audreys.ca

Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 12d

Horny elk + geese = the songs of autumn :)

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 16d

“Smith's long-abiding belief in safeguarding rights, it appears, is complemented by a belief that politicians' interpretation of rights should trump the courts'.”
Gross. #sendhelp

Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 16d

The Premier With the Liberty Tattoo: Danielle Smith readies the notwithstanding clause to protect her transgender laws against Charter rights rulings. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | Why rights champion Danielle Smith is eyeing notwithstanding clause for trans laws | CBC News

A proudly libertarian premier is preparing to wield the notwithstanding clause this fall, after expanding her own province's rights protections last year.

www.cbc.ca

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 17d

An important dive into the serious problems with Canada’s temporary foreign worker system, from my talented friend @marcellodicintio.bsky.social

Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 17d

Temporary foreign workers are shackled to their employers. Why Canada's closed-permit system is broken. https://macleans.ca/society/canada-runs-on-serf-labour/

Canada Runs on Serf Labour - Macleans.ca

My grandfather arrived with the right to stay. Today’s foreign workers are handcuffed to bad jobs they can’t leave.

macleans.ca

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StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social · Sep 7

"How strange a world... that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality... that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree."
-from JAMES, Percival Everett
#SundaySentence

Cover of book, JAMES by Percival Everett. The word JAMES with an oversized J and a runaway slave in the circle of the J. Gold letters on black.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 24d

I loved this book, and this sentence.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 24d

An unforgettable book.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 24d

This sentence immediately leads me to look up the book!

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 24d

The thing about being first-generation college was that no one we knew had any idea what the hell we were supposed to be doing there other than taking some classes and hoping they added up to a grand theory of our lives.
#SundaySentence from the brilliant The Payback by Kashana Cauley.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is how I felt after lovingly nurturing two tomatillo plants for four months last summer: I got two medium jars of salsa verde :)

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Sep 2

Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 2

The AI hype bubble driving the stock market is also the Trump bubble.

Facing reality on one—“cost a lot to run, low revenue, isn’t superintelligence” or “tariffs, corruption, and chaos are real”—will make reality hit on the other.

So they’ll try to keep inflating it, and then we’re in for a crash.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · Aug 31

It resonates? We shall discuss soonest 😘

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · Aug 31

Druid’s Temple, Yorkshire, a folly built in 1820 under the orders of scholar William Danby. Local lore says those who try to spend the night at the temple will be driven out before daybreak.
#StandingStoneSunday

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Paul Chamberlain @paulchamberlain.bsky.social · Aug 31

Callanish this morning #StandingStoneSunday

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · Aug 31

A bonus #SundaySentence from Private Rites by Julia Armfield, because this book is full of irresistible sentences, and because I have four sisters and this is real:

The sensation, then, not so much of being understood as of being understood too well at one time and then never again.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · Aug 31

“You can never just climb down from something,” Isla had once told her, “you like to treasure up a grudge like something you’ve birthed and fed and sent to an expensive school.”

#SundaySentence from the unforgettable Private Rites by Julia Armfield.

Sisters. Agh.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · Aug 30

Bless you, going to try this tomorrow. Trying to rid myself of Gemini felt like a month of digging. Why do tech bros operate from the same bible as stalkers?

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · Aug 30

I love that! I’m currently listening to The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell when I exercise. Workouts require some drama, it probably ups our metabolic blah blah or something.

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · Aug 29

Also me!

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