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Rome Demands Stone

@romedemands.bsky.social

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Yes, it's me. The cocktail loving, board game playing, data librarian with a wall of games🇨🇦🍁

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Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · Mar 15

Pinnable:

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”

—Anne Herbert

Support your public library in any way you can—this includes using it.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1h

The Devoted Friend
Jeff Dillon
2021

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 9h

Not suggesting Stephen only has 12 listeners lol 😜

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Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 9h

I think this is up @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social’s alley. 🙂

🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 9h

Hey, anyone in media want to chat about #AfterTheFeast [*waggles eyebrows*]??

(Yes, of COURSE I will come on your podcast with 12 listeners.)

🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 8d

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 11h

Why The Recent TikTok Privacy Ruling Swaps Privacy for Increased Surveillance: privacy commissioners mandate better privacy through facial scanning, speech monitoring, and an AI based “passive underage detection model”?!
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/10/why-...

Why The Recent TikTok Privacy Ruling Swaps Privacy for Increased Surveillance - Michael Geist

Last month, federal privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne, alongside his provincial privacy counterparts from Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia, released the results of a multi-year investigation...

www.michaelgeist.ca

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Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 21h

Dudes! 3 runs is nothing.

#BlueJays

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Stanley Q Woodvine @sqwabb.bsky.social · 21h

#Alberta Seperatist flirt, Trump groupie & notwithstanding clause fan #DanielleSmith dares to call #BritishColumbia's #DavidEby "un-Canadian" & is not instantly reduced to cinders by heavenly lightning, further proving there is neither God nor Justice.

Alberta premier calls David Eby ‘un-Canadian’ over pipeline proposal to B.C. coast | Globalnews.ca

'It's not the Danielle Smith show, it's Team Canada and we all deserve the same treatment for the same federal money,' David Eby said on Tuesday.

globalnews.ca

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Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 21h

Let’s go Jays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 22h

Streamed?

Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 22h

Someone give me the Jays pitching roster

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 2d

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian." @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washin...

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

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Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 2d

www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 2d

A single Vancouver police officer made $397,258 last year, making $239,258 in overtime on top of their base pay of up to $158,000.
This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

47 VPD officers made over $100K in OT last year — and one banked $239K, FOI data shows | CBC News

A single Vancouver police sergeant was paid $239,258 in overtime alone last year, on top of the rank's base pay of up to $158,000. The figure comes from a freedom of information request filed with the...

www.cbc.ca

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Jez Gordon @jezgordon.bsky.social · 2d

I LOVE clever information presentation like this.

🌱Elaine Lithgow 🌱 @elainelithgow.bsky.social · 3d

Been reading through Lord Have Mercy Upon Us by @caesar-ink.bsky.social and I’m still obsessed with the index/random encounter table/dust jacket.

Such a clever feature. I long for a bookmark version tho, just I find reading a book with the dust jacket on to be a bit awkward.

A photograph of a role playing game book where the dust jacket folds over and lines up with notches on the edge of the book to provide a combination index and random encounter page

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 3d

Folks should be more aware of this:

www.mcgill.ca/definethelin...

Signal for Help Campaign Launches to Help People Experiencing Gender-Based Violence During Home Isolation

The Canadian Women’s Foundation, one of the IMPACTS Project partners, has announced its support for Signal for Help, an online initiative to assist those experiencing violence as a result of home isol...

www.mcgill.ca

Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 3d

It really has to be experienced in person.

Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 4d

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 19d

is it normal to be tired all the time

Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 4d

Folks, I think it’s time. D has a beard and we have 5 cans of shaving cream that have resided in the back of the cupboard for about 10 years just in case he starts to shave again.

www.marthastewart.com/swedish-deat...

Swedish Death Cleaning Isn't as Scary as It Sounds—Here's Why You Should Try It

Swedish death cleaning is not as scary as it sounds—and could be key to getting your house organized. Learn how to tackle Swedish death cleaning, as well as its origins, here.

www.marthastewart.com

Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats! Looks like you had great weather for it, too

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Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 4d

#RenaissanceMan

Rome Demands Stone @romedemands.bsky.social · 5d

Haha

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 5d

But some workplaces differ. Universities, for instance, have no business punishing faculty for lawful tweets, regardless of how 'controversial' they might.

Frances @frances2023.bsky.social · 5d

Not just political parties. All workplaces have a social media policy. When I worked, and was known to work for a certain employer, I couldn't tweet anything I wanted. If I didn't like that, I could quit working for that employer.

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