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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 15d

📚 Huge thanks to #BaskervilleBooks @sohopress.bsky.social for a copy of #Clowntown latest instalment of #SlowHorses by @mick-herron.bsky.social #bookreview #booksky #crimefiction @netgalley.bsky.social Always a pleasure!
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Sandy's review of Clown Town (Slough House, #9)

4/5: Page 1..... "So many things can break a head." Well.....that didn't take long. But then what did you expect? This is the latest instalment featuring the crew of misfits from Slough House. Norma...

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 19h

🍁 Don't live in this riding but I'd vote for his Dad 🤣 #yeg #election #patrickstewart

Edmonton municipal vote sign featuring Bad Bunny

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 19h

🍁 Advance polls are open for municipal voting 🗳️ (Seems like @michaeljanz.bsky.social is getting some otherworldly assistance 😉) Get out there, #yeg!!

front yard skeleton wearing a Vote for Michael Janz sign in Edmonton

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 20h

Things you don't see every day.....
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rare white beaver wows Ottawa-area wildlife watchers | CBC News

Ottawa wildlife photographers have captured stunning images of a rare leucistic beaver.

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 20h

🍁Hmmmmm....now what would these 5 premiers have in common? 🤔 I know in the case of Alberta, it's the desire for complete unquestioned control. #notmypremier
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Five premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause

Five premiers say Ottawa’s recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause amounts to a “complete disavowal” of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 2d

This is Chico. He is the star of this year's hottest film, Fast and the Furriest: Tokyo Drift. 13/10 (TT: mariana_rodrigues_ssilva)

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 2d

Where do I sign? Can I sign more than once? ✍️

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2d

WOW!

Alberta just got another approved referendum petition!

And this one calls for the practice of funding private schools with public money to be put to an end!

During the teachers strike!

Strap in Alberta, we’re going on a ride!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: after reportedly "falling off the wagon" Pete Hegseth is discovered in a retired couple's home in Sarasota, FL, trapped in their acrylic coffee table.

#PeteHegseth

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 3d

Couldn’t agree more. Why aren’t they asking Smith why education dollars are being diverted to private schools? Public schools are for everyone, please fund them.

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 3d

Spirituelle [speer-uh-chuh-WEL]
(adj.)
- Having or marked by a refined and especially sprightly or witty nature.

Used in a sentence:
“Beneath the severe tailoring and modest coiffure hid a most alluringly spirituelle creature—impishly selcouth, mischievously malapert, and brazenly aware of it.”

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 5d

0w0a4HKWgY0 #mariannevonwerefkin #werefkin

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for letting us know how this turned out. We all desperately need these little nuggets of good news 🫤

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 5d

Help support original Irish satire.
Store: https://waterfordwhispers.shop/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WhispersNews

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

An eloquent, truthful & beautifully written piece that (ironically) could qualify as American as apple pie. Censored. Shame on the @dailymemphian.bsky.social . You've just outed yourselves as part of the problem. I stand with Dan Conaway 👊

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 5d

Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Stand with Dan.

"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country."
My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five.
He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor.
"Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk."
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.
Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city.
That was last week.
This week changed everything.
This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia.
He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities.
Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight.
The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own.

Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..."
As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government.
The president who would be king.
Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York.
A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish.
Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man.
You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong.
Nothing excuses this. Nothing.
Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front.
The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet.
We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible.

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart.
Here, ready to rumble.
Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble.
Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us.
Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice.
What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis.
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.

One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us.
You're right, Dad. I know.
I'm a Memphian, soon under siege.
(Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

Actual footage of my dance of appreciation...

a cartoon of a boy and a girl dancing on a wooden floor .

Alt: a Peanuts cartoon of a boy and a girl dancing on a wooden floor .

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🇨🇦Masked Newfoundlander🫐 @mindseyeofapoet.bsky.social · 5d

Yep

Bad Bunny is more
American than the
First Lady

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

Where does he live that he hears Merry Xmas every day? North Pole? 🤔

rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

🇨🇦 Deserves to repeated.......over & over & over 🇨🇦

Andrew 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @andrewbarss.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly.

If it’s Canada’s coast, not BC’s, then it’s Canada’s oil, not AB’s.

You don’t get to have it both ways, Dani.

rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

I imagine them strolling along, commenting on what you're wearing & sharing neighbourhood gossip....😉

WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 5d

rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

Always 👍

rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

Yup, signed it. Not sure about these petitions as I haven't heard a thing re: the one demanding everyone get security clearance (looking at YOU, PP...)

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

🏆 "Best Performative Male" Ok, this is funny...
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Performative male contest London: Best crowned after Soho Square event

Competitors with tote bags full of sanitary pads and feminist literature faced off in central London.

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 C'mon Alberta, we need 30,000 signatures in 4 weeks. You can do it! ✍️🇨🇦💪👊 #ForeverCanadian #never51

Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 6d

Today, #ForeverCanadian brought 230,000 petition signatures to Edmonton. Our volunteers will continue collecting signatures until October 28. We need your signature to reach our 300,000 requirement to keep Alberta in Canada.

#ableg #Yeg #Yyc #CdnPoli

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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 6d

#MAS is unnecessary if the industry would follow the law, and the government would do their job.

#PolluterPays #abpoli #AER #CapturedRegulator #FailingPetrostate #UnethicalAlberta

cleanupyourmess.ca/write-your-mla

an oil pump with a white sticker on it that says ' a ' on it

ALT: an oil pump with a white sticker on it that says ' a ' on it

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 5d

Strange. What kind of creature is this?

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · 5d

Vital research....🤨

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

‘Expensive, but totally worth it’: the best (and worst) supermarket dark chocolate, tasted and rated

Our in-house chocolate aficionado struggles through luxury bars of high cocoa dark chocolate so you don’t have to