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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 12h

This needs to get more air time. Not that there aren't a million things rn that need air time.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 19h

Learn how ONC is playing a key role in managing and processing the oceanographic data from the Canadian Antarctic Research Expedition, soon to be available on our open access, data management portal Oceans 3.0 🧊 bit.ly/4h1bfEC

🧪 🌊 #KnowTheOcean #CDNsci #SciComm #DataScience #BigData

UVic-led Ocean Networks Canada shares data from first all-Canadian Antarctic expedition

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is making research data from the first all-Canadian-led scientific expedition to the Antarctic publicly available.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 13h

"In rapid fire, I was hit seven times on my arms, face and torso with exploding pellets that contained some kind of chemical agent."

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 9d

There is no ‘debate’, there is only sophistry at this stage. The International Court of Justice described Gaza as a ‘plausible genocide’ last year. On the 18th of September 2025 an expert UN Independent International Commission of Enquiry found the actions of the Israeli state as genocide:

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 9d

Go Canadian #womeninSTEM

M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 9d

Wow! Just brilliant!👍

StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 9d

Atta girl! 🇨🇦 #CdnHealth

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 9d

My latest essay, for The Manifest Station www.themanifeststation.net/2025/09/15/w... @manifeststation.bsky.social

The Wall Hanging

The sound of the sewing machine was soothing, like that of waves on a beach. I cut and sewed, sewed and cut. Slowly the wall hanging began to take shape in my hands.

www.themanifeststation.net

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 11d

This only happens to you once

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 9d

Really?

Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 10d

My latest effort to be super-popular in @nytimes.com: “Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.” Yes, the world’s most hated herbicide is way less toxic than caffeine. Here’s a gift link where you can leave all your supportive comments: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 9d

Hope getting outside helped!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

For those who were directly targeted by Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric, bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech signal the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in an essay for The New York Times Magazine.

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 9d

Adelia Khan on Arundhati Roy's new memoir. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mo... in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

A Mother’s Specter | Los Angeles Review of Books

Ade Khan reviews Arundhati Roy’s memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me.”

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 9d

"(This) is the kind of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse." slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers

The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12d

All of this. It makes zero sense to expect public goods to generate profit.

divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 12d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12d

“We are really pulling out all the stops to make sure that the impacts are being hidden.” National Park Service workers say a crisis is building behind the scenes, Kylie Mohr reports.

Trump Is Setting the National Parks Up to Fail

Workers say the real crisis is happening behind the scenes.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13d

Using an emergency declaration, Trump’s timber production executive order would ease environmental protections so as to greatly expand logging in the national forests.

A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:

The dismantling of the US Forest Service is imminent

The public has less than a week remaining to comment on the administration's plans.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 12d

Take this course if you can - packed full of useful information for writers.

Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 17d

Seeking that creative spark? Paper Covers Rock on Salt Spring Island, Oct 3-4, is an affordable, multidisciplinary festival for writers and other creatives. I'll be there to teach my Sentences with Style workshop (Oct 4) and to soak up the inspiration.
Details: www.papercoversrock.ca

Image of a piece of paper, folded like a tent and covering a rock. Text says: "Paper Covers Rock, 3-4 October 2025, Salt Spring Island, BC; workshops, live readings, music, and creative sparks shared in good company."

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We have some words for you.

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

The NEW Twelfth Edition.

Made of paper.

11.18.2025

www.merriam-webster.com/collegiate-d...

Merriam Webster NEW 12th Edition Collegiate Dictionary

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Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 14d

Do you work in conservation science, particularly outside the U.S.? Did you lose your job or funding for your job because of cuts to U.S. federal agencies? Do you want to talk about it? DM me please. (This is for a @biographic.bsky.social story)

[Iceland photo for attention only]

Grassy dunes, the ocean, and jagged mountains in Iceland

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 13d

Ha.

George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 13d

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 13d

Timeline Cleanse --> Otherworldly landscapes, right here on Earth
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Winners of the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards

The winning and honored images from this year’s contest, designed to “promote the very best landscape photography by digital and film photographers who value realism and authenticity in their work,” s...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13d

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 16d

Must read: “We are where Hungarians were in 2010, where Russians were in 2000, & where Germans were in 1933. Those places’ futures were not inevitable; had elites & even ordinary people made different choices, catastrophes could have been avoided. Ours still can be too.”
www.vox.com/politics/462...

This is how Trump ends democracy

The past week has revealed Trump’s road map to one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

www.vox.com

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 17d

Great article about the relationship between a writer and his editor. What a fascinating piece. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | These editor’s notes are poison. I learned from every drop.

Working with Starling Lawrence, who died last month, was a bracing course in a vanishing art.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 18d

Nice to see innovative approaches to aquatic pollution.

WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 19d

Road runoff will pass through vortex separators, a series of filters, wetlands + bioswales - the aim: to stop lead, chromium + PAHs from the highway permeating a chalk aquifer.

Imagine the boost to wildlife if work like this were rolled out across the country.
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‘You could drink from that pond’: the city digging for a solution to toxic runoff

A project in Brighton to stop harmful chemicals from seeping into a chalk aquifer could set an example for managing such pollution

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