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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · Apr 11
I wrote a long thing about travel--why one does it, what the benefits are or are not, etc. No definitive answers, but I'm embarking on another such voyage soon. Perhaps I'll figure it out this time.

The People You Meet: A No-Fly Journey Across the Ocean medium.com/@klynes/the-...
The People You Meet: A No-Fly Journey Across the Ocean
What was I thinking? What was I thinking? This refrain began circulating in my brain like a tenacious earworm in September 2023, on the eve…
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 1d
Actually, you're right. Upon digging deeper, I see that I can't read everything either. Still, I will take advantage and read what I can.
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 1d
That's weird. I just gave them my email and I'm suddenly allowed to read anything. I think.
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 1d
I think if you give them your email (ie subscribe without paying), all the articles are free?
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 1d
It's perplexing, for sure.
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 1d
Long but worth reading. (It thoughtfully raises the question of why the Palestinian movement did not experience its anti-tankie moment after October 7.)

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The October 7th pogrom as a non-event on the Western left - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Since the 7th of October we are appalled by the continuous flow of reactions denouncing Israel and only Israel. We are especially appalled by those that come out of academic institutions, articulated ...
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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 2d
Last October 7th, I wrote about an imaginary antisemitism alert warning that wouldn’t stop buzzing. As we mark two years since the Hamas terror attacks, it sadly continues with relentless, open antisemitism manifesting in ways I never thought possible in Canada.
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Reflecting on October 7th: The Antisemitism Red Alert Warning Won’t Stop Buzzing - Michael Geist
Late on Friday, October 6, 2023, I was dozing after a family Sabbath dinner meal when I was suddenly awoken by the continuous buzzing of the Tzofar red alert app on my phone and watch. I had installed...
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 5d
Although I realized just now that it's sweetened entirely by dates. Still, dates are very sweet.
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 5d
Yes, very much so. Americans love their sugar.
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 6d
Idk, maybe for dessert. Not breakfast.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d
Brown butter and a hint of vanilla enhance the richness, giving this oatmeal a dessert-like quality.
Sticky Date and Brown Butter Oatmeal Recipe
This oatmeal relies entirely on the caramel-like flavor of medjool dates for sweetness Briefly cooking the dates first allows them to almost completely dissolve into the oatmeal, permeating every bite Brown butter and a hint of vanilla enhance the richness, giving the oatmeal a dessert-like quality
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d
Two people were killed outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, on Thursday morning in a vehicle ramming and stabbing attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, the police said. Others were injured, including three who were in serious condition. nyti.ms/48JHyFO
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 7d
Guten Abend.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 8d
Politics should not take up this much of your brain every day
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 11d
Good morning.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 17d
Equinox d'automne
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 20d
“I observe that the most vulnerable includes not only the homeless but also the elderly person and the child who want to use a sidewalk or a city park without tiptoeing through used needles and human faeces...”

This should be obvious but somehow is not.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 20d
In Dufferin Grove, a big tent of compassion for homeless encampments begins to fray
Even self-professed progressives are losing patience – and the debate about housing and compassion is not unique
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 25d
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 25d
Not Eddie. Eddie pics are anti-inflammatory.
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 25d
Yes, it's a thing, but I suspect my wrinkles have as much to do with age as sun. 🙂
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 25d
I've found that doctors bemoan "sun damage" a lot. I call it ageing lol.
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 25d
According to most skin doctors (and at least one nurse practitioner), I think, yes.
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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 25d
Lol, I told my nurse practitioner that I taper off using it in the fall and don't use it at all in deepest winter, and she shook her head in shocked disapproval. But I mean, it's Canada. We can't even make Vitamin D from sunlight in the winter.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 28d
This Ezra Klein piece is totally reasonable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28d
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Sep 5
Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12
Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12
KITCHENER – Local man Dalton Strickland, whose data entry job regularly requires him to read dates off a form and put them into a computer, literally never knows which date is the day and which is the...
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Jump @jodiesjumpsuit.bsky.social · 28d
This is a great opportunity to purge any followers on here who are celebrating the murder. Bye, you ghouls, Godspeed on finding your humanity again
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