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Canadian tax dollars at work: Hundreds of films can be streamed for free at the National Film Board, from animated shorts like this one to full length dramas and documentaries. https://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz/ https://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-films/ #film #streaming #Canada

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My daughter lost her favorite hat. I found it, using my magical mom powers of — checks notes — lifting a blanket off the floor.

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Self-care basketry projects this weekend: one uh... birdhouse? (or maybe suet block holder?) and one partially finished basket. I was looking at various willow artists' websites for inspiration and the pictures on this website are just gorgeous […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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A northern shoveler takes off with a splash! Alexandria, Virginia, USA 11-MAR-2025. (Please view full size) #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography #ducks

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OH yeah love ending my workday with a surprise National Geographic interview about the Saturn moons that I helped discover by accidentally pointing the CFHT telescope at Saturn. Definitely my most scientifically productive whoopsie ever. 128!!!! New!!! MOONS!! Happy Moon Day! […]

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(cowbells) A-won't you take me to Skunkytown? Won't you take me to Skunkytown? Won't you take me to Skunkytown? Won't you take me to Skunkytown? #animalhour #animals #wildlife (photo via https://unsplash.com/photos/selective-focus-photography-of-skunk-jG8eaA5Iq3A)

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women From a Manitoba dump, a witness to the tenacity of families who refuse to accept that ‘it’s not worth’ the risks and effort to find the remains of their murdered loved ones […]

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women From a Manitoba dump, a witness to the tenacity of families who refuse to accept that ‘it’s not worth’ the risks and effort to find the remains of their murdered loved ones […]

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The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle #Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers.-- Bloomberg #Canada

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Most of my students know that the US did not enter WWII until after Pearl Harbor (12/7/1941). A few know about America First and the embrace of isolationism in the late-1930s. Almost none believe me when I tell them that 90+ PERCENT of Americans opposed US […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Got a li'l art commission request. I'm interested in some banner art for my "Scrolls" newsletter (https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/). Thus far, I've been using the Phosphor scroll icon as a stand-in but would love to have something a little more personalized. As fan of #pixelart I would love to […]

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A 2nd fan poster for tonight's Star Trek: Voyager episode #CourseOblivion on H&I All Star Trek, whose tone is WAY more appropriate. 😭 Artist: James Robert Rye (Source: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/voyager-episode-posters.308580/ ) #StarTrek #StarTrekPoster #AllStarTrek #StarTrekVoyager

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Montréal, ville de femmes Carte alternative du métro Montréal, ville de femmes, qui célèbre la contribution majeure des femmes dans la construction de la métropole. https://montrealvilledefemmes.com/ #8mars #8mars2025 #Montréal #Villedefemme #polqc

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US technology, provided by private companies, just ceased to be reliable

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This is the color of infinite hotness. This is the color something gets in the limit where its temperature approaches infinity. Of course you’d instantly be fried by gamma rays of arbitrarily high frequency, but this would be its spectrum in the visible […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

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Awesome #sunset tonight in White Rock (CN89oa). Looking WSW toward Point Roberts and Vancouver # Island. #YVR #BCstorm

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Canada will not lift retaliatory tariffs on the United States if President Donald Trump leaves any on Canada, @[email protected] reports. "We're not interested in meeting in the middle," said finance minister Dominic LeBlanc to the CBC. In addition to tariffs, some provinces have […]

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I wanted to thank all the people posting their art in here. The painters, the pixel artists, the musicians, the singers, the writers, the poets, the sculptors, the actors, the photographers, the puppeteers, the game developers, the demo coders, those doing crochet or just about anything else […]

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The Ark continues to be a surprisingly durable entry into the genre of aspirational science fiction shows! Season 3 is greenlit, to be released in 2026. Sounds like Dean Devlin has succeeded in convincing NBCUniversal that what’s come so far is really just the prequel. Calling out to all […]

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Local LCBO shelves are now cleared of American products. As one of the largest purchasers of alcohol on the planet, losing LCBO business will hurt the US. Trump can stop this by reversing course on the tariffs! #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

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On this, the eve of _Flow_ taking home an Oscar, I want to note that Blender exists in its current form because after Ton Roosendaal spearheaded writing it, released it as freeware, had his company dissolve, tried developing it as shareware, had the company developing it go bankrupt, and built […]

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I’ll never understand the mentality of people who park in curbside pickup lanes. As in they exit the car and go into the store to do normal shopping. Like, are you just that selfish and self absorbed that you don’t care that people are actually using these lanes for their intended purpose?

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So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: https://europepmc.org/ #pubmed #pmc

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It's a very weird world where some of the best political reporting in the US comes from Teen Vogue and Wired.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin #Trudeau said his priority in talks with King Charles on Monday will be protecting his country's sovereignty after #Trump recently suggested making #Canada the 51st U.S. state. - […]

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Interjections aren’t worthless time fillers, #linguists say. Instead, they help keep conversations on a roll. “Here is this phenomenon that lives right under our nose, that we barely noticed, that turns out to upend our ideas of what makes complex language even possible in the first place" […]

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Migratory woman, Greek, living in a cotton camp near Exeter, California #Greek #Exeter #California #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763202/

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Video about Gary Tyler, a quilter incarcerated for 42 years for a crime he did not commit https://www.nbcmiami.com/on-air/as-seen-on/voices-reclaiming-his-time-one-quilt-at-a-time/3555669/ #Quilting #QuiltingNews #CelebratingBlackQuilters

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15mm Cantabrian shields I painted some time ago. #wargaming #history #miniaturepainting #warhammercommunity #warhammer #historical #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings #Cantabria

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Migrant cotton pickers. Texas #Texas #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763191/

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Weil #StarTrek "Strange New Worlds" immer noch kein Releasedatum hat hab ich mich gefragt, ob das inzwischen vielleicht nicht rein wirtschaftliche, sondern auch politische Gründe hat und dahinter die Sorge steckt - etwas überspitzt - "zu woke für Faschismus" zu sein. Ich kann's mir für SNW […]

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There's a lot of glue and air in this cheap pressboard.... #lumber #HomeReno

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Bad day for art news under America’s fascist regime. This is the second article I’ve posted, two completely different problems — censorship this time Nothing unscathed https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/art-museum-of-americas-exhibit-trump-dei #QuiltingNews

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Via National Post

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I’m going to miss researching and writing the #CelebrateBlackQuilters thread for #BlackHistoryMonth 2025. Now that the month is ending, I put together a few notes, some odds and ends that didn’t fit into the daily posts #Quilting 🧵

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“Foreign adversaries including #Russia and #China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon” […]

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Vaguely interesting official Starlink document with a GIGANTIC question mark toward the end: https://www.starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_Satellite_Demisability.pdf Going to post it here to let all of you wildly speculate (and maybe get a journalist interested?) because I'm so […]

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Well, it certainly took some work, but finally hollowed out my Meta accounts. I stopped using Facebook almost five years ago, but I had left all my posts up and what not. Completely gutted them now. Cancelled Prime. Haven’t bought anything from Amazon in about a month. Nuked my twitter […]

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“Black female” “Exclusive: U.S. Army Lieutenant General Telita Crosland, the head of the military's health agency and one of the most senior Black female officers in the Army, was forced to retire on Friday, two sources told Reuters”- […]

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Sevilla at night. #sevilla #photography

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Yay! It’s Throwback Thursday picture day. I really love doing this. Today, 27 February 2024. The Olympic Stadium in Montréal. - - - Youppi! C’est la journée photo jeudi rétro. J’adore vraiment faire ça. Aujourd’hui, 27 février 2024. Le stade olympique de […] [Original post on mstdn.moimeme.ca]

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So, amidst everything else flooding the zone, I missed this report earlier in the week. The Star Trek Section 31 movie broke the Nielsen top ten streaming movie chart for the week of January 20-26, 2025. Despite the brigading, despite the dire predictions and fan complaints, it performed well […]

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Back when roller skates were the domain of soldiers and middle aged men in tweed. #rollerskating https://www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/1906/04-14/

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“ #Zelenskyy says no security guarantee agreed with the US and minerals deal ‘depends on #Trump’ The Ukrainian president told reporters there will be no ceasefire without security guarantees and that ‘nothing will work’” #Ukraine […]

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Last night, I suspended an account, 27 minutes after it was created, for claiming to be E lon M usk. It had the whole scammer M.O. It immediately began following a bunch of people, hoping to hit on someone who would believe it was the real person contacting them. I read about people losing […]

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