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david-tallan.bsky.social
Retired public servant. Likes long walks in Spain. Also medieval culinary research, calligraphy and illumination, and other forms of creative anachronism. Shares a collection of comics, sf and fantasy, and board games.
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Famous anti-piracy campaign used pirated typeface. news.sky.com/story/you-wo...

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Sharing a sketch that my friend @pasipal.bsky.social did of Tara and I based on a photo from a few years ago at the first Althing Event. (Original photo in the comments) #mysca #ealdormere

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Canadian Indie Bookstore Day is here! In-store or online, enjoy 15% off all used books, 10% off all kids & YA! In-store, enjoy 10% off with proof of purchase from @cavershambooks.bsky.social, plus swag and snacks!

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Moehanga's assessment of British society is not wrong.

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Also, an interesting article on body representation linked to in one of the comments on Barry's post.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Come by tomorrow during Canadian Independent Bookstore Day for our $5 mystery used book bags! Each bag contains 4-7 used books and a description with varying levels of helpfulness. #cibd2025

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (Hard mode: No LOTR, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, or In This Our Life.)

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Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is on April 26th! We’re very fortunate in this country to have absolutely amazing indies and if you’re looking for some local Canadian businesses to show some love, we’ve got suggestions! We can't name every shop, but here are some we'd love to give a shout-out to.

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Ford insists dubious Therme Spa project met all the necessary bribes

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This is a fair and even handed analysis. Refreshing to read in the lead up to the election.

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The notwithstanding clause was never meant to be easy. It was meant to force precisely this kind of reckoning. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

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Auhors: consider using anti-AI clauses in your contracts (if you don’t want your work stolen and garbled)

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This is a lovely piece by David Runciman, of @ppfideas.bsky.social. At a time when universities are running away from the lecture, the podcasting boom shows the appetite for serious, long-form and, yes, didactic content by people with specialist understanding. www.theideasletter.org/essay/podcas...

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I snorted tea out my nostrils.

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<Raises elbows, politely> check out my stuff and consider it, please?

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Canada stands in solidarity with our Heard Island allies! Between the Canada geese and the penguins our avian army will be unstoppable on land, air, or sea. 🇨🇦 + 🐧 = ❤️ !

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Good thread about the multiple purposes of the multiversity and how they can conflict (and hence about why academic governance is hard).

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Braeden has written the motto for our political times: “if you get rid of the boring stuff bad things happen.” Amen.

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My cousin, Bob, has updated an old song of his for these times. youtu.be/rV8o4gOCKBU

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I’ve said it before: having a president who’s whole thing is that America is poor and weak and taken-advantage-of opens a door for Dems to say: America is neither poor nor weak nor isolated. We have the ability to do things we can all be proud of. Let’s do that!

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We carry volumes 1 & 2 of this, and we're very much looking forward to Vol. 3! We'll be watching this campaign closely, and it's the perfect time to support Canadian authors, editors, and publications!

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I wrote an elegy for the carbon tax.

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