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Thanks for @bradwheelerglobe.bsky.social for all the fashionable tidbits in Kevan Staples's obit--from an Alina Gildiner line about his penchant for Muglerian shoulder pads to a David Livingstone line about his pant cuffs....

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PSA for all my fellow Gen X-ers—dig up yr immunization records or get yr doc to check yr immunity. Just learned I no longer have measles immunity & am about to travel & it could have been bad

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Canada’s Ambassador to the U.N. calling it like it is.

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Read @premthakker.bsky.social's breaking story on Marco Rubio signing off on the arrest of Palestinian Columbia student protestor Mahmoud Khalil zeteo.com/p/marco-rubi...

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the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain

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vimeo.com/1053336506

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I know it's impossible as a normal person to completely disentangle yourself from Amazon's tentacles, but I don't understand how at this point any actor, writer, or filmmaker can take a penny from Amazon Studios. Surely there are still (a few) other less evil options?

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And not one of the polite ones. We’ve written a response to @nytimes.com’s Peter Baker and every other American who is taking the annexation of Canada as a fun thought experiment. Here in @foreignpolicy.com with my daughter @alicesouthey.com. Gift link.

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Never forget.

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“Culture”

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I don’t think enough people realize how out of control the crackdowns on pro-Palestinian speech in Canada are. This is completely outrageous.

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I need at least one more student by the end of the week, maybe two. learn.utoronto.ca/programs-cou...

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If this were Putin talking about Latvia, or Xi talking about Vietnam, there would be statements of condemnation from international organizations… at this point, the silence is more than awkward…

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This is Quisling crap. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

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I wonder how the writers who sided with the Giller Prize and that sweet, sweet blood money over their colleagues last year are feeling right now. This is welcome news, but I'm gonna remember those writers going forward.

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I need three more students for this to be a go. The class will be small, you’ll get a lot of attention. I’m a good teacher! learn.utoronto.ca/programs-cou...

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“My cancer & the surgery & the repercussions, it all fulfilled a fantasy that was there in my writing to begin with. That’s maybe what made me my full self, was illness. That might have finally made me the writer I always wanted to be: just a person flinging shit at the world.” - Derek McCormack

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While French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia, born on this day in 1879, is best known for his affiliation with Dada, I am (characteristically!) drawn to his animal portraits. First up, his painted portrait of Gertrude Stein's pet poodle, Basket

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Building on a previous thread, you might like to know that because Yale's Beinecke Library holds the Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas papers, its collection includes this luscious painted portrait by artist Marie Laurencin of the pair's poodle, Basket II collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2068...

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When the 'liberal' side has been enabling genocide in plain view for 2 years now with zero repercussions, why on earth would the fash side think they have to hide their true selves as they take power?

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Spoiler for tomorrow's episode. This one gets pretty filthy. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

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Hey, @nytimes.com any words for your Canadian readers concerned by you publishing a column arguing in favour of the annexation of our country?

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I wrote a little thing for the @theglobeandmail.com about one of my favourite films of 2024, @brettstory.bsky.social & Stephen Maing's UNION. If you're in Toronto, I urge you to see it this w-e at the Hot Docs Cinema www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/ar...

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"He was one of the last hotlines to a way of being almost entirely eclipsed." Bruce Hainley's beautiful, heart-wrenching tribute to Gary Indiana www.textezurkunst.de/en/articles/...

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www.textezurkunst.de/en/articles/...

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Not quite sure how Kevin would feel about being in the New Yorker, but I really, really wish he was alive to see it www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

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Fuck this ghoulish government & its relentlessly backward, short-sighted & corrupt decisions. Can't wait to vote them out

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