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On board an intercity bus and the radio is playing Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 countdown from my last year of high school. The “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack was huge that year. Hearing Patrick Swayze’s “She’s Like the Wind” makes me 18 again.

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Protect the CBC forwardcanada.ca/protectcbc

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This was fascinating! youtu.be/ukta87vCF48?...

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If I have six chocolate Hershey Kisses and my boyfriend takes two how many fingers does he have left?

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This 1921 #book will teach you everything you need to know about #WoodTurning! Laid in is a 1923 #catalog of other #books by the #ManualArtsPress. $50. #Booksky #technical #hobbies #lathe #crafts #wood

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Attention #NevilShute #collectors! This is the #scarce first #Canadian edition (2nd printing) of #NoHighway. $75. #Booksky #fiction #aviation #AustralianLit

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If you've always dreamed of learning to play #whist, this lovely little 1893 #book will help! It has an #ArtNouveau cover, and all page edges are #gilt. The title page is one of the prettiest we've seen! $30. #Booksky #littlebooks #prettybooks #cardgames #games #hobbies

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Watching The Fall of the House of Usher series on Netflix, and we’re especially enjoying @markhamillofficial.bsky.social in the role of Pym.

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Timbit Trump 😂😂😂 I’m 💀.

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Shovelling - Bland Street - Halifax, N.S. Charles Anthony Law 1984

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If anybody needs me, I'll be busy packing up these 14 #religious #books to go to #Georgia! Thanks, Nathan, for your order! You can order some too...still 4200+ titles online to choose from (and hundreds more still to be listed)! daveshootsbookseller.com #Booksky #oldbooks

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Not an introvert or an extrovert but a secret third thing where I draw my energy from listening to the same song a thousand times in a row until it means absolutely nothing to me anymore and I hate myself for it

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Wind is still wild out there. Here’s hoping tomorrow we can get down the luge run where our driveway used to be. 🙂

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No better time for such a beautiful book to come into this world.

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Honouring Valentine's Day belatedly by showing love of my country, and also celebrating #FlagDay and the fact that I'm no one's 51st anything.

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Yes, it is possible to urban sketch while walking behind your child, but do it at your own risk because then they will put all kinds of strange things in their mouth if you're not paying attention 😂 #urbansketching #urbansketch

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“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.” ― Celeste Ng (@pronounced-ing.bsky.social), Little Fires Everywhere

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Sunday on Checkup we're asking "How has Donald Trump's presidency changed the way you feel about being Canadian and celebrating your patriotism?" Should be a great conversation as we hear voices from across Canada. You can also reply here. I'll read some of the social media comments on the show.

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Most Canadian post and photo ever.

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On day three of the Hawkins Cheesies diet.

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At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

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Sussex, NB – "Creation in the Dawnland," featuring the work of four Wabanaki artists opens at the Arts and Culture Centre of Sussex. On view through April 19, 2025 www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/a... #Wabanaki #FirstNationsArt #NativeArt #IndigenousArt #SussexNB #NewBrunswick #Algonquin

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Tomorrow, February 15, is the 60th anniversary of Canada’s maple leaf flag.

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In the same way I’m a Gen X/Millennial, I also feel I have an incredibly specific literary experience that only a handful of other people share, one that includes: paper submissions, the early Wild West of online submissions, alt lit, Gawker, HTML Giant mean week, Literary Feuds on blogs, and zines

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I just discovered this gem of a game two weeks ago, and it has become a part of me. Thank you, @richsommer.pizza and @cissyspeaks.bsky.social, for making Henry and Delilah so beautifully human. Firewatch: the best part of my 2025 so far, when I've desperately needed something genuinely good.

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15 February 1914 | A Polish Jew, Icek Traube-Kaufmann, was born in Kocminek. A brush-maker. In #Auschwitz from 30 January 1942. No. 26153 He perished in the camp on 22 February 1942.

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blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...

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I'm honestly getting tired of Americans posting "we're sorry". Your words mean nothing without action. Waiting for the next election ain't going to cut it. Other countries pour into the streets & shut their nations down over less. You can't post thru this. You're running out of time.

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#BringtheForklift for this 2002 #CoffeeTable #book of #DorotheaLange's #photographs! First American edition. Three #photos damaged. $125. #Booksky #asis #photography #SocialHistory

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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

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Canadian Creative Nonfiction Writers! Get published in The Fiddlehead! Our Creative Nonfiction contest with @cnfc.bsky.social‬ closes TONIGHT at 11:59 PM PST. Enter now before it’s too late! creativenonfictioncollective.ca/cnf-contest/

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I needed this belly-laugh!

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Hi everyone. Authora Australis is calling for stories, poems and artworks. Submissions for Authora Issue 9 ‘Cracks’ are now open! Submissions close Feb 28, 2025. Link below, cheers: www.authora.net/submit

On board an intercity bus and the radio is playing Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 countdown from my last year of high school. The “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack was huge that year. Hearing Patrick Swayze’s “She’s Like the Wind” makes me 18 again.

Protect the CBC forwardcanada.ca/protectcbc

This was fascinating! youtu.be/ukta87vCF48?...

If I have six chocolate Hershey Kisses and my boyfriend takes two how many fingers does he have left?

This 1921 #book will teach you everything you need to know about #WoodTurning! Laid in is a 1923 #catalog of other #books by the #ManualArtsPress. $50. #Booksky #technical #hobbies #lathe #crafts #wood

Attention #NevilShute #collectors! This is the #scarce first #Canadian edition (2nd printing) of #NoHighway. $75. #Booksky #fiction #aviation #AustralianLit

If you've always dreamed of learning to play #whist, this lovely little 1893 #book will help! It has an #ArtNouveau cover, and all page edges are #gilt. The title page is one of the prettiest we've seen! $30. #Booksky #littlebooks #prettybooks #cardgames #games #hobbies

Watching The Fall of the House of Usher series on Netflix, and we’re especially enjoying @markhamillofficial.bsky.social in the role of Pym.

Timbit Trump 😂😂😂 I’m 💀.

Shovelling - Bland Street - Halifax, N.S. Charles Anthony Law 1984

If anybody needs me, I'll be busy packing up these 14 #religious #books to go to #Georgia! Thanks, Nathan, for your order! You can order some too...still 4200+ titles online to choose from (and hundreds more still to be listed)! daveshootsbookseller.com #Booksky #oldbooks

Not an introvert or an extrovert but a secret third thing where I draw my energy from listening to the same song a thousand times in a row until it means absolutely nothing to me anymore and I hate myself for it

Wind is still wild out there. Here’s hoping tomorrow we can get down the luge run where our driveway used to be. 🙂

No better time for such a beautiful book to come into this world.

Honouring Valentine's Day belatedly by showing love of my country, and also celebrating #FlagDay and the fact that I'm no one's 51st anything.

Yes, it is possible to urban sketch while walking behind your child, but do it at your own risk because then they will put all kinds of strange things in their mouth if you're not paying attention 😂 #urbansketching #urbansketch

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.” ― Celeste Ng (@pronounced-ing.bsky.social), Little Fires Everywhere

Sunday on Checkup we're asking "How has Donald Trump's presidency changed the way you feel about being Canadian and celebrating your patriotism?" Should be a great conversation as we hear voices from across Canada. You can also reply here. I'll read some of the social media comments on the show.

Most Canadian post and photo ever.

On day three of the Hawkins Cheesies diet.

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

Sussex, NB – "Creation in the Dawnland," featuring the work of four Wabanaki artists opens at the Arts and Culture Centre of Sussex. On view through April 19, 2025 www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/a... #Wabanaki #FirstNationsArt #NativeArt #IndigenousArt #SussexNB #NewBrunswick #Algonquin

Tomorrow, February 15, is the 60th anniversary of Canada’s maple leaf flag.

I just discovered this gem of a game two weeks ago, and it has become a part of me. Thank you, @richsommer.pizza and @cissyspeaks.bsky.social, for making Henry and Delilah so beautifully human. Firewatch: the best part of my 2025 so far, when I've desperately needed something genuinely good.

15 February 1914 | A Polish Jew, Icek Traube-Kaufmann, was born in Kocminek. A brush-maker. In #Auschwitz from 30 January 1942. No. 26153 He perished in the camp on 22 February 1942.

blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...

I'm honestly getting tired of Americans posting "we're sorry". Your words mean nothing without action. Waiting for the next election ain't going to cut it. Other countries pour into the streets & shut their nations down over less. You can't post thru this. You're running out of time.

#BringtheForklift for this 2002 #CoffeeTable #book of #DorotheaLange's #photographs! First American edition. Three #photos damaged. $125. #Booksky #asis #photography #SocialHistory

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

Canadian Creative Nonfiction Writers! Get published in The Fiddlehead! Our Creative Nonfiction contest with @cnfc.bsky.social‬ closes TONIGHT at 11:59 PM PST. Enter now before it’s too late! creativenonfictioncollective.ca/cnf-contest/

I needed this belly-laugh!

Hi everyone. Authora Australis is calling for stories, poems and artworks. Submissions for Authora Issue 9 ‘Cracks’ are now open! Submissions close Feb 28, 2025. Link below, cheers: www.authora.net/submit

This is the most Canadian thing that ever Canadianed: youtu.be/wkDvqQKGgDA?...

#Collage Apiarists Will Save the World