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When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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Briefly interrupting your Friday doom and gloom with a dose of joy 🙏🏽 (Share joy, un-share negativity and messages that create polarization)

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my 90 year old dad who has never touched a computer in his life will appreciate getting all the hot scoops on why his payment didn't arrive over on X, the very serious platform run by very serious people

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Well—my agent’s officially no longer w/ her (now former) agency, which means...I’m available, baby! Looking for a writer/director/producer who tells bold, genre-blending stories about flawed people chasing redemption? I’m open to meetings and looking for representation. #filmsky #scriptsky

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Alex Jones’s appeal was DENIED by the Connecticut Supreme Court, upholding our $1 billion+ verdict against him and Infowars on behalf of Sandy Hook families and a first responder. Good day for justice. Bad day for Alex Jones.

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Mass sacrifices of wildcats to the goddess Bastet in Ancient Egypt may have set today's cats on the road to domestication. Learn more on #NationalPetDay: scim.ag/3RccUuR

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This is my regular callout for pitches for the Globe and Mail's business opinion section. Pitch me at [email protected]. For reference, these are the pieces that have run in my section: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com....

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Besides for all the horrifying fascism, it is worth pointing out how easy it is to delete digital collections without public awareness in comparison to, say, a book burning. Which is what this is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 📚 #libraries

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Signs of spring, ranked.

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Shuffling towards CANZEUK

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‘Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.’ —-Kurt Vonnegut

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You might have noticed that basically every link that you see to a court filing is at courtlistener.com. Ever wondered why? Court Listener is a tiny non-profit with a staff of four and a four-person board, plus some dedicated volunteers. They receive no government funding. free.law/team/

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Tons of books by Canadian authors on sale at Kobo until April 16th. CA readers, find some new reads here! www.kobo.com/ca/en/p/cana...

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Oh also, THE RIDER, THE RIDE, THE RICH MAN'S WIFE (last year's sort of secret novella?? because the publisher did not tell anyone they published it, except in their newsletter?!) is $5.99 on Kobo! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

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I knew it was a lot but I didn’t know it was this much. 1.5% of global energy use is now spent powering data centres. Gift link 🔗: economist.com/science-and-...

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The open access article is now out! Please read and disseminate widely. Congrats to @sarahmklasse.bsky.social on her brilliant new research of the food produced at the Worker’s Village at Amarna. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Makes me so sad. At least as American Millennial, there was a joke rivalry, but Canada were supposed to be our literal closest bro's in the world? The nicest people you could possibly meet. Like literally comically loving of Americans, you would NEVER do ANYTHING to hurt them. What have we done...

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Did you keep your maiden name after marriage? Does your birth certificate match your current legal name? Do you have a valid U.S. passport? If you answered no to any of these questions, you won’t be able to register to vote under the Republican SAVE Act.

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SHAME

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Coverslut [KUH-vur-sluht] (n.) - Any outer garment slipped on to hide untidy clothing beneath such as a housecoat or apron. Used in a sentence: “So I ran in the house, threw on a cover-slut, and scurryfunged ferociously until the vicar knocked at my door."

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From the Quebec government. This type of formal anti-US fervour would have been unthinkable two months ago.

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With new Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs (senior official who helped keep 2020 election secure) and law firm that won $788m settlement against Fox News. A must read from Weds, by Harold Koh. Discussing amicus brief signed by esteemed bipartisan former officials. Also a great history lesson

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"[The SAVE Act is] not about protecting elections; it is about making it harder to participate in them." - Celina Stewart www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...

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It's a little known fact that back in 1940s England, singers would often use a disgruntled cat as a microphone. 🎤😾

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This is a fine piece by @markcrail.bsky.social on historians and genealogists, amateur and professional, and their digital contact. Plus #chartism! #History 🗃️

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I’ve got bad news for those U.S. officials about how their own government is treating foreign nationals who criticize the wannabe American monarch …

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Minnesota, this amazing man needs a home!!! Trust me, you want an Orange in your life

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The top US spy's chief of staff said the US intelligence community is investigating whether the FBI was involved in planning the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump reut.rs/44glAIf

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A pretty wonderful Mi’kmaw word and its hieroglyphic or komqwejwi’kasikl form, as used in a Michelle Sylliboy poem. The hieroglyphs are often said to date from the 17th century, but most Mi’kmaq believe they’re much older.

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In case you've ever wondered why brains can do things no AI can even aspire to, just one cubic millimeter of mouse brain contains 200,000 neurons, with hundreds of millions of connections, and it took a team of more than 100 scientists just to map that tiny fraction www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/s...

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From ancient to myth to modern design, coloured gems have captured the imagination of generations. In this half-day workshop, gemmologist Silvia Gumpesberger guides you through the world-class collection of gems at ROM. RSVP: www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/eve...

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Surprisingly, Trump appears not to understand that the White House and Air Force One belong to the American people, not to him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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England to make the morning-after pill free over the counter in pharmacies www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

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but but but state's rights!

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It's National Library Outreach Day! (formerly National Bookmobile Day). Today we celebrate the ways libraries reach out to the public, whether through mobile libraries, or pop-up libraries at community events. Have you ever used a bookmobile, or other traveling library service? 💙📚

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AI entrepreneur sent an avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast

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The difference between art and science is that science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else. -- Donald Knuth, "Discover"

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"Last month, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the 'consolidation' of these segregated records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before, and that members of the president’s own party have historically opposed"

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And lo, the trailer did drop: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2... #murderbot

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Watching doc about WW2 that uses only color footage; there's a line about how no one in West could understand "how the German people embraced the Nazi regime with open arms." And felt that surge of knowing that that's the basic line about my time, in my country, that will be in the history books.

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I voted. Have you? Deadline is the 15th and anyone can vote. You can even write-in your faves! If you’re still considering short fiction, here’s a link to my eligible stories: www.pacornell.com/2024-awards-...

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UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

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