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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 15h

I still maintain that one of the top three Massachusetts flag proposals looks uncannily like the former BC Ferries flag (yeah, yeah, mayflower vs dogwood). #bchist #vexillology

@jmcelroy.bsky.social @bcferrys.bsky.social

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking this story might pair very nicely with a dram of the Shelter Point Distillery (Campbell River, BC) Single Malt I picked up yesterday. #Never51 #BuyCanadian #cdnpoli

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking this story might pair very nicely with a dram of the Shelter Point Distillery (Campbell River, BC) Single Malt I picked up yesterday. #Never51 #BuyCanadian #cdnpoli

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 2d

@fishgottaswim.bsky.social: your next project?

Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 2d

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

Dried madder roots in a bowl on some scales

Madder pigment being mulled on a glass slab

Madder pigment surrounded by examples of dried paint on paper and parchment

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Public History, Western University @westernupubhist.bsky.social · 2d

ATT: Ontario #Museum workers! With the downloading of heritage from regions to local levels, data is needed about the future capacity of Ontario museums to take on tens of thousands of deaccessioned artifacts & archival records. Please take this anonymous short survey lnkd.in/g9M3GA7K to help.

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 4d

And if you don't get one, you'll be a very Irritable Bowell..

Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 4d

Brother of the Year! (Tho' maybe too intimidating to legitimate, non-blackguard suitors...)

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 5d

#otd (OK, OK, a few days earlier) in 1864, someone wrote an insulting letter to a young lady of Ingersoll, ON. Her brother was unimpressed, and threatened the "double-dyed villain and poltroon" with a "public cow-hiding." Hell. Hath. No. Fury. Full text in alt-text.

#cdnhist #onthist

Clipping from the Ingersoll Chronicle and County of Oxford Intelligencer, October 21, 1864.

To the Coward!

If the unmitigated scoundrel and coward who wrote, on Tuesday last, an insulting letter to a young lady residing in Ingersoll, will make himself known to her brother, the double-dyed villain and poltroon will be publicly cow-hided through the streets of Ingersoll.

The brother hereby charges the writer of the letter referred to with being a coward, a blackguard, a thing unfit to live, and dares him to make himself known.

Ingersoll, October 6, 1864

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 5d

My employer is now on Bluesky! #cdnhist

Library and Archives Canada @library-archives.canada.ca · 5d

Library and Archives Canada has entered the chat! 🍁

As the continuing memory of the federal government, we safeguard Canada’s distant past and recent history for generations to come.

Immerse yourself in a journey of discovery!

#Libraries #Archives #History #CanadaSky

View of the Preservation Centre in Gatineau from across a pond.

Two people spread a very large map across the floor of the Preservation Centre in Gatineau.

A crowd of people listens to a presentation in the Pellan Room at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.

A small group of people gathers inside the Art Vault at Library and Archives Canada to view several large, gold-framed paintings.

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 5d

#otd (OK, OK, a few days earlier) in 1864, someone wrote an insulting letter to a young lady of Ingersoll, ON. Her brother was unimpressed, and threatened the "double-dyed villain and poltroon" with a "public cow-hiding." Hell. Hath. No. Fury. Full text in alt-text.

#cdnhist #onthist

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 6d

And for a double feature, TIL #BannedBookWeek coincides with the anniversary of the founding of the Hotel-Dieu in Montreal, imagined setting of Canada's most scurrilous literary export, banned here in 1932, 96 yrs after its publication. #cdnhist #bookhistory

jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/bs...

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 6d

#BannedBooksWeek seems as good a time as any to reshare my 2021 @library-archives.bsky.social blog about Canadian customs censorship. "Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately? I've got a hobby re-reading Lady Chatterley..." #cdnhist #bookhistory

thediscoverblog.com/2021/02/25/d...

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By Forrest Pass Canadians have a reputation for being quiet and unassuming. As we mark Freedom to Read Week, it is worth noting that even censors have demonstrated these national traits, working qu…

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 6d

And for a double feature, TIL #BannedBookWeek coincides with the anniversary of the founding of the Hotel-Dieu in Montreal, imagined setting of Canada's most scurrilous literary export, banned here in 1932, 96 yrs after its publication. #cdnhist #bookhistory

jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/bs...

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 6d

#BannedBooksWeek seems as good a time as any to reshare my 2021 @library-archives.bsky.social blog about Canadian customs censorship. "Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately? I've got a hobby re-reading Lady Chatterley..." #cdnhist #bookhistory

thediscoverblog.com/2021/02/25/d...

Denied Entry

By Forrest Pass Canadians have a reputation for being quiet and unassuming. As we mark Freedom to Read Week, it is worth noting that even censors have demonstrated these national traits, working qu…

thediscoverblog.com

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 7d

Birthday gift update: the newly-minted ten-year-old stayed up late reading his first volume of "Les enfants de la résistance" last night and came down this morning excited to tell me about the treachery of Marshall Pétain and how best to compromise Nazi infrastructure projects. #KidsAreAlright

Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 14d

As this non-starter raises its ugly head again, some birthday shopping for my eldest, who turns ten next week...

#CdnPoli #Never51

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 9d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 9d

I just finished (re)reading Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and this is spot on...

Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 9d

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 10d

In 1841, destroying an American flag in Upper Canada could set you back 12/6 ($2.50) - but only if said flag wasn't yours to destroy... #cdnhist #vexillology

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10d

Last I checked, Congress makes the laws, not the White House.

Image of an X post from @realDonaldTrump
(Donald J. Trump) at 7:26 PM on October 3, 2025, with 2.54K ReTruths and 8.83K Likes. The post reads: "To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025 Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison. You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 10d

In 1841, destroying an American flag in Upper Canada could set you back 12/6 ($2.50) - but only if said flag wasn't yours to destroy... #cdnhist #vexillology

bsky.app/profile/forr...

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10d

Last I checked, Congress makes the laws, not the White House.

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 10d

From my philately days, I recall that a certain failed artist received a royalty for every stamp sold in Germany between 1933 and 1945 because they all bore his portrait. Surely a successful real estate mogul (or someone who plays one on TV) has negotiated a similarly advantageous agreement.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10d

Not a cult tho

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 10d

Wow! And @benbradleyca.bsky.social !

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.

Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist
Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS""

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 10d

Premiers of AB and SK: Provincial Rights! Provincial Sovereignty! Notwithstanding Clause! Secession!

Also Premiers of AB and SK:

'There is no B.C. coast. It's ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

www.cbc.ca

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 12d

It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. Congress has not authorized the use of military force (against either Eurasia or Eastasia...)

Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 12d

All states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Ilene Goldman @ilenegold.bsky.social · 12d

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 12d

Huzzah! It's going to be barn-burner (hopefully not a Centre Block burner - enough of those already...)

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