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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 26m

Here's a list. I stopped updating it because it was getting too long. In just the past week: Keystone XL and Golden Dome.

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Partisan politics melts partisan brains.

Grace Alexander @gracealexander.bsky.social · 42m

I'd LOVE to see individual citizens do better than Carney has done in 6 months time! Tell me, what exactly are his terrible policies? Please exclude imposing Tariff's on USA cause NONE of us can AFFORD to pay Tariff's. If you don't know that consumers PAY in the end...THEY DO!

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 8h

YOU MUST DO YOUR STRETCHES TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 8h

Eerily beautiful.

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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Still warm from the kiln, covered in warm earth tones—I’m so relieved this piece came out successfully on the other side of firing. I worked on it over the course of a month and remembered to document moments of process which I think I’ll share in a thread […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Me standing in my back yard holding a large pot in front of me with both hands. It borrows its spherical form from Nigerian water vessels and has a short, flared neck. It is about 16” (40cm) in diameter and 14” (36cm) in height.

The pot has been divided laterally into six parts and each section has been decorated with carved lines in alternating patterns: a symmetrical abstract leaf motif and a large double diamond pattern. The colors are dark brick red, olive green, dark purplish brown, dusky pink and aqua. The interior is glazed glossy aqua to reference the water this form would historically have contained.

Behind me is dense foliage and small blue patch of sky. I am smiling and wearing a black and white top and red paints, only partially visible from behind the large pot.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · May 26

🔴 How Our Politicians Created an 'Island of Strangers' So They Don't Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

"By vowing to tackle our 'island of strangers' through immigration, Starmer keeps us trapped on it – by not offering solutions to the real reasons for our estrangement" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic polit...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 1d

“the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or “just-so stories”, about men, women, and society…

..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image”

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A Hundred and Two Just-So Stories: Exploring the Lay Evolutionary Hypotheses of the Manosphere | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

A Hundred and Two Just-So Stories: Exploring the Lay Evolutionary Hypotheses of the Manosphere

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 1d

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

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A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 19h

We’ve been saying this forever. The social media ban will harm kids

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 20h

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

www.abc.net.au

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 20h

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

www.abc.net.au

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Blackfoot Niitsítapi 🪶🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌎🐝 @thoughtsnations.bsky.social · 8h

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Chinese EV tariffs created '2-front trade war' hurting Prairie canola, pork producers: Kinew | CBC News

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is asking the prime minister to scrap Canada's 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for China lifting its tariffs on Canadian canola and pork.

www.cbc.ca

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 8h

Home 😊

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: “The cost of inaction is greater than the cost of transformation,” Toderian said. “You can’t afford not to act.”

This article does a pretty good job capturing the energy, urgency, and (some of the many) ideas in my very blunt “Call To Action” this week in Kingston, Jamaica. Follow-thru is key!

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TODERIAN UrbanWORKS Inc. (TUW) @toderianuw.bsky.social · 16h

“ @BrentToderian.bsky.social urged the government to stop waiting for market forces and instead take deliberate steps to catalyse change. ‘Don’t hope and pray. Be intentional. Fill the gaps. Activate the dead spaces. Make things happen!’”

Read this, with your own city in mind.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: “The cost of inaction is greater than the cost of transformation,” Toderian said. “You can’t afford not to act.”

This article does a pretty good job capturing the energy, urgency, and (some of the many) ideas in my very blunt “Call To Action” this week in Kingston, Jamaica. Follow-thru is key!

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

2025 Winner of the Community Award: Authors Against Book Bans

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 8h

Congratulations @authorsabb.bsky.social !!! Watching and participating in AABB's work has been hugely encouraging over the past few years. It gives me hope! If you are an author, please join us :D

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 10h

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social · 2d

Your AI transcription tools might be cheap, but how reliably can they transcribe phrases like 'specialist academic lexicography' or 'preponderance of terminal degrees' without you having to waste time you could be analysing and coding on editing and accuracy-checking?

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 8h

I’m back pushing socials for @aat-transcribes.bsky.social and this means you must appreciate the subtle wit of my and my team’s messaging, thank you please clap and then, you know, buy transcription and captioning services

Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social · 2d

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 8h

This looks great 👏

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 8h

Shit

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 10h

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 8h

I believe you!

Friends who live there tell me their whole life is commuting and children just sit in cars being driven around.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 9h

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Israel Killed Our Storytellers, But It Can’t Kill Our Stories

In a new book, co-edited by Zeteo contributor Fatima Bhutto, writer and translator Huda Fakhreddine pens a powerful essay about the Palestinian truth tellers Israel systematically targets and kills.

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 10h

Well I live in 🇨🇦 … but basically the same. The traffic stress is globalized.

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 11h

Alberta high school students organizing a free tutoring service for other high school students is peak activism. Please share far and wide. Many students can benefit from this. And think of the solidarity, community building, and friendship creating opportunities.

Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 11h

Oh my goodness!! Alberta High School IB students have organized a free tutoring service for the core subjects 🥹✊

The solidarity they have with each other and with their teachers is beyond anything I could have imagined.

Check out their Instagram page or website. Support them if you can!

A screenshot of a blue and white poster from Instagram. The account is called Locked In. The poster advertises free tutoring for grades 10-12 in all subjects by IB students including exam prep.

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 11h

Oh my goodness!! Alberta High School IB students have organized a free tutoring service for the core subjects 🥹✊

The solidarity they have with each other and with their teachers is beyond anything I could have imagined.

Check out their Instagram page or website. Support them if you can!

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