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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville

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#Gellhorn enthusiast. Dog lover. Anti-fascist. Writer for hire. HOW MIDSUMMER NIGHT (2024) YOURS, FOR PROBABLY ALWAYS: MARTHA GELLHORN'S LETTERS OF LOVE & WAR (2019) Contributor to Toronto Star #book pages. https://janetsomervillewriter.com

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · Jul 26

It was the privilege of my life to speak with the smart, sassy, fierce, indefatigable @ejeancarroll.bsky.social.

Be sure to pick up her gutting & glorious #memoir NOT MY TYPE or request it at your library.

Read about our conversation in today's Toronto Star, a 🇨🇦 exclusive. #BelieveWomen

short bouquet of red and orange flowers sits next to E. Jean Carroll's memoir NOT MY TYPE, photo of her in a dark jacket over a cream turtleneck; her honeyed bob grazes her shoulders as she smiles widely from behind sunglasses

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 27m

Giddy up, #BlueJays!

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you, Martha. It's a long 14 days when you're a lab used to running & swimming every morning.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 1d

Puck is 5 days along in a projected 14 days of recovery from surgery & without runs or swimming (both not allowed until stitches are removed) he's already losing his mind.

black lab wearing inflatable royal blue collar stares mournfully at camera

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 1d

Books are a perfect technology that will never die.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 1d

A Great Blue Heron coming in to land at a popular mud flat on the lake.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 1d

TL cleanse with Martha, enjoying her final retrieve of the season in Lake #Muskoka. (No swimming for Puck, no water access at all until his stitches come out in another week. 😭) #dogs

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else receiving book club pay-for-access scams? So, so many.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d

Once Upon an Autumn
Chin Yuen
n.d.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 2d

#Thanksgiving

country road bordered by old trees, leaves turning in fall

yellow lab holding a tennis ball stands on wooden deck covered in dry pine needles

calm lake below & blue sky with scudding clouds above

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Kate. 😍

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Thank you from Puck.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d

"ANIMAL WRITE LETTER. CORPORATE ASK FOR CALM HR MEMO. ANIMAL DROP TRUTH BOMB. NEWS WEAK. NEWS SHIVER IN FEAR. TOO MUCH THINK. TOO MUCH WOKE. NEWS NEED DRUM SMASH TO FACE. ANIMAL SEE THIS. ANIMAL FEEL THIS."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

October - Madawaska Country
A.J. Casson
c. 1961

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 4d

It’s been 48 hours that have felt like 48 days, but he’s finally snoozing.

black lab wearing a large plastic cone on his head curls up in a brown corduroy dog bed

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 4d

I think I haven’t yet asked this week:

You eligible voters who sat out the election entirely or who voted third party instead of for Harris, are you still feeling great about that decision?

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 4d

Aaaah I remember this cover--I kept the magazine for a long time because her presence in the corner so delighted me.

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 4d

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.