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Stan Rogers became one of the most beloved Canadian musicians of the late-20th century.
His songs told the story of Canada, its culture, its people and its history.
Rogers was taken far too soon but his legacy endures.
This is his story.

📸 Stanrogers.net

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Black and white photo of a bald man with a beard smiling widely while playing an acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone on stage. He wears a dark collared shirt, and the background is dark with stage lighting highlighting him.
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Farewell to a modern great

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
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November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times.

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mylordshesacactus Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours. (Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.) Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it. All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once. I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope. Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets. And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support. Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster. I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done. Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half. No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.
September 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg
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Q3 Global Power Report: No fossil fuel growth expected in 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind power grew fast enough to keep up with rising electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025, as fossil fuel growth should be stagnated. Ember forecasts no growth for fossil…
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November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.

www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources
Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources
The company’s CEO also worked closely with the wife of the minister in charge of the grant program at the time
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November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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ABSOLUTE Wonder Woman #14 Variant Cover

by Rachel Dodson Inks
and pencils/colors Me

Out NOW from DC Comics
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for 3 hours per day.

techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/m...
Millions to receive free electricity in 2026 thanks to Australia’s solar boom | TechCrunch
Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for three hours per day.
techcrunch.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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This could be Canada.
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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tfw u need seven samurai
'Seven Samurai' (1954) dir: Akira Kurosawa a thoughtful figure saying two or three samurai won't suffice.
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Today is my birthday! Help me celebrate by sharing my art if you'd like 💜
Illustration of Mallory (he/him), my d&d character. He is wearing a fully black priestly garb that has been undone at the chest, exposing his skin below. A simple pendant of a red crescent moon is revealed. He has long white hair and heterochromia - one blue eye and one dark black, covered in bright specks like the night sky. Another red crescent moon looms in the background. Illustration of a tiefling dragon rider soaring over flaming hills. The white dragon is a hybrid with a flaming tail and fur covering its neck and chest, as well as wolf-like ears. Illustration of a horned individual sat on a stone throne with carved skulls. He leans on a spear, and his legs are leisurely propped on one armrest. He has long blond hair and wears red robes with black leather details Art of Azriel and Elain. Azriel carries her out of enemy warcamp. Commission work
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
Still from the first ever MST3K Experiment Crow, Joel, and Beeper are on the bridge of the Satellite of Love
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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My opinion of Star Wars is that it needed more faces on moons and planets that annoying rockets could launch themselves into
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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We’re crushed to hear the news that the great Udo Kier has passed at the age of 81. As iconic as he was prolific, Kier’s contributions to the genre span nearly 300 screen credits, from BLOOD FOR DRACULA to BACURAU and beyond. Our condolences go out to his friends, family and legions of fans.
Young Udo Kier wearing his vampire teeth with blood on his lips in Andy Warhol's Blood for Dracula. The color still has been rendered black and white for a memorial post.
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Udo Kier's first and only post on Twitter 💯
Udo Kier on Twitter: "film should not be streamed on netflix. envelop yourself in the darkness of the movie hall and submit to the artist's visioon."
March 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Roblox is a trash organization and I would sooner let my kids play a AAA gorefest than play it. could not be more obvious how little they think of children.
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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My favorite piece of content today.
actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The saxophone is named for Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax, Belgian inventor and musician, who made musical instruments in Paris

I am not making this up:
He also invented the 'saxotromba', 'saxhorn' & 'saxtuba', and look, I'll explain: the SAXOCANNON.

But just LOOK AT HIM. *Will Riker* energy.
Adolphe Sax sits on a chair with an odd rest in front of him, I assume a prop from the photographer to keep people from moving their hands. He has a full beard, is handsome in a middle aged way, and looks wistfully to his right.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM