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Oh, military gentlemen, they bluster, roar and pray. Nine sailors on the Nancy, boys, made fifty run away. The powder in their hair that day was powder sent their way By poor and ragged sailor men, who swore that they would stay.

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Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 10d

Sometimes, if you have an older dog, you'll be halfway through morning walk on a warm fall day and they will decide they want to flop down on a random bit of sidewalk or grass and bliss out for awhile.

If you possibly can, you should sit down on the grass and pet them for awhile.

Bogart lying on the grass in dappled sunlight watching and smelling the world go by.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 3h

There is a silent "conservative" in the spelling of "free speech".

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 6h

Tl;Dr: lots of supposed free speech, anti cancel culture, activists are travelling to Oxford to try and cancel George Abaraonye for exercising his free speech.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2h

This must rank as one of the more hilarious headlines I have seen in a long time.
Nothing like the political media in Ottawa for continually missing the moment as we watch democracy and the rule of law disintegrate on our unguarded border.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 2h

I appreciate the hard work councillors and advocates face in making positive change in our city. It’s frustrating that it’s hard to make change and we should celebrate the victories; it’s hard to find the happy medium between positive critique and acceptance of “anything is better than nothing” 1/

Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com · 1d

I am glad the community is rallying to make the Gladstone/Gilmour bike lane as safe as possible. I will be channeling the feedback and advocacy to try and find some solutions with city staff. The file doesn’t go to council till January, so we have some time.

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Why will this new Centretown bike lane have a detour?

While a downtown Ottawa bikeway along the corridor has been a long time coming, cyclists say a proposed route isn't the safest way.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1d

I'll tell you what isn't boring: how "The Monster Mash" has slowly but decisively replaced "Thriller" as the official song of Hallowe'en. How the lyrics of "The Monster Mash" have been as over-analysed as Christmas songs, but the outcome of this scrutiny has just been lots of silly jokes.

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Glen Gower @glengower.ca · 1d

- Nepean Sailing Club lease renewal
- Brownfield grant for housing at 100 Argyle
- Legal services report for the first half of 2025
- Reconciliation Action Plan update
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Glen Gower @glengower.ca · 1d

Finance & Corporate Services Committee today at City Hall. Lots on the agenda including:
- Cybersecurity
- Primary care strategy
- Grant for an Orléans Urgent Care Clinic
- Kanata-Stittsville Health Hub update
- Centretown BIA boundary expansion
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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 1d

do i know any trans people who can make websites and stuff btw.

I'm hoping the offline world has calmed down a bit and I can get back to working Writes properly and I've wanted to do a big rejig of the site, move its hosting and have our own ad set up not managed by another company....

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 1d

Lot of people treated a genocide of a people, sponsored by their own country, as an annoying pet issue that needed to be shelved after the killing as complete or pushed aside for other political problems. And pretended that it was just too complicated to engage with.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i don’t do this often but some good folks are dealing with some serious medical bills and could use your support if you have a few dollars to spare. thank you!

Donate to Help a Beautiful Little Girl After a Traumatic Dog Attack, organized by Alfred McGuire

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 1d

Pierre Poilievre yelling about DEI is grimly hilarious when guys like him are the very reason diversity, equity and inclusion policies are needed 😡

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 1d

A thread about going back to sleep 👇🏼

Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to all the people who have postured as intelligent and morally righteous for years but decided that they couldn’t take a stand against genocide or decided to justify and cheer on the massacre of a people for whatever reason. Now they can go back to playing the intellectual in peace.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 4d

The Ardross Wolf Stone at the Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, created over about 1000 years ago.
www.highlifehighland.com/inverness-mu...

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DanaERTurton @danada0109.bsky.social · 1d

So perfectly innocent dogs aren’t allowed to bolt through the house and avoid eye contact without raising suspicion these days?

RUDE.

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Lucky. He assures you there's nothing to see here. And also nothing missing from the laundry basket. 13/10 (IG: luckythegoldenboy)

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 24d

Be Seen.
A New PSA

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 3d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 1d

A lil game I've started playing is when I'm waiting in my car at a light and I see the person next to me on their phone, I do a little beep of the horn just to watch them jump and snap their attention up because they think the light has changed. Sometimes they even put the phone down for a moment!

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Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Demand safe school zones in Ottawa. Sign and share! 👇

Eugenie Waters @eugeniewaters.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly! Signs and flashing lights are completely insufficient. Sign and share: schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved...

@forourkidsog.bsky.social
@bikeottawa.bsky.social @ecologyottawa.bsky.social @envirocentre.bsky.social @otttransitriders.bsky.social

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 1d

The new rules dictate that athletes who wish to participate in “female-only leagues, classes or divisions be limited to athletes whose sex recorded at birth is female.”

Alberta’s new policy is forcing girls—cis and trans—out of school sports | Xtra Magazine

Gender forms mandated by Bill 29 are forcing families into tough decisions around whether to put their daughters in sports

xtramagazine.com

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Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 1d

It means our enemies get the wall! And then three more walls, a roof, a decent job at a fair wage, single-payer healthcare including mental health, dental and prescriptions, Charter Rights, and if they really piss us off they're getting physiotherapy too.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 11d

I'm starting to worry that some people don't know what the word 'socialism' means.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 6d

"Goddamnit, I love this country, and I love the people in it, and I get sick and fucking tired of politicians screwing over Canadians."

My interview with Rob Ashton, out soon, went very well indeed.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Lucky. He assures you there's nothing to see here. And also nothing missing from the laundry basket. 13/10 (IG: luckythegoldenboy)

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid. You want to assert control? Do it to an inflatable frog!
So, it’s not just a meme thing, it’s a Portland cultural thing.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

All of this is to say that Portland political humor, which often makes the national stage via absurdist protests (like right now) or statements of solidarity that other groups find baffling (like the Wall of Moms during the BLM protests), is steeped in this same sense of creative frustration.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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