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Peggy Blair

@peggyblair.bsky.social

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Retired lawyer, Ottawa-area mystery author, small publisher, level 6 boxer, doctorate in law, Have a TV-watching dog. www.reboundpress.com!

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · Feb 24

"Grieve not nor speak of me with tears
But laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you there
Please do not let the thought of me be sad
For I am loving you just as I always have."

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 1d

Climate change though. Absolutely insane lack of panic about this 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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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 1d

Lol

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/p...

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 1d

When satire feels like real life.

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Ohio Begins Executing Random People In Hopes They’re Criminals https://theonion.com/ohio-begins-executing-random-people-in-hopes-they-re-cr-1851218315/

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 1d

Unending and unbelievable shitshow.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: More than half of the roughly 1,300 layoffs notices at @CDCgov have been rescinded. But analysts with top-secret clearance working on biodefense preparedness at another health agency have lost their jobs, per sources. Our story 1/4
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit

More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 1d

This is a bad Blue Jays game but the guy next to me is reading a good Toronto book between innings.

In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje.

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline cleanse.

StormyJ 💙🌈🌊 @stormyj.bsky.social · 2d

This made me smile today.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

My day has instantly become better after watching this ☺️

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

"What this will all mean in the long run is unclear. But in the short term, it will almost certainly mean fewer family medicine residents. That’s right: this change is likely to lead to fewer, not more, doctors in Ontario."

#OnHealth #OnPoli

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 1d

Does it matter where our future doctors attended high school? Doug Ford seems to think so, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com #IMGs #MedEd

Does it matter where our future doctors attended high school? Doug Ford seems to think so

New policy has huge implications and could lead to fewer doctors practising in Ontario

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 1d

Long weekend ...

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2d

Found someone who can help, thank you so much!

Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2d

Do I know anyone in the Ottawa area who plans on traveling to the United States before December? If so, please DM me, thanks!

Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2d

Almost impossible to mail anything to the United States these days and if you're using Chitchats, if one package on the truck is not 100% compliant, US Border Services is turning the entire truck around. As for Canada Post? Forget it.

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2d

Grammar tips, because these errors drive me nuts:

He helped she and I today.

No.

He helped her today. He helped me today.

He helped her and me today.

Him and me went to the store.

No.

He went to the store. I went to the store.

He and I went to the store.

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CTV News Winnipeg @ctvnewswinnipeg.bsky.social · 2d

World’s coral reefs crossing survival limit: global experts

The world’s tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday.

bit.ly

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2d

In all honesty, I can't figure out how we're going to make the conversion to EVs within a reasonable (short) time frame, given Trump's tariffs, unless we allow Chinese cars into the country.

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2d

I remember my 3-year-old lining up all her toys and saying "so what is it, yes or no?"
She had heard me cross-examining someone in a trial.

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2d

Do I know anyone in the Ottawa area who plans on traveling to the United States before December? If so, please DM me, thanks!

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

“It feels like there’s been a real shift over the last six months or so in terms of the public just becoming aware of what data centers are,” said Ben Green, assistant professor of information at the University of Michigan. “And becoming increasingly skeptical.”

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.

A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical.

Thinking it isn’t, is.

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2d

"Another agent may feel differently."

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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 2d

First Nations in states of emergency as Doug Ford pushes to mine the north.

As Ontario government sells to international mining companies, communities in crisis are demanding support instead of extraction.

New from @jonthompson.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/indigenous/w...

#onpoli #indigenous

‘We’re losing control of our communities’: First Nations in states of emergency as Doug Ford pushes to mine the north

As Ontario government sells off the north to international mining companies, communities in crisis are demanding safety and healing instead of resource extraction

ricochet.media

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2d

I know, right? And on Thanksgiving too!

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 3d

A great Hallowe'en read: a psychic scammer's Ouija board sends her to an address with a dead body ... and now she's the main suspect. Order DOUBLE VISION from reboundpress.com or find it on Kobo!

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Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2d

I love beavers.

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