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Doug Rutherford
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Landscape painter, cat lover, musician, actor, playwright. He/him.
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RIP Tom Stoppard.
www.theguardian.com/stage/galler...
Tom Stoppard – a life in pictures
Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has died aged 88
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Little Peak.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2104.
Painting of Little Peak, looking across Fox Lake, Yukon, Canada.
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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From my Artist in the Window duties.
Starlight, Bennett Lake.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2103.
Painting of Bennett Lake, Yukon, Canada, at night.
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I am the Artist in the Window tomorrow at Yukon Artists at Work gallery, 4129 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon.
Me painting with one of the cats on my lap.
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta | CBC News
Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault has quit cabinet over the federal government signing Thursday’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I was given a 4x6 block so I figured I’d play with it today.
It is so tiny.
Eagle Rock.
#Watercolour on paper, 4x6 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2102.
Small painting of Eagle Rock, Yukon, Canada.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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"We ate Elon first"
emophilips.bsky.social Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 3d
“Regretting my third wish”
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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If a whereabouts violation ban is the end of Penny Oleksiak as an elite swimmer - and people in swimming think it is - then her legacy is that she changed swimming in this country, and was the best swimmer we had produced, and then things slowly fell apart. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: The sad truth to Penny Oleksiak’s two-year ban and the potential end to her meteoric swimming career
The 25-year-old Oleksiak formally accepted a two-year ban Tuesday for whereabouts violations related to drug testing.
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Kluane Range mountains.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2101.
Winter painting of mountains in the central Kluane Range, looking across frozen Kluane Lake, Yukon, Canada.
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I made a new friend at the grocery store.
Raven on the top of my car.
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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2100

The numbers seem to be getting bigger. When I started the painting of the day challenge, I really didn't think it would continue this long, but, there you go. This morning, I painted number 2100. This, by the way, is day 2076 and I have done more than one a day on some days. Camping and…
2100
The numbers seem to be getting bigger. When I started the painting of the day challenge, I really didn't think it would continue this long, but, there you go. This morning, I painted number 2100. This, by the way, is day 2076 and I have done more than one a day on some days. Camping and residencies have led to doing several when the opportunity presented itself.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Lawmakers reminding troops to follow the law should not trigger FBI interviews. Full stop.
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d
The FBI has requested interviews with six Democrats regarding their video, which reminds troops to follow the Constitution.

The Trump administration saw the now-infamous video as treasonous, called for them to be hanged, and is weighing court-martialing Sen. Mark Kelly. trib.al/ELXKBpd
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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World champion curler, veteran broadcaster Colleen Jones dies at 65
World champion curler, veteran broadcaster Colleen Jones dies at 65
Jones, a world champion curler whose effervescent personality made her a popular presence on the CBC over nearly four decades, has died.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Standing tall.
#Watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2100.
Painting of a solitary spruce above McIntyre Creek Canyon, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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It’s tough to work with a big lump in your way.
Large cat laying in front of my easel.
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I watched the Monday Night Football game, and @espn.com played Queen tunes to begin many of the breaks to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the release of Night at the Opera... without once mentioning that today is the 34th anniversary of the death of Freddie Mercury. Is that because he was gay?
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Rock outcrop, Rabbit’s Foot Canyon.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2099.
Painting of a rock outcrop on the wall of Rabbit’s Foot Canyon, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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For the US military personnel with planes and ships and weapons pointing at Caracas right now:
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Anton Dostler, the Nazi who first and very unsuccessfully argued that he was just following orders and thus not responsible for his actions, moments before his execution by firing squad
A man who looks angry and scared, a petulant monster, being tied to a post before becoming a memory and a cautionary tale
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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It’s been 34 years of living in a world without Freddie Mercury.
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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malwaretech.com Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 6d
I look forward to hiring a Chief AI Officer whose job will be to just tell anyone who suggests using AI for anything to shut the fuck up.
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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60 years ago today, the Berkshire Eagle published its story on the terrible crime that came to be known as the Alice’s Restaurant Massacre. Q
News clipping: • Youths Ordered of To Clean Up Rubbish Mess LEE - Because they couldn't find a dump open in Great Bar- Ar ca yc It: of rington, two youths threw a load of refuse down a Stockbridge hillside on Thanksgiving Day. ice Saturday, Richard J. Robbins. 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of gif $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish. Special Justice James E. Hannon ordered Re the youths to remove all • rubbish. They did the so Saturday / afternoon, following rain. a heavy Police Chief William J. Oban-hein of Stockbridge said later the youths found dragging the junk up the hillside much har- ¿der than throwing it down. He said he hoped their case would be an example to others who are careless about disposal of A.rubbish. The junk included a divan, plus nearly enough bottles, gar-bage, papers and boxes to fill their Volkswagen bus. *The stuff would take up at least half of a goodsized pickup truck," Chief Obanhein said. The rubbish was thrown into the Nelson Foote Sr. property on Prospect Street, a residential section of Stockbridge consisting largely of estates on the hill across from Indian Hilil School. Chief Obanhein told the court he spent "a very disagreeable two hours" looking through the ¿rubbish before finding a clue to who had thrown it there. He fi-mally found a scrap of paper bearing the name of a Great Barrington man. Subsequent investigation indicated Robbins and Guthrie had been visiting the Great Barrington man and had agreed to cart away the rubbish for him. They told the court that, when they found the Barrington dump closed, they drove around and then disposed of the junk by tossing it over the Stockbridge hillside.
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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The true way to a woman’s heart: nose rubs.
Contented looking cat having her nose rubbed.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Golden Horn Mountain.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2098.
Painting of Golden Horn Mountain, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, at sunrise.
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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November 5th and not even @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social or @atissuecbc.bsky.social covered it.
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM