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Flannery Dean
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Freelance writer, editor with clips @ The Star, Guardian, Slate, The Narwhal, Bright Wall/ Dark Room, Macleans, Globe. www.flannerydean.com
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Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · Jul 26
Not gonna read one more piece. Waiting for Manosphere in IMAX
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thenarwhal.ca
On Dec. 2 at 12 p.m. ET, they’ll be part of a live team, with @sobittersosweet.bsky.social and @fatimabsyed.bsky.social, discussing Carney’s major projects push. thenarwhal.ca/major-projec...
A photo illustration showing Mark Carney in the foreground, with various industrial-style projects in the background, and dirtbike riders on the left. With text: Fast Track? Unpacking Carney's major projects push. Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 9 a.m. PT / 10 a.m. MT / 11 a.m. CT / 12 p.m. ET
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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chchnews.bsky.social
Niagara police are asking for the public’s help locating a 14-year-old girl last seen Friday afternoon.
Niagara police searching for 14-year-old girl from St. Catharines
Niagara police are asking for the public’s help locating a 14-year-old girl last seen Friday afternoon in St. Catharines.
www.chch.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
Did it hurt Carney?

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
The NDP’s leadership candidates aren’t fluent in French. Will that hurt the party’s future? | CBC News
Having a leader who can't communicate with the 22 per cent of Canadians whose first official language is French could hurt the New Democrats' credibility as a national party, a concern shared by two f...
www.cbc.ca
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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mehlerpaperny.bsky.social
If you're hankering after smart memo-of-understanding thoughts, @stewartprest.ca has you covered: stewartprest.substack.com/p/mou-proble...
MOU Problems
While intended to heal the rift in Canadian unity, the agreement between federal and Alberta provincial governments risks leaving the country even more divided
stewartprest.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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selfstyledsiren.bsky.social
"The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it."

Farewell to the great Tom Stoppard, whose masterpiece ARCADIA gave me a night at the theater I'll never, ever forget.
📷Alistair Morrison, 1988
B&W portrait of Tom Stoppard in a shirt with a tie and jacket (but slightly rumpled cuffs). Stoppard's famous chin is resting on his hand and he's looking into the distance.
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
Average folks kettled ICE
taliajane.bsky.social talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 5h
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.

NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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sarahweinman.com
One of the greatest to ever do it.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
flannerydean.bsky.social
Reminded that the same people that pushed the idea that Covid was not transmitted by kids in schools and if they did it didn’t matter anyway because kids aren’t affected by COVID and those kids that were affected had underlying health factors also felt vaccination was dangerous…
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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jmberger.com
No assertion from this administration should be presented as fact unless independently verified
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7h
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
NYT headline saying "F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines: The agency’s top vaccine regulator said that a review had found that the children were likely to have died “because of” the shots. But public health experts want to examine the data." With a photo of a light-skinned baby receiving a shot from a healthcare provider with darker skin.
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
NYT headline saying "F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines: The agency’s top vaccine regulator said that a review had found that the children were likely to have died “because of” the shots. But public health experts want to examine the data." With a photo of a light-skinned baby receiving a shot from a healthcare provider with darker skin.
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine
ens0.me Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 5h
We could save soooo many lives but people are so caught up in their reactionary moral panic nonsense
Someone saying we shouldn't use AI to help detect breast cancer because it uses "3 quadrillion gallons of water"
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
flannerydean.bsky.social
Me, tangled in wires every year at this time: Outdoor Christmas light makers— this is an area crying out for innovation.
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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nickhunebrown.bsky.social
Since publishing our investigation into "Victoria Goldiee" at @thelocal.to, I've heard from editors from around the world who've had their own run-ins. A quick follow-up, plus a conversation with @cstarnino.bsky.social about journalism in a world of AI fakery. thelocal.to/fallout-from...
The Fallout From Our AI Freelancer Investigation | The Local
A conversation about the future of journalism in a world of “Victoria Goldiees.”
thelocal.to
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
flannerydean.bsky.social
Love having a show to watch with tween and get chance to listen to him tell me the characters he likes/dislikes and the judgments he applies to plot twists etc. When I was a kid my dad would patiently listen to me take issue with something and then say ‘it happened because it’s in the script’ …
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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woodsideful.bsky.social
The Pathways Alliance project would inevitably be a massive boondoggle if it ever gets built. It’s only purpose is to greenwash the oil industry and deceive Canadians into thinking we can be a clean petrostate.
Carney's latest pipedream explained
Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to see the Pathways Alliance project built in exchange for a new oil pipeline to the BC coast — a risky bet on the country’s economic future.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Let’s talk about the size of trucks & SUVs in the city. My column on the virtue & status signalling of vehicle bloat.
Shawn Micallef: This truck ad shows why Toronto needs smaller vehicles — if only the carmakers wanted to sell them
A car comically overloaded with plywood? It’s a good ad for a pickup — but also a sign of the incredible amount of money, weight and energy being wasted on
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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seva.bsky.social
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9h
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
WSJ Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. who is helping him seek a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from a Russian state-owned company. One sign that he may be serious is that some of his most-trusted friends, sanctioned billionaires from his St. Petersburg hometown-Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg brothers, Boris and Arkady-have sent representatives to quietly meet American companies to explore rare-earth mining and energy deals, according to people familiar with the meetings and European security officials. That includes reviving the giant Nord Stream pipeline, sabotaged by Ukrainian tactical divers, and under European Union sanctions. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil met with Russia's biggest state energy company, Rosneft, to discuss returning to the massive Sakhalin gas project if Moscow and Washington gave the green light.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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robdelaney.bsky.social
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
words, what do they mean

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
“I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,” Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
flannerydean.bsky.social
Said it 1000x but the 2021 documentary The Line about the push to exonerate Eddie Gallagher is so illuminating about what has/was fought to be empowered in military and now is embodied in hegseth. Could likely draw a direct line of descent
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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socialmedialab.ca
It looks like the Pope has solved the reclining-seat problem. One glimpse of him holding a bat, and suddenly everyone’s sitting at 90 degrees like angels.
philipmai.com Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 8h
I hate that my first instinct was to wonder whether this picture of the Pope holding a baseball bat on a plane was generated by AI. #newnornal #sensemaking
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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thelincoln.bsky.social
I've seen some of this, although I wouldn't say its universal. What is definitely true imo is that LLMs--combined with bloated class sizes and other issues--are making it very easy for students to pass classes without doing, reading, or learning a single thing. And this is true for *any* subject.
jesbattis.bsky.social Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 1d
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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dandrezner.bsky.social
This paragraph is a journey.
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
bravely describing it as one of his ‘strongest standup routines in years’ and then all the quotes from it are stuff like this lol ‘cancellation’ is never solely a cultural issue! it’s a craft issue too!
“You appreciate different things later in life,” he said, in his new touring show, “Ridiculous,” which he performed at the Beacon Theatre, in New York City. One of those things is buying boneless, skinless chicken breasts, opening up the package, and finding a meat-juice-absorbent pad inside. “I fucking love that pad,” C.K. said, “because I always forget I’m gonna see it. Every time I’m, like, Oh, yeah, what the fuck? It wakes me up. Like, it’s proof that I’m really here.” There are other small joys, such as shitty weather. (“I’ve lived too long to give a fuck about a sunny day.”) Recently, he had the cathartic experience of putting his father in a nursing home. (“You know what this place does? You know what they do? You give them money. And they take your father.”) He enjoys dating women his age; it’s interesting to talk to them about their lives. (“Nobody gets to fifty-eight single without a horrible fucking life, and you get to hear about it every day. It’s the best.”) Besides, twenty-year-olds are basically a different species, which is why publications like Barely Legal are so disturbing. (“The magazine is saying, if you read this, you’re not a pedophile—you’re not literally a pedophile—but you’re so close.”)
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM