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Storm in the morning light
I feel, no more can I say
Frozen to myself
I got nobody on my side
And surely that ain't right

Surely that ain't right

-Portishead
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idonthaveacoolname 🇨🇦 @idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social · 8d
I just started watching #Pluribus, and after three episodes, the show certainly is thought-provoking. An virus has made everyone around Carol perfectly happy, while she remains immune, exposing the absurdities of this artificially cheerful world. #television 🇨🇦

www.idonthaveacoolname.com/abundance/
The Ethics of Plenitude: Pluribus and the Paradox of Abundance
www.idonthaveacoolname.com
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Coastal Views, Small Pleasures' (2022) -- the Classic & Stunning Granite Coastline of Down East Maine, Boulder Beach, Acadia National Park, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Small ✨ #Stunday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a large slab of granite extends out over the water, offering views to the south along the classic Acadia coastline lined with dense pine, fir and oak forest
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
How fucking depressing. Shitty Liberal government or even shittier Con government.

More and more foreign and domestic owned media normalizing anti-progressive and pro American policies to protect oligarchs who pay nothing in taxes.

Yup, sounds like Canada.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
Most Liberals believe Poilievre's their ticket to remain in government
While current popular support trends remain close between the two parties, Mark Carney’s personal popularity is in the stratosphere relative to Pierre Poilievre's.
www.hilltimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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canadianpolling.bsky.social
"No matter how hard I work, every year it seems more difficult to get by"

Agree: 64%
Neutral: 18%
Disagree: 15%

Innovative / Nov 18, 2025 / n=1500 / Online
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
In the fictional community of Whitefish, Eastern Québec, a sacred wampum belt—symbol of cohesion and generations of history—has been missing for three decades. nac-cna.ca/en/event/38351

Really enjoyed #Tupqan at the #NAC last night
the cast taking a bow at Tupqan at the National Arts Centre Ottawa members of the cast prior to the beginning of Tupqan the high backed swivel chair in Tupqan where the main characters mother is sitting, it is atop rounding stairs
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
A step in the wrong direction. We need water to live, not for cooling data centres so that people can make AI cat photos.

pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Ontario’s Government Claims the Province Isn’t Privatizing Water. Experts Are Not Convinced.
“The way that this act is written creates this slippery slope towards privatization”
pressprogress.ca
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
Alpers reintroduces Walker Evans as a literary photographer, blending storytelling with meticulous editing. She views his work as a unique language, shaped by writers like Flaubert, focused on capturing the present as future history, not nostalgia. #booksky

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Walker Evans
A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans
press.princeton.edu
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
A step in the wrong direction. We need water to live, not for cooling data centres so that people can make AI cat photos.

pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Ontario’s Government Claims the Province Isn’t Privatizing Water. Experts Are Not Convinced.
“The way that this act is written creates this slippery slope towards privatization”
pressprogress.ca
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Traversing Huguenot' (2022) -- In Between Steep, Ascending Segments, a Level Path & Good Amounts of Cooling Shade, Mount Huguenot, Acadia National Park, ME

Fridays Are For #Scape ✨ & #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a narrow stone path, shrouded by foliage, dips in and out of shade along the steep rockface of mount huguenot
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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chordbug.bsky.social
first arXiv paper about why magic spells rhyme
abstract of "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in LLMs"
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
In the fictional community of Whitefish, Eastern Québec, a sacred wampum belt—symbol of cohesion and generations of history—has been missing for three decades. nac-cna.ca/en/event/38351

Really enjoyed #Tupqan at the #NAC last night
the cast taking a bow at Tupqan at the National Arts Centre Ottawa members of the cast prior to the beginning of Tupqan the high backed swivel chair in Tupqan where the main characters mother is sitting, it is atop rounding stairs
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
This study investigates the hypothesis that unexpected events, such as the presence of a person in a Batman costume on public transpo or an unusual interruption in a classroom setting, can promote prosocial behaviour. Spoiler: it does.

#dataliteracy #mindfulness

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Research
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
A #scape of #Reykjavik in Iceland from the top of Hallgrímskirkja along with the sculpture Sólfar at sunset!

And a lonely truck driving the winding Ring Road #eastcoastkin #photography
a panorama of Reykjavik from the top of the church The Sun Voyager is a sculpture by Jón Gunnar Árnason, located next to the Sæbraut road in Reykjavík, Iceland. Sun Voyager is described as a dreamboat, or an ode to the Sun. The artist intended it to convey the promise of undiscovered territory, a dream of hope, progress and freedom. a truck driving the winding Route 1 in Iceland
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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skinskintainan.bsky.social
黄山

#art #photo #photography #mountains #mist #rocks #naturescape #EastCoastKin
©️skinskin & Shou
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
Got up early and tried a new #bread recipe in my dutch oven. This is jalapeño and cheddar. I started baking bread during covid and love both the making and the eating 😀
a close up of a boule of jalapeño and cheddar with bananas in the background for scale. a slide of cheddar and jalapeño bread on a white plate with a blue rim
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
"It was the ministers themselves, and their political staff, who selected the winners."

Nothing to see here.... it was only $1.3 billion tax dollars getting funnelled to friends of the ruling government.

Totally legit. Trust me bro.

www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Star Editorial Board: Doug Ford’s latest scandal is almost too brazen to be believed
It suggests Ford has established a system where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
I did love the Derek Jarman version from 1986 and am a big fan of Caravaggio's work so I'm looking forward to seeing this, although 3 stars isn't a glowing review!

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Caravaggio review – articulate and intelligent portrait of the art titan’s life and work
This new addition to the Exhibition on Screen series features an alarmingly plausible-looking actor as the great man himself
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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justinmcguirk.bsky.social
“it is abundantly clear that corporate social responsibility was and is a myth”. This is an excellent piece on the problem of waste by @brettchristophers.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
The Canadian Armed Forces, all police and fire stations across Canada are 'effectively insolvent".

Should we privatize them too? That's what corporate elites want to do with Canada Post.

Allow Canada Post to do banking. Problem solved.

Banking lobbyists incoming.

www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
Canada Post ‘effectively insolvent,’ CFO says as losses top $1B in 2025
CEO of Canada Post says the company expects to lose up to 30,000 employees to retirement or voluntary departure over the next decade as the Crown corporation looks to shrinks its workforce and moderni...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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sophiecarr.bsky.social
You’re getting to see this photo again! #sorrynotsorry 🤣

One of my favourite shots from my trip to #Iceland and a winner for the weekly #ShareMondays2025 competition - thanks Mick!
mickh5.bsky.social Mick Houghton @mickh5.bsky.social · 6d
#ShareMondays2025

As much as I dislike drones, I love the images that you can capture with them. If I had one, this is all I'd use it for. River deltas/estuaries are so fascinating when viewed from above; like here from this week's winner @sophiecarr.bsky.social
Congratulations Sophie, stunning!
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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jerthorp.bsky.social
I wrote about my new birds+data project, Of A Feather:
Of A Feather
This is a story about dead birds in drawers, xkcd, natural language processing and feathers. It's about color, quixotic pursuits and art made from data. It starts in a parking lot. It's December, 20...
www.jerthorp.me
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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davidnice.bsky.social
The truth, delivered with an anger millions of us share.
greenparty.org.uk The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 7d
“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”

Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
I loved all the kabuki theatre yesterday around the passing of another austerity #Budget in #Canada.

If you think that the Conservatives or anyone else actually wanted an election, you are kidding yourself. Note how Sheer and Reid only voted "no" when they saw that #Carney had the votes to pass it?
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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sebadee.bsky.social
This is a detail of Nicolas Coustou’s Pietà (1725) on the high altar of Notre-Dame Cathedral seen from behind. It seems to tell a different story than if seen from the Choir.
A black and white photo of Nicolas Coustou’s Pietà (1725) on the high altar of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, seen from behind. We see a shrouded figure with a raised backlit hand over some indeterminate shapes that are a wing, a foot, an arm and some clothing. The sense of the sculpture is altered by this persctive.
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
I just started watching #Pluribus, and after three episodes, the show certainly is thought-provoking. An virus has made everyone around Carol perfectly happy, while she remains immune, exposing the absurdities of this artificially cheerful world. #television 🇨🇦

www.idonthaveacoolname.com/abundance/
The Ethics of Plenitude: Pluribus and the Paradox of Abundance
www.idonthaveacoolname.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
Researchers explore mushrooms as potential replacements for semiconductor chips

www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
Researchers explore mushrooms as potential replacements for semiconductor chips
A new study has found that fungal networks inside mushrooms could potentially be a “promising” and environment-friendly alternative for microchips – used in processing and storing digital data.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM