James Keelaghan
@jimmykeelo.bsky.social
I’m a Juno and CFMA award winning Canadian Singer Songwriter, with a passion for history and travel. My web presence is www.keelaghan.com
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James Keelaghan
@jimmykeelo.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Stay calm, be brave, wait for the signs.
-Jasper Friendly Bear
-Jasper Friendly Bear
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We have Canadian politicians who use wait times as an excuse to push for privatization, when health outcomes could be improved by taxing wealthy corporations & individuals to ensure that public healthcare is better resourced and that EVERYONE has access to care without paying out of pocket. #ABLeg
December 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
We have Canadian politicians who use wait times as an excuse to push for privatization, when health outcomes could be improved by taxing wealthy corporations & individuals to ensure that public healthcare is better resourced and that EVERYONE has access to care without paying out of pocket. #ABLeg
It’s so true
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It’s so true
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This is the problem, generally, with the right—or the technocrats— a completely cartoonish version of history living inside their heads informing policy decisions.
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is the problem, generally, with the right—or the technocrats— a completely cartoonish version of history living inside their heads informing policy decisions.
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This is your seasonal reminder that Bookshop.org and libro.fm exist as local-supporting not-Amazon options for all your physical and audiobook needs! Bookshop even gives you the option to add a card and a pretty fabric bag and ship it directly to your giftee!
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
Bookshop.org
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This is your seasonal reminder that Bookshop.org and libro.fm exist as local-supporting not-Amazon options for all your physical and audiobook needs! Bookshop even gives you the option to add a card and a pretty fabric bag and ship it directly to your giftee!
I’ll have another one of these.
Hell yes
I'm in Mumbai and eating a lot of good food but nothing beats this restaurant's plate of just fried garlic.
And it's unlimited. They'll keep bringing you plates:
And it's unlimited. They'll keep bringing you plates:
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ll have another one of these.
Shall I compare you to a summer’s day
Hot and sticky
And you make everyone tense
Hot and sticky
And you make everyone tense
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Shall I compare you to a summer’s day
Hot and sticky
And you make everyone tense
Hot and sticky
And you make everyone tense
I’m all in favour of renaming them Dragon Bastards.
The Japanese word for "seahorse" is タツノオトシゴ tatsu no otoshigo, which literally means, "the illegitimate child of a dragon."
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I’m all in favour of renaming them Dragon Bastards.
“ Beaver overthinks dam”. I use it ALL the time.
What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
December 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“ Beaver overthinks dam”. I use it ALL the time.
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
Absolutely. The whole point of wealth for the wealthy is they get to break the rules.
The real moral of the Epstein story is not about some pedo cabal. It's that everyone who's as rich and ruthless as Epstein can do whatever he wants.
November 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Absolutely. The whole point of wealth for the wealthy is they get to break the rules.
As opposed to the high quality racism we’ve come to expect from the Republican political class.
this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
As opposed to the high quality racism we’ve come to expect from the Republican political class.
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
Ditto for musical creators. We’ve been the canaries in the coal mine, if you will, ever since Napster. Streaming, as it now stands, is essentially theft.
Using the belief that creators are the "petite bourgeoisie" to justify pirating books/stealing art is EXACTLY what makes it so hard for anyone who isn't rich to pursue their creative dreams
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Ditto for musical creators. We’ve been the canaries in the coal mine, if you will, ever since Napster. Streaming, as it now stands, is essentially theft.
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‘We have to be able to ask difficult questions’: who really took the iconic Napalm Girl photo?
‘We have to be able to ask difficult questions’: who really took the iconic Napalm Girl photo?
A controversial Netflix documentary follows an investigation into the truth behind one of the most important wartime photos ever taken
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
‘We have to be able to ask difficult questions’: who really took the iconic Napalm Girl photo?
It’s not inexplicable. It’s one word. Money. Money is an aprodisiac. As is power. Ever see the people Henry Kissinger dated?
RFK Jr. perpetually appears out of breath, heaving from “picking up roadkill his whole life.” He works out shirtless in jeans. His own family calls him a “predator.”
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? @inaeoh.bsky.social probes the inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? @inaeoh.bsky.social probes the inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It’s not inexplicable. It’s one word. Money. Money is an aprodisiac. As is power. Ever see the people Henry Kissinger dated?
Wait, isn’t there an adage…
Reminder: MTG does not become our friend because she hates Trump, and Trump does not become our friend because he loves Mamdani.
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wait, isn’t there an adage…
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‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan stepped in
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
Like clockwork.
Future of trade talks depends on Canada’s purchase of American fighter jets, U.S. ambassador says
Future of trade talks depends on Canada’s purchase of American fighter jets, U.S. ambassador says
Pete Hoekstra said it will not be easy to restart the now-stalled trade talks, and urged Canada to "harmonize" as much as possible with the U.S. on a range of
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Like clockwork.
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Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
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According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.
If I was an American, especially a Democratic American, my sense of betrayal would be hard to repress. The gang of 8 are a disgrace
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
If I was an American, especially a Democratic American, my sense of betrayal would be hard to repress. The gang of 8 are a disgrace
A vicious, low intelligence thug. Yet the majority of Americans voted for him knowing full well who he is. A complete and utter disgrace.
The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the chaos surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the government shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A vicious, low intelligence thug. Yet the majority of Americans voted for him knowing full well who he is. A complete and utter disgrace.
Again, as an artist, I’m calling for the Butlerian Jihad.
Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Again, as an artist, I’m calling for the Butlerian Jihad.