Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
Leabharlannaí
Ireland, Canada, Etc.
MLIS and migraines
Ireland, Canada, Etc.
MLIS and migraines
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AI RACISTS
I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list
December 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
AI RACISTS
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I spent my year of fellowship in Health Policy and Advocacy studying and writing about the effects of private equity on health care.
That was right after the Hahnemann hospital buyout by Silicon Valley private equity and subsequent closure and sale for parts, including all of the residency slots.
That was right after the Hahnemann hospital buyout by Silicon Valley private equity and subsequent closure and sale for parts, including all of the residency slots.
For roughly the past 20 years, private equity firms have been on a medical facility buying spree—more than 22% of all for-profit hospitals—only to unload them a few years later. And they often leave devastation in their wake. trib.al/vdCqzLC
December 31, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I spent my year of fellowship in Health Policy and Advocacy studying and writing about the effects of private equity on health care.
That was right after the Hahnemann hospital buyout by Silicon Valley private equity and subsequent closure and sale for parts, including all of the residency slots.
That was right after the Hahnemann hospital buyout by Silicon Valley private equity and subsequent closure and sale for parts, including all of the residency slots.
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Gideon trying to pull Harrow (and definitely failing)
hey girl, is your body a reliquary, because I feel compelled to attribute historical and theological relevance to all of your bones
December 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Gideon trying to pull Harrow (and definitely failing)
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Not one but TWO people I know dumped their loser, toxic boyfriends and in both cases, the guys said "Did Julie put you up to this?" 💅
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Not one but TWO people I know dumped their loser, toxic boyfriends and in both cases, the guys said "Did Julie put you up to this?" 💅
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I was watching a Cybertruck try to park in the snowy forecourt of the Digby Canadian Tire.
An auld fella pulled up to me in a side-by-side and said “oh look, a spaceship”.
I laughed and he shook his head and said, “I have no place in their future, do I?!”
Neither do I neighbour. Neither do I.
An auld fella pulled up to me in a side-by-side and said “oh look, a spaceship”.
I laughed and he shook his head and said, “I have no place in their future, do I?!”
Neither do I neighbour. Neither do I.
December 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I was watching a Cybertruck try to park in the snowy forecourt of the Digby Canadian Tire.
An auld fella pulled up to me in a side-by-side and said “oh look, a spaceship”.
I laughed and he shook his head and said, “I have no place in their future, do I?!”
Neither do I neighbour. Neither do I.
An auld fella pulled up to me in a side-by-side and said “oh look, a spaceship”.
I laughed and he shook his head and said, “I have no place in their future, do I?!”
Neither do I neighbour. Neither do I.
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These people. They prattle about natural defenses and preparing your immune system. But that's what vaccines do: prepare your immune system. They teach your body about the foe and leave, like a posting most-wanted poster at a police station. It's your own immune system that fights off the infection.
Dr. Oz on the "super flu": "Every year there's a flu vaccine. It doesn't always work very well. That's why it's been controversial of late. But like many illnesses, the best news out there is if you can take care of yourself so that when you do end up running into the flu, you can overwhelm it."
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
These people. They prattle about natural defenses and preparing your immune system. But that's what vaccines do: prepare your immune system. They teach your body about the foe and leave, like a posting most-wanted poster at a police station. It's your own immune system that fights off the infection.
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For the New Year
Join a library ☺️
Join a library ☺️
Library Services in Ireland | Libraries Ireland
Welcome to the Library Services in Ireland. With Resources for Business and Employment Support, School Services, Reading Adventure and Digital Reading.
www.librariesireland.ie
December 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
For the New Year
Join a library ☺️
Join a library ☺️
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Would you like to see a lovely smorgasbord of gay romance books...?
This beautiful selection is here, please click to enjoy: books.bookfunnel.com/kaleidoscope...
#booksky #gayromance #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
This beautiful selection is here, please click to enjoy: books.bookfunnel.com/kaleidoscope...
#booksky #gayromance #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
December 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Would you like to see a lovely smorgasbord of gay romance books...?
This beautiful selection is here, please click to enjoy: books.bookfunnel.com/kaleidoscope...
#booksky #gayromance #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
This beautiful selection is here, please click to enjoy: books.bookfunnel.com/kaleidoscope...
#booksky #gayromance #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
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There was a discussion going on about something and this bloke challenged someone if they believed there was a correlation between physical beauty and morality, so I quoted him that bit from Roald Dahl's "The Twit's" and he absolutely lost his mind.
What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
December 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There was a discussion going on about something and this bloke challenged someone if they believed there was a correlation between physical beauty and morality, so I quoted him that bit from Roald Dahl's "The Twit's" and he absolutely lost his mind.
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The funniest part about the "Heated Rivalry can't win an Emmy because it's Canadian" convo is that so Americans have no idea how to behave when faced with a non US-ian cultural product. No secret CIA backing, no Hollywood money, just a Québécois director and a whole lot of hope.
December 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The funniest part about the "Heated Rivalry can't win an Emmy because it's Canadian" convo is that so Americans have no idea how to behave when faced with a non US-ian cultural product. No secret CIA backing, no Hollywood money, just a Québécois director and a whole lot of hope.
Fierce lot of Irish content (er, spudCon? PaddyCon?) on this here Kanopy yoke.
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Fierce lot of Irish content (er, spudCon? PaddyCon?) on this here Kanopy yoke.
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From 12/8-1/1, several of my ebooks are 25-50% off in ebook at Smashwords for the 2025 End of Year Sale. (These ebooks can be side-loaded to Kindle, by the way...) www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
December 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
From 12/8-1/1, several of my ebooks are 25-50% off in ebook at Smashwords for the 2025 End of Year Sale. (These ebooks can be side-loaded to Kindle, by the way...) www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
A truly fascinating thing about North American life is that cars are seen as this invisible cost (why do so many jobs that don't need cars ask you to have a car, for example), and commuting is an invisible concern, and then parking and roads is something the general treasury just HAS TO provide.
Letter: Why must we pay to access our beloved North Shore backyard?
Letter: Why must we pay to access our beloved North Shore backyard?
There is a lot of anger over pay parking coming to parks in West Vancouver and North Van, this letter writer states
dlvr.it
December 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM
A truly fascinating thing about North American life is that cars are seen as this invisible cost (why do so many jobs that don't need cars ask you to have a car, for example), and commuting is an invisible concern, and then parking and roads is something the general treasury just HAS TO provide.
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It must be so odd to not be able to tell the difference between you, the human being, and your car, the inanimate object that you drive around and then expect to be stored, for free, anywhere you go.
Letter: Why must we pay to access our beloved North Shore backyard?
Letter: Why must we pay to access our beloved North Shore backyard?
There is a lot of anger over pay parking coming to parks in West Vancouver and North Van, this letter writer states
dlvr.it
December 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It must be so odd to not be able to tell the difference between you, the human being, and your car, the inanimate object that you drive around and then expect to be stored, for free, anywhere you go.
Thought I was going to have to break up a fight on the street earlier (mad librarian skills).
Turns out, no, it was just a bunch of straight dude teenage (Iranian) hockey fans bonding.
bro!
BRO!
BROOOHHH
bruh!
bro!
(Apparently you can't body check like that anymore, bro)
Turns out, no, it was just a bunch of straight dude teenage (Iranian) hockey fans bonding.
bro!
BRO!
BROOOHHH
bruh!
bro!
(Apparently you can't body check like that anymore, bro)
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Thought I was going to have to break up a fight on the street earlier (mad librarian skills).
Turns out, no, it was just a bunch of straight dude teenage (Iranian) hockey fans bonding.
bro!
BRO!
BROOOHHH
bruh!
bro!
(Apparently you can't body check like that anymore, bro)
Turns out, no, it was just a bunch of straight dude teenage (Iranian) hockey fans bonding.
bro!
BRO!
BROOOHHH
bruh!
bro!
(Apparently you can't body check like that anymore, bro)
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“Watching Soraya Martinez Ferrada shrug off how she ‘didn’t know’ she was illegally charging tenants for utilities was crazy. As if not knowing magically makes it okay for a tenant to have to choose between paying you for illegal charges or eating that week?”
#polmtl
#polmtl
I ran for office for Montreal's nightlife community — and against landlords, Airbnb apologists and NIMBY creeps
I ran as a Transition Montréal candidate in the 2025 Montreal election, and all I got was 100 leftover campaign tshirts I can't sell.
cultmtl.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“Watching Soraya Martinez Ferrada shrug off how she ‘didn’t know’ she was illegally charging tenants for utilities was crazy. As if not knowing magically makes it okay for a tenant to have to choose between paying you for illegal charges or eating that week?”
#polmtl
#polmtl
my ebike and my acoustic bike together probably cost me about 20 bucks a month to run.
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
my ebike and my acoustic bike together probably cost me about 20 bucks a month to run.
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“WHEN I WAS 20, I believed dogmatically in mass transit, dense urbanization, and a nine percent tax rate. These were not political beliefs. They were gameplay beliefs that I had picked up … to build the metropolis of my dreams in SimCity.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/seei...
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Seeing Like a Simulation | Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviewing Chaim Gingold’s “Building SimCity,” Celine Nguyen finds similarities between tech billionaires’ attempts to build a utopian city in Solano, California, and being a godlike player in “SimCity...
lareviewofbooks.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“WHEN I WAS 20, I believed dogmatically in mass transit, dense urbanization, and a nine percent tax rate. These were not political beliefs. They were gameplay beliefs that I had picked up … to build the metropolis of my dreams in SimCity.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/seei...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/seei...
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WAKE UP DEAD MAN RICKROLLED US ALL
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
WAKE UP DEAD MAN RICKROLLED US ALL
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Another account to block instantly for all my creative friends.
The SFF Reviews account is a farm bot, just like all the AI theft apologist accounts are.
The only way to combat theft and Gen-AI is to support real creators.
I have plenty of free stories and affordable books. Please support art you like!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWC9P4TR
The only way to combat theft and Gen-AI is to support real creators.
I have plenty of free stories and affordable books. Please support art you like!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWC9P4TR
December 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Another account to block instantly for all my creative friends.
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There was an apartment fire today in Halifax. And the amount of people on Facebook complaining that a fire truck showed up with a pride banner on it is very hilarious
December 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
There was an apartment fire today in Halifax. And the amount of people on Facebook complaining that a fire truck showed up with a pride banner on it is very hilarious
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Same
Students literally take my classes BECAUSE Im perceived as a pressure release valve for their other courses. I offer flexible deadlines (to my own debilitation, EVERY semester, I get auras because of the work I do to keep my class accessible), universal design and re-work syllabi every semester.
December 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Same