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Josie Smith 🍁
@jsk8smith.bsky.social
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sketcher • Reader • Eater • Learner
https://www.olyf.com/
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As always, I recommend people be skeptical of influencer marketing like this. Don't let people leverage parasocial relationships, trust, and political identity to sell you things that ultimately aren't in your best interest. And question the integrity of those those who do.
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Some inventions make you wonder if necessity was even invited to the party.
Bizarre Patents That Would Make Your Grandpa Angry
“Necessity is the mother of invention.” – Plato
x2y.tech
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I love this.
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The image on the cover of a German film program Film-Kurier, 1930 for the version titled Hai-Tang (1930). The film was shot in German, French and English with three different supporting casts. Anna May spoke all three languages fluently and starred in all of them.
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Blue Jay
Ben Houstie ~ Heiltsuk
2024
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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'In Morris Lum’s photographic archive of Chinatowns, change is the only constant.'
A photographer traveled across North America’s Chinatowns. Here’s what he saw | CNN
Capturing culture and commerce in over 20 Chinatowns, Morris Lum has compiled a living archive of migration patterns, diasporic trends and urban gentrification.
www.cnn.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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i'm sorry to say this but if you send me a tiktok of a person telling a story into the camera for 3 minutes i'm not fucking watching it. just in general ever. people need to start typing things up again because i can read so much faster than you can talk and i'm not wasting my precious time on this
November 11, 2023 at 6:49 AM
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September 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Certain smells, such as Bandaids and pencil crayons, transport me back to childhood.
September 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This is amazing news for independent authors using KU.

Kindle Unlimited Authors Can Now Distribute eBooks to Libraries
newshelves.com/kindle-unlim...
Kindle Unlimited Authors Can Now Distribute eBooks to Libraries - New Shelves Books
Amazon has updated KDP Select: Kindle Unlimited authors can now distribute ebooks to libraries without breaking exclusivity.
newshelves.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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A regular reminder to set up a code word with your kids/elderly folk so IF they get a text message saying "this is my new number" or similar they can ask for the code word and find out if it's really you or not.

This is simple and effective in preventing the scams you see doing the rounds.
July 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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If you want to go for the full ATProto microblogging experience, checkout our other app www.skeetsapp.com
Skeets - a 3rd party iOS / iPad OS client for Bluesky
Skeets - a 3rd party iOS / iPad OS client for Bluesky
www.skeetsapp.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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✨ Big news!
Flashes is now available on iPad – bringing native photo sharing to the big screen.

No ads. No algorithm. Just beautiful, full-screen posts – the way it should be.

Download now: https://apps.apple.com/app/flashes-for-bluesky/id6741443033
July 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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July 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.
June 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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There is literally nothing from the fraser propaganda institute that is not misleading, incorrect or an outright lie.
June 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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the Inhuman League
June 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Second time this year I’ve seen a publishing house say it can’t pay authors their OWED AND EARNED ROYALTIES because that money was spent on other things and now they don’t have it. Um, wut. 📚💙
a man is standing in front of a white background and says `` i beg your pardon ? ''
Alt: Loki: i beg your pardon?
media.tenor.com
May 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Toronto Star has a piece on Aix in what I learn is a Cézanne year: anticipating 400,000 extra tourists! Aie!

Ironic as Aix did NOT like him, nor did he like the people. They even rejected a Maillol tribute sculpture (it is still in the D’Orsay in Paris). Now? They have realized he’s worth money.
May 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Guess who’s guest-starring on the next episode of "The Simpsons"? Tune in this Sunday, May 11, at 8pm (7pm CT) on FOX — or stream it Monday on Hulu. (Look for the episode called “Full Heart, Empty Pool.”)
May 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Your clothes are shedding bits of plastic. Here’s what people are doing about it www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/your-... @apnews.com

𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
April 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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#DYK🌱Green roofs manage stormwater runoff, absorbing rain that could overload sewers & pollute waterways.

The new St. Lawrence Market North building has a green roof that will capture enough stormwater to fill 7 backyard swimming pools each year!🏊⛈️

📷: ZinCo Canada Inc.
April 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
An old 2020 story by @theguardian.com about "How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools"

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/j...
How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools
Country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from school pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge declared that Google's digital ad network is an illegal monopoly.
Google's digital ad network declared an illegal monopoly, joining its search engine in penalty box
Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion.
bit.ly
April 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM