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Richard Nadeau
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Co-Founder of Figure 1 Publishing, retired. Formerly of Douglas & McIntyre/Greystone Books. Long-time Bookseller at Duthie Books and Flora & Fauna Books, Seattle.
Canadian and eternal Californian - made in Berkeley.
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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theglobeandmail.com
B.C. artist Tania Willard wins nation’s top visual arts prize
Willard’s work, inspired by her Secwépemc ancestry, will be shown at the Sobey Art Award exhibit at the National Gallery until Feb. 8
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake: “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
It’s too bad that “the speech” is mostly remembered for Joe Biden plagiarizing it bc Kinnock was really cooking
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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bookshop.org
$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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neorsd.org
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
This is Gus.
September 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
My other favorite Kaleb Horton piece, about another person whose voice I miss deeply
www.gq.com/story/shane-...
Shane MacGowan Will Outlive All of Us
The Pogues frontman, punk trickster-god, and poet of the gutter died Thursday in Dublin, but the songs he wrote and sang have always transcended time.
www.gq.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
This piece:
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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jonathanstea.bsky.social
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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kthorjensen.bsky.social
Lmao this rules so hard
Somebody asking Google Gemini to give them a random 32-character string and it responding with “aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuVwXyZ0123456789”
July 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
NEW: Looks like CycleToronto won in court. Justice Schabas finds Ontario's law (AND version 2) to remove bike lanes infringe S7 of the Charter and is not saved by S1, in large part because the govt had no evidence to back up its claims.
July 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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thebeaverton.com
Local man unsure if Canada Post is on strike or if he just doesn’t get a lot of mail

thebeaverton.com/2025/07/loca...
Local man unsure if Canada Post is on strike or if he just doesn’t get a lot of mail
MONCTON - 36-year-old Moncton resident Aaron Landry expressed confusion late Monday evening after opening his empty mailbox for the sixth time in a row, uncertain if his lack of mail was due to a seri...
thebeaverton.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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brianstelter.bsky.social
According to a new report detailing "severe shortages" in local news, the number of journalists working in the US has dropped by more than 75% since the start of the century — from 40 journalists for every 100,000 residents to just 8.2 journalists now. www.rebuildlocalnews.org/local-journa...
Local journalist Index - Rebuild Local News
www.rebuildlocalnews.org
July 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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codeblackamerica.bsky.social
The lives saved, the pain managed, the recoveries that looked like miracles — none of it came from celery juice or good vibes. It came from drugs. From ventilators. From the kind of brutal, unglamorous science these frauds now mock while calling doctors like me pharma shills.
@canadahealthwatch.ca
Notes from the ER in an Anti-Science Age
These conversations are increasingly common. And increasingly exhausting.
canadahealthwatch.ca
July 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
NYC fashion, 1981

Behind-the-scene commentary for Peter Bogdanovich’s "They All Laughed"
July 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
I will leave you with this clip from CJ the X, a YouTuber who interviewed me last year. They talk about how they found their style, which is legible if you expand your visual vocabulary. And if you don't get it, that's fine. It's for them and their group — not you.
June 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Any time I talk about a wealthy person's outfit, someone in the comments is quick to reply: "They're rich, you think they care?" No one has to care about my opinions or clothes, regardless of net worth.

But let's talk about the connection between wealth and aesthetics 🧵
Someone on Twitter writes: "You think he gives a shit? His company (and net worth) went up in magnitudes of billions during his presentation yesterday. That's the last thing he cares about. :laughing emoji:
July 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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digiphile.bsky.social
Being “for free speech” means

1) not supporting state censorship of any books, newspapers, or stations because we disagree with the viewpoints on them, including blasphemy.

2) supporting the rights of private bookstores, networks, playoffs, & publishers not to carry “lawful but awful” speech.
Post . Ro Khanna & @RoKhanna • 24m Progressives must be consistently for free speech & not censor books because they disagree with the views of the author. What's next? Will the store no longer sell the Republic because Plato accepted slavery as part of ancient Greek society? NBC News @NBCNews • 13h A bookstore in San Francisco announces it will no longer sell titles by J.K. Rowling, including her popular "Harry Potter" series, due to the author's anti-transgender views and advocacy. nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-... @ 37 t7 26 © 223 Ill 87K W 1. Alexander B. Howard & @digiphile Important differences between a private bookstore deciding not to carry a title & state censorship of books in public libraries or schools. Forcing private bookstores to sell all books would also be a First Amendment violation, right? Would you insist they sell "Mein Kampf"? 8:34 AM • 6/27/25 • 238 Views
June 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Agreed, that guy sucks.
June 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"
June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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verybadllama.bsky.social
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
June 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
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June 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM