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Reader, hiker, healthcare provider| Avoids reality w/ crime, mystery & earplugs| Worried my real father is Jackson Lamb| #NotMyPremier| 🇨🇦 Spero Meliora 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · Sep 24
📚 Huge thanks to #BaskervilleBooks @sohopress.bsky.social for a copy of #Clowntown latest instalment of #SlowHorses by @mick-herron.bsky.social #bookreview #booksky #crimefiction @netgalley.bsky.social Always a pleasure!
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Sandy's review of Clown Town (Slough House, #9)
4/5: Page 1..... "So many things can break a head." Well.....that didn't take long. But then what did you expect? This is the latest instalment featuring the crew of misfits from Slough House. Norma...
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rowingrabbit.bsky.social
🍁 Only in Canada 😉 #beaverwarning
dailyhive.com/edmonton/bea...
Beaver warnings issued for areas just outside of Edmonton | News
If you find yourself exploring two areas just outside of Edmonton, be on the lookout for the aftermath of a busy beaver or two.
dailyhive.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
🍁 So now she's a federalist? Give me break 🤦‍♀️ #abpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
War of words escalates between Alberta, B.C. premiers on pipeline proposal
Pipeline politics got personal Tuesday, with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith firing a volley at B.C. Premier David Eby.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
🍁 Don't live in this riding but I'd vote for his Dad 🤣 #yeg #election #patrickstewart
Edmonton municipal vote sign featuring Bad Bunny
October 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
🍁 Advance polls are open for municipal voting 🗳️ (Seems like @michaeljanz.bsky.social is getting some otherworldly assistance 😉) Get out there, #yeg!!
front yard skeleton wearing a Vote for Michael Janz sign in Edmonton
October 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
Things you don't see every day.....
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Rare white beaver wows Ottawa-area wildlife watchers | CBC News
Ottawa wildlife photographers have captured stunning images of a rare leucistic beaver.
www.cbc.ca
October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
🍁Hmmmmm....now what would these 5 premiers have in common? 🤔 I know in the case of Alberta, it's the desire for complete unquestioned control. #notmypremier
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Five premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause
Five premiers say Ottawa’s recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause amounts to a “complete disavowal” of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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This is Chico. He is the star of this year's hottest film, Fast and the Furriest: Tokyo Drift. 13/10 (TT: mariana_rodrigues_ssilva)
October 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
Where do I sign? Can I sign more than once? ✍️
thebreakdownab.bsky.social The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · Oct 7
WOW!

Alberta just got another approved referendum petition!

And this one calls for the practice of funding private schools with public money to be put to an end!

During the teachers strike!

Strap in Alberta, we’re going on a ride!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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tomadelsbach.bsky.social
BREAKING: after reportedly "falling off the wagon" Pete Hegseth is discovered in a retired couple's home in Sarasota, FL, trapped in their acrylic coffee table.

#PeteHegseth
October 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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grandiloquentwords.bsky.social
Spirituelle [speer-uh-chuh-WEL]
(adj.)
- Having or marked by a refined and especially sprightly or witty nature.

Used in a sentence:
“Beneath the severe tailoring and modest coiffure hid a most alluringly spirituelle creature—impishly selcouth, mischievously malapert, and brazenly aware of it.”
Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and an illustration of a lovely young woman with a gleam in her eye and a song in her heart.
October 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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0w0a4HKWgY0 #mariannevonwerefkin #werefkin
October 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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October 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
An eloquent, truthful & beautifully written piece that (ironically) could qualify as American as apple pie. Censored. Shame on the @dailymemphian.bsky.social . You've just outed yourselves as part of the problem. I stand with Dan Conaway 👊
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Oct 4
Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
barnes@dailymemphian.com
mcashiola@dailymemphian.com

Stand with Dan.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country." My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five. He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor. "Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk." "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city. That was last week. This week changed everything. This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia. He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities. Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight. The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own. Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield. "Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..." As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government. The president who would be king. Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York. A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish. Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man. You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong. Nothing excuses this. Nothing. Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front. The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet. We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible. Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart. Here, ready to rumble. Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble. Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us. Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice. What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis. "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us. You're right, Dad. I know. I'm a Memphian, soon under siege. (Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)
October 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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mindseyeofapoet.bsky.social
Yep
Bad Bunny is more American than the First Lady
October 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Deserves to repeated.......over & over & over 🇨🇦
andrewbarss.bsky.social Andrew 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @andrewbarss.bsky.social · Oct 4
Exactly.

If it’s Canada’s coast, not BC’s, then it’s Canada’s oil, not AB’s.

You don’t get to have it both ways, Dani.
October 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
I imagine them strolling along, commenting on what you're wearing & sharing neighbourhood gossip....😉
October 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
🏆 "Best Performative Male" Ok, this is funny...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Performative male contest London: Best crowned after Soho Square event
Competitors with tote bags full of sanitary pads and feminist literature faced off in central London.
www.bbc.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
🚨 C'mon Alberta, we need 30,000 signatures in 4 weeks. You can do it! ✍️🇨🇦💪👊 #ForeverCanadian #never51
lukaszukab.bsky.social Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · Oct 3
Today, #ForeverCanadian brought 230,000 petition signatures to Edmonton. Our volunteers will continue collecting signatures until October 28. We need your signature to reach our 300,000 requirement to keep Alberta in Canada.

#ableg #Yeg #Yyc #CdnPoli
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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jansplanet.bsky.social
#MAS is unnecessary if the industry would follow the law, and the government would do their job.

#PolluterPays #abpoli #AER #CapturedRegulator #FailingPetrostate #UnethicalAlberta

cleanupyourmess.ca/write-your-mla
an oil pump with a white sticker on it that says ' a ' on it
ALT: an oil pump with a white sticker on it that says ' a ' on it
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October 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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instascience.bsky.social
Strange. What kind of creature is this?
October 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
Vital research....🤨
October 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
🍁 Hey, #AmbassadorPete? Yet another reason NOT to travel to the states 👇 As of Oct. 1, an "integrity" fee of $350 CAD per person (on top of $260 CAD visa application fee, if needed) Not optional & subject to increase. Yeah, no. #never51
www.narcity.com/us-visa-inte...
Some Canadians travelling to the US now have to pay a new $350 'integrity fee'
A family of four could now owe over $2,400 — just to enter the country. 🫣
www.narcity.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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jefftrnka.bsky.social
Limerick of the day !
October 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
rowingrabbit.bsky.social
OMG....might not sleep for a week just from the preview 😰
stephenking.bsky.social Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · Sep 23
You were never meant to leave.

#ITWelcomeToDerry premieres October 26 on HBO Max.
October 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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healthcare-global.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The double-edged sword: How SARS-CoV-2 might fuel lung cancer: Investigating the potential oncogenic mechanisms of the novel coronavirus in lung carcinogenesis
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has had far-reaching consequences beyond acute respiratory illness, with growing evidence suggesting pote…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM