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🇨🇦 Shani Komulainen 🍁
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Former news-photographer: CP PoY Award 1990. 'Loud-mouth broad’ since 1986. She/her.

📸 Photos mine unless stated. #NoFliter mostly. 📷

Canadian 🇨🇦 Finnish heritage 🇫🇮
#TBI 🧠🤕
ShaniKom@mstdn.ca & shanikom@pixelfed.social
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February 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Neat. This view ceased to exist a few years later when the 8-story Cegep du Vieux Montreal was built a block south on the right.

(I can almost see my first apartment two blocks south on the left with @arrogantmonkey.bsky.social)
Sanguinet St., Montreal
Philip Surrey
1971
February 16, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt
February 16, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Timeline cleanse 🐸
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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Bruce Fanjoy’s petition to require all federal party leaders to have top secret security clearance has reached 36,000.

We can do better. Sign here:

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
February 16, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
How beautiful!
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
February 15, 2026 at 7:29 PM
What a contrast between the species! #mammals #birds #penguins #seals #photography
Excuse me, excuse me.... King Penguins threading their way through the Southern Elephant Seals clogging the beach on South Georgia. 🪶🦑🦊
February 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Happy Valentine's to these two and to all of you! 💘🐳🐳

#WhaleTales
February 14, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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"Boop your loved ones often." Vancouver Island Marmot wisdom for #Valentines
February 14, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Happy Valentine's Day! Wishing you a day of love - and that includes a love of nature! Whether you’re flying solo or roosting together, happy Valentine’s Day! ❤🦇🦇
February 14, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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Will you be my valentine?
#mammals #raccoon
February 15, 2026 at 1:22 AM
#CdnPoli #AbPoli
See OP for context.
February 15, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Such a shame for those male readers of The Times! (See second OP).
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February 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM
With #AltText
Happy Friendship Day!
Hyvää Ystävänpäivä
February 14, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Happy Ystävänpäiva!! 🫶 🇫🇮
February 14, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Well this is interesting. Denmark currently leading USA 2-1 in the 1st period of Mens Olympic Hockey.

Is it the Greenland Effect?
#Olympics #MilanoCortina
February 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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This man made a mini city for his pets. It's fascinating.

Also, it is not AI.

Here's his channel on YT: www.youtube.com/@xingzhilei
February 14, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Love this!!
February 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Arrived at the Sansusi art residency centre in Latvia where it is a veritable winter wonderland.
February 14, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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As it's St. Valentines day, here's a pair of courting Great Crested Grebes
#ValentinesDay2026
#ValentinesDay
#Lovebirds
February 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Posting early for #BlueskyArtShow #wood and Valentines Day with the same image. Have a great weekend and enjoy the people who make your life worth living.
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 5:19 AM