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Fiona
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Scottish/Canadian reader, volunteer, nerd. DFTBA
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From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky
A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
March 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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“MAGA’s Canadian Boyfriend” is a label Team Pierre won’t like.

www.thedailybeast.com/magas-canadi...
MAGA’s Canadian Sweetheart Vows to ‘Retaliate’ Against Trump in Tariff War
Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has said he will tackle Trump’s tariffs head-on if he is elected Canadian prime minister this year.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
caith.bsky.social
This is happening in Canada too. The Canadian Broligarchy have formalized into a website too, lobbying government (sorry, not lobbying, except every member of their group is a CEO or founder- that's not a special interest group? They think they're very special!) Their policies are for THEM only.
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · Feb 5
You can’t post your way out of fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
caith.bsky.social
It's hard keeping up with international politics these days.
-Syrian President ousted.
-S Korean President "stepping back" after failed coup.
-French government falls.
-USA...well...

Who's next? Georgia?
December 8, 2024 at 9:04 AM
caith.bsky.social
Played Seven Wonders for the first time in a few years. It's a unique game where the first round seems impossibly complicated and then as you learn it, subsequent rounds take about 30mins. Probably one of my favourite games because I win it a lot lol!

#tabletop
#games
#SevenWonders
A table with cards and playing pieces from the tabletop game Seven Wondersh
December 2, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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Pierre Poilievre is so desperate for power, he’ll do and say anything to push buttons and rage-bait. Don’t let politicians insult your intelligence.

Rage-baiting and empty slogans aren’t what Canada needs | @mtltoula.bsky.social
Pierre Poilievre’s rage-baiting and empty slogans aren’t what Canada needs
Canada risks electing dubious Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre based on little more than catchy slogans and voter fatigue.
cultmtl.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:07 PM
caith.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No reviews, just covers. 8/20
I feel this one is obvious. Didn't find it until I was 16 and then I devoured every fantasy book I could find.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 24, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...
Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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November 22, 2024 at 7:59 PM
caith.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover of Jonathon Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
November 22, 2024 at 6:12 PM
caith.bsky.social
#FridayKitten photos! All available in #Ottawa for adoption from furry-tales.ca/adoptable-ca...
Priscilla Penny Farro? Definitely a grain-named kitten and not Tuxedo Quinoa!
November 22, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
Many Canadians have no idea what Stephen Harper did right before he was voted out in 2015 - the China trade deal called FIPA, here is the backgrounder

Under the #FIPA deal that #OToole (as trade minister) and Harper, worked out with China - 31 year locked in deal, there
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November 14, 2024 at 4:38 PM
caith.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20
This book blew my mind - allegory, history, literature.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#Orkney
Book cover of George Mackay Brown's Magnus. How do Vikings relate to Hitler? Read it and find out.
November 21, 2024 at 8:00 PM
caith.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 I still think about this book when I'm in nature and think about the symbology in all his books.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book cover of Neil Gunn's Highland River: A prize-winning novel of a Scottish Childhood.
November 20, 2024 at 7:59 PM
caith.bsky.social
My book club are doing a special meeting where we can read any book as long as it's themed for the season eg Xmas/New Years/Hogmanay/Yule/Hannukah etc.

I have 5 days left and I need a stand alone book, seasonally themed, preferably fantasy and/or romance.
#ADHD
#Romantasy
#romancelandia
#booksky
November 20, 2024 at 12:34 AM
caith.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Bill Bryson's book "A Walk In The Woods"
November 19, 2024 at 1:18 PM
caith.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order...no reviews, just covers. 4/20

(Horse & book obsessed 10yo me reads this book and felt an immediate affinity to Sid & shapes my view on life.)
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 18, 2024 at 10:26 PM
caith.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Photo of a book titled "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Gilden Braid. A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll.
November 17, 2024 at 6:16 PM
caith.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Terry Pratchett's book "Guards! Guards!"
November 16, 2024 at 8:27 PM
caith.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Book by Mary Stewart called "Touch Not The Cat" showing an old cover of a book featuring an angry black cat on a rock.
November 16, 2024 at 12:03 PM
caith.bsky.social
It's Friday Kitten Time! I volunteer with a cat rescue in Ottawa every week so expect to see some kittens! (You too can vilunteer for a weekly 2 hour shift!) All are available for adoption at
furry-tales.ca/adoptable-ca...
November 15, 2024 at 6:37 PM