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graeme slaght
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librarian at U of Toronto libraries / copyright / publishing / climate dooming / fun /
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sphillipsab.bsky.social
Giving Alberta an exemption to the Clean Electricity Standard means the policy is DOA.

There’s no way SK isn’t asking for the same thing, as they restart coal plants.

One Canadian economy? Nope. Likely scenario is no electricity regs at all, meaning we’re back to Harper-era policy.
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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kconnor.bsky.social
Yes! Contact them and sign this petition here —it’s not just about EDI data! So much personally identifying information for applicants and reviewers will not be protected!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data
Why do we need urgent action to protect our data? The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to science and research in ...
docs.google.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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eric-reinhart.com
Camps to cage 10,000 people at a time—all denied any due process and targeted because of their skin color and place of origin. Does this remind you of any other camps in times past?
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Oct 24
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W
October 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
I know a lot of people talk about "Ken Griffey's swing", "John Olerud's swing" but for my money there is nothing more beautiful than Alejandro Kirk:

- 5'7 and built like a Welsh corgi
- basically drops halfway into a splits on each swing
- each swing is a Street Fighter "Shooooryuken" uppercut
Alejandro Kirk takes a hack for the fences. He looks beautiful
October 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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wafflecut.bsky.social
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024 INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
In “timing” tonight Maggie Helwig’s book Encampment, very critical of city + local councillor Saxe, won the Toronto Book Award & tomorrow the city is evicting the encampment at her church. Epic timing.
Group of people w Maggie & award
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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matoswk.bsky.social
Five Mixes by Optimo (Espacio)/JD Twich--it's really ten, but who deserves it more? R.I.P. to one of the greatest selectors ever.
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc138-five...
BC138 - Five Mixes: Optimo (Espacio)/JD Twitch, 2004-23
R.I.P. Keith McIvor, a.k.a. Twitch
michaelangelo.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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mixmag.net
Optimo (Espacio)’s JD Twitch has died.

RIP to an all-time great of UK dance music 🖤
Optimo (Espacio)’s JD Twitch has died
The DJ, producer, promoter and label head was a celebrated icon of UK dance music
mixmag.net
September 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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joelhs.bsky.social
Love to combat antisemitism by making lists of disloyal Jews and handing them over to the government.
September 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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kateelliottsff.bsky.social
WCK can use your donations. They are on the ground in Gaza, doing what they can in the face of a staggering and ongoing crime against humanity.
July 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost." soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
June 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Town of Cobalt
Yvonne McKague Housser
c. 1935
June 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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balkissoon.bsky.social
This morning at 8 am, my child's teacher told me it was already 33 C inside the classroom. Members of the Ontario government have air conditioning in their offices, yet they're not doing basic repairs in Toronto schools, let alone protecting our kids from extreme heat. thelocal.to/ontario-educ...
Province Invests $1.3 Billion in New Schools—Just Not in Toronto | The Local
The Tories will fund 45 school building projects across the province—and not a single one in the TDSB, the biggest board in the province. Critics say the opaque process puts politics over students.
thelocal.to
June 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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bakoon.bsky.social
heartwarming video of man who just received cochlear implant hearing the video of the lady who fell and hurt herself stomping grapes on the news for the first time
June 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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jsource.bsky.social
First batch of Google’s $100 million is paid.

@brishti.bsky.social reports on who won big and who didn’t:
First batch of Google’s $100 million is paid. Here’s who won big and who didn’t - J-Source
A look at how Online News Act funds are being distributed
j-source.ca
May 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
May 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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librarykirsten.bsky.social
Really important post on Google Scholar: "The persistent deficiencies in for-profit literature aggregators like Google Scholar and the growing instability of publicly-funded information curators should remind scientists that high-quality access to information is no guarantee."
reeserichardson.bsky.social Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · May 6
New blog post in which I:

📈 detail a new citations-for-sale scheme in Google Scholar

🧻 make the 395 fake papers generated through this scheme available as a dataset

💤 chastise Google for failing to maintain the most widely used academic search engine

Enjoy!

reeserichardson.blog/2025/05/06/g...
Google Scholar is (still) doing nothing about citation manipulation
Detailing yet another citation manipulation scheme in Google Scholar
reeserichardson.blog
May 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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karlbode.com
It's almost pathological how america's least exciting thinkers get the most exposure and attention
Scoop: Senate Democrats to host Ezra Klein as retreat special guest
Klein will have a dialogue with senators at the Mount Vernon retreat.
www.axios.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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geekyjules.julessherred.com
The CBC website is slow to update results, so you can also get them from Elections Canada. The live election results is a different site than the one that's down enr.elections.ca/National.asp...
Election Night Results - National
General election results in Canada. Number of seats per political party.
enr.elections.ca
April 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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glenpeters.bsky.social
Just your regular reminder of where global CO2 emissions are tracking compared to scenarios that keep warming to below 1.5C in 2100, with "no or low overshoot" (maximum temperature around 1.6C).

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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April 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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muffindoin.bsky.social
a very big deal if it passes. this is what would enable an exponential increase in detention, tent camps, upgrade to mass surveillance technologies, etc
nickmiroff.bsky.social Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Apr 16
NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement.

ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.

Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
Trump’s Mass-Deportation Campaign Hasn’t Really Started Yet
The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.
www.theatlantic.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.”

This is the way.

labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The statement names farmworker union leader Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, who was picked up in what appears to be blatant retaliation for his organizing; SEIU Local 925 member Lewelyn Dixon, a University of Washington lab technician detained on her way home from visiting family; SEIU Local 509 member Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student whose detention by federal agents was captured in chilling footage; sheet metal worker Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a SMART Local 100 apprentice who was sent to El Salvador’s notorious prison complex; and United Auto Workers Local 2710 member Mahmoud Khalil, abducted by federal agents in front of his eight-months-pregnant wife. The unions are also calling on employers, university administrators, and local governments to refuse to cooperate—and demanding that elected officials “find their spines.”
April 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
BREAKING — Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staffers who were put on admin leave on Monday just got letters letting them know they’re a part of a Reduction in Force (RIF) and that their job will be “abolished” effective May 4th in accordance with Trump’s EO, per copy reviewed by me.
April 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
Yale Budget Lab analysis of tariffs: $3,800 hit to average household. Loss of 4% of after-tax income to poorest households; 1.5% to richest.

budgetlab.yale.edu/research/whe...
Where We Stand: The Fiscal, Economic, and Distributional Effects of All U.S. Tariffs Enacted in 2025 Through April 2
budgetlab.yale.edu
April 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM