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Hannah Main
@hannahmain.bsky.social
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Social scientist interested in questions about rural life in Atlantic Canada. Based on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.Trying not to take any of this too seriously!
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These types of situations are unfortunately all too common. With fixed-term leases, tenants lack protection. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Halifax man faces eviction following year of complaints to property management company | CBC News
Ralph Pearson moved into a Halifax apartment last November. He signed a one-year fixed-term lease and was told the unit was “move-in ready,” but since then he has been trying to get issues resolved wi...
www.cbc.ca
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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In 2025, I have been to more funerals than weddings. I think that’s a first? I suppose there’s a certain age at which the scales tip, but I would hope it’s not so soon
November 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Halifax/Nova Scotia folks: Are coffee shops making eggnog lattes yet? I’ve got a big craving when the air gets crisp like this
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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If you’re video calling me during my workday, it better be for a good reason!
Video call featuring a young buck right outside the kitchen window
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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My first aurora! I have driven to the beach at midnight just to try to catch a glimpse— what a gift to view it from our veranda at 10pm. And what a gift to live in this beautiful universe, on this improbable planet.
Aurora borealis effect in sky with silhouettes of poplars, pines, and other trees in the foreground.
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Oh baby, great political speeches are back! Power to the people www.youtube.com/live/y7ysB8K...
LIVE: Zohran Mamdani delivers victory speech in New York City
YouTube video by ABC News
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November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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This was empty last night
A 1000l cistern full of water from rainfall
October 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Sleeping in after staying up late to watch the Jays win. Stacking wood, doing laundry, planting garlic, savouring a Chicory Blue lunch, reading a new Wendell Berry book… the ideal country Saturday.
October 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Go Blue Jays!
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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So, we just came out with a report here in Nova Scotia that reveals how devastating fixed-term leases can be for tenants. Now Doug Ford wants to introduce them in Ontario…

www.thetrillium.ca/news/housing...
Ford government opens door to ending indefinite leases for Ontario tenants
Attorney General Doug Downey says current system discourages landlords from renting out vacant units
www.thetrillium.ca
October 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I’m in a Facebook group about leaving academia, and saw this horrifying post about someone leaving because… their university is replacing teaching staff with AI. Apparently an R1 in the US, too!!
Text from anonymous Facebook post in group: “I am/was an associate teaching professor. My university had major layoffs over the summer and eliminated almost all teaching faculty, including me. I learned that they're planning to replace all of us with Al instructors and they have already hired an Al solutions architect to implement this. That's largely irrelevant, but seems like something we should all be bracing for. I was given until the end of this AY (Summer, 2026).” A comment by another Facebook user under the post: “UCI. They laid off a good chunk of the humanities earlier this year but then brought most of us back on. They played their hand a little earlier than I think they were ready to but in the process they exposed the long term vision of replacing faculty with grad students who use Al to teach. A former student of mine told me she was being trained to use Al to teach the course she was assigned. There's a lot more to all of this that's too long to get into but yeah, really seems like the UCs are leaning into Al instructors and it's more a matter of when than if, unless our union stays strong enough to fight this and students vote with their dollar by not attending Al universities” Comment thread: I'm sorry but what?!? There are Al instructors now? May I ask what field you were in? I live in New Zealand, where this hasn't happened yet, but this is a genuinely terrifying development VioletJackfruit6047: it happened across my university, for all teaching faculty regardless of field, in the US at a large RI state university. The new Al profs will be rolling out in Fall, 2026. Anonymous member 804: i am flabbergasted. This is unbelievable. Facebook comment from original post author: l am not in the social sciences, but it is happening across departments, so there, too. They eliminated almost 200 roles in nearly every department and all of the responsibilities of those roles are being assigned to the new Al architect, who is tasked with "solving instructional shortfalls with Al technology." As far as we can tell this will be done without input from the departments, either.
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Tonight at Dalhousie: We’re launching our tenants’ rights research report. www.eventbrite.ca/e/tenants-ri...
Tenants' Rights Study Report Launch
Dalhousie Legal Aid Service is sharing the results of an innovative province-wide tenants' study.
www.eventbrite.ca
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
October 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Rural living things: going into town and back for errands today, we passed no less than three roadside stands selling deer carrots.
October 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Maurice finding the sunny spots in the new house, a series of photos:
#cats
A cat lounges indoors in a patch of sunlight A cat reclines on a sunny windowsill A cat lays stretched out indoors in a patch of sunlight from patio doors A cat sits on a chair in front of a window
September 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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A week ago, we closed on an off-grid house in rural Nova Scotia. We’re still settling in, and Dartmouth will always have a huge chunk of my heart, but it’s paradise here.
Morning view of a workshop, fruit trees, and greenhouse with an overcast sky. View of the house at night, with the stars in the background. A creek at sunset, surrounded by greenery. A forest with evening sun poking through the trees.
September 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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bullycreative.bsky.social
wait, do we need "affordable housing" or do we need public housing? They convinced yall to excise public housing from your brain (the power of anti-Blackness in the American politic) even though public housing exists and is successful, often beautiful, ALL OVER THE WORLD.
September 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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I often struggle with imposter syndrome, but I am quite sure I’ve never bungled anything at work as badly as the Dalhousie administration have bungled this bargaining process
September 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Some people from CBC Information Morning for Mainland NS are on vacation so they’ve been playing the Cape Breton version, and I gotta say it’s throwing off my morning routine. You mean there’s a call in show about birds before seven AM???
August 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...
James Dobson Is Dead, Was A Monster | Defector
James Dobson was a nasty dude. He liked to beat children and dogs with a belt and to rain misery and punishment on the vulnerable; we know all of this about him because he said as much in public, repe...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Reminder that Dal has a billion dollar endowment. Instead of investing in Suncor (1.6 mil), Pembina Pipeline Corporation (1 mil), or Enbridge (2.6 mil), why not invest in workers who run labs making big discoveries, bring in research funding, attract top grad students, raise Dal’s global profile….
August 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Workers I support (non-exhaustive list)
-Air Canada flight attendants!
-Dalhousie Faculty Union members
-The firefighters who working overtime to make sure our province doesn’t burn down
-The farmers who are growing us food and who are struggling in this drought
August 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Today is a great day. Pips is back for good!!! @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/games/pips
Play Pips, our new dominoes game for all skill levels.
Every domino has a spot. Can you find where each belongs?
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Chance the Rapper’s Letters— my kind of Christian music 🔥
Dear mega church, I hope this letter finds you 'fore I do Fund a new building to hide you, I'll still be behind you Elaborate theatrics to blind you Nickel and dime you, but I knew I've watched you worship idols Brand a Bibles, sell it for double Brandish rifles, curse and libel Withhold shelter from niggas for survival First Lady's walking around with furs and titles Watch you spit in a man's face and call it "God" But when it's really on your dogma, it's Silent Bob You just take them government checks and smile and nod I rebuke you in the name of the Child of God I boil a pot of Living Water 'til it's scaldin' hot And pour it on the altar of the false fallen gods That means the church and the state, I'm here to separate
August 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM