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Shirley Blair 🇨🇦🍉
@himalayanchildren.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Boycott US and Roblaws 🇨🇦 Elbows up 🇨🇦
Science, Cdn poli, archeology, prehominids. I block/mute US news. Cdn media: Canadaland, The Tyee, The Narwhal et al. Postmedia shd be banned.
In memoriam: 💔Coulten Boushie
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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This is how butterflies see the flowers.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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🗽 Good Morning New York 🗽
This gal is looking for a low traffic adult only home. Cats are ok. No dogs. Needs training.
MELIA - 3.5 years old, 50 lbs
Over 800 days waiting. Be her hero.

💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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I bought a kobo and tossed the kindle.
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I use the Libby app. for libraries. If you need an actual book Better World books donates 1 book for every book purchased
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Also if you delete Amazon you lose all the 100's of books you owned. Oh wait we dont own them. ##BoycottAmazon
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Consider buying a reader that's not a Kindle. Kobo readers are a good quality, connect to Overdrive, and can easily have epubs loaded on them from anywhere. But any Android reader can install the e-reader apps of every platform.
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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But is anyone going to hold Doug Ford accountable for the dismantling of our system? Of course not. All healthcare blame is to be directed to the federal government, because shut up.
“Ontario recorded the highest number of wait-list deaths: 10,634, including more than 9,100 diagnostic-scan deaths where patients died before reaching the point of receiving or being scheduled for surgery.”

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Tens of thousands of Canadians died waiting for medical care in the past year: report
A new report is raising alarm over growing wait-list deaths in Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Desperately hoping I’ll spontaneously produce a bag of peanuts, but trying not to be too obvious about it 🥜🐿️

Eastern Gray Squirrel in Central Park, November 2025 #sqrlpix #mammals #wildlifephotography
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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He’s tucked in watching Caseoh videos
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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🤭

Distraction (aka redirecting) is indeed an effective parenting skill.

#Canada
#MarkCarney
#DanielleSmith
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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That certain provincial premiers invoke the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as a tool to ram through legislation that would otherwise be unconstitutional speaks volumes about their contempt for democracy. That the news media normalizes this is unacceptable.
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Electric bills are up 11% this year, and shutoffs are spiking across the country.

At the same time, corporations are building hundreds of energy-hungry data centers, and working families are being forced to absorb the cost. Higher bills for us, higher profits for them. seiu.co/3M71usW
More Americans are getting their power shut off, as unpaid bills pile up
Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation.
seiu.co
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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In the #Yukon, First Nations are fighting to defend their land, language, and water as a new mining project threatens the at-risk caribou herd, which has helped sustain families for generations.

@westernwriter.bsky.social recently visited the community:

ricochet.media/climate/envi...

#WaterIsLife
In the home of the caribou, the looming shadow of an open-pit mine threatens the Kaska way of life
On the shores of Frances Lake, Yukon First Nations fight to defend their land, language, and water as a new mining project threatens the Finlayson herd and a fragile cultural resurgence
ricochet.media
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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When you are smiling because you know you found just the right stick for the nest and your partner will be SO happy!

#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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If you're a fan of Slow Horses, as I am, and you haven't checked this show out--best give it a look as it's based on a novel by the guy who wrote the books that inspired Slow Horses, has same producers, and is just generally a lot like it in tone and sensibility. Dark humor, twists, great acting.
Down Cemetery Road — Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Best Christmas ad yet! Knocks John Lewis into a cocked hat.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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We’re just not that into you…..ok

youtube.com/shorts/xGqk3...
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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A round of applause for the French is in order! 👏👏👏
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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It’s a post of warm gratitude.

Today, after I wrote how deeply it hurts when support is cancelled right after the attacks,
you joined, you upgraded, you wrote kind words.
You reminded me – hey, girl, you’re not alone in this.

I’m not asking for anything.
I just want to thank you.
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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❗️Sweden will not recognize Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian territories – Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard

"Our position is that, in order to achieve a just and lasting peace, borders cannot be changed by force.
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Bowhead whales live twice as long as humans, and have a unique DNA repair mechanism to avoid cancer. Novel research w U Rochester in collaboration with the Inuit in Alaska.

🧪#cancer
apple.news/Ag-kaIoQ2QSG...
A bowhead whale's DNA offers clues to fight cancer — NPR
Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the bowhead whale.
apple.news
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM