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Dog Team at the Berg
Doris McCarthy
1975
December 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A soothing feed to follow…
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, No. 10 / Brown, Black, Sienna On Dark Wine (Untitled), 1963
oil on canvas, 69 × 64" (175.3 x
162.6 cm
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
October 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Blue Jays dedicate 11-4 blowout to Donald Trump 🇨🇦
October 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Well done to our former PM for calling it what it is. And for sounding a note of optimism…
October 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Transitioning from poet to musician, because: “Music is the emotional life of most people.” — Leonard Cohen
October 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
“I will cut adrift - I will sit on pavements and drink coffee - I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim - this fine October" — Virginia Woolf
October 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Al Pacino’s love letter to Diane Keaton. 🥹 🤍
October 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Lovely.
Meryl Streep's speech at the AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony honoring Diane Keaton

Vale Diane 😢💙👏
October 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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On this day in 1987, #TheCure released "Just Like Heaven" as the third single from their seventh studio album, "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"

#RobertSmith said he considers "Just Like Heaven" to be one of the band's strongest works, and called it "the best pop song the Cure have ever done".
October 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Important thread here
On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
British Politics' Midlife Crisis
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters
benansell.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Did our PM just quote Leonard Cohen? Why yes, yes he did. 🇨🇦👌
Carney emotionally recites Leonard Cohen: "Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There's a crack, a crack in everything. That's where the light gets in." In every moment where there's a crack, there is possibility. It's our opportunity as Canada in this moment to find it.
September 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Happy Birthday to Leonard Cohen. The Greatest.
September 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I’ve been helping newcomers in public libraries for 20 years and these are two things I know: moving to Canada as an immigrant or refugee is a lot of paperwork and even more emotional labour. Also immigrants and refugees make our cities more interesting and excellent places.
September 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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estimated ~5,000 gathered in london’s parliament square to protest trump’s state visit
September 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
News images and stories tracking detail on this visit feel (understandably and thankfully) thin on the ground in the UK…
‘Security concerns’ the BBC’s euphemism for ‘this is a president so intensely loathed by the British public he has to be kept well away from them.’
September 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
September 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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What is happening right now is an extinction-level threat to liberalism in America. Act like it.
September 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: “I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

“As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.”
September 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons.

Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
September 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate
September 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Literally "your papers please," but only for non-white people.

This country is regressing. And the regression is accelerating.
Sotomayor blasts Kavanaugh for suggesting immigrants just carry appropriate documents.

"Countless people in the Los Angeles area have been grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labor."
September 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Birth rates are lowering *literally everywhere.* The only countries which keep growing in power will be the ones which continue to grow, and without immigration that will not be “the West.”
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
September 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
September 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM