I have paused the tariffs that were scheduled to kick Canada on which you were probably basing stock trades 50 percent tariffs they were beautiful three days and we'll see

Rachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history. “I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said #Halifax #HaliSky

‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries

Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.

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!! this @electricliterature.com interview with 3 debut novelists, great stuff electricliterature.com/3-debut-auth...

LET HE WHO HAS NOT had his bloated carcass stuffed in an airplane food cart to escape a conference where we embarrassed ourselves whilst being threatened with murder by a country we decided to start a random war with for no discernible reason CAST THE FIRST STONE

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Spotted on GO train platform in Toronto not an hour ago: fellow in natty window-pane check suit but shorts instead of pants. Cuffed shorts. Serious briefcase. I expected a bowtie but no. #IloveYYZ

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The man who wears shorts to the office is telling everybody that he wants to be somewhere else,” David Coggins writes. “The fact that he really does want to be somewhere else does not excuse this.”

Oh look, the Commerce Department quietly announced 7 new equity stakes in private companies. Brought to you by the people fighting "communism." https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/

Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies

The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seve…

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What an indignity to have your farm or house seized via eminent domain, to see it razed and replaced by a weed-choked empty field, a lonely foundation slab, or an abandoned empty building that could only ever be repurposed for laser-tag or an ICE concentration-camp: gizmodo.com/trump-on-dat... 6/

Trump on Data Centers: 'You Can't Fight It. You Have to Go With It'

Usually it's not great when a person in power tells others to just give up and do what they want.

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This x 1000

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 4w ago

What you need to know (and didn’t read) about Trump’s new tariffs: presswatchers.org/2026/07/what... NEW from me.

Is this real are we back to normal comms

scott dagostino@scottdagostino.ca · last mo.

Wait, what?? This is…good 😮

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Andrew Kurjata@akurjata.ca · last mo.

Listen I will just say to any American politicians who are just watchimg their colleagues issue veiled threats at Canada for having wildfires in one of the largest boreal forests in the world you better not issue any "please buy or wine and visit our casino" notices

So here's an interesting thing I'm seeing in these conversations about "Canadian wildfire smoke." Some Yanks are saying the wildfires are because Canada outlawed Indigenous traditional burning practices. This way, Canada remains the bad guy for oppressing Indigenous Peoples - which is true. 1/5

RIP Bonnie Tyler

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Committee meeting at the local dump, looks like they have quorum #turkeyvultures

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

53 years ago today, 6/25/73 With 85 million households watching on TV, former WH counsel John Dean reads his explosive 60,000 word opening statement which implicates Nixon, himself & other top WH officials in a coverup of Watergate & more. Nixon resigns 13 months later. Telling the truth matters.

Came across this video last night and I am about to run it into the ground. This is one of the most incredible displays of singing and arranging I’ve ever heard. 2:38 to about 3:10 is off the charts nuts.

New York Vocal Collective - Blackbird

YouTube video by NYVC (New York Vocal Collective)

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Old enough to have done this working as a teen in the local drugstore AND attached hardware store and still be bothered that no one does this change counting anymore

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 2mo ago

(The proper way to make change: count *up*, not down. Someone hands you $20 for a $5.21 item: four pennies whole reciting "$5.22, $5.23, $5.24, $5.25," three quarters saying "$5.50, $5.75, $6", four $1 bills saying "$7, $8, $9, $10," and finish with a $10 and say "and $10 makes $20".)

Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.

Jeff Bezos, bookselling executive and newspaper publisher, on poetry www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b...

Perennial

May 6, 1935: FDR creates the Works Progress Administration, his major effort at putting the nation back to work. About 30% of the unemployed will be hired to build schools, hospitals, & playgrounds, at an average of $55 per month.

All Lit Up@alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For #ShortStoryMonth, short story writer @laurairock.bsky.social recommends six standout collections from @anvilpress.bsky.social, @pressassembly.bsky.social, @guernicaeditions.bsky.social, @greatplainspress.bsky.social, @invisibooks.bsky.social & @llpmtl.bsky.social alllitup.ca/afterword-6-...

Native Land Digital provides a digital map of Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties around the globe. Here’s their current map of the languages of North America. native-land.ca

Interesting 🧵and doesn't this undercut the market for ads on social media (is the ad spend also declining...why would advertisers pay to reach a shrinking audience)

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4mo ago

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Who's starting the This Tweet Incarnate account here?

@ja-a.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Vance is this tweet incarnate bsky.app/profile/ja-a...

I'm seeing people defending this decision by saying things like "this is eliminating prison LIBRARIANS, not LIBRARIES" so let's take a closer look at that. 1/

Mary Grace@emgeekay.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Correctional Services Canada will be eliminating all prison librarians at federal prisons. This will save between $1.5 million and $2.5 million annually.

Through spring, I get to bring out Calling It Back to Me with friends and writers I admire. Here’s my next friendly April event, this Sunday afternoon with Rob Winger at the beloved, iconic @blueheronbooks—well worth the trip to Uxbridge, hopefully Sunday—will I see you?—but really any day.