Dr. Margo C. Watt
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StFX professor of clinical forensic psychology, bibliophile, logophile, Flâneuse 🇨🇦🏴
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New publication includes work done by
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The New York Times
3 days ago
Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.
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María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Live Updates and Video
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”
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The Wall Street Journal
3 days ago
Breaking: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship
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Jen Rubin
3 days ago
ANTIFA:
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Governor JB Pritzker
3 days ago
Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.
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Kristen Kroll (@kristenkroll)
From a US physician: I know the exact pressure it takes to crack a rib during CPR. But last Tuesday, I learned a patient’s silence can break a doctor’s soul. His name was David Chen, but on my scree...
https://substack.com/@kristenkroll/note/c-161406021?r=1tfznj&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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“Shut Up” At Bethpage: How Team USA’s Meltdown — And Its Fans — Embodied Trump-Era Sore-Loser Energy
Boos, F-bombs, and a first-tee MC resigning mid-event. Europe keeps burying birdies while the U.S. crowd and a rattled American team lash out. If you wanted a living metaphor for Trumpism in sports —
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/shut-up-at-bethpage-how-team-usas?r=1tfznj&utm_medium=ios
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Lorem Ipsum
A shoebox find of some early writings for a public audience.
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Kepano Kolohe
17 days ago
Please repost this…. Thank you.
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John Pavlovitz
17 days ago
If you voted for him, you've done this.
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Send in the Clowns: Trump’s UNGA 2025 Spectacle on the World Stage
A bizarre dystopian performance from the world's most notorious clown
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Community & Service, Love & Change
A message delivered in Christ Chapel at Gustavus Adolphus College
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Ellen Mitchell (@ellenmitchell2)
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about 1 month ago
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Brian Groom
about 1 month ago
Three girls, Manchester, 1965, photo by Shirley Baker.
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JJ Akin (@jjakin)
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about 1 month ago
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Lucky Charms
Roadtrip conversations and questions of life.
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about 1 month ago
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁
about 1 month ago
Nova Scotia’s film industry is taking centre stage, with two productions filmed in the province hitting number one on streaming platforms.
#NovaScotia
film industry celebrating busy season
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Nova Scotia film industry celebrating busy season
Nova Scotia’s film industry is taking centre stage, with two productions filmed in the province hitting number one on streaming platforms.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/nova-scotia-film-industry-celebrating-busy-season/
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Liberal Buddhist
about 1 month ago
#Thrillers
#Mystery
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#Booksky
Book recommendation (Day 25)
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The flags outside the campus center hung at half staff on first-year move-in day. It was Friday of Labor Day weekend, a still morning on the hilltop campus above the Minnesota River Valley. I couldn’t decide if the lifeless flags looked tired or ashamed.
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Tears and Flowers on Labor Day Weekend
A reflection on the individual, the community, and the nation.
https://jjakin.substack.com/p/tears-and-flowers-on-labor-day-weekend
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Tears and Flowers on Labor Day Weekend
A reflection on the individual, the community, and the nation.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jjakin/p/tears-and-flowers-on-labor-day-weekend?r=1tfznj&utm_medium=ios
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about 2 months ago
Five traps per trawl and 56 trawls means that 280 lobster traps need to be checked, cleaned, baited, and reset. This takes place six days a week from May 1 - June 30 on our little corner of the Atlantic. Read about my first excursions on the lobster boat...
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Markets and Canners
Sun or swells, the lobster traps need to be cleaned and reset.
https://jjakin.substack.com/p/markets-and-canners
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Bully the Bully: The Psychology of What Gavin Newsom Is Getting Right
Your grandmother was wrong.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cmarmitage/p/bully-the-bully-the-psychology-of?r=1tfznj
about 2 months ago
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Top 12 Sigmund Freud Quotes
Sometimes a quote is just a quote
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about 2 months ago
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Following the Auschwitz Memorial reminds me every day that the people they murdered were not nameless or faceless. They were individuals and a lot of them were babies.
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Auschwitz Memorial
about 2 months ago
21 August 1921 | A Pole, Wojciech Jarzębowski, was born in Warsaw. In
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from 25 July 1941. No. 18796 He perished in the camp on 15 July 1942.
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Fish Camp
The family cabin affectionately known as the Loon's Roost has seen a lot—especially on one particular weekend each year.
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about 2 months ago
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The New Yorker
about 2 months ago
The story that inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions.
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“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson
Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
this guy is savage
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Lutefisk, Lefse, Copenhagen Snuff
A tight squeeze into the moldy swimsuit of memory.
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2 months ago
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My son-in-law’s transition from Minnesota to Nova Scoti continues.
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Washer Toss
Dedicated to the brother-in-law I never met, the annual tournament is a distillation of life in all its joy, sorrow, competition, and community.
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Interesting new study by Burris & Shetty cites our early “Creepy” paper:
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APA PsycNet
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Mark Kersten
2 months ago
For those wondering if it matters, the first story on the front page of BBC News:
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Devin Heroux
2 months ago
GOLD (#3) FOR 🇨🇦 SUMMER MCINTOSH CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD Summer McIntosh breaks the 200m butterfly world championship record to win her third gold medal. She nearly broke the WR She posts a time of 2:01.99. Another extraordinary swim by the 18-year-old Canadian phenom.
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That Place Beyond Understanding
A ghost tour of Pictou results in laughter and uncertainty.
https://substack.com/@jjakin/note/p-169223650?r=1tfznj
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On Lawn Care
Raking in Nova Scotia in July. There's more to it than you think.
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"The inland miles of the route looked like the cutting-room floor after a postcard photoshoot, pretty enough to capture on film but nothing that anybody’d buy at the drugstore to send home." - A Love Letter from the Sunrise Trail
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A Love Letter from the Sunrise Trail
A meandering journey along the Northumberland Strait.
https://jjakin.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-from-the-sunrise-trail
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My son-in-law is chronicling his move from Minnesota to Nova Scotia in a series of Substack essays. In doing so, he is reminding those of us who live in “New Scotland”🏴 of the many readons we love this place.
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A Love Letter from the Sunrise Trail
A meandering journey along the Northumberland Strait.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jjakin/p/a-love-letter-from-the-sunrise-trail?r=1tfznj
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I woke up Saturday morning thinking I’d spend the afternoon at the beach. Pictou Island had other plans.
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Extra-Step Island
Everything went smoothly until 7 a.m. It was a great day on the Northumberland Strait.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jjakin/p/extra-step-island?r=2ba2nb&utm_medium=ios
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Titania
3 months ago
Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while
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Join me on the move from the flat, rich farmland of Minnesota to the heavily forested hills and rocky shores of Nova Scotia. I’m moving to a community called Bayview—and I’m keeping my eyes open to wonder.
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Life Update In Progress...
Coming soon: reflections from the edge of the continent.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jjakin/p/life-update-in-progress?r=2ba2nb&utm_medium=ios
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I'm among the sixth generation of my family to be raised in the same small town in Minnesota. Soon, I'm moving 2,000 miles to Nova Scotia. Read the first edition of Bayview Wonder:
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁
3 months ago
#Canada
🍁💪 This ⤵️
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William Shakespeare
3 months ago
’Tis such as you, That creep like shadows
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Business Insider
3 months ago
Hiring managers are leaning on pre-employment assessments that test applicants' soft skills in order to see beyond their AI-enhanced resumes
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Companies are relying on aptitude and personality tests more to combat AI-powered job hunters
Hiring managers are leaning on pre-employment assessments that test applicants' soft skills in order to see beyond their AI-enhanced resumes
https://www.businessinsider.com/pre-employment-assessments-hiring-tests-ai-job-applications-2025-7?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=business-automated
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The Media and Democracy Project
3 months ago
NYT leadership has shown you - and told you - that they will not defend democracy. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou Instead support other outlets & journalists
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New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it | Press Watch
Joe Kahn, after two years in charge of the New York Times newsroom, has learned nothing.
https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/
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Neil Renic
3 months ago
111 years ago today, Franz Kafka summed up adulthood
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LillianDCA
3 months ago
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