Teen’s medical research breaking down barriers and garnering national attention

Simply a sensational show from @brucespringsteen.net Tuesday night in Pittsburgh and then the following night on Colbert. If you have the chance to catch one of the remaining stops on the Land of Hope and Dreams Tour, do it!

Let’s send Stephen out with the best ratings of his career, and leave CBS high and dry. Watch the Late Show finale tomorrow, Spread the word!

A six-in-hand? In this economy?

Reposting this eulogy I wrote for my magical, mysterious ex-stray cat George, who died in 2024, in case anybody would like a read. I've taken the paywall off it. It was very, very hard to write but I think it might be my favourite thing I’ve ever written about cats. www.tom-cox.com/lots-of-peop...

Four hours left to read this for free, in case you missed it...

Making Beds, Deborah DeWit, 2010. #Caturday

Find out why @mattrorabeck.com’s neck hurts on our PROJECT HAIL MARY episode. Going from Rocky to RITUAL, Andrew Faigal presents his movie club pick while @ericmarchen.bsky.social moves to THE END OF OAK STREET in the trailer roundup segment.  Full Episode: lnk.to/354QAK

© Timothy Adam Matthews. 'A Closer Look.' Oil on canvas, 2020. 16 × 20 inches.

Avi Lewis: "We have shoved Canada Post so far into the market mindset that every few months we have a national conversation about why isn't Canada Post making money. Does the ambulance service make money? Do the police services make money? We're talking about a fundamental public service."

Thank you, Marcus Medford-Kerr, for writing this engaging and thoughtful CBC article, which includes quotes from yours truly. Now let’s all go to the movies! www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

A real kitchen party in Kitchener last night! If you missed #AlanDoyle and the Beautiful Band you missed a foot stomping good time. Lots of tour dates still to come, including #MasseyHall this weekend. Support #livemusic #CanadianMusic

The Scarborough Walk of Fame will introduce eight new inductees this weekend, including Fefe Dobson, Andre De Grasse, and Jesse Asido. #Scarborough #ScarboroughWalkofFame nowtoronto.com/culture/scar...

The federal and Ontario governments have announced a $183 million settlement with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation today over land in the Rouge River Valley.

Finally above freezing and a handsome boy and his bird hope that this snowdrift will soon disappear.❄️

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

At a time when misinformation, deep-fakes and artificially-generated content designed to look like real news is flooding Facebook and Instagram, their parent company Meta continues to block original, trusted Canadian journalism.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent horses and ponies I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text

Isn’t she exquisite? Happy #Caturday to all who celebrate.

This seems as good an excuse as any for a short thread introducing people to some single moths I've found in my area, looking for fun. 1. Here, for starters, is a Canary-Shouldered Thorn Moth (I didn't make this up).

Success! #horsesofbluesky #horses

Snow in the forecast tomorrow so Beau Jack requested that we carve a path through the paddock snow drift for him. #horsesofbluesky

Beau Jack says hello and also that he’s sick of every day being a snow day! #horses #horsesofbluesky

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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As I hope you already know, there's a new Springsteen song called "Streets of Minneapolis." I'm going on my fifth listen myself. If it's your first, you may well be saddened but you won't be sorry. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Minka loves to crash through the snow drifts! #snowday #horses #horsesofbluesky

F*ck spotify

Beautiful, beautiful piece - what a love letter to local journalism and gorgeous meditation on the passage of time

Just another icy muzzle day! #horses #horsesofblusky

Congratulations to Joel Plaskett on his appointment to the Order of Nova Scotia. A well deserved honour for one of Canada’s favourite performers. Give his excellent catalogue a listen and catch him live whenever you get the chance! #CanadianMusic #livemusiccanada

Snow day. And yes, the water trough is heated and full! #horsesofbluesky #horses

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

Fantastic night of music @horseshoetavern.bsky.social featuring Laney Jones and the Spirits and The Heavy Heavy. Dynamite double bill. Check them out if they come to your town! #supportlivemusic

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

My favourite November pic of Beau Jack and Minka. He loves to pose for the camera. 💕 #horses #horsesofbluesky

Canadian Sentry Lieutenant Alfred Theodore Joseph Bastien 1918

We missed a shout out at 1,500 followers so we are def gonna say THANKS at 1,600! We encourage all music lovers to follow along, and invite all Canadian music venues and artists who play in Canada to help us grow the community. 🇨🇦 #Rheostatics #LiveForLiveMusic

Time for this blog’s annual outing - busting some equine myths of the First World War.

They say baseball breaks your heart, and the Blue Jays are a Hall of Fame what if team, now. So what does it mean to watch your team lose the World Series in one of the greatest games ever played? It means you got to feel something; you just didn’t get to choose what. www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...

Almost time to drop the hammer and crack this nut #BlueJays #birds ⚾ #Game7

Spa day for Minka! She was good and tried not to lean too much. The farrier called her Darling…it was a rip-roaring success. 🎉 #horses #horsesofbluesky

Peak leaf season may have passed but there’s still lots to enjoy on a sunny walk. 🍁

Big thanks in advance to anyone sharing this. It's my attempt to help get the book back into the world after my ex-publisher collapsed, putting it out of print for many months, and taking away my earnings from it (& six other books) in the process. Hills, rivers, ghosts, psychedelic music & more.