Ageism be damned. This is what a lifetime of craftsmanship can produce in very little time. #brucespringsteen #Minneapolis #folksong #protestsong #Iceout

Does anyone know if Open Desk is available to the general public as an alternative to Microsoft products? #OpenDedk #alternativesoftware #software #microsoftalternatiive

Simply sad. #history #remberanceday #WWW2 #blackhistory #historyerasure

Has anyone who actually knows about Richard's reign actually read this. Looked at the introduction in a bookstore which seemed to be unduly biased?

It appears that the people accused of killing Sharif Ramen, owner of the Curry House in Owen Sound, were involved in a temporary driveway paving operation across Ontario. #SharifRamin #justiceforsharif #CurryHouse #OwenSound #murder #paving #scam #driveway

We need to have higher education standards and training for bylaw officials across Ontario. #Ontario #Ontarioconservation #Ontarioecology #wildlifegarden #nature #naturalizedgarden #polinators #wildflowers #endangeredpecies #rewilding

I don't know how many ash trees are in our rewilding project. Hopefully, like elms, some will show resistance. #ash #rewilding #basketmaking

Just when you need a good laugh this shows up.

Be safe: in Ontario use George Barron's "Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada". Barron had many tales of receiving calls from hospital personnel. 💙📚 #naturebook #forage #foraging #wildedibles #edible #nature #mushroom #fungus #fungi #safety #safetyfirst

All candidates need to be scrutinized and held to high standards. #Canada #cdnpoli #cdnmedia #cdnelection #Poilievre #vote

It seems a magnum opus is on the way. 🎈🎈🎈 Much food for thought in the interview and I totally agree with the bits about Spider Robinson. Addressing Atwood's refusal to call her science fiction what it is would have been welcome. 💙📚 #fiction #scifi #urbanfantasy

🇨🇦 Problematic election polling: Do not respond. #Canada #election #polling #problem #fraud

Ontario: A heartfelt shout out to all the crews from Hydro One who are working through the night to restore electricity. (Back to saving battery.) #Ontario #hydroone #electricity #power

Thanks to authors like Penny and the many others who donated to the iconic library straddling the Canadian/American border. 💙📚 #author #library #book #border

Not all of these will be suitable for urban gardens, but many are. #garden #wildbee #bumblebee #native

Congratulations to the Canada Reads winner! Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby 🏳️‍🌈 Support your local bookstore and buy a copy. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7487829

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

Today's read: At the end of the garden walk the wind and its satellite wait for me; their meaning I will not know until I go there... The Cold Green Element Irving Layton

This is beyond sad. I hope the GoFundMe for the new entrance works.🇨🇦 #library #libraries #libraryaccess #elbowsup

At least pay with coins after arrival at destination.

Home Hardware and Canadian Tire are the two fully Canadian retailers on their list. #gardens #gardening #ontariogarden

For once it wasn't cloudy. #eclipse #bloodmoon

Hey BlueSky friends! Here's today's humour post 😁

The harrowing tales from our great inland seas are astonishing. If anyone knows of an active link to Scot Cameron's Great Lakes shipping page, I would appreciate it. I once read of an inland Grey County woman from Bognor who was the sole survivour on Georgian Bay, not just once, but twice. 2/2

I told that kid a hundred times, "Don't take the Lakes for granted They go from calm to a hundred knots so fast they seem enchanted" Stan Rogers, White Squall, 1984 posthumous album From Fresh Water 1/2 #greatlakes #lakesuperior #history #ships #shipwrecks

Some years ago a number of local gardeners grew tired of finding commercial weed suppression material breaking up into their soil and switched to using cardboard boxes. Seems wise now. #gardening #plastic #microplastic #plants #weed

There's one thing that can be counted on where I live: if there's a major astronomical event, the sky will be cloudy. Taking bets now. 😆

Brooks shows courage in tuning the Shannara series over to another writer. 📚💙 #fantasy #fiction #trerrybrooks #Shannara

This 🇨🇦beaver🇨🇦 cut 🍁wood🍁 and put his elbows up. Thank you Jeff. #Canada #Canadian #elbowsup #beaver #jeffdouglas

Do read all 10. 🇨🇦 should pay attention to 2, 4 & 8, 🇺🇲 to 9. Canada has been here before. We have excellent free trade agreements with the EU and others. Elbows up. #history #canhistory #canadianhistory #canada #tarrif #freetrade

The reworking of the sonnet in a politically charged climate creates interesting parallels for current musicians whose work is being used by others as a statement piece. 📚💙 #discovery #shakespeare #sonnet #poetry #politics #history

According to CTV and others the moondust repellant was a Quebec creation. 🇨🇦 As fascinated as I am by the Blue Ghost mission, the lessons from the Arrow are very much on my mind. I hope we are equally involved with the European Space Agency. #Canada #Quebec #blueghost #NASA #ESA #moondust

Not every library system has Maggie A. as a resident to speak on behalf of the librarians. 📚💙,🇨🇦 #library #librarians #books #bookbanning #censorship

🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁 You can take the boy out of Scarborough, but you can't take Scarborough out of the boy. 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁 #Canada #mikemyers #SNL #IAMCANADIAN #elbowsup #truenorth #strongandfree #mapleleaf #maplesyrup

Oh, there's a bookstore. Note to self: Just keep walking. But the door's open.

Looks like my kind of bookstore. 📚💙❤️ #books #bookstore #dystopianlit

Home from a long drive, the coat got temporarily tossed on a chair. Guess the closet has to wait. #meow #cats #catsofbluesky #skycats #caturday

Highlights fundamental tensions in using software to delineate history. #history #methodology #method #blackhistory #slavery #maps #mapping #landscape #geography

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I'll let someone else try to crack the code.

Hopefully will never need it but good to know

Time to think about this seed starting method now while the snow is deep. 🌱 #garden #northerngarden #canadagarden #ontariogarden #ontgarden #seeds #seedlings

We can only understand cultural reactions to disability if we understand the long history. As a polio-survivor's daughter, I am aware that an unfortunate minority ascribe to the ancient Greek belief of considering those marked by disability to be a sign of disfavour by Heaven.

Seriously funny. If you're not familiar with the Middle Ages skip to Henry IV and VIII. You'll get why this was our morning chuckle. #medieval #henry #humour

I know.

Looks fascinating. The world needs open access.

The new house munchkins at my favourite pet food store. (Yes, there is a grooming comb handy for any customers feeling inclined.) #cats #caturday

There are still manuscripts waiting to be found. #medieval #manuscript #discovery

Protect the weak, defend your rights, And build this land together, Above which shine the Northern Lights, And the Maple Leaf forever! 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 1997 version by Vladimir Radian 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 #flag #cdnflag #mapleleaf #60thbirthday #canada #flagday #mapleleaf4ever

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