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Brave New Words — Maclean’s After fleeing Putin’s thuggery, a Russian émigré discovers Canada through its novels

A must read: apple.news/AV3YFA4HCR8y...

Bukowski

Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built for Canada Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your personal data taking an unexpected trip down south.

Social media for Canadians by Canadians? Sign me up! gandersocial.ca @gandersocial.bsky.social #CanadaSky 🇨🇦

George Harrison's Quiet Love Affair With Formula One — Rolling Stone Just another guy at the track, the Beatle could shed fame and be himself

Great piece on George Harrison and #Formula1. Yes, that George Harrison

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Kurt Vonnegut

To pianists everywhere. Enjoy your day! #jazzsky

So many greats, and adjacent to your list, I’d add NHOP, Scot LaFaro, Charlie Haden, Percy Heath, and someone more contemporary, the great Russell Hall #jazzsky

Excerpt of the sheet music for the song Alfonsina Y El Mar

I’m learning this haunting and challenging piece, which invokes the tragic story of Alfosina Storni, a famous poet who committed suicide in Argentina. Anyone out there know it? #classicalguitar

Station Wagon Owners Really Love Their Cars. Too Bad — Bloomberg Businessweek For a tiny yet vocal set of auto enthusiasts, it’s hip to be square. But carmakers have largely moved on.

As an unabashed devotee, I say bring back the station wagon!

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Photo of Kind of Blue album playing on a turntable

I’ve listened to this hundreds of times and I still can’t enough #jazzsky

This is bloody extraordinary!

The heartwarming story Jimmy Heath told me about Charlie Parker #jazzsky

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Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

We need more leadership like this

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True enough. There are countless live albums that are brilliant. My criterion was, which one do I go back to the most often.

This.

A touching, timeless, and downright brilliant LP
#jazzsky

Way to go Lewis! #FerrisBueller #F1

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#jazzsky

Finally!

Love this! #jazzsky

Lol. This is what the swasticar was missing.

The Hitler endorsement.

55 Things to Know About Canada’s Next Prime Minister, Mark Carney The Liberal Party leader replaces Justin Trudeau. But how long will he last?

55 things about Mark Carney #CanadaSky www.politico.com/news/magazin...

A screengrab of a quote Elon Musk gave to Fox News regarding the Twitter outage. He would put the quote out on Twitter, but like all Musk products, it barely works.

"Twitter was definitely cyber attacked!" says guy whose rockets and cars explode on the regular

Finally, @theglobeandmail.com publishes someone who knows a lot of history, in sharp contrast to most of their sophomoric fulltime pundits.

Minione by Anna Maria Jopek & Gonzalo Rubalcaba on Apple Music Album · 2017 · 11 Songs

The only good thing about insomnia is getting to listen to wonderful music like this #jazzsky

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Before cell phones… here’s how you found your friends.

Um, maybe this one? 😢 Or how about this one? 🖕 LOL

YouTube video by ipoodaily Choro de saudade - Barrios - John Williams

When events makes you question the sanity of the world around you, remember there’s still a lot of beauty out there, as witnessed by John Williams’ touching interpretation of Barrios’ Choro de Saudade #ClassicalGuitar #Barrios
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Nationalize Postmedia …and then sell it. But we can’t let Americans own it anymore.

Nationalize Postmedia #CanadaSky
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Your music and #JazzSky are made for one another

Hey @davegoldbergjazz.bsky.social I’ve been listening to your music, and all I can say is “tip of the hat to you!” Thanks for connecting! #jazzsky