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Tom Jokinen

@jokinen.bsky.social

Radio documentaries, writer, labour activism, birding, cycling. Climate crisis shouter-abouter. On the Canadian prairie.

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Was you father as bold as the sergeant major?

25.10.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big media isn’t dyingβ€”it’s going through a renaissance.

Journalist @jokinen.bsky.social explores how small outlets are quietly rebuilding public trust where big networks have failed: thewalrus.ca/canadian-journal...

31.03.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

25.03.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 77291    πŸ” 17016    πŸ’¬ 3053    πŸ“Œ 1625
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Pelicans forward Trey Murphy exited Monday’s game with a right shoulder injury after diving on the floor for a loose ball.

The team later announced that X-rays on his shoulder came back negative and that he would not return to the game.

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www.nytimes.com/athletic/621...

18.03.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

[Norman Rockwell guy] I personally wish publications were still paying writers wheelbarrows full of money

17.03.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 164    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from the film THE OMEN. Damien's mother (Lee Remick) holds her hand to her head in exhaustion, while Damien's father (Gregory Peck) stares straight ahead and clutches his sweet, screaming l'il antichrist son.

Screenshot from the film THE OMEN. Damien's mother (Lee Remick) holds her hand to her head in exhaustion, while Damien's father (Gregory Peck) stares straight ahead and clutches his sweet, screaming l'il antichrist son.

North American current affairs update:

08.03.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 200    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

28.02.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 31132    πŸ” 10595    πŸ’¬ 1066    πŸ“Œ 692

Those are Nazi salutes. They're Nazis.

21.02.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 627    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 4
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Haha ever notice how we β€œdrive” on a β€œparkway” but β€œgod” β€œhas” β€œabandoned” β€œus”?

04.12.2024 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
A postcard of Winnipeg's Centennial Concert Hall dating probably to the 1960s. The angle is such that you can see the Manitoba Museum in the background and the photo was taken on a clear summers day.

A postcard of Winnipeg's Centennial Concert Hall dating probably to the 1960s. The angle is such that you can see the Manitoba Museum in the background and the photo was taken on a clear summers day.

Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg.

01.12.2024 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œI’m bummed oot…”

28.11.2024 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll guess… Valerie Harper.

28.11.2024 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No! Met him in men’s room at Toronto’s Massey Hall before show. Never met Thatcher… but stood ten feet from her.

28.11.2024 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mickey Rooney
Robert Duvall
Margaret Thatcher
Robin Williams
Raffi

28.11.2024 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano killing the appetite for a drink.

25.11.2024 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump names Pam Bondi as attorney general pick after Gaetz steps aside Ex-Florida attorney general is longtime Trump ally and was one of his lawyers during first impeachment trial * Trump announces Pam Bondi as new attorney general choice – live Donald Trump announced that he would nominate for attorney general Pam…

Trump names Pam Bondi as attorney general pick after Gaetz steps aside

22.11.2024 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 5

I sing the kettle electric

20.11.2024 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

One early lesson from the longshoremen's strike: the ocean shipping industry has the cash to pay for its own decarbonization.

01.10.2024 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I want to do a bunch of life stuff over again but with enough magnesium

22.09.2024 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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monch

16.09.2024 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1428    πŸ” 303    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 47

The only way to stop a bad guy from eating a goose is with a good guy threatening to murder every elementary school student in town.

17.09.2024 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I saw a werewolf buying Two-Buck Chuck at Trader Joe's, his hair was disheveled

14.09.2024 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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If you put hot dogs and pickles against an AM radio tower, they act as speakers. Also, don't do that Acts as a speaker, yes. Also catches fire at an astonishing rate.

If you put hot dogs and pickles against an AM radio tower, they act as speakers (h/t Dan Bodah). https://buff.ly/3B7c1iv

17.09.2024 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How anti-disinformation research came under fire Academic and industry support has retreated amid a GOP assault.

In my first magazine story for @motherjones.bsky.social, I wrote about attacks on disinformation researchers, and the ways they echo attacks on climate scientists in the '90s. One person compared it to the Red Scare: β€œHow do we not see the historical parallels?” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

17.09.2024 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 405    πŸ” 184    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 11
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Wonder Woman underwater battling mermen armed with tridents and guns.

Comic cover Wonder Woman underwater battling mermen armed with tridents and guns.

H.G. Peter, 1948

10.09.2024 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marjorie Also Known as Midge In β€˜Vertigo,’ Barbara Bel Geddes plays a lovesick sidekick. What could have been a thankless part becomes as rich and moving as any role in the film.

For The Reveal I wrote about one of my favorite supporting characters in any movie: VERTIGO's Midge, whose crucial role in the film isn't always noticed (kind of like Midge):

17.09.2024 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

i don’t think it’s sinking in for some white liberals that your neighbor putting up a trump/vance sign is the equivalent of supporting the KKK. it is an act of aggression. i really don’t care if they’ve been nice to youβ€”they are objectively hateful people with whom you should not associate.

17.09.2024 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1562    πŸ” 353    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 46
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Roundtable: Navigating the Newest Social Media Era - The Open Notebook For the past decade, being on Twitter was part of being a journalist. But misinformation and extremism on the platform under new ownership changed a lot of what once made it indispensable for science ...

β€œYou have to be on Twitter,” they said. So what now? @kaatefishman.bsky.social
gathered reporters, editors, and communicators to find out. With @annaleen.bsky.social, @nyaruai.bsky.social, @kendrawrites.bsky.social, @WhySharksMatter.bsky.social and more. www.theopennotebook.com/2024/09/17/r... πŸ§ͺ

17.09.2024 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

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