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I love Pierre Bourdieu for many things including his contempt for BHL

People are tired of electing managers.

YouTube video by The Fall - Topic New Face in Hell

Some good news this morning.

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Losing Teen Vogue is legitimately a massive blow to working class organization. Its politics coverage was top notch and put legacy news to shame. I hope the former workers form a co-op publication or something.

unfollowing @teenvogue.com

RIP Teen Vogue

Toronto Blue Jays, whatever happened there?

What Drake curse? *chuckles nervously*

you’re killing me here #spellingbee

all these passing things

Hacking the Tim Hortons Roll Up The Rim campaign so that losing entries link you to the MAiD form

He’s sunk to depths i never imagined.

Thank God his mother isn’t alive to see how far gone her boy is.

Game One of the WS and Schneider’s starting a rookie pitcher and having Bo Bichette play 2B for the first time in his career.

Strategery

I would also like to express my fondness for that particular late night television programme.

As if the return of the NBA on NBC wasn’t memberberry enough, the Portland JailBlazers are back!

Sometimes I wish my first word was "quote," so that on my death bed, my last words could be "end quote." — Steven Wright

Clearly not a league game, Sir.

Watching one of the all time great individual postseason performances.

Ohtani’s thrown 10 K and hit two HR including a 469 foot BLAST.

One gets the feeling the Jays and Mariners are duking it out for second place.

Oh good, thought I had missed this.

Debates, Issue 144 (October 3, 2017) Follow the latest activities in the Senate Chamber

Fitting and good that David Adams Richards’s first speech in the Senate of Canada was a tribute to his friend and mentor, the great poet, Alden Nowlan.

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Defector goes deep on The Dog of the South.

graphics of a small stack of 4 books in the lower left hand corner, with 2 orange zinnas on top, and a monarch butterfly is perched on top of text near the top of the tile, celebrate Canadian Library Month, October 2025, Ontario Library Association

Celebrate Canadian Library Month!

October is National Library Month, ... drop by and visit your local library, today!
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#LibrariesForLife

David Adams Richards leaves the Senate ‘The individual is everything or life is nothing’ the famed author says in parting words

The Senate of Canada is diminished by David Adams Richards’s leaving.

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Pleased by the Academy’s selection.

Well earned, imho.

The album art for Sparky Rucker's 1977 album "Cold & Lonesome on a Train." It features a blue hue photograph of a black man riding in a train cart, with his legs hanging out the open cart door. He looks off into the distance and sitting beside him is a guitar case.

A new month = a new Pay-What-You-Want album! 🎶

In October, get a digital download of Sparky Rucker's 1977 album "Cold & Lonesome on a Train" and name your own price! https://loom.ly/KChNXDk

🎵: "Cold & Lonesome on a Train," Sparky Rucker, June Appal Records, 1977.

The Tom Waits album receiving the most play round these parts. Has been for a long time.

The album cover for Earl Gilmore's 1977 June Appal Recordings album "From the Depth of My Soul." The cover art feature a black and white photograph of Earl, a black man passionately playing a guitar and singing, inside a circle frame.

Time is almost up to get the September Pay-What-You-Want album

This month only, get a digital download of Earl Gilmore's 1977 blues + gospel album "From the Depths of My Soul" and name your own price! https://loom.ly/RvHl_E0

🎵: "From the Depths of My Soul," Earl Gilmore, June Appal Records, 1977.

bush league stuff, Sir

James Butler | Labour’s Problems Keir Starmer is in trouble. ‘Phase two’ of his government launched on 1 September and was immediately derailed by...

“It took the Tories ten years to reach this degree of perpetual crisis; Labour has managed it in fourteen months.”

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RIP to Robert Redford, a Star Who Knew How to Play the Game Robert Redford was a man of the Left until the end and a patron saint of independent cinema. He will be missed.

My tribute to the wiliness of Robert Redford (RIP RR): jacobin.com/2025/09/robe...