Shelley Youngblut

Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

Source (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

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Got mine today. Thank you, science.

‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40 We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved

Forty years of My Beautiful Laundrette, 'the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved'.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Bravo!

My pharmacy couldn’t give me a booster because there was no billing code. I offered to pay but they had no fee schedule. This was at the beginning of July.

The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity Across much of the eastern U.S., electricity bills have jumped. The reason? Data centers required for AI and other tech wonders are driving up electricity demand.

In summary:

1. Something that is effectively eliminating jobs (AI) and causing more climate change problems,
2. Is putting more of a burden on the average consumer, especially those who are in lower income brackets,
3. Who have to suffer environmentally as a result.

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Gay marriage = marriage
Your post baby body = your body
Naturalized citizen = citizen

YouTube video by Conan Tonight Show Horse Watching Restricted Super Bowl Footage on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien 1/21/10

I just said, “He can pull off a Conan.” youtu.be/1q2IYgh_sjo?...

You want to plan a trip to Calgary next spring. ☺️

Big Tech is building massive data centers, and 40% of the planned and existing centers across the US are in areas with "extremely high" or "high" water scarcity.

Mounting evidence points to these data centers exacerbating water shortages across the country.

Cancer vaccines and the future of immunotherapy Vaccines have had a major impact on the control of infectious disease, most recently by helping to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Prophylactic cancer vaccines have prevented several malignancies by pro...

“Vaccines have done more to improve public health than any other medical intervention.”

Cancer vaccines and the future of immunotherapy - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This exciting research gonna be a challenge for the antivaxx community...👆

I love this, we’re going to an event about book covers at the Imaginairium while you’re with us!

Mine too!

I Have No Idea Why I’ve Suddenly Started Thinking About the 1917 Russian Revolution So there I was, minding my own business, when, for some inexplicable reason, I found myself idly thinking about the fall of the Romanov dynasty. Fo...

"For the life of me, I can't tell you what led me to reflect on the moment when Nicholas II lost control over a once-burgeoning empire due to widespread unrest that he himself had a hand in shaping."

Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

Hi Nigel! Thanks so much for joining us. @wordfest.com is here on Bluesky too.

We have the audio. We’ll try to package it!

Corb Lund opens a Wordfest event with a song.

What a wonderful @wordfest.com event with Robert McFarlane for his new book, “Is a River Alive?” Music by Corb Lund, an excellent interview by Kevin van Tighem AND a beautiful opening with the amazing Leroy Little Bear.
Way to go, @youngblut.bsky.social and team! Truly brilliant ❤️

CC0 Photo. A densely packed bookshelf filled with hundreds of books arranged in various orientations—some stacked, some upright—showcasing a mix of genres, including history, thrillers, and literature. The black-and-white image highlights the texture and aged character of the well-used volumes, many of which have Polish titles, hinting at a personal or regional library.

Books are seeds. Shelves are soil. The reader is rain.

It’s the @wordfest version of The Gift of the Maji.

Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau.

He should have been our Prime Minister. Marc Garneau was accomplished, focused, adept, and so very curious.

Thank you, sir, for embodying the best of Canada throughout your too-short time on earth.

📸: David Kotsibie

Criminally tone deaf

@klaszus.bsky.social @drewanderson.bsky.social

Want to know what you should read this summer? Ask a bookseller. Ask a writer. Ask a librarian. Ask a living, breathing human being. Hell, ask me! It's been a while since I've done one of these, so let's do it: one like = one summer reading book rec.

Mark Kingwell: A Good Life: Wherever we go, the music is too loud and makes conversation almost impossible. What do we have to do to get some quiet in our lives? A Good Life is our new advice column in which our philosophical advisors help you navigate everyday dilemmas about romance, career and how best to spend your fleeting time on earth, guiding you out of...

Wherever we go, the music is too loud and makes conversation almost impossible. What do we have to do to get some quiet in our lives? by Mark Kingwell www.thestar.com/opinion/a-go... via @thestar.com

So many writers and editors cite this book as a fave!

Denison Avenue A story told in two parts as a graphic novel and novella, about elderly Wong Cho Sum’s attempt to cope with the death of her husband by taking up bottle and can collecting. Denison Avenue explores the...

Denison Avenue. Trust me. ecwpress.com/products/den...

Do you have a Canadian publisher too?

I once interviewed Burt Reynolds and asked him to name the trio he’d invite to watch the Super Bowl. His immediate answer: Dom DeLuise, Willie Nelson, and Ann-Margret.