“Be strong, be gentle, be beautiful in mind, body & spirit” — Keiko Fukuda

Joined October 2008
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Blast from the past ❤️🇨🇦
I should be sleeping but I fucked around and mistakenly clicked on a link I wasn't even interested in and went down the most insane rabbit hole and now I know everything about Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue and their 22 years of figure skating together and how they are both straight and married to other people but Scott still worships her in interviews and Scott and Tessa even have a book together called Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold which is like $13.37 for the hard cover but $7.45 for the paperback and gosh have you seen how they hold each other in cover photo, but anyway, you know Scott went and married another skater-turned-physician assistant called Jaclyn so it wasn't that he didn't want to marry a skater and even crazier, on the day Scott and Jaclyn were getting married Scott admitted to talking too much about Tessa even though Tessa was somehow not invited to the wedding or was invited and chose not to go, who knows, then like shortly after Tessa went and married an NHL player Morgan and now both Scott and Tessa have kids with their respective partners and there are people with social media accounts dedicated to waiting for Scott and Tessa to divorce Jaclyn and Morgan so they can finally get married and people have done videos with clips from interviews over 20 years where Tessa is looking at him the way I looked at the first copy of my first book when it arrived and I was finally able to tear it out of the carton with too much padding, and gosh have you seen the way they held each other each time they won a medal and I know I should be sleeping or working or finding a Valentine but I was breathless the whole time I was reading this shit and I don't think I will ever be the same again so I thought I must share this and the cover photo of their $13.37/$7.45 book with you so you see what the hell I have been dealing with.
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Oh, be careful, Merriam-Webster, lest we suffer vertigo from the dizzying heights of our lexical ground.
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21 Jul 2025
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
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RT @avilewis: My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and…
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Poor Francis must be kerning in his grave
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I agree. We do ourselves a disservice when we use AI. It may produce results, but we skip the opportunity to use our thinking and writing skills.
4 May 2025
It’s a mistake to outsource most writing to AI. Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas. Writing is where we do our best thinking.
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Chantal Hebert is a national treasure.
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Lots written about Poilievre's restrictions on the press, but I'm not sure the public knows that local Conservative candidates across the board are refusing interviews. I wrote about why that's a problem. thelocal.to/conservative-par…
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“For generations, our trade agreements w the United States have recognized the exceptional cultural & educational value of literature by keeping books tariff-free…Books are not mere commodities but essential vehicles of knowledge, culture &understanding.” thespec.com/business/impendi…
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At work, men can be disliked but still respected. Women don't have that luxury.
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A sign of maturity is caring more about being respected than being liked. Liking is shallow affection. It comes from being pleasant—you bend over backwards to accommodate others. Respect is deep regard. It's earned by being principled—you consistently stand up for your values.
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Our front page today. Happy 181st birthday to Canada's national newspaper.
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23 Feb 2025
"A new Scottish tartan has been created to honor the thousands of people—primarily women—executed for witchcraft in Scotland between the 16th and 18th centuries.” wildhunt.org/2025/02/newly-a… #folkloresunday
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Acceptance isn't resignation and it's the actual opposite of passivity. It is willingness, a choice to engage with what is. Many times that means choosing to remain open to pain or suffering, even when it is difficult.
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Someone asked what do about the growing number of unhoused using the Toronto library system and I deeply appreciate the top voted answer is a staffer giving a very firm, kind, and complete response.
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4 Feb 2025
I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵
Can you think of a Canadian product that’s better than an American one? Honestly curious.
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Beyonce tears up in this interview after winning "AOTY" at the Grammy's #GRAMMYs
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1 Feb 2025
#Imbolc is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring, held on 1 February. A time of celebration and ritual, often honouring Brighid, the goddess of the hearth Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Snowdrop, 1777 #WomensArt
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14 Jan 2025
"The robber barons of old built railroads and monopolies; today’s tech barons shape reality itself. If we fail to hold them accountable, the price will be not just economic inequality, but the very fabric of democracy...a cost we cannot afford to pay." theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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RT @cancersociety: During Joe Rogan’s podcast on January 9, Mel Gibson promoted drugs that are not scientifically proven cancer treatments.…

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