iPods were a great product that only died because they couldn't figure out a way to insert ads into your own music.

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

April 12, 1980. "Today is the day it all begins".
46 years ago today at 2:30 pm in St. John's NL, Terry Fox started to run across the country.
"I touched the ocean before I left, up this old dirt road that was impossible to run on."
via @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social

It doesn’t feel like #AroundtheBay without this guy running the #roadrace
#hamont ‘s loss is #K’ómoks gain 🏃 @ronfather.bsky.social

Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion (www.hcci.ca) please offer this again #HamOnt

Glad to see this offered in #HamOnt

#Mamma #Racalmuto #HamOnt 1935-2025

Woman( Kathleen Hanna) laughing in green dress with her hot pink book Rebel Girl superimposed over her right shoulder.

Reading #RebelGirl by @kathleenhanna.bsky.social makes me sentimental for a time when I believed we could win fighting back - now it’s downgraded to #hope

What’s one way we can rein in ICE?

We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty.

Watch.

image from Limerick Leader has clear plastic bottles with tethered red caps

Bottle Caps Should Be ATTACHED To Reduce Plastic #Pollution and Litter? Who knew?!- they are a source of #plastic pollution that can be easily avoided by requiring bottle caps to be ATTACHED to the bottles as the #EuropeanUnion has recently mandated.

Painting of Jesus overturning the moneylenders' tables in the temple. Caption: Newly emerged footage reveals so called "Prince of Peace" Jesus Christ had a violent altercation and damaged propety days before He was executed by the state.

Wow, some fierce memes out there today!

Spell the Month in Books
🩵 📚 #bookchallenge
The idea was created by Reviews from the Stacks.
betweenthelinesbookblog.com

Fifth Business
Everything is Illuminated
Beloved
Regeneration
Utopia
Alias Grace
Rules of Civility
Yellowface

@etfoeducators.bsky.social

Black cloth carry-all bag with words “and still we rise 2006 and image of woman with bird, hands raised to the sun

#AndStillWeRise was 20 years ago for me, it helped direct the #activism that followed in #HamOnt for years afterward. It seems time to go back to this #work now that I’ve lost the most important ’leaves’ on my #FamilyTree

Black cloth carry-all bag with words “and still we rise 2006 and image of woman with bird, hands raised to the sun

#AndStillWeRise was 20 years ago for me, it helped direct the #activism that followed in #HamOnt for years afterward. It seems time to go back to this #work now that I’ve lost the most important ’leaves’ on my #FamilyTree

1 large teal coloured Balloon reading 125 OLA balanced on smaller orange and green balloons.

I have arrived! And I am excited. I think I have waited #25LongYears to get here. #olasuperconference2026 #librairies #booknerd #raisedbylibraries #RIEW

Anti-ICE protests to be held across US as organizers urge national strike Activists call for Friday ‘blackout’ in protest against administration’s violent immigration crackdown Activists are calling for a nationwide shutdown on Friday, advocating “no work, no school, no shopping” in a protest against the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdowns. Organizers say Friday’s “blackout” – or general strike, as some are calling it – is part of a growing non-violent movement to combat ICE’s aggressive enforcement tactics, which have come under renewed scrutiny following a series of fatal shootings involving federal agents. Continue reading...

Anti-ICE protests to be held across US as organizers urge national strike

“I like the peace in the backseat I don’t’ have to drive
I don’t’ have to speak
I can watch the countryside,
And I can fall asleep.
My family tree’s loosing all it’s leaves” - took me 22 years to get it, but I get it now … #ArcadeFire #funeral #InTheBackseat

Amid contentious ICE crackdown, Six Nations urges members to carry ID when travelling in the U.S. The local First Nation is one of several to have issued advisories around travelling south of the border as immigration enforcement efforts escalate.

Amid contentious ICE crackdown, Six Nations urges members to carry ID when travelling in the U.S.

Tired by Langston Hughes.

Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers #poetry

Amazing that this #40yearold #political button pulled out of storage could be a product of today’s political climate and will be understood completely with no context setting needed #CanadaUSrelations

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 30 #OctaviaButler #scifi

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 29 #WaterIsLife @biidaasamose.bsky.social

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 28
#beloved #ToniMorrison #genius

Cover of ‘Nickel and Dimed’ by B Ehrenreich with waitress leaning on counter giving the side eye

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 27 #BarbaraEhrenreich #StillRelevant #poverty

Settlers fear other settlers will steal stolen land In the wake of comments by U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump about making Canada the 51st state, settlers are anxious about the prospect of their stolen land being stolen by another land's settlers. ...

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Facebook friend request from former PM Harper unnerves Indigenous Peoples Tens of thousands of Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples say they’re a little unnerved by a sudden Facebook friend request from former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Many report staring at the ...

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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 26 #ecologicalidentity #AnnPelo #GoodnessofRain #GetOutside

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 25 #RebeccaSolnit #memoir