Appalbarry

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Writer, Nova Scotia and France. Barry’s writing is focused on how people live, and how the environment around them influences their choices.
Clips at: https://appalbarry.com/
Blog at : https://www.threesquirrels.ca/

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The Plain Croissant Is Still the Best Croissant www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/d...

The Plain Croissant Is Still the Best Croissantwww.nytimes.com In an era of extreme lamination and viral hybrid pastries, the original model remains an absolute marvel.

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I'm saving America now. Even though I'm a broke Black anarchist in the ghetto. My platform? Defunding the Pentagon, & we're giving it all to the post office & libraries. So vote for me, because I won't do genocide or have a white supremacist coup, though I have challenges with executive function.

Why it's a lie when people say "It's the same everywhere." open.substack.com/pub/echapper...

It's the Same Everywhereopen.substack.com Yet another Great Lie

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If you wanna know why JD Vance sucks ass there is no better place to start.

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BRB. Going to change the name of the school I teach at so Doug Ford and the Cons care what happens there. #DougFordIsCorrupt #OpenForBoozeness #NeverVoteConservative

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The Left Hand of Darkness comes in at #6 in Esquire's updated list of the 75 best science fiction books of all time

The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Timewww.esquire.com See if your favorites made our expanded list.

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Read this and listen to people from Appalachia on how to fight back against grifters like JD Vance

Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...

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JD Vance is particularly odious to me because we’re roughly the same age and from the same part of Ohio and I grew up with a hundred pasty, squishy faced white dudes like him & they’re all convinced they’re marginalized because you can’t smoke at Waffle House or say the n-word anymore

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are you even a nerd if you don't have a box of random wires to devices that don't exist anymore?

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What happens to a largely US-controlled internet after fascism? I'm hoping we don't find out, but do these now, not later: - Make sure that you have ways to contact your core groups outside of social media. - Back up everything you don't want to lose online.

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Oh by the way, this a great time to read writers with roots in Appalachia who aren't J. D. Vance. I grew in North Carolina, my novel concerns New Orleans, Alabama, & Atlanta, but it's a way better read for y'all than HILLBILLY ELLEGY. Get it from my neighborhood bookstore here. Y'all welcome.

None But the Righteous a book by Chantal Jamesbookshop.org Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction "[A] profound de...

Just as there is no such thing as a squirrel-proof bird feeder, there is also seemingly little chance of #NovaScotia's governments properly supporting health care. www.threesquirrels.ca/p/nothing-is...

Nothing is Squirrel Proof!www.threesquirrels.ca Seriously, nothing.

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Canadian LNG is at best a risky gamble Why aren't considering the worst case scenario when discussing more BC LNG? Why only the rosy, unrealistic best case? If things go wrong, it will be taxpayers picking up the tab. energi.media/energi-notes...

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He might be our greatest poster

I have been given a squirrel-proof bird feeder.

@molly.wiki Sigh.

30 years ago: don't believe everything you see on the internet! today: CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU SAYS I CAN DOUBLE MY MONEY WITH CRYPTO!

'It's scary': 3 Ontario men lose $373,000 to crypto investment fraudtoronto.ctvnews.ca Three men across Ontario are speaking out after losing hundreds of thousands of dollars to a cryptocurrency investment scam, including one man in Brampton who lost $226,000.

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Wow you actually tracked that down. LOZ that's so cool. That's the actual recording of my conversation of my virtual launch of my novel at the bookstore Sankofa with Nikky Finney that y'all can actually see on youtube here, we had a great convo.

nikky & chantal in conversation hosted by sankofa books, 2022.

None but the Righteous Book Release w/Author Chantal Jameswww.youtube.com Sankofa Video & Books is happy to host the book release of DC's own, Chantal James. Her novel, NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS drops 11.01.22 and has garnered early p...

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So... Who wants a centuries-old US-Canadian border dispute basically kept alive by a single family in Maine involved in a bird-watching tour? ;) ...which also includes a Civil War dodger who claimed to have punched a horse to death. @tkingfisher.com getpocket.com/explore/item...

The Man Who Went to War With Canadagetpocket.com For centuries, the United States and Canada’s only remaining land border dispute has been kept alive by a single family.

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July 11, 1990: The Kanesatake Resistance (Oka Crisis) began. When a golf course expansion was planned onto a Mohawk burial ground, it led to a 78-day standoff between First Nations, RCMP and the Armed Forces. Click to learn more 👇 canadaehx.com/2020/08/22/t...

The Kanesatake Resistancecanadaehx.com Shani Komulainen photo Donate to Canadian History Ehx at Today, I am looking at the Kanesatake Resistance which began on July 11, 1990 and lasted for 78 days until Sept. 26. Over the course of thos…

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A message from Frenchy's.

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Writers: Challenge the agreement/contract that your publishers present you with. They'll start off saying this is our contract, take it or leave it, but it's negotiable. Every contract is. 'Boilerplate' means this is where you start, not where you finish. And learn what 'subsidiary rights' means.

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The S.S. Terf departs from Halifax today.

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Happy 100th birthday to New York's public-radio station WNYC! Stream its on-air birthday party, hosted by Brian Lehrer, with historical audio clips presented by station archivist Andy Lanset at wnyc.org

VIA Rail. Thought I'd look at fares for a Halifax to Vancouver trip. Thus far have been defeated. Sure do like their "accessible" train schedule though. Wednesday? Friday? I think?

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I tried to post the clip from Casablanca where they sing La Marseillaise on Facebook and this happened

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Also, immigrants produced this victory. The actual people who produced this victory were the West Africans & North Africans in France who banded together to fight the far right threat. It's not the time for white people to do their happy smiley let's celebrate revolutionary French people thing.

Notice France didn’t “reject identity” Didn’t bargain Didn’t deride concerns about imperialism Didn’t treat concerns about inequality as grudges didn’t say soft voice bullshit Protect immigrants Feed babies TAX THE RICH

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Please go follow and support folks like @chantalalive.bsky.social, @shengokai.bsky.social, and @wagatwe.com for community insight and informed commentary on issues that affect the Black community; I learn a lot by following their feeds and am grateful they share their perspectives.

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I’m old enough to have made ashtrays for my parents as a school project.

Still a classic...