Bridget Stirling

Bridget Stirling

@bridgetstirling.bsky.social

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University of Alberta PhD candidate exploring the politics of childhood and education and the temporality of childhood.

Lover of travel, books, cats, music, coffee, and plants. Keeper of too many shoes.

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At least the Australians have democracy sausages. We get to shuffle around a school gym and then go home to watch the CBC coverage and try not to fall asleep. Our biggest tradition is watching the election be largely decided by the time the polls close in BC.

this is just glorious. I would attribute this to the Parliamentary system except in both Canada and Oz we let the candidates go back to their offices and have drinks and nibblies with their supporters, like cowards, instead of forcing them to hang out with the mad local competition in their ridings

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Attaboy

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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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Omg Elton John puppet man is sending me

There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

I nominate RexLibris to anchor all future election night broadcasts for Canada.

From what I've gathered, the new PM is, effectively, a turnip, which is superior to the other candidates who were, respectively, a week-old half-eaten train-station pasty, a rotten parsnip, and an boiled egg in congealed aspic.

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Like if you have achieved hot dog nirvana. Repost if you are still on the noble hot dog eightfold path

Same.

Part of a good thread that illustrates why I don’t hang out on Twitter/X anymore

Of course the guy who goes all out defending his choice to use slurs against the baddies if he feels like it also says he won't take any radical action. So basically, calling names and voting are enough to stop fascism? Good lord, save us from the online "resistance."

Definitely feels like a better fit than Alchemist, even if I am very not religious.

You have challenged fate and rerolled the dice. You may do so only once more

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social reroll

See also: why you should actually do the research and vote for school board. The people who end up on boards have immense power over the lives of children. The far right knows that education can reshape a whole society. You should see that too!

This is almost word for word what I tell students. Even if you’ve been disillusioned by what’s happening at the state and federal level, you need to get out and shore up your local politics.

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"British Experience" is written on the side of a damaged vessel in Barbados, which was affected by unprecedented Category 5 hurricane Beryl. In a way, we are all living this British experience that began with the industrial age. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this

Nobody saw this coming.

BREAKING: Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.

Anti-settlement group says Israel has made largest West Bank land seizure in 3 decadesapnews.com An anti-settlement watchdog says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades.

Friends, that person posting saying they don't know what all the watermelons are about is very obviously disingenuous and knows exactly what they're doing. Don't waste your energy and push their anti-Palestinian garbage into other people's feeds by replying. Blockity block block.

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this cup should give any proper philosopher of history, or any historian really, aneurisms. where can i buy one

My wife bought me a new mug. 🗃️

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Profs feeling threatened by cancel culture from student: have you ever given students meaningful grace in dealing with /their/ mistakes? Or acknowledged harm they are pointing out to you, and sought grace yourself (rather than reiterating your noble intent)?

One of the weirdest bits of online call-out culture.

Me: This is bad Agitated People: You’re not sufficiently upset about it, you’re not saying explicitly enough how bad it is to meet my emotional needs, I am going to stand here and soil myself while maintaining eye contact until you are as emotive as I am

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the internet

The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goeswww.npr.org The brain appears to rely on synchronized waves to wash out waste products, including toxins associated with Alzheimer's disease.

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motion to replace the saying "I've got a bridge to sell you" with "Gaza aid pier"

Everytime Bluesky has a major drama, I discover people whose politics I may somewhat agree with but who get a preemptive block for being complete dickheads.

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Okayyyyyy you asked for lots of hard to draw stuff and I made a lot of nightmare fuel from those requests. In the end, we have 3 deep sea creatures that would prefer that we collectively do NOT destroy their homes via deep sea mining. Try recycling maybe, they say.

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"It looked like a toaster for a divorced giant."

I Would Like To Put Lunchmeat On The Cybertruck | Defectordefector.com I saw my first Tesla Cybertruck in person a couple weeks ago. I’d driven my family into an outer satellite town of D.C., well outside our normal circuits, and there it was, around the corner from us i...

I can't say that I'm terribly shocked by any of this, but it's surprising that one of them said it out loud. The denials are also pretty dubious. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

TC Energy executive resigns after video boasting of covert lobbying tacticsnationalpost.com The executive has resigned after videos were made public of him appearing to reveal the energy giant’s tactics to lobby Canadian governments.

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The Bridge. Content done with The Biking Lawyer.

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bestest borb #MakeATerribleComicDay2024 🪶

Ok apparently it's Make a Terrible Comic Day. So here's my entry for #makeaterriblecomicday2024

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My tv remote is doing a software update. We have strayed so far from God’s light

I've been able to determine how long it is until game time by the increasing frequency of honking vehicles throughout the day. Yes, it started this morning.

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if we had caught wind of Saddam’s Republican Guard doing shit like this even once it would have been paraded across the evening news repeatedly as proof of the regime’s brutality and a justification for war

“Israeli army forces strapped a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military Jeep during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday. A video showed a Palestinian resident of Jenin, Mujahed Azmi, on the Jeep that passes two ambulances.”

Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian man to hood of military jeepapple.news Verified video shows Jenin resident Mujahed Azmi on vehicle that passes two ambulances during raid

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Pleased to formally announce that our research team has constructed an extreme edge-case hypothetical in which your post from yesterday is not entirely correct