Jason Haslam

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McCulloch Professor, Dalhousie English and Gender & Women’s Studies, focussing on Science Fiction, the Gothic, & Prison Studies. I take pictures of birds for reasons that are beyond me. He/him

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Libs need to tone down the rhetoric

Have we memory-holed a Trump-endosed, Republican gubernatorial nominee saying "some folks need killing" from [checks notes] a few weeks ago already? www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ‘Some folks need killing’: North Carolina Lt. Gov takes Christian nationalism to dangerous lowwww.msnbc.com Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show how seamlessly Christian nationalists can glide into promoting real violence.

Aaaand, the classified documents case against Trump has been thrown out. Cue a lengthy appeal process before it gets thrown out by the Supreme Court (even if Trump is unable to pardon himself). The coup happened; Jan 6 was only part of the advertising campaign.

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Happy Shark Awareness Day! Don’t forget to leave a bucket of chum out for Jacques Cousteau before you go to bed tonight.

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It's incredibly sad that we've all lost out on such a vital and effective self-promo tool, but simultaneously, it's validating to know that, no, it's not just me. Twitter/X is utterly useless, now. Broken beyond repair. boringstorybook.com/break-up-wit...

Break up with your X. – INCREDIBLY BORING STORIESboringstorybook.com

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Ever get overwhelmed with the myriad nightmares we've created for ourselves to plague our collective existence? You ever wish you were like, idk, an abyssal sea cucumber? Join me to explore the lives of the denizens of the deep to escape... all this for a bit. www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/...

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let’s all remember who the truest enemy is: the passage of time. it used to be 1996. even 1998! but nooooooooo we just decided to the let the ball keep rolling and now it’s 2024 and no one is happy at all. time: not even once.

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There’s nothing in the rules of Monopoly that says you can’t flip the board over and punch your opponent in the mouth. But if someone did that, they’d be out of the game forever. What Trump did was far, far worse. And everyone’s still just… sitting at the table, letting him play.

There’s a presidential candidate who organized a coup on live TV and was recently convicted of dozens of felonies for something entirely separate, and the political system is demanding his opponent step down.

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Imagine looking at one million acres of land and pristine fresh water, with no motor vehicles, no development, one of only 13 dark sky sanctuaries in the world and saying…this should be a mine.

Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining. This is the future Donald John Trump wants.

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This is the secret room where all the takes are coming from

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‘Best of the worst options’: Council approves nine sites in Halifax, Dartmouth for encampments Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

'Best of the worst options': Council approves nine sites in Halifax, Dartmouth for encampments - Halifax Examinerwww.halifaxexaminer.ca Four current sites are overcapacity.

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‘Best of the worst options’: Council approves nine sites in Halifax, Dartmouth for encampments www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c... by @suzannerent.bsky.social

'Best of the worst options': Council approves nine sites in Halifax, Dartmouth for encampments - Halifax Examinerwww.halifaxexaminer.ca Four current sites are overcapacity.

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My new audio-drama, out now! A global, SF action/political thriller about the first combat between Russian and NATO forces launched from competing platforms in low-Earth orbit, with WW3 hanging in the balance. Top Gun meets The Right Stuff. global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcement...

Random House Audio’s EARTHLIGHT Will Transport You, Hear from the Producers Behind the Audiobookglobal.penguinrandomhouse.com We are excited to introduce EARTHLIGHT, a thrilling new audiobook from Random House Audio. Created by J. Michael Straczynski, the mastermind...

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one time I was walking in lower Manhattan and a guy stopped at a light asked me if I knew where Laight Street was and I said no and he said “well can you take a fucking guess” and I’ve been thinking about that ever since

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Long-eared Owl flying through a cloud of mosquitos at sunset (which is around 10:45 pm in South of Finland atm). 🪶🦉🇫🇮 #Birds #owls

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Celebrating 10 years of the Halifax Examiner with highlights from each year www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Celebrating 10 years of the Halifax Examiner with highlights from each year - Halifax Examinerwww.halifaxexaminer.ca Come to our party!

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I was distracted and forgot to post @philmoscovitch.bsky.social's Morning File today: Buy tickets for the Tattoo, have your credit card number stolen www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Buy tickets for the Tattoo, have your credit card number stolen - Halifax Examinerwww.halifaxexaminer.ca At least Ticketmaster had figured out a decent system for buying and selling tickets online, but even that is crap now.

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One of French Guiana's loveliest and strangest birds is the Ferruginous-backed Antbird. I watched this pair duetting along a fallen trunk at Camp Bonaventure a few days ago. #Birds

A few pictures from Belcher's Marsh in #Halifax. #Wildlife #Deer #Beavers #Birds

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“Labour is planning to introduce Automatic voter registration (AVR), which exists in several European countries..on top of planned reforms already announced…Together, they could significantly shake up the voting franchise” www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Labour to bring in automatic voter registration under plans to boost franchisewww.theguardian.com Exclusive: Party’s voting reform proposals could add millions more people to electoral roll for future polls

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One of the great charms of a British election are the "Silly" candidates. That's why there are pictures of the new PM shaking hands with Giant Elmo after the result was announced. It would be really annoying if Reform ruin that.

Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real peoplewww.theguardian.com Doubt raised about election hopefuls who stood without providing photos, biographies or contact details

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Read about the journey down the yellow brick road that led co-editors Mark I. West & Dina Schiff Massachi to editing their very own Broadview Edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz! pages.charlotte.edu/mark-west/bl...

Storied Charlotte – Storied Charlottepages.charlotte.edu I first met Dina Schiff Massachi about ten years ago while she was pursuing her M.A. degree in English at UNC Charlotte. In addition to taking several graduate courses from me, she worked with me on a directed reading project dealing with feminist utopias in American literature. As part of this project, she studied the feminist themes that run through several of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books. In the years since then, Dina has gone from being one of my graduate students to becoming a professional colleague of mine, but our shared interest in Baum’s Oz series has continued unabated.

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Is there such a thing as hope-posting? If not, maybe it's time. Because there are good, hoipeful tings happening out there. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Chemical recycling’: 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful moleculeswww.nature.com Fast fashion creates millions of tonnes of waste each year — could clever chemistry help to tackle the problem? Fast fashion creates millions of tonnes of waste each year — could clever chemistry help...

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in light of today’s results, this quote from last week stands out

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

Hopefully it’s not yet too late for #cdnpse take heed: “The article is a warning to policy-makers to beware the free-market fantasies and self-serving scenarios that these consultancy firms advocate.”

#cdnpse www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Management consultants and university futures: Academic capitalism and the capture of UK public higher educationwww.tandfonline.com This article shows how management consultancy firms, particularly the Big Four, leveraged their position to become key brokers in English higher education, expanding their influence across multiple...

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#cdnpse www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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District 7 Update – Be Prepared in the face of a busy hurricane season, housing & homelessness update, more #nspoli #halifax #halisky wayemason.ca/2024/07/08/d...

District 7 Update – Be Prepared in the face of a busy hurricane season, housing & homelessness update, morewayemason.ca Pictured above – the last overpass in Cogswell has been removed, and Barrington Street is being levelled. In this issue My Council Update includes info on emergency preparedness in the face o…

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Our flag got torn down yesterday, it's up today For a while I naively thought we were past much of the hate and I didn't feel the need to do something like fly a flag. Then my LGBTQ+ friend had their flag torn off their home. I will keep putting this up to support her and everyone in the community

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Ever wondered where the first ever stars came from? www.sciencefocus.com/comment/jame... 🔭🧪

Here’s how we're understanding the origins of the first stars in the Universewww.sciencefocus.com The James Webb Space Telescope is helping us learn more about the formation of the earliest stars in the Universe.

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DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS btw

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And the fact that the piece didn't even mention that northern Idaho has been regarded as a haven for neo-Nazis and white supremacists since the Aryan Nations set up shop there in the 1970s is just a gobsmacking omission.

I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper