Tweet of the day……
- Cole Bennett
Read on SubstackFeeling exactly the same way here.
Thanks for the reminder.
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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) July 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Good posts
This necklace traveled roughly 5,000 km before it was ever buried.
It's a Late Bronze Age glass bead necklace, dated to between 1400 and 1100 BC, discovered in a grave in Denmark. But the raw blue glass didn't come from Scandinavia. Chemical analysis traced it back to workshops in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Researchers even matched the glass composition to the same Egyptian workshops that supplied glass for Tutankhamun's own tomb treasures.
A Danish Bronze Age woman was buried wearing glass made for pharaohs.
- Ancient Content
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Whenever you start thinking our society knows everything about everything, consider what we just found out about the Viking "Sunstone" navigation system
I thought this was fascinating
If you’ve been on social media too long, C.S. Lewis’ notion of hell will sound familiar: “We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.”
- Ruth Gaskovski
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Such a different perspective
When I first moved to Mazatlán, I went shopping the way I always had in the United States. I bought everything I needed for the week, filled the refrigerator, and assumed it would all still be there when I was ready to cook it.
But by the next day, things had already started to rot.
Even the celery. I don’t think I had ever seen celery rot in a refrigerator in the US. I had to relearn how to shop and how to cook.
Sinaloa, where I live, is an agricultural state, and much of the produce at the market has traveled just a few miles from the farm. It is picked when it is ripe, which means it tastes incredible, but it also means you have to use it quickly.
That’s why I go to the market almost every day.
When you ask for an avocado, there are only 2 options, today or tomorrow. The vendor asks when you are going to use it and then hands you either, the one for today which is soft like room-temperature butter. Or, the one for tomorrow which is ever-so-slightly firmer.
Most mornings, I head to the market for something specific, and very often that thing is fruit. I eat yogurt and fresh fruit for breakfast every day, and I absolutely adore it. Mangoes, papaya, pineapple, coconuts. Peaches and plums when they are in season. Blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries too. A lot of people don’t realize how many berries are grown in Mexico. Many of the berries in American grocery stores during the winter are grown deep in central Mexico, and they are amazing.
The market most days tells me what I should cook and eat.
If I see a really ripe pineapple, I start thinking about what I can make with it that day. Pineapple and guajillo chiles are one of my favorite combinations: sweet, earthy, and a little spicy. I’ll usually add chicken or shrimp and turn it into a quick, incredibly satisfying guiso.
That is how I shop now. I go to the market looking for one thing, but also look for has just arrived, what is perfectly ripe, and what needs to be cooked that afternoon. And that’s usually dinner.
- Rick Martinez
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Some Odyssey comments
Apparently, there is quite a large number of conservatives who think Homer wrote The Odyssey in Boise, Idaho.
- Sherman Alexie
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Just reread the Odyssey and even though it is 2,700 years old, it's still very much a modern story. A guy goes on a work trip and it takes literal necromancy in the actual underworld before he'll admit he's lost, gets waylaid by hot immortal women, blames the ocean, comes home and murders everyone who hit on his wife. Men have not changed. Bless them.
- maddie rune🪰
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Speaking of funny money
The Bank of Canada once had to ask Canadians to stop doing “Spock” on the $5 bill 🤣😭
📸 Credit MadeInCanada on 𝕏
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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) July 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
So now America will also have a Looney coin!
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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— Cathie from Canada🍁 (@cathiecanada.bsky.social) July 16, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Is anyone surprised?
We live in THE most insane timeline.
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— Craig Peters (@lohaddotcom.bsky.social) July 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
The next time I see a sign at a coffee shop that says, “NO WIFI - PRETEND IT’S THE 90s” I’m going to light up a cigarette inside and see just how committed they are to that premise.
- Lindsey Ulmer
Read on SubstackMy husband and I had five kids—now ages 24 to 31.
Now we have six animals, ages one to 14.
That means I've spent most of the last couple of decades hearing loud crashes from somewhere in the house and yelling, "What the heck are you guys doing in there?!"
The only thing that's changed is who's ignoring me.
- Muirae D Kenney
Read on SubstackI love Bruce Lee because he studied philosophy and literature and still decided that the best form of self-expression is to punch someone in the face.
- Lindsey Ulmer
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Would love a reverse swear jar situation where I put a dollar in and it gives me a new and exciting expletive to use
- Jonathan Edward Durham
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Please avoid all salads, including word.
— Merriam-Webster (@merriam-webster.com) July 15, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Anyone else hesitate to throw away expired medications because what if, someday, after civilization has collapsed, the difference between life and death could be the antibiotic cream I was prescribed three years ago when I cut my toe on a garbage can?
- Alex Pochron
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Read on Substacknot being able to teleport continues to be a huge inconvenience for me
- Allison Ink
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when i get old
i don’t want people saying
“oh, what a nice old lady”
i want them saying
“wtf is she up to now”
- Muffs to Muffins
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Read on Substack - posts about our Prime Minister
PM Carney at Stampede🇨🇦❤️💪
- #Francesk🇨🇦
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TrumpWatch - posts about the world's most anticipated event
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— 𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🫧 (@lepapillonblue.bsky.social) July 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Animal Crackers
Consider the beaver - small but mighty!
Deep inside Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta, Canada, lies the longest beaver dam ever recorded, measuring 850 meters (2,790 feet) long, more than twice the length of the Hoover Dam.
It was first discovered in 2007 by Canadian ecologist Jean Thie while scanning Google Earth imagery for signs of melting permafrost.
Multiple generations of beavers have been building and reinforcing it since the mid-1970s... roughly 50 years.
By flooding small areas of forest, beavers create wetlands that support fish, frogs, ducks, moose, and hundreds of other species. They're nature's most overlooked engineers.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYuMICVAVWU/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlbertaNow/comments/1uvc77s/deep_inside_wood_buffalo_national_park_in/
- Canadian Returnee
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I thought this was fascinating.
A bio-inspired robot crosses paths with a real insect , 400 million years of evolution face to face with human engineering.
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— Digital Brain (@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social) July 18, 2026 at 10:12 AM
You'll be sorry!
“Let’s see what happens if I grab his horn.”
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— 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.lol) July 18, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Next, that dolphin created a marine hedge fund and after the whales invested, she was able to buy the entire Gulfport marina....
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— Sarah Andersen (@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social) July 18, 2026 at 2:30 PM
This is Theodora. She shocked everyone with her athleticism during a relay race. Would like to remind everyone that she is a herding breed and has actually been reaching these speeds for thousands of years. 13/10 (TT: rundownriver)
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— WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) July 14, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Happy Dog 😊
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— ContempraInn 🌹 (@contemprainn.bsky.social) July 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM
World Cup Stories
Wow, wasn't that a game on Saturday? England 6-France 4
Do they have a mercy rule in soccer?
— Luke LeBrun (@lukelebrun.ca) July 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
As for the final, I am really hoping Spain wins because I am that petty, to know how annoyed Trump would be to give the trophy to Spain.
The Richter Scale Awaits
The world is currently gripped by one great scientific question: exactly how loud will the booing be when Trump waddles onto the pitch at the World Cup final? My money says it registers on the Richter scale. Somewhere in Geneva, a seismologist will look up from his instruments and ask why New Jersey is experiencing an earthquake with a distinctly human voice.
He is, of course, expecting adoration. The man believes ninety thousand football fans from every corner of the planet have flown in to see him. They have not. They have come to watch the one sport America still hasn’t figured out, hosted in a country half of them needed a visa miracle to enter.
And surely none of you attending would dream of booing! Nah! You’re not that kind of people, are you? Especially not the Spaniards, who get insulted by Trump on a near-daily basis because Sánchez looks at him and sees exactly what he is: a tiny little cry baby. No, they’ll be perfectly quiet. Just a polite, tiny, stadium-wide, glass-shattering boo. For science, you understand. Purely for science.
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- Gandalv
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And in other sports news, the
Tour de France is on also, so at least France still has something to cheer about:
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