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Matthew James Didier

@3rdyork.ca
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Left-of-centre Canadian, Autistic, 1812 Reenactor, French/Welsh/Scots/Métis heritage (the disliked Eastern Métis so that & a bus ticket & I can ride the subway) IT pro since '87. MSC World Europa is my spiritual 2nd home. Doing my best to amuse. He/Him/It

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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 23/09/2026
Gimme a hand here... How many more voting days will US Congress be voting on things? Oh... I see... well, okay, next session, who will be likely in charge of the US Congress? OH! So it'll be THEIR fault! Gotcha!
Image of the man I call Temu (meaning cheap knock-off) Ceaușescu (the infamous Romanian dictator left over from the Soviet era,) and/or Temu Saparmurat Niyazov (the infamous Turkmenistan dictator of just-post Soviet era who put up statues to himself, dictated the colour of cars, and even infamously renamed the months of the year after his own family members,) standing in front of the White House with his hand raised, looking stern... the text on the image says, "Trump says the $5,000 dividend for every American adult will happen, though it still requires congressional approval".
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 19/09/2026
Probably truth to this, but not ENTIRELY historical... not entirely...
The "Train Colliding with Schoolbus" two part meme. The top image showing the bus trying to race across the path of the train. The bus shows an image of Trump making physical fun of a disabled reporter
The text on the bus says, "Americans trying to annex Canada". The second image, showing the train barreling through and knocking the bus out of the way without effort, shows the European Union flag, with text reading, "Germany wanting to be on Canada's side in the next world war."
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 17/09/2026
TIMELINE CLEANSE! H/T to @pawparazziresort on Instagram
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 17/09/2026
Screenshot from Reddit's r/EhBuddyHoser group from user InspectorExact3836, the text says, "Planned MY EU road trip this winter." Showing a route from Heidelberg to Lisbon to Stratford to Brussels to Dublin to Zurich to London to Copenhagen to Vienna and ending in Paris... all of which are towns and cities, legitimately, in South-Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 15/09/2026
Image of Seth Rogan with the following quote: "As a Jew, I've been fed lies about Israel my entire life. They never told me Palestinians lived there. Israel is ridiculous and nonsensical, built on ethnic cleansing and genocide." - Jewish actor Seth Rogan
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 14/09/2026
"Why do many Americans pretend to be Canadian when travelling?" Could be that a small amount of Americans REALLY screw up the perception of the entire culture like a weird 'flex', but hey, I'm Canadian so what do I know? According to Reddit, they arrived like his on Sept 11th in Halifax, NS.
Screenshot from Instagram... (Edited Names Out - Leaving Faces because in Canada, you're in a public space, your face can be photographed... sorry...) Two couples(?) looking middle-aged-ish standing in an airport terminal, two women, two men, but all wearing blue sweatshirts emblazoned with the words, "Lake America".  They apparently flew into Halifax, Nova Scotia, like this... I guess they see the fact no one pounded the crap out of them for being irritating as a sign we're weak and acquiesce to the mighty America... TIP: Never mistake polite behaviour for weakness... it's a very bad idea.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 09/09/2026
Screenshot from Reddit's r/EhBuddyHoser... an image of a small corner of a stone in-earth grave, a note is visible along with small lighter, and a small brown "thing"... not sure what it is either, but it's smaller than the note and seemingly irrelevant?... ANYWAY, the text says (about the image,) "Someone left a note -- and a lighter -- on the on the Halifax grave of Maj-Gen. Robert Ross, the British military man who ordered the troops to burn the White House"... the note says, on white paper with black ink, "General Ross, Thank you for your service. You are needed again. RIP"
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 05/09/2026
Still altered from Family Guy where Noah, of "Ark" fame, is looking at an elephant - labelled in the case, "metric", and a penguin - labelled in this case, "imperial", and gesturing to an elephant-headed creature with a penguin's body simply labelled with the Canadian Flag, asking "That the hell is this?"
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 05/09/2026
No comment necessary... the head-scratching stupidity of everyone who believes ENDING trade with Canada (or anyone) is a good idea that will save the US money is enough to say it all...
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 03/09/2026
{{Serious Blushes}}
Screen shot from Reddit r/alignmentchartfills showing the flags of the world in their global alignment... with Canada being selected as the world's most loved country.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 02/09/2026
Is it just me, or does this SEEM to be a memorial for Liberty... born 1776 and deceased in 2026... with Temu Ceaușescu glowering over it?
Twit from the United States Mint, showing the new "2026 President Donald J. Trump Coin"... apparently, they are in circulation and indeed, it really DOES look like a "birth-death" date on the coin.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 22/08/2026
...and Oceana Cruise Lines begins "maple washing"... Good for you being first out of the gate! I sail with MSC Cruise Lines... headquartered in Italy, owned by a Swiss company... just sayin'.
Instagram ad for Oceana Cruises... which is now accepting Canadian "at par".  Norwegian Cruise Lines is an American owned and run company out of Miami-Dade Florida.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 19/08/2026
Yeah, it's a novella from me as an "image post" from Bluesky... but I needed to RANT after listening to a Democratic Strategist being interviewed discussing how only MODERATE Democrats have a chance of winning... it's something they need to consider... I'll post the ACTUAL post(s) below.
"One of the things that US politicians & their keepers may need to address is how the younger generations (& SOME of the older ones,) KNOW about the rest of the world from chatting online. They see how the world feels about America right now (not exactly "#1" any more at all,) & more importantly, what good governance can deliver in terms of what tax dollars CAN do for the public. Things like healthcare...  They know that when they hear/read someone say things like, "The Canadian health care system KILLS MORE PEOPLE THEN IT HELPS!!!", it's nonsense & CDNs are generally healthier, have less infant mortality, & live longer. "Europoors are taxed to DEATH!!!", they know that the same "Europoors" are happier, healthier, & have the same rights & freedoms as they do... & both Canada & Europe have the occasional billionaire in their ranks... so that Euro/Canadian "communist/socialist" lie about not being able to achieved fiscal greatness seems a bit odd.They know that comments/statements like the ones quoted above are from uneducated/wilfully ignorant folks - or internet sock puppets - because they CHAT UP Canadians & Europeans frequently in real time.They don't buy that "private enterprise" cares about their wellbeing at all ahead of public services... so good luck convincing them that bunches of their money NEED to go to the Ellison's, Musk, & The Trumps along with sundry oil companies as they are "job creators"... they know what those jobs are WHEN they even happen... & funds are not needed for schools or hospitals. They KNOW what could be done by a government from what they see from Europeans & Canada... & that's why they are shifting left in the US... or possibly just indifferent to things & unlikely to be politically active even in terms of voting. You will not be able to convince them that unfettered/unregulated crony capitalism is "freedom" & "patriotism" & that will need to be addressed along with some other issues in the next VERY short term."
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 18/08/2026
Via: NowThatsCanadian on Instragram...
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 28/07/2026
If you're Canadian, you likely understand this...
Two frame thing from Twitter. The top frame shows the image where a British spy in WWII Germany gave away his cover by holding up three fingers incorrectly (in Germany) to order three drinks. There is a quote from the original image - below - stating "on the 401 heading south" as the image and statement gave away the post is likely not from a Canadian or anywhere near legitimate, as it shows a moving van and U-Haul trailer, and on the back of the trailer, in what appears to be red spray paint, are the words, "Bye Canada! 4 more taxpayers Not funding your bad ideas!" The commenting text says, "Friends from Toronto sent me this. Apparently this was seen on the 401 heading south this past week." The 401 rather famously in much of Canada and all of Ontario is well known to be an East/West highway.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 23/07/2026
I wonder if Mr. Noth knows about the software kill switch in the F-35 that Canada will hopefully NOT buy.
Political Comic: Two men in business suits are looking at a line of fighter jets. One chap says, "The enemies of America will know that we mean business when we sell them a fleet of these sweet babies."
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 18/07/2026
Just so we know the area Temu {Election of 2020 LOSER} Ceaușescu feels Canada should be "raking" up. There are roughly 880 wildfires burning in Canada total. 190 of those are in Ontario. If anyone thinks this is a "quick fix", feel free to "quick fix" climate change and we'll get right on it.
Map of Ontario's Forest Regions... with a shadow-map of Texas overtop for scale for Americans... You can fit 1 and a half Texases into Ontario and still have room for Long Island in there in terms of square miles/kilometres... but sure, we'll start raking up shortly.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 18/07/2026
Gleaned from Reddit...
From Reddit's r/AntiTrumpAlliance...

A Florida airport is officially named for Trump. If you fly from DJT to Sioux City Iowa your ticket will say DJT-SUX.

With the post is an image (sorry, it's AI generated,) of a bag with a luggage tag saying, "DJT SUX".
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 16/07/2026
Two images, top and bottom... Top image is Syrio Forel from Game of Thrones, posed with a broken sword on the attack, with the caption, "What do we say to the god of death?", the lower image is from Monty Python's The Holy Grail where the plague cart driver is picking up the dead. In the scene, a man tries to load a not-quite-dead-yet fellow into the cart, and the man protests... and the caption, from the not-quite-dead chap is, "I don't want to go on the cart!"
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 06/07/2026
I think one of the reasons I like Jeff Douglas' "We Are Canadian!" video is that at one point, he shows a famed image from the Oka Crisis as he rants out, "ARE WE PERFECT? NO!" while the rest of the video is pretty "Woohoo! CANADA!" Canadians know we're not perfect and that's okay. When we screw up, we try to do better next time. No one calls the FIFA president to demand the removal of the "red card" so we don't look like we're no #1... just sayin'.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 02/07/2026
Now, unless his next words were, "...and straight into my pocket. Why involve a middle-man?", I would take this as seriously as when I tell you that THIS will be the year I swear off desserts.
Photo of war criminal and convicted corrupt fraudster, Bibi NetinYahoo-oo! with the headline, "Netenyahu announces that he want to end US aid to Israel".
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 01/07/2026
Well, I missed that... granted, wasn't looking for it... but now, will see nothing but... granted, I never attended the American school system, so I have that excuse.
Another screencap from Twitter about Trump's silly Golden Eagle attached to the Whitehouse like a leftover from the Wehrmacht... USe @dyllyp noticed... "11 stars for the Confederate states instead of 13 for the original colonies is a detail most Americans won't notice because of our public school system."
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 30/06/2026
Yeah, I'm not alone... Via Insta...
Via The.Droobie - Images of Temu Ceaușescu's eagle... and underneath, indeed, a Wehrmacht gold eagle... and yeah, they are close in their look... his verbiage is, "Pretty hard to NOT ZEE the resemblance."
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 30/06/2026
Just sayin'...
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 30/06/2026
Every time this turdwaffle does crap like this, I see the images of the fall of Berlin in WWII and watching the soldiers gleefully toppling the old symbolic statues and such...
A screencap from Temu Ceaușescu's Twitter showing a gaudy gold eagle thing stapled onto the side of the White House... very Wehrmacht reminiscent...
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 30/06/2026
Two completely unrelated - at least according to The (current) Premier of Alberta, Mildred Gillars, and the other separatists out there - news stories presented as "number one and two" on my browser's Google News page.
Screenshot from my web browser showing Google News... top two stories... "A heat wave is set to scorch much of Canada..."  Second right below that? "Alberta to unveil West Coast pipeline proposal on Thursday..."
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 29/06/2026
Well, when you THINK about it...
Photo of a dairy shelf somewhere with "1776 Aged Cheddar" on sale at $6.99 each... packaged in red, white, or blue... packaging resembles stars... sign says, "Product of U.K".
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 29/06/2026
Screenshot from Twitter via @MiddleAgeRiot... "Russia - 'Trump is my bitch.', Israel - 'No, Trump is my bitch.', Iran - 'No, Trump is my bitch.", Algae in the reflecting pool - 'No...'"
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 28/06/2026
So, looking at the scores in the World Cup today, I'm guessing Elon "Failure at the Goth Clubs" Musk will be calling Temu Ceaușescu to threaten making us the 51st state again or worse?
South Park Still... from Canada... during a celebration where the text says, "It's a great day for Canada, and therefore the world."
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 17/06/2026
My morning LOL today (so far)...
Screen cap from Reddit... r/signs ... it's a photo of a weird billboard that reads, "Jesus is the answer... no matter what the question." and user NativeMasshole responded rightly with, "Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?"
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 13/06/2026
Do NOT go on their New Year's Eve cruise... I mean, you'll be evidence of those who did not learn from history...
Ad on Instagram for Poseidon Expeditions who's logo features what appears to be a passenger ship.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 08/06/2026
Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien... still got it.
Grabbed from Reddit's r/ehbuddyhoser... Screencap of CBC News Live of the swearing in of the new Governor General of Canada... Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien is being interviewed....

"When you look at the polls, Canadians have never been more united. Thank you to Donald Trump for that. I should propose him for the Order of Canada, but I cannot succeed. Do you know why?" CBC Reported: "He's not Canadian?" Chretien: "Because we don't give it to a person who has a criminal record."
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 08/06/2026
So either 25,000 random suckers will get a passport that screams, "Hey, foreign land! Look! It's the asshole you hate we elected twice! Say thank you for my visit!" or worse, 25,000 idiots will apply to have that privilege on purpose.
Screencap from Twitter... Via Pubity... "A limited-edition Donald Trump passport is being released to celebrate America's 250th anniversary. Complete with Trump's signature in golden lettering. Only around 25,000 are being printed." and accompanying this is a photo of the offensive document complete with an image of feckface's face on the inside image. It's quite grotesque.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 06/06/2026
Three panel image meme-ish thing. The top panel features a new(?) item about KitKat releasing a bar with "no straight lines" for Pride Month... they are, actually straight, but not neatly lined up... ANYWAY,next panel shows a Redditor who responds, "I think they meant no parallel lines, because those are still straight." The next panel is a scene from Month Python and The Holy Grail in which Arthur has just shown Sir Bedevere how to tell is a woman is a witch (by weighing her against a duck... long story...) to which Bedevere asks, and is shown asking, "Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?"
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 23/05/2026
As do we all, love... as do we all.
Screencap from Twitter: User "amay.100" posts an image of an elderly, unwell, orange man in front of a podium... oh wait! That's the current president of those United States! Anyway, the quote above this is, "A gorilla names Koko passed the same cognitive test that Trump took. Koko didn't brag about it."  User "turbofunk_" replies, "i wish koko were our president"
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 14/05/2026
The Rat Lickers are starting early this time...
Image from Reddit... A Polymarket item was shared by a user about a potential Hantavirus pandemic in 2026 rating a 14%possibility... The sharing user states, "I saw a post on Facebook about how the Hantavirus is a side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine that everyone was dumb enough to take when that virus broke out. Now I can rest assured knowing I never took any vaccine and wouldn't have to quarantine when this turns into another pandemic! I'll be out partying while vaccine loving junkies will suffer yet again."
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 19/04/2026
Screenshot from Marine Traffic... MSC Euribia is safe and almost in port in Oman.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 18/04/2026
Godspeed, Euribia... Safe home for all aboard.
Marine traffic screenshot showing MSC Euribia sailing finally from Dubai en route to Muscat through the Strait of Hormuz... She's literally just underway. MSC offered to ferry stranded sailors home... Let's hope that's what she's doing.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 13/04/2026
Modelled on myself during my first ever hangover.
Via Instagram... Via @caybluestocking... an online ad for a "Gothic ooak full body male mourning crying doll victorian" for sixty quid... and it is a baby doll, in black, that more resembles a middle aged man with a brutal hangover with puffed eyes and pulled down chin to affect a frown... It is
.. Awful.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 10/04/2026
Oh my God! Fellow Canadians! With an endorsement like this, surely we have lost Alberta from our fair dominion!
From Twitter: Rob Schneider, former 'comedian' and failed funnyman tweets: "I officially RECOGNIZE the NEW INDEPENDENT NATION of ALBERTA and its separation from The People's Republic of Canada and the socialist morons in Ottawa."
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 06/04/2026
Okay, is this a Starfleet upgrade, or downgrade? (Via Reddit)
A recreational vehicle on a road, painted grey/silver with a similar lettering to what we see on The Starship Enterprise variant A and forwards, saying the RV is The Enterprise B.... with Starfleet logos and insignia also painted/decalled on.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 05/04/2026
It's important to remind yourself, especially today, that he died for your sins...
Still from the Crucifixion scene from "The Life of Brian"
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 21/03/2026
Being an aviation nut/nerd/obsessed geek, been reading up on that F-35 that's now no longer serviceable after it did it's thing over Iran and... well... isn't this a pretty looking thing? Looks a lot like a CF-19 Snow Griffin, don't it?
Saab Gripen E Fighter in flight over a snowy landscape, painted with a Canadian Flag livery...
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 20/03/2026
"Hello, Prime Minister Carney? Yeah, the Saab executives have set-up a Canadian bank account and are hiring staff and Mélanie says they have a champagne bottle on ice right now..."
From Mark Chadbourn - ‪@chadbourn.bsky.social‬ -
The US F-35 shot down by Iran won’t be returning to service. It made a “hard landing”. The pilot is in stable condition. (NPR)
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 20/03/2026
I'm certain that once the Strait of Hormuz is safe, and oil per barrel comes way down, gas providers will drop their prices accordingly, and not say, "Oh look! They're willing to pay THAT much!?! THINK OF THE PROFIT!!!!" while keeping prices close to the high they will reach, causing mass inflation.
Image of an American gas pump with a Temu Ceaușescu (Donald "The John" Trump) pointing and laughing with the words, "I did that!" next to the tally/total...
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 17/03/2026
I asked Claude (I am sorry, people who hate AI...) about cruise lines ('cuz I loved my first cruise,) that aren't owned or operated by US interests ('cuz I'm Canadian). I'm still going with MSC currently... but if you're interested... If it's hard to read, "Alt-Text" is your friend.
Swiss-based
•	Viking Cruises — a family-owned company headquartered in Switzerland, dominating the river cruise market with many ocean and expedition ships as well.

Italian/Swiss family-owned
•	MSC Cruises — the third-largest cruise line in the world by passengers, owned by the Swiss-Italian Aponte family, with a newer luxury offshoot called Explora Journeys.

French-owned
•	Ponant Cruises — an ultra-luxury expedition and cruising line owned by the French Pinault family, which also owns Paul Gauguin (French Polynesia) and Aqua Expeditions.
•	CroisiEurope — a French family-owned company and one of the European leaders in river and coastal cruising, with routes on the Rhine, Rhône, Danube, and more, operating over 50 ships.

Norwegian/UK-based
•	Hurtigruten — based in Oslo, owned by European investment funds, offering exploration cruises along the Norwegian coast and Arctic.
•	HX Expeditions (formerly part of Hurtigruten) — headquartered in London, owned by European investors, specializing in expedition cruises to the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Galápagos.

Portuguese-based
•	Mystic Invest Group, based in Portugal, owns Atlas Ocean Voyages, Mystic Cruises, and Nicko Cruises.

UK-based
•	Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines and Saga Cruises are both British-owned and sail primarily from UK ports, catering largely to British passengers.
•	Ambassador Cruise Lines — established in 2021 and focused on providing premium value cruises.

Australian-based
•	Scenic Cruises and its subsidiary Emerald Cruises are an Australian group known for luxury river cruises and expedition yachts.

Worth noting: many lines that seem European — like Costa (Italian), P&O, Cunard, AIDA, and Princess — are actually owned by the US-based Carnival Corporation. The true non-US options, especially in the mass-market segment, are relatively few.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 14/03/2026
From Reddit's Montypython subreddit, user "aviationalex" has suggested they fly coconuts filled with oil across the UAE to the other side of the Straits of Hormuz to awaiting tankers safe from Iranian harm using African swallows.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 08/03/2026
Dear Canadian Opera Company... Yeah, you knew... and wanna go viral... but I won't share this because... OH, IT'S TOO GOOD NOT TO SHARE!
Metal water bottle and a small button from The Canadian Opera Company... both say, "I {heart in image} COC" with the web url in small letters below... coc.ca
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 21/02/2026
It'll be the 2029 Repubs claiming Democrat spending is out of control, while the Trump family figure out how to hide their billions they snagged from the taxpayers.
My guess: Temu Ceaușescu is keeping all tariffs in place and adding the new 10% one, despite that 90%of the US pop. Has figured out they pay, not the countries that they're tagged to, so a new tax to add to inflation. He keeps them until losing the midterms (if he lets those happen,) and is forced to pay it back, but delays until he's out of office and a Democrat president has that tagged into the budget, so their budget gets screwed with extra "government spending" (cleaning up Trump's mess)... and right now, he spends like a drunken sailor on things like the bullish!t like $10bil for his private "peace board".
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 20/02/2026
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