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I mean Hegseth and Vance have both openly talked about bringing on end times, which sounds utterly bananas and is still true, so...

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That's the second one down the column, I finished the program last year 😂

I was going to say "complete" except that a taster friend and I got to talking about the wine-tasting certificate program just last night... 😂

and the other is from the IICCT directly, even though functionally they were levels 1 and 2 of the same program from the same institution. Just... why??! But also, I'm very pleased to have earned them, and all together it's a handsome collection.

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Two new additions to the wall of tasting certificates arrived in the mail from Europe this week. 🤓 I'm trying very hard not to be grouchy that one is portrait and the other is landscape, and that one is from the larger European accreditation body that regulates food-related certifications...

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wild times when there's a total lunatic in charge of American health and people choose to follow him and put their kids at risk of easily preventable illness and death against all basic medical advice plus 140 years of historical proof. Must be rough being an American pediatrician right now.

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As I've said elsewhere: you don't need to love Olivia Chow to vote for her. You just need to want to make sure Doug Ford doesn't have even more untoward influence over this city than he already does. Also, bike lanes. Nuff said.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Did my civic duty this evening. I love advance polls. Why wait til a day with huge lineups when you can saunter in at leisure two weeks ahead? Doing my part to keep Brad Bradford Bradleyson the Bradliest out of power.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am not! I like! Where did you get yours?

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OK, hear me out: cookbook stand so you can read while you eat your meals without having to prop your book up against a stack of other books and brace it with your phone and hope it doesn't all slide and collapse while you have both hands on a cob of buttered corn or whatever. Best gadget ever!

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So what you're saying is that octopuses get postpartum depression and become suicidal but if they get proper mental health treatment they feel better??

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 08/10/2026

Fascists: always finding creative new ways to be wacko control freaks.

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Happy World Octopus Day! 🐙 In 2019, scientists in Alvin discovered thousands of octopuses tending their eggs in a part of now known as Octopus Garden. 📲Watch the full video with WHOI principal engineer Andy Bowen and MBNMS research specialist Chad King: go.whoi.edu/octo-garden

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's Wold Octopus Day. Remember to hug your octopus.

O is for Octopus: A screenprint done for a show of alphabet illustrations. A pink-purple octopus posed with its arms all curling around every which way, holding a gold letter 'O' inscribed with a tentacle design. At the bottom there's a human skull nestled within the arms.

CephaLovePod: A screenprint of a red octopus posing with its mantle and arms forming a valentine heart shape. It is wrapped around a harpoon in place of Cupid's arrow.

4 Limbs Bad... 8 Limbs Good.: A screenprint of an orange octopus on the bottom of a sea wrapped around and cradling a broken human femur and a skull. A banner bears the title of the piece.

Octopus Samurai: A screenprint of a pink-ish octopus wearing blue-green Japanese samurai armor and a helmet with a gold crab-shaped crest on the front. The octopus holds a katana in one arm, a wakizashi in another, and a naginata with two other arms.

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I wish, profoundly, that more people were able to express and talk about these two truths at once instead of defaulting to one and obscuring the other. Thank you, Mayor, for leading by example in these painful and violent times.

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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know some people are really into ASMR but I am... whatever the polar opposite of that is. Speak up, stop mumbling, enough with the mouth sounds, stop playing with your food and making annoying crinkly scratchy tappy sounds, and OMFG show me the thing and stop messing around with the packaging. 🙄

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Yeah, that coughing and "something going around" discussions is COVID. That nice low summer is over. Toronto's wastewater viral load is showing a consistent upward trend in COVID-19 and nearly zero levels of influenza A & B and RSV. wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...

Most recent wastewater virus levels for Toronto, with date ending week ending September 27, 2026, showing a clear upward trend in COVID-19 and minimal for influenza and RSV.

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‘No’: Moe shuts down Elon Musk’s calls for Saskatchewan to separate

That pasty, unhinged, creepy, entitled, birth-cult Nazi turd has no business saying anything about what Canadian provinces should or shouldn't do. www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...

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Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe publicly dismissed a suggestion from the world’s richest man for the province to separate.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Takeaways: stay home if you're sick, wear a mask when around people, get your COVID shot as soon as you can (now if you're high-risk; starting Oct 26 for the rest of us) and your flu and RSV shots if you can.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Third and fourth iteration of this bouquet. I bought the original a full three weeks ago now! I'm so impressed.

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've been trying to beef up my client list of late, and it's working. I've onboarded three new clients and I have three more in the pipeline. What's wild to me is that none of it has come from my direct efforts. It's all from word of mouth, old colleagues and LinkedIn. #freelancerlife is so weird!

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's the closest thing I can imagine to restoring one's virginity, but also not: the surface may be clear but the story remains (& "virginity" is BS anyway). Still, I'm pleased to no longer wear this mark. Healing, slow & steady, does eventually work, if imperfectly. Here's to forward movement. 💚

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Last and final tattoo removal appointment today. Four years and 18 sessions later, you would never guess there had been ink there at all. The technician almost couldn't find anything left to zap.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yep. On which note, fuck late capitalism.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, sweet jeebuz, CLEAN THE AIR already. 🤬 It's not rocket science. Ventilation (even open windows). Air filtration at building scale (e.g., higher MERV in HVAC), room scale (portable air cleaners), and even personal scale (masks). Maybe also stop withholding pediatric virus testing 🤬

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

THIS IS SO GOOD

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#manicure #extremityfetish I've been craving deep dark rich colours. This week, two polishes with a deep reddish-plum jelly base and a contrasting teal: shimmer (Root of All Evil by Mooncat) and flakies (Ghosts At the Gate by Polished for Days). This may be my favourite manicure of the whole year!

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We made a point of checking out the new Kent Monkman sculpture The Colony, featuring giant beavers, which was just unveiled on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation last week. I think my favourite beaver is the one sipping tea and reading a copy of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle's memoirs. 🦫☕📖

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Beautiful day for a ride. A friend and I had a patio brunch, then biked to get gelato at Soma in the Distillery and down Cherry Street to Biidaasige Park, the newly landscaped and rewilded area covering a long stretch between Commissioners St and the Lower Don Trail and touching on the waterfront.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pretty much, yep. Like it's so fucked up it's hard to believe it's real, but it absolutely is.