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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

had to rake after storms & this little one was hiding in a pile...

Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

huge misgivings about pascal's 🏒 coaches. one says "offsides," with a final "s." 🤮 the other wears a visor hat! one is telling on himself & the other one is, too.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

rainy slightly cool day. tempted to have soupe aux pois aussi

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

otoh, it's so easy now to teach my kids, 🇨🇦 living in 🇺🇸, about "ugly americans" & the awfulness of u.s. american exceptionalism

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

i may not be able to do a lot of things, but our house always has a gravy boat with caramel sauce

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

finally getting around to watching ted lasso. hot take: maybe it's our historical moment but i don't get the hype. am i supposed to want the smug little 🇺🇸white knight ponce to be yardsaled? why watch reinscribed 🇺🇸 exceptionalism qua rage bait when it's our daily reality?

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

b/c we have a child with cœliac, i make the birthday cakes. pascal requested this one.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

ftfy faithful & pathologically lying messenger

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

@lexisfriend.bsky.social suggested i should do a #Canadian living in #USA #AMA b/c maple maga lies are so outrageous. not to essentialize & i'm not a star academic so reach may be small but ask me anything about moving fr 🇨🇦 to 🇺🇸, esp cost of living, taxes, healthcare, culture, etc.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

her pearls must have been clutched back to grains of sand by now

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

ngl, it was harder to leave this year. it really, really was.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i managed to make this one at cottage, on the mini stove, from the 1930s. gotta get a spray bottle, though.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

these two appeared one morning on the path behind the cottage. yes, they are as big as chickens. yes, they sound like jackhammers. indeed, they are wonderful.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

please note that everything I'm saying here is what any journalist who knows anything about universities, and any academic who has worked in the last 20 years, already knows

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

green anole owns the left side of our step. the skinks have occupied the right

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

the skinks & anoles that guard our front step were out in force yesterday

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

i have sussed, i think, the gluten free steamed sponge with salted caramel instead of golden syrup.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

i keep thinking that eichmann wouldn't be hanged in 2026 america. he'd be held up as an exemplar of efficiency.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

he also thinks a visa to be in a country is a credit card

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

i've used the pentel p205 basically daily since 1988ish. i have more posh/expensive ones, but i liked the p205 enough i got a box in dec 1989 & i still have most of those around. that said, can anyone tell me please when they stopped including a cleaning needle? i can guess why....

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

let's argue that some u.s. americans are excluded from being presumptuous and solipsistic by being, wait for it, presumptuous and solipsistic and u.s. american by denying the experience and multi-ethnic diversity of non-americans. this is why the u.s. american left is frustrating.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

one of these days i'll finish that article on the shift of u.s. america from individualism to solipsism

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

after blowing 2 whistles, i have no comment i'll just continue living in exile from 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸, where a "colleague" tried to have my tenure denied & get me deported.

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 09/06/2026

I use this keychain one from printables. It's SO LOUD. www.printables.com/model/394669...

A yellow keychain whistle attached to a keyring with a large key fob on a desk

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

i think i have these sussed but they are terrifying because one needs 1:15 to bake & the other steams for 1:45 to 2 hrs.

gluten free steamed pudding with caramel

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

all that winning means he's earned a nap.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

reminder that eichmann had train drivers & following orders is not a defense

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

the first james bond movie that they turned into nothing but music videos.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

chapter 4 of my dissertation, defended 23 yrs ago, was on wrestling. it never fails that the same people who are still that convinced video games are evil b/c they've never played one are still convinced wrestling & especially its fans are at best matt arnold's "populace."

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

cool rainy day so time to make my take on steamed pudding

gluten free steamed pudding with caramel sauce

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

as if hockey night in canada's shameless pimping of buffalo isn't enough, they played cold play. 🤮

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

wow. that hits close to home. iykyk.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

montréal 6-2 win so hnic post-game: craig simpson: montréal is ahead 6-2 after 60 minutes but they're going to have to contain benson tonight. i wish i had a son like him chris cuthbert: that was the final horn & montreal manages to hang on to a 6-2 lead giving them a chance to win tonight.

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

who is the worst musical "artist" of the cancon era & why is it kim mitchell?

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Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

we came in from some yardwork before the rains came & found this little green anole waiting for us in our dining room. within seconds of release it was back to hunting.