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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 3h

TIL that Johnny Mathis is still alive! I know that sounds maudlin. But I'm so glad.

Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 3h

Today's Bowie fix is this rare audio recording of "Wild Is The Wind", featuring the late great Stevie Ray Vaughan. Not my favourite version, but historically notable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-p8...

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David Bowie & Stevie Ray Vaughan /wild as the wind. (very rare)

YouTube video by Norman Hay

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 3h

Such barbarism. Let's botch killing someone, then spend energy and resources to save her life... just so we can try to kill her again. WTAF is happening.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 8h

This is a weird-ass graph. (As opposed to a weird ass-graph)

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 9h

Here's an interesting story. A couple of weeks ago, I was to speak on a public panel. Minutes before it began, I got an email telling me who the other participants were, their specialties, and where my voice fit into the panel. [1/3]

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22h

We need AI regulation yesterday. The incentive driving the doom scenario is simply greed. I don't take PAC money from OpenAI, or any AI corporation, or any corporation for that matter.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 23h

Geddy Lee, I'm so disappointed. (He's posing with right wing mayoral candidate Brad Bradford)

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is your reminder that the only reason these companies will issue IPOs is that's the only way their ground floor investors can recoup their money at a profit... by convincing the general public to overpay for shares. Don't fall for it.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This article came up on my Medium feed. TL;DR: "I had unrealistic Orientalist fantasies about a place I knew nothing about. Now I'm upset that reality doesn't match my fantasy." People, man.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@jonathanconp.bsky.social @gabituto.bsky.social Wordle 1,929 6/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Right out of the authoritarian playbook: make the membrane between the White House and the military leadership as thin as possible. We see you.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Joe Rogan complained that Zohran Mamdani is untrustworthy because "he speaks with a bunch of different accents." It's called code-switching. It's what smart people do when they've grown up in multilingual environments. But of course, you wouldn't know about that. #GillianAnderson #JohnBarrowman

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Truth and Reconciliation" is great for certain things, like coming to grips with crimes against indigenous peoples or the end of Apartheid. But when sanity returns to the USA, I hope MAGA criminals like Stephen Miller don't get any such grace and instead go straight to prison.

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Dave Nelson 🇨🇦 @davenlsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Research shows one in eight cancers worldwide are actually caused by infections. Another reason to be vaccinated #CanadaSky www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

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Researchers are discovering more infections that can cause cancer | CBC News

New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh no! Poor Eric. I once did a live radio interview while feeding a screaming baby, fending off a food-stealing dog, and reading death threats emailed to me. You and your blister will be fine, princess.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is this even a thing? HOW IS THIS EVEN A THING?!!!!

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've often wondered how asshats like Elmo Musk have so much time in their day to be CEO of multiple companies, whine about shit on Xitter, kill hours on Joe Rogan's shmodcast, do weird shit with Donald Trump, and still father 800 kids.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This article is completely wrong, for so many reasons. His own data do not show what he claims they show. As well, Treating writing as a way of thinking long predates the 1970s, despite the author's claims. Utter nonsense. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Haha. Just found this making the rounds on Instagram.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@jonathanconp.bsky.social @gabituto.bsky.social Wordle 1,928 4/6* 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I hadn't realized how problematic Substack is, so my latest article is also on Medium: "How To Exit the MAGA Cult" medium.com/@deonandan/h...

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How To Exit the MAGA Cult

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OMG. Just watch from 1 min to 13 min. This is hilarious and shocking. Dude is arguing against cancelling student debt. But his argument is unhinged and telling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lT9...

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Maxwell Frost Derailed Jubilee With One Simple Question

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The MAGA Spell Is Breaking — Psychology Explains Why" about people who've left the cult. My takeaways: -None of them apologize; they see themselves as victims -But at their core, they're fully OK with cruelty. That's why they were attracted to a cruel bigot www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qzM...

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The MAGA Spell Is Breaking — Psychology Explains Why

YouTube video by Rebel HQ

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Been reading about former-MAGA who've left the cult. Found this young guy's experience. Feel bad for him, but he's still delusional, as in: "Ff they were really my friends they would have stayed with me regardless of my beliefs." Dude, when your beliefs are toxic... leavingmaga.org/they-left-ma...

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Steve Vilchez - Leaving MAGA

Steve Vilchez Steve Vilchez Chicago I was born on the north side of Chicago the day after Christmas, 2003. I grew up in the Bowmanville and Ravenswood neighborhoods until 2011, when we moved to the su...

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These guys will do everything except fix all the crises currently burning down society.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So the cretin heckling PM Carney with chants of "USA!" was.... wait for it... far right German politician Siegbert Droese. Yep, that tracks.

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