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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 1h

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 1h

Them: "Lizard people run the government!" Me: "That's crazy." Them: "Are you sure?" Me: ......

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 1h

The 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature has been announced. I was rooting for my acquaintance and fellow Guyana Prize winner, David Dabydeen. But I am overjoyed that fellow Canadian Anne Carson has won. I didn't even know she'd been nominated!

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 19h

In today's video, I summarize the views of clinical psychologists on Donald Trump's mental state. Is he a psychopath or a narcissist or something else? youtu.be/y9rLHhQp6UQ

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The Dark Side of Trump’s Personality: Is It Narcissism?

YouTube video by Dr. Raywat Deonandan

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

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

pneumonic plague has a historic R0 of ~1.3. That places it as contagious as seasonal flu.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Exactly 💯

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But who could have seen this coming? EVERYONE. We all said this would happen. How did we know? Because we saw the same thing happen in other countries, like the UK. There are ways to minimize this effect, but of course Ontario has not taken any steps to that effect.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

TIL that older adults have a diminished thirst reflex, so many are chronically dehydrated.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/10/2026

A large man with a MAGA hat collapsed at the diner this morning and all I could do was wonder if he had already voted.

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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 06/10/2026

If you’re still a Republican after Trump called for attacks on Los Angeles and San Diego, you’re probably a complete fucking asshole.

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Because people asked, I made a brief video summarizing what is known about the "plague" case in Russia. youtu.be/VizGWMXOwJY

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Epidemiologist Discusses Reports of Plague in Russia

YouTube video by Raywat Deonandan

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

About two decades ago, I was doing multiple rounds of P90X sequentially for a couple of years. I was in great shape. This week, I started the program again. I'm almost 60. And it almost killed me.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So, this was the first ever YouTube video. And it was only 21 years ago? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQX...

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Me at the zoo

YouTube video by jawed

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Byron Donald is such an insufferable glad-handing obvious liar. As a nonwhite person, let me declare that any racial minority who supports Trump is either amoral or stupid.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Toronto skyline, 1963." As a kid in the 70s, I was mesmerized by photos from the 50s and 60s. We are spoiled today with so much photography. Back then, they were evocative and essential. Apparently, that's the CIBC building, the tallest building in the Commonwealth at the time.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dear people everywhere, including demented, amoral Presidents: Penguins are at the SOUTH pole. Polar bears are at the NORTH POLE. Got it?

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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 04/10/2026

4 men in plain clothes kidnap a woman—they claim to be ICE. Woman's name is Angel Zhao. She lives in Huntington Beach, California—originally Shanghai, China.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looking forward to the new season of Reacher.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Summary argument: we have lost a shared moral vocabulary. I see it here, as well, where even people on my political side espouse horrific and violent viewpoints.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today I learned that this Amis (Taiwanese indigenous) couple did the haunting vocals for Enigma's big 1990 hit, "Return to Innocence" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePKK...

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Difang & Igay singing "Weeding and Paddyfield Song No. 1"

YouTube video by DebraShick

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Apparently, Trix contains oleic acid, which is what decomposing ants exude. So ants think a pile of Trix is actually an ant graveyard. Cool, cool.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Three of the worst Canadian exports ever, along with a mediocre Russian export.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Honestly, this doesn't bother me. Anyone who owns property in a foreign country should expect to pay more for that privilege. And if you're foolish enough to be buying in Florida as a Canadian, then what did you expect? Fair treatment?

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I teach science. They need to learn to write elsewhere. But they come to me unable to write. What's the solution? Do we abandon all other higher education subjects to remediate basic skills that should have been mastered in high school?

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

writing essays by hand in class solves half of the problem. But it omits a big part of the learning and assessment process, which is the conception of large writing projects completed over many days and weeks. That, it seems, is no longer possible.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

what makes you so sure it would be a "human draft"? And even if it was, any competent LLM can take a genuine human draft and turn it into an excellent final paper.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's more work for everyone involved. But unavoidable.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It doesn't get any cuter! #Caturday

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