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Melissa Martin

@doubleemmartin.bsky.social
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Happy writing fun ball. Born and raised on Treaty One territory. Living back in Winnipeg, for now, but left my heart in Kyiv.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t think I have ever been so hyped and yet vaguely terrified to see a documentary in my life
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you work at a Winnipeg fire station that had two kittens left there lately, and took them to the Winnipeg Humane Society, don’t worry — I got Chief and Sparky now, and they’ll be up for adoption at the WHS in a few weeks!
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What’s the one thing Alberta federalists and separatists can agree on? Their distaste for Jason Kenney.
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Julie Penner @julespenner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
May this be a reminder to pollsters: never lump Manitoba in with Saskatchewan and Alberta!
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On the night before the morning that everyone remembers, Ellen Judd spoke to her spouse, Christine Egan, on the phone. Egan was in NYC to look after her nephews. She was happy — and 25 years later, the joy she left still thrives in Winnipeg + the North. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Lone Manitoba 9/11 victim's legacy lives on helping Inuit students become nurses
On the night before the morning that everyone remembers, Ellen Judd spoke to her partner, Christine Egan, several times on the phone. Egan was in New York, where she’d gone to look after her nephews s...
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Mamdani… is also present.” Yeah, he’s the mayor of New York. Of course he’s present. One can describe the Islamophobic protests against that, without allowing them to shift the framing this way
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On the night before the morning that everyone remembers, Ellen Judd spoke to her spouse, Christine Egan, on the phone. Egan was in NYC to look after her nephews. She was happy — and 25 years later, the joy she left still thrives in Winnipeg + the North. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Lone Manitoba 9/11 victim's legacy lives on helping Inuit students become nurses
On the night before the morning that everyone remembers, Ellen Judd spoke to her partner, Christine Egan, several times on the phone. Egan was in New York, where she’d gone to look after her nephews s...
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@jonwalczak.bsky.social Just finished 32 Frames. Incredible work and very much connected the wider value of the search.
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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cannot express to non-Canadians how insane it is to have a party at 50 percent
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/09/2026
this pisses me off so much. imagine being a literal child in another country and having the US secretary of defense make fun of you for some fucking reason
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BK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My “We Operate Under U.S. Law” ad is raising a lot of questions already answered by the ad.
DC metro car ad: 
KALSHI RULE #4
WE
OPERATE UNDER
U.S. LAW
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Yeah, I kiss my fingers and tap it onto the fuselage as I board, can’t hurt to give the big bird a bit of extra encouragement
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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Every time outlets publish the chat logs of people who committed violence or suicide after talking to AI I am, like, so consumed with rage and disgust I feel physically sick. The people making these things should never get a good night's sleep again in their lives
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s been exactly one year since I left Ukraine (well, in the “living there” way, I was back there this spring), and I’m still there, in my mind and soul. This moment 1 year ago the train out of Kyiv started to move. My heart broke for a thousand reasons, and kept breaking, and still is.
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What a coincidence these are all the symptoms I’ve noticed badly escalating in myself over the last few years
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A headline I had to read a few times.
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I dare say, she doesn’t seem… well
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 20/08/2026
[swish]
(completely off the cuff, informed by no details, but some familiarity with elite Religious Right spaces) I'd bet serious money that this is a “worshipful servant" situation, which is (i) almost assuredly chaste, (ii) really emotionally weird, and so weird (iii) that's why all the others are freakin)
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Kyiv just took 20 ballistic and hypersonic missiles in just about 10 minutes, and more are now just launched.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation found its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within firing range” of the vehicle." www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...
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Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab, opens criminal probe | CNN
The Israeli military acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza and said it had opened a criminal investigation into the 202...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirms. She was 36 abcnews.com/US/hayden-pa...
A photo of Hayden Panettiere
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izzy @isobel.top · 11/08/2026
logging into bluesky
chrono trigger screenshot:

Welcome to the Millennial Fair!
Have fun!
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Want to feel old? Steve Carell’s character in The 40 Year Old Virgin would be 61 this year
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Always a good time to donate. Please do. savelife.in.ua/en/
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Come Back Alive Foundation - Charity Organization
One of the top charity organizations who help the Ukraine Army since 2014. Donate via the website - 100% of proceeds go directly to Ukraine Army.
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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Elbows down?
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Ottawa discussing trade concessions with the U.S. in return for some tariff relief, sources say
U.S. has a priority list of about 10 items it wants dealt with, one source says
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It was an honour, and a challenge, to try and distill the life and work of trailblazing legal scholar Karen Busby into one story. In the end, maybe it comes down to this: somehow, she always found the time, most of all to be kind. www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2026/0...
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Scholar, educator and author Karen Busby tirelessly fought for groundbreaking human rights and social justice changes
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For this month’s edition of One Day: we spent one day at the St. Norbert Farmer’s Market, seeing how so many stories come together to create one of Winnipeg’s most popular summer traditions bsky.app/profile/winn...
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”
photograph of the relevant passage in Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey ("I make no bed of love with you upon it. Or swear me first a great oath, if I do, you'll work no more enchantment to my harm.")
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
People don’t appreciate enough that even during a war, under martial law and a government that doesn’t have to worry about elections anytime soon, Ukrainians have shown multiple times that protest works
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
support your public broadcaster
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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Five years ago, growing up in a tiny village in Ukraine, Andrian Makhnachov could never have imagined he’d be TikTok-famous in Canada — then he came to the prairies (now Winnipeg!), embraced his new home + Indigenous culture, and found a deeper connection. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
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Student of the Prairie
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Phone call with my close friend in Kyiv. Me: “I had such a Ukrainian day in Winnipeg yesterday!” Him: “You ate borshch, drank vodka, and got bombed?”
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just so I have this straight: USA Today, you published an entire article about a guy liking social media posts regarding his wedding?
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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 09/07/2026
Everyone responsible for this needs to be nuked from orbit.
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Russia just hammered Kyiv with 19 ballistic and cruise missiles in under 10 minutes. This comes hot on the heels of a brutal multi-hour attack on July 2. Awful night. They are ramping intensity again.
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
not to flaunt my newfound wealth, but the CRA just informed me i have three uncashed GST cheques from 2000 through 2003 i can still claim
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The Disappointed Idealist @coachwpg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This @doubleemmartin.bsky.social opinion piece is bang on. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Harm-reduction efforts may often seem imperceptible — but it’s the only way to lasting change
To live in Winnipeg now is to become entirely too skilled at looking away from what we cannot bear to see: the tents, the tarps, the man lying face-down on the street.
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Audra 🇨🇦 Halfdansdottir @intheprairie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is so good. Once again @doubleemmartin.bsky.social's words made me emotional. How Scott & Anne Oake turned their heartache into healing for others is incredible. They are an example of true class.
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
For the new edition of our One Day (in the life) series, we spent a day at the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, seeing firsthand how the facility has brought together a whole community for, and of, men recovering from addiction. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Winnipeg's Bruce Oake Recovery Centre staff lead participants from darkness, despair of addiction
10:30 a.m. The Bruce Oake Recovery Centre is awash in summer light. Sun streams through the tall windows at the end of each hallway; through the glass walls of the group rooms, where the men here to r...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Trump: i surrender Pundits: he surrendered Iran: isnt there someone you forgot to ask?
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Dutch doing this in fuckin Dallas, Texas is very funny to me, an American who has seen Cowboys fans who represent one of the most valuable sports teams on earth never approach this level of enthusiasm this century.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
for some context, this is one of Kievan Rus’ great monasteries. I’m speechless.
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If anyone needs good news — Maya Gebala, who was shot in the head in Tumbler Ridge and barely survived a massive brain injury, is now alert, smiling, and demonstrating she understands and can respond to speech, as well as some fine motor skills. Incredible to see. www.facebook.com/share/r/1DJf...
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Kyiv is getting hit extremely hard tonight. Sixteen ballistics on the capital so far, likely more coming. The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, an extremely precious historic Orthodox monastery complex, is on fire. t.me/kievreal1/12...
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
People are offering to order the workers pizza and they said they aren’t allowed
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
lol at the person on the feed who yelled “do you need a crowbar?”
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