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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t think any of the countries that still do public executions like, broadcast it? So they might even be the only one.

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

excuse my language but what the actual fuck

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apparently this isn’t satire. There are AI guys whose brains are just this baked.

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they’ll be on the adoption floor around 3 pm today someone go adopt them plz

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

there is not a single danger of building a colony on the moon I’d find particularly surprising

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hahaha the one thing making me feel less guilty taking them back is I know they’ll be snapped up immediately

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My foster girls Sparky and Chief are going back to Winnipeg Humane Society tmrw and will be up for adoption! They’re super sweet, well-socialized kittens — Chief (black one) is especially snuggly + chatty. They really love each other so would be amazing for someone to take both, if you know anyone!

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

MEANWHILE, in Canada, meet Brady Rogers, the reluctant politician who's fed up and thinks he can do better. His sign says "I barely want to do this." His website says, "I guess I'm running for Kelowna city council." His business? Recycling plastic into cool things.

lawn sign with a grumpy man in a "DADLIFE" sweatshirt and the sign says "I barely want to do this" with his name and campaign

Hi, I’m Brady.
Do I enjoy politics? No.

Do I know what I’m doing? No.

But am I qualified? Also no.

I was born in Williams Lake and raised in Kelowna since I was 10. These are the streets I biked every day, the cars I threw crab apples at (sorry), and the parks I played in. Seeing this city grow has been cool, but with growth has come a whole new spectrum of challenges. Running for council is the last thing I saw myself doing this year. I don’t like meetings, I don’t like having to be certain places at certain times, and I’m allergic to stuffy offices. But unfortunately, I happen to like Kelowna, and think I can help do some good.

I guess I’m running for Kelowna city council.
Support the campaign

I graduated from UBCO in 2015ish (long story) and worked for 4 years as a robotic automation engineer. As cool as the job was, it was soulless, and I wanted to use my abilities for more than just helping huge companies save money.

Since 2019, I’ve been building The Rogerie.
Starting as a farmers market booth beside the mall, my wife and I began turning plastic waste into new products in our laundry room. Seven painful years later, and we have a pretty awesome shop downtown by Sprout (come check it out!) where you’ll find me just about every day.

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes I wrote this because I was at the watchmen show in Winnipeg tonight and cried like a baby

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t even think of a singer like him. They were super influenced by R.E.M. but Greaves has power Stipe never had; the mix of power and tone and vocal quality without vibrato is just, I can’t think of anyone quite like it

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My “fight me” Canadian opinion is Daniel Greaves of the Watchmen has one of the most unique and iconic voices in rock’n’roll and is completely underrated in this regard

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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 · 20/09/2026

Unsurprising, it’s always some version of “actually the thing that solves the problem is the problem”

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh, I expect they will very shortly have a theory that melanoma is manufactured by the government via toxins in order to make you take the vaccine, and that if you simply build a tolerance to the sun you will never get it

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have no idea anymore, honestly. A bit better this week so hopefully that remains.

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hahaha definitely not — one of the reasons I liked the fostering idea is my life is way too unsettled right now for a pet; but I’m happy to take ‘em for a few weeks and give them back

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Had my moment and seized it, they don’t stay still long

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I need to get better pics of the black one but they always end up such a cute void with ears

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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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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I repeat my suggestion that we should simply put Ukraine where the United States is and the United States where Ukraine is and it seems that would be a satisfactory arrangement for us, for Ukrainians, and for the MAGAs

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It drives me crazy when they do that. Also when some of the separatist types in Sask and Alberta sometimes confidently talk about the three prairie provinces leaving, and it’s like - no, Manitoba is considerably different

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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

I’m so glad you read it. Ellen and I spoke at length about how important it is to her that Christine’s life is remembered, so I know hearing that will be very meaningful to her as well.

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Is also present” just gives that whiff of suggesting that there is some universe in which he wouldn’t have gone, because of those Islamophobic protests.

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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

winnipegfreepress.com

Lone Manitoba 9/11 victim's legacy lives on helping Inuit students become nurses

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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

A lot of places I loved don’t exist anymore, since then.

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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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