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Andrea Bellemare

@dreabells.bsky.social
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Freelance producer doing stuff at CBC Sports & CBC Radio. Previously at This Hour Has 22 Minutes & CBC News. Writer, surfer, swimmer. Toronto.

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Look, it's her first time probably, she'll get it
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a good thread cutting through the hype around AI as world ender and how to actually talk about the Hugging Face hack. I particularly like the section about the chatbots imitating hacker conference transcripts, a thing people have taken to show AI was actually "planning" not just imitating
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What's wackier, western MB and eastern Que having the same time zone in the winter, or the winter time sandwiches of Kenora, Ont. and NWT?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026
Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Look, it's technically still summer but it feels like it's time: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the sixteenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Went to see TIFF's Wavelengths 3, a selection of 4 experimental short films. The last film was James Richard's Fevers, which had strong strobe effects & an overwhelming sound mix. In my row, one woman left, another guy had his eyes closed, a third guy was leaning foward, rapt. This is cinema 😂
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Strong competitor for new author photo just dropped 📷 @dreabells.bsky.social
42-year-old man dives into lake
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Interesting little tidbit about the TIFF Lightbox: "According to data obtained by The Globe, the Lightbox’s 2025 year-round box office, outside of the festival, came in at just more than $1.6-million, the theatre’s highest annual gross since 2018." www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
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Can TIFF navigate a global film industry facing a ‘turning point’?
The pressure is rising for Toronto to deliver a festival that has real impact
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Seems like the first rule of toothbrush making is dealing with the whole water issue
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Watching a video about cooking Brie and fruit in a skillet over a campfire and who the hell cuts Brie this way, is your hand still attached?
Person holds a Brie wheel in left hand and cuts the top in their right with a big knife. Questions remain about whether the knife punctured their hand
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As always, feels like a good day to remind people of DARVO, a tactic favoured by manipulators: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. Just in case that reminds you of any particular international situation, maybe.
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Fancy grocery stores have become a nexus for laundering conservative ideology under the compelling guise of pantry goods that are nice to look at." www.eater.com/food-culture...
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I’m Over the Erewhonification of Fancy Grocery Stores
The rise of “luxury” grocery stores feels deeply sinister
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!
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Opinion | Celebrate Dolly Parton's working-class solidarity
John Nichols: She carried two union cards, sang Woody Guthrie songs and mocked the bosses in "9 to 5."
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“If most of our business is outside of the U.S. and it’s more expensive because of the self-inflicted tariffs to build things in the U.S., that does not encourage us to build more things in the U.S,” Agranat said. “That’s counter to that.” www.thestar.com/business/fac...
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Trump’s tariffs forced this U.S. company’s move to Canada. And it’s not the only one
Faced with Trump tariffs, some U.S. manufacturers are moving production to Ontario and Quebec to cut costs by almost 30 per cent.
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You've heard about Boaty McBoatface but what about Choppy McChopface? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Choppy McChopface' among favourite suggested helicopter names, documents show | CBC News
Suggestions in the naming competition ranged from iconic Nova Scotians to more bizarre proposals, while some people simply took the opportunity to complain about the task at hand.
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Turns out there was also a gas leak! www.thestar.com/news/gta/dvp...
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Toronto cleans up after ‘red warning’ storm; Rogers Stadium sustains damage; tense video shows workers on swaying platform: Live updates
The city, and much of southern Ontario, is cleaning up the day after intense thunderstorms and destructive winds on Wednesday.
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This Proud Boys chapter says they have plans to keep harassing this DSA group - maybe if there's more free food they'll end up joining the DSA instead
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Extremely Toronto note: tried to bike down Shaw Street today on the way to work, still downed power lines there from yesterday's store. Or perhaps newly downed, as a police car was nearby and road not properly blocked off to prevent traffic turning down. A measure of how much damage the storm caused
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🙄🙄🙄🙄
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Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the fact that the NBA was forced to investigate and punish its richest owner because of a scandal uncovered by an investigative journalist… shoutout to pablo torre! journalism is so important!!!
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not entirely certain but think I passed a gas leak on my way home - fire truck had blocked off the street and the aroma of gas was strong. Realized there's no obvious way to check online, like a hydro outage. Wild storm #torontostorm #ontariostorm
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Toronto is so dark it's like night, branches down everywhere. This storm is a doozy
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
MapQuest is the top of the App Store for free apps today in Canada
Screenshot of the App Store at 11:50 EDT showing MapQuest at the top of the charts
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I didn't know what crop art was but this is well worth your time, some incredible artwork.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.
A photo of Dolly Parton sitting at a desk and talking on the phone in a scene from the movie 9 to 5.
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
They tried to go after French language protections? Calisse
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Respect to the source who suggested to me this morning that, while a deal seemed likely, the bad sign to watch for was Howard Lutnick showing up.
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Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Carney says Canada will retaliate dollar for dollar
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Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
US-Canada Trade Talks Collapse, Triggering Trump’s 50% Tariffs (Bloomberg) -- An agreement between the US and Canada to avert a fresh round of tariffs fell apart at the last minute Tariffs kick in 12:01 a.m. EST
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And what else does Haberman know?
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
another night in the city. the wailing sirens filled the air like malevolent spirits floating by. the job was rough, but i like rough. i’m a private eye. emphasis on private. lousy on the eye. but the spreadsheet person who just walked in with a hot case sure wasn’t
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One of the CR testers was injured while braking during a turn. CR's testing engineer says this happens b/c "as soon as you begin to brake, your weight naturally shifts forward onto the front wheel of the e-scooter and the rear wheel is de-weighted, so it’s more likely to skid when you’re turning"
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The most perfect encapsulation of why everyone should want bike lanes
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Cycling is more popular in Toronto than ever. Bike Share added 180 new stations in 2025, its biggest single-year expansion, and Bike Share ridership increased 13% from 2024. Bike lanes are busy and there are everywhere. www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"The Ford government can do this, if they really want to. But the court’s permission doesn’t make it wise or guarantee that it will be politically profitable for the Premier and his party." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
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ANALYSIS: The Ford government has won its bike lane legal battle. So, back to politics | TVO Today
The Tories can rip up their preferred bike lanes — but now it's an election year.
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The real problem is that cities have no real powers in Canada. This is disenfranchisement. Torontonians should be able to decide these things for themselves at the municipal level. Have not seen any politician other than @joshmatlow.bsky.social grapple with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ontario appeal court says Ford can rip out Toronto bike lanes | CBC News
Premier Doug Ford’s government can rip out 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes in Toronto, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled in a decision released Friday, reversing a lower court decision m...
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
UGHHHHHH
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Always funny to see Count Binface walking all over Jon Craig
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Count Binface calls Jon Craig, the chief political correspondent for Sky News, "the cannon to my ball" in this interview while waiting for the Clacton results to come in
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is just a really lovely story www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Woodland dancer wins hearts at the Saugeen powwow | CBC News
Kiniw Tenasco, a Woodland dancer, won the hearts of folks at the Saugeen First Nation powwow this past weekend and online after his mom shared a video of him. Sunshine Tenasco, who is Anishinabe from ...
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is the drawback of most social media jobs. Some places will allow exploration and weirdness, but most of the time the job is geared towards chasing the algorithm, with diminishing returns.
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I was gonna say, it's Australia, of course they could miss it but—
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Pleased to have this story published earlier this summer and featured today. I would be thrilled if you’d give “The Garden” a read… 💀🪏🌱 thedodgemag.com/summer-2026-...
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The Garden - The Dodge Magazine
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
1. dril candles (though hard to pick just one dril tweet) 2. monkey with anxiety 3. leopards eating faces 4. milkshake duck
dril tweet:
food $200
data $150
rent $800
candles $3,600
utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dyinggod: I have made Mankind
angles: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety.'i never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes. *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist
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