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drew brown

@drewfoundland.bsky.social
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writer & newly-minted therapist. recovering journalist. ex academic. prodigal poster. i'se the bi.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
which publication do i pitch about sending me to alberta to psychoanalyze the referendum
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
been really out of the loop finishing my training as a therapist for the last few months. did this place ever get group chats after
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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
*Frothing at the mouth with excitement* HEY GUESS WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE BRAIN, YOU HAVE TWO! med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
i had the opportunity to review Man of the Year, a funny and deeply moving musical about how lonely it is to grow old without growing up. "all you needed to be was there" is going to haunt me for the rest of my life. riddlefence.com/review/man-o...
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Man of the Year - Riddle Fence
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
it will either be very good, or very bad, or both, that i spent all week reading a textbook about existential psychotherapy before i was recruited to review a musical about an aging rocker's midlife crisis (Man of the Year)
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
You need to read this. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
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The Academic Justification for Male Supremacy
From Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite intellectuals shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
ran out of w.g. sebald novels to read so i started reading middlemarch. because having combed through the emotional wreckage of anglo-saxon imperial decline i need to go back and immerse myself in the emotional wreckage of its peak. as a treat after a long work day sorting through emotional wreckage
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/02/2026
To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment
Busta Rhymes @BustaRhymes
SHOULD I BUY A HOUSE... or.. A LINK TO A PICTURE OF A PIXELATED MONKEY
7:49 AM • 10/15/21 • Twitter for iPhone
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677 Quote Tweets 26.5K Likes
NFTea Expert @NFTeaExpert• 7h
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Replying to @BustaRhymes
Houses are often more of a liability than an asset unless you can make it cash flow or you are flipping
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
explaining prince andrew news to an american
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
nobody wants to hear it but the corollary to the "everybody is 12" theory is that "everybody is 40". 'in this house we believe in science' of course man. you're 40. 'our political opponents will respect the rule of law' they won't bro but you're 40, it's fine. 'its too loud, i have tinnitus' dude,
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"I didn't say I wanted to. I said I will" got damn
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
finished my first week of seeing participants in a community clinic. i know it won't always feel this way, but right now it feels energizing, restorative, & affirming to do this work. savouring this sense of living the dream for the inevitably hard days later. but i am definitely in the right place.
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This was one of the most interesting, candid conversations I’ve had while reporting from the tech beat. @anildash.com did NOT pull any punches diagnosing what is happening with the tech industry. If you feel like tech shit is melting your brain lately, read this
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/12/2025
it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
deeply annoyed to learn that irv yalom's line re: "sooner or later the patient has to relinquish the hope of having a better past" also applies to me
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
getting really into the spirit of the season by reading the personal memoirs of ulysses s. grant
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
it has never actually worked before but this time i'm pretty sure that moving into a new apartment will fix me
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Microsoft Logo w/ the Four Humors written on individual blocks of the window.

Orange is Sanguine
Green is Melancholic
Blue is Phlegmatic
Yellow is Choleric
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onion person @junlper.beer · 24/11/2025
one of the more bleak aspects of ai chatbots is it’s starting to blow up real marriages
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
sorry everyone. i kept saying "environment minister chris tibbs" as a joke about the NL election outcome so this one's on me
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
famously, the best way to de-politicize an issue is by putting it to a referendum
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
about two weeks ago i got together with two friends and we went down through every district in the province and we couldnt see the liberals winning more than 15 seats. which seemed so unreasonable at the time that i just assumed we were extremely pessimistic and out of touch. anyway. we live in hell
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
it's dope as hell that the world builds 100 million cars per year and all that plastic, metal, glass and rubber eventually ends up like this
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Ashley Fitzpatrick @ashleyfitznl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
To be crystal clear: it's not about what the scientists "told CBC News", not just informed opinion. The science itself is very clear. You can question perhaps the degree of NL contribution to climate change, but it's fact that the oil from here is a contributor. Full stop. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Wakeham says no link between N.L. wildfires, oil industry in campaign where climate change largely absent | CBC News
The 2025 provincial election is happening in the direct aftermath of one of the worst climate-related disasters in Newfoundland and Labrador’s recent history.
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The Independent @independentnl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Twelve out of 40 MHAs elected since 2021 are landlords, a higher percentage than most provinces and an unknown fact to most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. #nlpoli #Election2025 Read the story from Isaac Peltz 👇 theindependent.ca/news/seismic...
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Seismic shift needed to address N.L. housing crisis, experts say – The Independent
Housing is a human right in Canada, yet unchecked rent hikes, Airbnb pressure, and landlord-lawmakers have left thousands in Newfoundland and Labrador one paycheck away from homelessness
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The Independent @independentnl.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up Read Part 2 of Drew Brown's analysis of N.L.'s political system ahead of the 2025 provincial election on Oct. 14. #nlpoli theindependent.ca/commentary/a...
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How N.L. became the life (and death) of the party – The Independent
We’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
for part 2/2 of my "NL Politics 101" series, I survey the breadth of newfoundland history to show that the reason all the problems keep repeating is because the party system hasn't changed since the last time it broke our democracy. it doesn't have to be this way! theindependent.ca/commentary/a...
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How N.L. became the life (and death) of the party – The Independent
We’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The Anna Karenina principle states that for success to occur in a complex endeavor, all key factors must be present and work correctly. The endeavor does not succeed when even one essential element is missing, meaning there are many different ways to fail. It is named for Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel Anna Karenina, which begins:

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
This suggests happy families resemble one another because they possess the necessary traits for happiness, whereas unhappy families may have any variety of
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The whole discourse about whether the plagiarism machine is a person, has been poisoned by the fact that the people on one side of it have used the plagiarism machine to destroy their ability to think.
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Turn from the ruin. Turn and go *forward*.
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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
I bet you the group of men who own rick and morty branded raw denim jeans are fun to talk to.
Naked & Famous selvedge jeans with Pickle Rick brandingNaked & Famous selvedge jeans with Morty branding
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
when the primary source is so good the secondary author prefaces it with "worth quoting at length" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
wherein i break down politics in newfoundland & labrador to the absolute fundamentals. as in "what do 'Left' and 'Right' even mean?" fundamentals. part 1 of a 101-level crash course in everything you (n)ever wanted to know about the unique political dynamics of canada's other Distinct Society.
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Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
this archetype remains undefeated
Screenshot of tweet that says:

me: hey does anyone have any readings on medieval north African trade networks

17 follower alcoholic who works at a bakery:
[link to 157 page pdf] yeah I think this is pretty enlightening
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
#GoldenAgeOfFraud #Crypto
From Twitter:

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming of the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
this is something you just have to live with if you are even barely well-known online; people make up elaborate stories about you in their heads. it will always happen and you cannot give a shit about it, only stomp on it if they try to spread these weird tales to anybody you actually know.
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
they should let you put the group chat as a reference on your resume
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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The year is 1999. You are watching The Man Show with Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel. By 2025 one will be a right wing grifter, the other will be fired as a bellwether of encroaching Fascism. You take a drink of Mountain Dew code red and change the channel.
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
you can really feel the enthusiasm for NL's 2025 provincial election!!! (from vocm.com/2025/09/15/p...)
VOCM headline: "Premier Must Call Provincial Election Today" above photos of NDP leader Jim Dinn, Liberal leader John Hogan, and PC leader Tony Wakeham.Text: "The minimum length of an election is 28 days. For Premier Hogan to meet the mandatory fixed election date of October 14 he has to make the call today. The betting is that the call will come at about 6:00 tonight."
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drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
man. that first season of True Detective really is flawless television.
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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
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