Reposted by drew brownRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026Pompeii 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 11868551647
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026which publication do i pitch about sending me to alberta to psychoanalyze the referendum 010
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026been really out of the loop finishing my training as a therapist for the last few months. did this place ever get group chats after 160
Reposted by drew brown⚡⚡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.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 1332613842
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 26/03/2026i 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...riddlefence.comMan of the Year - Riddle Fence 020
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 21/03/2026show's good. but i'm also a real sucker for peter pan syndrome/dead wife guilt stories. rare you get them both in the same musical 040
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 20/03/2026it 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) 241
Reposted by drew brownDr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 18/03/2026You need to read this. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...newlinesmag.comThe Academic Justification for Male SupremacyFrom Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite intellectuals shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein 922567
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 17/03/2026that's such a good idea. almost every page of this book contains incredible writing 010
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 16/03/2026"marriage *is* a noose, you know" yeah ok i'm locked in for the next 800 pages 141
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 16/03/2026ran 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 151
Reposted by drew brownMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/02/2026To 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. 030361290
Reposted by drew brownBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment 60102402316
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 20/02/2026further evidence for the "carney liberals are a conservative party" thesis 020
Reposted by drew brownstuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 19/02/2026explaining prince andrew news to an american 141462190
Reposted by drew brownJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it 983002402
Reposted by drew brownChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on. 173046908
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 31/01/202618ish months so i have lots of time to be normal about it 110
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 31/01/2026nobody 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, 151
Reposted by drew brownOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026"I didn't say I wanted to. I said I will" got damn 321465235
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 15/01/2026oh whoops i dont think i posted about it here but i started a clinical internship last week. and it rules!! 1100
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 15/01/2026finished 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. 1160
Reposted by drew brownCydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026This 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 410333
Reposted by drew brownlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/12/2025it 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 293710411
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 21/12/2025deeply 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 140
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 09/12/2025getting really into the spirit of the season by reading the personal memoirs of ulysses s. grant 020
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 28/11/2025actually that's a lie. the 18 month window when i rented a midcentury condo in a heritage building on jasper ave in edmonton was awesome and did fix most of my problems at the time 150
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 28/11/2025it has never actually worked before but this time i'm pretty sure that moving into a new apartment will fix me 2100
Reposted by drew brownBlaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025 183097948
Reposted by drew brownonion person @junlper.beer · 24/11/2025one of the more bleak aspects of ai chatbots is it’s starting to blow up real marriages 1102071200
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 29/10/2025sorry everyone. i kept saying "environment minister chris tibbs" as a joke about the NL election outcome so this one's on me 040
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 16/10/2025famously, the best way to de-politicize an issue is by putting it to a referendum 5346
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 15/10/2025the really cool thing is that the situation gets worse the denial will get stronger 250
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 15/10/2025about 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 1351
Reposted by drew brownskáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 10/10/2025it'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 2827550
Reposted by drew brownAshley Fitzpatrick @ashleyfitznl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025To 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/...cbc.caWakeham says no link between N.L. wildfires, oil industry in campaign where climate change largely absent | CBC NewsThe 2025 provincial election is happening in the direct aftermath of one of the worst climate-related disasters in Newfoundland and Labrador’s recent history. 1199
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 10/10/2025i stand corrected. feeling a lot of hometown pride rn www.cbc.ca/player/play/...cbc.ca‘You’re a liar’: Fiery debate between PC and Liberal candidate in Grand Falls-Windsor sees both hurl accusationsPC incumbent Chris Tibbs and Liberal challenger Barry Manuel spent time attacking each other, and afterwards said they would do it again. The CBC’s Troy Turner has the story. 020
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 09/10/2025unfortunately they don't make em like this anymore 190
Reposted by drew brownThe Independent @independentnl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Twelve 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...theindependent.caSeismic shift needed to address N.L. housing crisis, experts say – The IndependentHousing 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 065
Reposted by drew brownThe Independent @independentnl.bsky.social · 06/10/2025We’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...theindependent.caHow N.L. became the life (and death) of the party – The IndependentWe’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up 056
drew brown @drewfoundland.bsky.social · 06/10/2025for 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...theindependent.caHow N.L. became the life (and death) of the party – The IndependentWe’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up 084
Reposted by drew brownPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2025The 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. 546089