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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One good thing about this election? The CAQ went from a supermajority in 2022 with 90 seats and 40% of the vote to 0 seats in 2026 with 10% of the vote....after promising then dropping electoral reform. If our political class were able to learn from mistakes, they might take a lesson from that.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Quebec election results were probably the best we could have hoped for on this electoral hellscape. I'd like to say PSPP is contained by minority status, but he can likely find a partner in the Cons for his racism, in the Cons and Libs for austerity budgets and breaking social programs, so no.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As we teeter over the abyss of another Quebec election, I reflect how there is no truly good French translation for "dumpster fire." "Fiasco" and "bordel" just lack the viscerality of "dumpster fire." I voted for Québec solidaire. If this province's socialism were not purely performative...

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did my civic duty and voted in the Quebec election today. One tepid cheer for Québec Solidaire. They're far from perfect, but given the other four major parties are for fossil fuel expansion and/or making second-class citizens out of minority groups, there really was no choice.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just in the last few weeks, Carney has gutted environmental assessments and endangered species legislation, eased regulations on oil and gas, opened the door for new pipelines and data centres, arrested environmentalists...and gave a speech at the UN about the urgency of climate change...

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy Mabon to those who celebrate it, and happy fall to the rest!

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No surprises here. Québec Solidaire is far from a perfect party, but it's the only one of the five that neither wants to expand oil and gas, nor transform minorities into second-class citizens. Referenda are always going to be an albatross around their neck, but if it comes to that, I can vote "No."

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

While most of the media is heavily focused on the message "3 by-elections endorse Carney," a more interesting story is the leftward surge in all three. Liberals lost ground in their two strongholds, with the NDP tripling to 2nd place in Toronto (to 25%) and the Greens quintupling in Vancouver.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I've been mostly keeping up with Carney's dismantling of environmental laws (he seems determined to transform himself into a Captain Planet villain on climate) but it turns out it's a lot worse than anyone suspected. I follow Canadian news closely, and only saw half of this. #MarkCarney #CdnPolitics

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sad to learn that the great gay activist Michael Hendricks has died. I only met him the one time, at his wedding. It was the first same-sex wedding in Quebec (they had fought for it for six years) in 2004, and a lot of us activists from community were the guests. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Trailblazing Canadian gay rights activist Michael Hendricks dies | CBC News

Two years ago, Michael Hendricks celebrated his 20th wedding anniversary with René Leboeuf. Their wedding was broadcast across Quebec and marked the first time a same-sex couple married in the provinc...

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A new perfect example for the Oxford comma, along with, "I'd like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God," though I'd probably read this fictionalized account of Sylvia Plath's life.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Today is the 57th anniversary of the legalization of homosexuality in Canada, the eve before the Stonewall Riots in the US. We tend to forget our movement didn't start with Stonewall up here and get lazy about our own history, but that erases twenty years of hard work and activism. #pride

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy Litha to those who celebrate it, and happy first day of summer!

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I owned this copy of Mad Magazine in 1991, I read it when I was 14, and I think about this panel whenever Trump's violent misogyny comes up in the media (like today with the DOJ's latest witch hunt of E Jean Carroll). Everyone knew, even kids in Canada knew what Trump was, 35 years ago.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Happy Dollard-des-Victoria, festival of the Patriotic Queen. Canada's most confusing holiday. May Queen Victoria of Louis-Joseph Papineau or Wolf Nelson come down your chimney with lots of gifts today.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Some of the great gifts my awesome husband got me for my birthday, on top of the medieval fair last week:

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A weird last day of my forties, thinking a lot about the people I knew growing up who did not make it this far. Strange, too, to think I never expected to. I came out in 1993, and no gay man expected to get old back then.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My awesome husband brought to our local medieval geek event for a pre-birthday date (Foire de la Passion médiévale). Got to hold some armour, and shoot a bow. Turns out than twenty years since the last time I tried a bow, and my skills for some reason have not gotten any better.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy Beltane to those who celebrate! A good day to find some solace from the awfulness of the larger world. #Beltane

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Reading all these obituaries about how Stephen Lewis was the best prime minister Canada never had. And he was one of them, certainly. They said the same about Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton. You'd think sooner or later this country would figure out it should elect these NDPers while they are alive.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The last time someone I supported made NDP leader, we had Jack Layton, so I very glad for Avi Lewis. The party chose by more than 50% the to stay left and make the climate transition a central focus, rather than waffle right and drown in irrelevance by trying to copy the Liberals. #NDP #CanPolitics

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

People have forgotten the true meaning of the Ides of March. It's just become too commercialized.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Strange, melancholy night. Looking up old friends, most have completely vanished. One dead, though, a year ago today, only found out from his obituary. There was no one left around from that circle to let me know, and none to tell. Goodbye, Jared. We'll miss you.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Happy Imbolc to those who celebrate it!

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Finished Shakespeare's King John, about a real-life king who pillaged and extorted his subjects, put aside his queen to marry a child bride, and was so awful that everyone from serfs to earls rose up, and helped a foreign power conquer England. Glad we don't have to worry about rulers like that now!

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Happy Yule to those who celebrate. We'll make it through this darkest night.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Yesterday was World AIDS Day, so I was thinking about Roy Thorsen, my one friend who died of it, in 1995. He was an older gay man who gave us gay kids a safe space in his own home when our homes weren't. Miss you.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987.

Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

If François Legault and Danielle Smith are going to keep pressing the "ignore constitution" button like lonely rats with the morphine water, maybe we could require they press an actual button, with a mild electroshock. They're not as smart as rats, but negative reinforcement might work eventually.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Failed attempt at a human being, Danielle Smith, took a break from blocking the climate transition and shredding Alberta's health and education systems to press the "ignore constitution" button this week, and make friends of mine second-class citizens in their own country...

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Samhain to those who celebrate it, and happy Halloween to those who don't!

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

It's always strange, encountering what feels like a modern way of thinking in writing that's centuries old. Like Shakespeare explaining so-bad-it's-good entertainment in Love's Labour Lost.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

We voted yesterday in the municipal election that the whole world watches with bated breath. Sorry, world. You'll have to wait until November 2nd to know who won in Brossard, Quebec...and New York too, I suppose.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Disappointed there's not Transition Brossard or Projet Brossard for the Quebec municipal elections. I guess I'm stuck with Ensemble Brossard, since Vision's platform seems to be, "Burn the forests, grow the streets, make Brossard Mordor to Montreal's Minas Tirith."

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Happy Mabon to those who celebrate it!

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Even more disturbing in the same month that the Liberals invited Project 2025's founder to talk to the Liberal caucus behind closed doors. As much as I disliked Carney and didn't vote for him, even I didn't expect him to steer his party (and the country) toward fascism.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

So did Carney stand up for Canada or did "Dr. Roberts" blow off the Liberal cabinet meeting? The "Dr." is a vicious enemy of democracy, the rule of law, women's rights. We have yet to see the PM declare that Canada vigorously opposes such dark actors. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

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Liberal Backlash to Carney’s Invite to an Architect of Project 2025 | The Tyee

‘Mind-boggling,’ says a former top Trudeau adviser, echoing outrage from two unnamed, sitting Liberal MPs.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The husband and I had not gotten to La Ronde in our nearly 13 years together, so I can cross "ride a Ferris Wheel with the love of my life" off my bucket list.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Somehow, despite being a gay literature geek and having read five biographies of Oscar Wilde, I never got around to reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. Correcting that now, but I was not expecting it to turn into Breaking Bad. Where do you get a polyethylene tub in Victorian London?

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Finished Soulstar by CL Polk this week, and still sitting with it. It's a satisfying end to their marvellous Georgian high fantasy trilogy, but Witchmark is still the closest of that series to my heart. #booksky #CLPolk

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Happy Litha to those who celebrate it, and happy first day of summer in the north to those who don't.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

An image I made for any brave time travellers wanting to set up Pride events in 14th-century England. Hugging hyenas were a medieval symbol of homosexuality, and the text is as close to "we're here, we're queer, get used to it" as I can get in medieval English. #2SLGBTQhistory #queerhistory

Hugging hyenas from a medieval bestiary, and the the medieval English words "we ar heer, we ar baeddel, bicom usen thereto" written in black letter Gothic font below.

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Hamish Copley @eyvindkelda.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Welp, guess this will be my first post on BlueSky. Facebook locked my account for (non-existent) "suspicious activity," but promised to let me back on if I send them a "video selfie" to train their generative AI....er, "confirm my identity." I'd rather lose my Facebook than that, so here I am!

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