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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦

@flyingjay.bsky.social
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Free flying, & French, UK, Canadian and US politics. Still wrapping my head around the fact that I have a kid. I'm probably not qualified to talk about whatever I wrote. Vancouver, BC

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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 23h
An example from a former Australian Prime Minister: youtu.be/mVaqNB9_hCg?...
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Never heard of it before, a quick glance on Wikipedia makes me think of a larger, denser and somehow more Mafia-controlled Christiania in Copenhagen. Anyone who knows both can validate or amend the comparison?
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
randomly touched the other side of it while he was talking. Hard to focus, isn't it, you pr*ck?! No I don't know what the problem is. Bzzz Bzzz bzzz Bz Bzzzzzxz Respect the technicians ffs.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yeah, for a short while I worked as a sound engineer, among other things on conference stuff. Would clip the mike in well ahead of time. A colleague once caught someone about to give a speech talking sh*t about the technicians working that day. We plugged a cable that we sent into his ear, and
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's rather moreish, so I heard.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reminds me that I should put down my phone and open the book that's right there, actually. Cheers, Tennessee Howler.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
job, and... I reckon, so will I.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
fight over whatever is left of these tasks, and many of us will be left unemployed. And I can't imagine there will be more work that replaces these tedious tasks. There already is NOTHING you see on screen that hasn't been tweaked by people like me. Many of my peers will have to find a different
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
nonetheless needs to be done, and I think might be soon overtaken by AI. Nice not to have to do these boring tasks but... the artists will have less work to do and the studios won't pay us to sit around. So there'll be less work, albeit only the most interesting parts of it. Artists will have to
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From the extremely narrow POV of my job, in visual effects..: We have been using ML tools for a few years, very helpful, and unimaginable help. Now, some of my work is rather creative, and I'm not too concerned about that ; but we also have quite a bit of "pushing pixels". Boring, tedious work that
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you for keeping an eye on this and communicating here.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Damn it. They're walking straight into the Corbyn trap, aren't they.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
just proven itself to be virtually irrelevant anyway..?
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And also... What are American taxpayers get for the money they give the government?? Private prisons, private energy companies, private water companies, private healthcare, underfunded schools.... Seriously, what do the US taxpayers get for what they pay, other than a ridiculous military that's
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Canadian when she grows up. Yet I know people of Asian heritage who've been in Canada for generations and still get the "but where are you really from?"
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great and very educational prison topic indeed. As for the last hour, as an immigrant to Canada myself (and so is my partner) I've got an inkling that our kid, whose skin is somehow even whiter than both her mom's and mine, who was born here in Canada, will have exactly 0 issue with being considered
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'the Hell does this guy who was born into a rich family know about "what money can't buy"? He's always been able to buy whatever he needed. Funny that fake builder Trump is associated with fake hillbilly Kid Rock and so on. All fake, all rich kids who were never told "no".
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh yeah, it doesn't make sense geographically, but neither does Tom's tweet above 😉
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Or the canary islands, which truly is in the middle of the Atlantic. According to Tom's post, St Pierre et Miquelon would even be Canadian... And the Falklands... Oops, Tom has just admitted they should belong to Argentina. Unless Tom suggests the UK is a country of the southern hemisphere...?
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pffffffahahahaha that's incredible. You go, Donnie! Tell them!
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
See also : "Barbarian"
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Scottish Gaelic is very recent indeed, as was explained by Pr Stewart Lee, at the end of this particular lesson. youtu.be/tHA1ufmLZQY?...
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh, only because I actually lived there, that's all 🙂
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Auld Alliance!
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Brest in English means “nenez” French" Ahahahahahaha Lovely place. Local saying : "Everyone thinks it constantly rains here, but actually the weather is nice *several times a day*"
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I studied in Brest, in Brittany, which stands to the West of I want to say... 95% of England. The entire European country of Portugal is further West than the whole of Britain. Are they a mid-Atlantic country as well, Tom? They'd have a better claim than the UK. Some people just need a map, really.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Alright, Mr Vonnegut.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I feel like it says a lot that having abolished the death penalty is a mandatory condition to join the European Union. This is one clear and concise example of the distinction in the general approach to life, I think.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm sure the party-which-protects-women© will immediately jump into action, and the Trump administration will do everything to look after her.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
focused on money. Put all this together, and the so called Western world needs to keep America as far away as they do Russia and others...
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
President's waaaaay too much in my opinion, but now the supporters are just complete cult members. The leader can't do no wrong at all. The US are becoming Russia levels of corrupted, North Korea levels of cultishness, Iran level of religious governance. And of course, it always was way too much
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
either, to say the least, but it's turning into Russian levels of corruption, of state violence, etc. It's been governed by religious ideologies forever, but now that it's the evangelists and accelerationists who are fully in power... it's full on death cult stuff. Americans always revered their
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm no fan of the US, but no country really is a "good" country. I was born and raised in France, so, yeah... Nonetheless, there are shades of bad, especially over time. France is still no perfect, but goodness me, is it a massive improvement over a century ago... Now, the US were never perfect
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
within a bike ride distance. Wtf
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well if I am to share the final nail in the coffin, in that case... It's that all the abusers recruiter online came from within a couple dozens miles around her home. You'd think these guys are monsters, surely they must be few and far between, but no, you can find dozens of them on 1 website,
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And posh twats who would never "have a beer and watch the game" even though that's the image they project In reality, like Trump they're all about nice clothes, going to posh restaurants and their friends' boats. They'd never mingle with the hoi polloi, never.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
was populated by bad guys, that night. Not a single one of these good guys even though "good guys" are the majority apparently. Silence and complicity, I absolutely agree, unfortunately.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
took the girl back to her actual place, on the other side of the city. I asked her "was there any other guy in the platform?" and she said "oh yes. Quite a few." That's my usual response to those who say "not all men". Because it must've been quite the terrible coincidence that the whole platform
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know... An ex told me she prevented a very drunk girl from being taken away by a guy in the metro. She was mumbling "is this the train to [...] and the guy was saying yes, yes, don't worry. My ex clicked that he was trying to take the girl in the opposite direction, so she kicked the guy away, and
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pelicot case and *so many more*, this puts us all to shame, all of us.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't know about good men, here. If that's what good men are, we're truly lost. I feel like I would have acted to stop this sh*t when I was at uni, but... Can I be certain if what I'd have done? Whoever advocated for all men to be put on a rocket and sent into space was damn right. This, the
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
November is the last call for a complete repudiation of all this. If the result is nothing but a tepid electoral victory for the Dems, it's time to put the US in the "bad countries" bag for good.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Splendid
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I... I don't know about the straight face. It's drooping quite a bit.
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Weeee Wiiiiill Weeee Wiiiiill ROCK YOU! Boom boom PAH!
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Super intelligence is a cool name, Mike, but here we prefer to refer to AI as "Total ken" since we also like surreal absurd humour. So, what was decided about total ken?
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Done in the name of God : the descent into fascism in the US bsky.app/profile/seth...
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Alright, Candide. (Seriously though, nice choices, and picture)
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J 🍁🇫🇷 🇨🇦 @flyingjay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is going to ruin next month's independence referendum...
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