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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 4h

Covid-era Halloween gravestone, somehow still relevant.

⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've got my grade 9 tech class making wooden kazoos, adapted from Nick Offerman's woodworking book "Good Clean Fun". It's my absolute favourite grade 9 project. I just watched two of my students walk to their next class playing "Careless Whispers" together on their brand new handmade kazoos.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Watch this possum steal my cat's breakfast

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gowron should run for Premier of Alberta, the current government has no honour. youtu.be/4uVKHpZcR_g?...

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Poster touts Star Trek character as mayoral candidate

YouTube video by CTV News

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Carney laughs when a reporter asks how he responds to Trump saying Canada will come back saying “Sorry sir” youtu.be/4u3smSBRioI?...

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Mark Carney's VIRAL REACTION after Trump DEMANDS a CANADIAN APOLOGY

YouTube video by Diario AS

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My 16-yr-old and I watched the original Fargo on Friday night. (He loved it) At one point he says "All these people sound like Americans when they're trying to imitate a Canadian accent!" "Well, they know we're up here somewhere, so they assume we sound like Minnesotans."

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think it would be delightful if "Taco" held on in the English language long after Trump's gone, to refer to leaders and politicians backing down ignominiously, to the point where people have to look up the origin. That would be his greatest legacy. Like Quisling or Gerrymandering.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(since there's no thumbnail, it's PeePee and his wife doing a cringy rap trend thing)

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just in case anyone needed a "Your vs You're" grammar lesson today.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Only in Canada you say? Pity... Americans, if you want a piece of this, you'd better get that blighted turnip under control! financialpost.com/news/retail-...

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Overheard one of my grade 9s today. He takes off his baseball cap and holds it towards his friend. "This is the hat my Uncle died in... Do you want to smell it?

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bedrock me, Amadeus! I wonder if they sell brontosaurus burgers? Or giant racks of ribs that make your car fall over?

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is the last place you'd need drywall anchors.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I saw Trump gloating about Greenland last night, my reaction was “I bet those sneaky Danes just handed him back the 1951 agreement in a new duotang with a few shiny baubles” Jan Dehn: Denmark just got Trump to ramp up the defence of Greenland without making a single meaningful concession.

jandehn.com

How to turn Trump into your little biatch

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen just got Trump to ramp up the defence of Greenland without making a single meaningful concession. Other leaders should pay attention - this is how you turn Trum...

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As many Canadians are trying to support & transition to Canadian social networks, it would be nice if Toronto-based @fedica.com could add them. @gandersocial.ca is built on the same platform as Bluesky, I'd love to be able to post to both at the same time. Get @heycafe.bsky.social in there too.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I support Carney negotiating closer ties with the EU, but that doesn't mean I can't have a laugh at this meme from Spider-Man.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's probably all the cocaine. Or am I thinking too 80s. It's probably whatever rich people drug rich people casually consume this century. Sorry I'm from the 1900s.

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Funny, Frank Oz also plays the prison guard who returns John Belushi's possessions when he's released from prison at the beginning of Blues Brothers. The other Blues Brother of course was Dan Ackroyd. He apparently reprised the role on Blues Brothers 2000, but I don't really remember that film.

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Blues Brothers Prison Release

YouTube video by IRSunny

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This guy could have just gone with a simple "F*ck the GRT!" but now that just seems so... pedestrian.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here's me digging into details to find a Canadian-made barbecue sauce that is both produced in Canada, and produced by a Canadian brand. And here it is, the most Canadian bbq sauce I could find, at least at my local grocery store: Montana's Texas Bold BBQ.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The "Trade" war is best understood through the US National Security Strategy (2025) AKA the Don-roe doctrine. "If USAs closest neighbour can resist, the doctrine is dead." It's not about trade. For the Doctrine, a Canada with diversified trade is a prototype that cannot be allowed to succeed.

kevinboucher32.substack.com

Canada Isn't Turning to China. It's Doing Something Much More Dangerous.

The fight over Canada isn't about trade. It's about whether a sovereign country can diversify its way out of dependence — and what happens to American power if it does.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When you realize that you left THAT holodeck program running. Seriously, why don't they have holodeck passwords

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Did RFK Jr run over a groundhog and leave it on Trump's wig stand and hope nobody would notice?

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just keep right on driving past that Rona. You've got a Home Hardware around there somewhere. They have the little local stores, but the Home Hardware Building Centre is the one you want for all that lumber and building materials. The Building Centres are mostly former Beaver Lumber locations.

open.substack.com

Canada's Hardware Stores, Ranked by Who Really Owns Them

Is RONA Canadian-owned? I checked. The answer changed in 2023, and almost nobody noticed.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Everyone is enjoying the memes line and the shade line, but personally I think the sharpest barb here is “Stop trying to be tough.” Knowing the type of people that guys like Hegseth and Trump are, that's the part that will probably get under their skin the most.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Translated from the language of central bankers and prime ministers, Carney's message is this: We know you can hurt us. We have calculated the cost. The price of submission is higher.”

horatiovox.substack.com

WRITTEN IN PENCIL

CANADA IS SHOWING THE WORLD WHAT IT COSTS—AND WHAT IT MEANS—TO REFUSE AMERICAN COERCION

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1st day at a new school was 8 hours of info dumps. Also hard to get a word in edgewise. Now I'm at the dentist looking forward to a nice relaxing root canal where nobody is telling me anything and I can't see cause they have my glasses. I can just disassociate and let Air Supply take me away!

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Cause I don't believe for a second this is their actual longstanding policy about international bodies of water. When I zoom into the Rio Grande, I don't see Rio Bravo.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google posted this. I'm surprised, somebody at Google obviously had the sense to not show the bullshit name to 41 million amped up Canadians. We'd crash their feedback servers daily till they fixed it. Someone from the Toronto or Kitchener office must have spoken up at a meeting.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lol. Cmon. Did we need to google Hydronym? We all know what Hydro means from Hydroelectricity & hydraulics. Nym might be a little less obvious, but think for a sec. Pseudonym, acronym, demonym. As in "USA doesn't lend itself to a Demonym, so that's why they stole "American" from the whole continent"

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Charlie Angus points out that what we are witnessing in the first week of the trade war is the geopolitical equivalent of Muhammad Ali's famous strategy against George Foreman: The Rope-a-dope. He can explain it better than me, check it out:

charlieangus.substack.com

Lessons from the Rope-a-Dope

Canada has taken the measure of our enemy. We know exactly what we are up against.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If I zoom in on the Rio Grand, I don't see Rio Bravo in brackets underneath. If we see (Lake America) in brackets under Lake Ontario, not only will we fill Google's inboxes and feedback forms, we will also step up our degoogling efforts. I've been lazy about it but I can step it up.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The giant diaper baby actually signed the Lake Ontario order. Friends, google maps should only show that to people in the US. So if you're in Canada and you see (Lake America) in brackets under Lake Ontario, put @newsfromgoogle.bsky.social on notice: You'll hear from hordes of Canadians daily.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'd like to add two points: 1. There are more Bald Eagles in Canada than in the US. 2. A Bald Eagle sounds like the seagull all the other seagulls find annoying. The triumphant screech they usually insert over eagle footage is a Red Tailed Hawk. youtu.be/9RArGl2vkGI?...

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Call of a Bald Eagle

YouTube video by Tristan Findley

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Recently the White House posted a photo of a bald eagle beating up a Canada Goose, unaware that it was from a 2025 incident we all recall where the goose stood up for itself and ran the eagle off.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This week that misinformation campaign kicked into overdrive with the White House publishing their list of 12 unfair things Canada has done to poor widdle USA. I'm not going to link it, you can find it.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Trump admin has been engaged in a low-key misinformation campaign to paint a very particular picture of Canadians for a group of Gormless goobers who are basically empty vessels when it comes to Canada: All they know about us is what they've been told.

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I started calling this out last winter when the MAGA flying monkeys kept harping on MAID, and then the wildfire smoke and our alleged forest mismanagement:

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some of you have seen me write this before: The average Trump voter has never been arsed to learn one thing about Canada outside of South Park or Bob and Doug McKenzie if they're my age. They are a blank canvas.

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Dan Gardner (@dgardner)

The New York Times article below underscores a major fear I have. Americans don’t pay attention to Canada, as every Canadian knows, and reporting on US-Canada relations since Trump returned to power...

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

He knows exactly what kind of downhome Ontario boy act will make people think he's one of the boys at the rink. He's still going to turn around and slash education funding and healthcare, and cut deals that benefit the kind of real estate bros who love Trump.

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