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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

So, you've heard about ASMR (unless you live under a rock) and may even be annoyed at the tsunami by now. BUT. As someone with ASMR since forever, I recently discovered I also have "Visual" ASMR. WTH. Do you without knowing it too? (The shivers all over one's scalp and neck are the giveaway.)

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3 Visual ASMR Triggers 😴

YouTube video by Keeruhh ASMR

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Reading about the "death" of Google-research leveraging web site traffic because AI now answers first and directly. Which today, following a question of mine, gave: "It's highly unlikely that Prince Andrew will resume public royal duties or visit Sainte-Rose, Laval, QC." Darn, I had hoped. Not. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Trump has removed, or tried to, 3 women from leading roles in art institutions: Deborah Rutter at Kennedy Center, Carla Hayden at Library of Congress and now Sajet at Smithsonian. The same happened in military. I’m surprised women are not up in arms and making this front page news… :(

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A first for me, tonight I came across a cookbook sold on Amazon and transparent (?) enough to list ChatGPT as a co-author. Just wow. Has anyone seen other books partly credited to AI? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#Montreal #desserts Trompe l’oeil pastries from ÔFauria in Laval, maybe 1 of 3 shops in Greater Montreal to follow the trend re-started by Cedric Grolet in France. Expensive ($19 each!) but really cool and delish. I took macaron lessons from chef Faure, happy to see the place was packed. ofauria.com

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The White House before and after. My, an image really is worth a thousand words. In plated gold, obvs. 🙈

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

´The man in black fled across the desert, and Mrs. Dalloway followed.´

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

#whatscooking Testing for new cookbook, pesto and parmesan flaky pastry straws. So easy it’s a wonder I never made these sooner (with store-bought pastry, let’s be real). 🍽️🍜

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Fun: ask Chat what it knows about you from interactions. «You prefer in-depth explanations rather than simplified ones. Your writing shows strong skills in investigation, fact-checking, and conceptual depth. You value precision, elegance, thoughtful articulation.» Oh, and I like melancholic music! 🙈

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This AI-generated short story by OpenAI is controversial for implicitely revealing it HAS been training on copyright fiction. It’s also so good it hurts on every level. Our world just turned on a dime. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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‘A machine-shaped hand’: Read a story from OpenAI’s new creative writing model

Posting the piece online, OpenAI’s Sam Altman said this is the first time he has been “really struck” by AI writing

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Sans mot - puisqu’il les énonce tous. (To American friends, go to YouTube, put caption and listen to what Europe is saying, it’s a lesson and a blueprint.) youtu.be/G-lh0TUTtvI?...

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Guerre en Ukraine : "Washington est devenu la cour de Néron", lance Claude Malhuret

YouTube video by Public Sénat

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Presque des Canadiens, oui. Et le sourire narquois qui dit: If you get it, you get it. If you don’t, I don’t care. Lol.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I had knee surgery 18 months ago, I spent a few days in hospital listening to Walter Isaacson’s bio of Vinci, my idol (Leo, not Walter). My friends and families were shaking their heads, like, so typical of her lol. Stories like this are my life. www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/s...

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Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo da Vinci in the late 1400s may have been found | CNN

Once only indicated through a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci from around 1495, concealed passageways have been discovered underneath the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

J’ai parlé à TANT d’éleveurs qui dénonçaient le manque d’abattoirs au Québec et des formalités défavorisant la culture culinaire locale. À quand de vraies actions par les gouvernements qui limitent VOTRE accès à VOTRE terroir? Si les gens savaient… ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...

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Autoriser la vente de viande d’animaux abattus à la ferme?

Des éleveurs du Québec voudraient que soit permise, comme c'est le cas en Colombie-Britannique, la commercialisation de viande d'animaux abattus à la ferme.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Tonight my 18 yr old arrived in Peru on a student volunteering and tourism trip with his school. They will take a day off to Aguas Calientes if anyone has tips on the best way to enjoy the town and Machu Picchu. To think he was 2 years old a second ago… #mommyblues #emptynest #Canadaproud

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I love historical fiction but all-men war novels, not so much. I actually restarted halfway through the audiobook so I could read the ebook at the same time because there are many characters and I was getting confused. Amazing narration by Bronson Pinchot and I was not a fan of his before either…

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The last day before petals fall. After 20yrs, he still brings flowers for Valentine’s Day. It took his (then) 12yr-old son telling him ´she doesn’t like roses’ for him to seek out tulips. He does. I blame reading Dumas’ La tulipe noire as a teen for my devotion to this simple flower with no perfume.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Kiddo had his driver license test today and it turned into a bureaucratic nightmare. No details needed but cocktails, oh yes. This is DIS/CO, i.e. 1 oz Amaretto Disaronno, 1 oz Southern Comfort and 1 oz jus lemon juice on ice, topped with ginger ale and cucumber garnish. I’m a cocktail fiend.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Dune has been winning all the sound awards and that’s no surprise when you consider this video about it. Yes, I’m a geek, I watch videos about sound FX from time to time. They are a fascinating look at how movies evoke a universe with a squich… youtu.be/Gkf_rdROyWw?...

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Dune | The Sounds of Dune | Behind The Scenes with Denis Villeneuve | Warner Bros. Entertainment

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Entertainment

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I decided to catch up on all those US movies I managed not to see along the years for no other reason than timing (plus I was into Quebec and European cinema back in the day). Now I want to redo Christmas lol. What movie has been on your radar for years and it just never happens?

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Il y a des néologismes que j’adore comme balado, égoportrait, etc. mais «jeune pousse» pour nommer une startup, pas capable. Trop près de la botanique. Parfois faut demander au traducteur de remettre et remettre sur le métier. Est-ce que le mot va gagner à l’usure vous pensez? Exemple:

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Elon Musk cherche à prendre le contrôle d’OpenAI

Un groupe d'investisseurs dirigé par Elon Musk essaie de racheter l'organisation à but non lucratif qui contrôle OpenAI, d'après des médias américains.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Aux USA, le prix des œufs frôle le 10$/douzaine et les épiceries imposent une limite d'achat. Le Canada est épargné pour l'instant, même si on vit aussi des hausses, à cause de facteurs dont la coopération, les méthodes d'élevage... et même le froid de poulet, euh, de canard. Je nous love.

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Le Canada doit-il avoir peur de la crise des œufs aux États-Unis?

Au sud de la frontière, leur prix explose et certains restaurants n’hésitent pas à refiler l’addition à leurs clients.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I rarely (never?) agreed with Stephen Harper. So this is a first. What times we live in lol!

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I'm not going to pretend I can always unravel the onion peels of a Kevin Williamson piece, but there are eye-watering moments always. Dixit Thomas More, then and still relevant right? "“We must just pray that when your head’s finished turning, your face is to the front again.” Amen to that.

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An All-American Heretic

On the apotheosis of Kendrick Lamar.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

There’s the “article” and then there’s the comments under. Pure gold.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I remember reading with fascination about the Vesuvius Challenge to decode ancient scrolls found near Pompei using the newest technology. The winner is one of the Muskrats. As a history buff who was cheering from the sidelines, it's so disheartening... :( hyperallergic.com/988091/why-i...

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Why Is There an Ancient Rome Researcher on Musk’s DOGE Staff?

Luke Farritor, who used AI to decode a Greco-Roman scroll from Pompeii, is reportedly part of the team leading Musk’s chaotic takeover of government systems.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I was late to the game and only started playing the NYT Connections archives in December. The last time the game stumped me was Christmas Eve. Does that mean I live rent-free in their head? Or vice-versa? 🤔

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A black singer singing music from a foreign country in front of a black president and First Lady. It seemed the perfect time to share and cleanse your wall…. youtu.be/G-oDk89yHzo?...

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Lenny Kravitz full unseen UNEDITED Performance from the Kennedy Honors Tribute to Led Zeppelin

YouTube video by Lenny Kravitz

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Canada not running down the 30 day extension to the trust-breaking Trump tariffs like it’s business as usual… My mailbox is full of press releases from Canadian and Quebec brands saying «Hey, we’re here, get to know us». Enchantée.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I came across this quote of G.K. Chesterton today. ‘’The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.’’ Fitting.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Un sommet organisé par Trudeau avec le milieu des affaires pour briser l'emprise des États-Unis sur l'économie du Canada à l'avenir. Dans la mesure où toutes mes chroniques dans le Elle et le Véro parlent presqu'exclusivement de produits locaux depuis 10+ ans, un seul commentaire: enfin!

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Justin Trudeau accueillera un sommet Canada-États-Unis vendredi

Le sommet est organisé avec les membres du Conseil sur les relations canado-américaines.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I’ve been warning nonstop around me about the dangers to Canadian dairy of all this tariff brouhaha. The US demand for greater access for their dairy poses an existential threat to farmers, the fabric of any country and backbone of its food sovereignty. As a food journalist, it keeps me up at night.

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Canadian farmers fear Trump’s beef with dairy

Canadian dairy farmers are bracing for the fallout of U.S. President Donald Trump’s longstanding beef with their industry now that he has been sworn in to office. They worry their industry may lose ou...

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Writing an article about sex and food, so of course I had to change my tablet wallpaper. Make of that what you will. 😗

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Canada Dry ginger ale (the only soda I drink) belongs to Keurig Dr Pepper, an American company, changing hands again and again over the past decades. Schweppes is also American. I’m going to need a good ginger ale syrup recipe, heavy on ginger, not too sweet, a tad spicy. If you have one.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’m not the only one who has done a #squidgame greatest hits where you replay only the games from seasons 1 and 2, right? 😱

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

@mcrouton.bsky.social I've never made my peace with grief, I'll never be grown-up enough, I guess. I'll leave book recommendations to others. But I wanted to say how sorry I was to read of your loss. No politics here, I came across this a week ago, he's right here although it's a painful truth...

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

#quebecrestos For a fresh take on French cuisine in Quebec City, Melba seduces. A small space w/a large brigade for attentive service, small plates to share and force negotiations 🤣 there was zero false note on my visit last year. Sry, no one wanted to stop eating to take pix lol. restaurantmelba.ca

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A burning car, explosives that damaged nearby buildings, blown out windows: someone wanted these artifacts very badly, it begs the question who. So many artworks and artefacts have been stolen (for private collectors?), it IS disheartening.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I’m a preppy kinda dresser but if I were in my 20s with a banging body, I would dress like this (once in a while lol). FKA Twigs crushing it during Rick Owens Paris fashion show.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I reached out to Amanda Hesser after someone serious told me she was the anonymous author behind this BDSM hen’s kitchen journey. Not so, Amanda confirmed, although the idea of such a book had her intrigued. So correcting my previous assertion not to spread rumours about the mysterious F.L. Fowler 🙈

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It was time for a new wallpaper. Reverting to a favourite in Basquiat. Something more peaceful might have been better advised. 🤔

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Yikes, inquiétant pour nos producteurs comme Canards du Lac Brome qui a travaillé si fort pour survivre une semblable épidémie en 2022. Et de plus en plus proche…

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Ryan Reads and Writes 📚✨ @ryanreadsandwrites.me · 21/01/2025

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The best of Canadian mornings, kiddo hitting the slopes of Morin Heights north of Montreal. Lazy snow, and the place is packed.

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Lynne Faubert 🇨🇦 @lynnefaubert.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

RIP Dame Joan Plowright. This video of 3 dames, in every way, talking and joking about working as an older actress was so funny. And now, 2 out of 3 have left us (Eileen Atkins is missing from this shorter version). It's heartbreaking really.

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Tea With The Dames - Clip "Hearing Aids" I HD I IFC Films

YouTube video by IFC Films

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