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@maligator.bsky.social
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Gen-X dog lover, PhD, researcher, writer, and curious traveller. Displaced YVRer living in YYZ 🍁

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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 02/03/2026
Looks like I RTed the fake one and hadn’t seen the original. Apologies. The original is better.
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Snowshoe Hare had received a telegram from Dorset in England. He read it inside the warmth of a coffee shop, before joining the crowds again, he read it with tears stinging his eyes, he read it listening to shouts and distant gun shots, he read it with a fierce anger rising inside, he read it whilst his heart ached inside his chest, and then he folded the thin paper into a talisman to keep it safe. And he spoke the words aloud:
"We are with you. England is with you. Europe is with you. History is with you. We are all Minnesotans until every last one of you is safe, until goodness and kindness prevails.  – Old Fox."
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 30/10/2025
Hey folks. I am blowing out all of my paper prints. 50% off all 53 different prints. There will be no more reorders on stock so once they're gone, they're gone. Shipping in Canada is $25 so buy 2+ Sorry no US orders. I can ship to Europe & Mexico. earthskyart.ca/product-cate...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
WTF? The stories just keep getting worse.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Canadian Medical Association warns misinformation is causing serious harm #CMA #Canada #Health www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Canadian Medical Association warns misinformation is causing serious harm
The Canadian Medical Association says science is under attack and the normalization of health-related misinformation is putting lives at risk.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Q: “Are you worried all this pushback could provoke Trump to follow-through with sending the National Guard?” MAYOR @brandon4chicago.bsky.social Johnson: “As a descendant of slaves, can you imagine if my ancestors had that same rationale?“
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
FFS. I mean it's not surprising and given the gutting to intelligence agencies, who knows how reliable the intel is anyway. The remaining Four Eyes better have a robust plan because the US is leaving itself wide open to its enemies, and the rest of us as well.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 15/08/2025
“MAGA and their Conservative collaborators are the biggest threat to Canada right now. The MAGA cancer has been growing within Canada for years, aided by a Conservative Party whose ideology is dominated by American-funded libertarian think tanks that traffic in disinformation.” @taylornoakes.com
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Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 14/08/2025
“Never before has a Canadian politician shared so much disinformation unchecked. As Pierre Poilievre tries to weasel his way back into Parliament, our legacy media still refuses to call out his lies or question his ties to Canada Proud, who ran disinformation campaigns targeting our prime minister.”
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Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Sir Rod Stewart finished a show recently by adding something he found on the Internet. The fact that Americans didn’t fight back about the 51st state blather was particularly galling - Greenland got more respect.
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Canada Will Survive (Canada Tribute) Finale - Rod Stewart - Toronto, Canada, July 22, 2025
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Artwork by US artist Sarah Jacoby. #Womensart #Thursday
Print featuring many stylised simple figures on bicycles as if in a large race going towards the right
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The price of misinformation: the health and lives of our children.
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This is so infuriating. Ottawa should absolutely reintroduce safe drinking water legislation.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what climatologists are calling a ‘catastrophic’ tipping point in the global climate system.” #ClimateCrisis
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Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse
A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what climatologists are calling a ...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/07/2025
"There’s no messiah who will sweep in and make everything better. That’s up to you and me." Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance | Ordinary people have more power than they know. Read it + share it with a friend: trib.al/pAjBVa2
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Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Young Woman with Flowers, 1918 by May Swanzy, one of the first Irish painters to experiment in Avant Garde styles #WomensArt
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Baby mermaid (c.2013) by US artist Christina Bothwell #womensart
Photo featuring a small sculpture resembling a transparent fish with  curled up white baby inside
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
We older folks will remember (but you younger folks may be interested to hear) the short song Plane Wreck at Los Gatos, by Woody Guthrie. It's named for a 1948 plane crash near Fresno that killed 28 migrant farm workers who were being deported. Woody's son Arlo & ... 🧵1/3 youtu.be/qu-duTWccyI?...
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Deportee (Plane Crash At Los Gatos) Woody Guthrie
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I’ll say it again — Metro Vancouver is THE North American hotbed for transit-oriented development. No other North American region comes close. Today was DAY 1 of 4 days of “deep dives” where I’m touring municipal leaders from Ontario, riding skytrain lines & digging into transformed station areas.
Station Square TOD area in BurnabyMetrotown Station area in BurnabyGround plane and street cross-section, Metrotown in BurnabyStation Square “Main Street” in Burnaby
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🔥 WAREHOUSE & SHIPPING WORKERS AGAINST ICE: “The only minority that’s a threat to this country are billionaires.”
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This is wild and kinda cool...
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is exactly what needs to happen.
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a Page in your life 🍁📎 @sailorgirl2017.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
We need to support indie media so the well-funded disinformation peddlers don't have the loudest voices. Great read about the chaos at the English debate.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
They were all so sure it was all talk. I'd laugh but they fucked all of us.
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
By the midterms, it will be too late...
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A lot has happened in 6 weeks. Premiers conference asking us to spend money in the country. Trudeau's hot mic "the US is serious.' Trudeau's war address. Carney s war address. But we changed the landscape of the grocery stores in less than two months. Just by our actions.
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Proconsul 🇨🇦 @proconsul.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Canada must own its digital destiny. A national, Blackberry-powered, ultra-secure telecom network will make us the global leader in cybersecurity and innovation. No more foreign control. No more overpriced, insecure service. The future is ours, if we want it. proconsul.ghost.io/project-elbo...
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Project Elbows Up
The Case for a Canadian-Owned, Blackberry-Based, Secure Communications Network In an era where digital infrastructure is as vital as roads, water, and energy, Canada stands at a crossroads. The telec...
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a Page in your life 🍁📎 @sailorgirl2017.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
As Europe & the world look at Ukraine as the canary in the coalmine of Putin's intent, others are now looking at Canada in the same light. We are in dangerous territory. Every USian should share this with those who think Krasnov's plan is a good idea. #ElbowsUp youtu.be/yG9kCNnyMTQ?...
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What can be done to save Canada from Trump’s control?
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 13/03/2025
This gets at something that hasn’t sat well with me, from Jon Stewart’s “labradoodle of allies” comment onwards. Even many liberal Americans often don’t take Canada seriously, and so threats to our sovereignty aren’t being taken seriously either #cdnpoli apple.news/A4AUgKSmUQUW...
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Maybe Americans Shouldn’t Have Treated Canada as a Punch Line All These Years? — Slate
Maybe when a top ally isn’t in on the joke, it’s not just a joke.
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is why I love Toronto 😉
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
BREAKING: Maxine Waters just dropped the bomb—Elon Musk ‘may have’ hacked the election for Trump. We’re living in a tech-controlled dictatorship, not a democracy.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/03/2025
As the United States launches an imperialist trade war against Canada and Mexico, it’s time for countries to come together to form an alliance against the US — and that includes rapidly curtailing their dependence on Silicon Valley. The US can’t be allowed to get away with this.
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We need an international alliance against the US and its tech industry
The United States must face consequences for economic warfare
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Shawn McClure @shawnmcclure.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Don't pray—learn as much as you can and act. Don't send thoughts—reach out and help directly. Don't have faith—be responsible for yourself. Don't hope—take action and make things happen. Fortune favors those who don't rely on absurd beliefs and try to outsource their destiny.
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I spent an afternoon at Parkdale Junior & Senior Public School, where @sistematoronto.bsky.social runs an intensive after-school music program for kids. For parents and educators, it's an exemplary model of what cost- and barrier-free education looks like. www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
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The pandemic was rough on kids — and parents. This free music program offers hope, joy and a bit of raucous fun: ‘It’s like school, but special’
Sistema Toronto offers barrier-free musical education to hundreds of children in underserved communities. Can they double their reach?
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Graeme MacKay @mackaycartoons.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
All the Kings’ pets…
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"Every gesture counts."
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
RISE. THE FUCK. UP.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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Det. Vera, CSI @veradarkmatter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Have courage Stand up to bullies Be like President Zelenskyy
a tabby and white cat is pictured sitting on her haunches, looking directly at the camera. Behind her is her is the blue and gold Ukrainian flag.
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is exactly what's going on, and the rest of the world needs to understand what we're dealing with.
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It's so frustrating living here when all the urban people vote red or orange and all the rural/suburban/exhurban people are awash in FB memes.
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@tylerwatt.bsky.social Congratulations on your well deserved win!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/02/2025
The president of the United States is using AI slop to sell war crimes and a potential genocide he considers a real estate deal. It is pitching ethnic cleansing with a meme.
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Trump posts AI video of ethnically cleansed Gaza
The president of the United States is using AI slop to sell war crimes and potential genocide.
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Although this is not a surprise, it's still a f*cking tragedy.
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maligator.bsky.social 🍁 @maligator.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Nate does good work in bringing corruption to light. Please help if you can!
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