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@mellow4ever.bsky.social
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Bookworm, Leafs fan, cat lover, proud union member and leftist dilettante. Half Irish, half human, all Canadian. 🇨🇦#ElbowsUp

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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Here's the best answer to your question I've seen:
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Go Sammy go! Here's a pic of my cat exercising.
A cat lying on a scratching post, with two front paws hanging down.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Um...
Text explaining that baby otters need to learn how to swim
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Miami, Fla.? Are you sure about that?
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
At that price point, I think they're meant to go with the There Will Be Blood-Red Christmas trees.
Photo of two parallel rows of blood-red artificial Christmas trees in the White House
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Then this must be Freddie's great great great great great grandchild 😺
Photo of a tabby cat sitting in a kitchen sink
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Hear, hear! Bring back the blue berets!
Screenshot of the light blue beret worn by UN peacekeepers.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is how Evel Knieval would've looked if he'd performed in a 1980s Battle of the Bands instead of jumping 30 school buses on a tricked out motorcycle 🤣
Photo portrait of motorcycle stunt rider Evel Knieval in stars and stripes leathers.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Tell me about it 😁
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Turn about is fair play. (Yes, this is AI. No, Pope Leo XIV did not troll Trump.)
An AI-generated image of new pope Leo XIV as the sitting president of the U.S.A. Text above the image reads "Pope publishes photo dressed as president."
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Are you stalking me?
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I knew Melania reminded me of someone.
Image of Spy vs. Spy, with spy in white on the left and spy in black on the right.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I knew Melania reminded me of someone.
Image of Spy vs. Spy, spy in white on left, spy in black on right.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
To keep with the sports metaphors, Americans should look to the national passtime - baseball - and that saying about always sliding into 2nd base with your "spikes up."
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Does this remind anyone else of Obama's portrait?
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Houston, we have a new problem.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
A big thank you to The Netherlands for honouring Canada's Second World War veterans. We appreciate your gratitude.
CBC News headline that reads, "Remarkable scenes of gratitude greet Canadian war veterans in the Netherlands.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I knew there was a good reason to screenshot Jon Cooper's post in January.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Here's something really atrocious about American health insurance companies. I'm guessing it didn't get much media attention in the U.S.
Screenshot of a CBC headline about how U.S. health insurance companies lied to Americans about Canadian healthcare.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Also, just for you, here's a pic of some Alberta Hoodoos
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
But not to worry, here comes Pokey to save the day!
Photo of Pokey from Gumby and Pokey
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Thank you for letting people know. For everyone not familiar with the Norwegian royal family, here's a pic of their actual king. At the age of 88, he's still better looking and in better shape than Drumpf.
Screenshot of a photo of King Harald V of Norway.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I knew my Gumby would come in handy one day. This is him pre-microwaved and sitting on a Yo-Yo.
Photo of a Gumby seated on a yo-yo.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The last thing Macron wants is a photo of him shaking hands with Trump to appear on the front page of every newspaper in Europe.
Screenshot of a brief summary of France's Vichy government's collaboration with Hitler.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I see your Babs and raise you a 3-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Esther Williams.
Black and white photo of Esther Williams seated facing the back of a kitchen chair.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
My niece's husband made this canoe-on-a-paddle candlestick for me. Notwithstanding the aerial photograph I have of the lake where my cottage is, the candlestick is the most Canadian thing I own.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I thought my little honey badger was the only cat to hang ten like that. Guess not. Happy #caturday , Stove.
A cat lies on the platform of a scratching post with her two front legs hanging off the front.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Now I understand how Gotham ended up with this guy.
Screenshot of Danny Devito in costume as the Penguin from 1992's Batman Returns.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Don't be fooled. Poilievre is the same derp who, in 2008, had to issue a public apology after saying residential school survivors needed "a stronger work ethic, not more compensation."
Pierre Poilievre as a baby-faced derp in the House of Commons in 2008.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
You're not wrong. Here's Boris Badenov, the Russian bad guy from the animated series Rocky and Bullwinkle. He's a dead ringer for that Russian dildo!
Screenshot of Russian bad guy Boris Badenov, from the animated series Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Um, Leon's is a Canadian company.
Excerpt from a wikipedia page about ownership of Leon's furniture stores.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
(2/2)...to election campaigns, whether it be your own or someone else's. Strict donation limits also apply to corporations, unions, etc. These limits are effective in preventing big money from influencing elections here.
Screenshot of chart showing limits on individual campaign contributions for Canadian federal elections.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
As Confucius once said, "study the past if you would define the future." PP's voting record in the recent past says it all.
Screenshot of a post on Bluesky that lists Pierre Poilievre's voting record for the last several years.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Your post has warmed the cockles of this old English teacher's heart. New words ARE fun!
Screenshot of the dictionary definition of the words "mewling" and "mewl."
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Did Clint Eastwood come to speak to the empty chair?
Clint Eastwood debates an empty chair during the 2012 Republican National Convention.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Wish I could be there. One question: was the decision to use Conservative Party colours in your advertising deliberate?
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
That's freaking hilarious! Next thing you know, Trump's going to demand that Canada label this guy a terrorist. #GetCracking
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Aha!
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Good luck. If it works, make sure to trademark it.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Aww...Well, here's a couple of bee pics to make you feel better 🐝
Close-up of bees in honeycombClose-up of a bee on a dandylion
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Don't have to ask me twice to post pics of my kitty.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Mine was a sink-lover from the start.
Tabby kitten sitting in a metal sink
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
There's only one thing left to emulate now.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Trump is desperate to gain access to our dairy industry. Apparently, it was Trudeau's refusal during this week's phone call with Drumpf that caused the orange one to use vulgar language during the call. To be clear, only Trump swore, not Trudeau.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Hey, everyone: Not one of Mark's 21 posts/replies is more than an hour old, and he seems to struggle with basic English syntax. How's the weather in Ruzzia today, "Mark"?
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Try to keep up.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I'm too lazy to type the full title, so here's a screenshot of it.
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Have you heard his new attack ad? In it, he calls Mark Carney "carbon tax Carney" which is odd, given that Carney announced weeks ago that, if elected as PM, he would scrap the consumer carbon tax.
Screen grab of CTV headline which reads "If he becomes prime minister, Mark Carney will 'immediately remove' the consumer carbon tax"
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🇨🇦What's in a Name🇨🇦 @mellow4ever.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I don't have a photo to share (they're all with my brother in Ontario) but my father served in the RCAF and was stationed in Gander, Newfoundland. Gander, with a population under 10,000, took in 38 U.S.-bound commercial airliners on 9/11.
Screen grab of the 9/11 museum's "Generosity of Gander, Nfld." exhibit
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