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paisley rae

@paisleyrae.bsky.social
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i have opinions on things i mostly keep to myself, unless asked. i have done some things i mostly keep to myself, unless asked. i have gone places and seen things i mostly share with you. #366,390 if you’re curious. likely to follow back if you converse

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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
it's been a bit, have a #naturespam
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
carney's address to the wef is worth the 17 minute listen: m.youtube.com/watch?v=btqH...
m.youtube.com
Mark Carney's full speech at the World Economic Forum
YouTube video by National Post
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
the united stated of vineland?
a map of the usa with a flag of denmark overlaid across
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
happy new year from #naturespam world
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
i feel like treachery - as defined by idiots who don't understand the concept - is your duty as a global citizen. but what do i know? i hang out in the woods away from humans much of the time. have a #naturespam.
this little waterfall that's usually no wider than the length of my hand does something magical every winter. it transforms slowly into a 20 foot wide and hundred foot high art installation - one tiny drop at a time.

it was too windy to get audio of the gentle crystal ting sounds it makes - a kind of ice music as the weight of it all grows and shifts.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 23/12/2025
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery." 🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
hey, can you do me a favour and just look at this larch? #naturespam
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
proof of life #naturespam
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
ok, but is bubba the ex-president or is bubba ghislaine maxwell's horse?
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
i know not everyone uses the chinese spy app, but i really need you to watch the funniest thing i have seen in years.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
this is a real ad being pushed out in games that young people play... i have concerns about the future, to be honest with you.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
here, have a bite of waterfall #naturespam
the cold is coming. it was a swift overnight change to orange crunchy leaves on the ground. i think i had my last swim of the year and didn't realize it.

in the distant background of this image is a glacier-striped mountain lightly wrapped in fog. talk, thin conifers cling to a narrow ridge of stone at the crest of a waterfall. in the foreground, the edge of a steep canyon, with dry grasses turned gold and a handful of orange leaves strewn about by the breeze.

the time for staying indoors is nearly here.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
hey, so, uh... for anyone who didn't grow up in a fundamentalist evangelical environment and you're wondering about all this rapture talk... it's heresy and not even biblical. it has been used for almost 200 years as a cudgel to terrify church goers.
knowingthebible.net
The Rapture Is Not in the Bible
The doctrine of the is not found in the Bible. And no Christian believed in the doctrine of the rapture in any Christian literature prior to 1830.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
rocks, paper... #naturespam
some tibetan prayer flags are strung on a branch jammed into a rock pile at the top of a mountain.

the sun has set and leaves only a crimson blur at the horizon of more mountains.

the sky is hazy from light snow and wildfire smoke...a strange combination.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
italy opens the door to chemical castration for rapists and pedophiles www.politico.eu/article/ital...
a fine modern invention - The Weiner Slicer!

tired of slicing up weiners one a time? struggle no more!

the weiner slicer quickly slices hot dogs and bananas. *wink wink* it's easy to clean and maintain and the weiner slicer is versatile; it works on soft fruits and on sausages. and its compact design saves on kitchen space!
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
here, have some flowers #naturespam
some rough brush grows next to the waterline. the tide is out. there are small white flowers clinging to life on the branches amongst the fallen trees and sand.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
here, enjoy some lake #naturespam
once again, i am posting a picture of mountains and trees and clouds and some kind of water. 

today's flavour is glacier-capped mountains stretching off into the distance like some kind of sugar-topped pastry. there are two layers of clouds. one, fluffy like cotton balls hugging the mountain peaks, ready to drop snow on them. the higher level of clouds are wispy like an overactive spiderweb. 

in the center of the image is one of those unreal blue lakes made interesting by the mixture of sun and shade from the cloud cover. it's a calm day, so the lake is perfect and still like a glass coffee table top.

sure, i got mildly snowed on, but as the kids are currently fond of saying at the moment, i am rich because i've seen this with my own eyes.

the alpine air smelled sweet like the tiny wildflowers that valiantly cling to the rock and earthy and slightly metallic from the clay that permeates the lake and gives it its unbelievable colour. something something reynaud's scattering - the same effect that makes some eyes or blue jay feathers appear blue.

as i was drinking my mug of hibiscus tea and looking out at all this, i was thinking about how that unholy blue is really the nothingness of space being reflected back. 

my eyes aren't really blue and neither is that lake or the sky, for that matter. but blue is what i experience of it.

one perception is that something is nothing and another is that it is a wonder to behold and stand in awe of it.

i think both are useful, in varying degrees.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
in case you're not terminally online, apparently the bullet that killed charlie kirk had "notices bulge. uwu what's this?" engraved in it. it's an old furry meme. this is some 4chan nonsense.
trending.knowyourmeme.com
What Is The 'Notices Bulge, OwO What's This' Meme? The Phrase Inscribed On The Casing Of The Bullet Fired At Charlie Kirk Explained
Charlie Kirk's assassin was caught, and according to reports, the casing from the bullet fired at Kirk read, "Notices bulges, OwO What's This?" Here's an explanation of the meme, and why it's garnerin...
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
i know there's a lot of scolding happening right now... but it's ok if you can't muster any compassion for a person who spent their life defending school shootings who then died in, technically, a school shooting. it's not the height of indecency or the downfall of society or you're just as bad.
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Lord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We are all lying in the gutter but some of us are also drowning in a shallow pool of raw sewage.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
have another #naturespam
i didn't follow the ridge all the way to the end because the wind gusts were so intense, i would have had to scooch there on my behind to keep from toppling off.

for anyone who struggles to see, this image is the ridgeline of a mountain in the centre foreground. it's just wide enough for two boots side-by-side with a sheer drop of several hundred feet on both sides. in the distance, the grey-blue peaks of endless rocky mountains unfold until the horizon.

a small valley, verdant with a winding river, nestled in the distance to the right provides contrast to the wildfire hazed peaks dotted with glaciers.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
here, i took a walk so you didn't have to. #naturespam
it's some rocks and the sky...a subject i post a lot. these ones just had slightly more interesting shapes than many of the others i saw that day.

the sun is setting, the sky is starting to turn golden-orange. i think those are cirrus clouds, but i fear to type that with certainty in case the weather obsessive discover me and freak out. but the clouds are whispy and undulate like a horse's tail waving as it runs. 

in the middle ground is a series of mountaintops that stack like shuffled cards. perfect and even. 

in the foreground are the chunky rocks of the mountain ridge i was standing on as i set up my tent for the night. in case you've never had the pleasure, i discovered it's time to buy a new sleeping mat because good lord, the one i have simply is not sufficient for sleeping on gravel. this was also my 12 or 13 year old tent's final journey. the wind wasn't particularly violent, but it was persistently gusting enough that the rain seals gave up the ghost and the seams are ready to die as well.

i have no interest in hand-stitching an entire tent.

it's okay to let go of things, sometimes.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🎻🎻🎻
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
i'll take pictures next time, i was too hungry today but if you add a little red food colouring into your butter it's now corn on the macabre.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
today i learned this exists
a screencap of a warning tag on a skeet assigned by bluesky reads:

Rude

Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose.

Source: @moderation.bsky.app
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
anyway, here are some cool spheroid rocks in southern alberta #naturespam
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
so many butthurt stem folks in my mentions who are just demonstrating my point. what a wild thing to wake up to.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
anyway, here's some lichen growing on a tree branch near temiskaming.
a small tree branch is covered in beautifully textured lichen
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
we've spent decades telling young people that only STEM has value and now they can't think critically, make inferences from what they read and use chatgpt instead of their own brains. because they were told there was no value in their expression of self.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
i grow increasingly resentful of the impact that listicle internet has had on storytelling for the general public. once you start noticing it, you can't unnotice it.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
hashtag hopecore
a coven of witches surround a mouldy orange inside a pentagram
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
here, enjoy a big rock #naturespam
it's just a mountain viewed from the bottom. at the centre of the image is one of those deliciously droopy conifers that i don't know the name of but enjoy a great deal
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
i'm late for #thicktrunkthursday
a tight upward angle of a thick ass tree
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
the two main characters from the show 'wellington paranormal' are seated on satan's lap on a huge gold throne in an awkward family holiday style photo.

i'm not trying to tell you what to do with your life, but if you like silliness and you haven't watched this show for free of the cbc gem app, you make poor life choices and i'm ashamed of you. lotta judgment coming your way from me.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
it's too hot out. have some snow to look at. #naturespam
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
hey. i saw this frog and now you have to look at it too. #naturespam
a green frog with round brown dots on its body hides itself under a sparse patch of grass as it rests on a soft clump of moss.

you can see the look in its bulging eyes that it thinks it's really slick and getting away with it...we see you frog. we see you.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
here. have some pelican butts. #naturespam
a group of six pelicans sit in the middle of a saltwater lake in big quill lake, saskatchewan. it's a weird little detour on a gravel road to take off of the yellowhead highway east of saskatoon but for several kilometres there are two saltwater lakes - one on each side of the road and the water goes as far as your eyes can see. after driving in endless prairie grassland for almost a full day, it's a surprising thing to discover.

the saltwater attracts interesting species you wouldn't expect to take up residence in...saskatchewan. but here they are, just a few members of a thriving colony of sea birds relaxing in the middle of a prairie.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
this time, not a guillotine but an AR-15... my, my. what interesting times.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
spaghetti carbonara is breakfast spaghetti #startinginconsequentialfights
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
the meat grinder of capitalism has no taste buds. it craves only flesh no matter the flavour. if allowed to eat one, it will consume all.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
montreal-based gardaworld wins $10M contract to provide security at alligator auschwitz
montrealgazette.com
Montreal-based ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ security contractor posts jobs for armed guards
Listing advertises US$25 an hour for up to 60 hours per week, with flights, meals and accommodation included.
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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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