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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Sure. “Invasive lizards” seems like a pretty lightweight catastrophe right now. I didn’t even hang around to get more info.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And yet, (many) Albertans just can't let go of their fantasies that they're being denied their right to unfettered capitalism by everybody else.

Occupational licensing rates across Canada showing that Alberta requires the most licenses (73) and PEI requires the fewest (41), with the national average at 55.2.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What’s an example of perfect casting?

Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is where we are now. Canadian Tire wants me to work for them for free. Basically asking me to volunteer to help sell their goods, enabling them to employ fewer people. But keep all the profit for themselves.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Had behind the scenes tour of Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society today (VAMMR). They rehabilitate seals, otters, sea lions and even the occasional cetacean. Also have world renowned program to disentangle creatures caught up in our sea garbage. Blue bins are ICU units. Great org!

Marine Mammal Reacue Centre humble headquarters on the Port of Vancouver docks. It’s a portable.

A tent full of big blue bins that are actually ICU units for seals and otters who are brought into VAMMR for treatment. About half these bins have young seals in them, some of them still with their preemie baby fur. Because the rescue centre is located right in the dock they’re able to draw water straight in from the harbor, which helps the animals when it’s time for reentry.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Cookie wants to know why everyone isn't walking at the creek.

Standard poodle looking at the camera with a smile, next to a creek.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Sid and Nancy Motorcycle Diaries Prick Up Your Ears Monster Rocketman A Complete Unknown Iris Ed Wood

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I have no doubt this is accurate.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I needed to distract from the horrors today. I feel insulted the WH doesn’t find a competent person to apply the right cover up. Either leave it alone or do it right. We aren’t stupid and it’s not hard. I banged my hand. Very similar bruise to the Orange Asshole. Before and after applying cover up.

Bad Fascist in the WH style hand bruise.

Same hand after competent application of cover up. No bruise showing.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

(This isn't just directed at the NYTimes.) Stop with the relentless insistence that we move on, move on. There. Are. No. Scars. Yet. It is still an open wound. Sorry that the complex geopolitics of the real world don't conform to the drive of the news cycle. BUT THEY DON'T. So back off!

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Racists always assume that their obsession with race is shared by everyone. As a result, they think multiculturalism is a weak stance that can't inspire people. Tell the people of Sarajevo and the larger Bosnia-Herzegovina that nobody dies to defend multiculturalism.

Typical racist shit spewed by the richest idiot on the planet.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Ah, but Harari's 'lane' is the entire history of man, apparently.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

1990. Ah, the satire was so much easier back then. #Canada #theonion #ElbowsUp

Headline for paper version of The Onion from 1990: “Canada signs non-aggression pact with the US”

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Anytime any of them buys a beer in the hotel bar, or pays for a coffee in Target, the people behind the counter are (or should be) writing down their names. They can't keep hiding.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Maybe the dementia patient gets lost?

Image shows tacky new, gold cursive sign outside the Oval Office saying, wait for it...The Oval Office.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

It means nothing if they don't also strip him of the rest of the perks that Charles has quietly been bankrolling, like having this place to live in. Poooooooor Andy. gmafb

Aerial shot of Royal Lodge, the Windsor Park home of the pedophile, Andrew Windsor.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Cool. So that 'extra-judicial killing' thing? There are these guys who just killed 11 people in a boat. Once you're settled in to your new job, hit me up for their deets. I know where they live.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Thank you, Levi Weaver @threetwoeephus.bsky.social‬. I'll take lovely prose anywhere I can find it. In this case, Weaver's ruminations on hope and the announcement of next year's MLB schedule.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Cookie says Happy International Dog Day! And yesterday was the 1 year anniversary of her gotcha day. So we’re doing double celebrations here!

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Break the premise. The fascists have already broken every premise they hate. Why aren't we doing the same?

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Maybe someone could just give him a little pretend award. Like Shirley Temple’s:

Shirley Temple holding small replica of an Oscar.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This image has increasingly been in my mind.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I have questions. What was the life path that convinced Vincent Price’s grandson to become an English butler? And did he know that he was also going to be asked to run the BLS?

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Cookie was trying to keep up with the news. But it’s all just too much.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Yeah. I don't get all the hand wringing. Every person who's left X say it's a wasteland of Nazis and bots. And evidence shows that the bots even outnumber the Nazis.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Because the US doesn't need any damn foreign copper! 🙄

Clip from Reuters story about copper production.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Thanks, I needed that! And here's a return gift, from Pacific Rim outside Tofino.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Headline: Trump is Breaking the Law Again by Accepting Another Bribe from Foreigners (there, I fixed it for you)

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Some will see this is a sign Canada doesn't need to worry so much. They'll argue we should ease our stance. They'll insist they were right and it was all overblown. NO! We've not been a target (again) in this round because we've made it clear we aren't to be f**ked with. #elbowsup #canadasky

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

3 of the 5 from Big Little Lies and all for slightly different reasons. Only Reese and Shailene would vax.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Yeah, thanks but no. The women would prefer to take care of our own defences.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A quote in Edsall's piece today pretty much sums it up. But this is the issue - it quickly creates a new equilibrium, but it's not sustainalbe if various services and standards are negatively impacted. The big question will be how long and how much Americans will stand for a decline in standards.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Not hard to see that the neo-Nazi, far-right AfD party appeals to people in what was East Germany. This is the part of Germany that never had to grapple with the legacies of the Third Reich. Its population was told that the liberal, capitalist West was the source of Nazism.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Everyone is so busy gushing about Mills (don't get me wrong - she's a badass.) How about shitting on all the spineless, silent governors who just sat there taking it? How about heaping giant piles of steaming contempt onto the heads of all the governors who've caved to the demand!?!

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is breathtaking. Calculated and proud cruelty towards vulnerable kids. It’s becoming clearer and clearer that we are FAR from reaching the bottom of their depravity.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It looks like DOGE will get access to the IDRS. Print out your most current social security summary and the letter stating whether you're getting any benefit. It has a barcode that links to your account. Hopefully, these can be used to help claim what's yours if they break the system.

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Good thing Michael Stuhlbarg is available.

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