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Sylvie Bérard 🏳️‍🌈

@sybermoi.bsky.social
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Professor, scholar, science fiction writer, poet, translator. Queer francophone in Ontario. (I might follow back if your profile tells me something about you.) linktr.ee/sberard sylvieberard.net omada.ca/artistes/berard-sylvie

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/06/2026
Exclusive: New photos show that President Trump’s name is indeed off the Kennedy Center, offering the first public look at the performing arts venue’s facade since crews removed the letters by court order.
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New photos show first look at Kennedy Center facade without Trump’s name
The images were taken from inside the tarp-covered scaffolding that has blocked the public’s view for more than a week.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 02/06/2026
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Ford government moves to shut Ontario legislature until October
Opposition charges move is meant to shield Premier from scrutiny
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 23/02/2026
"The U.S. Women's Hockey Team said it is declining President Donald Trump's invitation to attend his State of the Union address, a day after the president jokingly told the U.S. men's hockey team that he would be impeached if he didn't also invite the women's team."
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U.S. Women's Hockey Team declines Trump's invitation to the State of the Union
President Donald Trump invited the men's and women's hockey teams after both won gold medals in overtime games against Canada.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Trans people could remove ‘deadname’ from Gmail address under new changes www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/27/gmai…
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Gmail to allow trans users to remove 'deadname' from email
Trans people could be able to remove their 'deadname' from Gmail.com email addresses under new proposed changes.
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Francis Beaulieu 🇨🇦 @francisb-sciences.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
C'est ça qui est ça...😌
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Sylvie Bérard 🏳️‍🌈 @sybermoi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Amazing: 100 Assignments From Nayland Blake hyperallergic.com/1040396/100-...
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100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While ­these assignments ­will not turn someone ­else into me, they ­will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
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Marie-Josée Martin @mariejomartin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Bravo @sybermoi.bsky.social pour ton GG! conseildesarts.ca/medias/2025/...
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Les gagnants des LivresGG de 2025 sont dévoilés
Découvrez les livres gagnants des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général de 2025.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/11/2025
It's almost like trans people told you all along!!!
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 05/11/2025
Suspension de Shein en France : le gouvernement se lance dans un combat inédit
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Suspension de Shein en France : le gouvernement se lance dans un combat inédit
L’exécutif a engagé une procédure dans le but de bloquer en France le site du géant de l’e-commerce, à la suite du scandale de la vente des poupées pédopornographiques. L’initiative satisfait le secteur tricolore de l’habillement, dont Shein est la bête noire, mais elle n’est pas sans risque juridique.
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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 26/10/2025
L’enseignement du 6e art au Québec a évolué au rythme de la société depuis 1960, mais les bases demeurent les mêmes.
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L’École nationale de théâtre, 65 ans de jeu
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Philadelphia Gay News @phillygaynews.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"Gender-affirming care is not an abstract issue — it is life-saving health care," writes Joseph Torre of the Resilience Resource Center. "For our young people, it is the difference between fear and hope, despair and possibility." epgn.com/2025/10/16/g...
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Gov. Shapiro listened to young Pennsylvanians — and then he acted - Philadelphia Gay News
Gov. Josh Shapiro met with young people from the Resilience Resource Center and LGBTQ+ communities across Pennsylvania — and then he acted.
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Sylvie Bérard 🏳️‍🌈 @sybermoi.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“It’s hard to imagine a clearer metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency than bulldozers tearing through the East Wing of the White House.” www.patreon.com/posts/141829...
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White House Ballroom | Nick Anderson
Get more from Nick Anderson on Patreon
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Give it a rest!
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MAGA Fan Has Unhinged Meltdown After Starbucks Barista Doesn't Call Out 'Charlie Kirk' With Her Order
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2025
We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.
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Jodie 🇦🇺 @jodie.sheshed.rocks · 17/07/2025
😂😂
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Local dad @twrudolph.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Spotted on my walk to the office #Seattle
A painting on a column for the Seattle monorail track depicting a masked ICE officer arresting Jesus.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
All US media will describe Israel's declaration of war as "preemptive" and Iran's response as "unprovoked."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/05/2025
President Trump will fully pardon the reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted three years ago of evading taxes and defrauding banks of more than $30 million to support their luxurious lifestyle.
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Trump to Pardon Reality-Show Couple Convicted of $36 Million Fraud
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging www.propublica.org/article/us-o...
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More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging
Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the ma...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/05/2025
Threats against federal judges have risen drastically since President Trump took office, according to internal data compiled by the U.S. Marshals Service.
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Marshals’ Data Shows Spike in Threats Against Federal Judges
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Transphobes: “Trans kids shouldn’t get reversible puberty blockers in case they regret it.” Also transphobes: *do this shit*
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/05/2025
Breaking news: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ending his agency's recommendation that healthy pregnant women and healthy children receive the coronavirus vaccine.
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RFK Jr. ends covid shot recommendation for healthy children, pregnant women
Currently the vaccine is recommended for all people over 6 months of age.
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Actuel Moyen Âge @agemoyen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Lettre de Pierre le Vénérable, abbé de Cluny, à Guigues Ier le Chartreux : "merci de nous envoyer une copie du gros volume des lettres de saint Augustin, car une grande partie de notre exemplaire a été accidentellement dévorée par un ours". Ça me fait toujours autant rire 🤣🐻
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a black bear is standing in the middle of a forest with its mouth open .
Alt: a black bear is standing in the middle of a forest with its mouth open .
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KindLivesMatter @bekindforthefuture.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The stunning increase in wealth amounts to a gain of roughly $1 billion per day for those billionaires. By contrast, the typical American worker made just over $50,000 in 2023. Oxfam found that it would take a staggering 726,000 years for 10 US workers at median earnings to make that much money. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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The 10 richest Americans got $365 billion richer in the past year. Now they’re on the verge of a huge tax cut — CNN
Despite a brief market scare, the richest 10 Americans got $365 billion richer over the past year, according to a new analysis from Oxfam.
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Unclepatrick @unclepatrick2.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
My right wing work MAGA saw this and complained that they were just following orders I sent him this on the legality of the "Just following orders " defense www.nashualaw.com/blog/2019/04...
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I Was “Only Following Orders” Is Not A Defense For Employees | Hamblett & Kerrigan, P.A.
The defense I was “only following orders” is sometimes referred to as the Nuremberg defense. Generally, employees are liable for their own wrongful acts irrespective of whether or not they were doing ...
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Sébastien Pierroz @sebastien-pierroz.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Ministère des Affaires francophones: derrière les chiffres, la réalité, mon ANALYSE à lire dans @ledroit.com. #onfr #frcan www.ledroit.com/chroniques/s...
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Ministère des Affaires francophones: derrière les chiffres, la réalité
CHRONIQUE / Le budget 2025 déposé jeudi par le gouvernement de Doug Ford ne restera pas dans les annales comme l’un des plus généreux. En pleine guerre tarifaire avec les États-Unis, le document de 25...
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Sylvie Bérard 🏳️‍🌈 @sybermoi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Evil fascists are recommending evil fascist measures against trans people.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/04/2025
Employees at NIH and CDC can no longer use preferred names, they must use their "legal name." So someone named Robert can't be called Bobby. This policy is intended to crack down on trans people but will affect far more cis people. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Exclusive: Trump administration banned chosen names at FDA, CDC, NIH under new gender policy
Health and Human Services employees were told in March to remove 'nicknames' from email systems and signatures to comply with Trump order on gender.
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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 30/04/2025
BREAKING - A new legal declaration alleges that a transfeminine immigrant was unlawfully held in Guantanamo Bay - with men - for the crime of trying to enter this country for her safety. Credit to @ryan.staticnoi.se for editing this piece More at Free Radical - thefreeradical.org/it-was-dehum...
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"It was dehumanizing" - Inside A Transgender Immigrant's Illegal Detention in Guantanamo Bay
A new legal declaration reveals that a trans women was illegally housed in Guantanamo Bay - simply for trying to immigrate to the United States/
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Billie Bernard @billiebernard.com · 29/04/2025
Entrevue que j'ai animé pour la candidature de Montréal pour la Worldcon 2027. On y parle des différentes barrières entourant la SF et la fantasy francophone. De SF Queer, d'afrofantasy et de résistance au fascisme. Avec @sybermoi.bsky.social, Pascal Raud, Cécile Cristofari et Mélodie Joseph.
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First Panel: the barriers dividing SF, both French/English and Quebecois/French
YouTube video by Carl Fink
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/04/2025
This is straight up nazi shit. The nazis published propaganda on Jewish crime. If this were blackcrimeuk or immigrantcrimeuk everyone would see it for the bigoted shit that it is.
Screenshot of a tweet from the verified account of J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling), posted at 12:52 PM on April 28, 2025. The tweet contains only a hyperlink: "transcrimeuk.com". The tweet has 2,057 views.
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Sylvie Bérard 🏳️‍🌈 @sybermoi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
For decades, Quebec has been perceived as a threat to Canadian unity, accused of wanting to break up Canada. The "Quebec problem" was discussed, suggesting that it endangered national cohesion. [1/4]
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Sylvie Bérard 🏳️‍🌈 @sybermoi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Pendant des décennies, le Québec a été perçu comme une menace pour l’unité canadienne, accusé de vouloir briser le Canada. On parlait du « problème québécois », suggérant qu’il menaçait la cohésion nationale. [1/4.]
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Jeannine Taylor @wiredwoman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This is the exact opposite of the treatment that media (myself included) received today at the Liberal Carney event in Peterborough. The Conservative disrespect and disregard for media is disturbing and alarming.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record deporting people is wrong
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
i know this is gonna blow your mind but people still have human rights even if they have been convicted of a crime by a racist system that is world renowned for it's brutality and discrimination. and people still deserve new process even if they have tattoos. And prisons make us all less safe.
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Marc-André Caron 🇨🇦 @monsieurcaron.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Un vrai héros canadien : Léo Major
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Un vrai héros canadien
Le 13 avril 1945, il y a 80 ans aujourd’hui, le Régiment de la Chaudière de l’armée canadienne est aux portes de la ville de Zwolle aux Pays-Bas. Le colonel Gustave-Olivier Taschereau demande deux vol...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This part
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
What Wab Kinew sorcery is this? **stares blankly in Albertan**😶
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 10/04/2025
The travel boycott of President Donald Trump’s America is picking up speed, and Canadians are taking the lead. We take a look at the data: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/04/2025
At least two offices of the National Weather Service have said they are delaying or skipping sending staff into the field to survey damage from this week’s severe weather, a key step that meteorologists usually use to confirm whether or not a tornado has struck.
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Some Weather Service Offices Are Delaying or Skipping Storm Surveys
At least two Weather Service offices in Kentucky cited the continued threat of bad weather.
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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hold up! If you get the book Theory of Water, Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead by @biidaasamose.bsky.social from @haymarketbooks.org- you can read the ebook version now even though book's official release date is 4/22/25. Maps to the times ahead- I'm sorry, but no one is better suited for this.
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Theory of Water
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Sylvie Bérard 🏳️‍🌈 @sybermoi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Suzanne Grenier et moi venons d’apprendre la mort de l’autrice de fantastique Nancy Kilpatrick dont nous avions eu l’honneur de traduire le cycle Le pouvoir du sang (Power of the Blood) aux Éditions Alire au début des années 2000.
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
next, Antony and the Johnsons and their song Hitler in My Heart, a rather provocative title for a catchy piano/driven song off the 2004 eponymous record: youtu.be/cgDj2ujMtVM?...
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Hitler In My Heart
YouTube video by Antony & The Johnsons - Topic
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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
No he's not. Because he doesn't actually believe this. He just wants poorly educated racists and the ignorant to believe it so they will support all his racist policies. He's not crazy. He's a fascist. The Holocaust and its creators weren't crazy, they were exceptionally calculating and evil.
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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 29/03/2025
Les Américains veulent-ils vraiment expulser 11 millions de personnes ?
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Une minorité d’Américains soutiennent l’expulsion des immigrants qui travaillent
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La Presse @lapresse.ca · 30/03/2025
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La Presse à Boston | Des jours sombres pour la diversité dans les universités
Des ténors de l’administration Trump ont interdit une foule de programmes « d’équité, de diversité et d’inclusion » (EDI) aux États-Unis. En réaction, de nombreuses entreprises ont abandonné leurs efforts pour augmenter la diversité parmi leurs employés. À la dernière réunion annuelle de l’Association américaine pour l’avancement des sciences (AAAS) à Boston, les universités ont échangé des trucs pour tenter de résister à la vague.
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Frederic Arnould @fredericarnould.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
La police de l'État de la Géorgie a arrêté une femme de 24 ans après qu'elle ait fait une fausse couche, l'État ayant même pratiqué une autopsie sur le fœtus de 19 semaines. L'arrêt Dobbs n'est que la première étape consistant à accorder des droits légaux aux fœtus. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
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When your miscarriage becomes the subject of a criminal investigation
States with abortion bans are increasingly targeting women who suffer miscarriages, marking a dangerous escalation in the GOP’s war on women’s bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom. This week, Geor...
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