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US citizen, Canadian permanent resident Freelance translator He/him/il Citoyen des États-Unis, résident permanent du Canada Traducteur à la pige

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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 4h
When Quebec tries to save $5 by spending $20 later. 😒
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h
"is it possible for someone to sovereign citizen their entire time as Premier?"
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Ellie F @btcarolus.bsky.social · 10h
The people making the Looney Toons decisions at Warner Bros seriously need to have their brains studied posthumously for science.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h
Smith chose to stay away from Willis because he's smart and she's an idiot. He was managing the unusually sensitive optics. But it's not a rule. There's nothing wrong as such with state and federal prosecutors talking to each other about related cases. It wouldn't be scandalous even if he had.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 16h
You mean only some government workers
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After repeal of anti-gay sex law, LGBTQ+ individuals continue to face discrimination in Singapore
"Though more LGBTQ+ individuals are slowly emerging into the mainstream, prejudice and bigotry in present societal attitudes keep many LGBTQ+ individuals from coming out of the closet."
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A massive part of it is literally just this radio station
From Wikipedia:
CHOI-FM is a French-language FM radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 98.1 MHz out of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, with a talk format. Locally, it is known as Radio X (a reference to "Generation X", as most of CHOI's listeners consider themselves). It has been owned by Genex Communications since July 1996. The Bureau of Broadcast Measurement ratings released in December 2004 revealed that CHOI was the most popular radio station in the city with 443,100 listeners, up from 380,500 earlier in the year.[clarification needed] The station is well known for airing controversial ideas and populist opinions. The station targets various groups, notably feminists and gay activists, as well as prominent politicians, and receives criticism from these groups for their controversial political statements.
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Cersei Trannister 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🦋 @qadishtujessica.inanna.app · 29/09/2026
I know she gets a lot of shit here because she's not leftist enough, but she's the main reason congress hasn't passed any major anti trans legislation and why our gender care is still intact federally. Put some respect on her name
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hypoallergenic bobcat alternative @noghiri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the takeaway I'm getting is Sarah McBride is very good at her job and is figuring out how to wrangle think tanks effectively, including partially hostile ones
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Lurker Envoy @lurkerenvoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ffs, you can just change it! You have a huge majority!
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Andy Burnham says Labour will run on a manifesto to change electoral system
Andy Burnham has announced Labour will run on a manifesto to change the electoral system for the next general election.
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Antagoniste 🏴 @antagonisteqc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ça semble tabou de le dire, mais cette affaire disqualifie aussi le media et les journalistes qui ont sorti l'histoire mais depuis l'affaire pablo rodriguez, on comprend qu'il n'y a ni d'introspection ni d'imputabilité dans nos médias #polqc
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
return AI to the st lawrence
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The article is an interesting cultural artifact because it really drives home shifts in media consumption. I have not heard of "Choosin' Texas" because I do not have a TV for TV news or a radio to listen to music somebody else picked. I have a computer and phone instead.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He's never won a majority of the vote! In 2024 the "miss" in polling was actually very modest & in line with standard polling error bc basically everything at the end showed a toss up race nationally & in most swing states, which it was!
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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A lot of people don’t want to hear it but Joe Biden’s entire legacy will likely be as the guy who let the worst president in American history come to power again and who funded and armed a genocide abroad. History will not remember him well.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
they're calling me the most vindicated man alive
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Anonymous Bureaucrat @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Conservatives obviously interpret this is in two ways: a broad decline of civilization and a decline in interpersonal tolerance for people like them. Both of which are correct if you have an intensely myopic, traditional, and narcissistic conception of self and society, which…
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Anonymous Bureaucrat @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More specifically: a) don’t have kids if you don’t want to, opportunity cost to doing so b) women are less dependent on men, generally c) individuals are less dependent on communities and families they do not like or agree with and have the means to disengage
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Anonymous Bureaucrat @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This feels not unrelated to decline birthrates in the sense that we have created a world in which, for the first time, people broadly have options in terms of how they structure their families and communities, and this is genuinely radical shift in norms
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Instantly cured my depression thinking about Hank Hill pronouncing "Nier: Automata"
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a student in the federal government, I had to get language testing. I scored EEE which is gov't speak for "Perfectly fluent in writing, reading & speaking English & French" So many people thought I'd cheated (!!!) or was some special unicorn. Meanwhile, bilingualism is common where I'm from!
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think this often gets covered as if trump has some special power...but I think the issue is more partisan dynamics in general? 1
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
She's trying to say guilt by association doesn't discredit an idea because good people and bad people can both believe the same thing, but despite being the world's wealthiest author she's actually quite poor at communicating
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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah the claim that in the year of our lord 2026 Canadian society is somehow tearing itself apart gives you a pretty clear sense of what media the authors are consuming and the delusional reality they live in.
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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
That's two different news stories just today about the US trying to undermine Canadian sovereignty by targeting Quebec www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/09/25/w... www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/09/25/i...
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Ingérence étrangère: Ottawa a averti Québec d’une possible tentative américaine d’influencer le vote
La Coalition Avenir Québec a été rencontré par les services secrets canadiens
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Should clarify - the primary component of lebensraum was territorial expansion. But clearing the territory of undesirables to create space for ethnic Germans was also a major element.
The concrete measures taken by the Nazis to secure their Lebensraum demonstrate the very real power of ideas. Again, in his second book, Hitler wrote that Germany should “[concentrate] all of its strength on marking out a way of life for our people through the allocation of adequate Lebensraum for the next one hundred years.” Naturally, the inferior races that occupied this region must be removed, both Slavs and Jews.The drive to clear the East of inferior populations in preparation for German colonization led to intensive planning for the mass starvation of over 30 million people there. Policy guidelines issued before the invasion of the Soviet Union stated unequivocally that “many tens of millions of people in this territory will become superfluous and will have to die or migrate to Siberia… With regard to this, absolute clarity must reign.” Known as the Generalplan Ost, this set of economic and demographic plans placed the necessity for Lebensraum and the colonization of the East at the center of the invasion. By blaming Jews and Bolshevists for the “backwardness” of the region, the plans also reinforced other forms of Nazi antisemitism demanding the removal of Jews from the territory and eventually their physical destruction.
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scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
two panel meme

first panel:

subsidizing suburbanites whose property taxes don't cover the cost of delivering their services — i sleep

second panel:

those hippie cars are hurting our roads — real shit
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Sean Hawkins @yourpalhawkboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This should have been a 4-part HBO series like that Robert Durst thing. Normies aren't going to watch a 4 hour documentary; the only people who will watch this are the people who already hate him.
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
Yeah, what psychopath would want his name on a building associated with an assassinated President
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
imo if Trudeau era housing policy was actually able to keep pace with population growth, it would have been fine, but basically Trudeau era policy soured a lot of Canadians on the current immigration system (and even the Canadian reddits show this)
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Kenny 🏳️‍⚧️ @svrdm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He think it was named after Gerald Ford, doesn't he
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
YouTube comment that says “finally Nathan meeting someone willing to stay in character longer than he is“
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i am willing to excuse a lot of issue apostasy from hard-district candidates but 1) Golden isn't even that now and 2) i am not willing to excuse damage to basic party structures
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This election is hell ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-fo...
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Sondage Radio-Canada : le PQ en tête, le PCQ talonne le PLQ
Le PQ demeure en tête, en territoire minoritaire. La CAQ est deuxième, et le PLQ et le PCQ sont dans une course serrée pour la troisième place.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Canada is like a twilight zone version of America that is like 15% more functional on like all metrics save stock market performance.
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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Should the Kennedy Center be torn down? Obviously not. But you know what should?
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Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There are some uncomfortable questions about governance & efficiency at the ports that we're going to have to answer at some point. Might as well try and tackle them while you're polling at 70%
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is the pitch to the upper middle class for social democracy I think: you pay more in taxes and you may well get less in services, but you stop having to play a million little fucking adversarial high stakes minmax games
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if we choose to do this, i actually fully trust that there has been a sensible risk assessment and that it is the correct response
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm very keen on proportional representation, and under PR an "EA party" would get < 1% and zero seats. The Moonies are a more plausible basis for a cult-based party.
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EA is neither "left-wing" nor "right-wing" it simply has a set of commitments and priorities that are at odds with the main axis of political conflict in the contemporary west. 

In a PR system, I'd imagine a small EA party joining left- or right- coalitions opportunistically.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He was actually very clear about what he was going to do. Maybe you should have leveled with your constituents about what you were supporting bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Like, Pierre was probably more in line with Kemi and Truss than Farage if we're making UK political comparisons
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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm not sure digital sovereignty and ridding ourselves of US tech giants will necessarily pull our society out of the social media brainrot doomspiral but it's at least worth trying for lack of anything else.
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember: Canada spoke out in favour of its European allies over Greenland, while the EU, incl von der Leyen yesterday, has remained quiet over Trump's threat against Canada. Offering associate membership as a geopolitical move requires taking sides.
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Putin is literally the single person in the world most deserving of the title "enemy of humanity." He is almost single handedly responsible for the rise of global reactionary movements because he wants to encourage climate change to thaw Siberia and get more warm water poets. He's incredibly evil.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"The president is a stupid asshole" quickly became a trite observation but that's still the analysis that most accurately and succinctly explains almost everything that happens
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
mr president you can do this and be a legend (no one say for what reason)
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Canada should sanction Ovechkin
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