Reposted by Yannick DesranleauJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work. 16797922170 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauYour daily John Waters screenshot @johnwatersbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026 014735 0
Reposted by Yannick Desranleaueileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 24/10/2018To feel anything deranges you. -Anne Carson, red doc > (@AAKnopf, 2013) #everynightapoem #fragment 1209 0
Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I loved the entire season because it did such a good job at showing us what a TV show would be if it was produced by an informed alien's idea of what a TV show is. Maybe it just tickled my PoMo penchant 010 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauElyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I hate English department Halloween. What do you mean, you're the hermeneutics of suspicion 831765 0
Reposted by Yannick Desranleaumauditanglais @mauditanglais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Montreal is basically a two-party state (PLQ and QS) completely at odds with the rest of Quebec. That's uh, not good for long-term political and social cohesion. 4729 0
Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is why it is the worst outcome except for a PCQ majority 010 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 06/10/2026Re-upping this great story from @sharper.bsky.social from a few years back while Eric Duhaime, Alberta’s favourite member of Québec’s National Assembly, speaks:pressprogress.caThis Right-Wing Québec Media Website Has Mysterious Ties With Alberta’s Oil LobbyWhat does a right-wing media website have in common with Éric Duhaime’s Conservative Party of Québec and Alberta oil lobby groups? 14220 0
Reposted by Yannick Desranleauaaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the PQ having a baseline party stance that Quebec should pursue independence is so little like whatever the fuck is happening in Alberta that the comparison isn't worth making even as a joke 1266 0
Reposted by Yannick Desranleau🦇 Count Brockula 🧛 @queeralchemy.com · 06/10/2026This is what I think too. As long as the issue is not sovereignty, the PCQ will likely support the PQ. The PLQ might with many issues too. I see QS as being pretty irrelevant in this context. 141 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026CTV News called a MINORITY for the Parti Quebecois 820626 0
Reposted by Yannick Desranleau🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 06/10/2026Must suck to be the Parti Quebecois rn. They hate minorities. 915136 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauRobert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Poor Péquistes, now that they’re officially a minority, they’ll have to discriminate against themselves 1438295 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauGris @dirtywriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026But--BUT humans *can* be tetrachromats (mostly women, while human dichromats--those who are colourblind--tend to be male), and it's just the freakiest accident-of-chromosomal-weirdness thing. I know you already know this, but it's just SO cool I had to mention it. 3674 0
Reposted by Yannick Desranleauworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent 10161171711 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauGemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Honey, wake up, the new Council of Trent just dropped." 0124 0
Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When I was told about a case of sexual harassment in the area I coordinate at U of A, I was told the perpetrator was "a good guy" 010 0
Reposted by Yannick Desranleauaaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026there's nothing innate about sadistic humiliation and violation of other human beings. those are taught practices and methodologies, and you are excluded from the group both for protesting and failing to participate in them. 14114 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauAnti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On this day in 1974, RCMP brutally attack the Native Peoples' Caravan on Parliament Hill in Ottawa following a cross-country trek starting in Vancouver. RCMP officers indiscriminately swing batons at Native women and children, as well as men. anticolonialhistory.com/event/299/ 111368 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauParis Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.disconnect.blogThe media has the AI threat all wrongGenerative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios. 271736588 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauCarolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A million years ago I ranted about artspeak on Twitter, and Weisslink compiled it into his daily email, and then the painter Tom Knechtel preserved it and shared it with his students (who did not listen). Sharing again, in case any of you are tempted to hit me with horrible eartist statements. 6295 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauMaladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026much to consider 05113 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026READ THE FULL PIECE HERE: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...thetyee.caWhy Mark Carney Is Comparing Himself to John A. Macdonald | The TyeeCanada’s prime minister is invoking history to explain his own policies, but glossing over the harms of the past. 35322 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauSimon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I read Haraway as saying that to define gender by material/biological standards - or any essentialism - is fundamentally flawed. The ‘cyborg’ refers to real medical science, but is largely an analogy used to undermine the essentialist premise. Reading it too literally destroys the larger point. 151 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Doubling down, huh?cbc.caCarney’s government is cutting hundreds of environment and science jobs. Here’s what that means for Canadians | CBC RadioScientists and labour leaders are warning that cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada could significantly impact the health and safety of Canadians as well as Canada's wildlife and environment. 38540 0
Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Meanwhile, bringing highly paid foreign academics won't do shit if we don't keep the federal science employees who can materialize this research www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...cbc.caCarney’s government is cutting hundreds of environment and science jobs. Here’s what that means for Canadians | CBC RadioScientists and labour leaders are warning that cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada could significantly impact the health and safety of Canadians as well as Canada's wildlife and environment. 010 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Meanwhile, still not properly funding the scientists we already have. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caCanada recruited 64 professors with new research fund. Three-quarters are from U.S. schools | CBC NewsIndustry Minister Mélanie Joly announced on Thursday that the federal government is providing $541 million in research funding to a tranche of new professors recruited into Canadian institutions from ... 56422 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauJosephine Riesman @josie.zone · 11/08/2026Everyone Older Than Me Is A Boomer, Everyone Younger Than Me Is A Zoomer: A Millennial's Guide To Complaining 615033 0
Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"Researchers asked volunteers with COVID-19 to breathe into a contraption known as the Gesundheit II Machine", LOL 021 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauSARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 07/08/2026N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective Maskswork today.umd.edu/n95-masks-ne...today.umd.eduMaryland Today | N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD…Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective 11351142 0
Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Looking for a singer cofortable with graphic scores and physical performance, no specific range-- for a live performance in Edmonton on September 8 020 0
Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I𝕤 𝕀𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕟 𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕤𝕡𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕥 𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕀 𝕊𝕖𝕖 𝕀𝕤 𝔹𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝔹𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕜 Is now on view in the contemporary collection rooms @mbamtl.bsky.social until December 2026. Thanks to Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre for facilitating this exhibition, and all the wonderful team at the museum! 030 0
Reposted by Yannick Desranleaualt.tv.pink-opaque @maxrebosroadie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026film critics in 1955: I’m sorry this image goes too fucking hard, please take it away, put Oklahoma! back on 1260188 0
Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I don't wanna be there mourning a music store, but AIDS Wolf had for its last 3 years scored a "you guys are cool" discount there, which helped us buying that giant PA, allowing us to never really need a sound guy anymore when playing live 040 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026shoutout to bagpipe players for only knowing that one song 1312925116 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauAvi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/06/2026This is completely out of line. Minister Miller says, "It isn't up to me to speak to, or insert myself in, the curation of any particular exhibit.” And then he does exactly that. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caPalestinian exhibit at human rights museum 'should be rectified': federal heritage minister | CBC NewsHeritage Minister Marc Miller said Monday the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has erred in how it curated an exhibit about displaced Palestinians. 16334126 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauFlat Pluto Coven @adhdgobl.in · 28/06/2026Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence. 13280561393 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 13/06/2026A friend sent an image from Europe of a remarkable Hockney painting I had never seen before: David Hockney, "Still Life on a Glass Table," 1971 118336 0
Reposted by Yannick Desranleaudisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Taxidermy is the weaponization of yassification 02711 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauJess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Dear old mom. I miss her. She taught me so much. 57713 0
Reposted by Yannick Desranleaujonmccurley123.bsky.social @jonmccurley123.bsky.social · 13/05/2026If I ran an underwear company I would not send people so many emails 031 0
Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Bluesky has been a respite from the Venice Preview Week onslaught on other platforms, and thank you for that 010 0
Reposted by Yannick DesranleauGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Best adaption of The Odyssey, wrong answers only 10953 0