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Yannick Desranleau

@ydesranleau.bsky.social
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Artist @ Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau. Assistant Professor, Sculpture and Expanded Media, University of Alberta. PhD student, Concordia University. Former part of Seripop and AIDS Wolf.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Still 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.
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Your daily John Waters screenshot @johnwatersbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love you. I love your sickness.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 24/10/2018
To feel anything deranges you. -Anne Carson, red doc > (@AAKnopf, 2013) #everynightapoem #fragment
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I 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
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Troubling
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I hate English department Halloween. What do you mean, you're the hermeneutics of suspicion
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mauditanglais @mauditanglais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Montreal 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.
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is why it is the worst outcome except for a PCQ majority
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 06/10/2026
Re-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:
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This Right-Wing Québec Media Website Has Mysterious Ties With Alberta’s Oil Lobby
What does a right-wing media website have in common with Éric Duhaime’s Conservative Party of Québec and Alberta oil lobby groups?
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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the 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
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🦇 Count Brockula 🧛 @queeralchemy.com · 06/10/2026
This 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.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CTV News called a MINORITY for the Parti Quebecois
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 06/10/2026
Must suck to be the Parti Quebecois rn. They hate minorities.
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Poor Péquistes, now that they’re officially a minority, they’ll have to discriminate against themselves
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Gris @dirtywriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But--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.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If 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
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Honey, wake up, the new Council of Trent just dropped."
Nicolò Dorigati, Opening session of the Council of Trent in 1545. Painting showing figures in a high room with a blue arched ceiling. Paintings of saints on the walls and an altar with crucifix at the center of the image. This is flanked by bright orange/red seats with bishops who continue towards the foreground of the painting. At the very foreground and background observers in darker clothes/robes congregate. Several look back towards the painter/viewer.
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When 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"
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That happened in my Faculty damn it
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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there'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.
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On 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/
Flier for the caravan's arrival in Toronto (before heading on to Ottawa)

"Support the Native Peoples' Fight!
Indians Stand Up for Rights"
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An 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.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A 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.
A screenshot of a post from Facebook by Tom Knechtel lists a series of Twitter rants about artspeak, such as: "DEAR ARTSPEAKY TYPES: 'Durational' means the length of time something lasts. If you want to say 'a very long time,' say a 'very long time.' A TWO-MINUTE PERFORMANCE CAN EXIST FOR A DURATIONAL PERIOD OF TWO MINUTES. ... 'INSTALLATION THAT JUXTAPOSES CONTRASTING MATERIALS IN WAYS THAT HIGHLIGHT THE QUALITIES OF BOTH.' Translation: 'I put two things together.'"
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
much to consider
i like punk but im not a leftist since im afraid i lose my funko pop collection if we ever get a communist government
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
READ THE FULL PIECE HERE: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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Why Mark Carney Is Comparing Himself to John A. Macdonald | The Tyee
Canada’s prime minister is invoking history to explain his own policies, but glossing over the harms of the past.
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Simon Watkins @simonywaking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I 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.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Doubling down, huh?
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Carney’s government is cutting hundreds of environment and science jobs. Here’s what that means for Canadians | CBC Radio
Scientists 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.
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Meanwhile, 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...
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Carney’s government is cutting hundreds of environment and science jobs. Here’s what that means for Canadians | CBC Radio
Scientists 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.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Meanwhile, still not properly funding the scientists we already have. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada recruited 64 professors with new research fund. Three-quarters are from U.S. schools | CBC News
Industry 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 ...
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 11/08/2026
Everyone Older Than Me Is A Boomer, Everyone Younger Than Me Is A Zoomer: A Millennial's Guide To Complaining
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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
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective Maskswork today.umd.edu/n95-masks-ne...
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Maryland Today | N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD…
Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Looking for a singer cofortable with graphic scores and physical performance, no specific range-- for a live performance in Edmonton on September 8
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I𝕤 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!
Dancer in a black leotard performing with a mask in front of a wall covered with colourful propsDancer in a white leotard performing with a mask in front of a wall covered with colourful props
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Oy
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alt.tv.pink-opaque @maxrebosroadie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
film critics in 1955: I’m sorry this image goes too fucking hard, please take it away, put Oklahoma! back on
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I 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
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
shoutout to bagpipe players for only knowing that one song
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/06/2026
This 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/...
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Palestinian exhibit at human rights museum 'should be rectified': federal heritage minister | CBC News
Heritage Minister Marc Miller said Monday the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has erred in how it curated an exhibit about displaced Palestinians.
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Flat Pluto Coven @adhdgobl.in · 28/06/2026
Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Ai for Aiiiiiiiiiiiii
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A 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
Painting of still life objects on a long, low glass table, including a lamp and vase of tulips
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Oh boy
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
That and "Cock Rings" on Mr Show
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Taxidermy is the weaponization of yassification
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Dear old mom. I miss her. She taught me so much.
Harry Harlow's wire mother
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jonmccurley123.bsky.social @jonmccurley123.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
If I ran an underwear company I would not send people so many emails
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Yannick Desranleau @ydesranleau.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Bluesky has been a respite from the Venice Preview Week onslaught on other platforms, and thank you for that
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Best adaption of The Odyssey, wrong answers only
Broad City North Brother Island episode
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