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Ysabiau

@ysabiau.bsky.social
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I write things, make stuff, cook, and read far too much sci fi/fantasy. All opinions on climate change will be forceful and/sarcastic, we’re screwed.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On the French archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, just 20 kilometres from the southern tip of Newfoundland, Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron said that the two countries would strengthen their co-operation in key areas. /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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‘Lasting friendships’: Carney, Macron discuss co-operation in priority areas
On the French archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, just 20 kilometres from the southern tip of Newfoundland, Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron said that the two count...
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Today it’s Lake America, but tomorrow the propaganda coming from south of the border could be both more serious and insidious, and the actions of Google, Apple and other companies show plainly that they will not be on our side." —  @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today
The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I love this so much
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
To be clear
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Wicked cool and very forward-thinking on their part.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 16/06/2026
CBS forced to pay for Stephen Colbert’s final prank on The Late Show
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CBS forced to pay for Stephen Colbert’s final prank on The Late Show
‘Oh no! I hope this doesn’t cost CBS any money,’ Colbert said during his May 21 finale
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/05/2026
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The Fix is In
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The payoff is … perfection.
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Oh dear. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Oyster growers in P.E.I. seeing nearly 100% mortality rate as 2 diseases hurt industry | CBC News
Prince Edward Island's oyster growers have been hit hard by MSX and dermo, two diseases that are harmless to people but can be fatal to the mollusk. They say P.E.I.'s industry is being wiped out.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Port-a-potty weaving through traffic during heavy winds Meanwhile in #Alberta #Canada 🤣 www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...
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Port-a-potty weaving through traffic during heavy winds
Strong winds in Edmonton blew a port-a-potty through traffic on 103 Avenue Thursday night.
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Star Trek Corrected Captions @startrekcc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Day 14 of inserting "Weird Al" Yankovic into a Star Trek screenshot #WeirdTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #WeirdAlYankovic
On the interstellar cruise ship Cosmic Duchess, we see "Weird Al" Yankovic offering a fist bump to Krog (of Krog on the Rocks fame) who is holding his set of vibe tubes.
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Serge Broom @sergebroom.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Bless. 💜
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
No, it’s because far too many of them or their donors feature as villains in the files.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/01/2026
This piece is over a year old, but it’s worth a re-up considering many of the discussions happening on here.
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They’re crimes — so why do we keep calling them ‘porn’?
When we use outdated terms like 'revenge porn,' we blur the line between consensual entertainment and abuse.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is the best visual representation presented to 🇺🇸 ( 🇨🇦 pay attention too) from a Swedish author as to how lawmakers keep you distracted with partisan politics when this is a global class war, and we’re losing.
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Someone needs to start a band and name it exododus….or rename an existing band, not fussy on how this one is achieved.
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Marilyn 🇨🇦 @mlauriat.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Breaking down 'the largest white nationalist network in Canadian history'
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has a new piece explaining the three branches of the white nationalist movement in Canada.
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I really hope the Dodgers got the full Toronto experience of being stuck on the Gardiner again today on the way to Game 7. #LFGBlueJays
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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A.🌻 @alexxaye.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners. Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
US gov is refusing to operate and fund programs across the country, you think state governors will find their spines and start refusing to send funds to the federal government until it sorts its crap out? Let me put this in helpful Shoresy hockey terms for them: “You gotta set the tone, boys.”
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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
thewalrus.ca/my-father-wa...
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My Father Was Found in a Residential School Incinerator When He Was an Infant | The Walrus
Being the son of a death-defying trickster led me to confront what Canada tried to burn away
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Colleen @collburns.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🇨🇦😂🇨🇦🤣🇨🇦😂🇨🇦
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Julie J @j1j2.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
….. seconded. We seriously live in the stupidworst possible timeline.
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
@criticalrole.bsky.social Idea for new season of the Muppet Show: The Muppets learn to play D&D. The scenes cut back and forth between them seated at the table as themselves, and them in game as their characters. Please. @muppetstuff.bsky.social
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NPR @npr.org · 02/07/2025
If you find yourself in a situation where you sense someone needs help and you'd like to intervene, Gabriela Mejia, a former training and communications associate with the anti-harassment training organization Right to Be, has some advice.
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COMIC: How to intervene when someone is harassed or attacked : Life Kit
What would you do if you saw someone being harassed on the bus or attacked in broad daylight? Most of us would like to think we know how we'd respond, but intervening in dangerous situations is easier said than done. Here's how to step in.
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Butter Pecan Ice Cream Connoisseur @moniselseward.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Anywho, here's an article about a Black woman who created a resource for those of us who are not shopping at places that eliminated DEI programs: www.yahoo.com/news/dei-dis...
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As DEI disappears from major retailers, Shop Red Bag gives Black-owned brands a new home
As major retailers back away from DEI commitments, media, and tech executive Candi Carter has launched a new e-commerce platform
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Suzan Cee ☀️ @schasse60.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I believe this should be shared extensively... Have a great weekend! ☀️🙏🦋🌸 #Cali
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🇪🇺 @veertjephilips.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Seven years ago today, we lost Anthony Bourdain. His quote below on Washington vs. the District, from the conclusion of his 2009 "No Reservations" show about DC, resonates now more than ever. RIP
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MythicalDragoness 🇨🇦 @mythicaldragoness.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Toronto man still allowed to employ staff despite owing more than $1M in wages, fines #Crime #Canada #Legal #Toronto #Ontario www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Toronto man still allowed to employ staff despite owing more than $1M in wages, fines | CBC News
Toronto businessman Anchuan Jiang and his companies owe more than a million dollars in unpaid wages and fines for not paying wages. Employment lawyers say the province needs new enforcement tools to s...
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Tom Joad™️ @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“Women don’t talk about heart attacks. We talk about weight. We talk about migraines. We talk about being tired. But we don’t talk about the tightness that’s not pain, the fatigue that’s not sleep, the dizziness that’s not hunger.” Please read my newest SubStack open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
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Kansas City Was Losing
I Thought I Was Just Tired. I Was Almost Dead.
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CaptnCanada 🇨🇦 @captncanada.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
@pauldoroshenko.com has a great video about how this is being done to get people used to it so they can eventually monitor US women who may be trying to access abortion and other services in Canada.
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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Cautiously optimistic about a NEW Canadian social media site. Sign up for beta testing here. #Canada gandersocial.ca#early-access
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Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built for Canada
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your data taking an unexpected trip to brokers down south.
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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
finally a politician i can get behind
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Review your locations if you’ve been in SW Ontario, folks.
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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Why have trans people been so vulnerable to political attacks from the right (and scapegoating from the left)? My take in @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target? The Answer Involves a Surprising Culprit.
Making a whole group of people this vulnerable does not just happen overnight.
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Interesting - I hope more research into this is able to be done.
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planetmoon.bsky.social @planetmoon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
❤️💔❤️ please listen to this tribute to Ashlee Shingoose sung by Wab Kinew 🙏
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Read this.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
GREAT news everyone! The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions. Sports Editor (yes, we're bringing it back): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Entertainment Editor (going harder here too): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... And a Staff Writer (!): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Apply or die!
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Careers at The Onion
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 20/03/2025
NEW: Judge Boasberg issues a show-cause order (precedes contempt sanctions) on why he shouldn't find that the gov't defied his orders. "In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today’s deadline, the Government again evaded its obligations." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ORDER
On March 18, 2025, the Court ordered Defendants to provide by noon the following day
specific information regarding flights carrying individuals subject to the Court's Temporary
Restraining Orders issued three days before. See Minute Order of 3/18/25. Defendants instead filed a pleading shortly before the deadline seeking to stay the Order in large part on the ground that they were considering whether to invoke the state-secrets privilege. See ECF No. 37 (Stay
Motion) at 3-4. Although skeptical of the applicability of such privilege, the Court granted Defendants another 24 hours either to release the information ordered or to invoke the privilege.
See ECF No. 38 (Order).
In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today's deadline, the Government again
evaded its obligations. It submitted a six-paragraph declaration from the Acting Field Office
Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Harlingen, Texas, Field Office, the contents of which the Government has informed the Court may be disclosed. After four paragraphs of identifying information, herepeated the same general information about the flights: "On March 15, 2025, two flights carrying aliens being removed under the AEA departed U.S. airspace before the Court's minute
order of 7:25 PM EDT, and before the Court's oral statements during the hearing." Decl. of Robert L. Cerna, I 5. He then stated, "I understand that Cabinet Secretaries are currently actively considering whether to invoke the state secrets privilege over the other facts requested
by the Court's order. Doing so is a serious matter that requires careful consideration of national
security and foreign relations, and it cannot properly be undertaken in just 24 hours." Id., 16 (emphasis added).
This is woefully insufficient. To begin, the Government cannot proffer a regional ICE
official to attest to Cabinet-level discussions of the state-secrets privilege; indeed, his declaration
on that point, not surprisingly, is based solely on his unsubstantiated "understand[ing]."
Although its skepticism concerning the suitability of such privilege expressed in yesterday's
Order remains, the Court at a minimum requires an official with direct involvement to swear that deliberations of the privilege's invocation are ongoing at the level Cerna attests. It further
expects such deliberations to be concluded by March 25, 2025, which only exceedingly good
cause may excuse.
In addition, to avoid further delay, the Court will require Defendants to show cause on
the facts that they have already disclosed as to why the failure to return the class members
aboard the two earliest planes did not violate the Court's Temporary Restraining Orders. Further supplementation may be required once particulars are ultimately disclosed.
The Court, accordingly, ORDERS that:1. By March 21, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., Defendants shall submit a sworn declaration by a person with direct involvement in the Cabinet-level discussions regarding invocation
of the state-secrets privilege;
2. By March 25, 2025, Defendants shall submit a declaration indicating whether or not the Government is invoking the privilege;
3. By March 25, 2025, Defendants shall file a brief showing cause why they did not violate the Court's Temporary Restraining Orders by failing to return class members removed from the United States on the two earliest planes that departed on March 15, 2025; and
4. Plaintiffs may file any response to such brief by March 31, 2025.
Is/ James E. Boasberg
JAMES E. BOASBERG
United States District Judge
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LaResistance47 @laresistance47.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Gum up the works at DOGE - so they get distracted from all the indiscriminate slashing & burning. Make a privacy request using this form created by @raskin.house.gov Takes just a few minutes to print & fill-out. I requested the information on paper or USB drive. jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
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DOGE Privacy Act Requests
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I love that verbal Shawinagan handshake.
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Ysabiau @ysabiau.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Aha. The tariffs were brought to us by Acme. It makes so much more sense now.
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