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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 1m

Prepping before the game for dinner. Might start cooking shortly. I find when I’m in recovery mode from anything, I have a voracious appetite and I’ve been hungry all day despite a huge breakfast and snack since 10:30.

The plan is a chicken breast with mushroom sauce and some baked potatoes.

Chopped mushrooms, thyme, fresh bay, minced red onion on a cutting. Board

Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 37m

Looking for an uplifting movie, I found this ditty about the demise of Hitler — made by the Germans.

Reviews are excellent.

Downfall (2004) ⭐ 8.2 | Biography, Drama, History

2h 36m | R

www.imdb.com

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 49m

Yep. The longer it takes, the worse the bloodletting gets.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 54m

The AI bubble burst can't come soon enough. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 2h

When your gut instincts tell you something more serious is going on, don’t delay going to get it checked out.

Healthcare is a human right.

Canadians need to remember this.

I’m grateful I’m Canadian on this Thanksgiving weekend.

I plan to continue voting like it.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 2h

So this weekend I am grateful to be on the mend. I strongly believe had my gut not told me my wrist was not just a sore muscle on Friday, that I’d be in the hospital with sepsis now.

I have no clue how I got cellulitis in my wrist — no puncture wounds — but antibiotics have made a huge difference.

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 2h

This nasty thing is sliding south.

A very gross rain system on a weather map

Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 2h

We are only at the front tip of a not huge, but seemingly malevolent rain system.

I feel like tossing cookies, and my head is throbbing.

Barometer is plunging. Buckle up, #yyj. Good time to get inside for the day.

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 3h

That’s okay — “just saying”and all. :)

Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 3h

So anyhow, no flights planned in the foreseeable future, and certainly not near the Hudson, it is time for Sully.

But Eastwood does something no one knows how to do anymore: Tells a complex story over two timeframes while shorting the viewer on neither in a mere 95 minutes.

Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 3h

I cannot tell you how many times people used to tag me with “Leaving on a Jet Plane” when I spoke of the next leg of a trip, whatnot.

And I’m like HE DIED IN A FUCKING PLANE CRASH, YOU MUPPET.

Honestly, some people wouldn’t understand the concept of “superstitions” if a dictionary fell on them.

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 3h

I was not expecting to be emotional mush midway through Sully.

Say what you will about Clint Eastwood, but he is an astounding director. He was fucking 86 when he directed this.

My first viewing. Refused to watch or listen to movies/music about plane crashes while I was a nomad.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 5h

This is such suberb journalism, and it is so hard to do right.

First, you have to find out about the incident, and have the instinct and experience to know it will make a story worthy of putting in the paper. Something that reflects and represents larger issues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 4h

lol. The irony of this running on CBS isn’t lost to me as it enters the golden Bari Weiss age.

davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 4h

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 4h

I hope the Francophones are on this like a dog on a bone.

Wow. That’s not even subpar. How embarrassing.

Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 4h

Oh wow. I hope they get smoked.

Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 4h

So many of those conversations for so many years. “Crestfalling” is the word for how that’s gone.

I think we’re more cognizant of Canadian identity this fall than we’ve been in my lifetime. I hope we keep a strong grip on who we are — and why.

We have begun a good thing. We can make it better.

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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 5h

Years ago, a family member relayed a story of speaking to Americans about the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

One of them asked: "YOU have Thanksgiving in Canada? What do you have to be thankful for?" This was in the 1990s, no MAGA or Trump in politics.

SO thankful to be Canadian, always.

a sign that says happy thanksgiving with maple leaves in the background

ALT: a sign that says happy thanksgiving with maple leaves in the background

media.tenor.com

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 4h

These people — Trump on down — got where they are from “shuckin & jivin,” as the saying goes.

They don’t believe in expertise. They think agriculture is “plant, water, harvest” & their ignorance is a death knell to US agriculture.

You should listen to people like @sarahtaber.bsky.social.

Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 4h

I just watched a minute or so of this but, being Canadian, it’s not my circus, so I’m gonna share it.

But I said MONTHS ago to look at Chairman Mao. His system made prisoners of everyone they hated — professors, artists, etc — & forced into labour.

30 to 150 million people died of starvation.

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 5h

If you've been thinking "How are they gonna run their farms after Trump arrests their workers?"

don't worry, they planned ahead for that 💀

youtu.be/zdWrHb8b-c0

ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

youtu.be

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 5h

Sure, but I’m pretty sure every culture on earth has celebrated harvests for thousands of years. But North Americans obsess about Thanksgiving. So I’m talking about about those.

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 6h

Super lowkey versus the USA. Have a nice visit!

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 6h

We could be very pedantic and say that, in both cases, Thanksgiving was started by the British and Indigenous , so neither Canada nor USA really started it, but…

…we’re not gonna do that.

And I’m preempting some reply bro from busting his bubble here.

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 6h

Technically, Thanksgiving day is tomorrow but Canadians will do it whenever the hell they want on the weekend.

Routinely you hear of people who have 2-3 “Thanksgiving dinners” because their people celebrate on different days.

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 6h

So it’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada and this is your reminder it is not “Canadian Thanksgiving.”

WE STARTED THANKSGIVING. Like most good things, Americans stole the idea off us.

It began in 1578 as a harvest celebration. It was an official holiday in 1879.

It remains a harvest celebration.

Thanksgiving in Canada

The first official, annual Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated on 6 November 1879. However, Indigenous peoples in Canada have a history of celebrating the fa...

thecanadianencyclopedia.ca

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