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Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 3h

I have identical twins, and when they were babies I'd catch complete strangers taking their picture and posting it without my consent, because they were "so cute", in grocery stores and malls, everywhere. One woman actually said "I'm sorry I don't have a camera to take their picture!" I was like 😡

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Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 16h

We're actually having one here in Vancouver Canada in solidarity, probably marching to the US Embassy. I hope the ones in the US all go ok

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Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 20h

Really lobbying hard for that Nobel Peace Prize I see.

Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 21h

And not even smart enough to put up a Zoom background to hide his personal stuff. Or just didn't care who saw he's a giant white supremacist.

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

Little Mikey trying to get Nobel Prize for 47

Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social
Support Ann at anntelnaes.substack.com

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 1d

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

OTTAWA - Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has launched a petition to "end DEI programs and restore merit", just months after losing his own heavily-favoured seat before running in an even more hea...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 1d

Photo of Melania Trump for kissing Justin Trudeau with the caption "Melania is ready to risk it all"

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Gaza ceasefire will not affect his country’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ aje.io/mbmr4o

South Africa says ICJ genocide case will continue despite Gaza ceasefire

President Cyril Ramaphosa says progress and healing hinge on the case against Israel being heard.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2d

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 2d

Ethnic cleansing is happening in the #WestBank.

In #MasaferYatta, 85% of homes have been demolished.

More from Celine, Project Coordinator and Frederieke, Humanitarian Affairs Manager:

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 2d

A photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jared Kushner, and US President Donald Trump standing in front of Gaza rubble. The headline reads: World confident Gaza Ceasefire built on naked self-dealing will surely last

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

The US Department of War’s poorly planned, badly led and incompetently executed US invasion of Canada was defeated today in 1812

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Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 2d

I still know my old family phone number, two of my sisters, my brother. My 2 sisters still have the same phone number they had in like 1980 haha

Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 2d

So that he can sign a ceasefire or pause this war on Ukraine, and then call up troops so he can replenish and be ready for the next round.

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Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 3d

Ok if America ever becomes safe to visit again, I'm going to Portland, it looks like a great city

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 3d

This post is like 5 seconds away from telling me I should smile more

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Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 3d

Ok that was top notch haha

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Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 3d

Reminds me of when Trump tried to crush Trudeau's hand but Trudeau actually works out, so Trudeau won the Handshake battle. Then Melania ogled him, and Trump hated Trudeau forever. Good times.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 3d

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Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 3d

The stock market has been referred to as a "graph of rich people's feelings", and that's pretty accurate I'd say.

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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social · 4d

When the ibuprofen starts kicking in

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 3d

ME: and what of the boys?

THEM: they’re back in town sir

ME: very well, and your milkshakes, are they…

THEM: locked and loaded sir

ME: excellent. to the yard then

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Jen Cara @unrealjen.bsky.social · 4d

I can't listen to them either, his voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me

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