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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦

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🇨🇦, atheist, skeptic, knitter, 🍺 judge. Bird looker. Sciences for a living. Muskox are smaller than you think. She/her, Niagara area.

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · Jun 3

Katy 2006-2025 💔

You were a good girl.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 7h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 1d

Oh fuck no

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 1d

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 2d

Oh, look, a cover!

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ann-l...

Radiant Star

Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning author Ann Leckie. The Temporal Locati...

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Walter 🇨🇦 (ウォールター) @walterverse.bsky.social · 3d

A ploy to anger BC then declare Canada doesn't work b/c no one is kneeling to Alberta. Meanwhile Alberta sits on 100% First Nations land. I feel this should be mentioned every single time Smith is mentioned. AB isn't going anywhere. FN's just need a new tenancy agreement, weed out the weirdos

Alberta is on 100% First Nation's unceded treaty land

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 3d

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 4d

"GET OFF MY DUNE, BRUH" 🪶

Same whimbrel on the sand dune moments before takeoff, beak parted, exposing the long sloping pink of his gullet. Looks grumpy

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

Candy corn 🤷🏼‍♀️

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

You're an expat from being a white guy??

How's that work?

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

Tell me you're a white guy without telling me you're a white guy....

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

Block early, block often!!

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

Well, it *does* have all that extra protein to make it stronger 🤷🏼‍♀️

BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

*not laughing, not laughing, not laughing*

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, and keep switching between the payment page and another page, because even if you hit the "see more" button, they won't all appear.

Is this extremely frustrating?

Yes, yes it is.

BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

ALSO lololololsob

Login to PayPal, click the pancake, then the settings gear, find the payment page, go to automatic payments and find the dozens of authorizations you have completely forgotten about and delete them!

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

PayPal: well you have your account linked to other places too

Yes, *I* went to those businesses and linked my PayPal account myself

PayPal: Let me ask you, have you been charged anything by Facebook?

That's not the point. This was done without my permission.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4d

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

IMPORTANT

Go check your meta accounts and see if your PayPal got linked to them without your permission.

If so, you can find directions online for deleting.

ALSO, and this is the important bit, call PayPal and ask how that happened without your permission and what they're going to do about it.

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 4d

Oooh, I have to disagree with this one - I love the original version.

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, probably in my early teens?? Lol, we were so innocent 😂

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BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 5d

I absolutely have the nostalgia thing going on for"Seasons in the Sun", as that song, along with "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" are two of the earliest songs I can remember!

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