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Bookseller. Photographer. Grandmother. Very pissed off Canadian. Pics of my horses, cats, chickens. Supporting #Ukraine. Media tab to see my photos. My bookstore: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/StoreFrontDisplay?cid=59873904

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · Sep 5

The real Grey Azira.
#horses #animals

Dark grey horse with a silver mane. A few blades of grass hanging from her mouth.

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2h

The bad boy is home. I had to drive up and load him on the trailer, because he declined to leave his new best friend. But he was happy enough once he got home and saw all his mares again. Much excitement and foolishness. Azira is thrilled and trying to hog all his attention. #horses #animals

White horse looking over the top of a fence

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe. Though I’ve seen enough extreme right commentary suggesting that a dictatorship would be okay as long as it’s their own dictator that I’m not totally convinced. I certainly hope you are correct anyway.

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 5h

You make a good point. However, this particular essay is about the tendencies towards an authoritarian viewpoint within the general populace, not those in power. So it really is not about dictatorship in this specific case.

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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 6h

Resist Fascism!

youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?...

Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 7h

This is long, but worth the read. Makes the argument that universal basic income would be an excellent way to tamp down on authoritarianism. www.scottsantens.com/the-hidden-r...

The Hidden Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing — And How to Reverse It

It takes all kinds. Humanity would have never made it this far without a multitude of people with a wide diversity of personality types and preferences. It is our individual differences wherein lies o...

www.scottsantens.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 8h

Good luck Milton! 🥳🤞🤞🤞

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks! She is a fun cat and very photogenic.

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 20h

Sophie wishes everyone a Happy #Caturday and also that she was big enough to catch birds.
#cats #animals

Tiny tabby kitten with white chest and white toes looking out a window from under a curtain.

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1d

I think the govt is just swallowing CP management excuses without really examining the failures. It’s easier than thinking analytically.

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2d

Canada Post management has utterly failed to look at the market and change to take advantage of the rapidly growing parcel business. It's a classic failure to adapt. And CP employees have been telling them this for years.

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2d

I agree with your general conclusion, though I have to say... Purolator is mostly more expensive than CP, and not as reliable for rural and remote deliveries. CP is actually not replaceable for those. Nor for multi-occupant buildings (condos, apartments, etc.)

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! 🤞🤞🤞

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2d

It's been SO much fun trying to run a small ecom business in Canada lately... duties, tariffs, postal strikes... on, off, on...

I'm very sympathetic to CP workers. But must admit that I'm grateful they are going to just rotating strikes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada Post union says it will move from nationwide strike action to rotating strikes on Saturday | CBC News

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents 55,000 Canada Post workers, announced late Thursday that it will end its nationwide strike action and move to rotating strikes starting Saturday....

www.cbc.ca

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2d

Melania = 💤😴

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2d

A military attack on some other European country could lead to the first general European war since 1945, and perhaps to a third world war.

It is in everyone’s interest here in the West to forestall such an attack. @crof.bsky.social writes.

Why You Should Be Scared about Putin’s Next War | The Tyee

The signs are mounting that Russia is preparing for another invasion.

thetyee.ca

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2d

Just out walking around the farm with Tavish on a beautiful autumn day. #cats #animals

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2d

Cannot bring myself to "like" this post. But I've shared it 😢

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 2d

This is heartbreaking.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

As the number of WCNSFs – wounded child no surviving family – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them

www.theguardian.com

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2d

YIkes, no. I hope we stop using this company!
"Dominion was founded as a Canadian company with offices in Toronto, Denver, and Dallas. The new company plans to continue to have a presence in Canada, however, a source familiar with the plans said."
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

edition.cnn.com

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting opinion piece. Sounds rather bleak. It rings true to me but I’m not an optimist so ymmv.

Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 3d

For decades in the West, it was taken as a given that with individual & government effort, the future will always surpass the past. Increasingly now, people are feeling we must endure “less and worse….Loss has become a pervasive condition of life” in U.S. & Europe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...