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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 4h

American Exceptionalism makes them blind to the fact that no, not everyone wants to be American and frankly, I am envious of our Commonwealth buddies 🇦🇺& 🇳🇿 having that lovely distance away from it

I am currently watching 🇰🇷 and 🇬🇧 content to get away from the constant onslaught of 🇺🇸

"Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you.
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States."

~PIERRE TRUDEAU

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 12h

Explaining Canadian Thanksgiving to Americans

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 7h

We’re used to it 🥹

BOOMERS “I'm so popular!"

MILLENNIALS "I'm tho cute!”

GEN X “I hate this fuckin’ family”

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 9h

From what I saw of it up in Canada it was a fantastic uplifting campaign and I was frankly shocked and dismayed when she didn’t get elected

Just like I felt after Sandy Hook when nothing changed, absolute despair 💔

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Reese Witherspoon on Diane Keaton hiring her as a fresh-faced girl from Nashville. #RIP

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 15h

We live in a time of insane medical advances, and we should be giving the NIH every dime they need to get them over the finish line.

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 16h

New @nejm.org
One-shot gene therapy for a type of congenital deafness enabled some children to hear for the first time, and 3 of 12 kids achieved normal hearing
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2400521

DB-OTO Gene Therapy for Inherited Deafness | NEJM

Genetic deficiency of otoferlin, a protein critical to synaptic transmission by the sensory hair cells of the ear, causes congenital deafness. Medicines to treat the condition are lacking; children...

www.nejm.org

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 11h

I too have never watched an episode but it appears to be Copaganda mixed with Sharknado levels of absurdity

a man in a hawaiian shirt is standing in front of a fire hydrant on a city street .

Alt: a man in a hawaiian shirt is standing in front of a fire hydrant on a city street and sharks fall on him from the sky

media.tenor.com

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 11h

Thanksgiving in Canada is on the second Monday of October

I don’t know what the rules are for Columbus Day as I am Canadian

Please take back Black Friday, Thanks 🙏

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 12h

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 12h

It is because Canadian Thanksgiving falls on US Columbus day so people are conflating the two 🤷‍♀️

Columbus Day > Date (2025)
Mon, Oct 13, 2025
United States

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 12h

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 12h

It is because Canadian Thanksgiving falls on US Columbus day so people are conflating the two 🤷‍♀️

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 12h

It is because Canadian Thanksgiving falls on US Columbus day so people are conflating the two 🤷‍♀️

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 15h

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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A festive Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a roasted turkey as the centerpiece, surrounded by an array of dishes including green beans, stuffing, sliced ham, and a pumpkin pie. The table is decorated with pumpkins, sunflowers, candles, and autumnal flowers, with wine glasses and plates set for a meal.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13h

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 12h

Trump has scrapped NAFTA

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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Dr. Zil Roars (Paul H. White, Ph.D.) @drzilwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I just . . .

The words that popped in my head have dissipated quickly. We need to keep speaking up & out to bring about peace for all, not just those who want power & control, then call that "peace".

#AwakeAndAlive2025

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site vandalized

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Ken @cowcakes.bsky.social · 1d

The continuing environmental devastation of coal mining and burning.

Dr Bino says the results "clearly show toxic brine is leaking from Energy Australia's Mount Piper Power Station ash dump".

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Platypus vanish from river where Charles Darwin pondered evolution

Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems to have disappeared.

www.abc.net.au

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 12h

And then they kiss 💋

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 13h

Never seen this before. That’s fantastic.

Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 14h

Diversity is our strength, no matter what racist, bigoted Republicans say.

Real Americans embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.

Real Americans reject Trump and his white nationalist cronies.

Trump is bad, project 2025 is bad and the people who love America, the real patriots reject both.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 1d

One time I looked out the window of the thrift store I worked at and saw a beautiful woman hopping down the street on one leg. A second later she burst in the front door and it was Diane Keaton with a broken high heel in her hand. You’ve never seen someone get served by half the staff faster

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, cause we just say Fuck Fascism!

🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic!

The one thing I have learned watching Escape to the Country is that so many of our towns, cities and even lakes are named after UK ones 🥹

It makes sense, but I never realized just how many there were 🇨🇦

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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