Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦
@lsaffs.bsky.social
Christian. Freelance editor. Gardener, knitter, dreamer, nerd. Sustainability and environmentalism. Toronto.
Turn toward love, always.
Turn toward love, always.
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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦
@lsaffs.bsky.social
· Nov 25
This beautiful, dangerous, broken world
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for us Americans, that's 98°F at night and 120°F in the day
ENDLESS HELL IN AUSTRALIA
36C AT NIGHT 49C IN THE DAY
Crazy MINIMUM 35.9C Arkaroola
4th hottest night in Southern Hemisphere history
Another 49C+ day in New South Wales
RECORDS
all time
49.1 Fawlers Gap
49.0 Smithville
48.9 White Cliffs
Monthly
48.4 Ivanhoe
46.0 Forbes
36C AT NIGHT 49C IN THE DAY
Crazy MINIMUM 35.9C Arkaroola
4th hottest night in Southern Hemisphere history
Another 49C+ day in New South Wales
RECORDS
all time
49.1 Fawlers Gap
49.0 Smithville
48.9 White Cliffs
Monthly
48.4 Ivanhoe
46.0 Forbes
January 31, 2026 at 11:53 AM
for us Americans, that's 98°F at night and 120°F in the day
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Would really appreciate CBC choosing a weekend to binge watch Catherine O’Hara from SCTV to Schitt‘s Creek and damn the torpedoes. Even the Winter Olympics come a distant second.
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Would really appreciate CBC choosing a weekend to binge watch Catherine O’Hara from SCTV to Schitt‘s Creek and damn the torpedoes. Even the Winter Olympics come a distant second.
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Leave the world so people mourn you like Catherine O'Hara is being mourned today
January 30, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Leave the world so people mourn you like Catherine O'Hara is being mourned today
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Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
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Time for a binge...
Best in Show
Waiting for Guffman
A Mighty Wind
For Your Consideration
Everyone's referencing Schitt's Creek and SCTV, and totally justified, but her work in the mockumentaries outshines Home Alone by far.
Best in Show
Waiting for Guffman
A Mighty Wind
For Your Consideration
Everyone's referencing Schitt's Creek and SCTV, and totally justified, but her work in the mockumentaries outshines Home Alone by far.
January 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Time for a binge...
Best in Show
Waiting for Guffman
A Mighty Wind
For Your Consideration
Everyone's referencing Schitt's Creek and SCTV, and totally justified, but her work in the mockumentaries outshines Home Alone by far.
Best in Show
Waiting for Guffman
A Mighty Wind
For Your Consideration
Everyone's referencing Schitt's Creek and SCTV, and totally justified, but her work in the mockumentaries outshines Home Alone by far.
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Reality keeps asserting itself whether we’re ready or not. We are watching sea urchins collapse across oceans, another reminder that Earth systems don’t care about our attention, consensus, or permission. A dramatic rethink of security has never been clearer.
gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
The Sea Urchin Apocalypse Is Real, and It Might Be Spreading Globally, Scientists Warn
New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic.
gizmodo.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Reality keeps asserting itself whether we’re ready or not. We are watching sea urchins collapse across oceans, another reminder that Earth systems don’t care about our attention, consensus, or permission. A dramatic rethink of security has never been clearer.
gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
Took me a few seconds
January 30, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Took me a few seconds
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NEW from me: Every morning for the past week or so, a group of ~24 clergy in Portland, Maine drive out to a business.
They form a line near a door, shielding a group of mostly immigrant workers as they exit their shift.
Then faith leaders stare down DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/01/29/m...
They form a line near a door, shielding a group of mostly immigrant workers as they exit their shift.
Then faith leaders stare down DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/01/29/m...
Maine clergy form spiritual 'shield' outside workplaces to protect immigrants from ICE
(RNS) — Like religious leaders in cities such as Minneapolis, Chicago and elsewhere, local clergy were quick to muster resistance to the rapid influx of immigration enforcement agents, even as they wr...
religionnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:48 PM
NEW from me: Every morning for the past week or so, a group of ~24 clergy in Portland, Maine drive out to a business.
They form a line near a door, shielding a group of mostly immigrant workers as they exit their shift.
Then faith leaders stare down DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/01/29/m...
They form a line near a door, shielding a group of mostly immigrant workers as they exit their shift.
Then faith leaders stare down DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/01/29/m...
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There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason.
Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
January 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason.
Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
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So he’s admitting that his subordinates are easily offended snowflakes who accidentally commit bloodshed when their feelings are hurt? What a stark admission of the incompetence in his ranks.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:57 PM
So he’s admitting that his subordinates are easily offended snowflakes who accidentally commit bloodshed when their feelings are hurt? What a stark admission of the incompetence in his ranks.
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"In theater" is a nice touch for describing Minneapolis. Worth noting the people involved, from Trump to Miller to Noem to Homan to Bovino to the majority of ICE and CBP goons, have never served in the military. They're playing out a war fantasy, dressing up in army costumes, like incredible losers.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 3:51 PM
"In theater" is a nice touch for describing Minneapolis. Worth noting the people involved, from Trump to Miller to Noem to Homan to Bovino to the majority of ICE and CBP goons, have never served in the military. They're playing out a war fantasy, dressing up in army costumes, like incredible losers.
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The FBI raided a Georgia elections facility today. Why? Because the biggest crybaby in all of human history, the biggest sore loser in all of human history sits in the White House. And he ordered the FBI to do it. My midweek meltdown.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
The World's Biggest Crybaby
Joe's Midweek Meltdown
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:39 AM
The FBI raided a Georgia elections facility today. Why? Because the biggest crybaby in all of human history, the biggest sore loser in all of human history sits in the White House. And he ordered the FBI to do it. My midweek meltdown.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
Floating? So just drifting along on the current?
Trump: "By the way, there's another beautiful armada floating toward Iran right now. So we'll see."
January 28, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Floating? So just drifting along on the current?
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“The people of Minnesota have forced the Trump administration into a strategic retreat—one inflicted not as rioters or insurgents, but as neighbors.” This sentence from @adamserwer.bsky.social made me unexpectedly get choked up. It’s weird what does that these days. But still …
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:42 PM
“The people of Minnesota have forced the Trump administration into a strategic retreat—one inflicted not as rioters or insurgents, but as neighbors.” This sentence from @adamserwer.bsky.social made me unexpectedly get choked up. It’s weird what does that these days. But still …
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"more than 90 per cent of new renewable power is cheaper than building new fossil fuel plants. Investors see it. Governments see it. Communities feel it. Clean energy is faster to deploy, cheaper to run and more resilient in an increasingly volatile world."
www.un.org/en/un-chroni...
www.un.org/en/un-chroni...
Clean Energy Is the World’s Most Secure Path Forward | United Nations
To meet global climate goals and deliver energy for all, clean energy investment must more than triple by 2030, and much of it must go to emerging and developing economies.
www.un.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:15 AM
"more than 90 per cent of new renewable power is cheaper than building new fossil fuel plants. Investors see it. Governments see it. Communities feel it. Clean energy is faster to deploy, cheaper to run and more resilient in an increasingly volatile world."
www.un.org/en/un-chroni...
www.un.org/en/un-chroni...
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough
January 25, 2026 at 3:12 PM
It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough
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How is it that one of the most divisive individuals ever to occupy the Oval Office has somehow managed to unite the entire world against us?
January 25, 2026 at 7:18 PM
How is it that one of the most divisive individuals ever to occupy the Oval Office has somehow managed to unite the entire world against us?
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do you know how fucked everything has to be for DAVID HOGG to be like “it’s okay for people to have guns”
January 25, 2026 at 7:14 PM
do you know how fucked everything has to be for DAVID HOGG to be like “it’s okay for people to have guns”
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Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
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I realized the way to ask Mike Johnson about stuff that he will proclaim he does not know: "as the person third in line for the presidency...."
Squeaker of the House
anyone heard from Speaker of House? in witness protection? trying to come up with "didn't see it" lines?
January 25, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I realized the way to ask Mike Johnson about stuff that he will proclaim he does not know: "as the person third in line for the presidency...."
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January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
-W. H. Auden
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
-W. H. Auden
January 22, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
-W. H. Auden
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
-W. H. Auden
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Even now, even through all of this, the rapid responders in Uptown have continued to locate, pursue, and monitor ICE vehicles. They never stop. Heroes one and all
January 24, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Even now, even through all of this, the rapid responders in Uptown have continued to locate, pursue, and monitor ICE vehicles. They never stop. Heroes one and all
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.