Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · 1d

And one of the most egregious extraction problems is Saskatchewan potash windfall profits going to the US. Shameful.

LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 1d

70% of the profit from pipelines & resource extraction on Canadian 🇨🇦 soil go to foreign billionaires. We have an immigration problem, just not the ones they are convincing the peasants of. #cdnpoli

3 2

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · 7d

@mark-carney.bsky.social Starving Gazans. Capturing and possibly torturing food flotilla organizers. Is there no depravity that's too great for Canada to excuse? We can't call for a Palestinian state and support Israeli cruelty. #elbowsup and show some Canadian compassion.

1 5

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · 9d

The Israeli interception of the Gaza-bound flotilla carrying baby food is immoral and obscene.

5

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · 11d

You're wrong in stating that the current US presidential administration is run by people who are mentally ill. That denigrates the mentally ill. In fact, this administration is run by people who are ev-ill.

2 2 16

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks. Obviously too late now. I realized that just as I hit the send button. Whoops!

1

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · 20d

This is wonderful. An early Hallowe'en image. I'd love a card of this, but I doubt that you would mail it to Canada. Just in case: Pat Lorje, 3127 Dieppe Street, Saskatoon SK S7M 3S3

1 1

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · 26d

You're right that cats love bags, but that's not what the phrase "let the cat out of the bag" means. Back in the day (and maybe still so in some places), when people wanted to kill a cat, they would tie it in a burlap bag - or gunny sack - and drown it. So the phrase literally means "save the cat".

1 1

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Sep 2

Still alive and still meddling in other countries' affairs. Sorry about that.

2

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Sep 2

So now Trump announced that Canada wants to be part of his unrealistic and expensive Golden Dome defense system. Sorry, Donold, the only dome this Canadian wants in this independent country is the SkyDome (AKA Rogers Centre). #ElbowsUP and DomesDown.

1

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Aug 17

Looking at the photo of Gavin Newsom helping to destroy an encampment of unhoused people in LA and remembering when he was an up-and-coming politician in SF. He hosted a collective social service event for them, and ostentatiously washed the feet of of unhoused man. He's become such a hypocrite.

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · Aug 17

When people tell you who they are, believe them!!

-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · Aug 17

while smiling!

Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world.

Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate;

Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.

1 1

Reposted by Pat Lorje Proud Canadian

Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · Aug 5

👇🏼

Refugee boats arriving on our shores top the evening news again. Can't think when I last saw footage broadcast of the deadly arms exports that regularly leave the UK on cargo ships and planes, causing displacement around the world

8 110 480

Reposted by Pat Lorje Proud Canadian

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Aug 5

210 2.8K 6.8K

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Aug 5

Best reason to have company.

1

Reposted by Pat Lorje Proud Canadian

Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · Jul 21

5 24 89

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Jul 16

We tried that in the 80's and 90's. Turns out that male dominance conditioning trumps everything. Gah....

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jul 15

If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · Jul 15

When I see people complain about male loneliness, it is so painfully OBVIOUS to me that most of these lonely men are men who feel entitled to a woman who does that labor for them, who acts as their agent enmeshing them into community through unpaid pro-social labor on their behalf.

1

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Jul 11

Oh Don-old- just go away already. This Canadian (and probably many others) is so tired of your incessant threats. So give us 35% tariffs now- but wait till your farmers find out how much our potash fertilizer will now cost them. TACO time coming up.

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Jun 12

People stating "you have two choices" when they clearly mean "you have a choice (of two options)".

3

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Jun 5

What's worse than a bull in a china shop? How about an elephant in a snack shop? www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Hungry elephant raids Thai grocery shop

www.bbc.com

1

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · May 25

This is biologically incorrect. Babies are born via the vaginal canal, not the anus. It would be far more accurate to tell this anti-immigration jerk to "go back to where you came from- that is, your father's pee-hole".

1

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · May 6

Whew! Canada and Carney survived the meeting with Trump at the White House. Not humiliated, like Zelenskyy (though close to it). So embarrassing, watching our Prime Minister biting his tongue as their President ranted on, fact-free and falsely. However, I'm still boycotting US products and travel.

1 3

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Apr 28

I voted in the CANADIAN election. At a public school. Didn't think anything of it until I realized that would be impossible in an American school. Here we have no lockdowns, no armed guards, no frightened students. Just lots of engaged citizens doing their civic duty. Sorry, not sorry.🇨🇦👍🇨🇦

5

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Apr 20

Spray the area with diluted white vinegar. Wait for a bit, then wipe it off and use a cleaning product as well if necessary. White vinegar works marvellously to counter cat urine smell.

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Apr 1

I don't know. My politics, being of the centre-left, do not allow me to check out Trump's social media account. But Trump seems to think he has supernatural, even king-ly powers, so maybe he thinks he is above the US constitution and its various amendments! But...it could be and April Fool's joke.

1

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Apr 1

A friend just sent me a copy of a message Donold Trump posted on social media. He plans to end dual citizenship and deport all these so-called traitors to the country they came from, no exceptions. Is this the start of the end of the bromance he has with Elon Muskrat, a naturalized US citizen?

Pat Lorje Proud Canadian @patlorje.bsky.social · Mar 31

Does the "waning over time" also apply to those of us who actually had measles when we were children, or do we have life-long immunity? Asking for the Boomer Generation.

3 3