Gregg McLennan
@strayarc.bsky.social
Union guy, politics guy, welding guy, wife guy. #Cdnpoli #BCpoli labor activist, pompous ass, pretty good cook, pretty good shitposter, animal lover, coffee morning noon and night, Team Orange.
When in doubt, just outwork everyone.
When in doubt, just outwork everyone.
Pinned
Our ethics are a profoundly powerful spell. Made more powerful still by what we dedicate to their casting. Some are called to risk all in the casting and when they do, they can change the whole world. If we ever abandon them we spend the rest of our days being further degraded until little remains.
What? No. Just no.
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Can’t carry a tune? This Vancouver Island newcomer is launching choirs for the joyful but tone deaf | CBC News
The first tuneless choir was launched in January 2016 in West Bridgford, England, thanks to a woman by the name of Nadine Cooper.
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January 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
What? No. Just no.
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NGL, I'm feeling a stir of patriotism about the horny hockey show. Have fun y'all, try our music. It's even better than our tv.
January 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM
NGL, I'm feeling a stir of patriotism about the horny hockey show. Have fun y'all, try our music. It's even better than our tv.
Wake up bae. New freebooting just dropped.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "After this regime change in Venezuela, I fear we're going to see jobs just move south because we're already hearing about big corporations lining up their trips to Venezuela for the next big business opportunity while Americans sit here with no options."
January 4, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Wake up bae. New freebooting just dropped.
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I honestly respect the hustle, she played the US like a fucking fiddle.
![>be me>be me
>venezuelan VP
>want to get rid of bus driver prez
>have support of security forces who are under your command, not prez, for some reason
>not ideological chavista, play nice with biz in 2021
>worried about domestic backlash to a coup though, plus don't want military generals to try anything
>IDEA.exe
>tell idiot americans you'll stop funding pink tide [which you can't really afford to do anyways anymore], if only Maduro was gone
>idiot american president buys it
>have army stand down while US flies in
>US gets rid of president for you and whisks him away
>you now take control of the apparatus with no opposition
>public is mad at yanquis, not you
honestly, not even mad at her here.
>venezuelan VP
>want to get rid of bus driver prez
>have support of security forces who are under your command, not prez, for some reason
>not ideological chavista, play nice with biz in 2021
>worried about domestic backlash to a coup though, plus don't want military generals to try anything
>IDEA.exe
>tell idiot americans you'll stop funding pink tide [which you can't really afford to do anyways anymore], if only Maduro was gone
>idiot american president buys it
>have army stand down while US flies in
>US gets rid of president for you and whisks him away
>you now take control of the apparatus with no opposition
>public is mad at yanquis, not you
honestly, not even mad at her here.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j2kmiyhld5btzozgzwy3lc2m/bafkreidlzljyrvgn6bs32epl4vr7rypowabm6tbrvxonjtfj5lkugre7ya@jpeg)
January 4, 2026 at 5:14 AM
I honestly respect the hustle, she played the US like a fucking fiddle.
I'm impressed Bluesky. Not one person made a silly little cocaine joke about this.
Mountains of coke and pyramids of sulfur. Poisoned tailings ponds. What’s not to love?
January 4, 2026 at 4:35 AM
I'm impressed Bluesky. Not one person made a silly little cocaine joke about this.
First of all I'm not an expert. That much must be understood.
Here's a little tale of oil, Canada's domestic politics, American imperialism and a few other things.
First of all Venezuela. If Trump's plan to seize Venezuelan oil succeeds, the dominoes are primed to fall in very stupid ways.
Here's a little tale of oil, Canada's domestic politics, American imperialism and a few other things.
First of all Venezuela. If Trump's plan to seize Venezuelan oil succeeds, the dominoes are primed to fall in very stupid ways.
January 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM
First of all I'm not an expert. That much must be understood.
Here's a little tale of oil, Canada's domestic politics, American imperialism and a few other things.
First of all Venezuela. If Trump's plan to seize Venezuelan oil succeeds, the dominoes are primed to fall in very stupid ways.
Here's a little tale of oil, Canada's domestic politics, American imperialism and a few other things.
First of all Venezuela. If Trump's plan to seize Venezuelan oil succeeds, the dominoes are primed to fall in very stupid ways.
Congratulations on Operation Throbbing Member I guess.
January 3, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Congratulations on Operation Throbbing Member I guess.
Look behind you America. It's the Rubicon river.
Vance’s use of quotes is deliberate, not illiterate like Trump’s. Here, it signifies that legality itself is a dubious or frivolous concept as applied to the actions of the regime. It conveys not just that it’s wrong to say the acts were illegal, but ridiculous to use law as a metric at all.
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Look behind you America. It's the Rubicon river.
Venezuelan Free State. You're going to have so many baskets of hands.
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Venezuelan Free State. You're going to have so many baskets of hands.
Proud that I stand with principled people.
January 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Proud that I stand with principled people.
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If i’m canada i’m maybe thinking of putting some surface to air missiles in place, where the red dots are should do
January 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
If i’m canada i’m maybe thinking of putting some surface to air missiles in place, where the red dots are should do
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Regardless of Maduro's crimes, of which there are many, this is still a lawless act by a lawless administration, abducting a leader and declaring war on a state out of petty spite.
They'll do it to other people soon enough.
They'll do it to other people soon enough.
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Regardless of Maduro's crimes, of which there are many, this is still a lawless act by a lawless administration, abducting a leader and declaring war on a state out of petty spite.
They'll do it to other people soon enough.
They'll do it to other people soon enough.
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are we really shocked orange man is spending january storming capitals
January 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
are we really shocked orange man is spending january storming capitals
The government of lukewarm water.
Please see my statement on the situation in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 4:36 PM
The government of lukewarm water.
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Hard to imagine a better illustration of this Administration's Mad Emperor incoherence than invading a country to arrest a President for drug trafficking weeks after we pardoned a President for trafficking.
January 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Hard to imagine a better illustration of this Administration's Mad Emperor incoherence than invading a country to arrest a President for drug trafficking weeks after we pardoned a President for trafficking.
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This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
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January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
This is shameful and why I subscribe to @thenarwhal.ca nationally, @thetyee.ca regionally and @thediscourse.ca locally. Support independent journalism and let them grow into unsullied legacy media.
If you want a sense of the state of Canadian news gathering right now, I don't think any Canadian news sites have a story up about Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM
This is shameful and why I subscribe to @thenarwhal.ca nationally, @thetyee.ca regionally and @thediscourse.ca locally. Support independent journalism and let them grow into unsullied legacy media.
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Not important in the scheme of things but I learned about what's happening on Venezuela via the Discover and my following feed on Bluesky. Just checked Twitter and it's not shown up on "For You" or the trending.
Tough to square where the idea that X is still the place for breaking news
Tough to square where the idea that X is still the place for breaking news
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Not important in the scheme of things but I learned about what's happening on Venezuela via the Discover and my following feed on Bluesky. Just checked Twitter and it's not shown up on "For You" or the trending.
Tough to square where the idea that X is still the place for breaking news
Tough to square where the idea that X is still the place for breaking news
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*other journalists
Also: It is important to remember that we’re now going into this with the zombie propaganda Pentagon press corps. So, that sucks and will make things even more complicated.
Also: It is important to remember that we’re now going into this with the zombie propaganda Pentagon press corps. So, that sucks and will make things even more complicated.
January 3, 2026 at 8:37 AM
*other journalists
Also: It is important to remember that we’re now going into this with the zombie propaganda Pentagon press corps. So, that sucks and will make things even more complicated.
Also: It is important to remember that we’re now going into this with the zombie propaganda Pentagon press corps. So, that sucks and will make things even more complicated.
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The media wants the war and likes Trump and so will not report on this war as if it is unpopular, despite overwhelming polling showing that it is. Covering things as if they are unpopular is for things they want to stop and they want the war and want it to succeed.
Most Americans say President Trump should seek congressional authorization before using force in Venezuela.
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More, via Opinion Today:
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More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251224-free
January 3, 2026 at 8:17 AM
The media wants the war and likes Trump and so will not report on this war as if it is unpopular, despite overwhelming polling showing that it is. Covering things as if they are unpopular is for things they want to stop and they want the war and want it to succeed.
Canada, Czechia, Finland and Sweden should immediately withdraw from the IIHF WORLD Junior Hockey Championships currently underway in Minnesota so as to not be seen as complicit in this crime against peace and make their way as swiftly as possible out of the United States. @hockeycanada.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Canada, Czechia, Finland and Sweden should immediately withdraw from the IIHF WORLD Junior Hockey Championships currently underway in Minnesota so as to not be seen as complicit in this crime against peace and make their way as swiftly as possible out of the United States. @hockeycanada.bsky.social
Fuckers. Evil evil fuckers.
For fuck sakes America, don’t do this. There’s no class of people born just to be killed because your senile autocrat lusts for death. This is purely an aggressive act and you will long wear the mantle of international shame for it.
January 3, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Fuckers. Evil evil fuckers.
For fuck sake. War of aggression.
CNN: CNN just getting report that the smoke appears to be rising from the vicinity of Fort Tiona, which is where the Venezuelan ministry of defense is headquartered, which would seem to indicate that somebody is targeting the defenses of Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 7:03 AM
For fuck sake. War of aggression.
CAN 7 - 1 SVK Final
On Sunday the semi final #1 will be SWE vs. FIN
and semi final #2 will be CAN vs. CZE
#WJHC
On Sunday the semi final #1 will be SWE vs. FIN
and semi final #2 will be CAN vs. CZE
#WJHC
CAN 5 - 0 SVK
End 1st period.
I'm enjoying the trajectory of this tournament
We're getting better every game which is essential in a short tournament.
#WJHC
End 1st period.
I'm enjoying the trajectory of this tournament
We're getting better every game which is essential in a short tournament.
#WJHC
January 3, 2026 at 4:12 AM
CAN 7 - 1 SVK Final
On Sunday the semi final #1 will be SWE vs. FIN
and semi final #2 will be CAN vs. CZE
#WJHC
On Sunday the semi final #1 will be SWE vs. FIN
and semi final #2 will be CAN vs. CZE
#WJHC