Theresa
@tschiller17.bsky.social
Mostly retired, trying to stay optimistic in an increasingly uncertain and cruel world.
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Yeah, as I've been saying, we overcompensated because the media ran with the stupid 'GDP per capita' and 'immigrants hurt housing' framing. This is long-run damage to the economy by short-term thinking, feeding xenophobia, and helping to further destroy Canada's world class universities.
Canada’s population sees largest decline on record
Canada’s population sees largest decline on record
Statistics Canada attributes the drop to a fewer non-permanent residents. It's the largest decline since records began in 1946.
www.thestar.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Yeah, as I've been saying, we overcompensated because the media ran with the stupid 'GDP per capita' and 'immigrants hurt housing' framing. This is long-run damage to the economy by short-term thinking, feeding xenophobia, and helping to further destroy Canada's world class universities.
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When I'm accused of naivety for thinking the world can change for the better, I use this very example.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
December 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
When I'm accused of naivety for thinking the world can change for the better, I use this very example.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
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Canadians can do their part by supporting Cdn business and continuing the US boycotts.
There are consequences for threatening a good neighbour.
Keep up the good work Canada!
(Glorious Canada/FB)
#Canada
#USBoycott
#Never51
Keep up the good work Canada!
(Glorious Canada/FB)
#Canada
#USBoycott
#Never51
December 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Canadians can do their part by supporting Cdn business and continuing the US boycotts.
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any woman who thinks she can dismiss the extraordinary advances of the feminist movement and still enjoy rights and freedoms like owning her own house, having her own credit cards, not being sexually assaulted by her spouse, having any rights to her children, voting, working in the professions,
December 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
any woman who thinks she can dismiss the extraordinary advances of the feminist movement and still enjoy rights and freedoms like owning her own house, having her own credit cards, not being sexually assaulted by her spouse, having any rights to her children, voting, working in the professions,
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It still blows my mind to think of how many of these freedoms happened in MY lifetime. And how far we still have to go.
any woman who thinks she can dismiss the extraordinary advances of the feminist movement and still enjoy rights and freedoms like owning her own house, having her own credit cards, not being sexually assaulted by her spouse, having any rights to her children, voting, working in the professions,
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December 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It still blows my mind to think of how many of these freedoms happened in MY lifetime. And how far we still have to go.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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LIFE RULES:
Insulate your house with books to ward off evil
Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse
Never click on a link to the Daily Mail
Use double the recommended amount of garlic
Always stop to say hi to sheep
And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice)
I think that's more or less everything covered?
Insulate your house with books to ward off evil
Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse
Never click on a link to the Daily Mail
Use double the recommended amount of garlic
Always stop to say hi to sheep
And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice)
I think that's more or less everything covered?
December 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
LIFE RULES:
Insulate your house with books to ward off evil
Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse
Never click on a link to the Daily Mail
Use double the recommended amount of garlic
Always stop to say hi to sheep
And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice)
I think that's more or less everything covered?
Insulate your house with books to ward off evil
Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse
Never click on a link to the Daily Mail
Use double the recommended amount of garlic
Always stop to say hi to sheep
And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice)
I think that's more or less everything covered?
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Anyway. Choose to be human. All we have is each other.
December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Anyway. Choose to be human. All we have is each other.
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am I on fucking drugs or is he proposing The Hunger Games
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
am I on fucking drugs or is he proposing The Hunger Games
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"These are monstrous men and women. They are angels of death, instruments of misery and architects of a sinister future that must be opposed by all Americans of good faith and goodwill."
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/susie-wile...
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/susie-wile...
Susie Wiles goes wild
This is a photographic portrait of evil:
steveschmidt.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"These are monstrous men and women. They are angels of death, instruments of misery and architects of a sinister future that must be opposed by all Americans of good faith and goodwill."
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steveschmidt.substack.com/p/susie-wile...
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“It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” 🍊💩
#uspoli #cdnpoli
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#uspoli #cdnpoli
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Shellene Drakes-Tull: Don’t be like Trump: If you’ve got nothing good to say, staying quiet is a wonderful Christmas gift
Unfortunately, some people don’t know how to be quiet. It’s an affliction that affects them year-round. They believe they should share whatever is on their minds — no matter how
www.thestar.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” 🍊💩
#uspoli #cdnpoli
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
#uspoli #cdnpoli
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Bondi Beach, Antisemistism, And Fighting Back Against Hatred
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Bondi Beach, Antisemistism, And Fighting Back Against Hatred
On Tragedy, And Our Response
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December 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Bondi Beach, Antisemistism, And Fighting Back Against Hatred
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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The coming years are going to reveal a lot more waste on 'AI' like this by our governments, to the tune of 10s of billions squandered on appalling nonsense, all to make rich Tech Bros richer.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time
The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
nationalpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The coming years are going to reveal a lot more waste on 'AI' like this by our governments, to the tune of 10s of billions squandered on appalling nonsense, all to make rich Tech Bros richer.
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Every time I read a new excerpt from the Nuzzi book, I think of this
onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...
onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...
Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no…
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December 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Every time I read a new excerpt from the Nuzzi book, I think of this
onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...
onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...
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A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
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December 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Good article describing the dilemma faced by US car manufacturers: living in a world set on adopting EVs and dealing with a government bent on making them “niche manufacturers of big gas guzzlers confined to the US”.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...
Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Good article describing the dilemma faced by US car manufacturers: living in a world set on adopting EVs and dealing with a government bent on making them “niche manufacturers of big gas guzzlers confined to the US”.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...
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This is gearing up to be a horrendous influenza season.
I had 2 pregnant patients test positive last week (swabbed because they presented to hospital with significant illness)
Neither were vaccinated.
I had 2 pregnant patients test positive last week (swabbed because they presented to hospital with significant illness)
Neither were vaccinated.
December 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This is gearing up to be a horrendous influenza season.
I had 2 pregnant patients test positive last week (swabbed because they presented to hospital with significant illness)
Neither were vaccinated.
I had 2 pregnant patients test positive last week (swabbed because they presented to hospital with significant illness)
Neither were vaccinated.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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It doesn’t matter if 🇺🇸America’s F35 jets are better in some ways than the 🇸🇪Swedish Gripen fighters.
🇨🇦Canada should not be procuring arms from a now hostile neofascist state, nor should we be chasing after greater and greater military integration with it.
🍁🍁🍁
🇨🇦Canada should not be procuring arms from a now hostile neofascist state, nor should we be chasing after greater and greater military integration with it.
🍁🍁🍁
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It doesn’t matter if 🇺🇸America’s F35 jets are better in some ways than the 🇸🇪Swedish Gripen fighters.
🇨🇦Canada should not be procuring arms from a now hostile neofascist state, nor should we be chasing after greater and greater military integration with it.
🍁🍁🍁
🇨🇦Canada should not be procuring arms from a now hostile neofascist state, nor should we be chasing after greater and greater military integration with it.
🍁🍁🍁
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Canada is doing a dismal job at adopting EVs. Premiers like Doug Ford and Danielle Smith have been a disaster, but there is also a leadership gap, and opportunity, at the federal level. The U.S. pro-oil position is the road to nowhere -- take the off-ramp. #cdnpoli
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Canada broke its electric vehicle market in 2025 and it did so alone
The federal government made a number of decisions that have collectively broken Canada’s EV market over this past year, and while that likely wasn’t the intention, it has certainly been
www.thestar.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Canada is doing a dismal job at adopting EVs. Premiers like Doug Ford and Danielle Smith have been a disaster, but there is also a leadership gap, and opportunity, at the federal level. The U.S. pro-oil position is the road to nowhere -- take the off-ramp. #cdnpoli
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Running a business is SUPER EASY when you don’t do things line pay your staff. There’s a reason indentured servitude is sorta illegal.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Foreign workers accuse hotelier with history of labour violations of taking advantage of them in Sask., Man. | CBC News
A man from Mexico says he toiled long hours, seven days a week, for nearly a year without proper pay for a hotel chain that he says took advantage of him and others.
www.cbc.ca
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Running a business is SUPER EASY when you don’t do things line pay your staff. There’s a reason indentured servitude is sorta illegal.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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For many Canadians, this was the beginning of the end of a fair, reasonable conservative alternative in Canada and now, the Conservative Party is against women’s rights, vaccine science, scientific freedom (Harper muzzled scientists) etc.
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
#Canada
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
#Canada
On this day in 2003, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance merged to form the Conservative Party of Canada. The party's first leader was Stephen Harper, who served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2015.
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
For many Canadians, this was the beginning of the end of a fair, reasonable conservative alternative in Canada and now, the Conservative Party is against women’s rights, vaccine science, scientific freedom (Harper muzzled scientists) etc.
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
#Canada
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
#Canada