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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 3h

#97 read in 2025. D.V. Bishop (🇳🇿🇬🇧) The Darkest Sin (Cesare Aldo #2). City of Vengeance was great but The Darkest Sin surpasses it. It stands among the best historical crime fiction, set in Medici Florence with a finely written gay law enforcer in a in a city where it's still a crime 💙📚⚡ 📚⏳

Cover art for the second Cesare Aldo novel, The Darkest Sin, by D.V. Bishop

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 4h

#96 read in 2025 (blanked)

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 8h

Only the real and well-groomed men

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 21h

Can one die from laughing too hard? 🤔

😂🤣

"The people of Canada will love us again," Trump said, with Carney looking on during an impromptu news conference ahead of their meeting. "Most of them still do, I think — they love us."

Trump says 'Canada will love us again' — but there's still no deal on tariffs after Carney meeting | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he's working on a trade deal with Prime Minister Mark Carney that he believes will be well-received by Canadians, telling reporters assembled for their bilater...

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 22h

How convenient so soon after Stephen Miller said the lineage of the US hails back to Rome. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

LVDOVICA on Sinvs Americae.

The long lost hidden capital of the ancient world. Its secrets to be revealed in 2026 - the WH is dispatching the Texas NG to bully Dan Brown to write the novel.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 1d

In hindsight, maybe it wasn't that wise to piss off the country where they sold 41% of their wine and where state-run agencies are the sole importers which could, and did, retaliate by stopping to sell US alcohol altogether, then go and piss off every other potential buyer, like the EU ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pink day, not an orange day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It will still be a shit show, possibly a pretty bad one this time.

Picture of Donald Trump (without the orange fake tan) and Mark Carney's arrival to the WH for today's meeting.

D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 2d

Noted for the next one! My first reaction yesterday after a chapter or two was "Hmm I've really missed those characters" and a day later I'm halfway into it - that should answer the matter of enjoyment 😀 Barely had to skim my notes for CoV from last December to recall everything, another good sign

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 2d

That is why it’s generally not recommended to have proof edits done by a) a cat b) a genocidal squirrel or c) a robot

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 2d

Hi!

Currently on:
D.V. Bishop (🇬🇧) - The Darkest Sin (Cesare Aldo #2)
Émile Zola (🇫🇷) - La Débâcle (Rougon-Macquart #19)
John Connolly (🇮🇪) - The White Road (Charlie Parker #4)
Peter Apps (🇬🇧) - Deterring Armaggedon: A biography of NATO
The End of the World As We Know It

Have a great reading week!

Montage of the covers for
D.V. Bishop - The Darkest Sin (Cesare Aldo #2)
Émile Zola - La Débâcle (Rougon-Maqcuart #19)
John Connolly - The White Road (Charlie Parker #4)
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (anthology)
Peter Apps - Deterring Armaggedon: A biography of NATO

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 3d

Brief sexual content and references to menstruations.

Aka Evangelicals being their usual raving mad selves.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 3d

A little more generational: I've never seen: Footlose, Dirty Dancing, any Rocky, Die Hard, JC VanDamme movie, Titanic, a single episode of Dallas or Dynasty.

D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 3d

I have so many to choose from, but let's go with : my knowledge of the MCU (in all media) is strictly from hearsay after Ironman, to the best of my knowledge I've never heard a note from Taylor Swift, and in 50+ years I've never watched the Superbowl

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 3d

Hello Womble. My currently reading list threatens to go the way my TBR mountain has, but let's stick to : I'm still progressing through the anthology of stories inspired by King's The Stand, reading D.V Bishop's The Darkest Sin and in french La Débâcle by Émile Zola (Rougon-Maquart cycle #19 of 20)

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading and hugely enjoying them plenty When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift. What are you reading at the moment?

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 4d

#95 read in 2025. David Handler - The Man Who Lived By Night (Stewart Hoag & Lulu #2). Ghostwriter Hoagy and his neurotic basset Lulu are back, this time in 1985 London to write the memoirs of a recluse lead singer whose band has a closet full of skeletons. As fun and charming as the first one 💙📚⚡

Cover art for the novel The Man Who Lived by Night by David Handler, his second Stewart Hoag & Lulu story

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 4d

He had a phone call with the Canadian PM who issued a communiqué right afterward announcing they agreed to meet next Tuesday at the WH

D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 6d

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"Agency mandated to work more closely with allies such as France, the UK and Australia".

Canada announces Defence Investment Agency to manage purchase, delivery of military equipment | CBC News

The Liberal government has unveiled its long-awaited, long-promised agency to co-ordinate and speed up the purchase and delivery of equipment to the Canadian military.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 6d

The Canadian Secretary of State for Defence Procurement: "While the US still remains an ally, Canada along other mid-range military powers like the United Kingdom and Australia needs to step up and accept again a larger role in word affairs".

Please,
Make the
COMMONWEALTH
MORE THAN A
MORIBUND
SOCIAL CLUB
FOR NOSTALGIC
ANGLOPHILES
AGAIN

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 6d

(English translation is in the alt-text)

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 6d

www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today | CBC Radio

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to someone else. Now when empires are making a comeback, it's worth asking if t...

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 6d

America as seen from the Canadian media

www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...

Québécois/French Canadian cartoon by Serge Chapleau of La Presse in Montréal. Caption: A big announcement by the Secretary of War. The Secretary of War addresses the top military officers. Pete Hegseth as a clown with a board saying "No Fatsos!" with a smug Trump hiding in the red drapes backstage thinking "and I am not fat".

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 6d

It's hard to convince oneself to be when it feels like most of it fills the wrong pockets.

Pretty tough year to keep one's level of misanthropy in check, though.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 6d

à un membre des premières nations afin de représenter le lien historique entre les québécois et les premiers habitants du territoire.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 6d

de la date importante, c’est un affront gratuit et inacceptable envers les premières nations. Ils ont raté une belle occasion de plutôt poser un geste de réconciliation en suggérant que le lien monarchique soit aboli mais qu‘un poste protocolaire de remplacement échoit désormais toujours

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