Elithmord 🇨🇦
@jemburch.bsky.social
PhD candidate (Political Science) | Sessional Instructor (Quantitative Method) | Recovering public servant | Huge nerd (SCA, LARP, TTRPGs)
Expect posts about Canadian news (often political) and nerdy pursuits. Opinions my own and likely to be unhinged.
Expect posts about Canadian news (often political) and nerdy pursuits. Opinions my own and likely to be unhinged.
Reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the mighty Fraser
Mine is the mighty Fraser
January 12, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the mighty Fraser
Mine is the mighty Fraser
Here are the figures in question, in the event anyone is interested. Being from a 2023 presentation, they're missing the most recent election. The 'NDP' trend-line includes previous left-wing parties (hence the asterisk).
Trying to fit this much history on one slide was an interesting challenge!
Trying to fit this much history on one slide was an interesting challenge!
January 1, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Here are the figures in question, in the event anyone is interested. Being from a 2023 presentation, they're missing the most recent election. The 'NDP' trend-line includes previous left-wing parties (hence the asterisk).
Trying to fit this much history on one slide was an interesting challenge!
Trying to fit this much history on one slide was an interesting challenge!
I've been thinking something similar, though less articulately. Less charitably, also - because for 'people', I would have written 'privileged twits'.
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I've been thinking something similar, though less articulately. Less charitably, also - because for 'people', I would have written 'privileged twits'.
Actual footage of me trying to run a midterm review session today while attempting to stave off an allergic reaction.
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Actual footage of me trying to run a midterm review session today while attempting to stave off an allergic reaction.
“Burnaby just basically handed the keys to the city over to developers and said, 'You go to it, you build anything you want.'… The results are these ugly monstrosities.”
- Kathy Corrigan, self-proclaimed NIMBY
Pictured below: one of the 'ugly monstrosities' in question.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Kathy Corrigan, self-proclaimed NIMBY
Pictured below: one of the 'ugly monstrosities' in question.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
October 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“Burnaby just basically handed the keys to the city over to developers and said, 'You go to it, you build anything you want.'… The results are these ugly monstrosities.”
- Kathy Corrigan, self-proclaimed NIMBY
Pictured below: one of the 'ugly monstrosities' in question.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Kathy Corrigan, self-proclaimed NIMBY
Pictured below: one of the 'ugly monstrosities' in question.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Given the linear progression of time, I'd be fascinated to discover what the WSJ thinks the alternative is.
(Not being a subscriber means I will be left forever to wonder, however).
(Not being a subscriber means I will be left forever to wonder, however).
September 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Given the linear progression of time, I'd be fascinated to discover what the WSJ thinks the alternative is.
(Not being a subscriber means I will be left forever to wonder, however).
(Not being a subscriber means I will be left forever to wonder, however).
I wonder what this Roman would think if they knew that millennia later, people still mourn the death of their beloved dog with them.
September 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I wonder what this Roman would think if they knew that millennia later, people still mourn the death of their beloved dog with them.
Though she's bigger now, Moo Deng remains a legend.
September 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Though she's bigger now, Moo Deng remains a legend.
Oh, I don't know... *Gestures vaguely at everything*
September 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Oh, I don't know... *Gestures vaguely at everything*
What, exactly, do you think I have planned, Dashmart?
September 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
What, exactly, do you think I have planned, Dashmart?
Every issue in the universe is either 'spiders' or 'not spiders'.
August 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Every issue in the universe is either 'spiders' or 'not spiders'.
What a time to be alive.
August 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What a time to be alive.
Unexpected by whom, exactly?
August 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Unexpected by whom, exactly?
TFW even the National Post finds your breathless conservative hot take a bit much.
August 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
TFW even the National Post finds your breathless conservative hot take a bit much.
...okay, that's a new one. I was expecting Jessica Rabbit.
August 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
...okay, that's a new one. I was expecting Jessica Rabbit.
IDK why, but I find this sort of liminal imagery oddly comforting
July 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
IDK why, but I find this sort of liminal imagery oddly comforting
It's my first #Caturday without our sweet little menace to society. (Seen here in happier times "helping" me edit.)
Currently having all the feelings and following all the #cat accounts. Cuddle your kitties for me today, as I sit here wishing I could stroke her soft fur one more time.
Currently having all the feelings and following all the #cat accounts. Cuddle your kitties for me today, as I sit here wishing I could stroke her soft fur one more time.
July 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you see this, I implore you to post from your device without context
July 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If you see this, I implore you to post from your device without context
Moo Deng *does* have Miss Piggy energy, though, I have to say...
July 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Moo Deng *does* have Miss Piggy energy, though, I have to say...
People keep sending me this today. (To be clear, I'm one of the awkward baby scholars, not the cool one up front.)
July 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
People keep sending me this today. (To be clear, I'm one of the awkward baby scholars, not the cool one up front.)
Statistically speaking, this is like saying that voting Liberal in Alberta is 'all the rage'.
...like, according to whom, exactly?
...like, according to whom, exactly?
May 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Statistically speaking, this is like saying that voting Liberal in Alberta is 'all the rage'.
...like, according to whom, exactly?
...like, according to whom, exactly?
