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Jill Y.
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I'm here for the pets and politics. She/her. Residing currently in BC, Canada - Dakelh territory.
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maxfawcett.bsky.social
My latest: Mark Carney just delivered the most important speech in recent Canadian history. Now, we wait for the fallout. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Mark Carney just shook up the world
His speech in Davos might be the most important one ever delivered by a Canadian prime minister. Its consequences will determine his place in history — and ours.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM
jvgirlj.bsky.social
This feels like a pivotal speech. Unbearably sad, but whoever wrote this has a gift. Quotables abound.

“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”

www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...
MSN
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January 20, 2026 at 8:55 PM
jvgirlj.bsky.social
Brilliant.
jensfoell.de Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 3d
A joke for the history buffs:

Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption “They don’t want to get blamed again“
January 18, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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deadder.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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swankmotron.com Bryan Young @swankmotron.com · 6d
This is from the Vonnegut museum, and apt as ever.
January 16, 2026 at 2:57 AM
jvgirlj.bsky.social
The Scott Adams reactions going around are a sort of amuse-bouche for himself’s inevitable exit (all men do die). On the off chance I‘ve been clever and thought of this first...
Build the DJT Memorial Wind Farm, with a lot of windmills. A fuck ton. And his name erased everywhere else.
January 14, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
jvgirlj.bsky.social
clever. heh.
wyattzirp.bsky.social Wyatt ZIRP @wyattzirp.bsky.social · 9d
Oh fuck an actual Will No One Rid Me Of This Meddlesome Priest
January 13, 2026 at 2:22 AM
jvgirlj.bsky.social
Excellent.
January 12, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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todmaffin.com
Project 2025 took something from all of us. This month, we start taking it back.

THE PLAN: We pick one town on the other side of the border, and flood it with kindness.

Watch the video, and let's try to reverse some of the damage. Even just a fraction. #JustOneTown

youtube.com/shorts/9lY5x...
Just One Town: THE PLAN
What if Canadians and Americans stopped being angry at each other for one day? Not for a country. For one small town. How it works, why it matters, and how you take part, it’s all in this…
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January 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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swisstatjana.bsky.social
Folk music has always been about resistance.
January 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM
jvgirlj.bsky.social
Wonderful.

“…we took public affairs on our thin shoulders
recording suffering the struggle with tyranny with lying
but - you have to admit – we had opponents despicably small
so was it worth it to lower holy speech
to the babble of the speakers platform the black foam of the newspapers…“
joriegraham.bsky.social Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 12d
Peter Sacks giving us a glorious poem by Zbigniew Herbert. Just what we need right now.

youtu.be/gq86qvLZX3o
Pause for Art - Peter Sacks
YouTube video by HarvardArts
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January 10, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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cristianfarias.com
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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thebeaverton.com
Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case
Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case
OTTAWA - This morning, in an unscheduled press statement, the Prime Minister's Office has said that Prime Minister Mark Carney has turned off geolocation services for all his electronic devices "for n...
www.thebeaverton.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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ztul.bsky.social
Hate it when I wake up in a wider gyre than the one I went to sleep in
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
It’s increasingly clear that social media is a net social evil which shreds attention spans, and this is why the only appropriate remedy available in this space is spending time observing Morris company wallpaper patterns
Compton’ was previously thought to have been William Morris’s last design for a wallpaper (and adapted as a pattern for fabric). This was confirmed by May Morris in her ‘Collected Works of William Morris’. However, following Linda Parry’s research it is thought to have in fact been designed by Morris & Co.’s Chief Designer Henry Dearle. Morris and Co. redesigned the residence of Laurence W. Hodson, Compton Hall near Wolverhampton in 1895-6, although Morris had a hand in some of the designs (this is confirmed in surviving letters), there is no evidence that he was sole designer for any of the house designs. Rather, he and Dearle worked together, sending designs back and forth and correcting each other’s work. The evidence to suggest this is in fact Dearle’s design, is further strengthened by its similarity to his other work, particularly ‘Leicester’ wallpaper.
December 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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oldmikey.bsky.social
I recommend “Canadian Treachery” as a great name for a Canadian whisky. 🥃🍁
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
Those of us who are not Jewish have to be more on our guard against antisemitism than ever right now, not just in the world but inside of our own hearts

No one is fully immune to the propaganda flooding social media from all directions or the rising hysteria of this moment
December 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
jvgirlj.bsky.social
This is zero percent surprising to anyone who has ever been a caretaker for the descendent of wolves, most particularly border collies and their mixed breed brethren (see: my dog, who figured out how to unclip a carabiner to get past a fence gate lock).

Also, now I would like a wolf, please.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Nov 26
A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first documented use of tools by a wolf. https://cnn.it/48jB0Mn
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
jvgirlj.bsky.social
Legit Go Fund Me for Nuxalk Nation for the victims of the grizzly bear attack in Bella Coola. Sending well wishes. gofund.me/763a6cca7
Donate to Bella Coola Bear Attack Nuxalk Support, organized by Nuxalk Nation
On November 20, a Grade 4/5 outdoor education class from Acwsalcta School in Nuxa… Nuxalk Nation needs your support for Bella Coola Bear Attack Nuxalk Support
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November 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
jvgirlj.bsky.social
Worth combing the comments for RCAF replies, absolutely proud as a Canadian to support this vital work. www.facebook.com/share/r/1EzR...
tabathasouthey.bsky.social Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · Nov 22
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
Meme: Straight ahead: Pausing to consider the meaning of Cohen's lyrics Everyone, for some reason, takes the exit towards Singing "Hallelujah" again in religious contexts
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM