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killerwhaletank 🍁

@shaner38.bsky.social

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Doom scrolling since 2016. I say fuck, a lot. I'm a man. I can change. If I have to. I guess. I'm an Albertan who's sick of my neighbours being targeted with bigotry and racism. I block without warning or apology. #ABPoli #LeafsForever #BillsMafia

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killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 8d

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The mechanisms laid out here apply to the UK, USA, and Canada. The disinformation is real, coordinated, and the road to fascism.

"Being a part of the far right, supporting people like Reform or MAGA
relies entirely on emotion, not logic or sense or facts."

#CanPoli #ABPoli #MAGA

Farage, GB News & the Far Right Disinformation Playbook: Show This To Your Reform Voting Uncle 🇬🇧

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killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 4h

Seattle/Toronto as expansion cousins would be nice

killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 5h

Outside of a couple of innings in game 3, they dominated the Yankees.

killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, they conflate the two. Antifa is a "polite" dogwhistle for uppity blacks.

killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 7h

Yep. Same thing

killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 7h

Goddammit, Blue Jays, take a pitch or two once in a while.

#BlueJays

killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 7h

Toronto

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 8h

It sounds a lot like a Jesse Welles song.

killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 8h

This is just like Avril Lavigne recording 7 different language versions of "I Wanna be Your Girlfriend"

killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 9h

No, but I hear they did turn Constantinople into Istanbul.

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Esther @thelifeofesther.bsky.social · 21h

What Abby says

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killerwhaletank 🍁 @shaner38.bsky.social · 9h

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro gets it.

#CanPoli

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

Gov. Josh Shapiro: "I respect the Canadian people and Canada's sovereignty... When POTUS bullies Canada, threatens to make them the 51st state, belittles them, undermines their sovereignty, that undermines the interests of our farmers and the people who work in our factories."