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Marissa 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦
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Erstwhile technology and business leadership Jack-of-All-Trades turned Jill.
Excuses make you look weak. Tell me what you’ll do differently next time instead.
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I wonder who will win the FIFA Peace Prize?

I expect that McDonalds will also soon announce the McHappy Meal Peace Prize.

If the world was just, the Ig Nobel committee would add the Sycophant Prize to its roster and make FIFA President Gianni Infantino the first winner.

#politics #fifa
FIFA announces new peace prize to be awarded at World Cup draw in Washington
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
apnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
La Femme Nikita is still one of my all time favourite films. Karyo’s unflinching calm performance even when he breaks for one burst of anger was brilliant.
Tchéky Karyo, French Actor in ‘The Missing,’ ‘La Femme Nikita’ and ‘Addicted to Love,’ Dies at 72
The suave César Award winner also was known for his turns in ‘Bad Boys,’ ‘GoldenEye,’ ‘The Patriot’ and much more.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Listening to Cameron Crowe’s self-narrated memoir audiobook, The Uncool.

This is an incredible, earnest inside story about early 70s rock and roll, by the writer of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and writer-director of Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, Say Anything, Jerry Maguire.
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
One of the consistent failures in #tech #startups is the over-dependency on #development teams to specify feature/function stacks aligned with the competitive market landscape.

Example: deciding on the operating temperature range for your product based on your experience with outdoor weather. 🤦‍♀️
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
@mark-carney.bsky.social I think you need to make a quick call to help your minister see the obvious contextual error of this approach.

“Diab replied that these powers would ‘only be used in exceptional circumstances.’” is not working for Section 33, and it is a loophole for abuse here as well.
Trigger for new immigration powers ‘intentionally not defined’ in border bill: Diab
Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the definition of a “public interest” event that would allow her department to pause or revoke immigration applications is “intentionally not defined” in new legisl...
www.ctvnews.ca
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Destroyer, Vogue Theatre, Vancouver.

One of the best live shows I’ve ever been to.
October 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I am enthusiastically looking forward to this new Apple TV show from Vince Gilligan (X-Files, Breaking Bad):
Pluribus — Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
@mark-carney.bsky.social If we stand for freedom with just limits, equity without inequities, personal privacy at the expense of government omniscience, then it may be time for you to say so, and let your legislation flow from there.
October 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Dear #American Cousins to the South:

Good job putting the big kid pants on, bud.

Keep that shit up at the midterms and show the fuck up, and you got this.

Your #Canadian Cousins up North.
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@mark-carney.bsky.social

Instead of 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs, require Canadian manufacturing investment in components that is job producing and some percentage lower than the current tariff rate as an incentive to China.
October 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Sick burn of the week:

"My ratings aren't very good?" he said. "Last time I checked, your ratings were somewhere between a hair in your salad and chlamydia. In three-and-a-half years, I'm not the one who's going to be doing mascara tutorials on YouTube."

- Jimmy Kimmell to J.D. Vance
October 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped
The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat
www.eff.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
In other news, @weard.moe’s Castration Movie Pt. 1 reaches #8 in the Letterboxd Top 50 movies of the year.

This bodes so well for trans and queer indie cinema, and the interest that viewers have in seeing movies that push the envelope.

Which it certainly does.
Letterboxd’s Top 20 highest rated films of 2025 so far 👀

See the full list of 50 films ➡️ boxd.it/EYQhE
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Bar Redux - where ordering a dozen chicken wings is the equivalent of a whole chicken. I look forward to hanging out there again when I come back to the city.

@barreduxnola.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“The powerful hold nothing but contempt for those who toady to them. All but the toadies know this.” - Pocket of Dog Snogging, Shakespeare for Squirrels

@theauthorguy.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Heading home after a wonderful week in New Orleans, and working on my tan poolside at The Railyard - a veritable paradise. I shall return!

therailyardnola.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
September 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
September 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
September 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
All government wackiness aside, the people from the southern US (Georgia, Virginia, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi) that I’ve been meeting and socializing with this week are some of the most kind, authentic, and generous people I’ve ever met.

It’s been a valuable experience to be sure.
September 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Continuing my culinary crawl in New Orleans. A great lunch at rubybrunch.com

Fried catfish and grits with buttermilk biscuit and sweet tea.
September 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Six more days to make the rounds of queer hangout saves in New Orleans… built out an Apple Maps Guide because I’m a data nerd.
September 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
And to cap off a great meal at www.revolutionnola.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM