Andrea Bellemare
@dreabells.bsky.social
Freelance producer doing stuff at CBC Sports. Previously at This Hour Has 22 Minutes & CBC News.
Writer, surfer, swimmer. Toronto.
Writer, surfer, swimmer. Toronto.
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This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
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polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
At these prices, not entirely implausible
January 1, 2026 at 5:49 PM
At these prices, not entirely implausible
Watching the Rose Parade on YT and the sound mix is off, can't hear the hosts, only the marching bands. It's a shame for the hosts, they seem charming but all I can hear is horns, which is fun in a different way
January 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Watching the Rose Parade on YT and the sound mix is off, can't hear the hosts, only the marching bands. It's a shame for the hosts, they seem charming but all I can hear is horns, which is fun in a different way
Mishap or miracle?
"Not only has the picture’s fame provided jobs for the sanctuary-museum’s two caretakers, but the €600,000 it has brought to the village helps fund places at Borja’s care home for elderly people."
"Not only has the picture’s fame provided jobs for the sanctuary-museum’s two caretakers, but the €600,000 it has brought to the village helps fund places at Borja’s care home for elderly people."
December 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Mishap or miracle?
"Not only has the picture’s fame provided jobs for the sanctuary-museum’s two caretakers, but the €600,000 it has brought to the village helps fund places at Borja’s care home for elderly people."
"Not only has the picture’s fame provided jobs for the sanctuary-museum’s two caretakers, but the €600,000 it has brought to the village helps fund places at Borja’s care home for elderly people."
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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Just watching a little Heated Rivalry before heading out to the holiday party.
No you have to redo your makeup, what are you talking about
No you have to redo your makeup, what are you talking about
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Just watching a little Heated Rivalry before heading out to the holiday party.
No you have to redo your makeup, what are you talking about
No you have to redo your makeup, what are you talking about
Reporter Katherine Long getting Claudius to declare an 'Ultra-Capitalist-Free-For-All' and give away everything for free had me CACKLING
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Reporter Katherine Long getting Claudius to declare an 'Ultra-Capitalist-Free-For-All' and give away everything for free had me CACKLING
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every person pushing AI fundamentally believes that they, personally, are superior to AI, but that AI is superior to each one of the rest of us
December 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
every person pushing AI fundamentally believes that they, personally, are superior to AI, but that AI is superior to each one of the rest of us
Oof this is not good
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Oof this is not good
Women struggle with dating because men often don't see or treat them as fully human.
And if a woman is struggling, it's her own problem to fix but if a man is struggling, it's society's fault.
And if a woman is struggling, it's her own problem to fix but if a man is struggling, it's society's fault.
With regards to less sex and actual loneliness, women are experiencing these things, too. Women may be more likely to have friends than men, but women are still getting lonelier. Women struggle with dating. The newer male struggle is expecting but not having someone to do your laundry for you
December 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Women struggle with dating because men often don't see or treat them as fully human.
And if a woman is struggling, it's her own problem to fix but if a man is struggling, it's society's fault.
And if a woman is struggling, it's her own problem to fix but if a man is struggling, it's society's fault.
At least we're ending the year with one bilateral Canadian-US trade agreement
December 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
At least we're ending the year with one bilateral Canadian-US trade agreement
Oversupply doesn't make up for lack of demand
just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Oversupply doesn't make up for lack of demand
YouTube's Wrapped claims I am interested in AI technology, which isn't something I search for. I recently watched videos about using a flash with a Hasselblad film camera and an interview with cinematographer Autumn Durand Arkapaw about shooting film when making Sinners.
Feels like this is a lie
Feels like this is a lie
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
YouTube's Wrapped claims I am interested in AI technology, which isn't something I search for. I recently watched videos about using a flash with a Hasselblad film camera and an interview with cinematographer Autumn Durand Arkapaw about shooting film when making Sinners.
Feels like this is a lie
Feels like this is a lie
Another year and they still haven't brought back the Life Savers Sweet Storybook. Could we just get this one thing www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
No storybook ending for Life Savers fans this Christmas | CBC News
Each Christmas for the past four decades, Mel Campbell has stuffed his family's stockings with Life Savers Sweet Storybooks. Now its parent company has discontinued the holiday favourite in Canada, le...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Another year and they still haven't brought back the Life Savers Sweet Storybook. Could we just get this one thing www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
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It's been so wild to see the same nitpicky clients asking designers and illustrators for the smallest two pixel changes just approve some random AI slop. It's always been just about control and a lack of trust, but this just makes it really clear.
Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
December 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It's been so wild to see the same nitpicky clients asking designers and illustrators for the smallest two pixel changes just approve some random AI slop. It's always been just about control and a lack of trust, but this just makes it really clear.
The thing that all the AI evangelists, bosses, and the managerial class writ large don't understand is that AI slop like this doesn't just turn people off, it makes them furious. If the whole point of advertising is to make a positive association with your product, this fails hard.
Everyone’s boss thinks A.I. is cool and I can’t think of anyone cooler, smarter, or more in touch than everyone’s boss. kotaku.com/mcdonalds-ai...
McDonalds Got Bullied So Badly It Deleted Its AI Christmas Ad
The hated holiday ad apparently took weeks of crunch to generate, according to the studio behind it
kotaku.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The thing that all the AI evangelists, bosses, and the managerial class writ large don't understand is that AI slop like this doesn't just turn people off, it makes them furious. If the whole point of advertising is to make a positive association with your product, this fails hard.
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Here is a true story.
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
December 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Here is a true story.
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
TIL Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow uses Reddit, even after her AMA 11 months ago old.reddit.com/user/Mayor_O...
overview for Mayor_OliviaChow
Mayor of Toronto.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
TIL Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow uses Reddit, even after her AMA 11 months ago old.reddit.com/user/Mayor_O...
Loved Tim Smith's photo series of harvest in Manitoba, I would never think to stand in the chaff field of a combine for an image. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
In rural Manitoba, a photographer chases combines to find beauty in the chaff
Tim Smith documents the gruelling work of harvest on the Prairies
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Loved Tim Smith's photo series of harvest in Manitoba, I would never think to stand in the chaff field of a combine for an image. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
And just like that, I'm probably ineligible for an H-1B visa.
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
And just like that, I'm probably ineligible for an H-1B visa.
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.