Gersande La Flèche
@gersande.com
Bon, chuis là, là. Bilingual disaster. Appalling poet. Slightly more impressive at prose. I do prefer to post on Mastodon or my blog, but I have some old friends here so I make an effort to check in from time to time.
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Gersande La Flèche
@gersande.com
· Dec 1
J'le call: ça va être, si ça ne l'est déjà, un désastre faramineux.
Real talk: are hospital workers and patients actually following the directive? Because there was a while there were masks were supposedly mandatory in health care settings and no one was masking correctly.
France: "Wearing a mask is once again mandatory in Paris hospitals"
"Faced with a rapid rise in respiratory infections, several hospitals in the Île-de-France region have decided to reinstate mandatory mask-wearing for healthcare workers, visitors, and patients over the age of 6."
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"Faced with a rapid rise in respiratory infections, several hospitals in the Île-de-France region have decided to reinstate mandatory mask-wearing for healthcare workers, visitors, and patients over the age of 6."
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November 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Real talk: are hospital workers and patients actually following the directive? Because there was a while there were masks were supposedly mandatory in health care settings and no one was masking correctly.
Okay this is both reassuring to me AND blowing my mind that I was right about so many things — LOL : youtu.be/LYQ0Um9VlhM
The X-Files Mythology All Makes Perfect Sense, Actually
YouTube video by Rick Worley
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November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Okay this is both reassuring to me AND blowing my mind that I was right about so many things — LOL : youtu.be/LYQ0Um9VlhM
I feel like I should be watching an HR seminar on like... synergy or something
anyways never forget the x-files in major key
The X-Files Theme in a Major Key
YouTube video by Muted Vocal
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I feel like I should be watching an HR seminar on like... synergy or something
So... this is maybe besides the point but Epstein comes across as really ignorant and stupid in all of this. How was this man able to con his way into a MIT-lab-and-private-island-kingdom of child rape and stolen money? (Rhetorical.)
Some informal science advising here:
Epstein: i liked the argument that more co2 is good for plants?
Krauss: My goodness. So you are listening to an old Nobel laureate whose expertise has nothing to do with this, who has never studied this
in detail, built models, done experiments....
Epstein: i liked the argument that more co2 is good for plants?
Krauss: My goodness. So you are listening to an old Nobel laureate whose expertise has nothing to do with this, who has never studied this
in detail, built models, done experiments....
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
So... this is maybe besides the point but Epstein comes across as really ignorant and stupid in all of this. How was this man able to con his way into a MIT-lab-and-private-island-kingdom of child rape and stolen money? (Rhetorical.)
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The strike is not about whether or not you approve of Starbucks coffee. It's about the workers, who like all workers deserve equitable treatment and fair pay. That is the issue. Why bring up your personal feelings about the coffee? Nobody in this conversation cares. Start another thread about it.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The strike is not about whether or not you approve of Starbucks coffee. It's about the workers, who like all workers deserve equitable treatment and fair pay. That is the issue. Why bring up your personal feelings about the coffee? Nobody in this conversation cares. Start another thread about it.
I read the phrase "according to an AI-assisted search of the material by CBC News" and my ability to take anything that followed seriously was thrown out the window.
What's that Stats Can stat about media trust? Something like 40% of Cdn youth don't trust news sources. It's a real mystery!!!!
What's that Stats Can stat about media trust? Something like 40% of Cdn youth don't trust news sources. It's a real mystery!!!!
It's illuminating to see how other countries are reporting on the same Epstein news from today
Trump is named 1,500 times in the Epstein document dump. Here's why that number doesn't matter | CBC News
Donald Trump's name appears at least 1,500 times in documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein made public Wednesday by Republicans in the U.S. Congress, according to an AI-assisted search of the ma...
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I read the phrase "according to an AI-assisted search of the material by CBC News" and my ability to take anything that followed seriously was thrown out the window.
What's that Stats Can stat about media trust? Something like 40% of Cdn youth don't trust news sources. It's a real mystery!!!!
What's that Stats Can stat about media trust? Something like 40% of Cdn youth don't trust news sources. It's a real mystery!!!!
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Re-reading GWU Montréal's guide to identifying union-busting tactics, as next week I'm teaching a class on labour in the games industry:
medium.com/@gwumlit/ide...
Been thinking about this slide in particular recently:
medium.com/@gwumlit/ide...
Been thinking about this slide in particular recently:
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Re-reading GWU Montréal's guide to identifying union-busting tactics, as next week I'm teaching a class on labour in the games industry:
medium.com/@gwumlit/ide...
Been thinking about this slide in particular recently:
medium.com/@gwumlit/ide...
Been thinking about this slide in particular recently:
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Trump is basing his entire presidency, and the right wing bases its current fascist project, on cases like Castle Rock. Because if the government has no duty to protect you from others, it need not protect you from itself.
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Trump is basing his entire presidency, and the right wing bases its current fascist project, on cases like Castle Rock. Because if the government has no duty to protect you from others, it need not protect you from itself.
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62% des répondants ajoutent qu’ils ne se sentent pas prêts financièrement pour les Fêtes.
De nombreux Canadiens se préparent à réduire leurs dépenses des Fêtes
www.ledevoir.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
62% des répondants ajoutent qu’ils ne se sentent pas prêts financièrement pour les Fêtes.
honestly i had to read paradise lost for university and there are whole parts of the beginning especially that i found fascinating
also it felt like i much better understood protestant christianity as a whole after, funnily enough
also it felt like i much better understood protestant christianity as a whole after, funnily enough
holy shit i should read paradise lost
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
honestly i had to read paradise lost for university and there are whole parts of the beginning especially that i found fascinating
also it felt like i much better understood protestant christianity as a whole after, funnily enough
also it felt like i much better understood protestant christianity as a whole after, funnily enough
Oh to be a dog who eats a bunch of shaving cream and then is weirded out by the fact that we are weirded out.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Oh to be a dog who eats a bunch of shaving cream and then is weirded out by the fact that we are weirded out.
I remember being a super early playtester for Strangers On The 'Net and it was oodles of fun: gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Strangers on the 'Net by Soft Chaos - Gamefound
Get ready to gossip, roleplay, flirt, fight, fall in love, confess your secrets, explore your identity, and confront what it meant to be a teenager online in the 90s.
gamefound.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I remember being a super early playtester for Strangers On The 'Net and it was oodles of fun: gamefound.com/en/projects/...
I actually bought Dispatch last weekend because it was erroneously tagged “LGBT+” on Steam when I was looking for games similar to Boyfriend Dungeon (by Kitfox). 🧵1/4
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I actually bought Dispatch last weekend because it was erroneously tagged “LGBT+” on Steam when I was looking for games similar to Boyfriend Dungeon (by Kitfox). 🧵1/4
I am so bored of the over use of flashback in novels.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I am so bored of the over use of flashback in novels.
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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Gersande is an actual genius. Here's my revised November writing goal.
Base goal: 10,000 words
Reward: a pat on the back lmao
Stretch goal #1: 20,000 words
Reward: fancy ASOIAF box set
Stretch goal #3: 30,000 words
Reward: KBBQ dinner
Base goal: 10,000 words
Reward: a pat on the back lmao
Stretch goal #1: 20,000 words
Reward: fancy ASOIAF box set
Stretch goal #3: 30,000 words
Reward: KBBQ dinner
Maybe try setting a really easy goal, and then set yourself stretch goals , ex.: if I write an extra 5k a week, i am allowed to spend 100 bucks on tea, etc. (i fully admit to bribing myself lmao)
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Gersande is an actual genius. Here's my revised November writing goal.
Base goal: 10,000 words
Reward: a pat on the back lmao
Stretch goal #1: 20,000 words
Reward: fancy ASOIAF box set
Stretch goal #3: 30,000 words
Reward: KBBQ dinner
Base goal: 10,000 words
Reward: a pat on the back lmao
Stretch goal #1: 20,000 words
Reward: fancy ASOIAF box set
Stretch goal #3: 30,000 words
Reward: KBBQ dinner
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I went to turn this off and I was surprised to see a whole bunch of other things that are just hidden by default??? I don't need the babysitting, tyvm.
You can just go straight to the profile and turn all the bs off: bsky.app/profile/mode...
You can just go straight to the profile and turn all the bs off: bsky.app/profile/mode...
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I went to turn this off and I was surprised to see a whole bunch of other things that are just hidden by default??? I don't need the babysitting, tyvm.
You can just go straight to the profile and turn all the bs off: bsky.app/profile/mode...
You can just go straight to the profile and turn all the bs off: bsky.app/profile/mode...
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We need to start calling misrepresentation of COVID-related harms as due to "lockdowns" what it is: fraud, and a breach of academic integrity.
There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.
There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.
I'll try hanging a bit of a branch off the main thread here breaking out more information from the NASEM long COVID report for those who need it. Annex Tables 3-1 through 3-13 go through selected long COVID impacts, and are organized by body system: nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We need to start calling misrepresentation of COVID-related harms as due to "lockdowns" what it is: fraud, and a breach of academic integrity.
There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.
There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.
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I managed to totally miss this somehow - the Mac app for Ruffle, the Flash emulator, bundles a Safari extension. If you pop it in /Applications, suddenly Safari can natively play back any webpage with Flash in it. I'm going to the Radiskull website and watching cartoons like it's 2000. ruffle.rs
Ruffle - Flash Emulator
Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Ruffle targets both desktop and the web using WebAssembly.
ruffle.rs
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I managed to totally miss this somehow - the Mac app for Ruffle, the Flash emulator, bundles a Safari extension. If you pop it in /Applications, suddenly Safari can natively play back any webpage with Flash in it. I'm going to the Radiskull website and watching cartoons like it's 2000. ruffle.rs
Thinking a bit about Mary Cheney today. If her queerness saved the world from a Cheney-as-USA-president. But perhaps it did nothing after all, and Cheney was at his most effectively harmful as VP.
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Thinking a bit about Mary Cheney today. If her queerness saved the world from a Cheney-as-USA-president. But perhaps it did nothing after all, and Cheney was at his most effectively harmful as VP.
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In many respects, this is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget
The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
In many respects, this is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
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Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.
If I'm understanding the quoted stats correctly, it looks like Montréalers just aren't travelling much at all this year, let alone to the USA.
Air traffic between U.S. and Montreal down 12 per cent in a year, report shows montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
If I'm understanding the quoted stats correctly, it looks like Montréalers just aren't travelling much at all this year, let alone to the USA.