Andy Buday (he/him)
@hurka.bsky.social
Cooking, cats, journalism. Pretty left. Posting from the bucolic shores of Garrison Creek.
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This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
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Still can’t get over how Mark Carney hates Canada Post so much he’s willing to kill libraries along with it.
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Still can’t get over how Mark Carney hates Canada Post so much he’s willing to kill libraries along with it.
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@moderation.bsky.app @bsky.app
Trapdinawrpool was recently suspended ― please re-instate him.
I don't know what precipitated his suspension but for days, he had been facing relentless attacks by dogmatic Liberal supporters.
Kev is an important voice for social democratic principles.
Trapdinawrpool was recently suspended ― please re-instate him.
I don't know what precipitated his suspension but for days, he had been facing relentless attacks by dogmatic Liberal supporters.
Kev is an important voice for social democratic principles.
December 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@moderation.bsky.app @bsky.app
Trapdinawrpool was recently suspended ― please re-instate him.
I don't know what precipitated his suspension but for days, he had been facing relentless attacks by dogmatic Liberal supporters.
Kev is an important voice for social democratic principles.
Trapdinawrpool was recently suspended ― please re-instate him.
I don't know what precipitated his suspension but for days, he had been facing relentless attacks by dogmatic Liberal supporters.
Kev is an important voice for social democratic principles.
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I am calling for the release and/or reinstatement of Trapdinawrpool @bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app.
If anything, he was being harassed by Liberals who don’t agree with his socialist stance and leftist politics.
And he dares to criticize our Supreme Banker for being a Conservative’s wet dream.
If anything, he was being harassed by Liberals who don’t agree with his socialist stance and leftist politics.
And he dares to criticize our Supreme Banker for being a Conservative’s wet dream.
December 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I am calling for the release and/or reinstatement of Trapdinawrpool @bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app.
If anything, he was being harassed by Liberals who don’t agree with his socialist stance and leftist politics.
And he dares to criticize our Supreme Banker for being a Conservative’s wet dream.
If anything, he was being harassed by Liberals who don’t agree with his socialist stance and leftist politics.
And he dares to criticize our Supreme Banker for being a Conservative’s wet dream.
This always bears repeating.
December 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This always bears repeating.
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Could a not fascist country & its not fascist neighbor to the north do THIS???
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims...
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Could a not fascist country & its not fascist neighbor to the north do THIS???
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims...
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Dasher Dancer Prancer Vixen
Comet Cupid Donner Blitzen
More than ever hour after hour
Work is never over
Comet Cupid Donner Blitzen
More than ever hour after hour
Work is never over
December 11, 2023 at 5:04 AM
Dasher Dancer Prancer Vixen
Comet Cupid Donner Blitzen
More than ever hour after hour
Work is never over
Comet Cupid Donner Blitzen
More than ever hour after hour
Work is never over
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Absolutely bloody shameful from UCP in Alberta. Sideswiping the constitution to punch down on trans people - passing cruel laws that have zip to do with provincial governance and everything to do with rw ideology.
#alberta #ucp #notwithstandingclause #trans #transrights
#alberta #ucp #notwithstandingclause #trans #transrights
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Absolutely bloody shameful from UCP in Alberta. Sideswiping the constitution to punch down on trans people - passing cruel laws that have zip to do with provincial governance and everything to do with rw ideology.
#alberta #ucp #notwithstandingclause #trans #transrights
#alberta #ucp #notwithstandingclause #trans #transrights
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Instant all-timer here:
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Instant all-timer here:
#Lenovo just sent me a request for feedback on my recent purchase of a tablet but the "select language" menu doesn't work. It's too bad, I had some thoughts.
Don't purchase Lenovo products direct, is my takeaway.
Don't purchase Lenovo products direct, is my takeaway.
December 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#Lenovo just sent me a request for feedback on my recent purchase of a tablet but the "select language" menu doesn't work. It's too bad, I had some thoughts.
Don't purchase Lenovo products direct, is my takeaway.
Don't purchase Lenovo products direct, is my takeaway.
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Annual reminder that, if you live in Toronto, this is the week of the earliest sunset: 4:40pm. On December 14, sun sets at 4:41pm. By January 10, sun sets at 5:00pm.
Things are getting brighter, we just can't feel it yet. Keep going.
Things are getting brighter, we just can't feel it yet. Keep going.
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Annual reminder that, if you live in Toronto, this is the week of the earliest sunset: 4:40pm. On December 14, sun sets at 4:41pm. By January 10, sun sets at 5:00pm.
Things are getting brighter, we just can't feel it yet. Keep going.
Things are getting brighter, we just can't feel it yet. Keep going.
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Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
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"Look at how I have been educating myself on trans people," says Ben Ryan, and then posts a picture of books that are mostly anti-trans propaganda, and, hilariously, a stack of papers with a ruler beside them as if we measure quality of information by the centimetre.
These people are ridiculous.
These people are ridiculous.
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"Look at how I have been educating myself on trans people," says Ben Ryan, and then posts a picture of books that are mostly anti-trans propaganda, and, hilariously, a stack of papers with a ruler beside them as if we measure quality of information by the centimetre.
These people are ridiculous.
These people are ridiculous.
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arm the moderate orcas
A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives spent more than two hours debating the Pacific Northwest’s sea lion problem.
Sea lions keep eating the salmon in the Columbia River. Some lawmakers want to kill more of them
A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives spent more than two hours debating the Pacific Northwest’s sea lion problem.
www.oregonlive.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
arm the moderate orcas
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This would make a great starter pack.
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This would make a great starter pack.
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En dashes: They’re here to serve.
Ah, the famous Christmas tradition of right wing men drinking cum.
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
En dashes: They’re here to serve.
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"People in encampments are in a daily struggle for survival, and public perceptions about their safety are being weaponized to justify the criminalization of poverty and homelessness." Thank you, @housinglogement.bsky.social. www.thetrillium.ca/news/housing...
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Ontario should end forced encampment evictions, federal housing advocate says
Advocates told the official that three provincial laws encourage municipalities ‘to back away from a human rights-based response to encampments.’
www.thetrillium.ca
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"People in encampments are in a daily struggle for survival, and public perceptions about their safety are being weaponized to justify the criminalization of poverty and homelessness." Thank you, @housinglogement.bsky.social. www.thetrillium.ca/news/housing...
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NEW: The Ford government is routinely making decisions before environmental consultations have concluded and under-resourcing public education about those consultations, the auditor general has found in her annual report. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1155566...
globalnews.ca/news/1155566...
Ontario government routinely ignoring environmental consultations, AG finds | Globalnews.ca
The Ford government is routinely making decisions before environmental consultations have concluded and under-resourcing public education about those consultations, the AG found.
globalnews.ca
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
NEW: The Ford government is routinely making decisions before environmental consultations have concluded and under-resourcing public education about those consultations, the auditor general has found in her annual report. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1155566...
globalnews.ca/news/1155566...
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Also: Can we just admit finally that when you, a retail site from which I have bought one (1) item, insist on 2FA with a 6 digit verification code... the real point is to verify my contact information, so that you can charge other businesses more for my details when you sell them?
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Also: Can we just admit finally that when you, a retail site from which I have bought one (1) item, insist on 2FA with a 6 digit verification code... the real point is to verify my contact information, so that you can charge other businesses more for my details when you sell them?
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