Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦
@lsaffs.bsky.social
Christian. Freelance editor. Gardener, knitter, dreamer, nerd. Sustainability and environmentalism. Toronto.
Turn toward love, always.
Turn toward love, always.
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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦
@lsaffs.bsky.social
· Nov 25
This beautiful, dangerous, broken world
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Reasons to love the Toronto Public Library #1,721: the free Naxos Music Libraries provide thousands of albums to listen to and inspire your work while furiously typing away. Currently rollling through Miles Davis's late 1960s catalogue...
December 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reasons to love the Toronto Public Library #1,721: the free Naxos Music Libraries provide thousands of albums to listen to and inspire your work while furiously typing away. Currently rollling through Miles Davis's late 1960s catalogue...
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This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
The U.S. is not a member of the ICC, but the court can still prosecute individuals for actions carried out on the territory of ICC member nations.
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
My Canadian mind is truly boggled reading the replies.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
My Canadian mind is truly boggled reading the replies.
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"For, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we be brought under foreign rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
- Life lessons taught by a Scottish granny, immigrant mining widow.
- Life lessons taught by a Scottish granny, immigrant mining widow.
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"For, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we be brought under foreign rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
- Life lessons taught by a Scottish granny, immigrant mining widow.
- Life lessons taught by a Scottish granny, immigrant mining widow.
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Funny ain’t it? They can seize a HUGE oil tanker but not small boats We can smell the bull sh*t across the country.
December 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Funny ain’t it? They can seize a HUGE oil tanker but not small boats We can smell the bull sh*t across the country.
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Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Imagine the poor immigration officer who has to read 5 whole years of your social media posts. You may not kill them but surely you've diminished their capacity to truly love again
December 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Imagine the poor immigration officer who has to read 5 whole years of your social media posts. You may not kill them but surely you've diminished their capacity to truly love again
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"I cannot understand how life existed 5 years ago without the product I'm selling"
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"I cannot understand how life existed 5 years ago without the product I'm selling"
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Billionaires are not invested in making your life better.
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Billionaires are not invested in making your life better.
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the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
July 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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Crazy stat to contemplate:
In 2024 China added almost exactly 1
GW of solar and wind capacity per day (358 GW across the year) – a pace equivalent to
building a typical nuclear reactor every single day.
In 2024 China added almost exactly 1
GW of solar and wind capacity per day (358 GW across the year) – a pace equivalent to
building a typical nuclear reactor every single day.
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Crazy stat to contemplate:
In 2024 China added almost exactly 1
GW of solar and wind capacity per day (358 GW across the year) – a pace equivalent to
building a typical nuclear reactor every single day.
In 2024 China added almost exactly 1
GW of solar and wind capacity per day (358 GW across the year) – a pace equivalent to
building a typical nuclear reactor every single day.
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“I’m descended from wolves”
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“I’m descended from wolves”
I've said it before — I love the internet at its best.
I see someone mention a book that sounds fascinating on Bluesky. I go to my library app, and within a minute I've borrowed the book and started reading.
I see someone mention a book that sounds fascinating on Bluesky. I go to my library app, and within a minute I've borrowed the book and started reading.
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I've said it before — I love the internet at its best.
I see someone mention a book that sounds fascinating on Bluesky. I go to my library app, and within a minute I've borrowed the book and started reading.
I see someone mention a book that sounds fascinating on Bluesky. I go to my library app, and within a minute I've borrowed the book and started reading.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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did… did the dog write this recipe
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
did… did the dog write this recipe
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Toddler loses, and mommy makes macaroni medal to calm his tantrum.
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Toddler loses, and mommy makes macaroni medal to calm his tantrum.
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Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical.
Thinking it isn’t is.
Thinking it isn’t is.
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical.
Thinking it isn’t is.
Thinking it isn’t is.
Getting over the dregs of a cold. Homemade broccoli cream soup, ciabatta, and Brideshead Revisited.
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Getting over the dregs of a cold. Homemade broccoli cream soup, ciabatta, and Brideshead Revisited.
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Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
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This is bonkers!🤪 Utterly bonkers!
The PPE supply in the provincial stock pile should rotate into the hospital, clinics and nursing home supply chain so it gets used up.
Discarding $1.4 billion worth of supplies paid for with tax payers’ hard earned money is disgraceful.
The PPE supply in the provincial stock pile should rotate into the hospital, clinics and nursing home supply chain so it gets used up.
Discarding $1.4 billion worth of supplies paid for with tax payers’ hard earned money is disgraceful.
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is bonkers!🤪 Utterly bonkers!
The PPE supply in the provincial stock pile should rotate into the hospital, clinics and nursing home supply chain so it gets used up.
Discarding $1.4 billion worth of supplies paid for with tax payers’ hard earned money is disgraceful.
The PPE supply in the provincial stock pile should rotate into the hospital, clinics and nursing home supply chain so it gets used up.
Discarding $1.4 billion worth of supplies paid for with tax payers’ hard earned money is disgraceful.
What does this even mean? other than give us money for an intangible whatever that sounds cool but has no real-world value at all
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
What does this even mean? other than give us money for an intangible whatever that sounds cool but has no real-world value at all
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Salute to Toronto for this pivot:
Ontario premier Doug Ford banned Toronto from building new bike infrastructure that replaces car lanes.
Toronto's response: Narrow but retain existing car lanes, freeing enough space to keep installing bike lanes. (Better yet, narrower traffic lanes are safer.)
Ontario premier Doug Ford banned Toronto from building new bike infrastructure that replaces car lanes.
Toronto's response: Narrow but retain existing car lanes, freeing enough space to keep installing bike lanes. (Better yet, narrower traffic lanes are safer.)
'It's a win-win': How Toronto is planning 20km of new bike lanes without defying Ford
The City of Toronto is also planning $30-million worth of infrastructure upgrades, including bike lanes, cycle tracks, and trails.
toronto.citynews.ca
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Salute to Toronto for this pivot:
Ontario premier Doug Ford banned Toronto from building new bike infrastructure that replaces car lanes.
Toronto's response: Narrow but retain existing car lanes, freeing enough space to keep installing bike lanes. (Better yet, narrower traffic lanes are safer.)
Ontario premier Doug Ford banned Toronto from building new bike infrastructure that replaces car lanes.
Toronto's response: Narrow but retain existing car lanes, freeing enough space to keep installing bike lanes. (Better yet, narrower traffic lanes are safer.)
And yet there's a simple path to peace that Russia can take without any other country needing to be involved.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Russia-U.S. meeting ends with nations no closer to finding path to peace in Ukraine, Putin aide says | CBC
www.cbc.ca
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
And yet there's a simple path to peace that Russia can take without any other country needing to be involved.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...