Dr. Andrea Chandler 🇨🇦
@andreachandler.bsky.social
Ph.d. in Political Science. Retired academic, now a Professor Emeritus. Ottawa, Canada.
In this satirical work by
a 19th-c. Russian writer, a shiny new town mayor shows up. Nobody knows why, but everyone likes a new mayor. Yet one day he's found in his office with his head separate from his body, and his head has no brain! Shocking, but the mayor keeps talking, remains mayor. Absurd!
a 19th-c. Russian writer, a shiny new town mayor shows up. Nobody knows why, but everyone likes a new mayor. Yet one day he's found in his office with his head separate from his body, and his head has no brain! Shocking, but the mayor keeps talking, remains mayor. Absurd!
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In this satirical work by
a 19th-c. Russian writer, a shiny new town mayor shows up. Nobody knows why, but everyone likes a new mayor. Yet one day he's found in his office with his head separate from his body, and his head has no brain! Shocking, but the mayor keeps talking, remains mayor. Absurd!
a 19th-c. Russian writer, a shiny new town mayor shows up. Nobody knows why, but everyone likes a new mayor. Yet one day he's found in his office with his head separate from his body, and his head has no brain! Shocking, but the mayor keeps talking, remains mayor. Absurd!
17 hours after posting, ZERO likes.
What a mayor!
What a mayor!
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
17 hours after posting, ZERO likes.
What a mayor!
What a mayor!
Once again, the Mayor shows his unfamiliarity with basic statistical concepts, despite a fondness for spinning numbers. You cannot have a "sample size" of two years. A sample size is a number of people surveyed or of items being researched. Two years is rather a short duration, not a sample.
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Once again, the Mayor shows his unfamiliarity with basic statistical concepts, despite a fondness for spinning numbers. You cannot have a "sample size" of two years. A sample size is a number of people surveyed or of items being researched. Two years is rather a short duration, not a sample.
I just bought this at a used bookstore so that somebody else couldn't. I'm petty that way.
I read it at age 18. I enjoyed the "love" story, prob because I'd watched too much General Hospital due to a long convalescence from a virus, and as a result I had very low standards for romance novels.
I read it at age 18. I enjoyed the "love" story, prob because I'd watched too much General Hospital due to a long convalescence from a virus, and as a result I had very low standards for romance novels.
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I just bought this at a used bookstore so that somebody else couldn't. I'm petty that way.
I read it at age 18. I enjoyed the "love" story, prob because I'd watched too much General Hospital due to a long convalescence from a virus, and as a result I had very low standards for romance novels.
I read it at age 18. I enjoyed the "love" story, prob because I'd watched too much General Hospital due to a long convalescence from a virus, and as a result I had very low standards for romance novels.
Leaf, meet loaf
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Leaf, meet loaf
How my retirement is going so far
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
How my retirement is going so far
I got up to some very silly shenanigans at the fabric store
October 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I got up to some very silly shenanigans at the fabric store
Reposting for absolutely no reason
(OK, it's about Lansdowne)
(OK, it's about Lansdowne)
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Reposting for absolutely no reason
(OK, it's about Lansdowne)
(OK, it's about Lansdowne)
Wow
He knew, almost 90 years ago, where things were going.
He was assigned for a course I took in graduate school, but we never discussed it; prob the professor never got around to reading it.
Read it
He knew, almost 90 years ago, where things were going.
He was assigned for a course I took in graduate school, but we never discussed it; prob the professor never got around to reading it.
Read it
October 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Wow
He knew, almost 90 years ago, where things were going.
He was assigned for a course I took in graduate school, but we never discussed it; prob the professor never got around to reading it.
Read it
He knew, almost 90 years ago, where things were going.
He was assigned for a course I took in graduate school, but we never discussed it; prob the professor never got around to reading it.
Read it
Just walking along the river with my cat
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Just walking along the river with my cat
I mean, this is the road from Barrington Street to Africville. Need I say more? To avoid this travesty, you can get there from Novalea, if you're wearing hiking boots, are physically fit and have good navigation skills
September 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I mean, this is the road from Barrington Street to Africville. Need I say more? To avoid this travesty, you can get there from Novalea, if you're wearing hiking boots, are physically fit and have good navigation skills
And no sidewalk on this chunk of Barrington, even though there is a little sign indicating to bear right to get to Africville. Trucks go roaring by. This is DOWNTOWN Halifax (note non-moving traffic on MacKay Bridge). It's almost like someone wants to discourage people from going to Africville?
September 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
And no sidewalk on this chunk of Barrington, even though there is a little sign indicating to bear right to get to Africville. Trucks go roaring by. This is DOWNTOWN Halifax (note non-moving traffic on MacKay Bridge). It's almost like someone wants to discourage people from going to Africville?
Africville, park with rebuilt church. . It's not easy to get here on foot, but it is possible.
September 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Africville, park with rebuilt church. . It's not easy to get here on foot, but it is possible.
Africville Lookoff, Halifax. To my right and below, there was once a Black community. How many people enter Halifax through the MacKay bridge and think that there was always a tangle of shitty ramps, ugly warehouses and confusing exits here?
September 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Africville Lookoff, Halifax. To my right and below, there was once a Black community. How many people enter Halifax through the MacKay bridge and think that there was always a tangle of shitty ramps, ugly warehouses and confusing exits here?
Great news! No more tolls to cross Halifax's MacKay Bridge!
Btw, people used to live here. How about we collect tolls to pay reparations?
Btw, people used to live here. How about we collect tolls to pay reparations?
September 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Great news! No more tolls to cross Halifax's MacKay Bridge!
Btw, people used to live here. How about we collect tolls to pay reparations?
Btw, people used to live here. How about we collect tolls to pay reparations?
These ugly-ass buildings in Halifax replaced something uglier: the city's old Rockhead Prison, the subject of a new book by Katie Ingram. I searched in vain for a plaque to honour the history of those unjustly incarcerated here for being poor in public. Maybe there's one here somewhere, dunno
September 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
These ugly-ass buildings in Halifax replaced something uglier: the city's old Rockhead Prison, the subject of a new book by Katie Ingram. I searched in vain for a plaque to honour the history of those unjustly incarcerated here for being poor in public. Maybe there's one here somewhere, dunno
This little guy is just sitting there, on the sidewalk. He's alive. He seems peaceful.
September 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This little guy is just sitting there, on the sidewalk. He's alive. He seems peaceful.
What's your sign?
September 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
What's your sign?
Prince Edward Island
September 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Prince Edward Island
Unexpected things found in my late Grandad's room in rural eastern Canada. Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy tales, in German, 1884.
Was denkst du, @plerner.bsky.social ?
Was denkst du, @plerner.bsky.social ?
September 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Unexpected things found in my late Grandad's room in rural eastern Canada. Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy tales, in German, 1884.
Was denkst du, @plerner.bsky.social ?
Was denkst du, @plerner.bsky.social ?
Prince Edward Island. Wish you were here, if you don't speed or litter
September 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Prince Edward Island. Wish you were here, if you don't speed or litter
Amherst, Nova Scotia
September 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Amherst, Nova Scotia
I prefer stopping in small towns for lunch on the road instead of Big-Ass gas stations
Look at this seafood chowder
Look at this seafood chowder
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I prefer stopping in small towns for lunch on the road instead of Big-Ass gas stations
Look at this seafood chowder
Look at this seafood chowder