Layton Dorey
@e-layton-dorey.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Meta refugee. Husband, dog-dad, sailor, arts and design enthusiast and travel lover. East coast of Canada based.
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New start on Bluesky today. Moved politics, cars & art to a different account cuz I wasn’t seeing my peeps. Also, I wasn’t really posting. The politics depressed me, the cool cars & the stunning art made me feel like my stuff would be trivial. No more! Prepare to be inundated by the trivial! 😂
Much has happened since I last posted here. Mostly this:
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Much has happened since I last posted here. Mostly this:
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The perfect name for this little cute fur baby is….
Wolverine…. 🥰
Wolverine…. 🥰
July 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The perfect name for this little cute fur baby is….
Wolverine…. 🥰
Wolverine…. 🥰
Wonderful summer social with dear friends.
July 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Wonderful summer social with dear friends.
A(nother) stunning sunset. Now from our new apartment!
July 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A(nother) stunning sunset. Now from our new apartment!
Sitting in the Ottawa airport waiting for flight home. Two sandwiches and two glasses of pino grigio later and we’ll have to sell the car when we get there 😜
#whyisairportfoodso$$$$
#whyisairportfoodso$$$$
July 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Sitting in the Ottawa airport waiting for flight home. Two sandwiches and two glasses of pino grigio later and we’ll have to sell the car when we get there 😜
#whyisairportfoodso$$$$
#whyisairportfoodso$$$$
New start on Bluesky today. Moved politics, cars & art to a different account cuz I wasn’t seeing my peeps. Also, I wasn’t really posting. The politics depressed me, the cool cars & the stunning art made me feel like my stuff would be trivial. No more! Prepare to be inundated by the trivial! 😂
July 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
New start on Bluesky today. Moved politics, cars & art to a different account cuz I wasn’t seeing my peeps. Also, I wasn’t really posting. The politics depressed me, the cool cars & the stunning art made me feel like my stuff would be trivial. No more! Prepare to be inundated by the trivial! 😂
Really enjoyed the Nadia Myre special exhibition at the National Gallery.
July 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Really enjoyed the Nadia Myre special exhibition at the National Gallery.
Happy Canada Day from our nation’s capital 🇨🇦
July 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy Canada Day from our nation’s capital 🇨🇦
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We need more voices - not just in private, but in the newsrooms, speaking out in pitching meetings, and pushing back against harmful narratives. 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/its-time-for-allies-in-the-media-industry-to-speak-up-for-lgbtqia-people/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/its-time-for-allies-in-the-media-industry-to-speak-up-for-lgbtqia-people/
It’s time for allies in the media industry to speak up for LGBTQIA+ people
We need more voices - not just in private, but in the newsrooms, speaking out in pitching meetings, and pushing back against harmful narratives.
www.wearequeeraf.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We need more voices - not just in private, but in the newsrooms, speaking out in pitching meetings, and pushing back against harmful narratives. 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/its-time-for-allies-in-the-media-industry-to-speak-up-for-lgbtqia-people/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/its-time-for-allies-in-the-media-industry-to-speak-up-for-lgbtqia-people/
In principle , I am 100% on board whith this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Canada won’t become the 51st US state – but could it join the EU?
Donald Trump’s extraordinary threats have angered Canadians and Europeans, and the idea of a new kind of transatlantic alliance is gaining traction
www.theguardian.com
June 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
In principle , I am 100% on board whith this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Husband’s choir’s summer concert tonight. #HGMC #HalifaxGayMensChorus
June 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Husband’s choir’s summer concert tonight. #HGMC #HalifaxGayMensChorus
My dog crossed the rainbow bridge tonight. I’m very sad that we’ve lost him. I am happy that he’s no longer in pain.
May 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
My dog crossed the rainbow bridge tonight. I’m very sad that we’ve lost him. I am happy that he’s no longer in pain.
Stunning sunset. Dog in surgery. Ying and yang.
May 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Stunning sunset. Dog in surgery. Ying and yang.
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The event I’m organizing at UBC Robson Square on June 4 is almost "sold out" (it's free!)
We will be exploring loneliness through the lenses of gender, love, climate, health and economics - what's driving it, and how we can address it.
communityengagement.ubc.ca/events/all-t...
We will be exploring loneliness through the lenses of gender, love, climate, health and economics - what's driving it, and how we can address it.
communityengagement.ubc.ca/events/all-t...
All the Lonely People: The Search for Belonging in an Uncertain World - Community Engagement
June 4, 2025 | What does loneliness look like in our increasingly connected world and what can we do about it? Join an interdisciplinary panel of UBC researchers from health, economics, philosophy and...
communityengagement.ubc.ca
May 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The event I’m organizing at UBC Robson Square on June 4 is almost "sold out" (it's free!)
We will be exploring loneliness through the lenses of gender, love, climate, health and economics - what's driving it, and how we can address it.
communityengagement.ubc.ca/events/all-t...
We will be exploring loneliness through the lenses of gender, love, climate, health and economics - what's driving it, and how we can address it.
communityengagement.ubc.ca/events/all-t...
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We are almost past worrying about the cheating at this point. We need to move on to figuring out how we are going to deal with a skilled workforce that has no idea how to do their actual job.
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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
web.archive.org
May 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We are almost past worrying about the cheating at this point. We need to move on to figuring out how we are going to deal with a skilled workforce that has no idea how to do their actual job.
web.archive.org/web/20250507...
web.archive.org/web/20250507...
This is the framing that mainstream American media needs to adopt to accurately portray the current reality.
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is the framing that mainstream American media needs to adopt to accurately portray the current reality.
This would be very bad. I urge all my #American friends to make a plan to get out now. And everyone else to stay out.
NEW: White House considering suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says
White House considering suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says
The move marks another escalation in the Trump administration's fight again the judicial branch.
www.axios.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This would be very bad. I urge all my #American friends to make a plan to get out now. And everyone else to stay out.
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Things are getting much scarier much faster than I think people realize
May 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Things are getting much scarier much faster than I think people realize
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Travel spending in the U.S. is in free fall
Source: The Globe and Mail
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Travel spending in the U.S. is in free fall
U.S. trade data show the biggest hit to American tourism outside of 9/11 and COVID-19
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May 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Travel spending in the U.S. is in free fall
Source: The Globe and Mail
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This says absolutely everything that needs to be said about today’s meeting between the orange gangster and a great Prime Minister.
Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star
May 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This says absolutely everything that needs to be said about today’s meeting between the orange gangster and a great Prime Minister.
Wishing Prime Minister Carney a good, elbows high, day.
May 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Wishing Prime Minister Carney a good, elbows high, day.
Delighted to be able to squeeze an old favourite into a dear friend’s very busy birthday weekend in Toronto.
May 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Delighted to be able to squeeze an old favourite into a dear friend’s very busy birthday weekend in Toronto.
Loving spring in Vancouver!
April 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Loving spring in Vancouver!