East of Barrie
@eastofbarrie.bsky.social
Retired teacher, book reader, dog mom, Mom to two adult children, ASL as a second language
Another lovely story about Rob Reiner. I was so saddened to read about the deaths of RR and his wife, Michelle.
Oh god no. He’s one of the nicest men I’ve ever met in my entire life. The one day I met him he went out of his way to make me feel welcomed and valued. Please let this be a mistake
December 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Another lovely story about Rob Reiner. I was so saddened to read about the deaths of RR and his wife, Michelle.
A good holiday song.
3 Generations
YouTube video by Hawksley Workman - Topic
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
A good holiday song.
Such a strange country that allows this to happen over and over.
Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Such a strange country that allows this to happen over and over.
I agree. I will never understand this
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I agree. I will never understand this
Just finished the Kdrama Mr Sunshine. What an impressive piece of work. The cinematography and costuming were excellent as were the story and the acting. A reminder of what is necessary in tumultuous political times. I’m so sad it is finished.
#Kdrama #MrSunshine
#Kdrama #MrSunshine
December 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Just finished the Kdrama Mr Sunshine. What an impressive piece of work. The cinematography and costuming were excellent as were the story and the acting. A reminder of what is necessary in tumultuous political times. I’m so sad it is finished.
#Kdrama #MrSunshine
#Kdrama #MrSunshine
I miss this guy. Here he is when we got him and were told he’d be 40 lbs. And again before we lost him when he was 90 lbs.
#DogsofBluesky
#DogsofBluesky
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I miss this guy. Here he is when we got him and were told he’d be 40 lbs. And again before we lost him when he was 90 lbs.
#DogsofBluesky
#DogsofBluesky
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I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
December 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
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Be advised the City of #Ottawa has declared a street parking ban due to the #snowfall:
ottawa.ca/en/parking-r...
#ottcity
ottawa.ca/en/parking-r...
#ottcity
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Be advised the City of #Ottawa has declared a street parking ban due to the #snowfall:
ottawa.ca/en/parking-r...
#ottcity
ottawa.ca/en/parking-r...
#ottcity
Loving Mr Sunshine the intrigue is smarter than most of what I’m seeing irl. But man those metal glides on the dresser really pulled me out of the moment.
#Kdrama #MrSunshine
#Kdrama #MrSunshine
December 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Loving Mr Sunshine the intrigue is smarter than most of what I’m seeing irl. But man those metal glides on the dresser really pulled me out of the moment.
#Kdrama #MrSunshine
#Kdrama #MrSunshine
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Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina measles outbreak https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/12/over-250-people-quarantined-in-south-carolina-as-measles-outbreak-rages/
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina measles outbreak https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/12/over-250-people-quarantined-in-south-carolina-as-measles-outbreak-rages/
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
Listening to In Pieces the Sally Field memoir and having my heart broken. Her famous Oscar speech with all its earnestness makes so much sense now.
#booksky
#SallyField
#InPieces
#DV
#booksky
#SallyField
#InPieces
#DV
December 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Listening to In Pieces the Sally Field memoir and having my heart broken. Her famous Oscar speech with all its earnestness makes so much sense now.
#booksky
#SallyField
#InPieces
#DV
#booksky
#SallyField
#InPieces
#DV
You think we should do what? I suggest you check the temperature, madam.
December 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
You think we should do what? I suggest you check the temperature, madam.
Another year of pretending The Bear is a comedy while great shows that really are comedies lose out.
#comedy
#GoldenGlobes
#comedy
#GoldenGlobes
Golden Globes Nominees Announced (Live Updates)
The Golden Globes, typically an indicator of which movies could win at the Academy Awards, will air in January.
www.forbes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Another year of pretending The Bear is a comedy while great shows that really are comedies lose out.
#comedy
#GoldenGlobes
#comedy
#GoldenGlobes
I remember the horror in my class in high school history when we learned about prisoners in Japanese POW camps being locked in boxes with not enough room to stand. I guess some people weren’t as horrified as others
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I remember the horror in my class in high school history when we learned about prisoners in Japanese POW camps being locked in boxes with not enough room to stand. I guess some people weren’t as horrified as others
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Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits.
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits.
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
This is awful.
Governor Walz: “This creates danger. We know how these things go. They start with taunts and it turns to violence”
MAGA cultists are driving past his house yelling the R slur
It’s only been a few months since Melissa Hortman & her husband were gunned down in their home in Minnesota
This must stop
MAGA cultists are driving past his house yelling the R slur
It’s only been a few months since Melissa Hortman & her husband were gunned down in their home in Minnesota
This must stop
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This is awful.
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it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
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“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. But teach a man how to fish and Pete Hegseth will murder him.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. But teach a man how to fish and Pete Hegseth will murder him.”
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When Trump goes on racist fascistic tirades against Somalian-Americans and Hegseth celebrates the regime's extrajudicial killing spree in Caribbean waters, we have a choice to make:
A) Let it go
B) RESIST
If you choose B,
JOIN US SUNDAY 3 - 4
CORNER OF BLOOMFIELD AVE & CHURCH ST, MONTCLAIR
A) Let it go
B) RESIST
If you choose B,
JOIN US SUNDAY 3 - 4
CORNER OF BLOOMFIELD AVE & CHURCH ST, MONTCLAIR
December 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
When Trump goes on racist fascistic tirades against Somalian-Americans and Hegseth celebrates the regime's extrajudicial killing spree in Caribbean waters, we have a choice to make:
A) Let it go
B) RESIST
If you choose B,
JOIN US SUNDAY 3 - 4
CORNER OF BLOOMFIELD AVE & CHURCH ST, MONTCLAIR
A) Let it go
B) RESIST
If you choose B,
JOIN US SUNDAY 3 - 4
CORNER OF BLOOMFIELD AVE & CHURCH ST, MONTCLAIR
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Small Wonders. #mushroom #fungi #mycology #forestfloor #naturelover #woodland #bokeh #macro #outdoors #nature #smartphonephotography #photography
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Petty children.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Petty children.