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Flannery Dean
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Freelance writer, editor with clips @ The Star, Guardian, Slate, The Narwhal, Bright Wall/ Dark Room, Macleans, Globe. www.flannerydean.com
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describe your cat's personality with one photo
Orange cat with white chest peering out from exposed ceiling.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Joining chorus on this one. This insight/ analysis in particular. Would print and post on newsroom wall.
Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It’s so offhand you can think you’re gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it. Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Kid has outgrown this pen but I am mysteriously growing into it
Brown pen with toilet seat at the top. Inside a No. 2 emoji
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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FYI
Push notification from Apple News that reads “Rushing to secure a lover before the holidays may be toxic” Read now in Cosmopolitan
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Cloud is trying to do something different, cloud-wise, and I respect it. A real not-your-granddaddy’s-cloud kind of statement
Anvil shaped cloud in gray sky with houses in foreground
November 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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No one has ever looked more disappointed
A Toronto Blue Jays fan sits in a bar after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated Toronto during Game 7 of the World Series, in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday, November 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press)
November 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Made me look twice, barista
Upside down smiling face or nod to my jugs? Ah, it’s a smiley face. As you were
November 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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*downloads entire album*
Underneath all the gory details, it seems to tacitly suggest that open arrangements are easily abused, usually by men, and that believing you’re above outmoded concepts of fidelity – “a modern wife”, as Allen puts it at one point – is no guarantee you won’t get your heart broken.
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Nothing makes me miss home more than seeing my parents cat drool over birds from her paradisal perch
Rubenesque calico stares at birds through kitchen window that is surrounded by plants and flowers
October 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Ethan Hawke is regularly interesting in interviews. Enjoyed this. This moment made me laugh
You played Chet Baker in Born to Be Blue about ten years ago. [Hawke mimics playing the trumpet]
October 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Such extreme peacetime military spending was never contemplated, even by the most hawkish Canadian defence analysts, until U.S. President Donald Trump started throwing around the five per cent figure. Yet even the excessively-armed United States only spends 3.5 per cent of its GDP on defence.
October 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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See also
Painting held by Catherine Scorsese in film goodfellas. Painted by Nicholas pileggi’s mother.
October 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Wanna feel old? This is Beck
Halloween costume for Grandpa wig: photograph of youngish looking man wearing clear glasses and light stubble.
October 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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“Take trustees out of the picture and what’s left isn’t a school system. It’s a machine with no one left to answer to the people it serves.”
October 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Mood required to entertain every piece outlining the benefits of greater US/Canadian integration
Screen shot of Eric Idle singing always look on the bright side of life in the Life of Brian
October 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Anyway, will be thinking about this two-fer insight for a long time. Especially no 2
Skeets by Hari Kunzru. “They’re so close to realizing what they hate isn’t black/brown/queer people, it’s their phones
October 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Had to read this graf multiple times and scale of cuckoo stakes of this industry still has not fully sunk in
Working their angle as usual, they argued that Baldoni’s and Lively’s representatives weren’t trained crisis publicists but regular publicists thrust into a crisis. “They look like amateurs,” says one top rep. “Who says that stuff in a text?” (Lively, meanwhile, hired Nick Shapiro, the former CIA deputy chief of staff, who previously led the Obama administration’s response to the Boston Marathon bombing and the Fukushima nuclear disaster.)
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Fluff n fold
Gray cat sitting in white laundry basket amid fresh clean towels
September 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Also, but this line. See it a lot. That’s just an outrageous regression. Wouldn’t hand wave it away.
and a shift in priorities from the Justin Trudeau era, when outspoken feminism was a core part of the government’s image.
September 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days
Gray cat in cardboard box. Only her head peeking out
September 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
Brick wall with words “Fortnite sucks” written in chalk
September 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Loved the kicker of this review:
Like Crowley’s analogy for the rare text messages he receives from his son (‘jewels mined out of rock’), our encrypted feelings can never be abolished by capitalist imperatives. They will emerge one day out of a fog of dissociation – in the middle of a meeting, on the train, on the way to run a workshop – and un-numb us back to life.
September 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Not falling for the innocent act, chipmunk.
Tan and black Chipmunk with full cheeks feigns innocence
September 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Now the government is talking about cuts so deep that they will exceed those that laid waste to the women’s sector during the Harper years. It is the same story playing out in Washington—the only significant difference is that Canadian policymakers are doing it without the hateful rhetoric.
September 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM