Gersande La Flèche
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Bon, chuis là, là. Bilingual disaster. Chronically ill avec zéro chill. Ballerine du dimanche. Appalling poet and well-rounded failure.
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Gersande La Flèche
@gersande.com
· Dec 1
J'le call: ça va être, si ça ne l'est déjà, un désastre faramineux.
Do you ever go to the Power Corporation of Canada wikipédia page and just marvel at how fucked up Canada is. How is this a country. The joke that Canada is three resource extraction corps in a trench-coat ... it would be funny if it were a little less real.
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Do you ever go to the Power Corporation of Canada wikipédia page and just marvel at how fucked up Canada is. How is this a country. The joke that Canada is three resource extraction corps in a trench-coat ... it would be funny if it were a little less real.
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Steven Guilbeault dénonce le «moratoire» imposé par Danielle Smith sur les énergies renouvelables en Alberta. «C’est de la folie furieuse», dit-il. «Elle ne sera jamais contente», ajoute-t-il à propos de Mme Smith. «Ce n’est pas un partenaire fiable.» Contexte: www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
Le Canada, cancre climatique?
Le gouvernement fédéral soutient des projets chers à l’industrie des énergies fossiles.
www.ledevoir.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Steven Guilbeault dénonce le «moratoire» imposé par Danielle Smith sur les énergies renouvelables en Alberta. «C’est de la folie furieuse», dit-il. «Elle ne sera jamais contente», ajoute-t-il à propos de Mme Smith. «Ce n’est pas un partenaire fiable.» Contexte: www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
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November's blog post is up on my author website! I reflect on the month's writing challenge and how @gersande.com's advice reshaped my mindset for it. amshilling.com/2025/11/30/c...
November 2025: Challenge, start!
I decided to challenge myself again this November, as I had done with NaNoWriMo in 2016, but it didn’t go quite like I’d planned or expected.
amshilling.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
November's blog post is up on my author website! I reflect on the month's writing challenge and how @gersande.com's advice reshaped my mindset for it. amshilling.com/2025/11/30/c...
Dispatch really captures how the "clients" in customer service are a genuine fucking nightmare, huh.
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Dispatch really captures how the "clients" in customer service are a genuine fucking nightmare, huh.
Fighting a migraine, possibly triggered by the stress of writing this blog post last night. Dunno when I'll get the VF up but for now, in case you missed it yesterday: the federal NDP has no plan for Quebec and seems content with that 🫣
Forget French, the federal NDP doesn't speak Québec gersande.com/blog/forget-...
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Fighting a migraine, possibly triggered by the stress of writing this blog post last night. Dunno when I'll get the VF up but for now, in case you missed it yesterday: the federal NDP has no plan for Quebec and seems content with that 🫣
Such a good blog post and hits on so many things I struggle with greatly in the era of covid denial. Merci Lia!!
This one's been cooking for months but I finally managed to hammer it into probably-slightly-blasphemous shape. Contrary to public opinion, I am in fact neither the pope nor a saint - yes it's about covid again: lia-sae.net/articles/202...
Lia's blog - I am not the goddamn pope
Though maybe I should charge for indulgences since so many people seem to want one?
lia-sae.net
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Such a good blog post and hits on so many things I struggle with greatly in the era of covid denial. Merci Lia!!
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Ce matin sur Atateken, j'avais le choix entre la délinquance en roulant sur le piste fermée ou rouler en plein milieu de la voie et compromettre ma sécurité.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ce matin sur Atateken, j'avais le choix entre la délinquance en roulant sur le piste fermée ou rouler en plein milieu de la voie et compromettre ma sécurité.
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This! Struggling (however little) means I am constantly learning, reinforcing neural pathways, finding new patterns. I’m also committing the codebase to my brain so I can think through it holistically and improve things.
The chatbot can’t do that BECAUSE IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND SEMANTICS
The chatbot can’t do that BECAUSE IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND SEMANTICS
i suspect people severely underestimate the negative cognitive effects of using AI tools. even for programming tasks. and even if you are someone who gets real efficiency gains from those tools; perhaps especially then
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This! Struggling (however little) means I am constantly learning, reinforcing neural pathways, finding new patterns. I’m also committing the codebase to my brain so I can think through it holistically and improve things.
The chatbot can’t do that BECAUSE IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND SEMANTICS
The chatbot can’t do that BECAUSE IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND SEMANTICS
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I’m not surprised that journalists at the Guardian didn’t want to investigate links between “natural birthing” & the anti-trans movement or that they wanted to include a TERF like Singleton but it still pisses me off. I’m so fucking tired of this shit. So much for being an in-depth investigation.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’m not surprised that journalists at the Guardian didn’t want to investigate links between “natural birthing” & the anti-trans movement or that they wanted to include a TERF like Singleton but it still pisses me off. I’m so fucking tired of this shit. So much for being an in-depth investigation.
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In an interview w/ Meghan Murphy*, Mary Lou Singleton said she was in touch w/ the journalists who wrote the Guardian piece about the Free Birth Society but refused to be in it because they didn’t want to talk about how the FBS was “a refuge for women who were gender critical” & “covid critical”.
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long time. They contacted me so many times asking me to be on record for that story and I just I just wasn't
Oh, really?
Yeah. I'm not willing to do it. I'm not I'm not interested in taking down Emily and Yolanda. Um, but I have to say when I made the decision not to talk to them, well, I had multiple reasons. One was they refused to acknowledge certain social factors that led to the growth of of the free birth society and led to it being such a social phenomenon. One one being the the massive um influence of gender ideology and all the other online birth spaces and that the free birth society was a refuge for women who were gender critical to be able to speak their minds about the mind [ __ ] of gender and to not be jumped on every time they used female language to talk about birth. So the free birth society Facebook group grew and grew and grew out of that issue. like it was it was a refuge of sanity for women in the birth world. They were absolutely unwilling to discuss that. They said it was, you know, basically a like every, you know,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cm2cojukkodnzm4w5hpq2sff/bafkreibt2754ujcnqz4i5pkmsnmesu4qgmaxxjubzzcmiof47yf6b2r7j4@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In an interview w/ Meghan Murphy*, Mary Lou Singleton said she was in touch w/ the journalists who wrote the Guardian piece about the Free Birth Society but refused to be in it because they didn’t want to talk about how the FBS was “a refuge for women who were gender critical” & “covid critical”.
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Fascinating how every conceivable topic under the sun is now the subject of at minimum six wildly different conspiracy theories.
So much data, so little meaning!
So much data, so little meaning!
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Fascinating how every conceivable topic under the sun is now the subject of at minimum six wildly different conspiracy theories.
So much data, so little meaning!
So much data, so little meaning!
Forget French, the federal NDP doesn't speak Québec gersande.com/blog/forget-...
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Forget French, the federal NDP doesn't speak Québec gersande.com/blog/forget-...
Okay clearly I'm not done: is there a question that touches more on workers' rights than immigration? Temporary foreign workers? Refugees? Climate refugees? No? Unless I very badly misunderstood, I don't think a single aspiring NDP leader spoke about immigration tonight.
November 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Okay clearly I'm not done: is there a question that touches more on workers' rights than immigration? Temporary foreign workers? Refugees? Climate refugees? No? Unless I very badly misunderstood, I don't think a single aspiring NDP leader spoke about immigration tonight.
I respect Rachel's work a whole lot, but she and I saw something so different tonight. I've been following NDP politics since 2010, and tonight, the aspiring Federal NDP leadership convincingly seemed to wash their hands of Québec. Tonally, content-wise, the messaging, was so bizarre.
NDP debates are less "debates" and more "agreement-offs" lol. Who can agree harder!!!!! Endearing but not very juicy
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I respect Rachel's work a whole lot, but she and I saw something so different tonight. I've been following NDP politics since 2010, and tonight, the aspiring Federal NDP leadership convincingly seemed to wash their hands of Québec. Tonally, content-wise, the messaging, was so bizarre.
Only in Canada would a bunch of aspiring leaders of a federal political party show up to a political debate in Montréal and be generally incapable of speaking in any meaningful way about the political situation on the ground, in this city or province. The NDP has clearly conceded Québec.
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Only in Canada would a bunch of aspiring leaders of a federal political party show up to a political debate in Montréal and be generally incapable of speaking in any meaningful way about the political situation on the ground, in this city or province. The NDP has clearly conceded Québec.
Only in Canada would an aspiring leader of a federal political party show up to a French language debate and ROLL THEIR EYES at the moderator when asked (not for the first time) to please answer the question in French.
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Only in Canada would an aspiring leader of a federal political party show up to a French language debate and ROLL THEIR EYES at the moderator when asked (not for the first time) to please answer the question in French.
This is actually a skit.
The @ndp.ca hasn't posted here in a month, it seems, and they haven't updated their YouTube channel in AGES.
This means that I'm looking at a bootleg stream, with no FR option...in an ostensibly FR debate that uh isn't all-FR because of the FR level of the candidates.
This means that I'm looking at a bootleg stream, with no FR option...in an ostensibly FR debate that uh isn't all-FR because of the FR level of the candidates.
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is actually a skit.
Bon, je ferme le live du débat des cheffes du NDP. J'en peux plus.
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Bon, je ferme le live du débat des cheffes du NDP. J'en peux plus.
Carney is a bigger-c conservative than Mulroney was.
Welcome back to our one and only earth, Steven.
Welcome back to our one and only earth, Steven.
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Carney is a bigger-c conservative than Mulroney was.
Welcome back to our one and only earth, Steven.
Welcome back to our one and only earth, Steven.
It will never stop being shocking how poorly Anglo politicians speak French during French-language debates. Honestly, I would rather they just speak in English and give up the pretence of inclusion towards French speakers.
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It will never stop being shocking how poorly Anglo politicians speak French during French-language debates. Honestly, I would rather they just speak in English and give up the pretence of inclusion towards French speakers.
« optimiser les synergies »
OPTIMISER
LES
SYNERGIES
Le Québec va sacrifier la santé publique sur l'autel des « synergies »
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...?
OPTIMISER
LES
SYNERGIES
Le Québec va sacrifier la santé publique sur l'autel des « synergies »
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...?
Avec le projet de loi Duranceau, le Québec serait «dépourvu» advenant une nouvelle pandémie
L’INSPQ s’inquiète du peu de place laissée à la santé publique dans la fusion proposée par le gouvernement.
www.ledevoir.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
« optimiser les synergies »
OPTIMISER
LES
SYNERGIES
Le Québec va sacrifier la santé publique sur l'autel des « synergies »
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...?
OPTIMISER
LES
SYNERGIES
Le Québec va sacrifier la santé publique sur l'autel des « synergies »
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...?
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
John Butler Trio
Stars
Tanya Tagaq
Zoe Keating
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
John Butler Trio
Stars
Tanya Tagaq
Zoe Keating
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Crippled Black Phoenix
Steve Hackett
The Eccentronic Research Council
SUNN O)))
Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
Crippled Black Phoenix
Steve Hackett
The Eccentronic Research Council
SUNN O)))
Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
The Pixies
P J Harvey
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Philip Glass Ensemble
Plump DJs
The Pixies
P J Harvey
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Philip Glass Ensemble
Plump DJs
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
John Butler Trio
Stars
Tanya Tagaq
Zoe Keating
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
John Butler Trio
Stars
Tanya Tagaq
Zoe Keating
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Hi everyone! My queer visual novel / fighting game, Heatwave, is now available on Steam, and the Itch version has received the 1.0 update! Have fun!
store.steampowered.com/app/2980420/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2980420/...
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Hi everyone! My queer visual novel / fighting game, Heatwave, is now available on Steam, and the Itch version has received the 1.0 update! Have fun!
store.steampowered.com/app/2980420/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2980420/...
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FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.
October 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.