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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@danielgillis.ca

Four simple words.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h

Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Donald Trump :”Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off.”

January 20, 2026 at 7:37 PM

Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@danielgillis.ca

Sooooo, if someone walks all the way to campus (~25 minutes) in -17C weather, and only realizes once they get to campus that they left their computer bag (containing their laptop) at home, can that someone call it a day and just go home?

Asking for a friend. ;)

fozzie bear is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee

Alt: fozzie bear is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee looking exasperated.

media.tenor.com

January 20, 2026 at 2:53 PM

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Argyllseaglass

@argyllseaglass.bsky.social

Wow, can see with the naked eye over Loch Long in Argyll Scotland and the colours are amazing 🤩

Taken with iPhone, night settings, no editing 🎉

#Aurora #Scotland #StormHour

January 19, 2026 at 9:56 PM

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Dr. Jen Irwin

@drjenirwin.bsky.social

“COVID-19 was associated with a 49% increased risk of new-onset autoimmune-related diseases”

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41452424/

Association between COVID-19 and New-Onset Autoimmune Diseases: Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 97 Million Individuals - PubMed

SARS-CoV-2 infection may induce long-term immune dysregulation; however, its contribution to the development of autoimmune disease remains disputed. We aim to quantify the relative risk of new-onset autoimmune diseases following COVID-19 and its modifiers through a systematic review and meta-analysi …

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

January 17, 2026 at 1:31 AM

Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@danielgillis.ca

Timeline update: the stupidest timeline and the bat shit craziest timeline are officially indistinguishable.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

Trump just placed a tariff on most of the EU of 10% that will increase to 25% in June unless they agree to sell him Greenland.

This is mad king shit.

Alt text: Screenshot of a long social media post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump). The post claims the United States has subsidized Denmark and European countries for decades and argues that Greenland is critical to U.S. and global security. It states that China and Russia want Greenland, criticizes Denmark’s ability to defend it, and asserts that only the U.S. can protect the territory. The post announces planned tariffs starting February 1, 2026—10% on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland, rising to 25% on June 1, 2026—until a deal is reached for the complete purchase of Greenland. It ends with Trump signing as “President of the United States of America,” with engagement metrics and a timestamp of January 17, 2026.

January 17, 2026 at 5:31 PM

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Senthorun S. Raj

@senthorun.bsky.social

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✊🏾🌈

January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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Michael E. Mann

@michaelemann.bsky.social

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

January 14, 2026 at 12:13 AM

Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@danielgillis.ca

Just look at this beauty!

#TimelineCleanse

A tabby cat resting on a cream coloured blanket.

January 13, 2026 at 6:54 PM

Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@danielgillis.ca

A Partial Disaster

Water, water, everywhere.

A Partial Disaster

Water, water, everywhere.

consumedbywanderlust.wordpress.com

January 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM

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Mark Kubert 🇨🇦

@markkubert.bsky.social

Are you at home doomscrolling right now?

I highly recommend you get a fireplace channel from YouTube up on the tv.

It takes the edge off.

January 10, 2026 at 2:58 PM

Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@danielgillis.ca

We are living in the stupidest timeline.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 10d

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

January 10, 2026 at 2:42 PM

Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@danielgillis.ca

This would also hold if Iranian and Iran were replaced with American and the United States of America, respectively.

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 11d

The reports of violence, arbitrary arrests, and intimidation tactics by the Iranian regime against its own people are profoundly concerning. Canada strongly condemns the killing of protesters, and urges Iran to allow for freedom of expression and peaceful assembly without fear of reprisal.

January 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM

Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@danielgillis.ca

This.

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11d

The creators of these apps make choices. Grok was created with the production of deep-fake abuse imagery as an option and that was a choice. The fact that the app is still producing these images, for free, with no restrictions, for anyone who wants them, is also an ongoing choice by its creators.

kate conger @kateconger.com · 11d

I've been testing Grok vs. ChatGPT and how they compare when generating deepfakes.
- ask the chatbot to search the web for photos of me and then regenerate me in a bikini: Grok complies; ChatGPT refuses
- upload a photo of myself (not id'ing as a public figure): Grok complies; ChatGPT refuses

January 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM