jesslyn delia derkson
@jlyndelia.bsky.social
writer • luddite • cut & paste
nanaimo BC 🪺
read my gloomy blog: jesslyndelia.com
this is a square house: @asquarehouse.bsky.social
nanaimo BC 🪺
read my gloomy blog: jesslyndelia.com
this is a square house: @asquarehouse.bsky.social
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i once had an employer tell the staff we were not allowed to say "happy friday" to each other because ppl might think we didn't like working there. guess what no one liked working there
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (February)
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (February)
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I’m so glad we put so much financial and political support behind the tech industry so they can come up with amazing new ideas like charging you 23% more for the same groceries
#BREAKING: Instacart says it will halt a practice that used AI to adjust the cost of groceries for different shoppers after a study found some customers were paying as much as 23% more for the same items.
Ending Item Price Tests on Instacart | Instacart
Over the past couple weeks, there’s been a lot written about Instacart and how pricing works on our platform . Some of that coverage raised fair questions. Much of it included misconceptions and misin...
www.instacart.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I’m so glad we put so much financial and political support behind the tech industry so they can come up with amazing new ideas like charging you 23% more for the same groceries
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Canadians, sign this petition to stop the use of the Notwithstanding clause against trans Canadians.
This is about provinces denying human rights, because trans rights are human rights.
SIGN.
This is about provinces denying human rights, because trans rights are human rights.
SIGN.
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Canadians, sign this petition to stop the use of the Notwithstanding clause against trans Canadians.
This is about provinces denying human rights, because trans rights are human rights.
SIGN.
This is about provinces denying human rights, because trans rights are human rights.
SIGN.
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Chomsky (and Stephen Hawking) being friends of Jeffrey Epstein seems like a wild choice but nobody shows class solidarity like the rich.
Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Chomsky (and Stephen Hawking) being friends of Jeffrey Epstein seems like a wild choice but nobody shows class solidarity like the rich.
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Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
the spokesperson who has to go on record at christmastime to say this is a bad thing is like a modern day christmas villain. not even the villain actually, just a sad henchman
A bunch of people dressed as elves and santas rob a metro grocery store, the third largest grocery giant in Canada. They take between $3,000 to $5,000 worth of food and donate it to food banks.
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
Group dressed as Santas, elves rob Plateau grocery store in Robin Hood-inspired heist
Activist group claims to have put the food under a Christmas tree in Place Valois in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
montrealgazette.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the spokesperson who has to go on record at christmastime to say this is a bad thing is like a modern day christmas villain. not even the villain actually, just a sad henchman
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*builds a machine that just pushes weights up and down forever* Haha yes, bodybuilders will LOVE this
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
*builds a machine that just pushes weights up and down forever* Haha yes, bodybuilders will LOVE this
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I think we all realize that drug use is not about addiction, but is about economics. Rich people use drugs too, but they do it at home, and can seem mostly functional. When people are poor, they're more likely to use drugs (to cope), and lack the safety net that rich drug users have.
The Populist Approach to the Opioid Crisis Can Save Millions of Lives
The overdose epidemic is often framed as a public health concern. But what if we treated it as an economic crisis, which policy can alleviate?
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I think we all realize that drug use is not about addiction, but is about economics. Rich people use drugs too, but they do it at home, and can seem mostly functional. When people are poor, they're more likely to use drugs (to cope), and lack the safety net that rich drug users have.
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Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
so if i get injured at the self check-out i’m entitled to workers comp, right?
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
so if i get injured at the self check-out i’m entitled to workers comp, right?
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ICE has decided that Black citizens are subject to Starlight Tours
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
ICE has decided that Black citizens are subject to Starlight Tours
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periodically i still release my little newsletter out into the world, pressure valve style. this month's leftover drafts is a love letter to my husband, and to intimacy & identity thru grief
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lizard draft.
do you ever feel so intensely known that you realize you’ve been walking around blissful, on the other side somehow of the violence of being perceived, like wandering into a neighbourhood you’ve ne…
jesslyndelia.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
periodically i still release my little newsletter out into the world, pressure valve style. this month's leftover drafts is a love letter to my husband, and to intimacy & identity thru grief
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Guy who says he loves keeping costs low will force people to work in offices costing taxpayers more to keep office spaces open so govt workers can take Zoom meetings in downtown Ottawa instead of at home.
It makes a lot of sense.
It makes a lot of sense.
Carney says back-to-office plan for federal civil servants coming soon nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/08/c...
Carney says back-to-office plan for federal civil servants coming soon
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Guy who says he loves keeping costs low will force people to work in offices costing taxpayers more to keep office spaces open so govt workers can take Zoom meetings in downtown Ottawa instead of at home.
It makes a lot of sense.
It makes a lot of sense.
not especially interested in watching enormous corporations fight to the death for the right to poison the most people possible
December 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
not especially interested in watching enormous corporations fight to the death for the right to poison the most people possible
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Big Books, Big Ideas, Big Discounts
Big Books, Big Ideas, Big Discounts
Make the most of Haymarket’s 40% off sale by stocking up on our biggest books!
Take a deep dive into leftist analysis, history, theory, and fiction with these long reads:
This striking c...
www.haymarketbooks.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Big Books, Big Ideas, Big Discounts
periodically i still release my little newsletter out into the world, pressure valve style. this month's leftover drafts is a love letter to my husband, and to intimacy & identity thru grief
🦎 read/subscribe:
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lizard draft.
do you ever feel so intensely known that you realize you’ve been walking around blissful, on the other side somehow of the violence of being perceived, like wandering into a neighbourhood you’ve ne…
jesslyndelia.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
periodically i still release my little newsletter out into the world, pressure valve style. this month's leftover drafts is a love letter to my husband, and to intimacy & identity thru grief
🦎 read/subscribe:
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i don’t think franklin the turtle should have to make a statement. i actually don’t think we should live in a world where franklin the turtle needs to be making statements
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
i don’t think franklin the turtle should have to make a statement. i actually don’t think we should live in a world where franklin the turtle needs to be making statements
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reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight
being sick while on my period is the worst, all i want is hot noodle soup and the biggest chocolate cake imaginable
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
being sick while on my period is the worst, all i want is hot noodle soup and the biggest chocolate cake imaginable
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
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If only there were some word for a place where a bunch of boats are all stored right next to each other.
apnews.com/article/anci...
apnews.com/article/anci...
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
apnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
If only there were some word for a place where a bunch of boats are all stored right next to each other.
apnews.com/article/anci...
apnews.com/article/anci...
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UCP AGM 2025, baby
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
UCP AGM 2025, baby