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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦

@lsaffs.bsky.social

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Christian. Freelance editor. Gardener, knitter, dreamer, nerd. Sustainability and environmentalism. Toronto. Turn toward love, always.

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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · Nov 25

This beautiful, dangerous, broken world

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Treasure this moment

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Rob Oliphant @roboliphant.bsky.social · 1h

Applications for the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) program are now open! CSJ helps young Canadians gain meaningful work experience while supporting local employers. If your business or organization is looking to hire youth this summer, apply today: www.canada.ca/en/employmen...

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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 1h

Next you get the fun of page proofs!

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Grumpy Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 @brian770.bsky.social · 1d

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 15h

It's really not that fucking hard.
Work for the people who you want to elect you.
GET OUT AND TALK TO THEM!
Make their lives better, be a public service.
Just promise to do what government is supposed to do. That's it.

Everyone is acting like it's a goddamn magic trick.

Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.

www.politico.eu/article/zohr...

Europe’s left flocks to New York to take notes on Mamdani’s meteoric rise

Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.

www.politico.eu

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Emily @becausechaucer.bsky.social · 23h

I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA:

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN

ON

CHRISTMAS

THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS

THAT IS ADVENT

WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 2d

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 2d

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

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Nuggets With Extra Sauce @pissedoffsagg.bsky.social · 2d

I was born into a large family. Things were great until my dad left. We had no idea where to get food. Even after we found out about Welfare, we still knew hunger because near the end of the month, the food ran out. Believe me, right now children are lying quietly hungry without food.

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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 2d

Several, actually.

Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 2d

The look on Ernie's face when he realized that Pages had caught the ball will haunt me for a very long time

Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 2d

Let's not forget one of the best parts of the playoffs (and the season):

Daaaa Yankees lose!

We'll always have that.

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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 2d

She could be French. Many people in France who speak English fluently speak it with a British accent, since they often are taught English by British teachers.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to the Toronto Blue Jays on a magnificent season. It is a shame either team had to lose. And this was a gut punch. 💔💔

Classy players, fanbase, and truly one of the finest cities in the world.

Future is bright with Yeasavage, Barger, and Vladdy.

Now go re-sign Bo.

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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 2d

And Jays did it with Bichette and Springer playing injured.

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BlueJaysInBelgium @bluejaysinbelgium.bsky.social · 2d

Waking up feeling grateful for the greatest season in the past 32 years and proud a team that was predicted to finish last, taking the defending champ’s team of billionaires beyond the limits. The Yamamoto Dogers won but they can’t steal our pride and joy in this incredible team #BlueJays

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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 2d

Sweet justice

Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 2d

I love Ben (and his dad)

Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 3d

Posted this before the ALCS game 7. Even more true after that game and the first six of the World Series. Again, whatever happens tonight, thanks, guys. #BlueJays

Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 14d

One way or another, I've scarcely missed an inning of Blue Jays this season. The slow start, that feeling of here we go again, then growing hope to that glorious July day when they took first place. Incredulous joy as they stayed there. Lots of great baseball. Whatever happens tonight, thanks, guys.

Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 3d

Midtown before 6pm street was full of people, kids of all ages, way before the older ones would normally be out

Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. He'll claim that he was sure Usha would convert after they were married, but now he sadly must conclude that it won't happen and therefore the marriage to a non-Catholic isn't valid. But with a loophole so that the kids are considered legitimate.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Hey, look, the future!

Corporate Knights @green-economy.bsky.social · 5d

Fascinating story about a family of coal-miners who pivoted to drilling for geothermal amid the ongoing transition to renewables.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...

Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business

A Colorado entrepreneur is going all in on a renewable energy source that will keep him digging — and could be a model for other miners looking beyond…

www.canarymedia.com

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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, you've got to fix this yourselves. We're not coming to the rescue.

Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 3d

When our best ally and trading partner turns on us and tries to break our economy to make us agree to annexation (which they have said out loud is the goal), we are most definitely and deliberately rude and dismissive.

And we're just getting started.

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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 4d

Can't resist — "formerly known as Prince"