mélanie daigle
@asteur.bsky.social
Character animator with a passion for acting and an eye for design • Director • Author/Illustrator (#amquerying!) ✎
https://melanie-daigle.com (she/her)
https://melanie-daigle.com (she/her)
“On trouve toujours ce qu'on ne cherche pas.”
January 20, 2026 at 8:59 PM
“On trouve toujours ce qu'on ne cherche pas.”
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For anyone who missed this we have a real problem in Canada with American owned media like Postmedia that are sympathetic to Trump and big oil.
They often also own your local news.
Consider following independent media by email since a lot of social media is Trump-connected too.
#CDNpoli #NLpoli
They often also own your local news.
Consider following independent media by email since a lot of social media is Trump-connected too.
#CDNpoli #NLpoli
January 19, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Hootsuite has been pursuing business with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States, more than five years after employee backlash forced the Vancouver tech company to cancel a contract to provide social-media management services to the agency.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Vancouver company Hootsuite seeks business with ICE amid financial pressures
Company has secured a project with ICE that involves ‘social listening’ after cancelling a contract in 2020 over employee backlash
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Hootsuite has been pursuing business with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States, more than five years after employee backlash forced the Vancouver tech company to cancel a contract to provide social-media management services to the agency.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."
TV brain rot: The real reason television shows are getting stupider www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
TV brain rot: The real reason television shows are getting stupider
It’s crazy for streamers to prioritise ‘second-screen viewing’, writes Louis Chilton – but that’s not the only way TV seems to have lost faith in its audience
www.the-independent.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."
“The biggest thing we’ve learned from the large language model generation is how many people are excited to replace human beings, and how many people just don’t understand labour of any kind."
Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he’s no longer the outsider he once was
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:32 PM
“The biggest thing we’ve learned from the large language model generation is how many people are excited to replace human beings, and how many people just don’t understand labour of any kind."
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It was inevitable.
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
techcrunch.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:02 AM
It was inevitable.
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The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
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“We need to find common ground. Stop calling them Nazis!!”
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
The guy is definitely going for an aesthetic.
January 18, 2026 at 11:36 PM
“We need to find common ground. Stop calling them Nazis!!”
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
Kinda wild that I get so much more FYC comms for US projects than Canadian ones.
(In the sense that I get NONE for Canadian ones.)
(In the sense that I get NONE for Canadian ones.)
January 18, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Kinda wild that I get so much more FYC comms for US projects than Canadian ones.
(In the sense that I get NONE for Canadian ones.)
(In the sense that I get NONE for Canadian ones.)
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I literally cannot express to you that our current age is dominated by some of the most colossal idiots to ever do it.
77 billion, with a b, in losses over 5 years and change.
In any other age, at any other time, this would get you fired out of a cannon into the sun.
77 billion, with a b, in losses over 5 years and change.
In any other age, at any other time, this would get you fired out of a cannon into the sun.
The division has lost over $77 billion since its inception in 2020.
Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg's Vision Fails
The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.
trib.al
January 18, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I literally cannot express to you that our current age is dominated by some of the most colossal idiots to ever do it.
77 billion, with a b, in losses over 5 years and change.
In any other age, at any other time, this would get you fired out of a cannon into the sun.
77 billion, with a b, in losses over 5 years and change.
In any other age, at any other time, this would get you fired out of a cannon into the sun.
When the algorithm starts showing you sponsored posts, but it’s for cute spots in a city that you’re planning on going to soon… 👀
January 18, 2026 at 8:28 PM
When the algorithm starts showing you sponsored posts, but it’s for cute spots in a city that you’re planning on going to soon… 👀
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He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
I got sunshine in a bag ☀️
January 16, 2026 at 11:16 PM
I got sunshine in a bag ☀️
OH: “If you’re gonna live in Vancouver, you’ve gotta be depressed.”
January 16, 2026 at 7:36 PM
OH: “If you’re gonna live in Vancouver, you’ve gotta be depressed.”
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I consider myself pretty well informed on the nazi precedents for today, but I didn’t know this one. They truly are just running the playbook.
There is a precedent for a person getting someone else's Nobel Prize. In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, gave his Nobel Prize in literature to Joseph Goebbels uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Knut Hamsun
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supp...
uwapress.uw.edu
January 16, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I consider myself pretty well informed on the nazi precedents for today, but I didn’t know this one. They truly are just running the playbook.
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"If you want to investigate fraud, bring an accountant,” Stancil, a Democratic activist and education policy adviser told me as we drove around ... The ICE agents in Minnesota don’t look like accountants. They look like soldiers. And you don’t bring soldiers unless you want to fight a war."
Richard Warnica: I spent the week in Minnesota. The only thing I’m sure of now is that more people are going to die
As confrontations between ICE and protestors and activists grow more common, the tension only rises.
www.thestar.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM
"If you want to investigate fraud, bring an accountant,” Stancil, a Democratic activist and education policy adviser told me as we drove around ... The ICE agents in Minnesota don’t look like accountants. They look like soldiers. And you don’t bring soldiers unless you want to fight a war."
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U.S workers are taking home the smallest share of the economic pie since the feds started collecting the data in 1947.
January 15, 2026 at 7:10 PM
U.S workers are taking home the smallest share of the economic pie since the feds started collecting the data in 1947.
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The idea that resistance is "giving Trump what he wants" is insulting. What he wants is obedience
January 15, 2026 at 6:28 AM
The idea that resistance is "giving Trump what he wants" is insulting. What he wants is obedience
First “real” acting class audit, check! 🥹
January 15, 2026 at 7:41 AM
First “real” acting class audit, check! 🥹
"When you stay in a place long enough, you get bored, and when you get bored you start to notice things."
- Chloé Zhao
- Chloé Zhao
January 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM
"When you stay in a place long enough, you get bored, and when you get bored you start to notice things."
- Chloé Zhao
- Chloé Zhao
Don’t get distracted. It’s already started.
(Your reminder that Carney’s “nation building” projects are one hell of an oxymoron.)
(Your reminder that Carney’s “nation building” projects are one hell of an oxymoron.)
New Brunswick is rolling out the red carpet for U.S.-backed extractive projects ⋆ The Breach
A growing province-wide coalition is resisting American-backed mining, gas, and data centre projects they say threaten public health and Indigenous land
breachmedia.ca
January 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Don’t get distracted. It’s already started.
(Your reminder that Carney’s “nation building” projects are one hell of an oxymoron.)
(Your reminder that Carney’s “nation building” projects are one hell of an oxymoron.)
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Our politicians were able to get off TikTok -- so why not from Twitter?
The platform is letting its users create non-consensual sexual deepfakes of women and kids. That can't be the price of public participation in our digital down square.
Our government MUST act.
For @thetyee.ca, here’s how:
The platform is letting its users create non-consensual sexual deepfakes of women and kids. That can't be the price of public participation in our digital down square.
Our government MUST act.
For @thetyee.ca, here’s how:
January 13, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Our politicians were able to get off TikTok -- so why not from Twitter?
The platform is letting its users create non-consensual sexual deepfakes of women and kids. That can't be the price of public participation in our digital down square.
Our government MUST act.
For @thetyee.ca, here’s how:
The platform is letting its users create non-consensual sexual deepfakes of women and kids. That can't be the price of public participation in our digital down square.
Our government MUST act.
For @thetyee.ca, here’s how: