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Flannery Dean
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Freelance writer, editor with clips @ The Star, Guardian, Slate, The Narwhal, Bright Wall/ Dark Room, Macleans, Globe. www.flannerydean.com
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Friday night.
Image of Charlize Theron, in bra, sitting at dinner table with two kids. Still from movie Tully
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Now efforts to foment anti-feminist sentiment under the banner of traditional family values are undercut by an alleged-rapist president eager to stock his Cabinet with other alleged rapists, by a masked police force ripping children from their parents’ arms, and by the 2022 Dobbs decision that struck down the right to an abortion. It’s harder to tell women they’ve overstepped when they are dying of pregnancy. Every day makes clear that the claim that Me Too went too far is simply a lie.
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Oh OK
Smart reads ‌ ‌ Donald Trump has agreed to attend Davos in January after organisers promised the US president that it would not feature “woke” topics such as female empowerment and diversity, the green transition, climate change and international development finance.
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Kid has been too sick to cope with clingy cat who is obsessed with him but fever is finally gone and cat could not be happier
Gray cat snuggles almost well tween
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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No matter what we breed
We still are made of greed
This is my kingdom come
This is my kingdom come

When you feel my heat
Look into my eyes
It's where my demons hide
It's where my demons hide

Don't get too close
It's dark inside
It's where my demons hide
It's where my demons hide
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Rainbow always gonna feel like a nice little surprise for earthlings
Full rainbow stretched across canopy of trees at park
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Love an animatronic(?) piggy bank
Robie the robot banker from radio shack
November 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Feeling down today. Sharing a snap of my 5Yo niece’s baby. Congratulations to all new mums. The first year goes by so fast
Stuffed orangutan dressed in pink dress with pink bow
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Screenshot of phrase How to Block Bamboo
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band
The Zits from Degrassi Junior Higj
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Americans have always been anxious about the nation’s history: writing it, rewriting it, tearing it down, and debating its meaning. But what happens when this anxiety becomes destructive action, when fear produces what sociologists call “agnotology,” or the deliberate production of ignorance?
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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describe your cat's personality with one photo
Orange cat with white chest peering out from exposed ceiling.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Joining chorus on this one. This insight/ analysis in particular. Would print and post on newsroom wall.
Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It’s so offhand you can think you’re gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it. Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Kid has outgrown this pen but I am mysteriously growing into it
Brown pen with toilet seat at the top. Inside a No. 2 emoji
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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FYI
Push notification from Apple News that reads “Rushing to secure a lover before the holidays may be toxic” Read now in Cosmopolitan
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Cloud is trying to do something different, cloud-wise, and I respect it. A real not-your-granddaddy’s-cloud kind of statement
Anvil shaped cloud in gray sky with houses in foreground
November 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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No one has ever looked more disappointed
A Toronto Blue Jays fan sits in a bar after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated Toronto during Game 7 of the World Series, in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday, November 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press)
November 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Made me look twice, barista
Upside down smiling face or nod to my jugs? Ah, it’s a smiley face. As you were
November 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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*downloads entire album*
Underneath all the gory details, it seems to tacitly suggest that open arrangements are easily abused, usually by men, and that believing you’re above outmoded concepts of fidelity – “a modern wife”, as Allen puts it at one point – is no guarantee you won’t get your heart broken.
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Nothing makes me miss home more than seeing my parents cat drool over birds from her paradisal perch
Rubenesque calico stares at birds through kitchen window that is surrounded by plants and flowers
October 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Ethan Hawke is regularly interesting in interviews. Enjoyed this. This moment made me laugh
You played Chet Baker in Born to Be Blue about ten years ago. [Hawke mimics playing the trumpet]
October 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Such extreme peacetime military spending was never contemplated, even by the most hawkish Canadian defence analysts, until U.S. President Donald Trump started throwing around the five per cent figure. Yet even the excessively-armed United States only spends 3.5 per cent of its GDP on defence.
October 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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See also
Painting held by Catherine Scorsese in film goodfellas. Painted by Nicholas pileggi’s mother.
October 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Wanna feel old? This is Beck
Halloween costume for Grandpa wig: photograph of youngish looking man wearing clear glasses and light stubble.
October 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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“Take trustees out of the picture and what’s left isn’t a school system. It’s a machine with no one left to answer to the people it serves.”
October 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM