James Gemmill
@jamesgemmill.bsky.social
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Once a lot, now not so much: Vanpoli/BCpoli/Cdnpoli
Views are my own.
Once a lot, now not so much: Vanpoli/BCpoli/Cdnpoli
Views are my own.
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Tis the season.
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Tis the season.
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1. Your magical powers can light up a room.
2. Everyone laughs at you and calls you names.
3. A red biological emission is the source of deep shame and trauma.
2. Everyone laughs at you and calls you names.
3. A red biological emission is the source of deep shame and trauma.
Rankin and Bass’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or Stephen King’s Carrie?
1. Your magical powers can light up a room. 2. Everyone laughs at you and calls you names. 3. A red biological emission is the source of deep shame...
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December 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
1. Your magical powers can light up a room.
2. Everyone laughs at you and calls you names.
3. A red biological emission is the source of deep shame and trauma.
2. Everyone laughs at you and calls you names.
3. A red biological emission is the source of deep shame and trauma.
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Amazing! It’s the first natural sighting of Elon Musk using irony appropriately!
<Pinter pause>
Uh, I’m just being told that my interpretation may be incorrect.
<Pinter pause>
Uh, I’m just being told that my interpretation may be incorrect.
December 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Amazing! It’s the first natural sighting of Elon Musk using irony appropriately!
<Pinter pause>
Uh, I’m just being told that my interpretation may be incorrect.
<Pinter pause>
Uh, I’m just being told that my interpretation may be incorrect.
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Which way western man?
December 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Which way western man?
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The reveal of the interior is a bit of a jump scare
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - 3 beds/3.5 baths
(SW Michigan MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 5000 sq. ft. ∙ 414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ∙ $7,000,000 ∙ MLS# 25062388 ∙ This Downtown Ann Arbor penthouse stands among the finest residence...
www.redfin.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The reveal of the interior is a bit of a jump scare
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One of the ways you can tell America is stronger than ever is that it’s almost Christmas and all anyone is talking about is a heavily redacted set of documents about sex monsters
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
One of the ways you can tell America is stronger than ever is that it’s almost Christmas and all anyone is talking about is a heavily redacted set of documents about sex monsters
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I know a lot happened today, but just a reminder—
This morning Trump's Bitcoin holding company with a social-media side hustle announced plans to merge with a nuclear-fusion firm, causing the president's stock to go up by $500 million
This morning Trump's Bitcoin holding company with a social-media side hustle announced plans to merge with a nuclear-fusion firm, causing the president's stock to go up by $500 million
The merged entity will start building the “world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant” next year, the companies claimed.
Trump Media Will Merge With Nuclear Fusion Company TAE In $6 Billion Deal
The merged entity will start building the “world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant” next year, the companies claimed.
www.forbes.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I know a lot happened today, but just a reminder—
This morning Trump's Bitcoin holding company with a social-media side hustle announced plans to merge with a nuclear-fusion firm, causing the president's stock to go up by $500 million
This morning Trump's Bitcoin holding company with a social-media side hustle announced plans to merge with a nuclear-fusion firm, causing the president's stock to go up by $500 million
Hmmm...Ghostery seems to be blocking opening links from Bluesky on desktop.
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Hmmm...Ghostery seems to be blocking opening links from Bluesky on desktop.
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Ah. Well. Nevertheless
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
OneBC no longer recognized as official party, MLA says | CBC News
A B.C. MLA says the Speaker’s Office has confirmed that OneBC will no longer be recognized as an official party in the legislature.
www.cbc.ca
December 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Ah. Well. Nevertheless
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
Things are going great!
I think most people are missing the point of this: Trump is pre-emptively justifying unilateral military action against basically everyone in the Americas. This will be the pretext for bombing Venezuela or Mexico, and ultimately annexing Canada. www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...
Trump designates street fentanyl as a WMD, escalating militarization of the drug war
Trump already declared the drug cartels terrorist organizations and ordered military strikes against suspected drug boats. Now he's declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. Experts are skeptic...
www.npr.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Things are going great!
It's no big insight that D. Todd's anti-housing op-eds are actually in the service of his goal of having fewer brown people immigrating into Canada but, every once in a while, he just drops the pretense...
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It's no big insight that D. Todd's anti-housing op-eds are actually in the service of his goal of having fewer brown people immigrating into Canada but, every once in a while, he just drops the pretense...
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I don't know who made this, but I love you
December 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I don't know who made this, but I love you
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Giving off Pluribus vibes, reinforced that Emily Blunt here resembles Karolina Wydra. Unfortunately there appears to be some of that cloying Spielbergian sentimentality on display. youtu.be/LVh0KnnGW_s?...
DISCLOSURE DAY | Official Teaser Trailer | Amblin
YouTube video by Amblin Entertainment
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Giving off Pluribus vibes, reinforced that Emily Blunt here resembles Karolina Wydra. Unfortunately there appears to be some of that cloying Spielbergian sentimentality on display. youtu.be/LVh0KnnGW_s?...
Oopsie
December 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Oopsie
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New Canadian trade deal with India only allows for 1 assassination per year
New Canadian trade deal with India only allows for 1 assassination per year
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have reportedly outlined a first draft of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, which includes a sub-clause limi...
www.thebeaverton.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
New Canadian trade deal with India only allows for 1 assassination per year
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Othman Mekhloufi was the first user, to my knowledge, to share the link to the site CharliesMurderers on Twitter.
That ended up being the main doxxing site for those accused of "celebrating" Charlie Kirk's death.
I was first on the site, which made me think it was made by a far-right Canadian...
That ended up being the main doxxing site for those accused of "celebrating" Charlie Kirk's death.
I was first on the site, which made me think it was made by a far-right Canadian...
The social media history of this 22 year old staffer is being blamed for the rift tearing B.C.’s far-right OneBC party asunder #bcpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Who Is Othman Mekhloufi, the Far-Right Poster Behind OneBC’s Strife? | The Tyee
A 22-year-old OneBC staffer who claimed to work for Trump and posted antisemitic comments is being blamed for the implosion.
thetyee.ca
December 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Othman Mekhloufi was the first user, to my knowledge, to share the link to the site CharliesMurderers on Twitter.
That ended up being the main doxxing site for those accused of "celebrating" Charlie Kirk's death.
I was first on the site, which made me think it was made by a far-right Canadian...
That ended up being the main doxxing site for those accused of "celebrating" Charlie Kirk's death.
I was first on the site, which made me think it was made by a far-right Canadian...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Gotta say, I think Marcus makes an interesting point.
December 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Gotta say, I think Marcus makes an interesting point.
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Interesting point — for all their noise about civilizational this-and-that and Western whatever, the current U.S. regime is mainly and overwhelmingly engaged in a mass expulsion of Roman Catholics
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: In Trump's regime, Catholics are among the most powerful — and deported
Her brown face, green mantle and forgiving gaze is a mainstay of Southern California: In front yards.
www.latimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Interesting point — for all their noise about civilizational this-and-that and Western whatever, the current U.S. regime is mainly and overwhelmingly engaged in a mass expulsion of Roman Catholics
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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