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Pianist, uOttawa prof. Québécois who studied in the USA. Music, literature, tennis, tech, politics.
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Wild how almost every pre-2000 plot (fiction of any kind) totally collapses if you just factor in text messaging

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Pencils ✏️ with rock-hard erasers that don’t do any erasing but smear indelibly: why do we tolerate this?

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Hi! Don’t do this

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Saw a book review headlined “confusing, slow and boring” and immediately bought the book

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Thought I would grow old in Star Trek but it’ll be the Hunger Games instead

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Me in 1999: “That South Park movie was wacky, imagining an American imperialism so deranged that they decide to invade Canada in a crusade of censorship. 😂” Me in 2025: 😐

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Let’s play “who’s going to be the first prominent classical musician to add a swastika to their bio to get a gig at the Kennedy Center?

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments

If the US comes at us again with tariff threats, I say we just take away Balatro www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

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Cancelled Amazon Prime 🇨🇦

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En récital au Centre Canadien d’Architecture

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Watching TV advertisers trying to make *syringes* sexy since the advent of Ozempic has really been head-spinning

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Ladies and gentlemen, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada, whose (oh-so-white) supporters befouled the streets of Ottawa for 3 weeks in 2022

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Not looking forward to the Ontario university bankruptcies in the pipeline

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When Led Zeppelin was still an active band in the mid-1970s, the group's manager, Peter Grant, spotted Dylan at a star-studded event. "'Hello, Bob. I'm Peter Grant, I manage Led Zeppelin.'" Dylan's retort: "'I don't come to you with my problems.'"

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I was trying to figure out what’s missing from this app and clearly it was photos of Mittens

submitted 168 days ago • 1 comment

Peut-être une bonne idée pour certaines communautés de l’Outaouais?

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The goal of this whole charade: to plunder the North for fossil fuels while further immiserating Indigenous peoples

submitted 169 days ago • 1 comment

Lord give me strength, some people on my flight are having a good time Can’t we all be quietly miserable until this is over please and thank you

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cc: all academics

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-me: are these jeans gonna shrink? -salesperson: don’t wash your jeans -me: I don’t think we can be friends

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PSA for fellow profs: all those reference letters gathering dust in your inbox are due tomorrow

submitted 189 days ago • 1 comment

Any Canadian journos/news content on here? Hello? En français aussi? 🇨🇦

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