It’s time for your weekly dose of the Bubble Pop podcast!
Today on the show, we’ve got the man behind those election maps you’re seeing everywhere. The ones politicians see in their nightmares.
That’s right, Philippe J. Fournier, the creator of @338canada.bsky.social, is on the show.
Today on the show, we’ve got the man behind those election maps you’re seeing everywhere. The ones politicians see in their nightmares.
That’s right, Philippe J. Fournier, the creator of @338canada.bsky.social, is on the show.
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Thanks
Many MPs took his 🤡 course
https://archive.org/details/armageddonfactor0000mcdo_c4x7/page/104/mode/2up?q=%22The+Nitty+Gritty+of+Interpreting+Polling+Data%3F%22&view=theater
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social can your next guest be Marci McDonald out of retirement? She was bullied and threatened after exposing Harper's Conservatives
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were by order of the🏛️city
closed to tourists one year ago.
After leaving the maiden☝🏻card
in this🙇🏻♂️café last night,
I was invited this morning
to sit *inside from the door*
with✌🏻familiar🇯🇵clientele =)
8 APRIL 2025🇯🇵KYŌTO
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
“The date is 8 April here 🇯🇵.”
“Don’t think I don’t know it.”
“🇨🇦🇺🇸 is a long way from 🇯🇵.”
“Unfathomably:
the physical distance is
really the least of it.”
“Tomorrow, 8 April there🇨🇦🇺🇸,
we go dark here🇯🇵 and get to it.”
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
The 30🇨🇦something’s🇺🇸guest
was only in her mid🇺🇸twenties.
Her MID twenties.
Even a few years of age
make an *enormous* difference
at📚school…
“Remember me?”
—Eminem | And | Friends
v v
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CyuJdoePF0Y&pp=ygUScmVtZW1iZXIgbWUgZW1pbmVt
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
was shown🇯🇵today
seeking🇺🇸power
dressed just like🇨🇦her.
“THERE ARE SOME OLD RULES
of politics that may be harder
to break. Abughazaleh is
a recent Chicago transplant
WHO DOESN’T TECHNICALLY
LIVE IN THE DISTRICT.”
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
of the very ground
beneath one’s feet
as unstable,
liable any minute to give way
to paroxysms
which heave buildings down:
earthquakes are terrifying.
How are you able to function,
knowing that, at any moment…”
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
as a certain
Future American President
put it over a decade ago
and as Canadians today
would also say,
*A BIG FUCKING DEAL*
to appear on the Miyako Odori
posters in Kyōto’s Gion.
“Do you know where you are?”
—The🎥Prestige
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
For whatever reason, Miranda,
the🇨🇦presenter SAYS fifteen,
out loud and into camera;
but, in the caption & social post,
the presenter | WRITES sixteen.
V
https://youtube.com/watch?v=opSyN0-0mBs&pp=ygUXc2l4dGVlbiBjYW5kbGVzIG9wZW5pbmc%3D
Today is 8 April 2025 in Kyōto.
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
sind zwei Kanadier,
beide tragen
🇩🇪SCHWARZ🇦🇹.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qjmQS8THj_8&pp=ygUUcGxhbiBhIGRhbmR5IHdhcmhvbHM%3D
7.🇨🇦🇺🇸APRIL🇨🇦🇺🇸2025
8.🇯🇵APRIL🇯🇵2025
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
is texting🇯🇵Kyōto
from North🇨🇦🇺🇸America
under a square seal
with a white dividing line
which is *only* for use
in North🇺🇸🇨🇦America.
Soon “Sheesh” will be carved
a Nihongo🇯🇵seal in🇯🇵Nihon
by🇯🇵Nihonjin,
for use outside 🇨🇦🇺🇸,
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦…
THE🇨🇳🇯🇵KANJI
of the two
Vancouver🇨🇦carved🎌🇭🇰seals
on the 2022🇺🇸postcard below
will see
the Mostly🇺🇸American
Toronto Blue🇨🇦Jays’
Opening Day Singers T-Shirts,
promoted by the Former🇨🇦PM,
in the same light they🇨🇦🎌🇺🇸do,
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦.
have been on metaphorical ER
table in cardiac arrest for ages:
“Our administration has done
some shocking,
destructive things, but the one
that grieves me most is
taking over the Kennedy Center.”
—John🇺🇸Lithgow
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
permission from ALL the faces
courtesy-clad in cartoon below,
it is *highly* doubtful
that The Guardian asked
all those of turned backs
whether THEY consented
to appear associated
with those whose faces appear.
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
As the crystalline clear
Model Government transparency
of this account will demonstrate,
THE LITERARY OKIYA DAPHNE
does not observe Gion Protocol
for -at all- the students’ reasons,
but because it is simply
BEAUTIFYING👘🍵👘FORM,
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
the first near-finished card,
left at the favourite café table
of The Okiya Daphne
along with the bill and coin tip
to begin the publication process.
Not Pictured:
anything around the paper,
least of all its presenter…
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
“All of us,
all of us sing about it.
All of us sing about it.
THERE MUST BE
SOME KIND OF PLAN A
for all the people
who can manage —
all of us who can handle it
WITH ALL OF THIS DAMAGE…”
BIRTHDAY #41🇯🇵KYŌTO
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
There must be
some kind of message;
simple plot,
somehow impressive.
Anyone who can
think of something:
come on now, just express it.”
—Dandy | Warhols
v
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qjmQS8THj_8&pp=ygUURGFuZHkgd2FyaG9scyBwbGFuIGE%3D
BIRTHDAY #41🇯🇵KYŌTO
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
This article about
Kate🇺🇸Folk’s Sky Daddy
was published
less than an hour ago.
Represented in the image
drawn by an artist
whose signature
in The Guardian
Is a woman with a black mouth,
is…
7 APRIL 2025🇯🇵KYŌTO
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
at left is an object of mana,
made with the best intention
as recorded here
in recent happy days;
at right is very sad news,
about an event which took place
*before*,
wearing the present’s
colour and general form…
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
just fell *9%*.
“Just because I haven’t got any,
does NOT mean money doesn’t
hold the world together.
Wake me up when the lit📚volk
include real knowledge of
the economy in their politics.”
—'Hottie'
7 APRIL 2025🇯🇵TŌKYŌ
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
whose letter I am delivering
and who turns 42 tomorrow,
looks at the faces of pages
and thinks,
“Unlike noses, eyes, hair,
cheeks and skins,
these surfaces are deliberate,
AND ELECTED.”
7 APRIL 2025🇯🇵TŌKYŌ
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
Not to celebrate it
according to the calendar here
IN🇯🇵NIHON
implies I think the whole world
should be centred around
Greenwich Mean —
I mean Fujiwara-Kyō,
oops, Kashihara,
I mean Oakland, Auckland
— Time.
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
have for 40 years been exposed
to words which declare explicitly
that the sex, the skin,
and the place of birth and rearing
of the body I could not choose
and cannot change
are bad, ugly, immoral.
6 APRIL 2025🇯🇵TŌKYŌ
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
relies entirely upon the fame
of the person whose face
did not give its permission
to be put there:
remove it, and the image is
unremarkable.
Without such referents,
the words must do all the work…
6 APRIL 2025🇯🇵TŌKYŌ
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
a character in a story
whose teller is very well aware
that a story in one person’s mind,
and the idiosyncratic language
meaningful to that one person,
EXTENDS NO FURTHER
THAN THE INDIVIDUAL MIND
IN WHICH IT HAS ORIGINATED.
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
reads from today’s news
to introduce today’s lesson:
“Australian ANNA RYAN-Punch
was 15 when she received
her first friendship book –
a handmade and decorated
pocket-sized booklet.”
In her class is a Fujiwara-Kyo,
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦…
is studying English.
Today is transcription practice.
“These clouds form
Anna Ryan’s Friends,”
the teacher says.
“These crowds form
an alliance, friends,”
Lauren Fujiwara Kyo
is writing in her workbook…
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
I, LARS SCHWARZ,
wear my own little piece
of green gold on my right hand.
It was given to me
by a beloved🇦🇺Australian
in🇨🇦Vancouver
after I showed her Honolulu,
city of `Iolani School’s
Saint Alban’s Chapel.
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
v
https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/06/friendship-books-fbs-international-community
“AUSTRALIAN ANNA Ryan-Punch
was 15 when she received
her first friendship book –
a handmade and decorated
pocket-sized booklet
full of names and addresses
of people looking for pen pals.”
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
Premier of New South Wales
will read into the name of
this Kyōto🇯🇵hotel
The🇦🇺Honourable
Chris🙇🏻♂️Minns MP;
I think of Iwasaki🙇🏻♂️Mineko.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=I0SVd_Q5wIg&pp=ygUOYWxvbmUgaW4ga3lvdG_SBwkJfgkBhyohjO8%3D
The🇯🇵🇦🇺pair are equidistant.
Warm weather is forecast for
next week, https://parismarx.com🇨🇦
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦…
“When she tried to cross
into Canada,
CANADIAN BORDER OFFICIALS
told her that
her living arrangements
meant she should be travelling
on a work visa, not a tourist one.
*THEY* SENT HER BACK
TO THE US, where…”
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
“‘For many people,
the phone is a window
into the soul.
It's got YOUR letters
to YOUR spouse,
it's got YOUR calendar showing
all the people YOU’VE met with.
And so for many people,
THEY might…’
said ADAM🇺🇸SCHWARTZ.”
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
first appeared years ago,
back in 2021.
Its title has since then
become…problematic.
Those who know what it means
will see how this is so
when they read the next post
of this THANK YOU section.
As for the golden goose…
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
WHICH ONE🇬🇧KA`IMIPONO
DOES NOT KNOW,
94 percent of the people are
FOREIGN, called HAOLE —
the same percentage as were
WHITE IN CANADA IN 1981
— but only one group is told to
GO BACK TO WHERE
YOU CAME FROM, HAOLE!
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
like this one is
an up-change to handle and title,
to render prior-shared links
the dead ends of a haircut:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=drCopBcrxRM&pp=ygUKbmFnYXJlZGFtYQ%3D%3D
THAN KYO
sounds like
THANK YOU
to those who don’t know Lauren,
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
colour our cards by hand,
so that each is unique.
Stickied on the first to be left with
restaurant bills in Tōkyō & Kyōto
are drawings of
MIRANDA SCHWARZ
and
HER BIGGEST FAN:
✨ https://youtube.com/watch?v=pqobRu9aR3M&pp=ygUReWFtYXNoaXRhIHNwYXJrbGU%3D✨
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
means we here at
THE LITERARY OKIYA DAPHNE
may do with it as we like.
From now on,
it will only appear
in unlisted private spaces.
This one was intended
to introduce The🙇🏻♂️Reader
to our way of doing things.
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
as gifts to those for whom
a work has been made,
to thank🙇🏻♂️them
for being its raison🇫🇷d’être,
that work’s digital address
and titular symbol are inked
in sender’s corner on envelopes
for postal🏣carriers to💌read =)
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
on local TV,
Canadians will not see
the spectacle from the wharf
in Petty🇨🇦Harbour…
…I wish they could see
the ignorance and incivility
of the🇨🇦people who work
for the political🇨🇦parties.”
—From Greg🇨🇦Locke’s 🐡
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
the flip side of the draft🍓card
made for each work to burn off
any socio-psychic impurities
which only
attention to the imperfect
can reveal are there.
In🇯🇵Nihon,
those without a name card
are felt not to exist,
because…
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
the moment, shown below, when
the person in the position
which had been called that of
THE LEADER OF
THE FREE WORLD
said
“You don’t have the cards
right now.
With us,
you start having cards.”
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
are of the genetic material
of the people of the government
which was once called
THE EMPIRE ON WHICH
THE SUN NEVER SETS
will savour the Japanese word
“NIKKEI” —
which translates literally as
“LINEAGE OF THE SUN”.
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
so intensely that their feelings
become *viscerally* radiant
may be “smart politics”…
.
…but the cultural damages
are as incalculable as invisible,
and no national🇨🇦institution can
reverse them, Prime🇨🇦Ministers.
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
—The Right Honourable
Justin Trudeau Sinclair’s
campaign victory slogan
The PURE LAINE will NOT SEE
what the Canadian attitude
does to a special few of their
fellow Canadians.
It is represented below for
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦.
—The Fictional Communications
Director for The Fictional New
Prime Minister of The Fictional
United Kingom in the 2010 film
titled ‘The Special Relationship’,
about The Fictional Americans
they’re on a plane to pay a visit
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
Texts📱exchanged
across the world between
MIRANDA SCHWARZ
AND
HER BIGGEST FAN,
observing what we call
THE GION PROTOCOL.
Those who can read🇯🇵Nihongo
will understand one dimension;
foreigners are presented another,
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
—Mini👘Mouse
THE LITERARY OKIYA DAPHNE
is just such an organisation.
Its lead performer
finds it ironic that
no sooner is the name
of its founding patron
mentioned here,
than @parismarx.com🇨🇦
expresses🇨🇦desire for it,
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦…
MINEKO’S BESTIE will smile
on her way to Tōkyō.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L_X3REFg5bY&pp=ygUgbGVhdmUgb3IgYmUgeW91cnMgaGVsaW8gc2VxdWVuY2XSBwkJfgkBhyohjO8%3D
「 The vibe,
the whole vibe,
and nothing but the vibe,
so help us gods upon Olympus. 」
—For Miranda Schwarz
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
5 APRIL 2025🎌SHINJUKU
in the Hawaiian islands,
specifically on O`ahu,
THE EXTINCTION CAPITAL
OF THE WORLD,
the combination of
Hawaiian and Japanese bodies
which spoke neither language
created during that time a society
in which…”
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
LARS SCHWARZ,
The Narrator,
that…
well, I may as well just say it:
[redacted] [redacted] [redacted]
[redacted] [redacted] [redacted]
[redacted] [redacted] [redacted]
[redacted] [redacted] [redacted].
@338canada.bsky.social🇨🇦
@parismarx.com🇨🇦
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