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bmaranta.bsky.social
Retired Army Signal Officer. Geek. Nerd. Proudly Canadian. Happy husband and father to 4 great kids.
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Trudeau invites Zelensky to friendly pick-your-brain coffee chat about being invaded by warmongering neighbour

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

Dear Ontario followers: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VOTE OH MY GOD PLEASE. The election is this Thursday! February 27th! We had a HORRIFIC voter turnout last election and the current administration is trying to take advantage of low voter turnout with this snap election! Screw that! VOTE!!! ✨

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

He nails it.

submitted 11 days ago • 1551 comments

“A reminder to believe nothing you see or hear on CBC.” Because if you did, they’d keep the power to hold Pierre to account for the things he says and does! And god forbid anyone does that!! Chickenshit, autocratic rhetoric from a guy who keeps boosting bootlicker media

submitted 11 days ago • 79 comments

bad headline, good article. the safety systems that got 80 people out alive weren't invented on a lark—they're the result of decades of engineering & research www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 23 days ago • 181 comments

@stapes.bsky.social I’m typing up an info sheet for my poker league, on how to play H.O.R.S.E… I lost count of how many times I wrote “hold cards…”

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

What if I get a little more aggressive? Would everyone share this one too?

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Don't let Elon Musk interfere in our elections. Here is my letter to Elections Canada to protect our electoral process from interference by the X algorithm. www.charlieangus.ca/_files/ugd/5... If you are worried about Musk's extremism please send an email to: [email protected]

submitted 41 days ago • 261 comments

“I can’t believe anyone would vote for Trump,” says smug Canadian man planning to vote for Poilievre

submitted 43 days ago • 10 comments

As bsky grows in popularity and while tensions are high—PLEASE be kind to each other. Please ask questions if something isn’t clear or doesn’t sound right, etc rather than jumping straight to judgment. Please assume the people who share your values are acting in good faith and doing their best.

submitted 118 days ago • 8 comments

Poilievre looking forward to blaming Trudeau for economic effects of Trump’s tariffs

submitted 55 days ago • 16 comments

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

submitted 63 days ago • 175 comments

"The hot new look for squishy middle-aged men is something we like to call 'Jedi shabby'."

submitted 84 days ago • 146 comments

So, on the *other* app, when it started, my feed was at the last {chirp} I read, and new {chirps} loaded above it. I would scroll up and catch up to “now.” With Bluesky, after a refresh, I’m at “now” and have to scroll back to where I was… have I got a setting wrong?

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Poilievre denies he’d be a Canadian Trump: “I’ll be more like a Canadian JD Vance”

submitted 105 days ago • 73 comments

Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.

submitted 106 days ago • 72 comments

Fuck yeah Bluesky

submitted 110 days ago • 17 comments

Years ago someone told a friend I'd never sell a novel; they said that two days before I got my first novel contract. Just today I saw someone saying that I'm not that good of a writer, which, okay, but I'm contracted for 16 more books, so I guess I'll keep at it. So, yeah: Fuck 'em. Do your thing.

submitted 110 days ago • 93 comments

Just be prepared. We've all seen that headline going around today that Bluesky is the current #1 app, and X dropped out of the top 25. That means the absolute worst people in the world are going to be coming here trying to turn THIS place into just as much of a shithole. Block them. Don't engage.

submitted 112 days ago • 149 comments

Hello, Bluesky!

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments