Emerence

Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:37 UTC

A safe supply doctor effectively being threatened with jail; economists attacked. Under Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party's attacks on experts have accelerated: blunter, nastier, and more personal. Is this the future in Canadian governance? www.thestar.com/politics/peo...

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:41 UTC

Stop trying to invent the Borg, Charloh

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:27 UTC

Please god make them stop making movies about commercial products

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:38 UTC

Canada had a mandatory retirement age of 75 for our Supreme Court. Though we did just kick one off for getting drunk at a resort & sexually harassing some women, for which a guy kicked his ass.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:41 UTC

The Nazis went after them FIRST!

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:13 UTC

What’s happened now?

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:12 UTC

The problem is that regulations don’t make the news when they work.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 02:10 UTC

Jimmy Carter gave up his peanut farm to become president, to think he’s lived long enough to see the presidency come to this

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:52 UTC

And The First Omen is a prequel to The Omen.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:45 UTC

I know it’s Trump’s lawyers doing this but I doubt Trump himself understands this.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:52 UTC

Aerosmith told us that’s the only thing they’re ever good for

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:16 UTC

I said I was done but I have to add this one: Shapatish kautunishtikuanatak utut = Where John Baptist was bulging the canoe canvas with his head (Labrador). Not a typo.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:19 UTC

And finally my personal favourite: Kookooko’oosagasawining = An island where an Elder named Owl smoked her pipe (Manitoba). If you want a copy of this map I can tell you where to order it. Fin

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:16 UTC

Gugumijinawenaq = Place of our grandmothers (Gaspe Peninsula). Umiaminiqtalik = Wrecked boat left behind (Nunavut), near Immutaarrvik = Food cache with an old can of powdered milk. These places are called Erebus and Terror Bay today, which tells you where these names come from.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:03 UTC

Maoto’kiiksi omansstaamowaiksi otsitskiitapiau = All women-society’s lodgepoles were left behind. It’s near Aakii awa’ysskohto = Women’s point. (Southern Alberta) Early-tatanga woweyahgey wakan = Sacred buffalo guardian mountain (Alberta)

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:59 UTC

Deni deztsan = Where the people died (BC) There are places in BC whose names mean there is plenty of food, though.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:56 UTC

Gaayyas gawdagas = Fat one talking loudly. Vancouver Island, maybe the ocean is loud there? Intatuk Yu’s = Where advice gas astray mountain (BC). Wlubakvs = Where there are sasquatches (BC)

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:51 UTC

?enats’ilkwi = Fighting took place at this site (NWT) ?iditue David’s = The thunderbird place (NYT). I’m butchering the spelling because I can’t do the accents on the letters Techit = Land that caught fire underground (Yukon). Coal seam?

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:46 UTC

Aglirnaqtug = Where there are spirits (northern Manitoba) K’aleta tatl’a = K’ale’s father bay (NWT). Unlike settlers they almost never named places after themselves. Who was K’ale?

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:40 UTC

Ahogahogalik ahungahinahungalik = Place where the giant knelt down after crossing to the mainland up to his waist (Arctic islands)

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

Tammarvik = Where you make a mistake (Nunavut) Ikaaqturirrat = Here Inuit chased Tunit crossing from island to island (Nunavut)

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:33 UTC

Inukjuak = A long time ago, the land was heavily populated (Quebec on shore of Hudson Bay). I wonder how many of these names were actually just the answer given when a European asked the name, like Canada actually just meaning many huts

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:30 UTC

But some point to great stories and I’ll share some today. Manitu-urshu = Evil creature mountain (Labrador)

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

I have a map of Indigenous place names in what is now called Canada. Most are practical, as you’d expect, either a physical description (at the sandy depression, rapids with a lot of rocks) or what resources could be found there (where the outcropping contains some flint, abundance of fish). 1/

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

Is this the first out transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics?

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

Thanks, hoser

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

I know you jest but I’m genuinely curious how SCOTUS would react

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

Happy Steve Bannon is Reporting to Prison Day, Jen

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

I meant the chickens they kept at the border & routinely tested for bird flu. They scrapped the program but maybe they’ve brought it back? I should look it up

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

Remember when our border was protected by chickens? Or have they since brought the chicken patrol back? On Canada Day I salute the chickens

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 03:34 UTC

Are you saying Gilmore Girls was unrealistic? 😂😂😂

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:39 UTC

I’d put them on a 5 or 10 second delay & cut their miles when they start to lie. First lie, you’re warned & told to say the truth. Second lie, mic is cut & your opponent is given your time in addition to his/hers.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:43 UTC

He also called him “Brandon”. I just cannot fathom how it’s considered ok for him to act like that.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:42 UTC

Remember when some company made a novelty $1 million Canadian bank note & sold it as a gag gift, & the RCMP asked them to stop because people were actually trying to pass it off as real money?

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:34 UTC

Our only frame of reference is Dead Poets Society

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

When I read the books I was struck by what a TERRIBLE society the wizard world would be to live in. Portraying a society as complex (which it wasn’t but just saying) & flawed is great, but it was just rigid & narrow-minded & BORING. I’d rather be a Muggle.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:26 UTC

Trump kept going on throughout the debate about Biden letting “illegal immigrants” invade the country, turning every question into a rant about it. When the moderator asked the candidates what they’ve done to help the Black community Trump said illegal immigrants are “taking Black jobs”.

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Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

Ew

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