π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
I cannot pretend to understand it. But it gives me a gut feeling that I wonβt be ignoring.
π«Meta-Free π¨π¦CanadaForever πΊπ¦ Slava Ukraini β‘οΈOn temporary assignment in Ontario from NS Music, books and former political enthusiast. Nowadays, I just comment on the dumpster fire. π΅Used to make noise now I much prefer silenceπ΅
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view profile on Bluesky π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
I cannot pretend to understand it. But it gives me a gut feeling that I wonβt be ignoring.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
The drumbeat of fascism in Canada is getting louder and more difficult to ignore. What happened in the House of Commons today is a national disgrace. Fuckkkkkkkk this fucking timeline. This year. This cult mindset that doesnβt leave room for any dissent. Sick to my goddam stomach.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Theyβre starting to stack and I volunteered to work on his campaign. Put me in the wtf is going on section now.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
At this point I trust the pope more than that. And thatβs saying something because I swore off the church 30 years ago.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
What the flying fuck is going on?
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Some characteristics of critical thinkers: 1. Open-Mindedness 2. Curiosity 3. Analytical skills 4. Skepticism (Healthy Doubt) 5. Fair-mindedness The world is getting dumber. Daily.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Cult mind at work. Itβs fucking frightening.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
There is no βwinning us backβ. At least those of us who are paying attention to the horror show happening south of the border.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Are we sure this isnβt hell? lol
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes! With weird AI versions of the PM and different celebrities. Itβs the oddest thing I canβt believe itβs allowed
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
You tube ads are an absolute dumpster fire these days.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Very good point. I never saw a lot of communication happening there and a lot of what was there was censored.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
T.O.D Sept 15, 2025 @ 1228 EST.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
At this point I think we can safely say That the world has lost the plot.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Iβve just noticed some people in my life spouting off about the most random shit and eventually it always come down to some rage bait they saw online. It happens a lot more now and Iβm not sure if because Iβm not seeing the videos or if itβs gotten worse.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Anyone notice after quitting IG/TikTok how deeply people are affected by what they see there? Even some of the more balanced people in my life, all conversations revert back to this post or that video. The algorithms have grown more hateful this year and itβs showing in day to day interactions.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Youβre better for it. Iβm watching Bluesky too and honestly could just be done with it all at this point. The more apps Iβve deleted the better life has been π€·π»ββοΈ
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Srsly. Not having IG, TikTok or FB does wonders for a girl. Itβs like saging your phone.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Everything Iβve learned about this man this week has been against my will.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Itβs frustrating. I mean actual elected officials were assasinated in their homes in the United States this year and it didnβt get this much play. CBC has lost the plot in so many ways.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Rewatching Wicked and still astounded by its cultural relevancy in our times. If you brushed it off as a boring musical, please consider watching. ββIt begins with whispers. But if we donβt resist, it will end in silence.β Itβs time to light up our own skiesβ¦..
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean the actual crazy thing isβ¦itβs not that far-fetched.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
You reap what you sow.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
The hypocrisy is gonna do us all in
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Looks like sheβs drowning in that suit. A girl can hope.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Males who voted for Trump rank having emotional stability second last in their list of having personal success. No shit.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope people realize that just because there isnβt recalls doesnβt mean the food supply is safe. The parts of government responsible for issuing recalls is in shambles. On purpose. The food industry lobby has won. I also worry about pet food. Use caution when choosing American food for pets.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks Dunk!! π¨π¦
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
The only bright spot at last nightβs #vmas was Sabrina Carpenterβs performance. Using your platform when it matters earns my respect in 2025. Iβve been disappointed by a lot of powerful people in music being silent or worse this year. This was a big stage and she hit the mark for me.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Could someone tell the music industry that we arenβt buying this Christian-esque pop rock shit they are peddling through people like Alex Warren?
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π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Amen.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Pissed me off too. Fascism doesnβt give you a day off LL
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
How much are they paying these people in the audience to act so enthused? #vmas
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
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π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
It sure feels like itβs not MTV anymore. Bland and boring AF. CBS killed this too I guess.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
And the music industry will NOT stop shoving it down our throats. I donβt know who is streaming that.
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#VMAs
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
I donβt want to hear her and Britneyβs name in the same sentence ever again.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
100.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
CBS made the American Music Awards so fucking weird this year, I wonder if they will do the same with the VMAβs.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Complicity. State media. How are Americans trusting anything the networks say if this is the level of agreement they have with the regime? Corrupt, complicit, collusion.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Complicity. State media. How are Americans trusting anything the networks say if this is the level of agreement they have with the regime? Corrupt, complicit, collusion.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
The changes in America also mean changes to the food supply and the overseeing agencies that ensure safety of the entire chain. Choose wisely Canada.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Deplorables.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes!!!!! We just got our 12 year old their first phone this week but there will be no social media on that device for many many years to come.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean if thatβs not an open invitationβ¦
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
100 percent. Correlation is undeniable.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Get off Facebook. Get your parents off Facebook. Keep your kids off Instagram. Fucking demons.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Definitely. It was such a normal part of life, it doesnβt mean the parents didnβt mourn but there was just so much disease and death. Iβm not sure why a portion of our population is determined to destroy itself and the rest of us in the process.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, the tech overlords meeting with Palpatine.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
I live in an area where a path through a graveyard is the quickest way from A to B There are so many childrenβs graves from the early 1900βs. Ornate, beautiful memorials for beloved children lost to disease Every time I walk, Iβm thankful for vaccinations. I cannot imagine purposely spurning that.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly . And we havenβt seen much to quiet those fears.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Me as soon as September hits, belting at the top of my lungs: If I get too close And I'm not how you hoped Forgive my northern attitude Oh, I was raised out in the cold If the sun don't rise 'Til the summertime Forgive my northern attitude Oh, I was raised on little light
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
All I can think these days, as people shun vaccines for their kids, is that some have never walked through a 1900s graveyard and it shows.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Youβre not alone.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
I flip flop between thinking that our PM is a brilliant strategistβ¦β¦.or that his whole election was a play and weβve all been had. I donβt enjoy the queasiness it gives me to go back and forth in my own mind, sometimes on a daily basis.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Can we close the portal once they are gone!?
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
To the moon! lol you are right
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Iβm always happy to oblige as well!
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Never gets old.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Who wants to tell them?? Oh I see yaβll already did
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
The big announcement is that Space Command is movingβ¦..to Alabama?
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Iβm here for the Newsom trolling, I canβt help it! I think itβs my due to my petty nature. Itβs like mimicking every word someone says when youβre 5 years old. Annoying AF but oddly satisfying.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Pardon me but heβs the Mayor of what exactly?
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Been watching you on YouTube for years and heard you on your last video say that you were on Bluesky. That makes me even happier to be a fan, good choice Paul! Happy travels!
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
It tougher when you have family there. We moved from the east a few years back and enjoyed the novelty of going to the US. Never lived this close to the border before. Novelty definitely wore off, boycott is on.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Iβll be looking at that one for a sub! Used to cross the border 10-12 times a year but havenβt since Nov β24 and doesnβt look like anytime soon!
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Didnβt work out well for Heinz in Canada when they fucked over Leamington and it wonβt work out for these arseholes either.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Fuck Crown Royal and fuck Diageo. Buy Canadian and show these arseholes that they arenβt welcome in Canada anymore.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course he did.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Flash forward to me talking to my someday grandchildrenβ¦.. Well Suzy, while people made tik tok dances, filmed their back to school hauls and tittered about Taylorβs engagement, the Republic did indeed die.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
This is fine
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Itβs giving, Dear Leader.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
And yet a whole segment of their population, despite being on their phones 24 hours a day, will feign surprise when asked for their papers. They were so sure it would only happen to others.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Wouldnβt know it by looking at any of the major US publications. π¦
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
I used to think that people who railed against mainstream media were π₯ but I guess they were on to something.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
And thatβs putting it nicely.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
The sun rising over Cape Breton as I leave her, again. Some day I will be back for good.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
I took my preteen to Anne Frank House this year. She read the diary before we went and it moved a deep part of her soul, just like it did for me when I read it at her age. You do your children no favours trying to destroy evidence of the past.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
I took my preteen to Anne Frank House this year. She read the diary before we went and it moved a deep part of her soul, just like it did for me when I read it at her age. You do your children no favours trying to destroy evidence of the past.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Iβll never listen to another syllable that comes out of this manβs mouth. Mute, block, delete. Heβs irrelevant.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
lol I never said I donβt like Timβs π€£
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Truth!
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
WTF are Canadian values? My family goes back 235 years in Canada. I hate hockey/hockey culture, maple syrup, I donβt speak French and Iβm not overly apologetic. Iβve never seen a moose and I donβt like butter tarts. Get out of here with values nonsense, thatβs American bullshit.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
So many like him, who hold as much power/influence/privilege, have been painfully silent. Bravo to Jack/John Anthony for using his voice. Couldnβt be prouder to be a fan.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Truth.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Good trouble
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
So America is at the snitching on your neighbors part. Did we skip wearing a yellow star?
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
America, the land of Eisenhower, Roosevelt and Lincoln, has been reduced to this. A pathetic display of trashy baseball hats shown to the respected leaders of the free world as if they were something they would ever care about. Pitiful. Embarrassing. Gauche.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Next it will be Canada. βTomorrow Carney will tell us which of the Great Lakes he will give to Trumpβ. Fuck this fucking timeline, these men and all their enablers. If thereβs a hell, youβre all going to burn for eternity.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Canβt help but have it all at the back of oneβs mind. And feel somewhat powerless to change anything.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
Canadians should be very wary about Russia+America deciding the fate of Ukraine and the precedent that sets. If Russia gains territory through a drummed up treaty by these two antichrists, we are next. Our North, our oil, our Great Lakes, our minerals. They will lot stop at Ukraine #cdnpoli
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Facts. We watch the world bend over backwards for male dominated professions like fire, police and the military while female dominated professions are continually abused. Youβd think we would be used to it by now but it still hurts.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
Jfc we are all well and truly f-ed.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social)
QT this post with someone you wish was still alive
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
And most of them donβt know and/or acknowledge that the war has started.
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
I still remember reading Animal Farm in Grade 9 with an amazing teacher who could have been a university prof. I donβt think their curriculum is the sameβ¦
π¨π¦ Canadian Shield π¨π¦ (@cassandradrum.bsky.social) reply parent
In a way, I enjoy the anonymity. But it always astounds me how little they know about the rest of the world