Andrew Staples
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Andrew Staples
@AcStaples
Photographer. Writer. Longtime Ottawa resident, working for the company in a company town - dans les deux langues officielles. Emotional about Leafs + Blue Jays
Ottawa Beigetreten Eylül 2011
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A good antidote, and I mean this completely seriously, to the contemporary mood is to be friends with some real estate developers, who, I’ve noticed, seem to be imbued with a certain pathological optimism.
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@gnilwoce @smahal1 @realelvinjones @thecataura @PipQuillwright @Rhynedahll @MaggieKirton57 @writesofgur @PopBase @jenbenzinger @icculus26 @DoriJeanDill @PopCrave @bymilliebramley @oria_fm @BrianPulis @CourtSunnyYay Many thanks. And Good morning from above the Arctic Circle!
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#ff A few Tweeters I recently followed.........
@smahal1 @AcStaples @realelvinjones @thecataura @PipQuillwright @Rhynedahll @MaggieKirton57 @writesofgur @PopBase @jenbenzinger @icculus26 @DoriJeanDill @PopCrave @bymilliebramley @oria_fm @BrianPulis @CourtSunnyYay
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To my well-meaning liberal friends, can you seriously tell me with a straight face that a political-economic system that produces the conditions where the entire planet is held hostage by this raving lunatic is one worth saving?
traurigsten Muthes@mcmansionhell
chat is this good
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@AcStaples I get to do this stuff now, and wouldn't ifni hadn't had that haooened. it was a good thing
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I got the call I was part of a 320 odd nationwide management layoff at my company while on my way to the hospital for surgery on a Monday morning of all things. Nothing to do with me or my performance, just a number on a spreadsheet somewhere post $Bs merger
Anytime is right.
Keeks 🦋@DietCoke_Esq
I’m going to hold your hands when I say this: you can uproot your life, work 100 hours a week, believe in the company’s mission, etc. but still be fired at any time for any reason, and likely not have a cause of action. I’ll still give you 20 mins to vent though!!
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I AM TRYING TO DRAG MY STUDENTS OUT OF THE CAVE AND IT IS HARD ENOUGH AS IT IS
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This Plato will be a copy…a shadow, if you will, of the original Plato. Eventually, you will treat him as the real Plato, because he is the only reality you have ever known. And you will be very satisfied with this copy of Plato, and even find satisfaction in a world of copies
The American Conservative@amconmag
"Imagine a humanoid named Plato." Melania Trump says humanoid educators will offer "instantaneous" access to the classical studies for students and help create a "more complete person."
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Youngest kid just asked if there were words that exist in one language but not another. My time has come.
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My dad was a third shift janitor in the 1960s while my mom stayed home and raised us and we had this vacation home where we spent our weekends
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THE STRAITS WILL BE OPEN IF ONLY MIKE PENCE HAS THE COURAGE!!!
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
RUBIO: HORMUZ COULD BE OPENED TOMORROW IF IRAN ALLOWED IT
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Saskatchewan Speaker Todd Goudy rules the phrase “eager beaver” as a description for the finance minister was not parliamentary language.
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[three confused tourists at Harper’s Ferry, reading a plaque, just now]
1: John Brown, he was a bad guy?
2: No!
3: Good guy.
[pause]
3, thoughtfully: He was a member of the Black Panther Party.
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@GrayConnolly My people came from County Mayo in Ireland. Don't get me started about the English...
GIF
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As a descendant of the Celto-Britons of Dalriada, we demand reparations from both the Danes and also the Anglo-Saxons …
Tom Harwood@tomhfh
I, as an Anglo Saxon, demand reparations from the Danes.
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Who else is excited for the baseball season starting again?
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There are days when I wonder if Canada is actually salvagable. Air Canada's gormless CEO has expertly engineered one of those days.
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Andrew Staples retweetet
“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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@ArtCandee @SueSuezep @atrupar Since 1916. I checked.
Easter Rising - Wikipedia share.google/94OWrpp0Maro1h…
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@atrupar The Republic of Ireland is not a part of the UK.
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Trump: "They shot the now-famous Ireland--- the island that the UK was very afraid to give us."
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@colbycosh @cbcwatcher It is the last gasp of Parliamentary Supremacy, yearning to breathe free.
Other places with Charters of Rights have succumbed to the need for (effectively) judicial supremacy.
Only in Canada, you say.
Dreadful pity.
GIF
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Classic move. If something that you've decided is good is unique to Canada, it's a sign of our innovative character & national genius. Liberal scholars in Coyne's camp often say exactly this, for example, of the Oakes test. "It's Canadian!" Not "Other countries don't need this!"
Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩@acoyne
My latest: Lots of other countries have charters of rights. None has anything like the notwithstanding clause. Somehow, they are able to get by without it. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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