I follow an Englishman on Bluesky who lives in Messina, Sicily and who among many other virtues has a great sense of humour:
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Elaine Calder 🇨🇦💔🇺🇦
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Elaine Calder 🇨🇦💔🇺🇦
@caldervenice
Retired; former manager of orchestras, theatres and an opera company, in Canada and the US. First visited Venice in 1971.
Victoria, British Columbia Katılım Aralık 2020
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@walteredicola Capisco, grazie. Ma MOSE non si sta esaurendo?
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@caldervenice si ma sai quanti soldi fa risparmiare dai danni che causa la salsedine ai palazzi fondamente negozi ecc ecc ?
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In 2014 John Polanyi wrote that the US had spent more than $200B on a missile defence shield that "does not work and opposes armaments with still more armaments. Canadian national priorities lie elsewhere ..... If we don't remain true to our beliefs, why have a country?"
Stephen Marche@StephenMarche
For @nytimes I wrote about the globalization of Canadian rage. nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opi…
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Whereas in Italy, Salvini's deputy has just left the Lega party to form a new one, even further to the right.
Faisal Islam@faisalislam
Fascinating to see what is going on in Canada… Liberal PM Carney, surging in polls, pays tribute to his Conservative predecessor… who in turn calls for the main political parties to “come together… in perilous times… against external forces that threaten our independence”…
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So according to Ben Bergman of Business Insider, Trump spoke for over an hour, going off script quite a bit. The room was packed when he began, but people left throughout the speech. Of those who remained at the end, about a third sycophantically gave him a standing ovation.
Stephano🍁Barberis@HelloStephano
Only three people have received a standing ovation in the history of the WEF: 1. Nelson Mandela 2. Volodymyr Zelenskyy 3. Mark Carney
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If this is true, then tomorrow will be a test of global sycophancy.
Stephano🍁Barberis@HelloStephano
Only three people have received a standing ovation in the history of the WEF: 1. Nelson Mandela 2. Volodymyr Zelenskyy 3. Mark Carney
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Americans are starved for good speeches right now, but he's right. It was a great speech and I've never been prouder to be a Canadian.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes
The Mark Carney speech today at Davos is one of the best I've seen any politician deliver in a very long time.
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I've also seen that he wrote the speech himself and delivered it without a teleprompter, but l really want to see that in writing from the PMO and not on an internet post by someone I don't know.
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And let's not forget he flew to China on the 13th and from there to Qatar on the 17th/18th. These visits were for important, high level negotiations. Then he flew on to Davos for more meetings. Most of us would be clutching the podium with exhaustion by this point in the journey.
Michael Healey 🇨🇦@healeytypes
Carney’s Davos speech is a generational call to action. He invokes Haval, describes a new paradigm to defend against hegemones, and the audience gives him a standing ovation. Incredible.
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This is distinctly Canadian wisdom. I don't watch hockey but I do know Wayne Gretzky said don't skate to where the puck is, but where it's going to be.
Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩@acoyne
Always remember: as insane as Trump is behaving right now -- and he has never behaved more insanely -- it is only going to get worse. Don't just think how to respond to what he is doing now. Think about how to respond to what he will do next.
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@SteveKills @venning_mark @valdefurrentes @JillKerby @RowanGallery @FloraeOlga @nielskoschoreck @robymessi65 @ApmNeill @bensondiane11 @caichka @GrandTouristUK Stephen, I'm so sorry. I do hope your wife's health challenges are minor and can be resolved quickly. How wonderful that you got to Venice so recently! Here's to a better 2026 and do keep in touch with your online friends.
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@venning_mark @valdefurrentes @JillKerby @RowanGallery @caldervenice @FloraeOlga @nielskoschoreck @robymessi65 @ApmNeill @bensondiane11 @caichka @GrandTouristUK And to all of you lot from me. Just as my health issues are finally approaching a conclusion I have had to take Mrs to hospital today and we will be back there again tomorrow. Not the way we had planned our festive holiday to be sure. 2025 has been a pig!
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Buon Natale & Best Wishes for New Year 2026! Here- Adoration of the Magi – J. Tintoretto (Scuola Grande di San Rocco) @valdefurrentes @SteveKills @JillKerby @RowanGallery @caldervenice @FloraeOlga @nielskoschoreck @robymessi65 @ApmNeill @bensondiane11 @caichka @GrandTouristUK
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@SteveKills I know. I could hardly believe what I was reading. Talk about a single-minded approach to a complex problem with what is surely an over-riding priority, the health of the lagoon.
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Shamefully Venice's port authority chief talks of the need for cruise ships, ignoring the destruction these giant, floating sewage farms cause: campaignforalivingvenice.org
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@walteredicola Spero che ci sia un ingresso speciale per i residenti
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riusciranno questi turisti ad arrivare alle isole di murano burano torcello?
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@SteveKills @venning_mark Venice will fix that! I can't think of a better cure for depression of any kind.
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@venning_mark Not enough characters but thanks for asking, Mark, am coming to Venice in December on a five day cheer myself right up project with Mrs K because, to date, we have not had more than two or three days out.
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This one is for you Steve, an oldie but goldie as the saying goes. How are you doing? @SteveKills
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@valdefurrentes I stay close by, in Campiello dei Caligheri. I keep promising myself to take a sandalo ride with one of the - what? sandoliers? - in Campo San Anzolo. I like the fact that they don't go into the Grand Canal. And I didn't know the Oratorio is open early in the morning. Thanks!
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View of Campo Sant'Anzolo from my balcony at casantangelo.com I loved the tiny Oratorio dell'Annunziata (founded C10th) which is open early morning. Church of San Michele Arcangelo was demolished C19th
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i social meta stanno impazzendo cerco di pubblicare na foto e mi appare questo se cerco di risondere a un post mi da impossibile rispondere eppure se
controllo mio account è tutto ok mah
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New Historicism was always a trojan horse to void the Humanities, Interpretive Criticism, and Literary Studies of their transformative and critical power.
Bret van den Brink@BretVDB
The humanities, especially literary studies, would do well to dust off Northrop Frye’s work in order to articulate their peculiar power.
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