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Heather Mallick

@hmallick.bsky.social

Canadian female-born author, feminist, bookish person, centre-left. Staff newspaper columnist waiting for parole board decision. I've done my time. Please look favourably upon me, Shawshank, etc.

2,281 Followers  |  401 Following  |  1,218 Posts  |  Joined: 02.11.2023  |  2.3107

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Alas, poor Jenrick...

07.10.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Former 'Derringer in the Morning' co-host takes Q107 parent company to human rights tribunal | CBC News Jennifer Valentyne, a former co-host of a Toronto radio show, spoke in detail about alleged verbal abuse and gender-based discrimination at the Corus Entertainment Inc. program during a human rights t...

Working in a media men's room is one of the roughest things you can go through. Imagine doing it live on air. Great admiration for Jennifer Valentyne. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

07.10.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i vaguely recall Arctic Frost being one of the Baja Blast flavors I'd avoid at Taco Bell

07.10.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 611    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 4
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Entire Trump Gaza Plan just QR code linking to Nobel Peace Prize nomination site WASHINGTON D.C. - With representatives of the Israeli government, as well as Hamas, meeting to discuss a potential U.S.-brokered peace, delegates have reportedly been surprised to find that the entire...

Entire Trump Gaza Plan just QR code linking to Nobel Peace Prize nomination site

06.10.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 227    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

Everything in the Daily Mail is quite mad. I think my idea about a campaign against people grinning stupidly at each other in ad stock photos will fit right in. I hate smilers.

07.10.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Silly column. Why waste time on this when older white-haired couples in stock photos are always smiling into each other’s faces? Drives me mad. You never see it in real life. Have warned my husband. No pointless smiling.

07.10.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dressed. Sadly, the SCC just debuted new black robes with understated red accents. www.collingwoodtoday.ca/national-new....

07.10.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Americans like government. They just think they don't, because Reagan told them so.

07.10.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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This guy is in charge of US health care.

07.10.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1449    πŸ” 377    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 51
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when you work in communications for Vancouver Coastal Health and you give up halfway through your job

06.10.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 116    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

Stewart Lee: Louis C. K. thinks he was cancelled for being made to apologise for masturbating in front of women & then seems to be able to carry on. Being cancelled is what happens to a journalist in Saudi Arabia where you get chopped into bits & put into a suitcase. That’s what being cancelled is.

06.10.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful interview, will buy the book.

06.10.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to hospital administrators for breakthroughs in surliness OSLO - Today the Nobel committee announced that they have awarded this year’s prize in Physiology or Medicine to everyone who works as an administrator in a hospital for breakthroughs in surliness and...

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to hospital administrators for breakthroughs in surliness

06.10.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

06.10.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 11584    πŸ” 2944    πŸ’¬ 237    πŸ“Œ 80

Oh do fuck off, Forbes

06.10.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

As an internet culture journalist, I think it’s important for me to continue to observe the depravity that goes viral on X, but one of the reasons I’m glad I stopped posting there is because I think it helps me avoid normalizing the rhetoric celebrating the political brutality in America right now

04.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2060    πŸ” 234    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 11
Netflix Now Requiring All Subscribers To Recruit 5 New Customers

Netflix Now Requiring All Subscribers To Recruit 5 New Customers

Netflix Now Requiring All Subscribers To Recruit 5 New Customers https://theonion.com/netflix-now-requiring-all-subscribers-to-recruit-5-new-customers/

06.10.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1400    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 8

Another snippet from Trump's campaign rally style speech to the Navy in Norfolk. The content was totally inappropriate, but more remarkable is the evidence is furnishes of advanced senile dementia. Grandpa can't even remember his own book. He's fading fast.

06.10.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 585    πŸ” 127    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 5
Stoner Architect Drafts All-Foyer Mansion

Stoner Architect Drafts All-Foyer Mansion

Stoner Architect Drafts All-Foyer Mansion https://theonion.com/stoner-architect-drafts-all-foyer-mansion-1819565679/

06.10.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2115    πŸ” 210    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 52

A lot of countries are going to get American soybeans stuffed down their throat. Tasty tasty soybeans.

06.10.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump himself definitely stopped fighting in Vietnam

06.10.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 752    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 3

You left a big glaring gap, no idea why when Substack lets you write freely. What do many of these men and boys have in common, what makes them easily led?

05.10.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Physical copy of The Onion with headlines "FDA approves new drug that reverses the effects of Narcan" and "Homeland Security relaxed species requirements to join ICE" visible

Physical copy of The Onion with headlines "FDA approves new drug that reverses the effects of Narcan" and "Homeland Security relaxed species requirements to join ICE" visible

Got my first print edition of The Onion and I couldn't be more excited to read it.

04.10.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 701    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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Hegseth today: β€œIf you let the beards go and the bellies go and the uniforms go and the fitness standards go, pretty soon the big stuff goes.”

The commander-in-chief snd his next in line.

05.10.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

The headline deck is wrong. There's nothing bygone about the American love of sweetness and deliciousness, and that helps explain Mounjaro. Great Cumming nugget here, just dead on: "Cold Cereal perfectly invokes the intense joy of eating while reading, learned from cereal packets in childhood."

05.10.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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America’s β€˜laureate of lunch counters’ | The Observer Wayne Thiebaud’s vibrant paintings capture the romance of a bygone age. The first solo exhibition in Britain of his art opens this week

Laura Cumming writes about the Courtauld show of America's painter of desire, Wayne Thiebaud. People want things they do not need and this is why. observer.co.uk/culture/art/...

05.10.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Observer issue no. 12,200: Tony of Arabia

From the Iraq War to the Gaza β€˜Board of Peace’: Blair returns to the Middle East

#TomorrowsPapersToday

04.10.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

Read the whole piece please, with context, but Maria Ressa says this in a discussion about the speed of events: "I think the death of journalism is around the corner within six months to a year."
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

04.10.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

04.10.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12198    πŸ” 2742    πŸ’¬ 407    πŸ“Œ 87

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