Sharon Blady⁷

@sharonblady

Recovering Academic/Health Minister, Kookum, 🧬 era OT7 ARMY 💜. 🚫DMs ✅️@. ❤️ Travel, food, friends, fandoms, and yes, politics.

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Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Jun 25

Look what arrived today! So happy that my Suga Seesaw brooch made it safely from Seoul! Big 'Thank You' and 'Borahae' to @marmararts.bsky.social for creating such wonderful wearable art! 💜 #Borasky

Handmade embroidered brooch depicting a stylized image of BTS's Suga from his Seesaw performance. He's wearing a loosely knit yellow and red sweater over a black tank top and holding a mic.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Apr 27

Going through boxes in the basement and found some long lost T-shirts from the mid 80s, including the class shirt from my first year in @umanitoba.bsky.social Faculty of Architecture... Despite what the image portrays, I do have fond memories of my time in the Russell Building! #TheScream

Photo of image on white t-shirt with a red line drawing in the style of Edvard Munch's The Scream known for a screaming figure in the right foreground on a boardwalk, which goes back on an extreme angle across the image to the upper left in sharp perspective. Here the boardwall is the walkway leading out of the Russell Building, replacing the background figures in the original, while the chaotic lines of the sky loom over the building looking like the buiding may be on fire. The Russel Building is a 2-storey square building in the Chicago style of Mid-century International design. In the midground is a scraggly tree and the horizon skews upward from right to left.

Below the drawing, also in red are handwritten capital letters: ES ID YR1 FA UM for Environmental Studies, Interior Design, Year 1, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba.

Before Environmental Studies took on the meaning we more commonly associate it with now, ES was the name of 3-year Bachelor program for those who were entering the Faculty to go into the professional Masters of Architecture degree, while the 4-year BID was a professional program and one could either begin practicing professionally or join ES colleages in the MArch program. The ES program has since been renamed Environmental Design.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Apr 15

Generation X: Self-Titled (1978), Valley of the Dolls (1979), Kiss Me Deadly (1981). GenX influenced many a GenXer setting us up later for Cobain and others. Some of my favourite songs in high school (82-85) were from these albums!

Cover of Generation X 1978 self-titled album.

Cover of Generation X 1979 Valley of the Dolls album.

Cover of Generation X 1981 album Kiss Me Deadly.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Apr 4

Life with glasses. Way too familiar. 🤣

Suga from BTS standing in front of a concrete wall, lifting his glasses and squinting to look at his cellphone. He's wearing outfit from 2.0 music video: beige wide collared dress shirt, dark vest buttoned up and loose burgundy tie with beige repeating pattern. His hair is in wolf-style cut and looks like it's held back with clips or band between shooting.

RM from BTS in elevator between shots of 2.0 music video. He's wearing mottled light khaki trousers with brown leather belt, grey t-shirt and brown leather bomber jacket. His sunglasses hang from his left ear only, crossing his face diagonally. He's looking blankly ahead.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 30

Sounds like he worships Uzi Jesus rather than biblical Jesus.

Cover of Matt Dinniman's book The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, seventh in his RPGLit Dungeon Crawler Carl series. The title is in bold yellow letters with Carl in right midground wearing a flack jacket, cape, and bandana over his face. He has cropped hair and arms outstretched as if casting a spell. On the left is the Bedlam Bride, She-Maria a huge spider with a human head. Her body extends behind both of them into the background. Her face is angry and haggard with a glowing third eye in the centre of her forehead.

In the foreground, Carl's former pet turned fellow player is Princess Donut the Cat, a fluffy Persia wearing a red beret and microphone headset. She is on the right and flinging an RPG-style playing card "HeyZoos, Uzi Jesus" in the left foreground. The card shows an character in the comicbook style of Jesus with white robe, red mantle, blonde hair, beard, and a halo. He is maniacally firing an Uzi. In the story, these cards come to life when played and Uzi Jesus is crazed, trigger-happy, and his catchphrase is "I am the way, Motherf_cker!"

Close up of cover image, enlarging image of Princess Donut the Cat and the HeyZoos, Uzi Jesus card described in the previous image.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 20

Maybe he follows the teachings of Uzi Jesus rather than regular Jesus. #MattDinniman #DungeonCrawlerCarl #TheEyeOfTheBedlamBride #UziJesus

Cover of Matt Dinniman's book The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, Book 6 in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.

The cover is in an action fantasy style with the title in bold yellow block print and features title character Carl in midground right wearing multiple enchanted rings, tactical vest, enchanted cape and black and white bandana across his face. He's a white cis male with a dark brown brush cut. Right midground shows the face of the Bedlam Bride with long messy brown hair and she has a mystical 3rd eye. Her giant spider body extends behind both of them into the background behind the title.

The foreground has Donut a fluffy persian cat wearing a red beret and microphone. She's in the right to centre and is throwing a RPG-style playing card called Uzi Jesus which shows a character based on traditional representations of Jesus in white robe with red mantel, but here he's portrayed as maniacally shooting an Uzi sub-machine gun.

The book series chronicals the adventures of Carl and Donut as they fight for their lives in a RPG-battle-to-the-death game they were thrown into by alien invaders out to destroy Earth.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 15

Likely a product of one of his imaginary phone calls.

Picture of a vintage Fisher-Price Chatter Phone with red handset, rotary dial with rainbow background, blue wheels, decorated with multi-colored stars and eyes and nose.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Feb 11

So, I can't get into my car. Even if I climbed over stick shift from passenger side, backing out safely isn't a risk I should have to take. How do some folks get and maintain their driver licenses? Don't even get me started on the entitlement and obliviousness to others required to park this way.

Picture of 2 cars in local IKEA parking lot. Black SUV on the left is so far over the yellow line on the their passenger side, that the pink VW Bug on the right is impossible to enter on driver's side. Also so close that it's dangerous for the VW to pull out even if entering the car on the passenger side.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Jan 21

When you can no longer supress dementia-rambling-induced eyerolls while maintaining your nation's fashion reputation. (p.s. pretty sure all those attacking his wife and spreading lies about her are just jealous that she's got him and they don't.)

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Jan 6

The Venn Diagram of fandom, cosplay, Christmas presents, and favourite foods becomes a circle for dinner! At most recent WinnipegComicCon I cosplayed K-pop Demon Hunters' Zoey, there my son me got KPDH oven mitts that I used tonight to make my favourite ramyeon with Zoey on the package!

Bowl of ramyeon with chopsticks.with package of Nongshim ramyeon with Zoey from K-pop Demon Hunters on the package, and oven mitts with Derpy and Sussy.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Jan 2

From "How to find a Canadian 101."

Cartoon with 4 frames:
1st frame: Dialogue between US and UK flags. US flag asks "Has anyone seen Canada?" and UK flag replies "Hold on I got this."
2nd frame: UK flag says "Ahem."
3rd frame: UK flag says "Oh the year was 1778..."
4th frame: Canadian flag breaks through the wall behind US and UK flags, with an open mouth and a beer in its hand, singing "How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!
Goddamn them all! I was told We'd cruise the seas for American Gold!" (the rest of the opening lyrics/chorus to Stan Roger's song Barrett's Privateers).

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Nov 19

We called them Peanut Butter Confetti Squares

Plateful of stacked Peanut Butter Confetti Squares with multicolor mini marshmallows.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Aug 20

🚨 Imposter account - Report and Block! Pretending to be @markhamillofficial.bsky.social There is only one Mar🐪!

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Aug 2

Men. Can. Fix. This. Do. The. Work.

Screenshot of skeet bt Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social that reads:

There are a lot of guys I know fail to recognize that men and women have 99.999% of our lives in common because of our shared humanity.

They might think of women as alien beings, strategic competitors, sex objects, prizes to be won, or whatever. It's tragic, exhausting, and pathetic.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Jul 31

Living in Canada, with universal health care, and hearing this is surreal and disturbing beyond belief. So many countries have single-payer systems, while US remains this bizarre contrarian outlier denying reality and the biggest deniers are elected reps with free government funded health care! FFS!

World map showing Universally Health Coverage globally. Text indicates in 2024, 72 of 195 countries worldwide have UHC, 69% of global population has UHC, and the US is the only developed country without UHC. Image source CEOWorld Magazine. Link: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/which-countries-have-universal-health-coverage/

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Jul 11

Because this is the phone he's using!

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Jul 11

🚨 Block 🚫❌️ Mansplaining political troll who substitutes baseless personal attacks for dialogue then deletes evidence in an attempt to look good when he tries to have the last word. Sadly left leaning, proving no part of the political spectrum has cornered the market on a-holes.

Screencap identifying Bluesky user "no" @mrappreciator.vsky.social 33 followers, 5 following 2.8K posts

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Jul 8

No surprises here either:

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Jun 18

Her cosplay inspiration has more integrity and believablity...

Scene from Marvel Studio's Thunderbolts showing Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus) standing during her testimony at a federal committee hearing for her impeachment as CIA Director. She is wearing a white suit with a Stars and Stripes pin on her lapel. Valentina has dark brown hair, with her trademark grey streak of hair coming down from the part and framing her face.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Jun 13

She shares links here. No need to go to other platforms. Nor worry about character counts.

Screen cap of Heather Cox Richardson June 12, 2025 Bluesky post sharing her most recent Letters from an American substack about DHS secretary Neom LA press conference.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· May 28

🇨🇦 Fellow Canucks! 🇨🇦 What are we all doing for Canada Day on July 1st? Many of us aren't flag waving types, but if there was ever a time for it - and with Elbows Up - it's now! 👇 Share what's going on in your neck of the woods and ideas for celebrating our democracy - one that's Strong and Free!

Red background with 2 pictures. On the left, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and on the right US President Trump. Above the photos the caption reads: Prime Minister Carney versus Rapist Felon Trump. Below the photos in white all caps caption reads: no contest.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 27

Not sure which portait that is, but the Official White House portraits of both the Obamas were hung September 9, 2022.

Image from September 9, 2022 unveiling of Official White House portraits of President Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama. His portrait is on the left: he is painted in a hyper realistic style, wearing a dark suit and standing in front of a white background. The First Couple is in the middle of the image looking at her portrait. In it, she is wearing a light blue strapless gown sitting on a red victorian chaise, with her upper left arm resting on the back of the chaise with forearm and hand downward and her right arm gracefully across her waist and right hand gently resting on top of her left hand. The background is a medium rose pink.

First of two screen capture images of The White House Historical Association website page for the Official Portrait of President Obama.

In this first image, the portrait is centered on the black website background. The portrait is painted in a hyper realistic style with a bright white background. He is wearing a dark suit (navy or black), white shirt, and grey tie looking at the viewer, while standing with his hands in his trouser pockets. The portrait is not full length, being cropped just below the bottom of his suit jacket. Below the portait is the offical title in white Times Roman text in all caps, which reads:

Barack Obama, White House Collection

Below the title is a brief description in white Times New Roman font, which is incomplete in this image and is captured in full, with additional information, on the accompanying second image.

The included text reads:

This official portrait of President Barack Obama was painted by Robert McCurdy in 2018. Prior to his election to the presidency, Obama served as a United States senator from Illinois. On January
20, 2009, he became the first African American (end of visible text.

Second of two screen capture images of The White House Historical Association website page for the Official Portrait of President Obama.

In this image is the full text located below the portait below the title. It is in white Times Roman font on the black background and reads:

This official portrait of President Barack Obama was painted by Robert McCurdy in 2018. Prior to his election to the presidency, Obama served as a United States senator from Illinois. On January
20, 2009, he became the first African American president and served two terms from 2009 to 2017. Both portraits of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were unveiled in a
ceremony in the East Room of the White House on September 7 2022,

Artist: Robert McCurdy
Date of Work: circa. 2018
Medium: oil paint, canvas
Type: Portrait
Credit: White House Historical Association/ White House Collection

Below is a radio button link: View in the Digital Library

Image of President Obama's official portrait hanging in the White House, above a red upholstered antique bench. The portait's reflection can be seen on the marble floor which is a red and white diamond checkerboard design. To the left pf the portait and bench are a three footed antique brass lamp next to the entrance to a red carpeted staircase. To the right is a large marble column, which along with a marble demi-wall topped with a marble planter containing a lusciously full and vibrant green fern, demarcates the entrance into an adjoining space.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 26

Proof of cosplay? Yet MCU's Valentina Allegra de Fontaine seems like less of an intelligence and security risk than Tulsi Gabbard.

Image of MCU character Valencia Allegra de Fontaine speaking at federal hearings in scene from Thunderbolts trailer. She is wearing a white suit, has shoulder length dark brown hair with wide grey highlight framing her face.

Image of DNI Tulsi Gabbard at Signal-gate hearing March 2025. She is wearing light peach suit, has shoulder length dark brown hair with single wide grey highlight.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 12

Picture of library with text: Those who fail to learn history are condemned to repeat it. Those who erase history intend to repeat it.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 12

Learned a new word today and think you might appreciate it!

Backpfeifengesicht
[German] noun
"a face badly in need of a fist"

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 11

Picture of contemporary French protestors draping red cloth on a guillotine. Caption reads:
Me: Hey, France, whatcha doin'?
France: Maintenance de routine. Pas
grave
Me: But, it. kinda looks like.
France: Maintenance de routine!!!

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 11

"The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a Presidental Coup and an Adverse Regime Change event." CSP COUP dataset lists: - "attempted coup" for the USA on 6 January 2021 - a successful coup on 20 January 2025. (From Polity Project)

Screencap from Polity 4 (systemicpeace.org/index.html)

NOTE: The USA dropped below the "democracy threshold" (+6) on the POLITY scale in 2020 and was considered an anocracy (+5) at the end of the year
2020; the USA score for 2021 returned to democracy (+8). Beginning on 1 July 2024, due to the US Supreme Court ruling granting the US Presidency broad, legal immunity, the USA is noted by the Polity Project as experiencing a regime transition through, at least, 20 January 2025.
As of the latter date, the USA is coded EXREC=8, "Competitive Elections"; EXCONST=1 "Unlimited Executive Authority"; and POLCOMP=6 "Factional/Restricted Competition.
Polity scores: DEMOC=4; AUTOC=4; POLITY=0.

The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a
Presidental Coup and an Adverse Regime Change event (8- point drop in its POLITY score).

Users of the Polity data series should be aware that Polity measures patterns of authority demonstrated and observed in political behaviors involving interaction
events between and within state and non-state entities. Polity measures political practices rather than promises
or proclamations. In 2016, CSP changed the coding for Political Competition in the USA to Factional Competition (i.e., POLCOMP=7); this coding change dropped the USA's POLITY score to +8. According to the PITF Global Model,
this change to "factional competition" placed the USA at high risk of impending.political instability (i.e., adverse
regime change and/or onset of "systematic and sustained" political violence; possible worst case would be the "collapse of central authority"). The CSP COUP dataset lists an "attempted coup" (COUP=2) for the USA on 6
January 2021 and a successful coup (COUP=1) on 20 January 2025.

NOTE: The Polity5 Regime Narrative for the United States identifies all Polity code changes and covers the entire period since its date of independence in 1776 through early 2025.

Excerpt from Polity5 report on US:

3Xe) January 20, 2025 (new administration/presidential coup)- Former-president Donald Trump won re-election in presidential elections held on November 4, 2024, and was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, despite felony convictions on 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 presidential eleetion rendered on May 30, 2024. He was also under indictment for his part in the January 6, 2021, assault on Congress that tried to stop/overturn the confirmation of the Electoral College results from the 2020 presidential election and, separately
for hoarding classified national security documents after he left office following his first term. Adding to his legal troubles were civil judgements imposed for fraudulent business practices in
the State of New York and slander regarding claims made concerning a sexual assault committed by him. The indictments were dropped due to a long-standing policy of the Justice Department not to prosecute sitting presidents. Adding to confusion regarding Trump's legal standing was a July 1, 2024, ruling by the US Supreme Court that appears to grant both siting and former
presidents with some combination of absolute and presumptive legal immunities for official acts. A broad interpretation of this ruling would claim legal immunity for the chief executive for all executive actions, putting the president above the law and, so, not subject to any constraints on executive authority; impeachment would stand as the sole legal remedy. On Day One President Trump began ruling by decree, issuing hundreds of Executive Orders to impose his will without regard to constitutional or lawful limitations on executive authority.
Additionally, President Trump began remaking the federal burcaucracy by ordering the removal or prosecution of any individuals who were assumed non-cooperative or opposed to the
President's directives or political agenda; he has also threatened prosecutions or other forms of poli…

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 7

By the way, this senator lost a boxing match to Trudeau in 2012. So he's just the opening act to the ass-kicking.

Picture of then MP Justin Trudeau and Senator Patrick Brazeau after their March 31, 2012 boxing match in the fifth annual Fight for the Cure that raised more than $200,000 for the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation. The winner Trudeau is holding the trophy.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 6

Looking to buy Canadian? Victoria BC's I Make Pins is a great place to start! imakepins.square.site

Screenshot of Enamel pins from Victoria BC based I Make Pins online shop on Square.site. Upper left Red Join The Resistance Star Wars Rebel Alliance inspired pin $10. Upper Right White shield shaped pin with Buy Canadian Instead in black all caps serif font and red maple leaf $10. Lower left Middle Finger Salute pin with Black text box with Tariff This in white all caps san serif font $10. Lower right all three pins $25.

Sharon Blady⁷@sharonblady· Mar 6

I miss London, the buses, the Tube, the wit.