Élie Charest

@eliecharest.bsky.social

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Storyteller. Secular humanist. Pro-democracy and rule of law. Made of approximately 7 x 10^27 atoms, mostly hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. Listener of music, watcher of movies, player of games. Not a cat.

A photo from the Stewart/Colbert rally in Washington DC on October 30, 2010, showing a ragged, desaturated American flag held above the crowd, with part of the National Mall visible in the background.
Photograph of a cat uplit by reflected sunlight, its pupils narrow slits.
A plate with four tacos: two carnitas + two chicken tingas with cheese.
A mottled gray cat sitting in the sun on a table.
Photograph of the book "Lies and the Lying Liards Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" by Al Franken.
"Oh no! Anyway" Jeremy Clarkson meme
A still from the movie American Beauty, where the main character's daughter turns over a plate in the neighbor's house to see that it has a swastika symbol on the back.
Instagram message saying the video is blocked and cannot be seen in user's country.
Photograph of a small Lego car with Emmet's minifig next to it.
Photo of a cat with a "cone of shame" sitting on a box, looking at the camera.
Fast-motion video of building the first stage of the Lego Saturn V set.
Panel from the comic book Preacher where a character is berating a white supremacist that has a very small chin, asking why the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it.
PIOMAS chart showing the dramatic decline of Arctic sea ice volume.
A phone screencap showing that I completed the NYT Mini Crossword for Friday, Sep. 12 in 19 seconds.
A man with a full-face dog mask playing the violin in the subway.
A minifig of Emmet from the Lego Movie standing on a window sill, with Washington, D.C.'s waterfront seen in the background.
A photo of "Iraqi Most Wanted" playing cards with Saddam Hussein, his son, and other Iraqi officials from Operation: Desert Storm.
Screenshot of a Google search showing a post on X by UltraMAGALady 21 hours ago.
Cover of the book "Busy Busy Cars and Trucks" by Richard Scarry.
Un arbre plein d'étourneaus.
Screenshot of Google's AI Gemini saying "All ants collectively weigh significantly more than all humans" before going on to say that the weight of all ants is about 20% of the weight of all humans (and this is less, not more).
"Hide the pain" Harold's painful smiling face in a close-up.
Comedian Steven Wright dressed up as a mountie in the film Canadian Bacon, by Michael Moore
Donald Sutherland's character pointing and screaming at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, revealing he's been body snatched.
Big snowflakes falling in slow motion, downtown Montreal.
JLaw giving sarcastic thumbs up.
Robot reverend from Futurama, arms raised, stating "Robosexuality is a sin".
Red Among Us figure