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2025-10-06 00:23:25 UTC

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This is how the Liberals will get the Conservatives elected.
"Graves told The Hill Times that level of despair is the worst he has seen since he began polling in the mid-1990s.
"In the main sample of 2,078 respondents, 68 per cent said they believe “most politicians in Canada care about helping corporations and financial elites than helping the people”—a sentiment expressed by 78 per cent of those under the age of 35."
#cdnpoli #Canada

2025-10-03 13:52:39 UTC

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I don't think sociopaths are human - they literally have no humanity. They see us as prey.
"humiliated by a repulsive individual like Ben-Gvir (I refuse to call him a human, and I will keep calling loudly for his detention for crimes against humanity)"

2025-09-30 17:31:07 UTC

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100% correct. Executives who demand across-the-board cuts are flaunting their incompetence as managers.
"Demanding ministers find 15% cuts in their departments, regardless of the size of their budgets or what services they deliver, is not the 'comprehensive spending review' Carney promised in the campaign. He's not finding waste, he's just mindlessly taking a chainsaw to our government.”
#cdnpoli

2025-09-23 22:29:07 UTC

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This is all driven by sociopaths, who are both weak and have a drive to dominate. They start with the weaker members of society because they are cowards and are terrified of failing / being exposed. They have morally corrupted many non-sociopathic men.
"These moves are all about returning women to their "natural" state controlled by men."

2025-09-23 18:16:50 UTC

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#narcissism ! And #MAGA Americans are happy to embrace the insanity as long as the US ends up a white supremacist nation.
"A Washington Post global affairs columnist reported getting a text from a senior foreign diplomat: "This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?"

2025-09-19 12:29:47 UTC

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@npub1fdr…lvhs opened my eyes to this:
Zuckerberg's way of keeping stock values in the 'growth company' range is this rubbish. Musk's is self driving cars and humanoid robots, apparently. All grifts to keep their share values at many times what a stable, non-growing company would be.
"Zuckerberg has also repeatedly doubled down on smart glasses being the future of the company, as well as AI-powered "superintelligence"
#Meta #AI

2025-09-18 23:14:17 UTC

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How do Christians continue to support him? They're literally worshipping a false, golden idol.
"A 12-ft golden idol of" Trump holding out a Bitcoin.
#Bitcoin #MAGA #Christians #Trump #falseidols

2025-09-15 01:09:58 UTC

The banality of evil:
"A recent poll found most [Israelis] are not interested in getting more news from Gaza. The major networks broadcast cooking shows, reality TV and sports. Big Brother just had one of its most watched seasons, interrupted only for a brief moment when three anti-war protesters managed to storm the studio stage. “Everything is fine,” said the host. “Keep those votes coming in!”
#Israel #Gaza #palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/14/how-to-burst-the-israeli-bubble?

2025-09-11 15:34:43 UTC

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"AI hucksters, desperate to keep their stock bubble inflated, will tell you that there is only one way that this technology can be used: to fire a....ton of workers and make the survivors do their job... It’s true that this is the only way that their companies could...be worth the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been pumped into them...The fact that the only way that AI investors can recoup their investment is by turning us all into reverse-centaurs is not our problem."

2025-09-06 20:23:02 UTC

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I’ll be blocking Heribert. Calling a genocide what it is, is not antisemitism.
"Well, your antisemitism makes *you* a horrible human being. Antisemitism is no opinion, it‘s a crime. From a rotten individual as yourself you accusation is more of a compliment than the insult you intend. There is no genocide in Gaza."

2025-09-03 21:24:25 UTC

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Sounds like 99% of us are going to lose but some big corporations will get big contracts.
'Canada's budget will focus on austerity and investment, says PM Carney’
#cdnpoli #austerity

2025-09-03 18:51:52 UTC

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It sounds promising, but I wonder if each of these items (oil, wax, fuel) ends up being burned. If so, we can’t keep drilling for oil to make plastic that is then downcycled into, essentially, fuel.
"Instead of requiring tedious sorting, the catalyst selectively breaks down stubborn polyolefin plastics—the single-use materials that make up much of our daily waste—into valuable oils, waxes, fuels, and more.”
#ClimateChange

2025-08-28 21:25:48 UTC

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Fellow Canadians, why go to the US? They don't like us, don't want us, and treat us like criminals.
"they reserve the right to copy all the contents of your phone and distribute them to every American military and intelligence agency."
#cdnpoli #Canada

2025-08-27 15:24:14 UTC

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This is incorrect. Governments have not been 'timid,' they've been captured by the rich. Governments are corrupt and they are working for the rich. They are quite bold when doing so.
"Govt's have failed by being too timid in light of historic failure(s) & now fail to act decisively..."

2025-08-23 21:22:31 UTC

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#RTO #Covid
"Return to office? An exercise in pure friction-shifting. The friction your boss experiences from furiously fantasizing about how lazy you're being at home is swapped for the friction of your commute, the friction of having to reschedule deliveries that you weren't home to sign for, the friction of having to eat a packed lunch or waste your pay on overpriced, additive/grease/salt/sugar-laden quick-service food."

2025-08-23 19:44:40 UTC

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This. #MAGA is very unlikely to follow Vance. They hate people like Musk and many billionaires, too.
"None of them have the cult of personality of Trump...I'm sure plenty will *try* to be his replacement, but I don't see MAGA uniting around any of them, certainly not right away."

2025-08-22 19:26:44 UTC

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This could be the most terrifying election for the global right. If the left wins and follows-through, the right will be on the run, maybe literally, from guillotines.
"Ipsos poll of UK public on Corbyn's new party:
"Nearly 50% thinks the party would deliver positive change (70% of under-35s).
"31% would vote for a Corbyn-Greens pact (52% of 16-34-age voters).
"Bear in mind that Labour won their landslide victory with 33.7%.”
#EatTheRich #TaxTheRich #capitalism #socialism

2025-08-18 15:53:24 UTC

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"Sr. VP of Layover Extension Bernard Willmington III sent customers a photo of a pile of money with a Canadian flag planted in it. “Thank you to Mark Carney and the Liberals, whose taxpayer-funded 2021 bailout allowed Air Canada to buy back massive amounts of stock, underpay our employees, and still have the government side with us in this labour dispute. #OhCanada”
#AirCanada

2025-08-15 15:39:34 UTC

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This could be a huge opportunity for #Canada. Offer every single mRNA scientist and worker residence in Canada and equal funding to what they lost. This will be a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
"If you think last week's decision by the federal government to halt $500 million in funding for vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology will only affect COVID vaccines, think again."
#cdnpoli

2025-08-07 20:27:42 UTC

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Wow, this would really cut executive pay. I love it. There’s an idea floating around called #Limitarianism, meaning we cap maximum wealth at some level like $10M and cap income, too.
We’re in a climate crisis largely due to the actions of these executives, so tax them out of existence.
"Majority of people in 40 countries want 4:1 maximum pay ratios for CEOs and their lowest-paid workers”
#TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

2025-08-07 20:17:16 UTC

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Just evil. They enjoy the cruelty. It’s true - sociopaths are sadists, an immutable part of their ‘character.’
I do think this will piss off a lot of existing military and vets.
"The #USAF said Thurs it would DENY all transgender #service members who have served between 15 & 18 YEARS the option to retire early & would instead separate them without retirement #benefits "

2025-08-05 18:46:35 UTC

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Much more honest way to frame #AI
"AI is only secondarily a technological phenomenon; it is primarily a financial phenomenon, hundreds of billions of dollars in investment capital in search of a return.
"The return on that capital only comes from one place: workers' wages."

2025-08-05 02:08:59 UTC

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There are a lot of scientists - and others, like you and I - who see what's coming and are struggling to figure out what big parts of our lives mean now.
"I stopped doing that this year.
I still watch and appreciate my feathered visitors. But the curiosity and need to document the types and numbers just doesn't seem worthwhile anymore."

2025-08-03 15:00:53 UTC

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This is accurate and fair framing:
"Tesla's lies turned our roads into test tracks for their fundamentally flawed technology"
#TeslaTakedown #Tesla

2025-07-24 18:18:36 UTC

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I keep waiting for the wheels to come off...
"Musk is no Technoking, but he's a strong contender for Enshittification King: a guy who taps the capital markets and Uncle Sucker for funds he can use to subsidize the initial rollouts of his stupid ideas, in the hopes of becoming so indispensable that he later can squeeze both business customers and end users for ever-larger sums to keep the illusion afloat (think of the junk fees he's piled onto Twitter users and publishers).

2025-07-24 16:04:42 UTC

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It’s not treason if a conservative does it, apparently.

2025-07-21 14:54:24 UTC

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@npub1fdr…lvhs
Paul Krugman and Cory Doctorow!
"Their rage wouldn’t matter if their wealth weren’t so vast and we didn’t have a political system so corrupted by money. In a more equal society with a less corrupted democracy, people expressing the views we’re hearing from the likes of Peter Thiel or Marc Andreesen would be treated as cranks. In fact, they’d probably be hiding their opinions."

2025-07-21 12:53:26 UTC

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Not one mention of all the credible people and organizations that have said the IDF has committed and is committing war crimes. Not. One.
Times of Israel is off my list as a remotely reliable source...

2025-07-19 16:48:57 UTC

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Thank you! But doesn't using the assistant automatically use AI? (See screenshot.
I did a search on your name and the results were really, really good - vastly superior to Google and DuckDuckGo. Apparently your drycleaning is ready to be picked up, haha.
Seriously, though, that is the best search engine I've seen in some time. Fast and relevant, no ads or 'promoted' crap.
https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/880/888/815/478/295/original/d81d2b6ce4513b7e.jpeg

2025-07-19 16:31:34 UTC

Internet search question:
A number of people I follow on Mastodon, including some high profile ones like @npub1fdr…lvhs , recommend Kagi as a search engine. Most of these same folks are not keen on #AI.
But Kagi builds AI right in, I don't even know if it can be turned off. What am I missing?
"Generative AI on the other hand can automatically process and analyze information to answer questions like the one above, thus giving users exactly what they want."
#kagi

2025-07-19 12:25:57 UTC

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💯
"Amazing how so many Corporate Democrats can look past financial corruption, insider trading, sexual abuse, even genocide—because "Republicans are worse,"—yet all that was needed for them to stop chanting "VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO" was a brown Muslim immigrant who won his primary on a platform of free childcare, transportation, frozen rent, a 2% higher taxes for millionaires. smh
"And they wonder why the Dem Party has a 26% approval rating."
#uspol #Democrats

2025-07-18 23:21:52 UTC

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It is a cult of personality, so it is hard for members to accept they've been duped. That said, Bannon and others have said that if the 20% of the hardcore Epstein MAGA stay home, the Republicans will be destroyed in the midterms. (Assuming there are legitimate midterms.)
"How likely do you think this Epstein scandal is to actually result in consequences for Trump? Will his base ever leave him?"

2025-07-16 19:03:03 UTC

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"treating violent crime as a public health crisis... means treating violent crime as a symptom of multiple factors, including racism, poverty, and past violence. Addressing violent crime as a public health issue involves going beyond arresting people after violence is committed and taking proactive and preventative measures."

2025-07-13 23:31:02 UTC

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Yeah, we don't want this goof back. 'Deport' him to El Salvador or Sudan or wherever else the Americans have their concentration camps.
"Canadian man living in New Hampshire, US, with his wife and children, supported Trump to make America great again.
"Then Trump kicked him out of the country."
#cdnpoli

2025-07-09 17:44:12 UTC

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The #LPC in a nutshell. They have always been thus, except maybe the Pearson Liberals, who were progressive because driven that way by Tommy Douglas' CCF party that supported them.
"This is worse," [member of the Liberal caucus] said. "It appears to me...that Mr. Carney's new majority coalition is Liberal-Conservative, delivering Pierre #Poilievre 's policies with a more friendly face."
#cdnpoli

2025-07-02 18:50:43 UTC

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Holy psychoBarbie, she really did say "at least 65 million," which as the person responding points out, is the same number as the entire Latino population of the US.
She also said "at least," so we know she'd love to keep exterminating everyone until only the whitest of #MAGA remained.

2025-06-27 18:49:01 UTC

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#Starmer and #Labour are morally corrupt power-seekers, nothing more.
"...anyone in the UK who expresses support for Palestine Action could face up to 14 years in jail"
"According to our government's standards, the Suffragettes and the civil rights movement would count as terrorism"
#UK

2025-06-22 22:03:01 UTC

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Good for Trudeau on this and did Carney sell us out?

2025-06-17 21:00:21 UTC

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This is not a popular opinion, but sociopaths are not fully human. They can't be: they have no humanity. No empathy, no ability to love, and they see other humans as prey.
"It is rather difficult to walk away from any of this, not thinking the world is being controlled by demons from another dimension."

2025-06-11 21:14:01 UTC

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Where else CAN they shop? Walmart bankrupts everyone else so they're the only 'choice.' Sears, Target, local merchants? All gone.
"MAGA is predictably outraged and declaring it will boycott Walmart."

2025-06-10 14:28:38 UTC

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Reichstag fire incoming, maybe this Saturday:
"There will be “No Kings Day” demonstrations all across the country. I don’t know whether there will be any violent incidents. But I’m quite sure that Trump and his allies will claim that violent incidents are happening
"Trump isn’t reacting to any real threat of disorder in California.
"No, this is all about finding excuses to use force against Trump’s critics and opponents and justify an anti-democratic power grab."
#uspol

2025-05-23 20:04:06 UTC

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#Israel is a terrorist state catching up to Nazi Germany in the evil-doing. It's not just Netanyahu or the government, Zionism itself is an evil belief system.
"Vast majority of Israelis support Palestinian displacement"
#Gaza

2025-05-12 20:50:42 UTC

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Small government, free market Republicans, eh? This doesn't look like corruption at all, oh no.
"...no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems"
#uspol #AI

2025-04-29 01:01:16 UTC

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Who will EVER buy US military gear now? It’s not actually yours, as clearly the Americans retain ownership rights and they may or may not let you use it.
"M1A1 Abrams tanks promised to Ukraine as part of Australia’s $245M aid package have not yet left the country, ABC reports. Delays are due to the Trump administration halting military aid approvals.”
#uspol #Ukraine #Australia

2025-04-25 19:47:36 UTC

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I hope no Canadians are buying American chicken. It should be banned from #Canada.
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products"
#cdnpoli

2025-04-18 20:41:10 UTC

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This is a key difference between autistic people and sociopaths: sociopaths like RFK Jr have zero empathy.
"[My autistic son] is capable of great compassion."

2025-04-16 20:18:14 UTC

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Class act if true:
"he said he’d opted to pull out of the debate after realizing that the Green Party hadn’t been invited"
Read more at: https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/article834014.html#storylink=cpy

2025-04-13 21:54:34 UTC

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To be honest, Trump just ripped the mask off and is allowing a lot of really shitty people to show who they are.
"Still completely gutted and dumbfounded that as a country we no longer have any allies. Just 🫰 like that. Practically overnight, that hideous fool sabotaged us for decades."

2025-04-10 19:20:48 UTC

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Agreed. Just pointing out that countries have been selling over the past months.

2025-04-10 17:35:30 UTC

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Countries have been selling US Treasury bonds:
"Investors abroad sold longer term Treasuries for three consecutive months, a sign of central bankers reducing their reliance on the U.S. as a financial buffer.”
https://www.barrons.com/articles/treasuries-foreign-sell-gold-765ce81f

2025-04-09 18:51:07 UTC

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Won’t anyone think of the poor billionaires and their money? Also, don’t hedge fund managers get paid huge sums to foresee the obvious?
"“Hedge funds have trillions tied up in this kind of strategy,” he said. “As things spiral, they’re being forced to sell anything they can — even good assets — just to stay afloat . . . if the Federal Reserve doesn’t step in soon, this could turn into a full-blown crisis. It’s that serious.“
#EatTheRich

2025-04-09 18:40:56 UTC

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Are all these right-wing nut jobs on drugs? What algorithms? He’s blabbering nonsense.
""we CANNOT cut down any of the sources of energy right now" but "the future will be SO much cleaner and SO much more efficient as a result of these algorithms.”
#ClimateChange

2025-04-09 16:51:36 UTC

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Starmer is doing to Labour what Trump is doing to the USA.
"Luxury vehicles McLaren, Aston Martin and Bentley will no longer have to follow the electric vehicle (EV) mandate and can continue making fossil fuel chugging cars beyond 2030.”
#ukpol #Starmer #ClimateChange

2025-04-07 18:26:44 UTC

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"In my experience, troubles are more likely to emerge in places where some people are suffering mightily from climate-related stress, such as farmers or villagers in general, at the same time as others are getting by just fine or even prospering. It is that relative disparity in fortunes and government responses, a mirror of wider inequalities, that, much more than the poverty itself, can drive dangerous degrees of resentment."
#ClimateCrisis

2025-04-02 00:51:25 UTC

Fellow Canucks, do not go to the USA:
"In multiple instances since mid-February, families with young children have been detained in cells at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls.
"An Investigative Post reporter personally confirmed one of those family detentions. In that case, the family was held for two weeks."
#cdnpoli
https://www.investigativepost.org/2025/04/01/feds-locking-up-families-children-at-canadian-border/

2025-04-01 16:58:04 UTC

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LOL, I’m pretty sure the average person will be dead if we hit 4C of global warming. Agriculture will collapse before that, so billions will starve.
"Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows”
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

2025-03-29 18:26:14 UTC

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Brilliant chant:
"We don't want your Nazi cars
Take a one way trip to Mars"
#TeslaProtests #teslatakedown

2025-03-24 21:28:09 UTC

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What could (will) go wrong?
"Canada’s federal government will permit major infrastructure and mining projects with provincial and territorial approvals alone”
And rich people gotta rich:
"Earlier Friday, Carney said the government was cancelling plans to increase the capital gains tax to 66% from 50%.”
And the Liberals gotta be who they are:
"the federal government is creating a framework so that the private sector will be building these projects”
#cdnpoli

2025-03-21 22:27:18 UTC

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LOL, sanewashing this loon:
"Florida's controversial surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo”
He’s controversial because he’s a quack. That should be the line: "Florida's quack surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo…"

2025-03-12 18:46:42 UTC

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Nooooo. She is a psycho.
"I am hearing credible rumblings that Dr. [Bonnie] Henry is currently in France for four months, learning French in order to finally qualify to fail upwards and replace Dr. Tam as Canada's CMOH. One of the few people in the world to have botched two different SARS-CoV outbreaks (plus the Seven Oaks thing)."
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #covid

2025-03-07 14:28:47 UTC

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
"Elon Musk is telling Republican lawmakers in private meetings that he is not to blame for the mass firings of federal workers
“...despite the tech entrepreneur boasting about cuts, recommending the US “delete entire agencies” and taking questions on the issue alongside the US president, then wielding a chainsaw at an event to symbolize his efforts”
#uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/elon-musk-republicans-federal-workers-firings

2025-02-28 13:52:39 UTC

Musk is such a galaxy brain:
"Elon Musk shared a post on his social network stating that Slim could have ties to criminal groups, and five minutes later, Carlos Slim canceled all business collaborations with Starlink in Latin America, which made Musk lose 7 billion US dollars.
"An hour later, Slim announced that he would transfer his projects for the next 5 years with Starlink, an investment of 22 billion dollars, to companies in China and Europe."
#Mexico #Musk
https://mexicodailypost.com/2025/02/24/carlos-slim-orders-to-cancel-his-collaboration-with-elon-musks-starlink/

2025-02-19 14:54:20 UTC

Printer question:
I’m looking for an inexpensive laser black and white printer THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE A SUBSCRIPTION. Does that even exist anymore? I thought Brother had a great little B&W printer, but:
"Requires enrollment in a monthly billed Brother Refresh EZ Print Subscription service plan based on monthly printed page allotments.”
I went to check Consumer Reports and they appear to be hard down: https://www.consumerreports.org/

2025-02-15 13:02:06 UTC

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Also, you need to get records that were recorded and mastered analog. Digitally recorded LPs will have all the potential problems of vinyl (pops and clicks, etc) and the flatness of a CD.

2025-02-14 12:09:25 UTC

Trump and Putin are acting like mob bosses agreeing to divide up territory. 'Your boys stay on the west side and we'll take the east.'
"in the brave new world of Trump and Putin, might is right and territorial expansion is what great powers do, be it Russia to Ukraine, the US to Canada and Greenland – or China to Taiwan."
#cdnpoli #canada
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/13/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-ukraine-us-europe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2025-02-12 13:22:31 UTC

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This is why I think #Canada is in big trouble trade-wise: only the US is close.
"Leaving aside what this indicates about Trump's tariff strategy, this diagram of the proportions of exports that go to the USA is a nice confirmation of the 'gravity theory of international trade' - you trade most with the countries you are nearest with... see the proportions for Canada, Mexico & Latin America."

2025-02-06 13:50:12 UTC

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I think different people learned different things. For example, public health officials learned they could lie without professional consequences. I learned never to trust public health again.
"Tick... Tick... Tick... Letting a virus run rampant means more viral evolution and it doesn't mean it becomes milder. It's like people learned nothing from SARS-CoV-2. 🤔"
#covid #CovidIsNotOver

2025-02-05 12:47:50 UTC

James Hansen gets to the root cause of the #ClimateCrisis :
"Political change is needed to achieve all these measures, Hansen said: “Special interests have assumed far too much power in our political systems. In democratic countries the power should be with the voter, not with the people who have the money. That requires fixing some of our democracies, including the US.”
#uspol #cdnpoli
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/climate-change-target-of-2c-is-dead-says-renowned-climate-scientist?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2025-02-01 19:17:37 UTC

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Welcome to the oligarchy!
"Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors."
"What a weird coincidence."

2025-01-24 16:38:43 UTC

States' rights #trump human rights:
"Legislators in at least four states have introduced bills this year that would change the legal definition of “homicide” to include abortion – proposals that pave the way for states to charge abortion patients with murder."
#abortion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/23/abortion-homicide-bills?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2025-01-22 19:53:52 UTC

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Same, so i have nothing to report, I'm afraid. Pretty pathetic attempt at trolling you.
If you have a post of his that I can send to my admin, I'll see about blocking him on spore.social, too.

2025-01-22 12:57:15 UTC

The UK Labour Party is busily preparing the ground for the next Conservative government:
"Asked whether – like Tony Blair’s Labour government – she was relaxed about people becoming wealthy, Reeves said: “Absolutely.”
#ukpol
https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/jan/22/davos-day-two-rachel-reeves-uk-economy-ai-un-europe-live-updates?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2025-01-22 00:14:33 UTC

@npub1fdr…lvhs on conservatism:
What binds "white nationalists, American imperialists, misogynists, Christian fundamentalists, and finance bros" together? Conservatives believe that some people are born to rule and others to be ruled. Progressives believe nobody was born to rule others.
From his book #TheLostCause.
#uspol #cdnpoli

2025-01-21 13:32:07 UTC

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This is the message Trump wanted to send so that he could create a gang of lawless thugs to do his bidding. He doesn't need to prosecute people like Fauci and Milley - he'll just set his goons on them.
"By pardoning the Jan6 rioters, incl fmr Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio (serving 22 yrs), Trump is saying, "If you're my violent mob, I got your back. There's no penalty for violence against my enemies."
#uspol

2025-01-21 00:30:53 UTC

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Musk's Nazi salute is another push on boundaries - 'How far can I go? What can I get away with?'
And if he's giving Nazi salutes and supporting the German AfD, I'm pretty sure he supports mass extermination of lesser people.
"No non-nazi in ANY setting, let alone the INAUGURATION OF THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENT, makes a nazi salute by accident. It was intentional."
#uspol #Nazi #Musk

2025-01-20 13:11:40 UTC

As an economist put it, a country has never had this much inequality without falling to fascism. Now it's on a global scale.
"The wealth of the world’s billionaires grew by $2tn (£1.64tn) in 2024, three times faster than in 2023"
#EatTheRich
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/20/wealth-of-worlds-billionaires-grew-by-2tn-in-2024-report-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2025-01-17 22:27:33 UTC

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The average Russian is as propagandised as the average American, apparently.
"Rabocheostrovsk, Republic of Karelia. Residents say there is no work, all young people drink, and the authorities are in no hurry to build any enterprises.
"However, the woman in the video thinks that America is to blame for all this.
"This is what many Russians feel, actually."

2025-01-14 15:37:17 UTC

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The whole article is full of zingers.
"There you have it, friends, straight from our next prime minister — hate crimes are not the result of attacks by homophobes, neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, white supremacists and the like. Hate crimes are caused by people who talk about hate crimes. Your average Nazi or Proud Boy didn’t even see colour until woke liberals invented identity politics. But under Poilievre, no more of that."
#cdnpoli

2025-01-10 18:25:37 UTC

"several fires blazing right now around Los Angeles, and over 100,000 people have been evacuated so far. Many have lost everything, including children who no longer have homes and schools. Some of these people will become climate refugees, their families migrating to safer areas to somehow start over. They will join millions of others on the move to escape fires, extreme heat, and...relocations by 3.2 million people in the US to escape flooding alone.”
#ClimateChange
https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/in-the-face-of-disaster-a-new-age?r=50n99m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2025-01-07 18:27:44 UTC

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Wasn’t original interview in the Globe & Mail?

2025-01-07 13:01:39 UTC

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That anybody considers disgraced psychologist Peterson a reliable or useful interviewer tells me all I need to know about the organization that hired him: it's a propaganda outlet, not news.

2025-01-06 18:28:57 UTC

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Yes, we do - and the way to fight the right is through a progressive vision. That is working out well for AOC, Sanders, and other progressives. To keep moving to the right is morally corrupt and is obviously not working. The centrists like Trudeau are just as responsible for the rise of the right wing.
"The right-wing across the world is destabilizing liberal coalitions, and we desperately need to find ways to combat it."

2024-12-29 18:05:34 UTC

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If the feds are getting the blame for housing and healthcare, they need to do something about it, not point the finger at the provinces. That is costing them dearly.
How did this happen?
“Following changing policies and budget cuts in 1993, responsibility for housing transferred from federal to provincial, municipal, and local jurisdictions.[4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Canada

2024-12-29 00:59:17 UTC

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“Tech oligarchs are gonna win [this battle] hands down,” one commentator posted on X. “MAGA plebes have served their purpose of getting Trump elected, now will be pushed aside for the US headlong plunge into Techno Feudalism future.”

2024-12-27 14:26:45 UTC

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The Trudeau brand is not selling because a) he's told some lies so now many people don't trust him, and b) he and the Liberals really haven't delivered on major issues like housing or corporate greed generally.

2024-12-26 21:32:29 UTC

Hey fellow Canadians! Look what the US did before:
"waged economic warfare on Chile to build support for the 1973 U.S.-backed coup that removed democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Under the guidance of U.S. economists, the military dictatorship then adopted neoliberal policies that destroyed Chile's social safety net and privatized education as well as the economy."
"the fateful directive to “make the economy scream.”
#cdnpoli #Canada
https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/republicans-have-crashed-a-national?r=4urvg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2024-12-23 18:06:08 UTC

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50% more likely to be in a car accident if you've had #Covid. And this:
"Damage to these regions of the brain can induce what has been called ‘a slow and insidious loss of the capacity for moral rationality’. What begins as disinhibition – minor lapses in patience or self-control – can escalate over time into more sociopathic behaviour, with profound consequences for society at large."
#CovidIsNotOver

2024-12-18 00:36:14 UTC

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A. Who are you talking about being okay with subsidies?
B. Deliberate miss on my point "as opposed to fixing things properly.”
Cash giveaways are sleazy vote buying attempts, whether done by Trudeau or Doug Ford. Fix root causes, but both those guys are too corrupt to ever do so.

2024-12-18 00:19:32 UTC

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That’s what it sounds like: She was opposed to sleazy attempts to buy votes as opposed to fixing things properly. (I have no idea what she’d propose, to be fair.)

2024-12-17 23:32:35 UTC

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Now that Trump is about to be President again, there is nothing to stop him from assassinating enemies.
"the Supreme Court stunned most legal observers by granting Trump broad immunity from criminal prosecution over any acts that fell within his official duties as president. If you recall, this even included ordering Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political opponent. So long as it was deemed to be within the president’s powers, Trump got a get-of-out-jail-free card.”
#uspol #trump

2024-12-17 20:27:28 UTC

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Sounds like Liberal voters stayed home. Trudeau should have stepped down a long time ago.

2024-12-17 15:46:35 UTC

Michael Moore on the #unitedhealthcare CEO murder:
“The anger is 1000% justified. It is long overdue for the media to cover it. It is not new. It has been boiling. And I’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/16/yes-i-condemn-michael-moore-responds-to-luigi-mangiones-manifesto?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2024-12-16 13:01:20 UTC

I think it's fair to say that if Xi Jinping has had 14 years to focus on corruption...and the country is still plagued by it...he is corrupt.
"Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has sought to present an uncompromising crackdown on corruption as a hallmark of his leadership, with the twin objectives of consolidating his authority within the party and restoring eroded public trust.
"But the party continues to be plagued by corruption, particularly within the armed forces"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/16/xi-jinping-communist-party-corruption-crackdown?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2024-12-06 12:28:27 UTC

Starmer is an utter disaster. It's hard to overstate this. He has squandered a massive lead in months by basically saying he won't do much, screw the poor, and it's the Tories fault.
"Keir Starmer has told voters not to expect rapid public service improvements as he seeks to relaunch his faltering government with long-term targets on housebuilding, living standards, energy, policing, education and the NHS."
#ukpol
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/06/dont-expect-better-public-services-by-christmas-starmer-says?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2024-12-06 12:08:55 UTC

And why not? If MAGA is going violent, progressives need to fight fight fight.
"An expert in political violence told the Guardian he sees this as part of the US’s growing acceptance of violence as a way to settle civil disputes."
#uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/05/unitedhealthcare-brian-hompson-killing-online-reaction?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2024-12-05 13:38:18 UTC

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Is the Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne on Threads?

2024-12-04 12:38:56 UTC

Gee, I wonder what being off school and sick for two years does to childhood development?
"Most teenagers who have suffered from long Covid recover within two years"
#LongCovidKids #covid #CovidIsNotOver
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/04/most-teenagers-with-long-covid-recovered-after-two-years-new-study-shows?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2024-12-02 23:16:38 UTC

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Somebody once said that the purpose of conservative parties is to transfer wealth from the public to rich people. Anything else is whitewash. I believe that and looks like we're in the end stage of the power grab, or so they hope.
"@npub1jn6…p6se
Conservatives have no interest in governing. They, like their GOP counterparts, intend to crash the system and replace it with corporate oligarchy."

2024-12-02 13:21:26 UTC

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Apparently most of the tech bros are Randians.

2024-11-30 15:04:12 UTC

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💯 correct on Trump:
"He is not rational, and does not think far enough ahead to connect cause and effect in the usual ways. He is a narcissistic psychopath – a Neroist, as I have called him. His primary motive is not self-interest, as we might understand it, but self-aggrandizement, the constant nourishing and enlargement of his vision of himself, which in his case can only be achieved by destroying everything else."