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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Mar 15

Babe wake up, a YouTuber just dropped a six hour exploration of a niche topic that nonetheless manages to captivate you with twists and turns and reveals more seedy undercurrents in the jaded reality we call capitalism. #cndpoli #cdnpoli #idontknowpoliticshashtags

Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Mar 15

This marathon from @millennialmoron.bsky.social is one of the best pieces of investigative journalism I have seen about a Canadian institution in years. Seriously everyone who's ever paid into the CPP should watch it right to the end. #cndpoli #canada #LPC #CPC

The Problem with CPP Investments

YouTube video by Millennial Moron

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · Mar 3

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Jan 15

Heck no. But it'll probably happen.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jan 15

Too much, or just about right? 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Jan 14

While easily the best news of the day, this does endear her to every anglophone who took nine years of French and still struggles with four-twenties and nineteen.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Dec 30

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Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · Dec 28

More romance media should include scenes where the couple are the only sane people in the room. The calming balm of staring at your partner wordlessly and knowing how each other is internally reacting to something stupid that was said. The foreplay to talking mad shit in the car ride home 😚👌

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Dec 27

We always knew JJ was a traitor. This is his time to shine. As soon as PP is in power and kissing Trump's boots, he will forget this whole idea. Hopefully the Internet will have forgotten JJ by then too.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · Dec 10

Amid everything else the real struggle is always a class struggle, and a struggle for the equality of opportunity: the chance to get a good job, own a home, raise a family if you want. The modern smear of oligarchy, and the austerity-related decline of institutions, betrays that. So you get this.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · Dec 10

The words in this headline would have made zero sense arranged in this order just five years ago.

But beneath is some of the best analysis I've read of all that's going on at the intersection of social media, youth, economics and politics.

Damn is it bleak, though.

🔗: defector.com/the-hawk-tua...

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Dec 4

How did 54% get it so wrong? You're dooming your boy to live through the heat death of the universe and the inevitable rise of fascism. How is that good??? They're gonna burn all the books Emmerich! You ain't reading for eternity!

Meanwhile Manny is there being cute af.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Dec 3

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Nov 26

What's the situation at the border Trump/Ford want fixed exactly?

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Nov 25

The rare anti-science double whammy.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Nov 25

Bird flu, a virus that can also affect humans, has been discovered in a batch of raw milk sold in California store refrigerators, state regulators said Sunday.

It comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.

Bird flu detected in raw milk sold at California store

The H5N1 virus was found in a sample of unpasteurized milk at a store, prompting a recall of one batch. Health agencies have warned against the growing dietary fad.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Nov 22

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Nov 21

Yeah, Poilievre will happily turn Canada into a US client state and give big daddy Trump everything he wants. If Canadians are ok with that, then those numbers make sense.

I would rather have someone who actually represents Canadians' best interests.

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Nov 21

If you're looking for strength, make sure you're lifting as heavy as possible with relatively few reps, especially the big compound lifts (squat, deadlift, etc.) Doing lots of reps with lighter weights can serve other purposes, but gotta go heavy to get strong.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · Nov 21

Imagine being so personally and professionally repellent that even Republicans won't vote for you

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Nov 21

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (14/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Nov 20

Reddit always delivers lol

www.reddit.com

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Nov 20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge

A blue sky cover (that's literally it, just blue sky with a single cloud) of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · Nov 19

2025 white house cabinet meeting

the cover of not like us, big house with a bunch of sex offender alert icons

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Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Nov 19

AMD surpassed Intel a while back for most things. If you're using it primarily for gaming, look into X3D chips, otherwise the higher core count AMD chips are pretty good for productivity.

GPUs have gotten insanely expensive. They're now usually half the budget.

PCPartPicker is a great website!

Aidan Hailes @aidanhailes.bsky.social · Nov 19

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (12/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge

The cover of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Nov 18

A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as
"Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator.
"The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

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