Imbroglior
@dkfoster.bsky.social
Tweetdecker formerly known as @cityslikr or Former Tweetdecker known as @cityslikr
Creator of, curator and writer for All Fried Up in the Big Smoke afuitbs.com
Creator of, curator and writer for All Fried Up in the Big Smoke afuitbs.com
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Imbroglior
@dkfoster.bsky.social
· Aug 3
"This gloom, this surrender to the dark waters which lap us about, is a modern invention... we do not believe enough. Our fathers at any rate had something to demolish." Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
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Chotiner: You've said soup cures measles
RFK: Well,
Chotiner: And I agree
RFK: Oh?
Chotiner: No. Wait....I forgot my question
RFK: Take your time
Chotiner: I mean, uh, wow your eyes are blue. You smell like bleach and I love it?
RFK: That's your question?
Chotiner: What the fuck is happening to me
RFK: Well,
Chotiner: And I agree
RFK: Oh?
Chotiner: No. Wait....I forgot my question
RFK: Take your time
Chotiner: I mean, uh, wow your eyes are blue. You smell like bleach and I love it?
RFK: That's your question?
Chotiner: What the fuck is happening to me
Okay it's officially time for a Chotiner/RFK interview
“The entire purpose of science is to search for existential truths,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told me. “It’s not subjective. It should be objective. I believe science is a place where you can find unity if you can get a conversation going.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Chotiner: You've said soup cures measles
RFK: Well,
Chotiner: And I agree
RFK: Oh?
Chotiner: No. Wait....I forgot my question
RFK: Take your time
Chotiner: I mean, uh, wow your eyes are blue. You smell like bleach and I love it?
RFK: That's your question?
Chotiner: What the fuck is happening to me
RFK: Well,
Chotiner: And I agree
RFK: Oh?
Chotiner: No. Wait....I forgot my question
RFK: Take your time
Chotiner: I mean, uh, wow your eyes are blue. You smell like bleach and I love it?
RFK: That's your question?
Chotiner: What the fuck is happening to me
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Interesting that so many of these American fascists failed at show business
this extremely fashy Trump cult of personality ad featuring Kristi Noem ran this morning on Fox & Friends
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Interesting that so many of these American fascists failed at show business
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I think we need to stop referring to Gaza and Lebanon as actual ceasefires. A ceasefire means, well, a ceasing of fire. What we have in these two cases is Israel striking less than it used to, but still holding the power to act whenever it wants.
Israel insists that the strike that killed Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hizbullah’s military chief, did not breach the truce with Lebanon. But it is a reminder that ceasefires in the region remain shaky
The killing of a Hizbullah commander shows how fragile truces are
Israel’s ceasefire agreements in Gaza and Iran and are shaky, too
econ.st
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I think we need to stop referring to Gaza and Lebanon as actual ceasefires. A ceasefire means, well, a ceasing of fire. What we have in these two cases is Israel striking less than it used to, but still holding the power to act whenever it wants.
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At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
He's not as bad as Trump but...
NEW: Ontario’s transparency watchdog has been forced to “intervene” after the solicitor general’s office repeatedly ignored orders to release information.
It’s part of a trend which has also raised questions about political interference. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154356...
It’s part of a trend which has also raised questions about political interference. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154356...
Ontario watchdog ‘intervening’ after solicitor general ignores transparency orders | Globalnews.ca
There have been several instances in recent years where the IPC has told the solicitor general's office to release information, only for the government to ignore the decree.
globalnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
He's not as bad as Trump but...
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I don't think I've ever been as happy in my entire life doing anything as this bloke is spouting knowingly disingenuous horseshit on TV to cover for the worst people in the world. He looks like a massive beetroot toddler who's just been given a cake laced with meth.
Hassett: "On one of the Sunday shows, the anchor criticized the fact Walmart said the Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper by about $10. Then he said, 'Oh yeah, but they substituted generic stuff,' as if having a generic something is a crime for ordinary folks! It shows how out of touch these people are."
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I don't think I've ever been as happy in my entire life doing anything as this bloke is spouting knowingly disingenuous horseshit on TV to cover for the worst people in the world. He looks like a massive beetroot toddler who's just been given a cake laced with meth.
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I see Stroke Grandpa is having a normal morning.
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I see Stroke Grandpa is having a normal morning.
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“Indeed, the provincial government’s main expert witness (Haider), ‘did not address the issue of whether removing the target bike lanes and restoring a lane for cars would relieve congestion,’ Schabas noted, adding, somewhat archly, “This is a surprising omission.’ Tis.”
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Bike Lanes: 2 - Ford Nation: 0 - Spacing Toronto
In an intriguing aside a third of the way into Justice Paul Schabas’ extraordinary decision (issued yesterday) in Toronto’s bike lane war with Premier Doug Ford, he reveals how, about a month ago, he ...
spacing.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Indeed, the provincial government’s main expert witness (Haider), ‘did not address the issue of whether removing the target bike lanes and restoring a lane for cars would relieve congestion,’ Schabas noted, adding, somewhat archly, “This is a surprising omission.’ Tis.”
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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And going with Murtaza Haider? The guy Doug Ford got to defend his anti-cycling policy and then got skewered in court?
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
And going with Murtaza Haider? The guy Doug Ford got to defend his anti-cycling policy and then got skewered in court?
"Whatever the wisdom of creating the TPA in 1952, in 2025 its existence is working at cross purposes to numerous other city priorities. It’s an explicit subsidy for car users in a city that’s already choked by traffic congestion."
www.tvo.org/article/anal...
www.tvo.org/article/anal...
TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts
www.tvo.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"Whatever the wisdom of creating the TPA in 1952, in 2025 its existence is working at cross purposes to numerous other city priorities. It’s an explicit subsidy for car users in a city that’s already choked by traffic congestion."
www.tvo.org/article/anal...
www.tvo.org/article/anal...
If you want anyone to take your investigative journalism seriously, never, ever, never, and I mean ever, go to showboating city councillor Brad Bradford for comment. You torpedo your story right there.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Transit violence rising across Canada — in some cities, by nearly 300% | CBC News
A joint investigation by CBC News and the Investigative Journalism Foundation has found that transit violence in some of Canada's biggest municipalities remains well above pre-pandemic levels, despite...
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If you want anyone to take your investigative journalism seriously, never, ever, never, and I mean ever, go to showboating city councillor Brad Bradford for comment. You torpedo your story right there.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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"Jen Gerson interviews Ross Douthat" is the worst sentence ever typed by human hands.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
"Jen Gerson interviews Ross Douthat" is the worst sentence ever typed by human hands.
I liked Task a lot.
Will just say though, biker gangs are the most boring bad guys. It's all glower and then extreme violence. That's it. Nothing else.
Will just say though, biker gangs are the most boring bad guys. It's all glower and then extreme violence. That's it. Nothing else.
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I liked Task a lot.
Will just say though, biker gangs are the most boring bad guys. It's all glower and then extreme violence. That's it. Nothing else.
Will just say though, biker gangs are the most boring bad guys. It's all glower and then extreme violence. That's it. Nothing else.
"Personally, I don't understand the political calculus."
Because you're not a certified brain genius like our PM.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Because you're not a certified brain genius like our PM.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Mark Carney says hurdles remain as tensions rise over pipeline deal for Alberta
The prime minister said a memorandum of understanding with Alberta will set out "necessary conditions" for any federal greenlight to a new oil pipeline.
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"Personally, I don't understand the political calculus."
Because you're not a certified brain genius like our PM.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Because you're not a certified brain genius like our PM.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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in my own experience only, as LLMs get “better,” all I am seeing is the production of texts that are just as wrong as they ever were, in ways that are just as fatally bad, but which now appear more consistently plausible to someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
in my own experience only, as LLMs get “better,” all I am seeing is the production of texts that are just as wrong as they ever were, in ways that are just as fatally bad, but which now appear more consistently plausible to someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about
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We're not allowed to do anything unless Doug says we can and his agenda is to tear the city down to the studs and remake it as a large car dealership attached to a casino so what's the point even?
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
We're not allowed to do anything unless Doug says we can and his agenda is to tear the city down to the studs and remake it as a large car dealership attached to a casino so what's the point even?
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He’s more charlie sheen than zohran mamdani what a clown
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
He’s more charlie sheen than zohran mamdani what a clown
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“Toronto needs to get back to winning,” says mayoral hopeful Brad Bradford and I cannot stress hard enough how POINTLESS this man is. You look at what Zohran Mamdani is starting in NYC and your heart breaks for our city yet again 🫤
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
“Toronto needs to get back to winning,” says mayoral hopeful Brad Bradford and I cannot stress hard enough how POINTLESS this man is. You look at what Zohran Mamdani is starting in NYC and your heart breaks for our city yet again 🫤
Yeah but, protesters are anti-democratic.
"Since the legislature returned on Oct. 29, at least nine bills have been time allocated, allowing the government to limit debate time, while eight have been ordered for third reading, skipping the committee stage altogether."
"Since the legislature returned on Oct. 29, at least nine bills have been time allocated, allowing the government to limit debate time, while eight have been ordered for third reading, skipping the committee stage altogether."
NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford is threatening to audit all provincial spending to determine whether public-sector unions are “funnelling” money to “left-wing radical groups” that staged a protest inside the Ontario legislature. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154280...
globalnews.ca/news/1154280...
Ford says he will audit ‘left-wing radical groups’ opposed to government legislation | Globalnews.ca
Ford's warning came after members of the tenant advocacy group ACORN interrupted the legislature to protest a controversial omnibus bill that shortens some eviction timelines.
globalnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Yeah but, protesters are anti-democratic.
"Since the legislature returned on Oct. 29, at least nine bills have been time allocated, allowing the government to limit debate time, while eight have been ordered for third reading, skipping the committee stage altogether."
"Since the legislature returned on Oct. 29, at least nine bills have been time allocated, allowing the government to limit debate time, while eight have been ordered for third reading, skipping the committee stage altogether."
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So let me get this straight... The premier of Ontario threatened to use government power to intimidate and harass groups he views as political enemies?
(Here's my guess: Doug's gone off script again and his staffers will get him in line again.)
#OnPoli
(Here's my guess: Doug's gone off script again and his staffers will get him in line again.)
#OnPoli
NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford is threatening to audit all provincial spending to determine whether public-sector unions are “funnelling” money to “left-wing radical groups” that staged a protest inside the Ontario legislature. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154280...
globalnews.ca/news/1154280...
Ford says he will audit ‘left-wing radical groups’ opposed to government legislation | Globalnews.ca
Ford's warning came after members of the tenant advocacy group ACORN interrupted the legislature to protest a controversial omnibus bill that shortens some eviction timelines.
globalnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
So let me get this straight... The premier of Ontario threatened to use government power to intimidate and harass groups he views as political enemies?
(Here's my guess: Doug's gone off script again and his staffers will get him in line again.)
#OnPoli
(Here's my guess: Doug's gone off script again and his staffers will get him in line again.)
#OnPoli
Or if you think the listener/reader stops listening/reading after the first 4 words of the statement.
Maybe I'm missing an important point, but the Ford gov's claim that "Landlords will lower rents if they can rent out more of their properties now that we've given them more power over tenants" feels like something you'd say if you'd never literally never heard of capitalism before in your life.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Or if you think the listener/reader stops listening/reading after the first 4 words of the statement.
"... fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal..."
Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"... fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal..."