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I Need a Cocktail
@iantuck.bsky.social
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Former spirits importer. Software Engineer: sold my first program in 1980 at thirteen years old. Customs Broker, technologist, entrepreneur, progressive, I enjoy quality cocktail bars as "3rd places". Long list of hobbies, mediocre at them all.
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iantuck.bsky.social
Yeah, there's gonna be a 2:00AM tantrum on Truth Social about this, for sure. Had to be said, tho'.
lloydalter.bsky.social Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 1d
Carney's speech is brilliant. Here is a transcript. I suspect we will be feeling some serious pain in Canada shortly from the reaction
open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:46 PM
iantuck.bsky.social
The good news is that Mamdani is going to make every kidnap bus free.
January 20, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Worth every second
January 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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philabcoulter.bsky.social
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says amandascgorman Minneapolis, Minnesota For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love * better angels of our nature.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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volts.wtf
Planners should have to design cities from behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance. That is to say: the planner will have to live in the city they design, but they don't know *where* in the city.
January 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social
Canadian government officials, what are you still doing on X in 2026?

By
Jimmy Thomson
Opinion
January 2nd 2026

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/02/o...
Canadian government officials, what are you still doing on X in 2026?
The platform's own chatbot started posting sexualized material of children and other people who couldn't consent. With no moral bottom in sight, it's well past time our officials found other ways to c...
www.nationalobserver.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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dandrezner.bsky.social
This, by @anamariecox.bsky.social on the OU essay, is very, very good. youtu.be/GvCmeuJyT9g?...
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editor’s Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
iantuck.bsky.social
These are amazing. #Raptors #NBASky #NBA
aidandesigned.bsky.social Aidan Lising @aidandesigned.bsky.social · Dec 3
For the 2025-26 Toronto Raptors season, I'm going to attempt drawing a sketch after all 82 games!

Thread below for all the games I've drawn so far! 👇

(Playing catch-up on this app, but I'll try to post frequently moving forward)

Games 1-4:
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
iantuck.bsky.social
Fuck Doug Ford and his cronies.
seanyyz.bsky.social Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · Nov 28
Right at the corner of Parkside and Howard Park.

No one with power was serious about protecting pedestrians here. There were years to fix Parkside Drive before Ford made it nearly impossible.
shawnmicallef.bsky.social Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · Nov 28
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
iantuck.bsky.social
I recently found an old CD I burned of the first season of "An American in Canada', and now I'm desperate to find season 2 because I can't remember what happened.
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · Nov 26
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
iantuck.bsky.social
This is incredible.
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · Nov 20
the thread just keeps getting better from here

this is easily the funniest way Elon has ever broken Grok, you can get it to choose him over anyone for anything in a hypothetical scenario

*anything*
esghound.com Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · Nov 19
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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neorsd.org
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
iantuck.bsky.social
The only bad union is a police union.
hofrench.bsky.social Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · Nov 16
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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jandrewsinclair.bsky.social
This is great. In (gift link): www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The initial draft of the story I filed for a popular New York City–based publication was 20,000 words long. (Sadly, all of the best parts everyone would have loved were cut by my psychotic editor, whose No. 1 passion in life was removing 13,000 perfect words from my first drafts; I’m not worried about him reading these words, because a low-class butcher like that doesn’t possess enough humanity to subscribe to The Atlantic—though, if you happen to know William, I would thank you not to send him a gift link to this article.) And what I learned was that there was no sane reason why.
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
iantuck.bsky.social
Well-played, sir.
zhugeex.com Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · Nov 14
I’ve heard that 4 in 10 cops are planning to leave the force.

Google “40% of cops” for more info.
jbenmenachem.com jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Nov 12
"Hundreds of New York City police officers are ready to leave the force in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) election victory, with some openly weeping after the cop-hating socialist seized the city’s mayoralty earlier this month"

(Note: This story has 3 sources, who wouldn't go on record)
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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leighwalton.bsky.social
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:

saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3

and a worker tier whose emails are like:

Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
cethanleahy.com Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · Nov 12
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
iantuck.bsky.social
Man, this is cool.
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
iantuck.bsky.social
Dubin?
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
iantuck.bsky.social
I think this captures quite well how many Dems are feeling today. The party is going to have to be dragged into this century, and this moment. And it can't just happen during elections.
fishkin.bsky.social Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Nov 10
The fact that many Democratic Senators are profoundly trapped in an unreal matrix of DC-media assumptions is a disaster on an epic scale. But it’s also an opportunity.

You have to wait years to primary most Senators, but you can fight to change those assumptions now.

Let me explain…
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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saltydavid.bsky.social
Spot on!
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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magnetosmettle.bsky.social
Wow… nailed it!
Screenshot of UK newspaper clipping: “The UK steps in. (They sure have a way with words) By Oliver Kornetzke August 18, 2025 Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul— all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been— arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul— it shts out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.”
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
iantuck.bsky.social
Please sign this. Let's not let Doug Ford ruin everything forever. #ToPoli
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
iantuck.bsky.social
Once again. I implore you that if you're still on Twitter, know that even if *you* think it's still a "normal" platform, corporations think it's full of nothing but rubes and reactionary crypto-bros and degenerate gamblers (is there a difference?)

Get off of Twitter. Your brain is being cooked.
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM