Jordan Carlson
@jordantcarlson.bsky.social
Canadian postdoc in Japan.
Energy, sustainability, unrelated ramblings.
Energy, sustainability, unrelated ramblings.
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Found out how to make interactive PDFs in InDesign and immediately used it to make the worst info input format I could think of
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Found out how to make interactive PDFs in InDesign and immediately used it to make the worst info input format I could think of
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For my American followers:
In the "Sliding Doors" like upside down alternative reality that is Australia the Centre Left union normie party passed permitting reform with the Greens. Fossil Lobbyists pushed their luck and got cut out of the deal while the right party imploded.
In the "Sliding Doors" like upside down alternative reality that is Australia the Centre Left union normie party passed permitting reform with the Greens. Fossil Lobbyists pushed their luck and got cut out of the deal while the right party imploded.
The Greens, Labor, and the environment all scored a win today — it's a lesson in how politics *should* work
The Greens are clearly still concerned about being seen as uncooperative. Today’s deal is a reminder that this is how things get done.
www.crikey.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
For my American followers:
In the "Sliding Doors" like upside down alternative reality that is Australia the Centre Left union normie party passed permitting reform with the Greens. Fossil Lobbyists pushed their luck and got cut out of the deal while the right party imploded.
In the "Sliding Doors" like upside down alternative reality that is Australia the Centre Left union normie party passed permitting reform with the Greens. Fossil Lobbyists pushed their luck and got cut out of the deal while the right party imploded.
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I’ve got an article out in the Star today about the Thomas King issue:
Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Indigenous is just the first step. This is what has to happen next
#Opinion from Robert Jago
#Opinion from Robert Jago
Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Indigenous is just the first step. This is what has to happen next
Though not a shock to some, it's time to reckon with the harm done.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I’ve got an article out in the Star today about the Thomas King issue:
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Weaponized interdependence:
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Weaponized interdependence:
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
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The leaks from Tokyo begin -- Trump, contrary to reports, was not 'mediating' between China and Japan. He said nothing about Taiwan to Takaichi other than briefing her on what Xi told him. Nervousness in Tokyo rising.
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Amid fight with China, Japan wary of where Trump stands | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
U.S. President Donald Trump did not convey any concerns about the current Japan-China feud in a telephone call with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Nov. 25, sources said.
www.asahi.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The leaks from Tokyo begin -- Trump, contrary to reports, was not 'mediating' between China and Japan. He said nothing about Taiwan to Takaichi other than briefing her on what Xi told him. Nervousness in Tokyo rising.
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
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🦃🎮 Creator Day returns this Friday with the start of our Black Friday 2025 Sitewide Sale. For 24 hours we'll waive our free on all transactions. Over 15,000 projects to be on sale from this Friday through December 3rd. More details here itch.io/blog/1124058/creator...
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🦃🎮 Creator Day returns this Friday with the start of our Black Friday 2025 Sitewide Sale. For 24 hours we'll waive our free on all transactions. Over 15,000 projects to be on sale from this Friday through December 3rd. More details here itch.io/blog/1124058/creator...
It's always fun to explain to people that my undergrad university (and hometown) has signs warning people not to approach moose or bears.
This exceptional #UNBC student is waiting right outside my office at the moment.
So I might as well use this opportunity to advertise our Wildlife and Fisheries B.Sc.
🔗 www.unbc.ca/programs-and...
So I might as well use this opportunity to advertise our Wildlife and Fisheries B.Sc.
🔗 www.unbc.ca/programs-and...
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It's always fun to explain to people that my undergrad university (and hometown) has signs warning people not to approach moose or bears.
do we have a "most cursed/awful (hilarious) post of the year" award yet?
Imagining an intensely cursed alt-history timeline where the Axis powers won the war and people are by now using the term "Volkx" to try to be more intersectional
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
do we have a "most cursed/awful (hilarious) post of the year" award yet?
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It's a strange way to go about building national unity—agreeing with Alberta what should be built in BC without talking to BC about it.
Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Carney briefs cabinet on Alberta energy deal to be unveiled Thursday
Agreement could open the door for a new heavy oil pipeline to the B.C. coast
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's a strange way to go about building national unity—agreeing with Alberta what should be built in BC without talking to BC about it.
Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
In this era of American Retreat, Canada must return to working with Australia and Germany to make the weirdest science fiction shows on Earth.
Respectively: Farscape and Lexx, for anyone unaware.
Respectively: Farscape and Lexx, for anyone unaware.
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 9:48 PM
In this era of American Retreat, Canada must return to working with Australia and Germany to make the weirdest science fiction shows on Earth.
Respectively: Farscape and Lexx, for anyone unaware.
Respectively: Farscape and Lexx, for anyone unaware.
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1 Can't emphasize this enough. EU is home to multiple "second-tier" great powers — who are only "second-tier" because they chose not to make large investments in military capabilities — and is itself an economic & diplomatic great power. NATO is the most powerful security confederation in history.
It sure seems like Vance leads a faction that is enamored of 🇷🇺's cultivated cultural conservative "soft power", reflexively anti-Atlanticist, and stupid enough to think that wedging 🇷🇺-🇨🇳 is a) realistic and b) worth trashing our relationship with the world's third largest economy.
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
1 Can't emphasize this enough. EU is home to multiple "second-tier" great powers — who are only "second-tier" because they chose not to make large investments in military capabilities — and is itself an economic & diplomatic great power. NATO is the most powerful security confederation in history.
"private infrastructure" is part of why the public system becomes dysfunctional, as those with the resources to opt out, do so.
All of this stuff is just a public argument for privatisation and public impoverishment.
All of this stuff is just a public argument for privatisation and public impoverishment.
famously Canadians in Ontario love paying for the 407
who pays for this fucking shit
who pays for this fucking shit
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"private infrastructure" is part of why the public system becomes dysfunctional, as those with the resources to opt out, do so.
All of this stuff is just a public argument for privatisation and public impoverishment.
All of this stuff is just a public argument for privatisation and public impoverishment.
>news, constantly: "Japan is seeing increasing anti-foreigner sentiment"
>usual takes are endless
>meanwhile: Ukrainian wins one of the six big sumo tournaments of the year www.fukuoka-now.com/en/news/aoni...
>usual takes are endless
>meanwhile: Ukrainian wins one of the six big sumo tournaments of the year www.fukuoka-now.com/en/news/aoni...
Aonishiki Becomes First Ukrainian-Born Winner of Kyushu Basho | Fukuoka Now
Aonishiki, who became the first Ukrainian-born wrestler to win a makuuchi title, held a press conference one day after securing...
www.fukuoka-now.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
>news, constantly: "Japan is seeing increasing anti-foreigner sentiment"
>usual takes are endless
>meanwhile: Ukrainian wins one of the six big sumo tournaments of the year www.fukuoka-now.com/en/news/aoni...
>usual takes are endless
>meanwhile: Ukrainian wins one of the six big sumo tournaments of the year www.fukuoka-now.com/en/news/aoni...
now that I've had this thought it occurs to me this would basically be the most "subtitles required" English/French film ever produced for the majority of speakers of either language
it is time for Acadian-Quebecois-Newfoundlander dialect conflict in the form of a buddy cop film
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
now that I've had this thought it occurs to me this would basically be the most "subtitles required" English/French film ever produced for the majority of speakers of either language
Considering how Chotiner does interviews it's kind of incredible no one has caused him to do this on social media with greater frequency.
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Considering how Chotiner does interviews it's kind of incredible no one has caused him to do this on social media with greater frequency.
@raulpachecovega.bsky.social Hi! I use your site as a writing/methods reference sometimes, and direct students to it fairly often. One just emailed to let me know some links I'd sent are getting "can't find that site" errors, and I can't get through either. Did something happen to your blog?
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
@raulpachecovega.bsky.social Hi! I use your site as a writing/methods reference sometimes, and direct students to it fairly often. One just emailed to let me know some links I'd sent are getting "can't find that site" errors, and I can't get through either. Did something happen to your blog?
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Accidentally had fully caffeinated coffee at like 930 and here’s the thing: i had a fantastic night. Are we sure this isn’t a better way to live? What if “sleep hygiene” stuff is just a psyop to make us weaker and sadder?
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Accidentally had fully caffeinated coffee at like 930 and here’s the thing: i had a fantastic night. Are we sure this isn’t a better way to live? What if “sleep hygiene” stuff is just a psyop to make us weaker and sadder?
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Ah, the problem is not that we fail to provide everyone with adequate housing or services for people with addiction, the *real problem* is that the rest of us are forced to see the results of these things, under the label "social decay". Got it.
"The longer visible signs of social decay are allowed to fester, the more inclined those with means will be to simply check out ... leaving those without the ability to relocate to deal with playgrounds littered with drug paraphernalia." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: We have normalized delinquent, disorderly behaviour in our cities for too long
There is nothing normal about an encampment forcing toddlers in the daycare next door to stay inside
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Ah, the problem is not that we fail to provide everyone with adequate housing or services for people with addiction, the *real problem* is that the rest of us are forced to see the results of these things, under the label "social decay". Got it.
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Another day where you have to wonder whether the Canadian and Mexican governments have prepared contingency plans to handle any regional fallout from serious civil disorder in the United States
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Another day where you have to wonder whether the Canadian and Mexican governments have prepared contingency plans to handle any regional fallout from serious civil disorder in the United States
>have day off
>friends are talking about vampires
>someone uses the phrase "informed consent"
>my brain, 5 minutes later:
>friends are talking about vampires
>someone uses the phrase "informed consent"
>my brain, 5 minutes later:
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
>have day off
>friends are talking about vampires
>someone uses the phrase "informed consent"
>my brain, 5 minutes later:
>friends are talking about vampires
>someone uses the phrase "informed consent"
>my brain, 5 minutes later:
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New at Debating Canadian Defence:
A short post on nuance and fighter procurement questions.
open.substack.com/pub/philippe...
A short post on nuance and fighter procurement questions.
open.substack.com/pub/philippe...
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
New at Debating Canadian Defence:
A short post on nuance and fighter procurement questions.
open.substack.com/pub/philippe...
A short post on nuance and fighter procurement questions.
open.substack.com/pub/philippe...