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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · 10h

Once you have fissile material your path to a nuclear IED goes from needing the resources of a nation state to like... the resources of a college engineering department or a mid-level firm.

That they're even thinking of selling this shit is fucking nuts.

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · 10h

The challenge of enriching or stealing U-235 or Pu-239 is like the one reason we don't see more proliferation / terrorism.

With few kg, even a small group with limited resources could build an improvised nuclear weapon.

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · 10d

my city just implemented a bylaw making it possible for cops to fine people if they feed the unhoused

everything is going so very well

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · 10d

I'm reminded of the sniper tactic of shooting to first wound a target, then waiting to fire on those who break cover to recover their injured comrade. It's similarly abhorrent.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 22d

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Trump brags to military leaders about his strikes on boats: "They don't want go fishing. I don't blame them. There will be no fishing today. It's amazing what strength will do."

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · 26d

Are livestream tickets still available? They don't appear to be for me when I follow the link on the AR Theatre's website.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Sep 18

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

FBI Readies New War on Trans People

“We’re looking at the entire web”

www.kenklippenstein.com

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 15

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 13

Many well-meaning people have told me throughout my life that I should get involved in electoral politics; unfortunately, this has been the primary reason that I've not done so. I wouldn't feel at all safe.

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 13

I've had mixed feelings about not having that strong of a reaction to this, myself. Growing up on the internet probably numbed me to it, idk.

It's meant I'm the one in my circle who looks into things that are hazardous for others to watch/read about, because I know it's difficult for others.

O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 11

You gotta start running with a uranium-filled weight vest. Radmax with radium smoothies and yellowcakes to build that critical mass.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · Sep 11

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 9

The people who own our media realizing years late that they need to start seeding our own crop of failson pundits to further control political discourse, so they proceed in an embarrassing way that will somehow manage to look mediocre next to an American counterpart. Damnably Canadian of them.

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 9

Here’s some reporting I checked out to jog my own memory on this as I was feeling a bit rattled and wasn't sure if it was exactly what you'd described. It was.

thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

I think I’m gonna go stare off into the middle distance for a bit. Thanks for the excellent work. 5/5

Ontario’s controversial Bill 5, explained | The Narwhal

Public commenting on Bill 5 closes in a few days. Here’s everything you need to know about Ontario’s omnibus development bill

thenarwhal.ca

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 9

...Ford’s majority defangs any parliamentary opposition. The feds seem to have given Ford their blessing to do this.

While many elite interests stand to gain from this bill, I now can’t help but see the legislative groundwork for the same kind of network state fascism being laid here. 4/5

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 9

Furthermore, it “includes protection against lawsuits for anyone involved in a project within a special economic zone.” There’s basically no accountability for this at all. Most of the opposition to this has been from indigenous, labour, and environmental advocacy groups, as... 3/5

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 9

It would grant the government the ability to exempt corporations from having to follow environmental and labour regulations, as well as the duty to consult First Nations on any resource development projects on their lands. 2/5

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 9

@miawong.bsky.social The recent ICHH episode on Abundance and SEZs hit alarmingly close to home.

Here in Ontario, Doug Ford's government passed Bill 5, which allows the creation of Special Economic Zones that would exempt corporate entities from having to follow any provincial/ municipal laws 1/5

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yeah he left to full-time it as a fash podcast grifter, his dad was some kind of conservative newspaper ghoul

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Aug 26

I can't help but love the horrifying little eyeball octopus.

O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Aug 16

Shitlib opposition has a frustrating aversion to just outright saying, in the simplest terms, "these bastards are lying."

It's mad that it's literally against the rules of Parliament here (🇨🇦) to say "this person is a liar" on the record - yet blatant falsehoods are, somehow, not.

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Aug 11

"Oppression is the mask of fear."

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Aug 2

Where's Christopher Walken with a Kar98 and apocalyptic visions when you need him?

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shan🎷🐛 @shanhoran.bsky.social · Jul 24

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O.E. Dodd @livdodd.bsky.social · Jul 24

"Those nordic runes on that guy's SS uniform are actually a nazi dogwhistle! Here's my three page analysis I'm also calling OSINT."

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