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Bobby Big Wheel

@kleinman.bsky.social

The funniest thing to happen now would be for Joyce Carol Oates to win the Nobel next year for her tweet. The least funny thing to happen would be Elon getting so incensed that he buys Warner Brothers and makes the Animaniacs anti-woke.

November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM

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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬

@drkarenpinder.bsky.social

Well done anti-vaxxers. Bravo. You must be so proud.

www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC

www.cbc.ca

November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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Brenton

@brentonwalters.bsky.social

Fuck off FIFA

Henry Bushnell @henrybushnell.bsky.social · 15h

FIFA is selling parking spots (exact location: unknown) at 2026 World Cup games for between $75 and $175 — more than the price of some actual match tickets at previous World Cups.

@theathleticfc.bsky.social:

www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

FIFA’s next 2026 World Cup cash cow: Exorbitant parking prices

If you're paying to park at 2026 World Cup matches it'll cost you more than some match tickets at previous editions of the tournament

www.nytimes.com

November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM

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Robert Randall

@robertwrandall.bsky.social

Tonight on "Canadian Seinfeld" George tries to impress his girlfriend by putting twenty dollars in the poppy tray but when he loses his poppy he has to find a way to steal a replacement

November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM

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Max Read

@maxread.info

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1

But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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Paul Fairie

@paulisci.bsky.social

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM

Two Sheds

@tdastephen.bsky.social

Ok time to start my feed off with some #kitnerd #football shirt opinion.

Every team should have a distinctive look you can state in one sentence.

Liverpool: all red
Chelsea: all blue
Juventus: black/white stripes
Dortmund: black and yellow
Arsenal and Ajax: Red torso, white sleeves

Know that self

November 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦

@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social

Yeah, we did. We ruined it for misogynists and sexual predators and office lotharios and drunks and lazy loafers who had their secretaries and assistants do their actual work.

November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕣 𝕘𝕝𝕠𝕨

@phosphorglow.bsky.social

mmmm my favorite mcdonald’s food, Dore, Caprer, and a side of Cchinges

November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@aoc.bsky.social

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM

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Ryan Moulton

@moultano.bsky.social

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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Jeff Yang

@originalsp.in

A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane

November 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM

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Ken Tremendous

@kentremendous.bsky.social

Guys it’s easy to say Dick Cheney should’ve been prosecuted for war crimes. But you’re forgetting one thing. If we start prosecuting people for war crimes, people in the future might get scared about doing war crimes and hesitate before committing war crimes!

November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM

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Dr. Kristopher Wells

@drkristopherwells.bsky.social

Even the Bishops are speaking out.

“The deeper implications of this action are sobering because when one fundamental freedom is denied, it is possible to imagine other fundamental freedoms being denied, including our own freedom of conscience and religion.”

edmonton.anglican.ca/news/stateme...

Statement by Bishop Stephen

Dear Friends in Christ, Greetings. I have not issued many public letters in my ministry as Bishop. However, with the Provincial Government’s use of the Notwithstanding Clause to send teachers back to ...

edmonton.anglican.ca

November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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Bruce Arthur

@brucearthur.bsky.social

Who here remembers things

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 7d

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Screenshot text from the Atlantic

Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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Jason Haslam

@jasonhaslam.ca

FUCKING CANADIAN INFRASTRUCTURE

November 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM

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Anna Bower

@annabower.bsky.social

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10d

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”