After a dozen years of papal specificity, it looks like we are back to nostrums

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I haven't bought anything from these guys since the chairman revealed himself as an ardent homophobe in 2013. Now this. There are plenty of other pastas in the sea (or wherever pasta comes from)
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@hughawilliamson.bsky.social @bpward.bsky.social Hi guys - looking for any legal contacts you might have in Tashkent who might be able to offer advice to a friend who is about to be questioned

Amazing what a pile of wizarding money can do
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This is heart-breaking

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Just FYI for all you Torontonians out there who don't spend much time in other cities: Your subway system doesn't work. It's not normal for trains to stop regularly for "service adjustments" or for service to stop between multiple stations for days at a time. This doesn't happen elsewhere.

Here's a story about 400 people dead, with 17 photos, and the one thing the photos scrupulously do not show is any of the 400 dead; timid journalism
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I'd feel worse if they hadn't sold to Americans and decided they didn't need to employ more than one person per 1000 m2.
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LinkedIn is a terrible place. Sentences and sentiments like this are why:
"One of the privileges of my job is getting to speak with payment enterprise leaders."

Was it Nancy Reagan who said, Just say no? Americans: When you're told to do something that conflicts with your basic sense of ethics or morals, just say no. Like the National Parks Service should have here when told to remove the T
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Are you reading Andrew Potter's Gen X deep thoughts on Substack? You should be. Get a load of this: open.substack.com/pub/nevermin...

And on a related note, I think we could use a Bruce Cockburn renaissance just about now

My new favourite headline @cbcnews.ca www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Check out this job at Startup Ecosystem Canada! It's a venture capital company asking student journalists to work for free! Fuck you Startup Ecosystem Canada! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

I've never read a metaphor quite this mixed before: "Social fabric is created one room at a time. It is formed from small steps that ask..."

A fabric that's a room that takes steps that ask questions.

Business books. If only there were another way people could get their ideas across.

For those without the French: the Québec government - which vehemently denies that it is Islamophobic and systemically racist - has just blocked an academic appointment for a professor who studies Islamophobia and systemic racism. They have said they do not have to explain themselves.

Can you help me? I'm trying to think of another part of the world where a government program like this wouldn't cause an outrage. Tibet maybe? Russian-occupied Crimea? Is there a French word for paternalism?

It's World AIDS Day today, and though I feed my algorithms plenty of international stuff, with a heavy emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa, the only AIDS Day mentions I'm getting involve European and North American gay boys who died in the 90s.

Victoria #1, Montréal not even on the list? Whatever the criteria are, they are not for people who make less than 150k, or know anything about cities. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/ar...