Jim Douglas 🇨🇦
@jimsdouglas.bsky.social
Vancouver 🇨🇦
I write Java & JavaScript code for an Albuquerque software company, working from home in Vancouver.
I write Java & JavaScript code for an Albuquerque software company, working from home in Vancouver.
WKRP in Cincinnati - S1E7 - Turkeys Away (Segment) (SUPERSCALED)
YouTube video by Crosscut Films
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November 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
With everything else going on in the world, it’s easy to forget that the opioid crisis hasn’t gone away.
Vancouver Fire Rescue Services responded to 54 overdoses last Friday - the most in a single day in the department's history. Averaged 16 per day in May.
There has been a surge in ODs reported all across the province in the past few weeks.
There has been a surge in ODs reported all across the province in the past few weeks.
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
With everything else going on in the world, it’s easy to forget that the opioid crisis hasn’t gone away.
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What do you get when you mix the best selling single of the king of pop with the lately departed queen of MAGA?
This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺
youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺
youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
"MTG Has Broken Cover" - Marsh Family parody of "Billie Jean" by MJ about Marjorie Taylor Greene
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What do you get when you mix the best selling single of the king of pop with the lately departed queen of MAGA?
This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺
youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺
youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
Only one rich democracy regularly experiences mass shootings. Instead of addressing the obvious problem, it invents a multi-billion-dollar industry that profits from traumatizing a generation of children, telling them that gun violence is natural and unavoidable.
www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
‘Thoughts & Prayers’ Review: A Damning HBO Documentary Explores the Mass Psychosis of America’s Gun Epidemic
Zackary Canepari and Jessica Dimmock update "Bowling for Columbine" for a country that still refuses to address one of its most preventable crises.
www.indiewire.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Only one rich democracy regularly experiences mass shootings. Instead of addressing the obvious problem, it invents a multi-billion-dollar industry that profits from traumatizing a generation of children, telling them that gun violence is natural and unavoidable.
www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
More Orphan Black. I was disappointed that Orphan Black: Echoes only lasted one season.
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 9:37 PM
More Orphan Black. I was disappointed that Orphan Black: Echoes only lasted one season.
I don't think a jury will be open to the argument that it's the dead teen's fault that ChatGPT offered to write his suicide note.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I don't think a jury will be open to the argument that it's the dead teen's fault that ChatGPT offered to write his suicide note.
Siebel Institute, founded in 1868, is moving from Chicago to Montreal in January because of ongoing difficulties of international students getting visas.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebel_...
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Renowned American beer brewery school relocating to Montreal
YouTube video by CTV News
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November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Siebel Institute, founded in 1868, is moving from Chicago to Montreal in January because of ongoing difficulties of international students getting visas.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebel_...
youtu.be/BMfcdAZvaqE?...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebel_...
youtu.be/BMfcdAZvaqE?...
I’d go out of my way to shop at a store with a cat on the counter.
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I’d go out of my way to shop at a store with a cat on the counter.
I’m not a huge fan of AI, but this is really quite good. There are still some noticeable uncanny valley shots with extended conversation scenes, but overall this is very impressive.
www.oneday.xyz
youtu.be/wDOq7ZvJuDo?...
www.oneday.xyz
youtu.be/wDOq7ZvJuDo?...
The Decisive Moment: Midnight Drop
YouTube video by OneDay
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I’m not a huge fan of AI, but this is really quite good. There are still some noticeable uncanny valley shots with extended conversation scenes, but overall this is very impressive.
www.oneday.xyz
youtu.be/wDOq7ZvJuDo?...
www.oneday.xyz
youtu.be/wDOq7ZvJuDo?...
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I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
Douthat's pitch boils down to “resistance is futile.” The U.S. invaded Canada in 1775, and first used punitive tariffs as an economic weapon in the 1890s, but it takes some chutzpah to advocate Canada joining the U.S. while living in the Trump dumpster fire.
www.readtheline.ca/p/on-the-lin...
www.readtheline.ca/p/on-the-lin...
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Douthat's pitch boils down to “resistance is futile.” The U.S. invaded Canada in 1775, and first used punitive tariffs as an economic weapon in the 1890s, but it takes some chutzpah to advocate Canada joining the U.S. while living in the Trump dumpster fire.
www.readtheline.ca/p/on-the-lin...
www.readtheline.ca/p/on-the-lin...
No worries, nobody wants to visit the U.S. as long as Trump's in charge anyway.
The Trump administration announced that starting Jan. 1, the cost of an annual national park pass for non-U.S. residents will jump from $80 to $250 more than triple the current price.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
No worries, nobody wants to visit the U.S. as long as Trump's in charge anyway.
Witkoff is a dangerous idiot. Putin is unambiguously a bad guy. He unilaterally launched an imperial war of conquest in Europe, redrawing borders at gunpoint because he's butt-hurt about the collapse of the Soviet empire.
"I don't regard Putin as a bad guy."
- U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
This should send shivers down the spine of Republican and Democratic members of Congress alike.
It's a 'perspective' not capable of negotiating for true U.S. interests.
(video via Republicans Against Trump on X)
- U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
This should send shivers down the spine of Republican and Democratic members of Congress alike.
It's a 'perspective' not capable of negotiating for true U.S. interests.
(video via Republicans Against Trump on X)
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Witkoff is a dangerous idiot. Putin is unambiguously a bad guy. He unilaterally launched an imperial war of conquest in Europe, redrawing borders at gunpoint because he's butt-hurt about the collapse of the Soviet empire.
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Nobody's going to die if ChatGPT drafts Alberta booze legislation that's littered with standard AI hallucinations, but I struggle to see the point here. If you apply proper due diligence, you’re going to have to sanity check every word, so what do you expect to gain?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta government eyes AI to write legislation for 1st time | CBC News
The Alberta government is considering using AI technology to write a law for the first time, eyeing a forthcoming piece of whisky legislation as its test case.
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Nobody's going to die if ChatGPT drafts Alberta booze legislation that's littered with standard AI hallucinations, but I struggle to see the point here. If you apply proper due diligence, you’re going to have to sanity check every word, so what do you expect to gain?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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If you don't spend $1,000 on a new smartphone every year, you're a very bad consumer and you should be ashamed of yourself.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you don't spend $1,000 on a new smartphone every year, you're a very bad consumer and you should be ashamed of yourself.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
Trump constantly threatens lawsuits against media organizations specifically to get them to censor themselves out of fear.
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trump constantly threatens lawsuits against media organizations specifically to get them to censor themselves out of fear.
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Fusion: A Korean-American cheeseburger made in San Diego by a Jewish Canadian guy from Vancouver.
youtu.be/D9M6tMwUFNA?...
youtu.be/D9M6tMwUFNA?...
I DIDN'T EXPECT THIS SMASHBURGER TO BE SO GOOD
YouTube video by SAM THE COOKING GUY
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November 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Fusion: A Korean-American cheeseburger made in San Diego by a Jewish Canadian guy from Vancouver.
youtu.be/D9M6tMwUFNA?...
youtu.be/D9M6tMwUFNA?...
Trump's worldview is that there are three imperial powers, each dominating their sphere of influence. As far as he’s concerned, Putin and Xi are his allies and the rest of us are expected to fall in line. He would never defend Taiwan, in the same way that he was never going to defend Ukraine.
"Abandon Ukraine to save our powder for China" was always either for cynics or useful idiots.
America’s Heel Turn
Whose side are we on?
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November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Trump's worldview is that there are three imperial powers, each dominating their sphere of influence. As far as he’s concerned, Putin and Xi are his allies and the rest of us are expected to fall in line. He would never defend Taiwan, in the same way that he was never going to defend Ukraine.
Is Nvidia really worth the same as Japan's annual GDP or is AI an enormous bubble that’s about to blow up the stock market? My retirement accounts had time to recover from 2008/2009, but I’d really like to retire soon.
youtu.be/WwMSnpu-Fp0?...
youtu.be/WwMSnpu-Fp0?...
If the AI bubble pops, will the whole U.S. economy go with it? | About That
YouTube video by CBC News
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November 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Is Nvidia really worth the same as Japan's annual GDP or is AI an enormous bubble that’s about to blow up the stock market? My retirement accounts had time to recover from 2008/2009, but I’d really like to retire soon.
youtu.be/WwMSnpu-Fp0?...
youtu.be/WwMSnpu-Fp0?...
The US defined the postwar world, and the Pax Americana kept great power wars at bay for 80 years. Historical currents were already threatening that long peace: lack of living memory of great power wars and a rising China. Trump's hatred of the western alliance is only accelerating those trends.
The End of the Longest Peace? | Foreign Affairs share.google/j1754Rl9rdYc...
The End of the Longest Peace?
One of history’s greatest achievements is under threat.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The US defined the postwar world, and the Pax Americana kept great power wars at bay for 80 years. Historical currents were already threatening that long peace: lack of living memory of great power wars and a rising China. Trump's hatred of the western alliance is only accelerating those trends.
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SEN. GALLEGO: "This is fucking insane... Secretary Hegseth, all these guys, fuck you, you're not going to be able to scare us. You say you’re not acting like fascists… you won’t intimidate us.”
on the “investigation” announcement for telling the military their oath is to the constitution
on the “investigation” announcement for telling the military their oath is to the constitution
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
SEN. GALLEGO: "This is fucking insane... Secretary Hegseth, all these guys, fuck you, you're not going to be able to scare us. You say you’re not acting like fascists… you won’t intimidate us.”
on the “investigation” announcement for telling the military their oath is to the constitution
on the “investigation” announcement for telling the military their oath is to the constitution