Mike Murphy-Burton
@mikemurphyburton.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood tech-creative ADHD magpie.
Probably Crystalis for me. That game rocked my world as a kid.
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Probably Crystalis for me. That game rocked my world as a kid.
Blommkamp, Nolan, and Malick team up to adapt Greg Egan's magnum opus, Diaspora.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Blommkamp, Nolan, and Malick team up to adapt Greg Egan's magnum opus, Diaspora.
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This is a shocking image (and that's 100% the point).
I wish this article had hit this point way earlier:
“It’s a buttoned-up version, a repackaging, of ethnic cleansing...The forced removal of...non-white people.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I wish this article had hit this point way earlier:
“It’s a buttoned-up version, a repackaging, of ethnic cleansing...The forced removal of...non-white people.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Growing white nationalist group behind broad daylight demonstration in London on Sunday | CBC News
An apparent white nationalist demonstration on a busy overpass near London, Ont.'s downtown on Sunday afternoon is concerning for witnesses and experts who track extremist behaviour.
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is a shocking image (and that's 100% the point).
I wish this article had hit this point way earlier:
“It’s a buttoned-up version, a repackaging, of ethnic cleansing...The forced removal of...non-white people.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I wish this article had hit this point way earlier:
“It’s a buttoned-up version, a repackaging, of ethnic cleansing...The forced removal of...non-white people.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I wish that even one time in ten I saw Universal Basic Services mentioned alongside or instead of Universal Basic Income. UBI is great, but it is still subject to market fuckery. Direct services - food, healthcare, education, etc - would not be, at least not to nearly the same degree.
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I wish that even one time in ten I saw Universal Basic Services mentioned alongside or instead of Universal Basic Income. UBI is great, but it is still subject to market fuckery. Direct services - food, healthcare, education, etc - would not be, at least not to nearly the same degree.
Alberta being over 30% is WILD. But I do wonder, to some extent, if there's an oil-money-is-really-bad-for-a-lot-of-people theme here.
Newfoundland and Labrador percentage of people living in food-insecure households is almost one in three at 30.1%.
News to me that food insecurity in Alberta is so high though, a surprise, same with SK.
News to me that food insecurity in Alberta is so high though, a surprise, same with SK.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Alberta being over 30% is WILD. But I do wonder, to some extent, if there's an oil-money-is-really-bad-for-a-lot-of-people theme here.
The thing that climate deniers never seem to get is that they're right that the IPCC is not telling you the full, accurate truth. They're just very wrong about what direction you have to head in from the IPCC literature to get to the full, accurate truth.
Warning! This colorful chart is censored by IPCC - mailchi.mp/caa/warning-...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The thing that climate deniers never seem to get is that they're right that the IPCC is not telling you the full, accurate truth. They're just very wrong about what direction you have to head in from the IPCC literature to get to the full, accurate truth.
Man I completely forgot Being Erica ever existed. What a banger show.
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Man I completely forgot Being Erica ever existed. What a banger show.
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No more pipelines. And definitely no Northern Gateway!
Danielle Smith just suckered Mark Carney into reviving the Northern Gateway pipeline.
This is the antithesis of "nation-building."
There is no economic, political or environmental case for Stephen Harper's dream.
This won't end well.
For Canada or Carney.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
This is the antithesis of "nation-building."
There is no economic, political or environmental case for Stephen Harper's dream.
This won't end well.
For Canada or Carney.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Ottawa, Alberta agree to broad outlines of energy deal, including path to pipeline | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad outlines of a memorandum of understanding that would give Alberta special exemptions from federal environmental l...
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
No more pipelines. And definitely no Northern Gateway!
Fuck them all.
BREAKING: ‘Empty Deal’ at COP30 as Petrostates Block Progress on Fossil Fuel Phaseout www.theenergymix.com/breaking-emp...
BREAKING: ‘Empty Deal’ at COP30 as Petrostates Block Progress on Fossil Fuel Phaseout
A dramatic, last-minute intervention by Colombia at the closing session of the COP30 climate summit Saturday afternoon failed to derail what one veteran negotiator called an “empty deal” on countries’...
www.theenergymix.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Fuck them all.
There's a Steinbeck Arthur manuscript??
My latest bedtime reading has been Steinbeck’s (unfinished) take on Arthur, and I had very high hopes for it, and fortunately it has been absolutely captivating so far
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There's a Steinbeck Arthur manuscript??
Why did you destroy the rights of trans people?
Gravity is the curvature of spacetime. You follow the lowest energy path through a 4-dimensional construct and hope for the best.
Gravity is the curvature of spacetime. You follow the lowest energy path through a 4-dimensional construct and hope for the best.
WELKER: If tariffs help consumers, why is the administration rolling them back?
BESSENT: You know how much you weigh. You get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number and we look at everything. We try to push down the things we can control.
BESSENT: You know how much you weigh. You get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number and we look at everything. We try to push down the things we can control.
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Why did you destroy the rights of trans people?
Gravity is the curvature of spacetime. You follow the lowest energy path through a 4-dimensional construct and hope for the best.
Gravity is the curvature of spacetime. You follow the lowest energy path through a 4-dimensional construct and hope for the best.
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“Investing in oil and gas expansion in 2025 is like watering a dead plant—no amount of hope can stop the inevitable,” Adam Scott, executive director of Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health
With Pipeline Deal Coming Soon, New Analysis Shows Big Risks for Investors, Crushing Losses for Provinces
With the federal and Alberta governments touting an imminent deal on a new oil pipeline to British Columbia’s northwest coast, analysis released Thursday morning concludes that investors in Canadian o...
www.theenergymix.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM
“Investing in oil and gas expansion in 2025 is like watering a dead plant—no amount of hope can stop the inevitable,” Adam Scott, executive director of Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health
The first law of toddler lego entropy: if the toddler puts 2 blocks back in the container, they will take no less than 3 blocks out in the immediate future.
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The first law of toddler lego entropy: if the toddler puts 2 blocks back in the container, they will take no less than 3 blocks out in the immediate future.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Want to give a gift someone will cherish, made by a small company of real people who put their heart and creativity into something really cool?
Grok AI, for when you can't suck your own dick but you want to autofellate anyway.
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Grok AI, for when you can't suck your own dick but you want to autofellate anyway.
These fucks are destroying my son's future and I hate it.
COP30 climate summit set for last-gasp showdown over fossil fuels and finance www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
These fucks are destroying my son's future and I hate it.
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Join the mass organizing call on Wednesday, November 26th to help turn the tide and stop Danielle Smith's assault on freedom, rights and trans kids
www.momentumcanada.net/AB
www.momentumcanada.net/ab
www.momentumcanada.net/AB
www.momentumcanada.net/ab
Organizing Call - Momentum
www.momentumcanada.net
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Join the mass organizing call on Wednesday, November 26th to help turn the tide and stop Danielle Smith's assault on freedom, rights and trans kids
www.momentumcanada.net/AB
www.momentumcanada.net/ab
www.momentumcanada.net/AB
www.momentumcanada.net/ab
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Trump has reportedly been in conversation with Paramount and his billionaire ally Larry Ellison about a potential takeover of CNN that would include firing journalists he dislikes.
Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trump has reportedly been in conversation with Paramount and his billionaire ally Larry Ellison about a potential takeover of CNN that would include firing journalists he dislikes.
Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
Honestly I expected this to be an Orwellian message instead of a commercial, which tells you I am still overestimating these numbnuts.
this Trump Watches commercial is now running on Fox & Friends as well
Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Honestly I expected this to be an Orwellian message instead of a commercial, which tells you I am still overestimating these numbnuts.
Not gonna lie, I would laugh out loud if some fine day a Bill Maher guest just leaned over and broke his fucking nose for him.
Maher is one of those guys who make me wonder how they made it this far in life without having been beaten into hospital at least once.
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Not gonna lie, I would laugh out loud if some fine day a Bill Maher guest just leaned over and broke his fucking nose for him.
He wants a civil war, and if he has to kill someone to get it, all the better?
Someone recently questioned me about whether I was actually being serious when I spoke of the serious threat posed to our nation.
They wondered if I was fear-mongering about Trump.
I wish I was.
I really wish I was.
They wondered if I was fear-mongering about Trump.
I wish I was.
I really wish I was.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
He wants a civil war, and if he has to kill someone to get it, all the better?
GIF that pops up when you type in your name.
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
GIF that pops up when you type in your name.
Incredibly dark new @julienolke.bsky.social series comin?
Try telling your 2023 self that in the face of this sentence we'd be saying yes but the economic possibilities.
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Incredibly dark new @julienolke.bsky.social series comin?
The American dream is now just Lewis Black continuously screaming "WE HAVE TO AGREE ON WHAT THE FUCK REALITY IS!"
This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The American dream is now just Lewis Black continuously screaming "WE HAVE TO AGREE ON WHAT THE FUCK REALITY IS!"
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I think one of the hardest things about being a career writer in traditional publishing is that writing attracts the neurodivergent brain while the variable reinforcement schedule punishes it. We are all the rat at the water bottle, waiting for the hit of cocaine. You get one win, and you need MORE.
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I think one of the hardest things about being a career writer in traditional publishing is that writing attracts the neurodivergent brain while the variable reinforcement schedule punishes it. We are all the rat at the water bottle, waiting for the hit of cocaine. You get one win, and you need MORE.