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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 4h

#janicestein thinks that this ceasefire agreement may stick:

"Both sides are exhausted. Both sides are out of options. And Donald Trump finally turned up the heat."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60gOlDAr5n4

#israel #hama #gaza
#cbc

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StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 16h

#ZannyMintonBeddoes, our editor-in-chief, sat down with @mark-carney.bsky.social, #Canada ’s prime minister, to discuss #tariffs, trade and negotiating with #DonaldTrump. 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli, #ABpoli, #Ableg
youtu.be/g-GcmOYd8hc?...

Mark Carney on dealing with Donald Trump

YouTube video by The Economist

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Je ne suis pas contre un projet d'écrire une constitution du #Québec. La Colombie-Britannique a une constitution qui la sert depuis longtemps. Par contre, j'ai peu de confiance dans tel projet à ce moment, principalement pour deux raisons :

1. Une constitution devrait être des règles pour le […]

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Feds table border bill without contentious search powers for police
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberals-table-new-border-bill-without-contentious-search-powers-for-law-enforcement?itm_source=index

Here's some positive news in #canpol. Good work by the Opposition parties, and good […]

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Where has beauty gone in the modern world?
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/where-has-beauty-gone-in-the-modern-world.html

#beauty #aesthetics #decoration
#marginalrevolution

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Grey Alert for Montréal, I repeat "grey alert".

Batten down the hatches. Bring in your plants.

Insulation shields up !
Engineering: prepare to start the warp heaters.

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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyiz.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe we are returning to normal. A very funny piece about American revolutionary war re-enactors, with no political derangement (and a half admission that loyalists were good people). www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor

Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.

www.theatlantic.com

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

A quotation from **Marcus Aurelius**

> The first rule is, to keep an untroubled spirit; for all things must bow to Nature’s law, and soon enough you must vanish into nothingness, like Hadrian and Augustus. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are, remembering […]

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d

World Demographics (@WDemograph73569): "Fertility rate map of Canada in 2023. Canada has the lowest fertility rate of any Anglosphere nation at 1.26. The province with the lowest fertility rate is British Columbia at 1. The region with the highest is the territory of Nunavut at 2.48." | nitter […]

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d

[Israel, Palestine]

Two years ago today was the vicious Hamas October 7th attack. So much suffering of innocents on that day, so much suffering since. That was of course what Hamas wanted; their plan was to provoke a response from the Israeli government that would eventually weaken […]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Court documents say 200+ “fully functional” handmade grenades were found inside a tent on the steps of St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, DC, before hundreds gathered for the annual Red Mass signaling the start of the new SCOTUS session […]

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long?

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d

(((Brian Dijkema))) (@BrianDijkema): "An erasure of our history and legal traditions that was not asked for by anyone, is entirely unnecessary, and provides an alternative that is unremarkable and neither beautiful nor interesting. It’s another example of the beiging of our institutions and […]

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Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @deborahh.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

[#onPoli population growth #housingCrisis]

Follow @mikepmoffatt https://mastodon.social/@mikepmoffatt/115332385282482564

Dr. Mike P. Moffatt (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image New report! In "Families on the Move," we examine the rapid population growth in Eastern Ontario and how a persistent shortage of three-bedroom (and larger) homes in the GTA will accelerate this trend. Read here: https://www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/families-on-the-move-670000-more

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@sboots I'm opposed to many types of #electoralreform, but I do think that #rankedvoting could improve things a bit on the margin. I hope the Yukon tries this out.

Are Yukoners generally dissatisfied with the current electoral system, or is this essentially a top-down project? Has there been […]

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

That's from #johnpsmith's review of *Can We Trust the Gospels?*: https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/briefly-noted-summer-reading

#psmithbookshelf

BRIEFLY NOTED: Summer Reading

My output this summer was small measured in number of posts, but large measured in number of words.

www.thepsmiths.com

M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

"If you were raised in the modern West [...] you probably have a background belief that the Gospels are not reliable historical sources and were assembled centuries after the life of Christ by pious scribes far removed from the events they describe. You believe this because in the 19th century […]

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@mike Out of curiosity, are you seeing many new accounts at the moment?

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@stephenkb.bsky.social
Thatcher! Thou shouldst be living at this hour...

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

https://apnews.com/article/trinidad-us-military-venezuela-strikes-fishing-fcd24c441f58162b811a24b247334fc5
#trinidad #tobago #venezuela #us #geopolitics

Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago fear for their lives and jobs after US strikes in the Caribbean

Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago are fearing that a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean could kill them and their livelihoods.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Among other things, this is going to be an absolutely terrific management story:

As Bari Weiss Arrives at CBS News, Staffers Hold Their Breath for What Comes Next

The Free Press founder will become editor-in-chief of CBS News, but her role outside the formal org chart is a perplexing question mark for insiders at the network.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 3d

YIMBYLAND (@YIMBYLAND): "Reminder that we built the Golden Gate Bridge in 4.5 years. Today, we wouldn’t even be able to finish the environmental review in 4.5 years." | nitter
https://nitter.net/YIMBYLAND/status/1975035834048090623#m

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

Notice the conflating here of "fascism" and "authoritarian." I've said, repeatedly, we're in the middle of an authoritarian assault. But going from this to "America is now fascist" is bonkers.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Dan Snow’s History Hit, The Greatest Knight Who Ever Lived: William the Marshal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m5sw8m

I spent over two hours listening to this episode today — an amazing story.

#dansnow #bbc #plantagenets #angevin

BBC Sounds - Dan Snow’s History Hit, The Greatest Knight Who Ever Lived: William the Marshal

The story of the greatest knight who ever lived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stephen Childs @sechilds.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 3d

This history of QNX is facinating. The part that got me was about the ICON computers, which were in my school's computer lab.

They were really heavy and had a really cool trackball.

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-qnx-operating-system

Burroughs ICON, image from jasoneckert.github.io
This is an 1980s computer system with a monitor, a large base, a keyboard with number pad and a large trackball on the right hand side. The screen says Unisys ICON.

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