frz
@mtwfrsn.bsky.social
My dream is to one day own a pinball machine. Social distancing is my default setting. #eattherich
Formerly YEG, now CZNL
Formerly YEG, now CZNL
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good housekeeping broke this story, and it’s more worrying than a simple decision to cut a line of products, which, while derided throughout the cbc piece, still does have 7% “share of throat” which as nancy would tell you, ain’t nothing www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-product...
February 3, 2026 at 5:16 AM
good housekeeping broke this story, and it’s more worrying than a simple decision to cut a line of products, which, while derided throughout the cbc piece, still does have 7% “share of throat” which as nancy would tell you, ain’t nothing www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-product...
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"The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive. A regime based on terror...deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it."
M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.” [nytimes.com]
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
Minneapolis has made it plain.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:47 PM
"The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive. A regime based on terror...deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it."
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Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
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The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:15 AM
The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)
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Does anyone have any idea how we break the echo chambers? No Trump voter in my family will ever know what actually happened to Alex Pretti or Renee Good. They will believe the officers were justified. They will watch Fox News and that will be the end of it.
January 24, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Does anyone have any idea how we break the echo chambers? No Trump voter in my family will ever know what actually happened to Alex Pretti or Renee Good. They will believe the officers were justified. They will watch Fox News and that will be the end of it.
And the NHL plays on
the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
January 24, 2026 at 11:41 PM
And the NHL plays on
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The prospect of using AI to target specific areas of knowledge for the purpose of undermining or re-writing our understanding of reality (human history, past events, criminal actions, national history, medical research, etc) is a very real threat.
"What if AI wasn't just hallucinating information, but thousands of AI chatbots were working together to give the guise of grassroots support where there was none? That's the future this paper imagines—Russian troll farms on steroids."
AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy
Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.
www.wired.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The prospect of using AI to target specific areas of knowledge for the purpose of undermining or re-writing our understanding of reality (human history, past events, criminal actions, national history, medical research, etc) is a very real threat.
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Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
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This is a very scary thread, but now that everything's all right, I think it's everyone's duty to convince this person they never actually woke up.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 AM
This is a very scary thread, but now that everything's all right, I think it's everyone's duty to convince this person they never actually woke up.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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this business model should be flatly illegal
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
It’s official: EA is going private.
The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
www.businesswire.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
this business model should be flatly illegal
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
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I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
September 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
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He took over a small antivaccine group he liked in 2015, turned it into his own propaganda & money-laundering org that became the biggest antivaxx source in the world and made him more than $20K/week. You have to be very intentionally stupid to think this started in 2020 or was ever about liberalism
June 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
He took over a small antivaccine group he liked in 2015, turned it into his own propaganda & money-laundering org that became the biggest antivaxx source in the world and made him more than $20K/week. You have to be very intentionally stupid to think this started in 2020 or was ever about liberalism
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one of my favorite tweets
June 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
one of my favorite tweets
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Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.
May 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.
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You might even say, the Oilers laid it on the line.
May 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
You might even say, the Oilers laid it on the line.
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i'm facing a trial for allegedly doing real journalism and this guy who posted CSAM with his own watermark on it is in the White House doing fake journalism
You may remember Dom Lucre from his previous work: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
April 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
i'm facing a trial for allegedly doing real journalism and this guy who posted CSAM with his own watermark on it is in the White House doing fake journalism
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Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
April 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
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Masked men without identification abducting members of the population and throwing them into unmarked vans for non crimes
This is fascism in practice and deed.
This is fascism in practice and deed.
Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid
Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.
dailyprogress.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Masked men without identification abducting members of the population and throwing them into unmarked vans for non crimes
This is fascism in practice and deed.
This is fascism in practice and deed.
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David Graeber (co-author of The Dawn of Everything): Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! “Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to.” [theanarchistlibrary.org]
April 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
David Graeber (co-author of The Dawn of Everything): Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! “Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to.” [theanarchistlibrary.org]
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they are busy insider trading
The President of the United States engaged in insider trading, and laughed about it.
He is not exempt from the law.
Where the fuck is Congress?
He is not exempt from the law.
Where the fuck is Congress?
April 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
they are busy insider trading
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DOGE should be a stand-in verb for "fucking things up."
Like, "they really DOGEd that one"
Like, "they really DOGEd that one"
Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
April 12, 2025 at 4:42 AM
DOGE should be a stand-in verb for "fucking things up."
Like, "they really DOGEd that one"
Like, "they really DOGEd that one"
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So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
www.cambridge.org
April 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵