Peter Milley 🇨🇦
@petermilley.bsky.social
Canadian, ex-mathematician, vaguely burnt-out software developer. Proudly not American. He/Him.
So, the last few years I've said something like "that last year can go to hell" or something similar come New Year's Eve. But it occurred to me recently I've been doing that since 2016. At least.
I think it's time to admit to ourselves that it's a trend. 2026 is probably going to suck. [cont'd]
I think it's time to admit to ourselves that it's a trend. 2026 is probably going to suck. [cont'd]
December 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
So, the last few years I've said something like "that last year can go to hell" or something similar come New Year's Eve. But it occurred to me recently I've been doing that since 2016. At least.
I think it's time to admit to ourselves that it's a trend. 2026 is probably going to suck. [cont'd]
I think it's time to admit to ourselves that it's a trend. 2026 is probably going to suck. [cont'd]
New anxiety unlocked! Could my sump pump outflow be blocked by ice during a thunderstorm? Surely such a combination of weather phenomena is wildly unlikely, right?
[looks out window]
Sigh...
[looks out window]
Sigh...
December 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
New anxiety unlocked! Could my sump pump outflow be blocked by ice during a thunderstorm? Surely such a combination of weather phenomena is wildly unlikely, right?
[looks out window]
Sigh...
[looks out window]
Sigh...
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It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.
December 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.
Just tried to shovel the driveway. That's not snow, that's powdered ice. I can barely get a shovel under it and when I do the stuff below is even more slippery. I could be out there for three hours giving myself a heart attack and it would only make things worse. I think winter won.
December 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Just tried to shovel the driveway. That's not snow, that's powdered ice. I can barely get a shovel under it and when I do the stuff below is even more slippery. I could be out there for three hours giving myself a heart attack and it would only make things worse. I think winter won.
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The Onion, non-stop winning
December 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Onion, non-stop winning
Today's happy Christmas smell is brioche dough baking for a poppy-seed roll.
December 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Today's happy Christmas smell is brioche dough baking for a poppy-seed roll.
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Once you’ve decided trans people aren’t normal people when it comes to sports, you’ve ceded the moral high ground & now are arguing which bigots get to decide how abnormal they are
Same for abortion, guns, executions, etc - the “extreme” position is actually most morally & politically defensible!
Same for abortion, guns, executions, etc - the “extreme” position is actually most morally & politically defensible!
shit like the ban on gender affirming care (and it is a ban and we should call it that) is why democrats cant be mealy-mouthed bigot lite on this issue. its why theres a problem with people like gavin newsom giving ground on this issue.
this has to be a line in the sand.
this has to be a line in the sand.
December 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Once you’ve decided trans people aren’t normal people when it comes to sports, you’ve ceded the moral high ground & now are arguing which bigots get to decide how abnormal they are
Same for abortion, guns, executions, etc - the “extreme” position is actually most morally & politically defensible!
Same for abortion, guns, executions, etc - the “extreme” position is actually most morally & politically defensible!
Little-known* fact: Lyle Lanley only sold monorails as a side hustle, his main hustle was Ferris Wheels.
*I made it up
*I made it up
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Little-known* fact: Lyle Lanley only sold monorails as a side hustle, his main hustle was Ferris Wheels.
*I made it up
*I made it up
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
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The divide between how Canadians see the U.S. and how our political/business leaders see them is wild. It’s one of the biggest divides in perspective I have ever seen. Canadians are clear eyed. Our leaders are not.
December 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The divide between how Canadians see the U.S. and how our political/business leaders see them is wild. It’s one of the biggest divides in perspective I have ever seen. Canadians are clear eyed. Our leaders are not.
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You understand that the road from "blow up any boat we want" to "kill any Americans we want" is very short.
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
You understand that the road from "blow up any boat we want" to "kill any Americans we want" is very short.
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I loved this Reframe by @juliusgoat.bsky.social
..dig into the foundations of the argument until you find the place where you can say "I do not accept that we have to sacrifice other human beings in order to achieve the good things you say you want to achieve."
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
..dig into the foundations of the argument until you find the place where you can say "I do not accept that we have to sacrifice other human beings in order to achieve the good things you say you want to achieve."
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
www.the-reframe.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I loved this Reframe by @juliusgoat.bsky.social
..dig into the foundations of the argument until you find the place where you can say "I do not accept that we have to sacrifice other human beings in order to achieve the good things you say you want to achieve."
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
..dig into the foundations of the argument until you find the place where you can say "I do not accept that we have to sacrifice other human beings in order to achieve the good things you say you want to achieve."
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
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2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts www.cbc.ca/news/science...
2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts | CBC News
Two members of the federal government’s Net-Zero Advisory Body have resigned, saying its work is being ignored by Ottawa as it moves away from previous climate commitments and toward new oil and gas p...
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts www.cbc.ca/news/science...
I love this part.
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I love this part.
Just finished shoveling. Winter isn't playing nice this year. Ow. Ow ow ow.
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Just finished shoveling. Winter isn't playing nice this year. Ow. Ow ow ow.
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I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
May 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
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Once more with Mark Carney, we have to don a willing suspension of disbelief to convince ourselves he's pursuing a policy in our best national interests.
Once again, folks: any deal between Alberta and Ottawa that requires a) BC's approval, and b) significant support from coastal First Nations is a deal for a pipeline that will never happen.
If Carney can get Smith to agree to ratchet up industrial carbon pricing in exchange? That feels like a win.
If Carney can get Smith to agree to ratchet up industrial carbon pricing in exchange? That feels like a win.
a man in a suit and tie is holding a pencil and says just saying
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a pencil and says just saying
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Once more with Mark Carney, we have to don a willing suspension of disbelief to convince ourselves he's pursuing a policy in our best national interests.
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There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.
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Here's the report that the Carney government clearly wanted to see disappear quickly.
(This committee was a requirement of the Pharmacare Act. That law was the product of a supply and confidence agreement between the Liberals & the NDP that propped up the minority government under Trudeau.)
(This committee was a requirement of the Pharmacare Act. That law was the product of a supply and confidence agreement between the Liberals & the NDP that propped up the minority government under Trudeau.)
www.canada.ca
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Here's the report that the Carney government clearly wanted to see disappear quickly.
(This committee was a requirement of the Pharmacare Act. That law was the product of a supply and confidence agreement between the Liberals & the NDP that propped up the minority government under Trudeau.)
(This committee was a requirement of the Pharmacare Act. That law was the product of a supply and confidence agreement between the Liberals & the NDP that propped up the minority government under Trudeau.)
If this were fiction, an editor somewhere would be saying "bit on the nose, don't you think?"
BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If this were fiction, an editor somewhere would be saying "bit on the nose, don't you think?"
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1/ Inspired by @1goodtern.bsky.social, I've been checking Canadian data. @cihica.bsky.social publicly available is useless. Stats Can is better, but only goes to 2023, because we suck at data in Canada. Nonetheless 👀
Did something hit in 2020 that affected our hearts?!
Did something hit in 2020 that affected our hearts?!
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
1/ Inspired by @1goodtern.bsky.social, I've been checking Canadian data. @cihica.bsky.social publicly available is useless. Stats Can is better, but only goes to 2023, because we suck at data in Canada. Nonetheless 👀
Did something hit in 2020 that affected our hearts?!
Did something hit in 2020 that affected our hearts?!
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"...I am a hater, which is a kind of integrity."
"...I am more than a critic: I am a hater."
"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
EVERY LINE IS A GEM.
1/
"...I am more than a critic: I am a hater."
"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
EVERY LINE IS A GEM.
1/
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"...I am a hater, which is a kind of integrity."
"...I am more than a critic: I am a hater."
"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
EVERY LINE IS A GEM.
1/
"...I am more than a critic: I am a hater."
"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
EVERY LINE IS A GEM.
1/