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Woo! Congratulations NYC. What amazing news.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Woo! Congratulations NYC. What amazing news.
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There are some things I really admire about Italy, like these spontaneous demonstrations in piazze all over the country right now.
October 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
There are some things I really admire about Italy, like these spontaneous demonstrations in piazze all over the country right now.
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to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
September 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
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As folks are watching Fit For TV, the documentary about The Biggest Loser, a few reflection questions:
How did The Biggest Loser teach you to think about people who are fatter than you?
How did it teach you to treat them?
Where have you unlearned those lessons? Where can you do more unlearning?
How did The Biggest Loser teach you to think about people who are fatter than you?
How did it teach you to treat them?
Where have you unlearned those lessons? Where can you do more unlearning?
August 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
As folks are watching Fit For TV, the documentary about The Biggest Loser, a few reflection questions:
How did The Biggest Loser teach you to think about people who are fatter than you?
How did it teach you to treat them?
Where have you unlearned those lessons? Where can you do more unlearning?
How did The Biggest Loser teach you to think about people who are fatter than you?
How did it teach you to treat them?
Where have you unlearned those lessons? Where can you do more unlearning?
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You can’t assert the former without the latter also being true.
August 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
You can’t assert the former without the latter also being true.
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Thread:
1/ Yesterday I got my first taste of what our new dental coverage is like here in Canada. When I received the paperwork and registration confirmation a couple of months ago, I was surprised that some of it came from Sun Life, a private insurance corporation.
1/ Yesterday I got my first taste of what our new dental coverage is like here in Canada. When I received the paperwork and registration confirmation a couple of months ago, I was surprised that some of it came from Sun Life, a private insurance corporation.
August 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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1/ Yesterday I got my first taste of what our new dental coverage is like here in Canada. When I received the paperwork and registration confirmation a couple of months ago, I was surprised that some of it came from Sun Life, a private insurance corporation.
1/ Yesterday I got my first taste of what our new dental coverage is like here in Canada. When I received the paperwork and registration confirmation a couple of months ago, I was surprised that some of it came from Sun Life, a private insurance corporation.
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If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
August 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
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More and more messaging like this is sneaking into my kid's life, despite my extremely careful attempts to avoid filling his mind with diet culture BS. I find it enraging.
July 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
More and more messaging like this is sneaking into my kid's life, despite my extremely careful attempts to avoid filling his mind with diet culture BS. I find it enraging.
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i wrote about what it feels like to live in the collapse of the american empire
"a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth"
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
"a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth"
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Writing into the Wreck
I, for one, never asked to live in a collapsing empire. The feeling of what you thought to be solid ground turning to a shower of scree under your feet, the...
buttondown.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
i wrote about what it feels like to live in the collapse of the american empire
"a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth"
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
"a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth"
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Canada has failed its last opportunity to chart a moral course in this defining moment in human history. Condemning the victim of Israeli aggression and lauding disingenuous US ‘diplomacy’ is simply pathetic.
June 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Canada has failed its last opportunity to chart a moral course in this defining moment in human history. Condemning the victim of Israeli aggression and lauding disingenuous US ‘diplomacy’ is simply pathetic.
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I’m really looking forward to another year of Hasbara that posits Israel is a smol bean beset on all sides by hostile neighbours while their Herrenvolk apartheid state commits genocide and bombs or occupies four separate states with total impunity.
🚨 BREAKING: Israel strikes Iran
Israel conducts airstrike in Iran
The extent of the Israeli operation is not yet clear.
www.axios.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I’m really looking forward to another year of Hasbara that posits Israel is a smol bean beset on all sides by hostile neighbours while their Herrenvolk apartheid state commits genocide and bombs or occupies four separate states with total impunity.
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Please tell me how it isn’t an act of war against Europe that Israel illegally abducted a European Member of Parliament in international waters and then confined her in solitary detention.
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
June 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Please tell me how it isn’t an act of war against Europe that Israel illegally abducted a European Member of Parliament in international waters and then confined her in solitary detention.
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen.
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
June 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen.
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
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Came across this on imgur. Fact. Period. 100%. No Notes. #humanrights #blm #civilrights #fuckracism #uspol #endfascismnow
May 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Came across this on imgur. Fact. Period. 100%. No Notes. #humanrights #blm #civilrights #fuckracism #uspol #endfascismnow
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May 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Right now, all five of the TTRPG Actual Plays with the highest YouTube view counts uploaded in the last week and last month are either UK-based or have majority-UK-based casts.
March 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Right now, all five of the TTRPG Actual Plays with the highest YouTube view counts uploaded in the last week and last month are either UK-based or have majority-UK-based casts.
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Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia.
Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.
Extraordinary.
Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.
Extraordinary.
February 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia.
Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.
Extraordinary.
Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.
Extraordinary.
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You mean “the comments” that are a repeated, action-backed, direct threat to Canada’s sovereignty? Or is that “banter”? Is it “Double-Cross Country Checkup,” Ian? Will there be more on this from the Capitulation Broadcast Corporation this weekend, or is “Quirks & Quislings” still in development?
I see some people are upset with our topic Checkup Sunday. With President Trump repeating his "51st state" comments, we feel it is important to talk about. Even better, for Americans to hear our voices via the NPR stations that will be simulcasting.
February 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
You mean “the comments” that are a repeated, action-backed, direct threat to Canada’s sovereignty? Or is that “banter”? Is it “Double-Cross Country Checkup,” Ian? Will there be more on this from the Capitulation Broadcast Corporation this weekend, or is “Quirks & Quislings” still in development?
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The cars keep lurching to the far right.
Tesla is recalling more than 375,000 vehicles due to a power steering issue.
Tesla recalling more than 375,000 vehicles due to power steering issue
Tesla is recalling more than 375,000 vehicles due to a power steering issue.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The cars keep lurching to the far right.
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The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
February 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
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If Canada cuts energy exports in the right way at the right time, I wouldn't be so sure about every American watching the Super Bowl next week, Chuck
You’re watching the Super Bowl next week.
Wait till Trump’s tariffs raise your pizza prices.
Wait till Trump’s tariffs raise your pizza prices.
February 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If Canada cuts energy exports in the right way at the right time, I wouldn't be so sure about every American watching the Super Bowl next week, Chuck