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treaty six by geography, chilean-canadian by birth, anarchist by choice. (any/all).

mastodon: @[email protected]
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As Alberta heads into a possible "big snow event" tomorrow, a reminder that I've built weather alert bots for all the Environment Canada weather regions across the country. They are all in my Starter Pack.
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
my heart is heavy,
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Jesse Hamm had the take to end all takes on children's media. "People who disdain writing ‘just for children’ fail to realize that those children will remember what they read, maybe for the rest of their lives. You’re not writing for permanent children; you’re getting an early start on adults.”
December 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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It’s been frustrating as a journalist, and a member of the public, to watch as publicly available data on the health-care system has dwindled over the years.

The auditor general now says the Alberta government is changing internal metrics and selectively using data to hide problems:
Alberta using selective data to mask health care failings, Auditor-General says
Doug Wylie says reporting on how the system is performing is not credible and has gotten worse over time
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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it was then that he carried me
December 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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RICO, christ
13 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- FL files RICO lawsuit against WPATH, Endocrine Society & Amer Academy of Pediatrics for practicing medicine, using Cass Review to accuse them of promoting "discredited clinical guidelines...to sell memberships."
Florida sues leading medical groups for supporting gender-affirming care
Florida has accused WPATH, the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics of somehow violating the RICO Act.
www.advocate.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Smith finally said it out loud...

She doesn't believe that government should be providing any services to Albertans, she believes that private companies should be used universally to provide services.

Faith groups should take care of the vulnerable.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Are you arguing it’s an unalienable civil liberty to repeatedly drive drunk without meaningful consequences
December 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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These are the same people who refused to quarantine when they were actively sick with Covid. They will just go out and willfully infect others until thousands of unvaccinated people (which includes every infant - they can't get the measles vaccine until they are at least 6 months old) are exposed
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Apparently it was supposed to have some names on it, but:

"A 2023 report for the Department of Canadian Heritage recommended that 330 of the 553 names listed on the monument's Wall of Remembrance be removed due to potential links to Nazis or fascist groups."
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Making this threat was an incredibly stupid thing to do. If he follows through now, he risks a revolt inside his own party over the fact that he's attacking a red state. If he doesn't follow through, he's announcing to the world that he's a paper tiger.
unreal (but very real, of course)
December 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:
“A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent allegedly used his gun and badge to force his way into hotel rooms and rob and sexually assault at least four prostitutes in Chicago’s suburbs in 2022, according to federal charges made public Tuesday.”
Border Patrol agent charged with robbing, raping women in Chicago suburbs in 2022
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
america loves slavery. loves indentured servitude. even the "free peoples" are not free; degrees are a chain and ball of debt employers love to see clapped on prospective wagies. apprenticeships can be exploitative, binding the worker to employer.
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
was john diefenbaker an american plant
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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It gets worse. Trump also says straight out that an invasion of Venezuela "on land" is coming and says he'd expand all this to Mexico and Colombia. Incredibly, no one even bothers pointing out anymore that he is claiming authority to do all of this without Congress:

newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
did i encounter this in fallout 76
You've Never Seen a Downtown Like This Before
YouTube video by Fourth Place
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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<picture of the average student with a speech bubble emerging>
you can't keep making me read things it's illegal
December 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Both the "Continue" button and the "Try it now" button do *the same thing* in what is the clearest example of a dark pattern I've ever seen. Imagine someone is getting metrics about the "number of Google Docs users who are using AI" and all the numbers are total bullshit.
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7. Every time some rich dipshit talks about how they gotta have more kids than all of the dumb poor people, this is the future they want.
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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"...the department head for medicine was shaking his head in disbelief at having to state the obvious: “Why is it that every year, just like snow in winter, we know flu is coming, and yet every year flu catches us by surprise?” The room fell silent."
December 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs.

There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM