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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Northern Canadian. Cranky. #ElbowsUp Also: EV owner/enthusiast/advocate, Jeopardy! S24 1-day champ. Honored to live on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin-Dun FN and the T'aan Kwachaan Council.

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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 7h

David Simon sent me a piece of furniture from his Writers’ Room that had originally been part of a set on The Wire

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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 17h

In fact I did it right here: bsky.app/profile/thun...

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 4d

Storytime: Pernicious Premiere Pushes Poison Pill Pipeline

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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 17h

This pic has so much cool it just froze my eyeballs looking at it

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 18h

I have to say, if this goes away I won't lose much sleep. This doesn't seem to be much more effective than "conventional" CCS schemes, namely not at all.

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 19h

God, if this becomes the iconic image of these ICE occupations it's brilliant. Laughter does a lot to disrupt momentum.

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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 19h

The agents? Absolutely!

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 22h

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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 19h

Public charging costs are going to come down for a few reasons: 1) better coverage leads to competition 2) incentives to charge during daylight hours (to take advantage of solar surplus) 3) capital costs come down as tech improves and utilities simplify permitting/procedures

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 19h

I swear he's behaving like an abusive boyfriend. And now he thinks he can kickstart a honeymoon phase

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think that's even a question. It will start very quickly.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 20h

Perfect response!

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 23h

Agree?

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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 20h

We've got a very simple card to play: if the US succeeds in taking away that much of our auto sector we'll invite the Chinese to replace them.

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 20h

The miracle of self-delusion 😂

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 20h

(BTW, I'll happily say "told ya so" on this... last week I was suggesting that KXL was infinitely preferable to Smith's Northern BC proposal, and I've been expecting KXL to come up as a bargaining chip literally since Trump imposed his tariffs)

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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 20h

All these complaints about how "undemocratic" it was to run a byelection just to get Poilievre back in the House and my position has been that if the CPC insists on keeping a loser for leader they can have at it!

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 21h

Yup. Hero's Journey.

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 21h

...Reviving KXL cuts Smith off at the knees. It's not like she can turn it down, but suddenly her pipeline looks ridiculous and harder to justify.

Carney knows what he's doing. I love it.

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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 21h

So why now? That brings me to my third point: Danielle Smith. Reviving KXL kills her proposal for a Northern BC pipeline, and puts out the political conflagration she was trying to feed with that proposal. KXL gets AB bitumen to a huge market without requiring tankers running past Haida G'waii...

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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 21h

Second, TRUMP wants this. He's wanted it all along and expressed a lot of frustration when Biden killed it. KXL lets us give something Trump wants and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 21h

First, Canada never had a problem with KXL. Trudeau actively promoted it. One might suggest that support wasn't good faith, but we certainly weren't going to stand in its way. There was a proponent, there was money, there's a clear market for the oil.

Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 21h

I'm surprised it's taken this long, honestly, but I suspect there's been a lot of talk behind the scenes. This is a project that checks a lot of boxes and does zero damage to Carney politically. Why?

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Cranky Yukoner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 21h

#CDNpoli Puzzled why Carney and Trump even met yesterday? So was I until I heard this... This is 100% it, and I'll tell you why [thread] www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

www.cbc.ca

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