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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1h

Heh heh. Truth be told, I’m surprised he was big enough to play the Gardens.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 3h

In deficit-worry pieces like this Saturday's in @theglobeandmail.com, the praising of the 1995 budget doesn't include considering those of its effects that worsened human misery.

If we're reliving the 1990s, let's not repeat the cruelty

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/330b5b5...

For Canada’s finances, it’s looking like 1995 all over again. How will today’s Liberals handle it?

Once again, the country is being led through a polycrisis by a pragmatist Liberals surrounded by activists. There are lessons in how Chrétien and Martin handled this last time

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1h

“ #Trumpism, like #populism, is more than a set of policies—it’s a culture. #Trump offers people a sense of belonging, an identity, status, self-respect, and a comprehensive political ethic.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, color me shocked.

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lizbauch.bsky.social @lizbauch.bsky.social · 3h

Retribution has consequences-- gift link

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Shutdown layoffs target services for vulnerable students, homeless, seniors

The most at-risk Americans will suffer from the Trump administration’s latest layoffs, current and former federal officials warned.

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 3h

“These new #technologies enable more widespread #political participation, but they also mean challenges to #government action will be easy to mobilize and perhaps continual.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

Opinion | The Rise of Social Media and the Fall of Western Democracy

www.nytimes.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 4h

Bloomberg: #Stocks fell after #China sanctioned the #US units of a South Korean shipping giant, dashing hopes for a quick easing of #trade tensions. #Cryptocurrencies continued to lose ground after a historic round of liquidations.
#markets

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 4h

“The share of #U.S. #consumers who report using #cryptocurrency for payments—purchases, money transfers, or both—has been very small and has declined slightly in recent years.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-crypto...

A chart showing the very small - and recently declining - number of US consumers who use crypto for payments.

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 4h

“The most ubiquitous form of #Americanculture nowadays is not jazz programming going out on shortwave radio across Eurasia, but the #social-media platforms that pump conspiracy theories, extremism, advertising, pornography, and spam into every corner of the globe” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 16h

“Another hallmark of a #stock #bubble is that, at some point, its participants largely give up on conventional #valuation measures and buy in simply because prices are rising and everybody else is doing it: #fomo rules the day.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

The A.I. Boom and the Spectre of 1929

As some financial leaders fret publicly about the stock market falling to earth, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book recounts the greatest crash of them all.

www.newyorker.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 16h

“The #stock-market #crash of 1929 occupies a dark but indelible place in the national imagination, and for good reason.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

The A.I. Boom and the Spectre of 1929

As some financial leaders fret publicly about the stock market falling to earth, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book recounts the greatest crash of them all.

www.newyorker.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 18h

“There is no greater hindrance to the progress of #thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.” #AlfredNorthWhitehead

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 20h

What does that guy know?

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 21h

October, La Cloche Country
Franklin Carmichael
1939

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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 21h

Airports across the country are refusing to air Kristi Noem's highly partisan TSA video.

One airport executive called it “inconsistent with the values we expect from our nation’s top public officials” and “unnecessarily alarmist."

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Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints

Travelers in Cleveland, Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.

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Robert McLachlan @robertmclachlan.bsky.social · 1d

Nice

Graph showing NZ % fossil electricity generation falling from 17% to 2% since August

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 1d

This kind of thing surely has nothing to do with it..

“During an Oval Office meeting last week with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trump joked about a “merger” of the two countries..”

Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1d

File Under: Cry me a river …”It’s also that many are deciding not to visit the #UnitedStates, dealing a blow to countless #resorts and #travel #businesses that once relied on a steady stream of #Canadian visitors.”
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1d

Update: I survived.

Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1d

Wish me luck!

Photo of the bottom of an aerosol spray can with the warning “Extreme Danger” and various alarming danger symbols, including a skull and crossbones.

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1d

#Americans waking up to the painful fact that, once you include services - as anyone living in the 21st Century should - #Canadians buy more from the #US than anyone else in the world, which gives us considerable power …

Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1d

File Under: Cry me a river …”It’s also that many are deciding not to visit the #UnitedStates, dealing a blow to countless #resorts and #travel #businesses that once relied on a steady stream of #Canadian visitors.”
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1d

File Under: Cry me a river …”It’s also that many are deciding not to visit the #UnitedStates, dealing a blow to countless #resorts and #travel #businesses that once relied on a steady stream of #Canadian visitors.”
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 1d

The US trade war & annexationist push against Canada. H/t @sueinnovates.bsky.social. Apparently, Americans are the victims. Missing, except for a vague comment: 10 months in, there is zero acknowledgement of political agency or the possibility of change on the US side.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1d

Wish me luck!

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