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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 2h

I'm surprised fast food burger chains haven't figured this out before.

DIE ZEIT @zeit.de · 2h

Burger King wanzt sich in Deutschland an lokale Fast-Food-Vorlieben ran und erfindet eine Mischung aus Burger und Döner. Unser Autor hat reingebissen.

Burger King: Mit alles

Burger King wanzt sich in Deutschland an lokale Fast-Food-Vorlieben ran und erfindet eine Mischung aus Burger und Döner. Unser Autor hat reingebissen.

www.zeit.de

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 2h

No respect for tenured academics on the sidelines. When you know better, you're supposed to do better, not be an abettor.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 12h

Could be….

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like this is also true for CBC.

UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · Apr 22

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 18h

Good point. There's the cable. Right there on the left.

headphones case with headphone cable on the left.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 22h

Yes. We need to continue to move in this direction.

I want to see more wine, beer and spirits on Ontario shelves from places like BC, Alberta, Québec and Nova Scotia. And vice versa.

I want to see more of those products from our friends and allies in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 23h

Good.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 1d

85% drop of American liquor sales to Canada.
We were their biggest market.
Now we're done.
Bye bye mon cowboy.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

www.cbc.ca

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Starting to really think that it’s time to replace my iPhone with a dumb burner phone and to listen to music on my Walkman again.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 1d

1. Before 2020, I never, ever remember getting sick being portrayed as a good thing.

"Most people will get one or two respiratory infections every year. In some ways, it's a *good thing* when you are a child or healthy adult".

*my emphasis.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Common cold, flu, Covid: Why is Britain so sick right now?

Why coughs and colds seem to be taking hold currently - and what you can do to protect yourself.

www.bbc.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

VIDEO: 🇺🇦 'Even Hamas' is ready to stop fighting — but not the Kremlin, Zelensky says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Moscow of being unwilling to halt its war, saying that "even Hamas... is ready at some point to stop the fighting," but not "the Kremlin and Putin"

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Do you remember the model of surge protector installed?

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Paranoid me is wondering if this YouTube video was pushed at me after using the phonetic alphabet in my engineering class the other day.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 1d

The history of the NATO “phonetic alphabet” has a fascinating connection to the Université de Montréal. (And how it took until 2022 for Germany to get rid of its antisemitic version)

youtu.be/UAT-eOzeY4M?...

Person saying “City names are very catchy and, unlike first names, are not subject to fashion, unlike first names, are not subject to fashion."

List of phonetic alphabet words: Alfa, bravo, Charlie, delta, echo…

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Am thinking about power conditioning, too.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 1d

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 1d

🫧

futurism.com/future-socie...

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

futurism.com

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 1d

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

retractionwatch.com

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone else remember the early sales pitch for LED lights: that they “last forever”?

Yeah, isn’t happening.

LED in the kitchen just burned out.

Again.

Half the bulbs in our outdoor LED string are dead.

LED light bulb with an “x” marked on it and “dead” and “no fucking good” written on the base.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. We all think that we're healthy... until we're not.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 1d

The comments are gold.

www.makeuseof.com/killing-the-...

Article on "killing the headphone jack" and how the author claims it "made phones better".

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 1d

“In addition to the officials, staff and editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report also received notices of their terminations“

thehill.com/policy/healt...

thehill.com

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all part of their plan to cull off the weak.

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