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Tony Kocúrko
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A retired computer geek who stumbled on this wonderful, terrible, sad, happy place in '81 and settled here with my wonderful, Newfoundland wife. repost≠agree
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · Jun 30
OK, maybe I'm a tad paranoid, but PM Carney's eagerness for a U.S. trade deal, his former digs at the world's largest private equity joint, and U.S. private equity's drooling over Canada's healthcare, makes me shudder.

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When private equity destroys your hospital
Looters literally want to kill you.
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 8h
Ah, crap. So, Control-Alt-Delete isn't going to save us?

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Physicists Just Ruled Out The Universe Being a Simulation
A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was hoping for.
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 9h
Yup. Cory Doctorow's latest:

"This isn't an inevitability: it's a choice. The ubiquity of surveillance in the age of encryption is a policy choice. The reason companies don't encrypt our data so that they can't use it against us is because they don't have to."

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Pluralistic: The internet was made for privacy (31 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”

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Why are young people spending so much money?
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 10h
A sweet! HOW DARE THEY.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”

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Why are young people spending so much money?
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Nick Peterson @thetecheng.bsky.social · 1d
The best summary of this thinking, and the inevitability of authoritarian defeat to liberalism I've yet encountered was, unsurprisingly, written 82 years ago.
Camus' Letters to a German Friend, a Warning for Our Times
In the midst of WWII, Albert Camus wrote 4 letters to a fictitious German. Here is the first, predicting the triumph of truth over falsehood.
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 11h
"Having a “normal” cholesterol level in a society where it’s normal to die from a heart attack isn’t ... a good thing. ... plaques were not found with LDL levels ... 50 or 60, ... the levels most people had “before the introduction of western lifestyles."

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Ideal vs. Normal Cholesterol Levels  | NutritionFacts.org
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 12h
It's refreshing, innit?, rather than time and again voting for the lesser evil to be able to vote for the greater good.
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 16h
Happy Halloween! 🎃
Pumpkin carved with a likeness of Donald Trump.
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d
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A comic have a kid trick or treating dressed up as a book. Caption, I'm that book you've been meaning to read
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d
Ottawa Public Health warns of more potential measles exposures https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-measles-exposures-october-november-2025-9.6958213

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
A measles virus in an electron micrographic image.
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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d
I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 2d
Would someone, **anyone** who has the ear of PM @mark-carney.bsky.social and our Minister of AI plead with them to read, not skim, **all** of Cory Doctorow's latest on AI?

Oh, I give up. They've probably already bought into the marketing droids' spiels.

pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/w...
Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 2d
Oh, what odds (Newfoundland English for "It doesn't much matter", not "Who would have thought?"), you all could use another old timeline cleanse:

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Old musical dancing - YouTube
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 2d
Author Mary Doria Russell _ @mdoriarussell.bsky.social _ in conversation with Nancy Pearl _ @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social on her novels "The Sparrow" and "Children Of God":

"I was 42 years old and had never written fiction _ well, grant proposals _".

😅😷

#booksky 📚

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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Mary Doria Russell
YouTube video by Seattle Channel
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 2d
Sure thing. First, we'll form a committee to consider the case for creating a task force to evaluate the support from stakeholders to inform a study to ... etc., etc., etc. to eventually write a penultimate report that will be carefully placed in ...
a warehouse filled with lots of boxes and a person walking through it
Alt: a warehouse filled with lots of boxes and a person walking through it pushing a Gummint report
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2d
Want to ease the burden of health-care costs, and especially hospitalization?

Easy. Just spend whatever it costs to provide all Canadians with free vaccinations — for life.

@crof.bsky.social explains. 🏥 #BCCovid
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free | The Tyee
COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further to protect people from shingles and RSV.
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 2d
Let’s this sink in. Bill 2 overrides:

• The Labour Relations Code;
• The Public Education Collective Bargaining Act;
• The Alberta Bill of Rights;
• The Alberta Human Rights Act;
• The Education Act.

All without vigorous debate or consultation with Albertans.
calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a...
Braid: An appalling, unjust law drives Alberta teachers back to work
Alberta teachers are going back to work, but the law that drives them lingers as a dangerous attack on rights, writes columnist Don Braid.
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 2d
Oh, ya gotta read the whole essay. It's worse than I thought.
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 2d
For your (ir)regular timeline cleanse, the following playlist... Oh, and Eugen Dogs is Moldovan, definitely not Russian, so watch with a clean conscience.

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Lunchtime Favourites - YouTube
Stuff that makes for a romantic, silly lunch with my lover.
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 2d
If you're around...

Sadly, we can't make it.

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What Is It to Imagine?
Acclaimed Canadian author Madeleine Thien will deliver this year’s E. J. Pratt Lecture.
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 2d
But three word sound bites are so much easier, ain'tday?

open.substack.com/pub/theline/...
Peter Copeland: Our law-and-order problems are a lot bigger than bail
Repeat violent offenders and rapidly growing organized crime groups are the main challenges Canada must address. But there are ways to do it.
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 2d
"Article 9 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations."

Just sayin', y'know.

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Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - Wikipedia
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 2d
"Amazon made $35 billion in profit last year, so they're celebrating by laying off 14,000 workers (a number they say will rise to 30,000). This is the kind of thing that Wall Street loves ..."

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Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d
lol
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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · 3d
I wish I could catch a train to St. John's for doctors appointments instead of having to drive 4 hours both ways, which takes a lot of mental acuity and also car ownership is so expensive.
rachelgilmore.bsky.social Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 3d
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS

THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
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