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Culturally redneck. Further right than most of you pinkos, but I ain't drinking at the Nazi bar.

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Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · Jul 8

I live in a walkable neighbourhood, close to mass transit, in the third largest metro in the country. And my backyard is a country bear jamboree.

Canada is just not beating the stereotypes.

A night shot of a black bear coming through a hole in a fence.

A well-fed black bear in the corner of a backyard at night.

Black bear leaving my backyard through a hole they tore in my fence.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 4h

Massive missed opportunity that Canada's coat of arms is like a lion and unicorn instead of a beaver with two vickers machine guns

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Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1h

Been working my way through the Gaunt's Ghosts novels as my casual reading.

They're not gonna win the Nobel, but good fun.

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1h

Elsewhere, Vimes thinks something like 'If humanity had a design flaw, it was a tendency to bend at the knee'.

Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 3h

there is one week every october in this city where early fall transitions to vancouver grey for the next five months

and it’s always spectacular

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Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 2h

The system is breaking in visible ways now. I think we've hit the end of the patch jobs and jury-rigs that let the medical system limp through 23-24.

Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 24d

"A shortage of maternity care doctors in B.C. saw Danielle Goward shuffled through four hospitals in 12 days – in Williams Lake, Kelowna, Prince George and Kamloops." by @andreawoo.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

OB/GYN shortage in B.C. threatens collapse in local maternity care

Understaffed hospitals send pregnant patients elsewhere, bringing stress during a vulnerable time

www.theglobeandmail.com

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 23h

Are we allowed to ask why they left Greece?

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 23h

It's opportunity cost all the way down.

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

It's a low culture / high culture divide.

Japanese woodblock print, "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife", 1814, showing an octopus making love to a supine pearl diver.

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

Can I footnote that it extremely depends on who and how the human specimen's remains got included?

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

The modal "Legacy" section of a wiki page on a general strike is that 8 people died, 20 were charged and 10 of them ducked jail due to a sympathetic jury, 2 organizers went on to middling backbencher legislative careers, and a park was renamed.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

honestly would love to know where this idea that general strikes are the only effective/valid form of protest comes from. seems to have spread online in the last year or so (noticeably nobody was arguing that you shouldn't go to Gaza protests because they weren't general strikes)

𝕁, Accused Boyfriend of Antifa @checkwithscience.com · 1d

I need whoever is spreading this shit to shut the fuck up and quit doing the work of the enemy

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, even at the most basic level, "Are there enough people sitting in cubicles?"and "Are there enough people with rifles?" covers the two basic functions of the federal government which are extremely important and very different!

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't kept up to date, but at least going into the pandemic, Quebec microbrewers had real regulatory constraints on distribution (www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...).

As it stands, Crown corporations — the SAQ and SQDC — can deliver wine and cannabis by mail, but microbrewers can't sell their ales and stouts online.

Le Cheval Blanc, Catelli Denys said, can't even sell to corner stores or grocers under the current rules.

The brew pub can only sell beer at its location on Ontario Street in Montreal, relying on take-out customers only.

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

YEP!

If you been there, you been there. No need to belabour the point

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

I went the other way and am also extremely happy.

If you've been around dudes north of 50 on the tools, you know what I was trying to avoid.

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Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

You'd think surly old street toms and babies are like oil and water.

But the winningest quality of the average cat (and street cats most of all) is knowing when to run, when to fight, and when to be passive aggressive.

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

we were worried about him and the baby, but they made peace; baby would flop on top of cat, cat would peel himself from underneath baby, glaring, and lie back down 18 inches away so baby could do it again.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

anyway, when we finally let him out of the laundry room, Elizabethan collar still around his neck, he came tearing downstairs and immediately caught a mouse.

he did not kill the mouse; as we discovered, that was not his custom.

he just liked to catch them.

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Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

Let the man cook.

Tell me you wouldn't watch this. Replies are suggesting other footballs to include for some sort of freakish football decathalon.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

international tournament where each match-up involves three events: American football, Canadian football, and Australian rules football.

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian PM is one of the most secure elected jobs in the world ('elected dictatorship' in the poli sci literature). Carney should be especially secure as the leader who saved members' jobs and pensions from the jaws of defeat.

Rumbles of caucus revolt this early is a bad sign.

Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

It isn't clear why the knives are coming out. Gould's camp is clearly one of the sources for the story, but there's enough meat here to suggest unhappiness on the left flank and the ambitious empty suits (no shortage of those in Liberal land).

Gould had made a few mild pokes at Carney during the campaign. In one debate, she took a jab at his reputation as a fiscally focused technocrat: “You can’t bring a calculator to a knife fight,” she said, referring to the trade war with the U.S.

The attacks were genteel compared to most political mud-slinging, and Liberals warmed to her during the campaign. They embraced her as both a cherished member of the Liberal family and, increasingly, the standard bearer for its left flank. But her needling got under Carney’s skin, even though he was the front-runner (she ultimately received only three per cent of the vote). He and his staff made their irritation plain; one member of Gould’s team told me that many of them were aggressive in their vitriol toward her.

When someone from Gould’s team texted to ask if she could stop by and congratulate the winner, Carney said no. In fact, according to one source I spoke with, he said he didn’t ever want to see her again. Carney’s staff sent Gould a non-committal answer, trying not to offend her, but she showed up anyway. That led to a brief, awkward meeting with Carney.

And he has little time to master the kind of political skills that other occupants of his office developed over decades. Jean Chrétien, the most electorally successful prime minister in recent decades, had 11 portfolios before becoming prime minister. Carney had none. His inexperience is showing: for example, some caucus members believe that he made unsolicited promises of cabinet posts to several MPs and then failed to deliver. This includes former housing minister Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, a Trudeau appointee Carney retained in his pre-election cabinet but ousted in May after the federal election. Veteran politicians do not make that kind of mistake.

Many of his decisions are also making progressive MPs miserable. He has reconciled with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, mending a relationship that was strained after Justin Trudeau accused India of killing a Canadian involved in the Indian Sikh separatist movement. He scrapped the carbon tax, which had become politically untenable, and is reviewing federal rules that mandate all new vehicle sales must be zero-emission vehicles by 2035. Carmakers have argued that slow uptake of EVs and the continuing trade war will make the target impossible. And he is openly supportive of fossil fuel projects, speaking positively about a potential new pipeline to the West Coast. This September, his government’s Major Projects Office announced its first tranche of nation-building projects, including an expansion of LNG production in B.C.

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Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting profile of Carney. I didn't learn much new info from the text. But the subtext is:

1. knives are coming out;
2. becoming PM was the goal, he's managing events not steering a particular direction; and
3. he's never had a job that relies on being his subordinates' first choice.

Mark Carney Is a Very Demanding Boss - Macleans.ca

His elbows-up enthusiasm won him the election. Now he’s governing like a Bay Street exec.

macleans.ca

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Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate why Bloodvein is doing this (they're winning).

But the Kinew government's failure to enforce criminal law or negotiate based on existing law and treaty is genuinely concerning.

I dont think anyone has thought through what the reaction looks like if the treaties are dead letters.

MWF raises alarm over “unlawful blockade” on Crown land access

Manitoba Wildlife Federation says a blockade near Bloodvein is unlawfully blocking Crown land access, calling for government action. Read more.

winnipegsun.com

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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely bonkers story from Fort McMurray about how they're counting votes after Alberta banned electronic vote tabulators. It involves rulers, glue and something called a "Kangaroo Board" www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/news/rmwb-el...

RMWB election results will take time. What should voters expect?

Provincial changes means election results will take awhile to count. How is the RMWB counting ballots?

www.fortmcmurraytoday.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

this is my favorite of the new Gary Larson cartoons I think

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Art assignment: Paint a house on a hillside overlooking a bay or valley. Stay loose; play with color. Try to capture a mood. Think of something to add.

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Sell Vaccines to Yankees for Profit @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 2d

The whole genre of extremely tiny animals is very good.

Paedophryne amauensis, a green frog from Papua New Guinea less than 8 mm long, perched on a person's fingertip.

Brookesia micra chameleon, light green, perched on a the thumb knuckle of a Malagasy person. Nose to tail, the chameleon is shorter than the length of the person's thumbnail.

A Kiti's hog-nosed bat gripping someone's index finger. The bat's body length is comparable to the distance between the second and third joints of the finger.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

One thing that rules about Catholicism is the Pope issuing a blistering statement that everyone who ignores climate change is going to hell is meaningless but like changing arcane details of how the Vatican bureaucracy works is potentially earth shaking bsky.app/profile/weel...

Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 2d

oh sweet jesus the problem with catholic inside baseball is it all sounds like this

SCREENSHOT OF FOLLOWING TEXT:

In the preamble to the motu proprio, Pope Francis explained that his decision to place the Opus Dei prelature under the Dicastery for Clergy in his recent reorganisation of Vatican curial departments was taken in part with the original Conciliar vision of public clerical associations with the faculty to incardinate clerics, i.e. to establish a legal "home" and ecclesiastical superior for clerics specially trained and dedicated to particular missionary work.

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