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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 38m

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 1h

Brian Tan nails it. Just love your spouse, view them as a whole person with their own ambitions and goals, and celebrate their success, you absolute dipshits.

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 20h

(You can point to a couple of specific game management decisions that maybe weren't optimal in 2018 and 2021, but every team makes mistakes in big games and you only sometimes get punished for them)

Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 20h

And the number of really good teams at both the World Cup and Euros is so high now that "consistently make it to semis and then take your chances" is probably the best any squad can realistically hope for - and England just haven't gotten a lucky diceroll yet.

Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 21h

I'm a fair-weather fan of the England national side but the transformation from 2002-era "tabloid-appointed World Cup Winners who hate one another oh fuck we've gone out in the last 16" to "some nice role-models who make you feel disappointed for losing in the semis" isn't a terrible trajectory.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 22h

Goodhart's law in economics: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good or useful measure.

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 22h

Canada's Most Interesting Newspaper (Extremely Derogatory)

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 23h

Though even US liberals have badly underestimated the level of rage towards the US in the Canadian body politic right now

Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 23h

Matt Egan should've made every business owner interviewed in this piece disclose how they voted in November 2024.

Steve Lafleur @stevelafleur.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I sympathize. But this isn't about hurt feelings or crass politics. Your government launched an unprovoked and irrational trade war against us. We're the innocent victims here!

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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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 23h

Constantly warring polities can only be the "but it might work for us" Arrested Development meme so many times in a row before someone innovates their way out of it.

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 1d

Leftist genre fiction is often unreadable due to the author's refusal to show their leftism instead of tell it through Ayn Rand-length monologues.

(Kim Stanley Robinson is by far the biggest culprit, but this was also a big part of why Babel was IMO a dud)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 1d

I don't DNF books very often (my parents didn't raise a quitter), but I DNF'd A Little Life. Could only do so many pages of emotional torture porn.

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 1d

Should have been clearer on my end - the BIA part of my original QT was more applicable to the Bank St. bus lanes than to the Gladstone/Gilmour bike lanes

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 1d

(subsequent rounds of consultations + Council input often get those projects to better places, but it's really frustrating for the starting point to so often be so lacklustre)

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another

Sensei Sergio from One Battle After Another

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 1d

The Centretown Gladstone/Gilmour bikelane and the current proposal for Bank St. bus lanes are both symptomatic of a broader problem, which is that City staff nearly always err on the side of "underwhelming" and often seem to think BIA whining (especially about parking) constitutes a formal veto.

Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com · 1d

I am glad the community is rallying to make the Gladstone/Gilmour bike lane as safe as possible. I will be channeling the feedback and advocacy to try and find some solutions with city staff. The file doesn’t go to council till January, so we have some time.

ottawacitizen.com/news/new-cen...

Why will this new Centretown bike lane have a detour?

While a downtown Ottawa bikeway along the corridor has been a long time coming, cyclists say a proposed route isn't the safest way.

ottawacitizen.com

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that's based

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 4d

This is some Cult of Fener shit straight out of the Malazan books.

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 4d

Unbelievably based

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 4d

I have friends (of christ) everywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 4d

Pound for pound, central Madrid might be the best part of any big city I've ever been to. Walkable, bikeable, transit-able, and alive without ever feeling overwhelmingly packed.

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 4d

*I wrote the above

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 4d

Totally fair (and I the above as someone whose Anglican church runs two soup kitchens + a women's shelter). I think the distinction I'd make is that Mainline charity tends to be project-based, whereas Ev+Pent charity/tithing is just "you're a member, you give us X% [usually 10] of your income".

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 4d

(Judaism + Islam have quite strong charity/giving ethics and lean liberal as voting blocks, but the libs still get swamped on pure volume of shots)

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Aidan @aidanglc.bsky.social · 4d

This is one place where I think the religiosity gulf between the two camps really hurts the good guys. Tithing is built into the social expectations of Evangelical/Pentecostal Christianity in a way that it isn't in Mainline Protestant circles (let alone in nonreligious ones).

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