Aidan
@aidanglc.bsky.social
Economist, Cat Dad, Wife Guy living and working in Ottawa, ON.
Having a couple beers and watching the universe end.
Having a couple beers and watching the universe end.
There’s greatness on display in the AdvancedRunning sub today
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There’s greatness on display in the AdvancedRunning sub today
American oligarchs merely adopted the dark. FIFA was born in it.
FIFA's Trump glazing is incredible, no organization that has ever existed can compare
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
American oligarchs merely adopted the dark. FIFA was born in it.
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If you’re mad about life being unaffordable, you should maybe look at how the requirement to own a car to live in #canada is being more and more explicitly forced on everyone.
Mortgage rates and fucking gas prices ain’t it buds. Your household needing to own 3 cars is more likely the problem.
Mortgage rates and fucking gas prices ain’t it buds. Your household needing to own 3 cars is more likely the problem.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
If you’re mad about life being unaffordable, you should maybe look at how the requirement to own a car to live in #canada is being more and more explicitly forced on everyone.
Mortgage rates and fucking gas prices ain’t it buds. Your household needing to own 3 cars is more likely the problem.
Mortgage rates and fucking gas prices ain’t it buds. Your household needing to own 3 cars is more likely the problem.
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i'm trying out a new thing called No Atlantic December. It's where I don't read any of those Atlantic articles that people love to post screenshots of on this app and complain about
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
i'm trying out a new thing called No Atlantic December. It's where I don't read any of those Atlantic articles that people love to post screenshots of on this app and complain about
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"top designers and engineers are permanently staffed in government departments handling multiple big projects"
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
Spain has used immigration and public-private investment in capital projects to become the fastest-growing economy in the Western world, with the lowest deficits, all with higher Trump tariffs. We can follow their lead
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Spain has become an economic leader by using Ottawa’s toolkit the right way
The once-flagging Spanish economy has been turbocharged by big infrastructure investments, the green-energy transition and immigration
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"top designers and engineers are permanently staffed in government departments handling multiple big projects"
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
We absolutely love to see it.
The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Statement from the American Economic Association
www.aeaweb.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We absolutely love to see it.
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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democratic messaging bills are always like “the Reduce Carbon Emissions Act” and republican messaging bills are always like “a bill to replace various Census racial categories with ‘bears the Mark of Cain’”
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
democratic messaging bills are always like “the Reduce Carbon Emissions Act” and republican messaging bills are always like “a bill to replace various Census racial categories with ‘bears the Mark of Cain’”
This reminds me of a Prague hostel I stayed in in 2013, which was a *cavernous* room with roughly 20 single beds spread haphazardly throughout...and three pillows. It was marketed as a three-person room.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This reminds me of a Prague hostel I stayed in in 2013, which was a *cavernous* room with roughly 20 single beds spread haphazardly throughout...and three pillows. It was marketed as a three-person room.
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Skill issues.
Men need 2nd wave feminism.
And young men need the same social media treatment on EDs and other issues that young women got a decade ago.
Liberals are the movement for women, and queers. (Yes, even you fellow cis-het lib guy)
This isn't the problem.
Machismo is.
Men need 2nd wave feminism.
And young men need the same social media treatment on EDs and other issues that young women got a decade ago.
Liberals are the movement for women, and queers. (Yes, even you fellow cis-het lib guy)
This isn't the problem.
Machismo is.
It’s become conventional wisdom that America’s young men are in crisis. The reality is more complicated than that. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Skill issues.
Men need 2nd wave feminism.
And young men need the same social media treatment on EDs and other issues that young women got a decade ago.
Liberals are the movement for women, and queers. (Yes, even you fellow cis-het lib guy)
This isn't the problem.
Machismo is.
Men need 2nd wave feminism.
And young men need the same social media treatment on EDs and other issues that young women got a decade ago.
Liberals are the movement for women, and queers. (Yes, even you fellow cis-het lib guy)
This isn't the problem.
Machismo is.
Me when I am asked to do more than one (1) work-related task between December 1 and the start of my Christmas vacation.
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Me when I am asked to do more than one (1) work-related task between December 1 and the start of my Christmas vacation.
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Happy “playing the Bach Magnificat on loop until Christmas” season to all who celebrate.
(It’s me. I celebrate)
(It’s me. I celebrate)
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Happy “playing the Bach Magnificat on loop until Christmas” season to all who celebrate.
(It’s me. I celebrate)
(It’s me. I celebrate)
In 2020 several Canadian polling firms did a hypothetical 2020 election poll of the Canadian electorate. Alberta was the most Republican province and it was several points bluer than Vermont.
i think if alberta joined the usa theyd vote republican for like two election cycles and then vote dem for the rest of time
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In 2020 several Canadian polling firms did a hypothetical 2020 election poll of the Canadian electorate. Alberta was the most Republican province and it was several points bluer than Vermont.
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Tired: evangelical pastor named Tanner referencing ancient Greek to justify modern views, such as harsh gender norms
Wired: Greek Orthodox priest named Konstantinos referencing ancient Greek to justify ancient views, such as "why don't you come to church more often"
Wired: Greek Orthodox priest named Konstantinos referencing ancient Greek to justify ancient views, such as "why don't you come to church more often"
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Tired: evangelical pastor named Tanner referencing ancient Greek to justify modern views, such as harsh gender norms
Wired: Greek Orthodox priest named Konstantinos referencing ancient Greek to justify ancient views, such as "why don't you come to church more often"
Wired: Greek Orthodox priest named Konstantinos referencing ancient Greek to justify ancient views, such as "why don't you come to church more often"
My first year as a TA during grad school, I had a student write a twelve-page essay about “The well-known poor country of Africa.”
That essay was better than this one.
That essay was better than this one.
good god this is bad. this person is a junior in college? how did she get that far writing like a sixth grader?
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
My first year as a TA during grad school, I had a student write a twelve-page essay about “The well-known poor country of Africa.”
That essay was better than this one.
That essay was better than this one.
Been knocking on the door of a sub-60 Alpe for nearly a year. Decided to kick it off its hinges today.
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Been knocking on the door of a sub-60 Alpe for nearly a year. Decided to kick it off its hinges today.
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Welcome to advent, where we try to imagine living under a bullshit tyrant and experiencing a society wide spiritual crisis (it isn’t hard)
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Welcome to advent, where we try to imagine living under a bullshit tyrant and experiencing a society wide spiritual crisis (it isn’t hard)
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Honestly I'm very willing to be a single issue voter where my single issue is "show trial for Miller"
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Honestly I'm very willing to be a single issue voter where my single issue is "show trial for Miller"
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As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
The only major faction which does not believe it is the far right, which understands itself to be in a cultural battle for hearts and minds which is only glancingly correlated with economic anything. It’s worked out wonderfully for them
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
Happy Alice's Restaurantmas to all who celebrate.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Happy Alice's Restaurantmas to all who celebrate.
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The "reporter" lady fucking sources and running catch and kill ops is a huge part of the issue with journalism but so is the corrupt sack of shit ex who knew about all this and said nothing till he felt personally betrayed and is now tossing out tidbits in planned instalments to have you pay him
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The "reporter" lady fucking sources and running catch and kill ops is a huge part of the issue with journalism but so is the corrupt sack of shit ex who knew about all this and said nothing till he felt personally betrayed and is now tossing out tidbits in planned instalments to have you pay him
This reads like an @edsbs.bsky.social Fullcast bit
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This reads like an @edsbs.bsky.social Fullcast bit
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It's a holiday weekend. You're going to hit up a townie bar and need a break from family soon enough. Why not read [EDITOR'S NOTE: if you're on *Bluesky*, it's reread] our good friend Tim's now 10.5 year old story on arguably the greatest jukebox goof of all time www.vice.com/en/article/i...
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It's a holiday weekend. You're going to hit up a townie bar and need a break from family soon enough. Why not read [EDITOR'S NOTE: if you're on *Bluesky*, it's reread] our good friend Tim's now 10.5 year old story on arguably the greatest jukebox goof of all time www.vice.com/en/article/i...
This is such an exhausting, impoverished way to go through life. My heart would break for dudes who trap themselves like this if they weren't so fucking enthusiastic and sanctimonious about it.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is such an exhausting, impoverished way to go through life. My heart would break for dudes who trap themselves like this if they weren't so fucking enthusiastic and sanctimonious about it.