aaron boothby
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There’s a (verified) horrific video of the Israeli army executing two unarmed men and then desecrating their bodies with a bulldozer making the rounds. I’m not going to share it but I will make reference to it to emphasise that there is no ceasefire in Gaza, the West Bank or Lebanon.
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
There’s a (verified) horrific video of the Israeli army executing two unarmed men and then desecrating their bodies with a bulldozer making the rounds. I’m not going to share it but I will make reference to it to emphasise that there is no ceasefire in Gaza, the West Bank or Lebanon.
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
this government should fall, not because anything better will replace it but because its agenda is flat out abhorrent
anyone else with a spine is hopefully considering doing the same
anyone else with a spine is hopefully considering doing the same
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
this government should fall, not because anything better will replace it but because its agenda is flat out abhorrent
anyone else with a spine is hopefully considering doing the same
anyone else with a spine is hopefully considering doing the same
canada sounds nice then the people running it casually remind you they would sell out every single person living here to build another pipeline, clearcut another forest, open another mine, flood another ecosystem for hydro and exploitation is the only constant
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
canada sounds nice then the people running it casually remind you they would sell out every single person living here to build another pipeline, clearcut another forest, open another mine, flood another ecosystem for hydro and exploitation is the only constant
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With a Liberal government like this, we don’t even need the Conservatives to fuck things up for everyone!
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
With a Liberal government like this, we don’t even need the Conservatives to fuck things up for everyone!
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We want our homes back. At the very least, my own home was a shelter for my sorrow, my pain, and all the disappointments that loss left behind.
I want my home… so I can grieve.
I want my home… so I can grieve.
Every minute I spend in this life is pure, real torment.
I don’t see any chance in staying alive…
I will remain stuck until death finally frees me. 😔
I don’t see any chance in staying alive…
I will remain stuck until death finally frees me. 😔
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
We want our homes back. At the very least, my own home was a shelter for my sorrow, my pain, and all the disappointments that loss left behind.
I want my home… so I can grieve.
I want my home… so I can grieve.
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Carney: "Canada confirms that it will enable the export of bitumen from a strategic deep-water port to Asian markets, including if necessary through an appropriate adjustment to the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act."
This is the Douglas Channel where Danielle Smith expects massive oil tankers to navigate oil safely from Kitimat to markets in Asia.
This is also where even ferries run aground in shallow water and high windspeeds FFS.
This is why we have a BC moratorium on oil tanker traffic.
This is also where even ferries run aground in shallow water and high windspeeds FFS.
This is why we have a BC moratorium on oil tanker traffic.
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Carney: "Canada confirms that it will enable the export of bitumen from a strategic deep-water port to Asian markets, including if necessary through an appropriate adjustment to the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act."
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Penn Kemp : For You, Dear Friend and Fellow Poet / @pw.org @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ;
for Barry Dempster (January 17, 1952-November 27, 2025)
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/penn...
for Barry Dempster (January 17, 1952-November 27, 2025)
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/penn...
Penn Kemp : For You, Dear Friend and Fellow Poet
for Barry Dempster (January 17, 1952-November 27, 2025) Thank you for your being, Barry, for your care and kindest attention t...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Penn Kemp : For You, Dear Friend and Fellow Poet / @pw.org @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ;
for Barry Dempster (January 17, 1952-November 27, 2025)
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/penn...
for Barry Dempster (January 17, 1952-November 27, 2025)
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/penn...
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How about we sacrifice holiday homes so everyone has a home?
We need to talk about HOLIDAY HOMES
If you already own a home, should you be allowed to buy a spare one?
The Dutch don't think so
New laws require buyers to obtain permits to buy a 2nd home, while existing owners will be given 1 year amnesty
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm #EveryoneShouldHaveAHome
If you already own a home, should you be allowed to buy a spare one?
The Dutch don't think so
New laws require buyers to obtain permits to buy a 2nd home, while existing owners will be given 1 year amnesty
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm #EveryoneShouldHaveAHome
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
How about we sacrifice holiday homes so everyone has a home?
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what's his job? is he teaching a 5/5 load of comp classes across 3 institutions all of which are cutting positions next semester? is he a traveling nurse trying to give vaccinations? wait, is he a cancer researcher whose funding was cut? oh I know he probably works at a food bank
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
what's his job? is he teaching a 5/5 load of comp classes across 3 institutions all of which are cutting positions next semester? is he a traveling nurse trying to give vaccinations? wait, is he a cancer researcher whose funding was cut? oh I know he probably works at a food bank
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Right-wingers throw the term "civilizational suicide" around a lot
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Right-wingers throw the term "civilizational suicide" around a lot
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
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Nearly the entire brussels sprouts supply in the US comes from California’s central coast.
Brussels sprouts grow upright on a tough, woody stem. This picture is a partly mechanized harvest, but a crew of workers used machetes to cut off the stalks in the field, while another worker trims off the leaves as he feeds the stalks into the machine. It's grueling work especially when it is hot.
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Nearly the entire brussels sprouts supply in the US comes from California’s central coast.
monstrous acts everywhere you turn
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
monstrous acts everywhere you turn
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honestly proud of this weird title (argument: table of contents)
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790527...
all eyes on grinding out book 3, but until then, HNtMaH is still my favorite baby
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790527...
all eyes on grinding out book 3, but until then, HNtMaH is still my favorite baby
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
honestly proud of this weird title (argument: table of contents)
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790527...
all eyes on grinding out book 3, but until then, HNtMaH is still my favorite baby
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790527...
all eyes on grinding out book 3, but until then, HNtMaH is still my favorite baby
I'm less and less sure how I managed to write it but the thing is it keeps existing
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I'm less and less sure how I managed to write it but the thing is it keeps existing
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the poetry collection you mortal beings-in-time need for the darkest month is right here
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
the poetry collection you mortal beings-in-time need for the darkest month is right here
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
after a year with an adopted cat who is also so much more at ease and herself now I do have to say it's one of the better things I've ever done
how it started vs how its going! 3 years ago today, fish dad and i got the best black friday deal of all
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
after a year with an adopted cat who is also so much more at ease and herself now I do have to say it's one of the better things I've ever done
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literally everyone is. it's like pineapple. or ionizing radiation
i think i’m allergic to florida
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
literally everyone is. it's like pineapple. or ionizing radiation
I like thanksgiving food but I'm perfectly happy living somewhere it's not a thing, there are enough other family things it's fine
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I like thanksgiving food but I'm perfectly happy living somewhere it's not a thing, there are enough other family things it's fine
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Didn't hear it after that ICE agent shot a woman five times out of spite, either
"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Didn't hear it after that ICE agent shot a woman five times out of spite, either
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
overheard I'm assuming an american say "well I don't know why they'd delay us" and since everyone just uses speakerphone for everything now someone reply "it's a train they're pretty much on time" and yeah, that's their first time with Via Rail I'd say, good luck!
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
overheard I'm assuming an american say "well I don't know why they'd delay us" and since everyone just uses speakerphone for everything now someone reply "it's a train they're pretty much on time" and yeah, that's their first time with Via Rail I'd say, good luck!
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That is the main objection to LLMs. It is the technological extension of James' theory on assholes: A technology of little use, that few people actually want, being pushed on them by people who get mad when you complain about it.
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
That is the main objection to LLMs. It is the technological extension of James' theory on assholes: A technology of little use, that few people actually want, being pushed on them by people who get mad when you complain about it.
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I'm using the term "asshole" in the Aaron James sense, as well as perjoratively: The people running these models "[allow themselves] to enjoy special advantages in social relations out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes [them] against the complaints of other people."
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I'm using the term "asshole" in the Aaron James sense, as well as perjoratively: The people running these models "[allow themselves] to enjoy special advantages in social relations out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes [them] against the complaints of other people."