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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The overriding goal of too many journalists is to provide “balanced” coverage from a “neutral” position in equidistance to both sides. That framework is much easier to justify if you pretend to be dealing with “normal” politicians – as opposed to committed ideologues pursuing an extreme project.

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 11h

They let me go outside on occasion.

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 13h

#DailyWalk at Deer Lake, somewhat truncated due to the presence of a large black bear on the trail

Beautiful marshy area with mountains in the background

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 17h

No, a west coast state.

(I know the Great Lakes area and east coast pretty well because I grew up in southern Ontario.)

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 17h

(Random book and glasses spotted yesterday on the pier at Dundarave, West Vancouver)

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 17h

Looking at pictures (glasses included)

A book entitled Looking at Pictures left on the ground. A pair of glasses is sitting on top of the book.

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 17h

My knowledge of central US is not as good as the west coast and the northeast, obviously.

You can probably guess which state I lived in.

Quiz results: Congratulations! You named 393 U.S. cities! You named 393 cities, with a total population of 71,324,913 (27.36% of the national urban population in 2020).

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 17h

Yup — a lot of the places where early settlers settled were named after the places they came from.

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 1d

Not bad for a Canadian (though I have travelled throughout the UK and all of my ancestry is British)

Quiz results: Congratulations! You named 157 British cities! You named 157 cities, with a total population of 24,029,830 (36.50% of the British urban population).

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 1d

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 1d

Gilda is visiting today. I don’t know where Norbert is. #BalconyPigeons

A lone pigeon sitting on a balcony railing overlooking a city on a rainy day

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 2d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 2d

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 3d

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What to know about COVID-19 vaccines this fall - UBC News

As fall virus season approaches and COVID-19 cases show early signs of increasing, UBC experts Dr. Fawziah Lalji and Dr. Julie Bettinger answer common questions about 2025 vaccines and this year's imm...

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 3d

Watching season 4 of #TheBear. This show has good music.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.