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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed.

Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 1d

"Trump's Asinine Trade War is Harming Innocent Bystanders"
(Fixed it for you CNN)

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

The late (or at least severely delayed) Bergholt Stuttley Johnson was generally recognized as the worst inventor in the world, yet in a very specialized sense. Merely bad inventors made things that failed to operate. He wasn’t among these small fry. Any fool could make something that did absolutely nothing when you pressed the button. He scorned such fumble-fingered amateurs. Everything he built worked. It just didn’t do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 2d

There are 5 Canadian-born Nobel Prize winning economists, but Peter Howitt is the only one who spent a significant part of his academic career in Canada. He was a prof at University of Western Ontario from the 1970s to the 1990s and is a past President of the Canadian Economics Association

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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 2d

All good, but that Crab one wins gets deeper the longer you think about it.

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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly that might depend on the politics or vocation (not a one-to-one mapping between them) of the person issuing the comment.

But I'd take it as a complement either way.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 5d

Dropped into the National Museum to say hello to some old friends.

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Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦 @tammyschirle.bsky.social · 5d

This 👇🎉 🇨🇦!!

Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 5d

For a certain audience of Canadian policy experts, I imagine there are no more exciting words than "automatic federal benefits" for low-income Canadians.

Though I also imagine the details matter a lot.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 5d

My God, it's turning into an ACTUAL meme war.

Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 5d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 5d

Creators of AI-generated actress unsure if coolest part is the creepiness or the stealing

PALO ALTO, CA - The inventors of Tilly Norwood, a computer generated character built using artificial intelligence, enthusiastically insist their creation is both unsettlingly lifeless and built on ou...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 6d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 6d

There is no army on earth that can defeat this.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

#WarRavagedPortland

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cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 6d

please share www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTHd...

Turtles vs Shredder | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

YouTube video by Flashback FM

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Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦 @tammyschirle.bsky.social · 6d

This must be fiction. I mean, really.

On cost-benefit, the frog wins

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 9d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 6d

What kind of asshole would schedule a course that late!

homer simpson is a cartoon character from the simpsons standing in a courtroom .

ALT: homer simpson is a cartoon character from the simpsons standing in a courtroom .

media.tenor.com

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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 8d

I worry that the average BlueSkyer would find both images unappealing.

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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 8d

With appologies to my cat, as this picture makes her look fatter than she is.

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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 8d

Cat caught a mouse last night, which is good as that's a main reason I have her.

She left it next to my bed. Also good as it wasn't IN the bed and I found it reasonably quickly.

But I needed to remind myself of this as I was disposing of a dead mouse while in my pyjamas.

A bi-color white tabby cat, snoozing with her eyes half open and one outstretched paw, snuggled into the arm of a leather wingback chair.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 9d

I used to point out to people that Canada had only 39 identified billionaires and the taxing billionaires wasn't likely therefore to be super productive of revenue

That was the 2015 number

It's 77 now (reported by Social Capital Partners)

US number is 813 (Forbes list 2025)

Updating my rant.

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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 9d