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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 1d

Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 13h

PBS just aired a biography of one of the researchers responsible for decades of basic research that ultimately led to the "overnight" miracle of mRNA vaccines for covid. And now scientific illiterates like RFK Jr are blocking mRNA vaccines.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.pbs.org/independentl...

Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution - Independent Lens

Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution, narrated by Mark Ruffalo, traces Sharp’s path from rural Kentucky to Nobel Prize winner.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 16h

I think the key factor is that it never occurred to me that something like this existed and I never looked for it. I assumed, without giving it any thought, that the location of the gas tank was just one more detail about a car the driver was expected to figure out.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 17h

I just checked my 2006 Toyota Solara and the little gas pump symbol with a little arrow pointing to the left is right there. How did I never notice that?

Kevin Kelly @kevinkelly.bsky.social · 17h

On the dashboard of every gasoline car is a symbol of gas pump with a little arrow. The arrow points to the side of the car that accesses your gas tank. Remember this when you borrow or rent a car.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 17h

In practice, when the Trump administration talks about viewpoint diversity, or when Musk talks about free speech on Twitter, they actually mean promoting views they like and suppressing views they dislike. Trump doesn't even try to pretend otherwise.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18h

these people are insane

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Brooke Rollins: "Charlie Kirk is in a way the modern day Thomas Jefferson."

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 18h

This strikes me as pedantic. When American protesters in 2025 use the term antifa, they mean that they are generically anti-fascist and that the WWII allies were generically anti-fascist, not that they claim a direct connection to anyone using that label in 1930s Germany.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19h

"Antifa in 1930s Germany were emphatically not the good guys; they arguably facilitated the Nazis’ rise to power, not only by helping create a culture of political violence but by directing a lot of their energy toward undermining anti-Nazi moderates."

9 Stupid Things People Are Saying About Antifa

A terrorist organization? A fiction? All Democrats? None of the above.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 22h

I'm not an American, so I could be wrong here, but isn't "no kings" a "foundational truth" of the American republic?

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Kevin @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 1d

I can see people in some overseas factory making these inflatable costumes like "what the fuck, why are we suddenly so busy now? is a kink thing?"

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 1d

Currently a small group of protesters including a green alien, and an pink axolotl, are on Lexington and 25th to see if the fence will be removed tonight.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

His oratory is so inspirational that he’s ordering people to watch it and not say mean things about him.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely the writer. The kid is delusional, but most of us are idiots at that age. A writer and presumably at least one editor of a national newspaper thought that nonsense was newsworthy.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Kellyanne can’t understand how anyone could have anything bad to say about Nosferatu. It’s a complete mystery.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

It's right there in the name, Clare! Duh! :-)

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Grandpa is confused about the concept that launching a trade war against the entire world might cause the countries he's attacking to take reciprocal actions. Very unfair!

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

I heard there’s a growing plague of frogs on Portland's war-torn streets.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

He finds an awful lot of time to be a media critic for someone who allegedly has an important job.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

Yup. The article isn’t as bad as the headline, which implies that those meanies in Canada are picking on innocent Americans for no reason, when the reality is that we were blindsided by an unjustified attack from a country we thought was a trusted friend and ally. We're trying to defend ourselves.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

The article's not technically wrong, but the framing is completely backwards. For no reason, the global hegemon launched a trade war against the world and started threatening the sovereignty of longtime U.S. allies. We’re fighting back with the economic tools available to an economy 1/10th the size.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most effective episodes wasn’t technically a twilight zone episode, it was a French adaptation of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. I was lucky enough to read the short story at 12 without knowing anything about the plot; it blew my mind.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been working from home for a small Albuquerque software company since 1996, and it’s a bit shocking that they trusted someone in another country to be putting in honest work decades before working from home was common. I don’t think I could work in a normal 9-5 office at this point.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

Forever War is brilliant; Heinlein told Haldeman that he liked it. Skip the sequel, Forever Free; it’s shockingly bad.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

A song by a B.C. artist was at the centre of global pop culture.

youtu.be/JdLvUkLW5Jk?...

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

That might be a story about an American president that’s better known in Canada than the U.S.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How a future U.S. president helped avert nuclear disaster near Canada's capital | CBC News

In 1952, an experimental nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont., about 180 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, partially melted down, becoming the world's first nuclear reactor incident. Disaster was averte...

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

His strategy is always divide and conquer, and he openly gloats about it. This is a small encouraging sign that the media might finally be understanding that they need to band together and refuse to play by the administration's rules.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

It all makes sense now. Of course it would be him.

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