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jim storrie
@jimstr.bsky.social
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edmonton-based poster, video game and hamburger enthusiast, and depending on your standards, journalist. writing about alberta politics at www.theprogressreport.ca. if we are partisans of liberty, it is our duty to escape
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jonathan (normal) @marhom.bsky.social · 25d
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achewood 12/13/2007 Roast Beef: Okay cool they do a good -- OH uh wow man bad news on the computer front Ray: Huh? Why? Keep it short, man. And no details.
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 2h
the krakoan age ended because israel's escalating genocide of palestinians made a comic book arc about a phony-progressive ethnostate too on the nose to publish
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X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 22h
What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 2h
covid disinfo spreaders can stay the Fuck out of my threads thank you very much
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 8h
if gen z would just watch a little more classic italian neorealism they would understand this
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 8h
my working theory is that bsky users are more principled about not posting on the job, which means by friday they've got a lot pent up
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 8h
the danger of covid remains high and the cost of masking is practically zero. doing the easy thing that protects everyone around you seems a lot more rational to me than not
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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 3d
get in the fucking ribbit, shinji
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 3d
You best start believing in computers, Mr. Leto. You’re in one.
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 5d
sensory processing capacity is stored in the foreskin
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d
Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 6d
even just the removal of the private system would be beneficial, as it just by existing undercuts the public one.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 8d
Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 8d
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 8d
at this rate Tommy Douglas is going to pull his endorsement
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 8d
Yves's feet truly do yearn for the rake
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 8d
Aspiring NDP leader who has raised thousands may be breaking party rules, official says
Aspiring NDP leader who has raised thousands may be breaking party rules, official says
Yves Engler, an author who has written several books criticizing Canadian and Western foreign policy, said he has already raised the money for his leadership bid.
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 8d
ray parker jr. as the cover image to neil cicierega's 'bustin'
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 8d
the angel of history looks back on the storm of progress, or at least that's what walter benjamin thinks this painting is about
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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 10d
wizard frog is insane
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 9d
the committee will be UCP-majority. if UCP don't want to do option b they can simply choose option a
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 9d
(a) table a report with respect to the policy proposal at the earliest practicable opportunity, or

(b) table a report recommending that the policy proposal and report be referred to the Lieutenant Governor in Council for the purpose of a referendum in accordance with the Referendum Act."
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 9d
"(2) The committee to which a policy proposal is tabled shall within 90 days of the proposal being referred to it if the Legislative Assembly is then sitting or, if it is not then sitting, within 15 days after the commencement of the next sitting, either...
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 9d
(b) within 10 sitting days after the proposal is tabled under clause (a), the Government shall bring forward a motion to have the proposal referred to a committee of the Legislative Assembly."

that's what a successful petition from Lukaszuk would trigger
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 9d
"On receiving a copy of a policy proposal in accordance with section 12(1)(a),

(a) the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly shall lay the proposal before the Legislative Assembly if it is then sitting, or if it is not then sitting, within 15 days after the commencement of the next sitting, and...
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 9d
I don't think you understand what I wrote above. the petition does not force a referendum nor will any UCP MLAs have to have an uncomfortable vote on anything
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 9d
it seems unlikely to me that a UCP-controlled committee is going to recommend anything inconvenient for them!
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 9d
I don't know about this—the government is not obligation to proceed with a referendum even if Lukaszuk gets all the signatures. Lukaszuk opted for the legislative policy route here, which if I'm reading the legislation right means this gets sent to committee kings-printer.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?pag...
Alberta King's Printer:
kings-printer.alberta.ca
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