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Physicist, Humanist, Centrist. Firm believer in critical thinking and the scientific method. Hater of the anecdote. Lover of all things nerd. Trekkie. Roughrider fan. Shitty campfire guitarist. Theoretical astrophotographer. #YQR

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 35m

<sarcasm> I have no idea to what you could be referring </sarcasm>.😒

𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 46m

I shake my head at how often some governments approach problems based purely on feels without ever honestly asking "Is this a real or perceived problem" or "Has the problem been studied" or "What has worked in other places" or "What do the experts say" or "What will be the metric of success".

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 13h

Just leaving this here #Saskatchewan

Involuntary treatment for substance use disorder: A misguided response to the opioid crisis - Harvard Health

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 21h

The 'absurdness' is born out of necessity because fascists are biting at the bit for any made up excuse to send in the stormtroopers in jackboots. Beating a guy in an inflatable frog suit as a threat is much harder to spin.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Claudia Tenney describes the No Kings protests as "a bunch of aging hippies, riding nude on bicycles, dressing up in early Halloween, and looking absurd"

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 21h

Hallway healthcare at RUH leaves immunocompromised patient 'petrified' https://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/hallway-healthcare-at-ruh-leaves-immunocompromised-patient-petrified

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Guy Pollock's view at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital in a hallway near the ER, which is being referred to as the E pod, where he stayed for almost 24 hours last week. Pollock, who is immunocompromised, says the continuous heavy foot traffic past his bed left him "petrified."

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 22h

Uhhhh is right. Want to solve the root cause of long ballots? Introduce proportional representation. Problem solved.

Longest Ballot Committee - Wikipedia

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 1d

Do people actually believe this "George Soros paid all the protestors" shit? Sad. Where do I sign up for this amazing free money? Is it only those with a valid antifa membership card that hasn't expired? Did 7 million people receive cash behind a tree in the park in a brown paper bag?

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Kat @phoebe11.bsky.social · 1d

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 1d

I feel this. I am the operator of our instant pot. My wife is afraid of it blowing up as well. For how quickly and well it breaks down meats, I'm willing to risk it.

𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 1d

I'm more "christian" than Mike Johnson will ever be and I'm an atheist. The indignant piety routine is beyond laughable considering he's aggressively protecting a pedophile adulterer thief.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 3d

If you see this, post a chef.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 4d

We left a few guys on the sideline. Maier started and Coan finished at QB. No Oulette.

𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 4d

That was some fumble #Riders #Bombers #CFL

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 4d

Narrowed down my Linux distro choice to openSuSE, Fedora or Ubuntu in that order. Time to take the plunge back into that world and see if it's like riding a bike.

𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 5d

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 5d

Yuck. I'm an antisocial introvert with no shame. Not a pervert.

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 5d

"Show and throw", "Hang the wang" "breeze the knees". Whatever gets me out of there the fastest.

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 5d

Makes sense. They can only ask "Please remove your junk from the dinner table!" so many times before they get fed up.

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 5d

I get the idea and support the cause but "know your rights" rings a bit hollow when fascists are widely violating people's rights consequence free. In that environment, do you have rights anymore?

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

We’ve heard a lot of colossally stupid things from the Trump regime lately, but this is among the stupidest things I’ve heard from anyone, anywhere, ever.

Post quoting RFK Jr saying “We need to stop trusting the experts. Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it’s a feature of religion and totalitarianism.”

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𝗞⃥𝗲⃥𝗿⃥𝗿⃥𝘆⃥ 𝗕⃥𝗮⃥𝗯⃥𝗰⃥𝗼⃥𝗰⃥𝗸⃥ 🇨🇦🇺🇦 ⚛️ @kbabcock.bsky.social · 5d

I think it's time to migrate back to Linux.

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Kelly Miller @sqirlgirly.bsky.social · 6d

#yqr #Regina #Saskatchewan

There is a GoFundMe for the 19 year old woman, Marvellous Ugochukwu, who was tragically killed after a truck collided with her bus stop this past Sunday on Dewdney and Elphinstone.

www.gofundme.com/f/marvelous-...

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 6d

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