Michael Buckley
@michaelabuckley.bsky.social
Toronto burger. Should be doing something else.
So this really is a great book. Just what I needed.
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
So this really is a great book. Just what I needed.
Individual Liberals have strong, durable opinions. But they rise and fall within the party as the times and mood demand.
the canadian liberals are exactly what the voters want them to be at any given moment and the voters seem fine with this
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Individual Liberals have strong, durable opinions. But they rise and fall within the party as the times and mood demand.
Reposted by Michael Buckley
Counterpoint: Gripen A: exists and B: will set up local production in your country that isn’t beholden to a government that may withhold software updates or spare parts if they decide you are too racially mongrelized to count as an ally anymore.
Stop trying to make Gripen happen and come up with a real 5th gen!
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Counterpoint: Gripen A: exists and B: will set up local production in your country that isn’t beholden to a government that may withhold software updates or spare parts if they decide you are too racially mongrelized to count as an ally anymore.
The Twin Insurgency is our greatest threat.
www.the-american-interest.com/2014/06/15/t...
www.the-american-interest.com/2014/06/15/t...
December 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The Twin Insurgency is our greatest threat.
www.the-american-interest.com/2014/06/15/t...
www.the-american-interest.com/2014/06/15/t...
Reposted by Michael Buckley
The idea that the US is upset JAPAN has not done more to build up their armed forces is literally insane.
December 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The idea that the US is upset JAPAN has not done more to build up their armed forces is literally insane.
Reposted by Michael Buckley
Asking rents in Victoria for a 1 bed apartment have fallen under $2000 for the first time in the rentals.ca data
Why? Slower population growth + lots of new rental completions
Supply and demand remains undefeated
Why? Slower population growth + lots of new rental completions
Supply and demand remains undefeated
December 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Asking rents in Victoria for a 1 bed apartment have fallen under $2000 for the first time in the rentals.ca data
Why? Slower population growth + lots of new rental completions
Supply and demand remains undefeated
Why? Slower population growth + lots of new rental completions
Supply and demand remains undefeated
Reposted by Michael Buckley
China hit 25% electric trucking for haulage… rapidly.
That’s a huge deal & essentially tells you what’s in store for everyone else. This will force a change in large trucking manufacturers around the world & impact the price of diesel.
We live in interesting times.
@everythingelectric.bsky.social
That’s a huge deal & essentially tells you what’s in store for everyone else. This will force a change in large trucking manufacturers around the world & impact the price of diesel.
We live in interesting times.
@everythingelectric.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
China hit 25% electric trucking for haulage… rapidly.
That’s a huge deal & essentially tells you what’s in store for everyone else. This will force a change in large trucking manufacturers around the world & impact the price of diesel.
We live in interesting times.
@everythingelectric.bsky.social
That’s a huge deal & essentially tells you what’s in store for everyone else. This will force a change in large trucking manufacturers around the world & impact the price of diesel.
We live in interesting times.
@everythingelectric.bsky.social
Pegasus, this is Galactica actual.
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Pegasus, this is Galactica actual.
The symbolic formalization of mathematics into LEAN combined with LLMs is going to unleash a wild replication crisis.
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The symbolic formalization of mathematics into LEAN combined with LLMs is going to unleash a wild replication crisis.
Reposted by Michael Buckley
'We will never fucking trust you again' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
www.readtheline.ca
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
'We will never fucking trust you again' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
I liked everything about high modernism except the mountains of corpses.
Uplift the peasants, by force if necessary. Smash the gentry.
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I liked everything about high modernism except the mountains of corpses.
Reposted by Michael Buckley
Elon Musk thinks Canada is not a real country. Even if our elites are too timid and chickenshit to leave from the nazi and pedo filth, one would have thought they would leave to avoid supporting someone calling for national extinction.
After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Elon Musk thinks Canada is not a real country. Even if our elites are too timid and chickenshit to leave from the nazi and pedo filth, one would have thought they would leave to avoid supporting someone calling for national extinction.
Reposted by Michael Buckley
Some good TTC news: coming home from Tiff tonight I had only a short wait for a 504 King car, and at Parliament the 504D bus actually waited for connecting passengers rather than speeding off into the night. When TTC works well it can be a delight. We need more delight.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Some good TTC news: coming home from Tiff tonight I had only a short wait for a 504 King car, and at Parliament the 504D bus actually waited for connecting passengers rather than speeding off into the night. When TTC works well it can be a delight. We need more delight.
Reposted by Michael Buckley
I can tell you for a fact that these urges are not purely masculine
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I can tell you for a fact that these urges are not purely masculine
Reposted by Michael Buckley
This is a tank of the Rwandan army, used to support the M23 rebel group in eastern DRC.
This tank started its life in Ukrainian SSR, was sold to Syria, captured by Israel in 1967, modified to Ti-67s designation, and sold to Rwanda to end its life in eastern DRC.
What a world.
This tank started its life in Ukrainian SSR, was sold to Syria, captured by Israel in 1967, modified to Ti-67s designation, and sold to Rwanda to end its life in eastern DRC.
What a world.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
This is a tank of the Rwandan army, used to support the M23 rebel group in eastern DRC.
This tank started its life in Ukrainian SSR, was sold to Syria, captured by Israel in 1967, modified to Ti-67s designation, and sold to Rwanda to end its life in eastern DRC.
What a world.
This tank started its life in Ukrainian SSR, was sold to Syria, captured by Israel in 1967, modified to Ti-67s designation, and sold to Rwanda to end its life in eastern DRC.
What a world.
Reposted by Michael Buckley
AI content's enthusiastic audience is just simple users. The people of the platform. The common clay of the new Internet.
this is the first time I have seen a journalist say this, which is plainly correct.
i think a lot of people think of "slop" as following from the next-token prediction nature of how generative AI works, but i sort of think that the "slop"-ish qualities of genAI output can be chalked up way more to RLHF
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
AI content's enthusiastic audience is just simple users. The people of the platform. The common clay of the new Internet.
Reposted by Michael Buckley
Reposted by Michael Buckley
Bread, Milk and Butter (1972), dir. Jim Simon, Wantu Studios
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Bread, Milk and Butter (1972), dir. Jim Simon, Wantu Studios
They planned a silent revolution and wound up in a bust-out.
“sure sure sure, I get why picking judges is important” said the Mob Construction Guy to a room full of Catholic freaks and fundamentalist tobacco lawyers. “we’re on the same page here!”
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
They planned a silent revolution and wound up in a bust-out.
Every day, another step. It would be malpractice to buy a single F35 beyond our NORAD obligations.
Point being, I am skeptical of any assumption that this NSS is meaningless. Ultimately, it is safer for America’s allies to take this strategy deadly seriously. It is also pretty reasonable for this NSS to have consequences for the U.S. natsec community abroad.
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Every day, another step. It would be malpractice to buy a single F35 beyond our NORAD obligations.
Reposted by Michael Buckley
Point being, I am skeptical of any assumption that this NSS is meaningless. Ultimately, it is safer for America’s allies to take this strategy deadly seriously. It is also pretty reasonable for this NSS to have consequences for the U.S. natsec community abroad.
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Point being, I am skeptical of any assumption that this NSS is meaningless. Ultimately, it is safer for America’s allies to take this strategy deadly seriously. It is also pretty reasonable for this NSS to have consequences for the U.S. natsec community abroad.
Canada is a weird country, but it is very real. If it didn’t exist, we’d be forced to invent it.
I don't know if I'd claim the moral righteousness imputed by this piece. These are the reasons I'm here, I would not abide the Nazis and the 'Canada is not a real country'.
But knowing myself, I think I'm just a goat-stubborn bastard who isn't much of a joiner.
But knowing myself, I think I'm just a goat-stubborn bastard who isn't much of a joiner.
The most important line in a solid piece by @iandunt.bsky.social
"And yet for all its flaws, Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
"And yet for all its flaws, Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Canada is a weird country, but it is very real. If it didn’t exist, we’d be forced to invent it.
Reposted by Michael Buckley
I don't know much about the interim NDP leader but he's genuinely got jokes and killed it during the press gallery dinner.
(Start 1:44:20)
(Start 1:44:20)
Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner – November 29, 2025
Journalists and politicians gather in Ottawa for the annual Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner. (no interpretation)
www.cpac.ca
December 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I don't know much about the interim NDP leader but he's genuinely got jokes and killed it during the press gallery dinner.
(Start 1:44:20)
(Start 1:44:20)
Reposted by Michael Buckley
The Curious Bear Stands Tall Under A Very Full Moon
Jason Carter ~ Cree
2023
Jason Carter ~ Cree
2023
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Curious Bear Stands Tall Under A Very Full Moon
Jason Carter ~ Cree
2023
Jason Carter ~ Cree
2023
I fear this is existential for this generation of US officers. If merking a civilian caught maybe freelancing for a distributed drug/kidnap/extortion racket on dodgy intel is “murder”, then certain branches of the forces have been murder-machines for a generation.
"As far back as September, defense officials have been quietly pushing back on criticism that killing the two survivors amounted to a war crime by arguing...they appeared to be radioing for help"
society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I fear this is existential for this generation of US officers. If merking a civilian caught maybe freelancing for a distributed drug/kidnap/extortion racket on dodgy intel is “murder”, then certain branches of the forces have been murder-machines for a generation.