John Robb
@realstirfryguy.bsky.social
Gregarious line cook. I have many opinions and they are all mine. #Reds fan. Settler on unceded Wolastoqiyik territory. il/He/Him 🤼 🌱🌿📌 #NBBluesky #CanadaSky
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John Robb
@realstirfryguy.bsky.social
· Apr 16
New word for our times created by @swilua.bsky.social:
Donkwaggle
däŋk waɡ(ə)l
noun, pejorative
a callow, self centered fool unaware of his own idiocy
"The donkwaggle spent 20 minutes explaining crypto currency erroneously."
Especially useful in social media settings. CC: @merriam-webster.com
Donkwaggle
däŋk waɡ(ə)l
noun, pejorative
a callow, self centered fool unaware of his own idiocy
"The donkwaggle spent 20 minutes explaining crypto currency erroneously."
Especially useful in social media settings. CC: @merriam-webster.com
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Average folks kettled ICE
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Average folks kettled ICE
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I hope it’s now (even more) obvious that having military in our streets, with instructions to ignore “stupid rules of engagement,” is not in any way intended to protect us or make us safer
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I hope it’s now (even more) obvious that having military in our streets, with instructions to ignore “stupid rules of engagement,” is not in any way intended to protect us or make us safer
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New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
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That politics requires a vastly different set of skills (and temperament) than does central banking, finance or business is a lesson voters have failed to learn time and again.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
And if you think Carney must be a political super genius because he was a banker and economist etc etc., well, I'd like you to meet tech bros as proof positive that skills in one area don't always port over to another.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
That politics requires a vastly different set of skills (and temperament) than does central banking, finance or business is a lesson voters have failed to learn time and again.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
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I wanna live with a synonym girl
I'll know some words mean
The same as some words
With a synonym girl RS
I'll know some words mean
The same as some words
With a synonym girl RS
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I wanna live with a synonym girl
I'll know some words mean
The same as some words
With a synonym girl RS
I'll know some words mean
The same as some words
With a synonym girl RS
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The statement says the EUB decision is not supported by evidence. If that's the case, and if I was Premier, I'd take steps to remove gasoline pricing from the EUB.
Never should have had that power in the first place.
Never should have had that power in the first place.
Premier’s statement on decision regarding cost-of-carbon adjuster
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2025.11.0542.html
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2025.11.0542.html
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The statement says the EUB decision is not supported by evidence. If that's the case, and if I was Premier, I'd take steps to remove gasoline pricing from the EUB.
Never should have had that power in the first place.
Never should have had that power in the first place.
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Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
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Eating poutine while watching UNB women's hockey warming up.
Hockey night in Freddy.
Hockey night in Freddy.
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Eating poutine while watching UNB women's hockey warming up.
Hockey night in Freddy.
Hockey night in Freddy.
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Jfc Why are we so beholden to this fucking industry?
BREAKING: New Brunswickers will NOT get the eight-cent-per-litre cut to gas prices on Monday that the Holt government promised
Instead, EUB issues interim order siding with industry’s call to cancel it out with an equivalent increase
Story 👇👇👇
tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB
Instead, EUB issues interim order siding with industry’s call to cancel it out with an equivalent increase
Story 👇👇👇
tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB
BREAKING: Monday’s eight-cent cut to gas prices blocked by EUB
Monday cut on the line as utilities board wonders in final hearing if siding with industry would be ‘frustrating will of the legislature’
tj.news
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Jfc Why are we so beholden to this fucking industry?
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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They’ve said the same thing about Irish migration, Italian migration, Jewish migration, Eastern European migration, Japanese migration, and Chinese migration. None of us were supposed to be compatible with whatever was considered to be Western civilization at any given time in the past two centuries
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
They’ve said the same thing about Irish migration, Italian migration, Jewish migration, Eastern European migration, Japanese migration, and Chinese migration. None of us were supposed to be compatible with whatever was considered to be Western civilization at any given time in the past two centuries
The conspiracy theorists are going to eat this "former CIA worker from Afghanistan drives thousands of miles to shoot and murder National Guard at a time when the regime is seeking political violence to trigger martial law" story up for decades to come. It has everything!
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The conspiracy theorists are going to eat this "former CIA worker from Afghanistan drives thousands of miles to shoot and murder National Guard at a time when the regime is seeking political violence to trigger martial law" story up for decades to come. It has everything!
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Tomorrow!
We got a full issue:
-Country Music Rising Star
-Wine 101 by an ezpert
-Domestic Violence a Community Issue
-Local content creators
open.substack.com/pub/thefrede...
We got a full issue:
-Country Music Rising Star
-Wine 101 by an ezpert
-Domestic Violence a Community Issue
-Local content creators
open.substack.com/pub/thefrede...
Wine Stars and Country Stars
Issue 5 Volume 2
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Tomorrow!
We got a full issue:
-Country Music Rising Star
-Wine 101 by an ezpert
-Domestic Violence a Community Issue
-Local content creators
open.substack.com/pub/thefrede...
We got a full issue:
-Country Music Rising Star
-Wine 101 by an ezpert
-Domestic Violence a Community Issue
-Local content creators
open.substack.com/pub/thefrede...
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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If my partner were in the media and doing wildly unethical stuff for years I probably wouldn’t sit on it until I could use it to boost newsletter subscriptions.
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If my partner were in the media and doing wildly unethical stuff for years I probably wouldn’t sit on it until I could use it to boost newsletter subscriptions.
Quick question for denizens of the Fredericton campus of UNB. Did anyone else see Santa Claus on a road and trail bike around 2 PM?
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Quick question for denizens of the Fredericton campus of UNB. Did anyone else see Santa Claus on a road and trail bike around 2 PM?
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I’ve noticed that clergy are swearing more, in case that’s another barometer of the times in which we are living.
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I’ve noticed that clergy are swearing more, in case that’s another barometer of the times in which we are living.
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So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
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Just paid $2200 for winter tires. Just tires, no rims. Doing my part to prop up the economy... 💸💸💸
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Just paid $2200 for winter tires. Just tires, no rims. Doing my part to prop up the economy... 💸💸💸
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I for one am super excited that Poilievre and the CPC have hired Outhouse and I think everyone from NB should just SHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I for one am super excited that Poilievre and the CPC have hired Outhouse and I think everyone from NB should just SHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
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Another story that encouragingly foregrounds the question of who controls the F-35’s software when considering which jet Canada should buy.
Ideally, reporters would also look beyond the F-35 to the military & government’s pervasive software dependency problem. The F-35’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Ideally, reporters would also look beyond the F-35 to the military & government’s pervasive software dependency problem. The F-35’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Opinion: Sweden offers Canada a chance to revive its near-dead defence aerospace industry
Building Saab’s Gripen fighter jet and GlobalEye surveillance plane in Canada would create thousands of jobs – and infuriate Trump
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Another story that encouragingly foregrounds the question of who controls the F-35’s software when considering which jet Canada should buy.
Ideally, reporters would also look beyond the F-35 to the military & government’s pervasive software dependency problem. The F-35’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Ideally, reporters would also look beyond the F-35 to the military & government’s pervasive software dependency problem. The F-35’s only the tip of the iceberg.