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Aidan Hailes
@aidanhailes.bsky.social
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YEG denizen, soccer/football fan, writer, cat enthusiast, gamer (but not the gross kind), media lover (and sometimes podcaster), etc.
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aidanhailes.bsky.social
This marathon from @millennialmoron.bsky.social is one of the best pieces of investigative journalism I have seen about a Canadian institution in years. Seriously everyone who's ever paid into the CPP should watch it right to the end. #cndpoli #canada #LPC #CPC
The Problem with CPP Investments
YouTube video by Millennial Moron
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March 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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zdroberts.bsky.social
If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
March 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Too much, or just about right? 🤷🏼‍♂️
January 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
December 30, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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ghildirthalen.bsky.social
More romance media should include scenes where the couple are the only sane people in the room. The calming balm of staring at your partner wordlessly and knowing how each other is internally reacting to something stupid that was said. The foreplay to talking mad shit in the car ride home 😚👌
December 28, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
Amid everything else the real struggle is always a class struggle, and a struggle for the equality of opportunity: the chance to get a good job, own a home, raise a family if you want. The modern smear of oligarchy, and the austerity-related decline of institutions, betrays that. So you get this.
robsonfletcher.com Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · Dec 10
The words in this headline would have made zero sense arranged in this order just five years ago.

But beneath is some of the best analysis I've read of all that's going on at the intersection of social media, youth, economics and politics.

Damn is it bleak, though.

🔗: defector.com/the-hawk-tua...
December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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adamjschwarz.bsky.social
Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.
December 3, 2024 at 4:55 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
The rare anti-science double whammy.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Nov 25
Bird flu, a virus that can also affect humans, has been discovered in a batch of raw milk sold in California store refrigerators, state regulators said Sunday.

It comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.
Bird flu detected in raw milk sold at California store
The H5N1 virus was found in a sample of unpasteurized milk at a store, prompting a recall of one batch. Health agencies have warned against the growing dietary fad.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:49 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
November 22, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
Imagine being so personally and professionally repellent that even Republicans won't vote for you
November 21, 2024 at 5:32 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (14/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
November 21, 2024 at 4:03 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
A blue sky cover (that's literally it, just blue sky with a single cloud) of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
November 20, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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mnateshyamalan.bsky.social
2025 white house cabinet meeting
the cover of not like us, big house with a bunch of sex offender alert icons
November 19, 2024 at 11:35 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (12/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
The cover of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
November 19, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
November 18, 2024 at 5:33 AM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
November 18, 2024 at 5:12 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights - Lightsabers
November 17, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
Step 1: Elon takes over Twitter, unbans and amplifies the worst white nationalist posters, methodically turns it into a right wing echo chamber.

Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse.

Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”
November 16, 2024 at 8:04 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Finished Dragon Age Veilguard.

Now to walk around in that post-story-you-loved daze for a few hours. Maybe days.
November 16, 2024 at 11:42 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (9/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
The will to change by bell hooks
November 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Interesting perspective on what's going on at AIMCO right now. #ableg #ab #aimco #yeg
Public ambush sends alert to $169 billion Alberta pension: Government’s in charge
“To restore confidence in the agency, Alberta’s government has decided to reset the investment corporation’s focus with a new CEO and board,” the government of Alberta said in a statement.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
November 15, 2024 at 4:50 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (8/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
November 15, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
The party that is obsessed with child sex offenders, & is close to a cult that claims child sex offenders run the government, just nominated a guy once investigated for allegedly sex-trafficking a 17 year old girl to be in charge of the country’s legal system.

Beyond parody.
November 14, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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ashleycooper.bsky.social
If I had a nickle for every chart-topping song named after an alcohol-themed supernova I'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot but etc etc
Promo photo of Liam and Noah Gallagher of Oasis. They have solemn expressions and dress in dark clothes. Promo image of Chappel Roan. She is in heavy facd paint and wearing a sash with her name on it over an aqua coloured dress. She is wearing a crown. The background is opulent.
November 13, 2024 at 7:24 PM
aidanhailes.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
November 14, 2024 at 4:42 PM