Barbell Warming
@barbell-warming.bsky.social
Lifts and Climate.
Posts may be satire/sarcasm.
Posts may be satire/sarcasm.
I walked into 20 places in Edmonton downtown earlier this year, got jack shit
It's funny that anyone can walk into McDonalds or Walmart and get a job interview, but a skilled job requires a lottery to get the same courtesy.
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I walked into 20 places in Edmonton downtown earlier this year, got jack shit
All hail the universal arbiter of competence
Am I an outlier in that I think competence interviews are a good method, and I read every application?
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
All hail the universal arbiter of competence
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It will wind up with social capital being the only route to a job and our slow descent into a caste society will be complete.
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It will wind up with social capital being the only route to a job and our slow descent into a caste society will be complete.
lol fuck cover letters
AI-written cover letters mean employers find it harder to spot good candidates, so offer lower pay across the board www.economist.com/finance-and-...
How AI is breaking cover letters
And leading to lower pay
www.economist.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
lol fuck cover letters
Thanks to having started my career in small towns that no one else wanted to go to, I was spared the urban liberal brainwashing that companies somehow "invest" in labor.
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thanks to having started my career in small towns that no one else wanted to go to, I was spared the urban liberal brainwashing that companies somehow "invest" in labor.
What kind of fucking lunatics actually think recruitment is meritocratic? Probably people who get their jobs through connections, it's always them.
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
What kind of fucking lunatics actually think recruitment is meritocratic? Probably people who get their jobs through connections, it's always them.
I thought Americans were bad with their insistence that the Democrats are just playing chess in a higher dimension you can't possibly understand. But Canadian liberals are even worse.
Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I thought Americans were bad with their insistence that the Democrats are just playing chess in a higher dimension you can't possibly understand. But Canadian liberals are even worse.
Counterpoint: "Great idea, chad and based" to increase welfare spending in Budget
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Counterpoint: "Great idea, chad and based" to increase welfare spending in Budget
Fun fact: your SUV, your gas stove, and your flight to the Maldives is not more important than this reef.
Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
Survey finds 60 per cent of Ningaloo coral has turned to stone
Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Fun fact: your SUV, your gas stove, and your flight to the Maldives is not more important than this reef.
State thugs gonna thug.
A scandalous event that should remind us to question any assumption that Canadian security agencies operate much differently than their US counterparts.
Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
State thugs gonna thug.
Meanwhile, working middle-aged adults and pensioners feel emotions like denial, confusion, and obliviousness, and they're somehow allowed to vote.
87% of students feel concerned about climate change, feeling negative emotions like anger and anxiety. @ucl-cccse.bsky.social
Alison Kitson and Kris DeMeyer advocate for a shift in how climate change is communicated: focusing on stories of action and progress over problems.
uclioe.info/4p9HHr0
Alison Kitson and Kris DeMeyer advocate for a shift in how climate change is communicated: focusing on stories of action and progress over problems.
uclioe.info/4p9HHr0
How we talk about the climate crisis – Dr Alison Kitson & Dr Kris de Meyer
Dr Alison Kitson and Dr Kris DeMeyer explore the emotional impact of climate change on young people, highlighting rising levels of anxiety and scepticism. Th...
uclioe.info
November 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Meanwhile, working middle-aged adults and pensioners feel emotions like denial, confusion, and obliviousness, and they're somehow allowed to vote.
Another interesting question is are governments going to both people with passport controls on these trains
Probably the most interesting question for high speed rail in Europe is whether they will get past the 3hr non-stop limit to provide international services between large cities.
Best prospect is probably Paris-Barcelona (which would be about 4.5h non-stop, infra 85% complete).
Best prospect is probably Paris-Barcelona (which would be about 4.5h non-stop, infra 85% complete).
November 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Another interesting question is are governments going to both people with passport controls on these trains
The Canada Defense Force: "If you can't find a job and an apartment in [Calgary/Vancouver, etc], why don't you move out to *spins wheel* Fort *spins wheel* Dick Shit Creek in *spins wheel* northeastern *spins wheel* Manitoba."
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The Canada Defense Force: "If you can't find a job and an apartment in [Calgary/Vancouver, etc], why don't you move out to *spins wheel* Fort *spins wheel* Dick Shit Creek in *spins wheel* northeastern *spins wheel* Manitoba."
What does it even mean to strengthen fiscal policy? Is it expansionary or contractionary? Does it have regressive or progressive distributional effects? I'm not even gonna read.
China to strengthen fiscal policy, finance minister says in Xinhua interview reut.rs/4nWhr2w
China to strengthen fiscal policy, finance minister says in Xinhua interview
China will strengthen fiscal policy over the next five years, said the country's finance minister on Saturday in an interview with Xinhua News Agency.
reut.rs
November 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
What does it even mean to strengthen fiscal policy? Is it expansionary or contractionary? Does it have regressive or progressive distributional effects? I'm not even gonna read.
2 is too much
🇨🇦 "Out of 11 national interest projects announced to date, eight can be categorized as clean economy projects, with five in critical minerals and three in clean energy and transmission. Only two are in fossil fuels," says @racheldoran.bsky.social.
Our response to the newly announced list👇 #cdnpoli
Our response to the newly announced list👇 #cdnpoli
New projects will build up Canada’s clean economy, but LNG exposure invites unnecessary risk - Clean Energy Canada
TORONTO — Rachel Doran, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government’s second tranche of nation-building projects: “The clean economy i...
cleanenergycanada.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
2 is too much
Is there anything useful left in the aftermath of an AI bubble? Maybe you can use the data centers as warehouses or concert venues?
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Is there anything useful left in the aftermath of an AI bubble? Maybe you can use the data centers as warehouses or concert venues?
Yes, but they're so busy. You just wouldn't understand how busy they are. Their concerns are simply so far above you. Just ask them, they'll tell you.
I know this isn't the point of the post, but I'm always struck by how badly powerful people write. Punctuation and spelling are just not a concern for them.
The amount of almost unintelligible emails I get from c-suite and sales types is crazy.
The amount of almost unintelligible emails I get from c-suite and sales types is crazy.
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Yes, but they're so busy. You just wouldn't understand how busy they are. Their concerns are simply so far above you. Just ask them, they'll tell you.
What exactly is the game plan for first-world countries slowing down on net-zero? Just let China take the lead, and settle for mediocrity and stagnation while climate risks increase?
www.dw.com/en/cop30-cli...
www.dw.com/en/cop30-cli...
COP30: 'Climate conference of truth' in Brazil? – DW – 11/10/2025
At the COP30 climate summit, nations will again try to agree on targets to limit catastrophic global temperature rise. But many barriers remain before steep greenhouse gas cuts are realized.
www.dw.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What exactly is the game plan for first-world countries slowing down on net-zero? Just let China take the lead, and settle for mediocrity and stagnation while climate risks increase?
www.dw.com/en/cop30-cli...
www.dw.com/en/cop30-cli...
Why is it that whenever I see a post by someone whose resume includes the topic of security, they have some sort of suspicious or dehumanizing language towards migrants?
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Why is it that whenever I see a post by someone whose resume includes the topic of security, they have some sort of suspicious or dehumanizing language towards migrants?
Is Coal Roller Carney gonna listen though?
Hi PM @mark-carney.bsky.social, Calgary Climate Hub here. Judging by the responses to this post, this is a REALLY popular idea amongst Canadians. We believe that in 2025 #NationBuilding means #Electrification, not building out more #OilAndGas infrastructure. Happy to chat! #cdnpoli #ClimateChange
South Korea (hey how about it PM #MarkCarney?) #Solar #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Is Coal Roller Carney gonna listen though?
Welfare programs like SNAP causing people to hold out on taking jobs (whatever evidence there even is for it) is *the point*. That's the idea. You are actually trying to undermine the market power of sweatshops and various servant rackets in the labor market.
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Welfare programs like SNAP causing people to hold out on taking jobs (whatever evidence there even is for it) is *the point*. That's the idea. You are actually trying to undermine the market power of sweatshops and various servant rackets in the labor market.
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IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
This should go without saying, but never listen to anything Bill Gates says
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This should go without saying, but never listen to anything Bill Gates says
Suburban NIMBYs have turned electoral politics into a nutjob circus
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Suburban NIMBYs have turned electoral politics into a nutjob circus
In Czechia, there is a Motorists for Themselves party. What a bunch of shit for brains
www.dw.com/en/czechias-...
www.dw.com/en/czechias-...
Czechia: Ukrainian refugees fear new government's policies – DW – 10/28/2025
Andrej Babis's recent election victory in Czechia makes some Ukrainian refugees there fear they could become targets of a growing anti-immigrant sentiment, despite their legal status and contribution ...
www.dw.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
In Czechia, there is a Motorists for Themselves party. What a bunch of shit for brains
www.dw.com/en/czechias-...
www.dw.com/en/czechias-...