@magnuscanis.bsky.social
Refugee from the Dead Bird, giving this a go
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Reminded that Canada was led in WWII by a guy who made decisions via seances or seeing which of his terriers liked the proposals in front on him
December 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Reminded that Canada was led in WWII by a guy who made decisions via seances or seeing which of his terriers liked the proposals in front on him
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About ten years ago I had lunch with a well-known Hollywood actress and when she saw Russell Brand in the restaurant she literally slid down from her chair to hide from him - said he had recently saw her in a cafe during a meeting and barged in to demand she gave him her number. (she did not)
If you had come to me twenty years ago and said “in 2025 Russell Brand will be a far-right pundit spreading antisemitic conspiracies and accused of multiple rapes” I would have said “seems entirely plausible, how about those future cars, are they cool?”
December 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
About ten years ago I had lunch with a well-known Hollywood actress and when she saw Russell Brand in the restaurant she literally slid down from her chair to hide from him - said he had recently saw her in a cafe during a meeting and barged in to demand she gave him her number. (she did not)
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does this woman fart unicorns and rainbows when she’s in the room with other media people? the number of folks who serve as her personal cheerleading squad while she runs headfirst into brick wall after brick wall is astounding
Bari Weiss was right about how to improve the “60 Minutes” CECOT report, Graeme Wood argues—but her “drama-detector, so refined when seeking out news stories, seems to have failed her when avoiding it in her own newsroom.”
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
does this woman fart unicorns and rainbows when she’s in the room with other media people? the number of folks who serve as her personal cheerleading squad while she runs headfirst into brick wall after brick wall is astounding
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Mary Pickford by J.C. Milligan (1928)
December 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Mary Pickford by J.C. Milligan (1928)
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How many times since 2016 have I basically tweeted
"Brexit will get worse before it gets worse"?
"teething problems" was always bollox to the fact that GB/EU trade (GB exports asymmetrically worse) would continue to fall away as Brexit gets more done
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"Brexit will get worse before it gets worse"?
"teething problems" was always bollox to the fact that GB/EU trade (GB exports asymmetrically worse) would continue to fall away as Brexit gets more done
share.google/KBxn2nvuyknG...
UK exporters increasingly dissatisfied with EU trade terms, survey finds
More than half of those contacted by British Chambers of Commerce criticised the post Brexit arrangements
share.google
December 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
How many times since 2016 have I basically tweeted
"Brexit will get worse before it gets worse"?
"teething problems" was always bollox to the fact that GB/EU trade (GB exports asymmetrically worse) would continue to fall away as Brexit gets more done
share.google/KBxn2nvuyknG...
"Brexit will get worse before it gets worse"?
"teething problems" was always bollox to the fact that GB/EU trade (GB exports asymmetrically worse) would continue to fall away as Brexit gets more done
share.google/KBxn2nvuyknG...
Tonight a battle is raging between people uploading the El Salvador episode and CBS’s legal team trying to issue takedown notices.
There will only be one outcome…
There will only be one outcome…
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Tonight a battle is raging between people uploading the El Salvador episode and CBS’s legal team trying to issue takedown notices.
There will only be one outcome…
There will only be one outcome…
America you will never recover from this shame
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
America you will never recover from this shame
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yeah I think influencer culture *inherently* is just poisonous, even more so than the regular cult of celebrity was because it's so purely self-centered and pervasive.
I think there's a solipsism at the core of influencer culture that appeals to a LOT of people: where I'm the only one who matters & it all revolves around me. hence the acceptance of grifting & manipulation & cruelty: no one else in the universe is truly real so who cares?
December 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
yeah I think influencer culture *inherently* is just poisonous, even more so than the regular cult of celebrity was because it's so purely self-centered and pervasive.
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this is one of the cool things happening is just taking kind of empty and sad commercial and slapping down like 1000 units and its awesome
In the new issue of Azure Magazine I wrote about how Canadian malls are urbanizing. Filling in parking lots with housing & more is just part of it. The experience of being in public is part of the draw, but can the mall transformations actually be urban? What about grit? What about mall walkers?
The City Comes to the Mall
The mall of the future is becoming more urban as densification and redevelopment signal our enduring love for these retail meccas.
www.azuremagazine.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
this is one of the cool things happening is just taking kind of empty and sad commercial and slapping down like 1000 units and its awesome
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A cartoon for most of the tech guys from www.instagram.com/ellisjrosen/ @aphclarkson.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A cartoon for most of the tech guys from www.instagram.com/ellisjrosen/ @aphclarkson.bsky.social
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Beavers need an Xmas tree as well you know 😂
December 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Beavers need an Xmas tree as well you know 😂
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We hope the BlueSky moderators don't flag today's offering for #MosaicMonday as being, ahem... prawnographic. 😳
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We hope the BlueSky moderators don't flag today's offering for #MosaicMonday as being, ahem... prawnographic. 😳
History will record that the GOP had a once in a lifetime chance to lock down this demographic, but Miller’s butthurt from school blew it.
That’s actually insane dawg
is that good
December 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
History will record that the GOP had a once in a lifetime chance to lock down this demographic, but Miller’s butthurt from school blew it.
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minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here
Nicki Minaj: “For young men, don’t be Newscum (Gavin Newsom) .. Dear young men, you have amazing role models like our handsome, dashing president...”
December 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here
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Your occasional reminder that buzzfeed, a corporately owned news outlet, reported credible child rape accusations against Trump, presumably well pored over by lawyers, in 2016, before the first, and LONG before the second time he was elected president of the USA.
December 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Your occasional reminder that buzzfeed, a corporately owned news outlet, reported credible child rape accusations against Trump, presumably well pored over by lawyers, in 2016, before the first, and LONG before the second time he was elected president of the USA.
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
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I see a lot of people celebrating violence against Andrew Tate and Jake Paul and really we should be better than...
Oh who am I kidding get Tommy Robinson in a ring with Oleksandr Usyk.
Oh who am I kidding get Tommy Robinson in a ring with Oleksandr Usyk.
December 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I see a lot of people celebrating violence against Andrew Tate and Jake Paul and really we should be better than...
Oh who am I kidding get Tommy Robinson in a ring with Oleksandr Usyk.
Oh who am I kidding get Tommy Robinson in a ring with Oleksandr Usyk.
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He isn’t right often, but Rand Paul is right about Venezuela policy.
Rand Paul: "All these designations are steps towards war -- calling drug runners terrorists, saying, 'Oh, if they have a designation'-- Well, how'd they get it? We gave it to them. Why is the former president of Honduras released? So some narcoterrorists are okay & others we're going to blow up"
December 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
He isn’t right often, but Rand Paul is right about Venezuela policy.
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Elon predicting a post-scarcity economy with AGI and robotics is the biggest sign it won’t happen.
December 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Elon predicting a post-scarcity economy with AGI and robotics is the biggest sign it won’t happen.
The underpriced outcome is that the Tories and Labour both change leaders and pull votes back from the Greens and Reform meaning 2029 becomes a two horse race again.
🚨 NEW | Poll shows Greens ahead of Labour
➡️ REF: 25% (-1)
🔵 CON: 22% (+2)
🟢 GRN: 19% (+1)
🔴 LAB: 18% (=)
🟠 LD: 10% (-1)
Via @LordAPolls, 11-15 Dec (+/- vs 17 Nov)
➡️ REF: 25% (-1)
🔵 CON: 22% (+2)
🟢 GRN: 19% (+1)
🔴 LAB: 18% (=)
🟠 LD: 10% (-1)
Via @LordAPolls, 11-15 Dec (+/- vs 17 Nov)
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The underpriced outcome is that the Tories and Labour both change leaders and pull votes back from the Greens and Reform meaning 2029 becomes a two horse race again.
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Aujourd'hui c'est le solstice d'hiver dans l'hémisphère Nord. Les journées vont commencer à rallonger! Le soleil ne se lève à l'Est (centre de l'image avec Nord à gauche, Sud a droite) que lors des équinoxes. La position du lever change un peu tous les jours! (©Z. Al-Abbadi)
December 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Aujourd'hui c'est le solstice d'hiver dans l'hémisphère Nord. Les journées vont commencer à rallonger! Le soleil ne se lève à l'Est (centre de l'image avec Nord à gauche, Sud a droite) que lors des équinoxes. La position du lever change un peu tous les jours! (©Z. Al-Abbadi)
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I love this photo of the discovery of the solstice light show in Newgrange. First archaeologist to see it couldn’t work it out until it eventually dawned on him.
#NewgrangeSolstice
#NewgrangeSolstice
December 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I love this photo of the discovery of the solstice light show in Newgrange. First archaeologist to see it couldn’t work it out until it eventually dawned on him.
#NewgrangeSolstice
#NewgrangeSolstice
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