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chrisstait.bsky.social
Classicist, guitar plucker, poetaster, elbow thrower (🇨🇦).
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If people are talking about Bluesky dying it’s because they want it to and the only reason they want it to is because it’s not dying.
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You’re going to do what into my ears?
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Greatest. Song. Ever. My go-to happy jam. Makes my body instantly dance and turns me into a paradoxically angst- and joy-filled teen again. God bless Morrissey, Marr, Rourke, and Joyce.
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As long as it is deep winter. And north of the Arctic circle. And he just keeps going.
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Everything about this screams bizarro world transmission leak into our own reality. What is that blue and white desecration on the shelf behind the dear leader and his pretend tea party sippy cup?
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How he was elected after the disgrace of his (and his brother’s) stint at Toronto City Hall is a shame that the Conservative Party and the voters of Ontario will never be able to wash off. I only hope our beloved province is salvageable after his much belated exit.
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Maybe even a better kind of crummy?
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Saying “no” to fictional boogeymen is pretty easy. Many of us grow out of it in childhood or shortly thereafter. Others, not so much.
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The UK’s nuclear arsenal Trident system is entirely dependent on US support, i.e. US government approval. Without that the UK loses even the pretence of big power status and becomes what it has been since Suez: an imperial lapdog with only twitchy dreams of its past imperial glory.
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“Mentally compromised”? I think we’re well past the point of euphemism, which is a dangerous and unaffordable luxury. The man is, at best, very ill. Speaking more accurately, he is irredeemably depraved. And, if we were to just “spit straight up facts”, he is fucking nuts.
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Taco Bell?
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While I agree 100% with your hard church-state separation sentiment, by no recognizable definition are those people Christians. It is long past time for the world’s Christians to start calling bullshit on whatever has been masquerading as their faith in the United States for the past half century.
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Straight from the horse’s mouth, in case anyone was still unclear and wondering, the Republican party is a literal death cult.
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Not only do they look like morons but…
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You just described Doug Ford.
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And he’s presently proving it again to everyone right now as I type with his presser. Who let him in the building? Why won’t they ever just go away?
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I hear that when C-list Canadian celebrity nepo-babies slip further down the alphabet ranking it causes symptoms not unlike the bends.
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Us again, I fear.
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I’d prefer they were frozen from the waist down. Bad brains breed.
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What a choice: Alfred E. Newman or Howdy Doody! Are conservatives so stuck in the past that they can’t find a mascot lookalike for their party leader from anytime after 1959?
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Can’t unsee it now.
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Hoekstra is typical of every unprincipled appointee in an administration headed by an unrepentant criminal. There may no longer be consequences for bad behaviour in the U.S. but there are here. “Stfu” is what our King will be saying. He and Canada are owed an apology. Pass that message along.
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No, no, ambassador. That’s not how this works. You don’t get to yell “fire” or “gun” in public repeatedly and then tell everyone to move on from your reckless, irresponsible, and childish behaviour. Words have consequences.
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🤣
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Someone tell Doug Ford that measles is like golf: lowest score wins. Not sure he gets it yet.
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Love ‘Counterfeit EP’ by Gore, which tided me over between the releases of Music for the Masses and Violator. I have had the first track ‘Compulsion’ on rotation for the past 36 years. Great sounds from the 80’s golden age.
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I.e. the U.S. is engaged in a kind of Russian roulette game of blood-letting with the whole world. They are gambling that they, even if crippled by the attempt, have enough juice to stay standing after all others have collapsed. This is the (il)logic of zero sum reasoning.
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When the preeminent status of a hegemonic power begins to be threatened either from its own problems or the rise of a new entity with power parity, a strategy to maintain supremacy is to impoverish the entire system to the the detriment of all and maintain an advantage relative to weakened others.
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Been asking the same thing about my shower mould.
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I thought that guy was hiding in his hole (therapy) post-election. The dude needs help something awful. He is Ann Coulter kind of crazy.
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Hoekstra is typical of every unprincipled appointee in an administration headed by an unrepentant criminal. There may no longer be consequences for bad behaviour in the U.S. but there are here. “Apologise or stfu” is what our King will be saying. Be sure to pass that message along, errand boy.
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Reads like a high school newspaper op-ed by a student yearning for extra credit gold stars from his English teacher. “I am now inured to the idea of such predictable mediocrity”. D- for that line.
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A hair cut masquerading as a journalist.
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There is no “press”. There are corporate pamphleteers, company talking heads, and widget-hawking opinion mongers.
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Underbelly? Look lower, if you dare.
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And to think we would have been spared the many years of annoyance had someone in the overly validating Maher family simply said, “You know, William, you are nowhere near as smart as you think you are.”
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And we didn’t have to hear that stupid panther roar.
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Those original Cylons did (and still) terrify me. Lorne (Adama) Greene was a comforting Canadian presence, as was Bathsheba, an early screen crush.
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And why we should use condoms.
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Dumm.
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Remember that in the Star Trek universe WWIII started in 2026. Sometimes things gotta fall apart before they can be put together.
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Did the same thing at the same age. Hot that coil may have been but oh how seductive that red-orange glow.
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Great, great song. Always conjures the thrill of night time in the city. SawJoe Jackson perform it live a few years ago using the original Korg KR-55 drum machine he used for the original recording.
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Wood floats. Make sure the next ark is cast in concrete.
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Insofar as she thinks she has a fiduciary obligation to increase the wealth of her corporate and American paymasters, a case could be made for her meeting some sort of ethical standard. But as a government official, no, you’re right: not an ethical person.
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When Justice’s blindfold slips to become a gag.
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Not his favourite aunt then, I take it.