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ian.mckellar.org

Leftist Dad. Immigrant nerd. Musician, husband. Was @ian on Twitter. Is [email protected] on the fediverse.

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There's a 100% chance that the Qatari plane turns up with an Iranian bomb hidden on board, right? There's a lot to criticize about the IRGC, but they're not incompetent.

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very clear that official policy of the united states right now is to accept any white person abroad who claims asylum status

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Please do not confuse the legal requirements for the crime of bribery with the concept of corruption.

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By the time these trade negotiations with China are over Trump will have dropped the export restrictions on semiconductors.

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UPDATE: Imagine converting to a religion as an adult and having 𝑻𝑾𝑶 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑺𝑬𝑪𝑼𝑻𝑰𝑽𝑬 𝑮𝑳𝑶𝑩𝑨𝑳 𝑳𝑬𝑨𝑫𝑬𝑹𝑺 𝑶𝑭 𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑻 𝑹𝑬𝑳𝑰𝑮𝑰𝑶𝑵 tell the whole world that you don’t have understand its basic tenets and are doing a bad job

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What George Lucas got right about the original trilogy, but has never managed to replicate since, is that I was a little kid when those came out

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Google has paid to settle both a gender discrimination lawsuit ($118M in 2022) and a racial discrimination lawsuit ($50M in 2025). But $12.5K per person isn’t real justice for being denied promotions or bonuses as a Google employee is not a meaningful punishment nor compensation for the loss.

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Gave my NAS a new sticker. Thanks @molly.wiki!

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ICE should be treated like the SS

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Finally, a pope who probably knows who the Smashing Pumpkins are

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The second American Pope.

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"Trump is his own Rasputin" might by my favourite Wittesism. @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

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I don't think it was Hatians who were hurting Springfield, OH's pets: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Why is it called the "PayPal Mafia" instead of the "PayPal Conclave"?

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At least if we rename the "Red Sea* to the "Hornet Sea" it'll be accurate.

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You know the rules.

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no, but seriously...did not have "Jeffery Goldberg had the most secure device in the chat" on my bingo card

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Antisemitism Except saying Jews killed Jesus. That's cool. Also saying that Jews are good with money. Also fine. And Trump gets to decide who is really a Jew. Supporting neo-Nazi parties? Kosher! Keep it simple: Antisemitism = Criticizing Trump. OK?

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its so funny how economists will be like noooo its not fair china keeps reinvesting its wealth back into its economies instead of giving it all to like 20 guys, thats cheating 😭

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Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. The Fourteen Year Itch.

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