Profile avatar
its.small.patatas.ca
he/they Craftsperson, artist, labourer in #HamOnt Fan of socialism environmentalism degrowth MMT RSS Hegel Marx Lacan Luddite & tech tinkerer Blog: thedabbler.patatas.ca also: blundervalley.ca social.patatas.ca/patatas Signal: @smallpatatas.01
2,155 posts 359 followers 549 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

Guy getting his hair cut just before me at a Queen St barbershop in late 90's Toronto had this weird douchey vibe and kinda smirked at me in the mirror When it was my turn and he'd left, the barber asked me if I knew who it was It was one of the Backstreet Boys at the height of their fame

Carney is a disaster.

After feedback from multiple people, I'm comfortable saying it: Ontario's Info & Privacy Commissioner has no clue what they're doing when searching for Greenbelt-related communications. This is *first-year comp sci stuff* that they don't know how to do. Absolutely incompetent. #OnPoli #CdnPoli

OK I am very much a coding novice, but Is it not possible to search for the term "G*" as a string literal rather than as a wildcard? With like, a backslash or whatever?

New from Avant Garde Press: Time For A Tough Conversation open.substack.com/pub/avantgar...

Carney claims Trump’s threats require he bypass parliamentary democracy rabble.ca/politics/can...

Carney's "border bill" betrays every promise he made during the election about Canada's relationship with the US. It is a deeply xenophobic bill that entangles us with US fascism. It also sets the stage to turn Canada into a surveillance state.

OK I am very much a coding novice, but Is it not possible to search for the term "G*" as a string literal rather than as a wildcard? With like, a backslash or whatever?

If Israel isn't stopped from committing more carnage, we are all fucked. Fuck every single hypocrite leader who has backed Netanyahu's evil unconditionally over the years. He'd rather take Israel and maybe the whole world down with him than give up his power and face justice.

"Darryl Williams, the Canadian lobbyist representing the Saudi bank (SAIB), said the company is interested in investing in pipelines and AI data centres in interviews with Politico and The Logic." uhhh no thanks?

Just a heads up that so many Harper-era conservatives are lining up behind Carney that Andrew Coyne is now pointing it out lol Congrats on the Conservative government, Canada! 🫩

Not only did Evan Solomon (Canada's minister of #AI) leave his journalism career in disgrace bc he used his position to be an extractivist middleman art broker, but the recently announced parliamentary secretary for that portfolio, Taleeb Noormohamed, flipped houses for years in Vancouver #CdnPoli

Spraying the ICE agents with paint using a repurposed fire extinguisher appears to be a turning point in this confrontation in Tucson today. Same tactic worked well against around thirty cops at a Montreal protest in Nov. 2024, blinding at least one and forcing a whole unit to retreat down an alley.

🎵 you put your elbows up you put your elbows down you make a deal with Trump and you wave our flag around you do the hokey pokey pumping oil out of the ground that's how you sell us out 🎵 #CdnPoli

Carney is selling us out to global finance

More of this please, and quickly. The only masterful scheme Carney is working on is to leverage our fear so he can sell us out to his asset manager pals

How many vacant housing units, be they condos or anything else, are in #hamont, @mayorandreahorwath.bsky.social?

#HamOnt friends, this community meetup is happening next Tuesday 6-8 pm. Organizer is asking that people pre-register so that they know how much pizza to order :) commontable.eventbrite.com

From the "Crushed" series: "(crush)(crush) Double Bull", oil on canvas, 24x30", 2023 #art

Zero hyperbole here And now, breaking news from r/SubredditDrama that reveals what looks very much like a concerted "protesters against ICE & cops kidnapping, beating, shooting, gassing & trampling their neighbors are the REAL violent ones" disinfo opp by Palantir www.reddit.com/r/SubredditD...

It worries me that the extent of Carney's backbone so far consists of meeting Big Oil behind closed doors, inviting two psychopaths to the G7 and having private chats with Trump. But I'm sure he has a cunning plan. Viva! #cdnpoli

Has there ever been a more cooked civilization?

life comes at you fast