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Canadian mum, 3D liberal in Babylon Writing collected at janetbufton.ca diversity dynamism democracy Detroit Lions Elbows up.
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A pretty decent visualization page for the wildfires.

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I know I know I KNOW you that it is adults and not kids who generally love Miyazaki but "Mummy I don't want to watch Ponyo, Barbie is so much better!" is still a toddler-sized dagger through my millennial heart.

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I’m remembering this @radleybalko.bsky.social piece from last year because he was one of the few prominent journalists who laid out what this would look like. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

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Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects

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This essay is of a piece with what @aaronrosspowell.com and I discussed on his podcast: liberty without basic equality is an illusion, and a dangerous one. Selective readings of history provide a liberty without context, and thus justify it without merit.

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I think we've reached the singularity

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I've had a lot of @reimaginingliberty.com listeners request that I get @blanksslate.bsky.social on the show. I finally did, and the episode is one of the best yet. If you've never listened to ReImagining Liberty before, this is a great place to start. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/liberty-me...

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Hilarious and true.

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I'm going to need to hear the purported difference between Cornwall pizza and Ottawa-Lebanese style pizza before I will concede that Cornwall pizza is even a thing that can challenge Windsor pizza.

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In any other country in the western world do legislators regularly pass legislation without knowing what they're voting for? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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I wish I could get all of my conservative American friends who were so credulous of the stories about energy projects waiting and ready to go (but for Trudeau) to read this by @aaronwherry.bsky.social

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Libertarians are, on the whole, rather bad at talking about racism and other forms of bigotry. @blanksslate.bsky.social‬ and I talked about why that is, and how it fixing it demands recentering liberal values in our political advocacy and coalitions .

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Last week, I sat down with @aaronrosspowell.com to talk about why equality must accompany any fundamentally decent conception of liberty. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/liberty-me...

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From @mattzwolinski.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net, on the libertarians who hate the state more than they love liberty and how they've failed to stand against (rather, they've often cheered for) authoritarianism.

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From @mattzwolinski.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net, on the libertarians who hate the state more than they love liberty and how they've failed to stand against (rather, they've often cheered for) authoritarianism.

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Adam Smith’s published 1776 claim is that ‘the pride of man makes him love to domineer,’ and then he cites slavery as instance of domineering. Most claim Smith said ‘the love of domineering,’ is brute, and makes man want to be a slave master. That’s trivial. Why does pride cause the love of dom?

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The important thing about Curtis Yarvin is not what he believes, it's what powerful people around him take from his fascist philosophy. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-neo-re...

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