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Musician (trad to noo wave), accidental sound tech, writer who should write more, occasional educator, former bike courier and rubber-stamp maker, immigrant, Montréalais, has always had an accent from somewhere else, son, father, etc.
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'While existing global governance and international institutions require improvement, their erosion in favor of a world governed by raw power, transactional logic and military might is a regression to an era of colonialism, suffering and destruction.' #fascism #usa #italy #hungary #india #russia

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A US senator being ejected and handcuffed, for asking questions at a regime news conference.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Try this instead

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Amid fast-moving events in Los Angeles, users are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to find out what's real and what's not—and getting inaccurate information. www.wired.com/story/grok-c...

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Canada is on fire. The national media is focused on building pipelines for national unity. Oil production is at record levels. We are back of the pack in the G7 for failing all our environmental goals. My latest on Canada's oil obsession. charlieangus.substack.com/p/burn-the-p...

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

This is a really good deep take on what’s going on these days. Given that many supposedly conservative parties/movements claim to value life, it is important to point the essential nihilism in their project.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

submitted 11 days ago • 180 comments

I never knew much about Liz Truss, except lettuce-based derision for her brief tenure as a hapless UK Tory PM: she’s clearly ironically challenged, if she can bloviate about free speech and repression, while attending a CPAC junket in Orban’s Hungary.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Whereas “same old shit” does seem comparatively appealing compared with “much worse new shit,” it really is *not* the answer, and will only lead to much more and worse new shit.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Another good overview of the destructive and murderous legacy of this awful human being.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

FFS, espèce de cloune!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments