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Yes absolutely: third spaces where you don’t have to buy stuff as a condition of being present (sorry, coffee shops and music festivals) but which are also appealing enough that people go there bc they want to, not bc they have no alternative.

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Never mind daffodils and crocuses in milder climes: it’s Poplar Catkin Day here, which means the unofficial but definite beginning of spring in northern Alberta.

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At least 500 unnecessary measles cases (probably fraction of actual cases, choose your multiplier); at least two avoidable deaths, and an unknown number of kids with liver damage bc parents are following RFK and overdosing kids with vitamin A to “cure” measles.

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If I were a chickenhearted Republican senator who’s kinda unhappy about all the crazy but also kinda spineless - groupchatgate is the excuse I need to raise a fuss abt Hegseth et al putting American soldiers in harm’s way, being unpatriotic etc w/o directly opposing Trump.

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In which I overthink whatever the hell that was when Vance and Trump berated Zelenskyy. northofhere1.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/o...

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I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

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I love maps from different angles, unironically

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Seamus Heaney and the spring that isn't here. northofhere1.wordpress.com/2025/03/15/e...

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This is great. CBC is hiring local reporters for 23 communities across the country that are underserved for news.

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This is a very good idea and a good use of topped-up military budgets. If it’s not the Americans and the Russians, it’ll be a climate disaster. Increasing the amount of catastrophe-preparedness in the population has no downside.

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This infantile obsession with “respect” is a characteristic of gangsters and fascists. They can’t earn respect so they try (and fail) to command it.

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Buy a custom domain address so correspondents will think you’re Canadian (presumably not American)! Image contrast: Canadians dress well & have windows, not-Canadians are slobs w piles of random paper. (Nb having .ca email does not in fact make you Canadian, proudly or otherwise).

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I can’t say how accurate these scenarios are, but this seems to validate the idea that even the biggest oil sees the writing on the wall re decreasing demand for fossil fuels. Another good reason to not sink public Canadian money into hyping up a sunset sector. Time to change.

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I tried to leave a message at @daniellesmithab.bsky.social ‘s number abt the bribery & corruption scandal, with her office pressing #AlbertaHealthServices for $$$ sweetheart contracts. Imagine my surprise that her office no longer accepts voicemail. Good way to not hear from Albertans.

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Excellent advice. I’ve used it often: “Hi, xxx, quick follow-up to our discussion earlier. Just to confirm, you told me …etc etc. If there’s anything here that I might have misunderstood, please let me know right away”.

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Trump "has given de facto control of most of the federal government to one of the richest men on the planet...The public has no guarantee that its most sensitive data is secure. At best, they have the personal word of Donald Trump, which, paired with a few dollars, might buy you a cup of coffee"

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Last night, Musk's staff were stopped trying to enter USAID's HQ. They threatened to call U.S. Marshals. @cnn.com: Sources say they wanted access to security systems and personnel files and to access classified information. Today, the USAID Director of Security and his deputy were put on leave.

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Not out of the realm of possibility that we could get such an email at UAlberta, given our far-right provincial govt hates EDI & our prez has signalled he’ll do whatever he thinks they want. This will be a challenge to sociologist in particular, given our discipline’s emphases & traditions.

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Looking for straightforward explain-it-to-me-like-I’m-five account of mechanisms linking carbon burning to LA #wildfires. I don’t need to be convinced that human-made climate change caused these fires, what I want is to understand how. Hot oceans? Distorted air movement in upper atmo?

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CBC News is hiring reporters in more than a dozen new cities including Fort St. John, Salmon Arm, Abbotsford, Penticton, Red Deer and Banff, using money paid out by Google under the Online News Act (the act that prompted Facebook to remove news in Canada rather than pay) www.cbc.ca/news/editors...

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