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historicbent.bsky.social
Random food & politics tweets, mostly bad jokes with friends. Edmontonian transplanted to Victoria by way of Vancouver. Schlepper. He/him.
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It's 2023. A dramatic disaster surrounds Worldcon. It's 2024. A dramatic disaster surrounds Worldcon. It's 2025. A dramatic disaster surrounds Worldcon.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Okay, a lot of people are expressing outrage about this, and I also feel outrage about this, but since everyone else has already expressed my feelings for me, I'm going to put on my Teacher of Analytical Thinking Pants and point out something important.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Absolutely fucking delighted that this federal election and a conversation about those staring to deeply into scant data has given me legitimate cause to use the phrase “apophenic as a haruspex” that I found in @amalelmohtar.com and @maxgladstone.bsky.social ’s “This is How You Lose The Time War”.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

“We are nothing without our human rights. The subject of my rights is society’s most important issue. Being able to afford food means shit if I become illegal again,” writes @geekyjules.julessherred.com

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 21 days ago • 236 comments

As a child, I learned that when it’s Winnie the Pooh vs the Heffalump & his Woozles, end of the day Winnie the Pooh comes out on top after many misadventures. What I didn’t realize was this was apparently about tariffs. Winnie the Pooh & Star Wars have more in common than I realized.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

hello, I’m Cat Manning. you may know me from such campaigns as “get Time War to #1 bestseller so everyone has to explain that Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood’s tweet caused this”. may I interest you in “vote Jennifer Brozek for Best Editor Hugo to cover her in stick bugs”?

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Hey @dontfuck.men I feel like this is relevant to your interests.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

YOU GUYS.

submitted 28 days ago • 322 comments

In lieu of the Doomsday Clock from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, I would propose Wikipedia traffic for the “Vidkun Quisling” article as a proxy for the general tone of political affairs. Apropos of nothing, thinking about the Premier of Alberta this morning.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Have a gay trans day. I see you and will fight for your rights, privileges and passions as I do my own. Keep being you, you (pl.) are awesome.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

A Fifth Estate story airing next week reveals that Poilievre's Axe The Tax t-shirts were made in Hungary by a company whose board of directors include Stephen Harper. So much for Poilievre & putting “Canada First”! Looks like lining his friend’s pockets comes first.

submitted 47 days ago • 24 comments