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In part because Finns are readier to accept help and change.

Dougie is using his new mandate with extreme prejudice.

5 Billion doesn't go very far these days. x.com/i/trending/1...

How the threat of Trump's tariffs is affecting the relationship between Windsor and Detroit www.npr.org/2025/02/23/1...

Hey Sarnia Lambton say hello to your NDP candidate Candace Young! candaceyoung.ontariondp.ca

I wonder how Danielle Smith is going to deal with this?

Respectfully & from the bottom of my heart, if you think anything in the world could justify this, you’re a monster or an idiot or some impressive combination of both.

A sad day for me and all of science fiction.

GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!

#CreepyPeePee takes from children.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is holding a press conference at 10:45am. Strap in, folks.

A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Bluewater Health's Cognitively Complex Continuing Care Unit in Sarnia.

One of my favorite dance tunes!

Mic check...1...2...3... 🎤 Hi Bluesky! How y'all doing? What have I missed? Bring me up to speed! ☺️

Hello Monumental ConFusion! We’re excited to announce that our early-bird, general registration is now open! Ready to Pre-register? Click here: 2025.confusionsf.org/2024/09/17/e... If you have any Registration questions, please email [email protected]. #ConFusionSF

P500 Charge News: We are doing the current P500 charge this AM. Note that we are charging for FIVE, not SIX P500 items (as we had planned), as Mark Herman's book "Wargames According to Mark" is still at the port and we don't yet have a delivery date. Sorry for the delay on that one.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,141,810!

Jagmeet Singh has withdrawn NDP support for the Liberal government. youtu.be/sWnTXZbV_tA?...

Today we have a preview of THE LAST GAMBLE from @compassgamesllc shot at Compass Expo 2023, featuring luminaries Danny Parker, Rich Hoffman, Rick DiGirolami, & Bruno Sinigaglio. Stay tuned for the full (special) Unboxing this Thursday. youtu.be/c8C59hFR88Q

At 1 hour and 34 minutes, that's my longest-ever Unboxing video in the can. Live tomorrow.

Consider my mind boggled. In 1968, Columbia demonstrators literally held a Dean *hostage* for 26 hours, and not only did he not retaliate after being released, HE WROTE SOME OF THEM REFERENCE LETTERS. But now it is just straight to the cops. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/n...

Well, this seems to have gone well, as long as the goal was the Fyre Festival of book fairs. pressprogress.ca/angry-vendor...

My pro tip for Long COVID Awareness Day: If you work in a place where there are indoor air purifiers (schools, colleges, medical etc) * Make sure to check they are turned on. * This year I've become The Person Who Turns on the Air Purifier & I'm usually not the first to teach in each classroom.

In western Canada, the wildfire “season” has become the whole year, as over a hundred fires from 2023 continue to smolder, many of them underground. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I feel very sorry for Sam and the other Hugo recipients.

More Paolo coming!

Who wants to go to Montreal for a world science fiction convention? file770.com/montreal-in-...

Here's some news for you: "[Among] Paramount Pictures and Maximum Effort projects in the works [is] Starter Villain, based on the New York Times-bestselling book of the same name by John Scalzi, with Jesse Andrews attached to adapt" deadline.com/2024/02/ryan...

Breaking News of some great personal importance to me. The cyber-criminal known as "Torswats" who was paid by the cult stalking my family to SWAT our home 46 times... ...has been arrested: www.wired.com/story/torswa...