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jimstr.bsky.social
edmonton-based poster, video game and hamburger enthusiast, and depending on your standards, journalist. writing about alberta politics at theprogressreport.ca. if we are partisans of liberty, it is our duty to escape
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in a sane society the consequence of this would be every single regent / board member / senior administrator at this school getting fired, if not arrested. but we do not live in one

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Abrego Garcia being returned to the USA not 24 hrs after matty y went to the mattyresses to argue it was a classic example of a lost cause is the perfect distillation of the value of matty y as a political observer

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my least reactionary opinion is that hockey is incredibly corrosive to canadian society

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Brace's plans are measured in centuries.

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why yes it is leg day how did you guess

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remember this morning? that was one month ago

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since we're all posting our advice for the floundering Alberta NDP today let me offer the ne'er do it party this rule of thumb: if there is a picket line up anywhere in this province and you aren't at least sending the local candidate to walk it you're fucking up

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When Sonic is about to land on a spike

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he told us he'd put his elbows up and instead he got down on his knees.

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Just had an incredibly grim thought about this: AI is being trained on the modern Internet, which is full of text content that has been deranged by SEO keyword insertion, creating a third-order language perversion

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OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

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this country is so cursed. what the fuck is this shit

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being intimidated by bluesky is so funny. yeah i keep getting my ass kicked every time i go to bath and body works

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full offense but if you still are an active twitter user i think less of you as a person

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yes! more worker-run independent media cooperatives please. this is the way

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desperately trying to get volumetric shit compressor into my thought cabinet

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this happened on wheel of fortune tonight

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Lee Jae-Myung has an opportunity to do the funniest thing

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nightmare blunt rotation

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sixty years of oil and gas wealth but we can't afford emergency rooms that stay open you would think people would be more upset about this

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awesome-sounding project that i encourage you to support:

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[the hudson's bay company, as foreign exploiters rob and pillage all its wealth:] shit. so that's what it feels like

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applied for marx communarney's socialist tooth program tonight. pretty easy, as long as you filed your taxes last year canada.ca/dental

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nothing worse than telling yourself ok you can deal with this stress by working out and then you check the schedule and it's fuckin leg day

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happy pride bsky

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flu immunity is such an OP character trait. constantly boggles my mind that people don't maintain uptime on the vaccination buff

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does demetrios nicolaides know about this

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"NB.1.8.1 is a mutated Omicron variant" shows you how misleading the Greek letter names have become. Reminder that all Greek letters were given between May and November 2021 and none since. Here's reality:

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