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Occurs to me it might be a fun modelling project to look into the environmental impacts of the tariffs. Could there be a benefit from expensive or unavailable goods? Are there circular economy principles we might find as leverage points to get to a more robust domestic economy? If Canada is […]

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OK you lot, what the heck is going on today? 1) Who washed their winter coat and put their boots away? YOU DON'T DO THAT ON APRIL FOOLS DAY. 2) Who upended that rusty oil barrel in the scrap yard and let Preston out again?

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And the record for most anticlimactic US Senate speaker ever would be whomever that was who stood up to move forward the business of appointing ambassador something to whereever. Snack crumbs on the pages of history written today. 😆

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The power of the people is greater than the people in power. - Senator Cory Booker Again ... wow.

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DREAM AMERICA ANEW. Now THAT is a banger of a 3-word slogan.

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Good Trouble goin' on. @booker.senate.gov https://www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2VbdLS4?si=7uUd0zUl17eZGRQy Senator, the world is watching and hearing this.

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tha fuck, Bell Media? https://pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelled-a-fact-checking-segment-in-response-to-political-pressure-from-pierre-poilievres-conservatives/ What can this possibly be except compliance-in-advance with their preferred regime? If Bell CTV truly doesn't have enough spine to flip […]

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Satire that just carpet bombs EVERYONE. #fairVote https://youtu.be/wT_n4Khmq0o?si=903PruoZSF3lVYv8

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How is it my child has come to pronounce "bagel" as "baggle"? Half her ancestry is Russian-Polish Jewish and I have NEVER heard that pronunciation amongst our extended families. 😆

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I really, really want Sen. Cory Booker to get to 24 hours and 19 minutes if he can, to beat the racist Strom Thurmond's record filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, ca. 24 hours and 18 minutes. At this moment, it would be especially poetic and apt.

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All these men who don't do their own chores, can afford to live close to work, don't have a heavy role in their kids lives, and don't need to work for a living think you need to be working more hours in the office.

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Does anyone complain about the cost of athletes to public healthcare the way people complain about the cost of fat people

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Auuurgh. Gotta put this somewhere to get it out of my brain. Yesterday I shared the Twenty Lessons reading: https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow Today, "How Complex Systems Fail" crossed the timeline. https://how.complexsystems.fail/ Brain is trying to ponder all […]

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Scary and good history/global politics lesson. Worth the half-hour. https://youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw

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I love the Internet #CanPoli https://edmundlam.github.io/pp-slogan-maker/

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What even are 1.25 mm knitting needles. WHY have I got 1.25 mm sock needles? And 1.5, 1.75... who is this kind of nuts. 🧶 🧦

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Oops I accidentally the socks. (again)

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I'm starting to hate ALL browsers now. They're similar enough and integrated enough with whatever themes my desktop uses that I cannot tell them apart without pausing to think. And different enough that I cannot find the Bookmark or Reload via muscle memory. And different enough too that I […]

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I may be getting myself into trouble, but given that I'm teaching All Things Socks lately, I've re-upped my #SKA (Sock Knitters Anonymous) 🧶 membership and might try to mash this #Ravelry community in with my stashdown ambitions. So fun to find SKA is now around 28K members.

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Just found an automatic pet feeder at Bestbuy.ca for 60% off. Ordered it. This is going to save my cat getting murdered, as she now begins her campaign of noisy, destructive harassment about 3 hours before meals, at least twice a day. That's 6 hours I'm spending defending, or recombobulating […]

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Hey all - Socks from the Toes pt. 2 (the tricky part, turnin' heels) is coming up this Wednesday. If you couldn't make part 1 - you can join! I'm sending out catch-up notes and the required completion from class #1 is not terribly time consuming, we work through a mini-sock.

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@bsky.brid.gy @veritasium.bsky.social

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tryining to focus on some overdue knitting notes to cheer up. and trying NOT to add more caffeine to my metabolism at this hour. bleah.

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It’s Spring in Ontario. Of course that means 6 more weeks of winter. Why does this surprise us our entire lives?

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Thanks to Melissa Bowman’s Citified newsletter, i just learned about https://ioncrashcounter.com/index.html which is a “X days since last collision…” tracker for Waterloo Region’s ION LRT. Please note: this is a project independent of our transit authority and operators, and is not a critique […]

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Greenland understands the assignment. And Canada needs to be all over planning for Arctic relations WITHOUT the US. We need a trade and security AND ENVIRONMENTAL alliance from the entire length of our North coast through Greenland, Iceland, and the Nordic region.

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ooof. I do not get a cracking headache every time I miss a med, but it seems when I have a spell of very intense focus, such as for ~ 4 days while assembling the paper I handed in last night, THEN have a rebound sleep-in where I collapsed on the sofa in the middle of the night, and THEN miss a […]

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Is the WA Dept of Park or Natural Resources or whatever on this app along with the Needling? 😆 There's a second article in here too on Canada annexing WA state. https://theneedling.com/2025/03/18/parks-dept-says-cybertruck-fires-must-be-put-out-by-10-p-m/

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whoa, 20 years already. Well, I'd been watching 20+ years before that ... but if you're discovering The Doctor now, this is your starting point.

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I do hope people understand that the Hegseth et al. fuckup has approximately nothing to do with Signal. There is no security breach or vulnerability here for which Signal is in any way responsible. These idiots could have been using a Telegram or WhatsApp group, or could have booked a back room […]

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On the upside, this is first-rate marketing for Signal. BTW, if you’re not using Signal, the best time to have started would have been a few years ago. Second best is now: https://signal.org

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Solid reasons to support WFH options. "Hybrid working has enabled higher workforce participation among historically under-represented groups. Women’s workforce participation has risen, and more women are working full-time, partly due to the flexibility working from home offers in balancing work […]

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