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Oh, military gentlemen, they bluster, roar and pray. Nine sailors on the Nancy, boys, made fifty run away. The powder in their hair that day was powder sent their way By poor and ragged sailor men, who swore that they would stay.
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i think it's pretty telling that the MAGA freaks can't even lose a NHL game without throwing a tantrum over invasion

I am cry-howling

It's been so run through pop culture as to seem almost corny, but I need you all to understand with the deepest seriousness available to you that the "First they came for..." thing was to prepare you for this exact moment

No, seriously, wake up, babe. New Lavender Scare just dropped.

Coming soon “Canada Bleeds”! Five prominent Canadians each select one form of unconventional warfare with which to counter US war crimes! After each day's debate the Capitulation Broadcasting Corporation trivializes all forms of resistance, until only one winner remains, the US.

Everyone agrees kids are safer flying in their own seats, but no one requires it. Why?

How to keep your cool in any situation, according to a rapid response nurse

That seems almost unreasonably reasonable.

Who else has a kid that would love to spend some time building bike/bus lanes with Lego? This sounds like it's going to be a ton of fun! ncc-ccn.gc.ca/events/healt...

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

Casually bringing this back… #OCanada 🍁

May the men men joyfully #4ContsFigure

This will kill people.

Watching the nice centrist dad liberals getting redpilled on defence spending - this is Paul Mason - is absolutely hilarious:

My unpopular opinion: death to all tyrants and also to the entire horrific factory-farming model of egg production, which is a blood-red stain on the souls of us all. Eggs actually should be expensive.

I’m not picking on the estimable David Fisman, but we have got to knock this off. It’s defeatism once removed. People are up and fighting like Hell. Being talked of as if they were invisible or inadequate doesn’t help their courage or morale. Find them. Cheer for them. Help them. Join them.

Someday, when historians look back at how the US lost its democracy, there will be headlines like this to illustrate the utter failure of the Fourth Estate:

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

WE HAVE A CALLER WITH A REQUEST LET’S GOOOOOOOO Ah for just one time…

From our upcoming product safety cautionary tale novella 'The Day They Gave the Dinosaurs Jet Packs'*

Why do I even pay "road tax" when the beg buttons are buried under the snow bank and untriggerable, the #ottbike lane is uncleared after days leading to close passes and the Laurier sidewalk is snow storage resulting in #ottwalk pedestrians needing to share a barely-cleared lane on Laurier? #ottcity

Hey #Ottawa, interested in a lightly used #ottbike share system to go with our LRT stations for that famous last mile: www.facebook.com/marketplace/... @glengower.bsky.social @jleiper.bsky.social @seandevine9.bsky.social

local former magazine editor discovers that.....actions?........have consequences?

Love this shed as an expression of economical Maritime building traditions: the impulse to suppress the articulation of massing in favour of the weathertight surface, and to group openings together into a single interruption of that skin. Absolutely fucking perfect. Neils Harbour, Nova Scotia

This reminds me of "Alone in Berlin," one of the best fictional accounts of resistance to the Nazis. Highly recommended if you haven't read it yet. www.penguin.co.uk/books/57572/...

Farage’s sycophantic, moronic attempt to justify Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine & Zelensky. Shall we ‘put it on the record’ that, although imperial troops were still fighting it, Japan wasn’t occupying parts of the UK or bombing it when elections were held? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Things Jesus actually said (NRSVUE translation)

Quare siletis juristae in munere vestro? [Why are you jurists silent about that which concerns you?]

Why strengthen Putin's Russia when Ukraine and sanctions have brought this criminal, hostile regime to a state of near collapse?

"The State Sponsors of Terrorism List is more of a political weapon than a logical grouping of countries." Oh, are we saying that out loud now? Because when I say it people always attack me and say I'm a tool of whatever country in particular they happen to hate that is on this list.

By one industry estimate, there’s US$10 billion in copper wiring waiting to be recycled as telecom companies replace it with fibre-optics. Canada’s a big country, and quite a bit of that stuff is right here. If thieves don’t make off with it first. thelogic.co/news/telus-h...

At this point, after anything Trump does, someone will say to ignore it because it’s just a distraction from something else he’s doing … which someone else thinks is the distraction from a third thing.

I really wish CANADIANS would not treat the continued existence of Canada as the sort of thing they should do amusing thought experiments about.

its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

they have nothing to lose and their brains are so very full of lead, Mr President

An impressive bike parking situation I saw last night. The pole at the bottom is a buried bike rack 🤣 #OttBike

A lot of republican events are straight up dangerous for formal acts of protest, but going NIMBY-mode on townhalls seems like a perfect way to distort the calculus of GOP electeds

there's simultaneously two major trendlines occurring with this administration 1. laying waste to a lot of what keeps government/society stable in a really reckless way 2. loudly telegraphing that they see themselves as above accountability ("what are you gonna do?")

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