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And another.... https://www.newsweek.com/britain-issues-travel-warning-us-deportations-2047878

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The way cats lead you to their food bowl like you are the slowest most lumbering creature in the world who might forget where you are going if they don't stop and look back every two feet. Like they think you couldn't find your way out of a paper bag. But also the way my cat literally […]

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“What if we put solar panels on every roof in the world?” Johanna Wagstaffe, Meteorologist and Seismologist for the CBC, is truly a woman after my own heart because this is exactly the dorky kind of back-of-the-napkin exercise I stay up into the wee hours of the morning figuring out. And she […]

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Someone I Know works for the National Parks Service as a lifeguard, trainer, mechanic and god knows what else. Miracle worker. Used to be a rockstar MotoGP tuner, once upon a time. He just got out to the west coast to start this year's season. Went to check out the Waverunners and get them in […]

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Okay, this is a bit of a long shot, but I’m going to try anyway… Hey, #History #Vancouver people! There was a #nightclub just barely west of the Granville Bridge on Fourth Avenue, but before you get to Fir Street. It was on the north side of 4th, and it was veeeeery long and about 12 or maybe […]

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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.” -Elon Musk, March 6, 2025 “In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was […]

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It looks like unfortunately we're going to have to add another $400 million to the "ICBC rebate" on this chart. Reminder that the e-bike rebate, which only ever received $6.5 million, is the single most effective way to get cars off the road & make streets safer. dailyhive.com/vancouver/ic...

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Trump: "You're gambling with World War III." History: "WWII started with a right-wing authoritarian leader allying himself with a Russian dictator and agreeing to mutually devour a country on Russia's borders. That's essentially identical to what Trump and Putin are attempting to do now. The […]

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🇨🇦🇨🇦Dear Canadian contractors, industry, and others still using non-metric measurements (inches, lbs, miles, gallons, tons, etc) mostly ‘because-America'. Since America officially and royally sucks now… can we just do metric now? Please? PRETTY […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

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One of the USAID lawsuit declarations I added to my page today is this one, from a person who did cybersecurity at USAID. It provides best technical description I know of what the DOGE boys did after they arrived. They lost access on Feb 4, a month ago. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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The Wall Street Journal (!): “We’ve courted Mr. Trump’s ire by calling the Mexico and Canada levies the “dumbest” in history, and we may have understated the point. Mr. Trump is whacking friends, not adversaries. His taxes will hit every cross-border transaction, and the North American vehicle […]

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Breaking: Trump agrees to surrender Ukraine to Russia in exchange for returning Alaska to Russia.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

TLDR: Musk/Trump are badly damaging the US economy, GDP growth of -2.8% in the first quarter adds up to -11.5% if continued for a year, which is huge. (I lived through that in the UK in 1979-80, during Thatcher's first year. It was savage, and took a decade to get over—even thought she […]

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Via Rupar: Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an […]

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UPDATE: The #Trump administration is appealing the original order blocking the freeze and today's order to ensure payments are resumed. ‪Democracy Docket‬: NEW: A Rhode Island federal judge rules that the White House violated a previous court order blocking a funding freeze. He orders the […]

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Who Benefits from BC’s Plan to Fast-Track Resource Projects? | The Tyee https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/10/Who-Benefits-BC-Plan-Fast-Track-Resource-Projects/

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Yes, yes, this is a serious person testifying before Congress that Canada is less open to free speech than North Korea. Tell me again that Bari Weiss's publication (for whom this person works) is a trustworthy publication on speech issues.

submitted 41 days ago • 56 comments

You might think working a phone repair kiosk is a waste of my skills. Yeah nah. Today, this kid came in with an iPhone that was more than cracked, it was banana-fied. “What happened?” I asked, turning the wreckage over in my hands. I don’t think there was a single salvageable part. “And have […]

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If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.

submitted 48 days ago • 129 comments

Oh no! A stowaway!

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

The speed at which the MAGA crowd flipped on our best geopolitical friends is actually really instructive. There’s not a group of people in the entire world they wouldn’t sell out for their cult of fascism.

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Product of Canada, Product of Mexico signs going up all over our local grocer. Shoppers looking at labels and putting back items that say USA People are angry and actively resisting #CDNpoli #USpol #USpolitics #Tariffs

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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

submitted 55 days ago • 7 comments

Vancouver’s current mayor won the election with the help of a right wing billionaire. Sound familiar? That same billionaire tried to buy the provincial election too, but it backfired. So that’s a hopeful sign.

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With a bunch of new folks likely coming into the fediverse in the coming days, it is time for a re- #introduction I am a #Professor of #Physics at #QueensUniversity in Ontario, on secondment to #SNOLAB to serve as the Research Group Manager. SNOLAB is #Canada's deep underground science lab. I […]

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

If you do a Nazi salute to own the libs or to troll or to generate discussion or to make a point you are still doing a Nazi salute.

submitted 63 days ago • 116 comments

Trust issues...

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

Looks like @wikimediafoundation is at least pausing its use of X "for now". https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Social_media&diff=prev&oldid=28106844 Now would be a good time for additional #Wikimedia chapters to explicitly exit X (and why not Meta, while you're at it :-) to […]

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Paris City Hall and the whole city administration will quit Twitter on the 20th January. Chapeau Paris. https://www.sortiraparis.com/actualites/a-paris/articles/323503-reseaux-sociaux-la-ville-de-paris-quitte-le-reseau-x-ex-twitter

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Whoops. Added 30g of MSG to my sourdough bread dough this morning instead of 30g salt. Since MSG is a salt intensifier and has some saltiness of its own, I'm compensating with 20g of actual salt. That should get me most of the chemical benefits of the salt without overwhelming too much […]

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

This seems like a really harmless joke, weird that it would get them booted off the hellsite. https://vancouversun.com/news/cheeky-penthouse-sign-vancouver-nightclub-suspended-x

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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

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NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: https://www.platformer.news/meta-new-trans-guidelines-hate-speech/

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

#JustinTrudeau #ElectoralReform #Canpoli

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Congrats #Ottawa for opening their Line 2 and 4 this morning! It's a game changer, given Ottawa's geographical scope, and it certainly will help to bring people downtown. My only wish is that the line was electrified instead of run with diesel trains, but as I understand it, the money wasn't […]

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Happy #silentsunday! We have a baker’s dozen on #socialBC in this first 5 days! 🧑‍🍳 woo! Tomorrow we’ll start on a promotion drive IRL and online to spread the word about our #opensocialweb alternative to corporate socials in BC. If you would like to help we […] [Original post on socialbc.ca]

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'Star Trek' now a Canadian enterprise. What made it so? https://www.cp24.com/news/entertainment/2025/01/03/star-trek-now-a-canadian-enterprise-what-made-it-so/

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St John’s to Halifax flight very rough landing after part of gear doesn’t deploy. Causes a fire. No one seriously injured but I bet everyone is going to feel pretty darn lucky in awhile. Yikes! Flight was Air Canada but operated by PAL #canada #halifax #airplane #aircanada #crash […]

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American cities remove homeless encampments as part of “sweeps” and take the belongings of the people they move. ProPublica asked them to explain what was stolen from them and how sweeps have affected them. It’s devastating. https://projects.propublica.org/impact-of-homeless-sweeps-lost-belongings/

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