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The reason that there is no replacement for Facebook is that it's fundamentally for talking with your friends, and other networks are for broadcasting to whoever wants to listen. Facebook means that the people you listen to are the same as the people who listen to you, and others decouple that.

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The case for proportional representation is undeniable. CTV reports on how our democracy distorting voting system fuels regional divisions, and how proportional representation can fix it. @mark-carney.bsky.social, will you champion a system where every vote truly counts? #cdnpoli

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The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

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A lot of people think you can't make money keeping a few goats, but actually if you take really good care of photographing yourself with them on instagram, you can develop a parasocial following and eventually sell nutritional supplements.

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Apparently someone made a Wild Cards TV show, and it doesn't involve aliens from Takhisis at all. Why would you do that?

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Please consider signing this petition to fix our electoral system.: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pr...

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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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On the one hand, Israel should not still be in Eurovision. On the other hand, #OverthinkingIt made a compelling case that Eurovision is literally the only reason that Israel still has an independant broadcaster, because if the government shuts down their news division Eurovision will exclude them.

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What a day to have studied Latin in Chicago.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

I do this, it works. Takes the AI results out of Google search.

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Summary of the last 10 minutes on Bluesky

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Same. I think Penn was tickled to find a namesake not named after him. :)

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comicbook.com/tv-shows/new... The most nerdy show ever made, cancelled before its time. :(

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There's a new Pathfinder Asian Fantasy Humble Bundle that includes a physical Player Core (the main book) at the top tier. If I didn't already have 2 I'd probably go for it. :) www.humblebundle.com/books/pathfi...

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It looks like Trump is so vile that he stopped the Conservatives from taking majority power in Canada. If we had a sane electoral system this would not be a problem. Tranferrable vote. Proportional representation. Whatever it is, we need something better than the current system.

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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

submitted 28 days ago • 562 comments

holy shit a lot of ppl have sent me this and yes it is very funny. the shit you even know about krauss isn’t even half of it. if we had police officers that cared about protecting people they’d use this book cover as a list of dudes’ hard drives to investigate

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Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!

submitted 34 days ago • 407 comments

Historically America has been reluctant to impose sanctions on anti-democratic authoritarian regimes, so it is a notable reverse in policy for Trump to so quickly engineer economic & cultural sanctions on the USA.

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I have done my bit today to try to forestall the Fascist takeover of the world.

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I found the most incredible graph on the other site

submitted 41 days ago • 77 comments

This is a banger.

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BREAKING: White House sources report an old Ork Codex was slipped into the President's Daily Briefing and he is now exploring the possibility of ending the dollar entirely in favor of a teeth based economy

submitted 46 days ago • 224 comments

This is why Trump won: the media doesn't cover anyone else, so all people see on the news is Trump and never opposing viewpoints.

submitted 48 days ago • 8 comments

Trade deficit. I have bought food from say, Chilis. They have never bought food from me. There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine. The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy

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Why is the Canadian border turning any non-American back at this point? They might as well be jailing people themselves.

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I drink small amounts of alcohol occasionally but being tipsy feels bad. Coffee is gross. Tobacco is worse. I've never tried anything stronger. I occasionally have a dr. pepper. That's about it. When alcohol tastes bad and does bad things to my equilibrium, why would I drink it?

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Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

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www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/e... As someone who was raised Quaker, I was not aware that the UK was now also a police state. I would have expected this in the US, but this is a wake-up call. Yes, Quakers are historically supporters of protest movements, and are also totally non-violent.

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We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.

submitted 59 days ago • 130 comments

Ketchup and hoisin sauce are basically interchangeable for most purposes. Discuss.

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@jazmincat.bsky.social This may be relevant to your interests. :)

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I have always found interesting that Violator is my favourite album of theirs, but doesn't have my favourite songs. I guess it's partly because it has no duds at all.

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Bara Bada Bastu is the only thing I know of that has the power to make a bunch of Finnish speaking Finns say "bastu" instead of sauna and what I mean is that there's truly something rare and positive happening between 🇫🇮 & 🇸🇪. Anyway this reddit post says all that and a lot more in a much better way!

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