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thunderbutt.bsky.social
I ride bikes and do law. Got a pretty big butt.
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Being able to walk to stuff is priority #1 in our current house hunt

let's all raise our glasses. i’ll say something then we all touch glasses to acknowledge what I said. we'll name this action after cooked bread

(tired and drunk while playing Clue) Fuck I dunno...

Pierre Poilievre held the same seat for 20 years and then after becoming opposition leader and everyone got to see the real Poilievre he lost that seat and now he’s trying to save himself by running in a riding that’d eat a egg salad sandwich off a hot car dashboard if it had a CPC logo on it.

To be clear, Germany is cracking down on a Neo-Nazi party, and the US government is defending the Neo-Nazi party

When Germany tells you that "rightwing extremism needs to be stopped," you should listen.

Imagine being lectured by RFK Jr about how to be healthy and then having Mark Zuckerberg tell you how many friends normal people should have

So, you want a standardized housing library, but we don’t have standardized zoning… Where to start? What should be the common baseline a state or province should mandate for all cities? Let’s start with 10 baseline rules for coach houses / lane houses: (Thread)

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

Pedestrians who are hit by SUVs are 44% more likely to be killed than if they were hit by a conventional car, new study finds. Children are 82% more likely to die when hit by an SUV than by a car. In children under 10, the risk of death was 130% higher. Regulate vehicle size now.

This guy is just a colossal idiot

[seeing an issue where your opponent is polling 21 points underwater] Ok let's slow it down here let's not get carried away

Highlight of the election every single time

Wade Grant won! Musqueam nation - hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaker (a Salish dialect, the Native language most of Metro Vancouver). The first Coast Salish person in parliament, AFAIK.

Even by MAGA’s deranged standards the war on medical research is incomprehensible

I’m tired of people expecting me to do something just because I know how to do it and they’re paying me

This is the result you get when you pathologically both-sides your reporting, giving equal weight to outdated statistics to absolute whopping lies. That's not actually "balance," but they have convinced themselves it is.

Just realized who Dedra and Cyril remind me of

@morecivilized.bsky.social

We. Should. Be. Taxing. Rich. People. So. Fucking. Much.

Baby boomers grew up into postwar housing abundance, bought cheap homes including fixer-uppers that had filtered downmarket thanks to robust new construction, then decided that we had enough housing. Now, thanks to 40 years of under-building, those old fixer-uppers cost $800k. The solution? Build!

I mean, get that bag, but I cannot believe that anyone would pay someone to write anything this stupid and pointless

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

oh for pete's sake

love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago

this is the kind of thing you would use as an example to explain racism to a child

RIP jesus he would have loved birkenstocks

Baseball participation and poems are down because of vaccines is a new one

uh, this seems really very extremely bad