@markdjarvis.bsky.social
Books: Democratizing the Constitution; Modernizing Government Accountability; From NPM to NPG. Awards: Donner and Smiley book prizes PhD: UVic Certified chainsaw operator Assorted cantankerousness
Bonus
Loudest: Motorhead
First: Cinderella
Last: Junkhouse
Best/Most: Springsteen
Worst: GWAR
Coolest: maybe New Yorkers Against Violence with The Beastie Boys, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mos Def, the Roots, N.E.R.D., Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Afrika Bambaata, Michael Stipe, Moby and Bono at Hammerstein Ballroom
i mean, i don't think it's a mystery NYT
Hockey has a culture problem.
Apropos of something, I really don’t understand how anyone looks around in 2025 and decides that the path forward is unanimity on anything, let alone a master plan for a whole country.
Jen’s advocacy on this deserves recognition. Very important work.
Obviously with the dogs.
Reading the article this may be a case of the author doesn’t write the headline.
If Trump wants to signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000", we shld be making a play to get companies to set up shop up here to locate that talent.
That this needs to be said….
Canada isn’t the United States. Your administrative doesn’t get to dictate what we can and can’t say up here.
Worse than goons tho, Chuck.
It was nice knowing you America. 🤷♂️
"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is I don't know."
The guy who said that wants to be the guy who says the other side is the side stoking hate and violence.
Don’t celebrate political violence, even if you disagree with the politics.
Trump’s tacit admission last week that he’s lost India and Russia to China and N Korea and now Russia taunting the west with this is really not good.
Parliamentary nerdery at YOW.
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I can offer you a worse read?
Gobsmacking.
Screw your thoughts.
Screw your prayers.
And, most of all, screw your unwillingness to protect children.
What thing do you really wish you could do at like an elite level?
Me: surf
“The redevelopment plan includes planting more than 225 trees and adding vegetation-covered pits, most of which will also serve as rain drainage. The city will also add more seating along the street and an illuminated canopy”
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This has been a bit coming, but it is critically important: domestic vaccine production capacity.
Right on.
A terrible assumption made in a lot policy/political punditry is to assess whether some decision or action has achieved an improved outcome in comparaison to the status quo, ignoring that the status quo may have gotten worse in the absence of said decision or action. 🤷♂️
The 14 yr old saying “Bruh, you literally got the thousand yard stare. Eat some yogurt” to the 15 yr old as he struggles with his spicy Raman is the best expression of concern/insult combo I’ve seen in a long time.
Shocking.
It took a minute to remember where the insert a footnote button was this morning.
Also why hasn’t AI eliminated citation writing yet?!
Land of the free.
I wonder if they consulted the NCC for operational advice for this mission.
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