Patrick Cain

This seems much more sensible than waking up a hibernating groundhog to demonstrate that it cannot see its shadow.

Bruce County dignitaries, *nobody* is here for speeches.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Hey @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social I was also going to point this out - this is potentially a very sinister and deniable form of police brutality

It reminds me a bit of this classic: theonion.com/third-amendm...

(quickly Googles the tenth amendment)

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

Yes, unfortunately the metaphor can extend that way.

Bonhomme has killed before, and he will kill again.

YouTube video by glacebay4u Canadian Army Firefight In Afghanistan

“They stayed back a little, off the front lines.”

The President of the United States

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I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

Trump has forced all of Europe to discuss the completely invented threat of Russian annexation of Greenland and thereby ignore the actual Russian war and annexation in Ukraine. Very regrettable. In Davos, the paramount subject should be Ukraine, not Greenland.

An extension of time of up to 210 days beyond the 30 day statutory time limit will be required in order to process this request. This extension is being applied in accordance with the Act as meeting the original time limit would unreasonably interfere with the operations of the Agency.

I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.

modern american politics consists of experts patiently explaining why something insane that people are talking about could never happen, followed by that exact thing happening

Renowned Canadian intelligence expert Dr. Wesley Wark has offered an opinion in support of the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation's suit against Alberta separatists. He discusses foreign - including *US* - interference.

Worth a read.

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Norwegians Apply Boycott As Traitor's Punishment As a means of treating public enemies who are too powerfully protected to be dealt with otherwise the boycott has no equal. It is one of the few remaining weapons left in the hands of the conquered peoples of Europe. A new form has been invoked in Norway against the country's foremost literary figure, Knut Hamsun, author of Growth of the Soil and a Nobel prizewinner for literature. As such he has been honored by every Norwegian. Now he has chosen to become a follower of Quisling, the traitor who rules Norway as a Nazi agent. Nazi power prevent direct measures of punishment, but it does not keep his countrymen from letting him know how they hate and despise his desertion. Every house, therefore, that has owned a copy of Hamsun's books is now returning them to Hamsun. So many copies have been sent back that the postoffice in the little town where he lives has had to hire extra helpers to handle the mass. Every mail brings him more of his books, rejected by the people who once held them in honor. Authors, like other artists, are apt to be more sensitive than the average run of men. If this applies to Hamsun, he has fallen on evil days. --The Butte Daily Post, 25 Jan 1943

Knut Hamsun, Norwegian Nobel laureate in literature, sided with the Nazis so much he presented Goebbels with his Nobel medal in 1943 (which wasn't widely known until later).

Norwegians responded by mailing so many of Hamsun's books back to him that his local post office had to hire extra staff.

YouTube video by BFBS Forces News Why is a horse ridden up the steps at end of Sovereign's Parade?

I mean, they make it work at Sandhurst, so not ruling the thing out entirely www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSPB...

Though with the larger cathedrals I guess I could be possible.

(waves his hand from the back of the class) Is there a church with a tall enough door that someone on horseback could ride through the doorway? Leading the horse through the door and mounting in the nave I could see, though it seems like a very Oliver Cromwell thing to do.

A 290-mile wall of ships.

Watch as 1,700+ vessels move in the East China Sea (23–28 Dec). @nytimes.com reports this as a "quietly mobilized" barrier.

Starboard Maritime Intelligence provided the data verification behind this analysis. 🧵

Cozy bookstore witch is more of a fall thing

One has to admit that Trump is brilliant at driving the news. We are now wasting attention on a ridiculous and unnecessary debate about invading Greenland, eclipsing attention on more important issues, foreign and domestic.

This ... is a bit of a Rohrscach blot.

Euromaidan issued a correction bsky.app/profile/euro...

Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US The idea of directly paying residents of Greenland, an overseas territory of Denmark, offers one explanation of how the U.S. might attempt to "buy" the island of 57,000 people.

A one-time payment of US$100,000 to switch permanently from the Danish to the U.S. health insurance system is actually a crappy deal on its face. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

“…Even if they won’t be there for us”

Um.

@blackcloudsix.bsky.social Can the US reinforce Pituffik if barred from runways in Iceland and Canada?