Michael Karlin

"It can be difficult putting your makeup on in front of a camera to be cool rather than providing oversight that citizens demand at Ottawa City Hall."

Way over the line that does nothing for your thesis. And Diane Deans was councillor for 28 years. This is a worthless, petty attack.

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

Should be 60-70 years minimum.

Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.

I'm sadly helpless to resist replying to this:

Great Yuan, which was probably the largest empire of its time.

That Canada was spared more tariffs yesterday is irrelevant. We're sleeping next to the elephant, but it's now gesticulating wildly and lost 40% of its cognitive function. I feel like trampling is likely consciously so or not.

Mujadara. Just need to use dehydrated onions.

YouTube video by Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy Scatman John – A Marxist Analysis

How have you not fallen in love with the internet yet?
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It was known as neither of those things when it was founded (Byzantion) so it depends on what this person is characterizing as "art" in the city. So if we're being pedantic with them (which we should be it's hilarious) we should correct him to Ḳosṭanṭīnīye, specifically.

If I asked someone to name me any work of art and they answered "Constantinople" I would cry from laughter. What a hysterical reply.

This is how Warhammer 40K happens.

He's there with FCM. Whether that'll do anything or not (unlikely) is a separate issue.

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The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

This is adorable
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How many Substacks can I POSSIBLY subscribe to?

I had the exact same experience with #2 this week. I contorted from how much cringe I felt being congratulated. It's the best/worst feeling.

Does Eric Adams’s $100 Million Website Do Anything? The mayor enlisted an army of contractors to build a one-stop benefits platform. Two years and $100 million later, the website is a skeleton of what it…

NYC CTO Matt Fraser destroyed the city's digital service by declaring that Salesforce would abandon user research and build the "MyCity" platform faster and cheaper than city-employed developers. Three years and $100 million later, MyCity remains a mirage.

Completely agree, plus the UK was exhausted in '38 after a horrific World War, almost going bankrupt, Spanish Flu, the Anglo-Irish War, and the Depression. It was a shell of itself. The US has not gone through that degree of trauma at all over the last 20 years.

This is what the internet was supposed to be like. Congratulations to the team and thank you for hosting in Canada! 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

If you see Radio Free Europe as "far left" your political scale is terrifying.

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity! Canada is Under Attack. We Need to Build.

I really enjoyed yesterday's @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social video on (especially) local impediments to the "we have to build" response to US aggression. Some of it rests on local govs afraid of constituents unwilling to compromise. "Sure build that x, just not here."
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Netanyahu will fire every official responsible for failing to prevent the October 7 attacks except the person in charge of all of them.

This is all just a millenarian cult. They are acquiring rare minerals, energy, and water. Cutting down guardrails. They just want to build their digital god who they believe will wipe out their enemies. I know this sounds overtly absurd but what else can you take away from it?

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Yair knows what's up.

And yeah unlike some I hold a lot of empathy in me for Americans looking at this in horror.

I think Canadians are on here being told that it's not all Americans against us and... I get it. It's not. But it does seem like it's the entire political establishment with few exceptions? So Canada needs to do what it needs to do regardless of who comes to power if/when Trump leaves office.

Registration and electronic travel authority is a global phenomenon these days (we need an ETA for the UK too!) but historically there would probably be exemptions for Canadians for stuff like this. No longer!

Tbh it's a red herring. The lack of due process is much worse.

Protecting The American People Against Invasion PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST INVASION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of

It's a clarification of s.7 of this EO:
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