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@jimstr.bsky.social

edmonton-based poster, video game and hamburger enthusiast, and depending on your standards, journalist. writing about alberta politics at theprogressreport.ca. if we are partisans of liberty, it is our duty to escape

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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

05.08.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6072    πŸ” 2548    πŸ’¬ 156    πŸ“Œ 74

rfk jr makes total sense to anyone who’s spent enough time in recovery to encounter a few Sober Wellness Cranks

05.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 408    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2

well unless you're thomas lukaszuk and you want a thousand volunteers to build you a list for whatever your own purposes are. then it's a clever plan

05.08.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

everything i've read from lukaszuk on this suggests that his (official) end goal is just to hopefully get people in the UCP mad at each other by putting MLAs in the position of having to argue against separation in the leg. I think this is a very stupid plan

05.08.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Sitka's Messengers of Biodiversity Reporting Grants

Enviro Journalism Opportunity alert:

The Sitka Foundation is offering 16 grants of $10K each for reporting on biodiversity in British Columbia.

Deadline is August 31.

I was among last year's cohort, it's a special thing.
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www.messengersofbiodiversity.org

04.08.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

04.08.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5575    πŸ” 530    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 176

i think a lot of the coverage of this guy last week missed the point. Jeremy didn't. this Feucht character's got it all: failed GOP candidate, bigoted American pastor, grifting on the anti-vax circuit, allegations from all directions of fraud and embezzlement, even a Proud Boys connection

04.08.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

if the article has given you the impression that disco elysium has complicated and unintuitive systems that you will need to master, that is really not the case. it's about as mechanically crunchy as king's quest or the secret of monkey island

04.08.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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another normal week for the mayor of kamloops

01.08.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2

i'm not going to apply for this because i'm completely unqualified, but as a bit of jim lore i will share with you that i've always wanted to be a narrative designer of games

01.08.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no it's not empty there's five coffees in there

01.08.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that's it, that's my last post of the week

01.08.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the larry sanders show is the dark souls of curb your enthusiasms

01.08.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

FOIPs in Alberta cost five times more because you have to set up a family trust to ensure your relatives are around to receive the results.

01.08.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
01.08.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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COVID Contrarians Are Wrong About Sweden Trying to β€˜let it rip’ in early 2020 was a disaster.

The conventional wisdom swing on non-pharmaceutical measures during COVID has tilted toward "doing nothing, like Sweden did, was good." @ryanlcooper.com puts this through the ringer: prospect.org/health/2025-...

01.08.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 343    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2

hey, better than running no ALT text at all.

01.08.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

in five years all the TVs are going to have nvidia cards doing frame gen and three quarters of every show you watch won't even be the original show

01.08.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

FOIPs in Alberta cost five times more because they require five times as much black ink when you print them

01.08.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

chil dogs are for chill dogs

01.08.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Twitter going to shit isn't as catastrophic as Wikipedia going to shit would be, but it was, like, maybe 3% as catastrophic, which is still a non-zero amount of sad

01.08.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a gruesome thought is that even though Twitter under Jack was still pretty bad, it was good enough that Twitter was on balance a useful and positive thing for humanity to have. it is very weird to realize that I feel a particle of grief for Jack Twitter, or that we are slightly worse off without it

01.08.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Labor activist Chris Smalls is back in the United States (via Chuck Modi)

01.08.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5171    πŸ” 1189    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 72

look, the solution is simple, have young men play every single mainline game in the yakuza series (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), Judgment and Lost Judgment, and then by that point they figure it out

01.08.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 212    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

there are many funny facets to this one. a smaller one is that the Jobs Numbers are never very useful or informative to anyone anyway. the month to month shifts are too noisy. politicians generally deploy the Jobs Numbers statistics quite deceptively

01.08.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

always cooking, never having breakfast

01.08.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

me and the dabo girl i pulled by quoting marx

01.08.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

if you're politically active on the left i'm sure that you, like me, can easily name at least several projects, orgs, parties that have been blown apart or permanently tainted by someone turning out to be a sex pest. don't shit where you eat and don't fuck where you picket, that's my advice

01.08.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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