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 π 6072 π 2548 π¬ 156 π 74@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
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 π 6072 π 2548 π¬ 156 π 74rfk jr makes total sense to anyone whoβs spent enough time in recovery to encounter a few Sober Wellness Cranks
05.08.2025 15:08 β π 408 π 27 π¬ 14 π 2well 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0everything 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Enviro Journalism Opportunity alert:
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Deadline is August 31.
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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 π 5575 π 530 π¬ 133 π 176i 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 π 35 π 22 π¬ 1 π 1if 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0another normal week for the mayor of kamloops
01.08.2025 23:18 β π 100 π 7 π¬ 12 π 2i'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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0no it's not empty there's five coffees in there
01.08.2025 23:19 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0that's it, that's my last post of the week
01.08.2025 23:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the larry sanders show is the dark souls of curb your enthusiasms
01.08.2025 23:01 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0FOIPs 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 π 19 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1The 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 π 343 π 97 π¬ 12 π 2hey, better than running no ALT text at all.
01.08.2025 22:41 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0in 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 π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0FOIPs 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 π 23 π 10 π¬ 0 π 1chil dogs are for chill dogs
01.08.2025 22:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Twitter 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0a 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 π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Labor activist Chris Smalls is back in the United States (via Chuck Modi)
01.08.2025 14:34 β π 5171 π 1189 π¬ 36 π 72look, 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 π 212 π 68 π¬ 12 π 3there 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0always cooking, never having breakfast
01.08.2025 19:25 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0me and the dabo girl i pulled by quoting marx
01.08.2025 19:20 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0if 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
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