Matt Farrell

People crave meaning, belonging, and status. This checks a couple of boxes.

Elections: Process & Performance – Simple Book Publishing This book explores the essential components, processes, and principles that shape modern elections. Through accessible explanations and real-world context, this resource helps readers understand how e...

Sharing with the #Polisky folks on here. I just published Elections: Process & Performance. It's an open textbook written for students in elective courses, non specialists, or (possibly) your 70 year old parents. Please feel free to read, use, or share! ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/electionspro...

Hear me out: we buy a bunch of fentanyl, hire some actors to try to move it across the border, Carney leads a team on horseback that intercepts it. Get it all on camera, leak it to Fox. (It’s as good a plan as any other at this point).

the two things that define the modern world are not being a subsistence farmer and antibiotics

Postponed until after infrastructure week.

If I understand correctly, X/Twitter is for whining about progressive lefties like Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein, and Bluesky is for whining about reactionary populists like Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein.

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Term limits are all bad. They have a dozen deleterious effects on government and zero good ones. They achieve none of the goals their proponents say they do. No one should ever advocate for term limits.

Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

Canada Day, July 1st. Jays wear red alternates.

YouTube video by Mad Ruth Sony Commercial - Crazy People #crazypeople #Dudleymoore #sony #commercial

Caucasians are too tall and gangly. youtu.be/0cmcD_JzT_w?...

This is adorable.

Send in the guy who told him about groceries. His body of work speaks for itself.

Like citizens of a sovereign Alberta, the Maple Leafs will not be allowed to keep their Canadian passports.

Academia will put you through 17 meetings, two hour-long presentations, five meals, and four flights just for a chance to make $38,000 teaching English in a town of 8,000 people in rural western Nebraska

In Canada, public opinion once forced out a cabinet minister for expensing an $18 glass of orange juice.

Maybe the Gulf of America stuff was a precondition for joining the club of Gulf Monarchies.

La belle Alberta.

Women?

Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

Canada’s new Conservative coalition resembles Donald Trump’s Just as in the United States, working-class and immigrant voters swung right

There were many interesting storylines in this election, but the Conservatives have to be feeling good about their chances in the next one. The coalition looks pretty durable.
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Yep. Information shortcuts.

It was a good speech, but he looked pained delivering the conciliatory/aspirational sections. Not a natural gear for him.

This is a good response. The attention economy demands eyeballs & results, but counting votes takes time and results are meaningless until the counting is finished.

I confess I had no idea she was still alive let alone in the House of Commons

i love quebec

The Conservatives are doing well! The NDP and Bloc fence-voters made a business decision.

Once again, just months ago, the Mental & Physical Acuity of Geriatric Presidents was The Great Political Issue Of Our Time. This? Won't even be in the papers, let alone on the front page, by tomorrow.

Also, again, this is obscene & should immediately end his presidency: bsky.app/profile/mcop...