Aden Murphy

Yeah, this was the unforgivable one for me.

This kind of critique is fairly typical from people who see themselves as opposing Western power, but end up attacking anyone who investigates non-Western crimes. In their view, if your work aligns with Western interests, it must be compromised, regardless of method, transparency, or accuracy.

Boimler going “Riiiker!” getting on the saddle was one of many fantastic, dumb little jokes in that episode. It worked way better than it had any right to.

Man, you have a taste in historical media that I love and you are absolutely killling it with these ideas.
This one would be fiendishly hard to implement well, but would be incredible to play.

Unfortunately, the separatists and anti-vaxxers appear to have nothing to do with their time other that political activism, and they largely hold the balance of the Premier’s leadership contest. So they somehow get to drive the bus.

It is “wtf Alberta”, but it’s not the whole province contributing to the measles outbreak and the whole province is definitely not “planning” to separate. The separatist “movement” is a few thousand dipshits who wanna LARP as Republicans. It’s not a deep, widespread thing.

Which one was best?

Would you mind elaborating on this idea? That’s not something I’d have ever associated with wrestling and I’m curious.

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

if you look at the scrunched-up screaming faces of the skinheads trying to burn down refugee centers and see people whose Very Real Concerns Must Be Listened To, you're a fool.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

If market housing used to be much more affordable in the past, we can’t say the current lack of affordability is an inherent property of capitalism. It’s the specific market conditions of today.

The market will not serve everybody, but I think a functioning housing market can serve most people.

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

When the tablets are eventually all translated and categorized, even the thousands of boring receipts would tell such fascinating stories. “The Shockingly Comprehensive Economic History of Ur”, or “The Rise of Some Random Family from Farming to Aristocracy Over 10 Generations”

This is the important work of a city council and municipal government. It's rarely headline-grabbing, but making neighbourhoods safer, block by block, is what it's all about. Ashley is one of the best in North America at understanding this, and making needed change happen in Edmonton.

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

That’s for the August 14th town hall in Edmonton

For someone not at all familiar, what is the stereotype here?

Oh yeah, I have no faith that this government will interpret/enforce this order reasonably. I’m also concerned about the administrative burden of the order making it harder for schools to use libraries. If students have to always be supervised in libraries, that’s a challenge.

This policy sucks, but I think you might be misinterpreting the order. “Non-sexual content” =! “Non-explicit sexual content”
(I could be wrong though)

YouTube video by Comedy Central Africa Across The Street | Key and Peele S4 Ep05 (full skit) | Comedy Central africa

The Greek/Turkish or Ethiopian/Eritrean food debates feels like the old Key and Peele sketch:

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YouTube video by Dr. Ludwig Heckerlied [German folk song][+English translation]

Could I suggest the following?

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Every portion is for approximately one person if you’re brave enough.

The Israeli army refers to this practice as “Operation Salted Fish,” the Israeli version of the game ‘red light, green light.’

archive.ph/9CyTK

International students in Canada by sector, 1992-93 to 2023-24.

(This is not super historically accurate)

One of my favourite little EU4 things is using google translate to name colonies in the language of the country I’m playing as. “California”? Nah. It’s “sunny coast” in Tagalog or Amharic, etc.

American cops are, without a doubt, undertrained.

That's also, to a fair extent, irrelevant to what we're seeing here.

An officer deliberately aiming a firearm at a reporter and pulling the trigger isn't a matter of training. It's a matter of "the cops want to shoot reporters"

Always read @risabrooks12.bsky.social 's stuff. She absolutely rocks the field of civ-mil.

As always, I am a Brooksian.

Here’s another clip of the moment a protester went to kick back a gas canister and was met with a ton of fire from Border Patrol agents. One of those canisters hit me in the foot.

This Israeli TV Channel has literally been inciting “genocide” onto thousands of screens.

Read @premthakker.bsky.social's story:
zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

“Formidable” is a really good description.