My real name is Conner MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod, and I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel.
05.03.2026 03:33 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@stateofthecity.bsky.social
Was @stateofthecity on Twitter. Veteran of a B-Grade, Film Noir genre of politics known as "local government." Current gig: second tour of duty in the Winnipeg Mayor's Office. Hometowns: Victoria, Winnipeg, Toronto. Working on 'Debt City' (see debt.city)
My real name is Conner MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod, and I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel.
05.03.2026 03:33 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0what if I'm too tired for any of this
05.03.2026 01:43 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Field artillery & (civilian) truck driver
05.03.2026 00:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Toronto, ON
04.03.2026 22:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's the only way to do it.
04.03.2026 22:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I would not have handled it that way.
04.03.2026 19:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(And I think clip 2 is more brutal than clip 1)
04.03.2026 18:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the best single segments from a congressional hearing I've seen in thirty-five years.
04.03.2026 18:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Call me a pettifogging lawyer type but I don't know how you authorize a sub to torpedo an enemy ship on the high seas 00s of miles from your target country and not call it a war.
04.03.2026 16:04 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0Told you so.
04.03.2026 13:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I am awake because I am rich with anger
04.03.2026 05:34 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Short version: I've been thinking about 'The Quiet American' a lot, not so much b/c of how prescient it was about the Vietnam War, per se, but about pointed it was on America's cultural predisposition to believe there's always a 'third force' they can boost to transcend conflicts they don't like.
04.03.2026 03:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TFW you've been writing a long thread and don't post it b/c it feels like it should be a pub tirade or a speech or something instead, to get the tone and rhythm right.
04.03.2026 03:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My hometown's budget: FY 2026, in Victoria, BC
04.03.2026 01:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As I noted to @cbgoodman.co, I'm trying to look at it from the standpoint of, if this was a business model (financing model, whatever) what are the variations? How did it start, and what options have been used since? So, yeah, I'm open to some Mesopotamian muni action, absolutely.
04.03.2026 00:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Round one Paris mayoral: socialist Hidalgo successor Emmanuel Gregoire gains some ground against right-right Rachida Dati on the right, after Dati had a bad couple of weeks. No Round 2 #s (really? 😂) but other polls have a tighter race between those leaders in the runoff.
04.03.2026 00:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hey stop moving in on my turf! ;)
03.03.2026 23:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hmmmm
03.03.2026 23:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Don't forget: Canadians (and not the Royal Navy or the British Army!) burned Washington!
03.03.2026 23:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I've seen conversations from that series happen with my own eyes, almost word for word
03.03.2026 23:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That's just government, man. At least Malcolm Tucker starts his part in each episode with some kind of fucking plan!
03.03.2026 23:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0hey anyone where is my copy of "The Quiet American"-?
03.03.2026 23:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There is competence porn, but there is also incompetence porn
03.03.2026 23:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Awesome hat, too
03.03.2026 22:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Last position?
03.03.2026 22:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You're going to have to narrow it down
03.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'd celebrate but it could be a ruse. He changes his mind constantly, after all.
Toronto, ON.
Myth
03.03.2026 21:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0"Naval warfare is not manly, so we won't have any escorts ready for the inevitable Hormuz blockade. Warships have air conditioning... so they are really wokeships."
03.03.2026 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0