Couldnβt they all just give themselves little pep talks?
01.12.2025 02:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@calderwood.bsky.social
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Couldnβt they all just give themselves little pep talks?
01.12.2025 02:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mr Beast would also be the worst person to have in a Sound of Thunder situation.
01.12.2025 02:33 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers often deny payment for the best at-home machines, and innovative solutions are endangered by Medicaid cuts.
01.12.2025 00:55 β π 328 π 119 π¬ 18 π 10I think they will find Iβm already doing this quite well without the glasses. Itβs not hard to tell who is in the overpaid parasite class.
30.11.2025 18:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βTo keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic productsβ
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
In the 19th Century they used to just call this a βconstitutional,β which meant, βI need to go for a walk so I can poop after.β
29.11.2025 15:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As Timothy Findley said, βpeople can only be found in what they do.β Are there any left wing parties in the UK? Maybe the Greens? Maybe whatever Corbyn is doing, if it comes together? Certainly not Labour.
29.11.2025 15:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I also support the UCP separating from Canada. Maybe they could try the moon or something?
29.11.2025 15:19 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You would think, by now, that all the hateful megachurches would have talked to one another and said, βIf a woman calls you asking for baby formula just pretend to care about other people for like 5 minutes.β Sheβs hitting up Oshawa now, and for some reason they couldnβt see this coming.
29.11.2025 15:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fuck LPC cultists too.
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28.11.2025 20:31 β π 15885 π 5227 π¬ 477 π 217That's good! I've known people who've had dengue and it isn't pleasant.
27.11.2025 14:55 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0It is inexplicable that you would point out a more moral course of action and then happily continue to participate in and promote a harmful one.
28.11.2025 01:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith have signed an agreement to advance Albertaβs pipeline dreams β and weaken some pollution laws. Hereβs what you need to know:
thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
I refer you back to my previous reply to you. Politics is not 35 days every 4 years. This is a moral and ecological catastrophe.
28.11.2025 00:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Wellβ¦ itβs competing with the time they made Dark Phoenix Saga on a train.
28.11.2025 00:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Those are not the options. We are not in an election. You are not voting for anything, but politics does not stop. The Liberals must be shamed out of this catastrophic policy. Your choice is to participate in that or be complicit.
28.11.2025 00:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Sequestration is a lie. Everybody knows this. Youβre either a complete dupe or operating in bad faith.
28.11.2025 00:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs a neoliberal method. The federal Liberals are complicit in this too, and provincial Liberal parties enjoy that every time they get back into power the goalposts have been moved and so they can leave many parts of the system privatized and still seem left of centre. (Ebyβs NDP too!)
27.11.2025 14:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
27.11.2025 00:38 β π 17590 π 7343 π¬ 889 π 410Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech but it's Ellen Ripley
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
27.11.2025 02:30 β π 11185 π 2500 π¬ 98 π 74How could he? The moment he achieves peak neoliberalism, heβll climax so hard his little bird body will break in two.
27.11.2025 04:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And allowed multiple provinces to privatize healthcare.
27.11.2025 04:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They should lose so badly for this that Sam Altman uhβ¦. violates the terms of service. They should lose lawsuits they arenβt even named in. They should lose lawsuits that only exist in Chat GPT-written court filings.
26.11.2025 11:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Okay you were right about the Waterloo parts. But I was fascinated with the political project of the book. Victor Hugo really wanted nothing more than to destroy Napoleon III. Also Jean Valjean is high in the pantheon of literary heroes.
26.11.2025 01:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 01200, and theyβre all fucking great!
26.11.2025 01:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Have they considered meeting a real person?
25.11.2025 22:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I heard for approximately 5500 years lots of people wrote things without ChatGPT. I wasnβt sure though so I asked chat.
25.11.2025 22:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have never made this man an apple pie so I understand how he could have made this blunder.
25.11.2025 22:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If youβre complaining about FPTP, yes, itβs terrible. For as long as Iβve lived in my riding Iβve been represented by a Nazi sympathizer. Thankfully sheβs resigning.
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