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About 15 minutes after submitting my renewal and old passport to Service Canada, I realized that I had to cross the border the next day. I went back in a panic and they were able to expedite the process and get me my new passport in 2 hours. Amazing service.

Timing for Wexit is perfect as we slide into a massive global recession and the price of WCS craters setting the patch up for major job losses. Genius.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

I binged it all over the weekend. Great individual guests that worked really well together. Having @edwardongwesojr.com as an anchor guest was a smart decision - he's so brilliant and interacts well with everyone. You orchestrated it masterfully. I can't wait until next year!

YouTube video by Catalina650013 Kids in the Hall - Girl Drink Drunk

A girl drink drunk?!

I'm ready for some truly deranged syntax!

The life and death of the Canadian small town Neoliberal capitalism isn't compatible with small and rural communities. At some point, we either face that fact or we simply let them all die.

Here is my latest: The Life and Death of Canadian Small Towns. Or, how small towns cannot survive neoliberal capitalism.

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Getting in on this day one.

My favorite non-Magary WYTS so far (and that's saying something since Ratto already dropped a couple). Amazing writing.

For no particular reason I've been thinking lately about the essay prompt for the entrance exam at Eton in 2011, and what we prepare our upper class Future Leaders for from a very young age.

this post from @adapalmer.bsky.social on how censorship works holds up nicely.

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KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao