Aidan

To slightly paraphrase an old @downgoesbrown.bsky.social line about the 1996-2003 Colorado-Detroit rivalry, "there may never have been another hockey rivalry that featured quite this combination of Hall of Fame talent, consistently crucial stakes, and outright froth-at-the-mouth hatred."

The League's Season 3 opener, "The Lockout"

Screenshot of a post from Timmy Tyranny that reads ‘This morning I attended the Downtown Ottawa Forum at the Rogers Centre, where Mayor Mark Sutcliffe provided an update on the City’s plan to revitalize the ByWard Market. The conversation was direct and honest.’

Cover of the Byward Market Action Plan’. At the bottom right is the mayor’s logo alongside the City of Ottawa logo.

If this is the City’s plan, the mayor’s personal/campaign logo has no business being included on the cover.

Respect mixed with fear for whoever looked at the carnage that is the finish line of the average cross-country skiing race and said "needs to be harder."

ATTENTION CANADA If* Canada loses to the US today we are NOT doing this cringy “at least I don’t have to live in AMERICA” thing *I SAID IF (Photo collage featuring three fictional annoying Bluesky Canadian posts saying things like "at least I don't have to live under a Cheeto Mussolini In Chief" with a big red X over this type of post} (one last final reminder in red and white): TAKE THIS LOSER SHIT TO THE FACEBOOK COMMENTS OF A BRITTLESTAR POST WHERE IT BELONGS

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Traversed the most ferocious ocean on earth in a rowboat *and then* traversed the (basically impassable) interior of South Georgia faster than most modern mountaineers are able to do it. Tier 1 Mad Lad (both laudatory and derogatory)

Macro generally laughs at peoples' notions of what a big number is.

$1bn in my current job? Big number

$1bn when I was doing EU macro? There were days the ECB bought $1bn in assets before I had lunch.

$1bn in short-term lending markets? Like peeing into Lake Superior.

Repo markets are like the Webway: to be communed with by studied, battle-hardened experts with decades of knowledge and experience, and avoided by everyone else lest they be driven mad.

Having your shithead brother jailed is a monarchical tradition with a long, proud history.

If anything, it left an anti-mark on Baltic culture - whole national identities built on having successfully pushed back communism via singing.

I'm genuinely gobsmacked by how much City staff dropped the ball on this one. Ignoring like five decades of public policy evidence in favour of whataboutist arguments that cement a status quo that kills more people every year.

Watching it *hammered* with my former roommate (they hadn't seen it yet; I had) was one of the funniest experiences of our time living together.

Shortly after Lando shows up, he turned to me and said "I've never been less certain how much runtime is left in a movie".

The key to the LPC's success is that they are utterly ruthless (complimentary) and have little sentimentality about their own past leaders, their own past policies, or their own past voters.

My brother and I were both preterm births due to a genetic condition that runs in my maternal grandfather's family.

We're both fully healthy adults; three of my great grandmother's seven children were stillborn.

A hundred years ago, scarlet fever was the leading cause of death for children, with a mortality rate of around 15-20%. Today the mortality rate for the infection is less than 1%.

During the first two years of the First World War, around 40% of all bullet wounds to limbs required amputation to prevent dying from infection. Around a third of those amputees died of infection anyways.

In the later years of the war they got the amputee fatality rate down to around 10-15%.

And to the extent that it has been an economic success, it's less due to Orban policies and more due to being within easy driving/train distance of the Rhine-Ruhr region.

I don't think Poilievre himself is pro-Trump, and I don't think most Conservative MPs are. But enough of their staffers are at least Trump-curious (and definitely UK Reactionary-curious) that any attempt to create daylight between the party and its most extreme supporters starts half-self-sabotaged

I've been ringing the "the Conservative Party's staffer class are a huge liability to the party's electoral competitiveness" bell for close to a decade now and events have largely proven that take accurate.

A screenshot of a LinkedIn post from Marla Orenstein. "Here's what I learned from the Olympics Penis-gate controversy, and how it relates to helping Canada's clean energy innovators succeed."

"Here's what (allegedly) cheating at curling taught me about building a successful B2B SaaS company"

Wishing a meaningful & reflective Mark Wahlberg 40 Day Challenge to all who observe.

There is only working class, the professional managerial class, and there is only one working class party, the Democratic party, and there is only one working class paper, the Financial Times.

The professional managerial class will usurp the boss class to deliver workplace fairness and a reasonable rate of return to the shareholder, many people are gaining consciousness

A Hawker Typhoon close air support fighter-bomber of RAF No. 175 Squadron while being outfitted for service.

This chonky boi was not very effective against Luftwaffe fighter aircraft. But it was *very* good at blowing up tanks, and when there are no Luftwaffe fighters in the vicinity there's not really anything stopping it from doing so.

It also absolutely *kneecapped* the Luftwaffe and left both fronts effectively without air cover from May/June 1944 onwards. Overlord and Bagration aren't half as successful as they end up being without near-total Allied air superiority.

I feel like Anthropic has been heading in the "most lib-coded big AI company" direction for a while now. This feels like that dynamic being cemented.

Sighing as I once again reset the Executor's "It has been ___ days without a workplace force-strangling" counter to zero.

Oh God I'd forgotten that she was APDA. That explains SO much.

Fetterman/Gottheimer or Polis/Khanna

Am I misinterpreting that it looks like the doors on the cab are closed? If so, Johnny is about to learn about some important physics principles and he's going to learn them the hard way...