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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I forget this place exists until there's a contentious cultural moment and then I'm like "yeah I bet there are some TAKES over on bkuesky"

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I don't need Lactaid because I consume dairy with a pure heart

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

What's the most extreme lie you've ever told in a job interview? Mine is "I'm a people person."

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

How's it going over here? Everyone still being real normal?

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I am familiar with the origin of the word! I don't like it! I have a *personal* revulsion to how it sounds and appears, and I have a *technical* objection about its utility. If other people use it, fine. *I* don't like it, *I* think its utility is more limited than more commonly used words.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I said I don't like the term and I don't think its less ambiguous or more impactful than collaborator, but people who use it don't need to justify themselves to me.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Danielle Smith was recorded having a friendly discussion with Ben Shapiro, who has previously said that "we can annex [Canada] and then just call it an outlying territory or something like Puerto Rico, but of the North." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/27/n...

nationalobserver.com

Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro discuss Canada electing ‘solid allies’ to Trump at Florida event

On stage at a PragerU fundraiser, the Alberta premier, under fire for allegedly encouraging U.S. leaders to influence Canadian politics, said, 'I come in peace.'

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

As an exceptionally poor dresser myself, I say it without malice.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

You can always tell when you get to the right gate for a flight to Regina because of the dire sartorial circumstances

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It's not a Canadian-owned company anymore and even if it were, we're not obliged to pretend bad things are good just because they're Canadian.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

You've got to hand it to Tim Hortons. They know how to make a truly disgusting breakfast sandwich.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Might have landed if I wasn't currently experiencing the psychic hell that is Pearson

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Mark Carney should promise a national inquiry into why Pearson sucks so fucking bad

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I think we should step aside and allow the wild hogs to have their time

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

BRAVE: This relatively young woman has accepted her gruesome fate!

Times headline that says "I'm 37, I might be single forever, and I'm happy with that."

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Imagine the fire department shows up to put out your house fire but instead you watch them burn to death in a lithium battery fire in their own truck

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

People always want to talk about how a single sour patch kid would kill a pilgrim but that's ancient history. I do believe that a single box of Kraft Dinner would kill King Charles right fucking now.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My Heart Will Go On on the dance mix is a recession indicator

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Turns out It's Her Time was always about Claudia Sheinbaum

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"Some people call me Maurice." No they don't, Steve Miller. That isn't true.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Far and away the best singer to emerge from American Idol.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I feel so bad for TV writers trying to write about White Lotus this season amd having to pretend that a single exciting thing has happened

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I'm sorry are you saying you don't carry a copy of On Tyranny in your back pocket in case you need affirmations??

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Stanley is probably right (and within his rights) to leave and the U of T has good reason to hire him. That doesn't mean people who see an already narrow door narrowing further have to clap for him.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I haven't seen anyone "dunking" on him (maybe there are) but what I have seen is people pointing out that it's already extremely difficult for Canadian academics to get positions and it's frustrating to think that as Cdn institutions start snapping up fleeing US academics, it will become even harder

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Gotta start writing again so I can tell people who ask that I'm a journalist instead of the excruciatingly boring actual answer

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I scrolled up to see what this is replying to and lol???? Lmao???? Very odd reply to a cute story about your kid.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"What stage of capitalism is this?" It's all the same capitalism buddy

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Hope that since they're taking up roles that could have gone to equally talented but less renowned Canadian academics they will at least do this country a service and be frank about the state of this nation

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley moving to Canada from the US is a real "out of the fire, into the frying pan" moment that is not unfunny to me

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Guy and his wife just said "we're having straight sex tonight!" And everybody at the gay bar booed

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Singh's popularity is dismal, the party’s popularity has crashed so hard they may be reduced to a handful of seats, it's incredibly clear that people are not happy with their performance or their direction, and yet!!!

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

People are understandably focused on the CPC's sharp decline in popularity but there's an equally interesting story in the apparent total collapse of the NDP. It is WILD that there doesn't seem to be any push from the party to turf Singh, who is pretty obviously unable to meet this moment.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

50 years ago the rural population in Saskatchewan was significantly higher and yet the province was profoundly less conservative. So we have evidence RIGHT HERE that rural communities are not inherently conservative. So why do we just accept that narrative?

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Aren't these experts tired of the same boring, inaccurate narratives for why the province is how it is? What does having a rural population have to do with anything anyway? Why do we assume rural populations are *inherently* conservative instead of wondering *why* they're conservative?

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

THIS ISN'T FUCKING TRUE. Nearly SEVENTY PERCENT of people in Saskatchewan live in urban areas. That's a lower percentage than most provinces (except Manitoba, which does not get this same treatment, despite having very similar demographics as SK) but it's still an overwhelming majority!

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I took a long break but now I'm on vacation on my own so I need the people on my phone!

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