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Bruce Arthur

@brucearthur.bsky.social
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Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 1h
The Idiot Hermit Kingdom
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h
righteous among the nations
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 5h
On Tuesday the BC Supreme Court vacated the convictions of the co-founders of DULF, which bought and sold clean illegal drugs on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and struck down a part of Canada's drug laws. None of it was ideal, but in this crisis, it was to the good. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Bruce Arthur: B.C. court right to absolve founders of Drug User Liberation Front
The B.C. Supreme Court concluded that DULF kept people alive and did no public harm, Bruce Arthur writes.
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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 3h
Hegseth is attacking our country more effectively than he is attacking Iran.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 7h
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 5h
And Matt Taibbi is retweeting Tracey, natch
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 5h
On Tuesday the BC Supreme Court vacated the convictions of the co-founders of DULF, which bought and sold clean illegal drugs on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and struck down a part of Canada's drug laws. None of it was ideal, but in this crisis, it was to the good. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
thestar.com
Bruce Arthur: B.C. court right to absolve founders of Drug User Liberation Front
The B.C. Supreme Court concluded that DULF kept people alive and did no public harm, Bruce Arthur writes.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 5h
Good column
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h
everyone lucked the hell out on the terror attack today where the co-pilot stabbed the pilot, passengers took down the attacker *and* there seem to have been two off-duty pilots who were able to land the plane safely. Could have been one of the worst attacks for a while otherwise.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 7h
haha holy crappppppppppppppppp
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 7h
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Homer Simpson Sad at Gym Mirror
ALT: Homer Simpson Sad at Gym Mirror
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h
Counterpoint: Bring me your fatties, your weirdos, your radicals yearning to breathe free.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 9h
I've always said "the pro-Israel American right-wing only supports Israel so they have a place to deport Jews," but I never thought they would make it quite so literal. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported. (Gift Article)
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
when the time comes, after they clean the last of your slime trail off the face of the earth, you will not be remembered by anybody
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Mark Primiano @doctor1hundred.bsky.social · 13h
A fun thing about Ben is that he refuses to accept he deserves this level of praise. When he told me this was coming, I congratulated him and he said "I don't belong on that list!" Wrong! You do!
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just do not use muse
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 10h
This is something more than just one of the best-written movie reviews I have ever seen
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 11h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 11h
We rightly give Home Office ministers a hard time here for many things, but in their defence, not one of them has ever ordered the Identity & Passport Service to mail out passports in envelopes that might as well be printed with the words ‘Important identity document enclosed: please steal’.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 11h
So this month the Toronto Sun published a piece about the Allison Inquiry that called vaccines "a crime against humanity at worst" and demanded arrests, and the National Post published a piece deeming Avi Lewis not just an enemy but a danger to Jewish people, with a thinly coded appeal to violence.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 13h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h
Fantastic idea sir!
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 12h
I can’t believe this was published, but I say that a lot these days
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 14h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 12h
The bond market
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Hulk Incredible Hulk Transformation
ALT: Hulk Incredible Hulk Transformation
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13h
almost as if they are operating on the assumption that everybody else does what they (openly, on live tv, with signing ceremonies) do
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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 13h
See, AI could never do this
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 22h
This remains a grim, prescient, foundational document for the Internet age deadspin.com/the-future-o...
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Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 23h
The Leafs losing to Montreal is just a game, and the Habs are good. The Oilers getting smoked by the rebuilding Canucks in Mike Babcock's first game in a make-or-break year, or near enough? That's comedy, baby
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fifth-place finisher in a four-person IQ test
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Put up the video of the AI-generated Doctor Who. Let’s see it, let’s see how good it is.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hugely significant ruling, seems like
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SENATOR: I have these text messages that put you in Saskatchewan watching the Roughriders. The very city that you claim to have never been in. You are under arrest for perjury. You are dead meat. WITNESS: (ruffling papers) actually I was seeing the Ottawa Rough Riders.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They were all given a heads up and they're just sticking with the plan. It's incredible to see play out.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have never liked Rush, to be honest, and feel better about that now
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Cap’n Cornelius @capncornelius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, this is overconfident dad taking small child’s first pitch straight to the groin and it’s 100% finishing first with the audience.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember on America's Funniest Home videos when once in a while you would see an hilariously overconfident person try something and wind up falling off a roof and into a pool, or bouncing from a trampoline into a tree, or just generally eating shit? This is just like that
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not much on this yet, but I certainly hope this reporting proves accurate.
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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What an appalling nation
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How it started/how it’s going
Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in UtahBREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All the good companies do that right
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russ Vought needs to be criminally prosecuted and likely jailed when all is said and done
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks
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