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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 2h

In a similar vein, Pierre Trudeau said "the state has no place in the bedrooms for the nation" while introducing decriminalization legislation before (but in the same year as) Stonewall. It passed shortly after. See also Wolfenden report of 1957.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 2h

Take my comment about SAT1500+ to be a short form for whatever complex criteria you think they have. Do we know that the last man is is equal or worse than the last woman in?

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 2h

Can we tell if it's deliberate sorting, or that's just how the 1500+ SAT score applicant (or whatever line they have) works out. ? Also, is the gap driven entirely by one school (such as engineering?)

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 22h

Kacey Musgraves coming out swinging . . .

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The 92nd Street Y seems very into classics! Carson was a writer-in-residence there, right?

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And everyone who was beefing about casting Lupita Nyong'o and Elliot Page in the Odyssey just got slapped in the face by the Nobel committee, and they're defenseless because their handlers haven't told them what they think about Geryon yet

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Everyone who was beefing about casting Lupita Nyong'o and Elliot Page in the Odyssey just got slapped in the face by the Nobel committee. They're defenseless because they're now being asked questions about the relationship between Geryon and Heracles and of course nobody has the slightest idea.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Inder Irish law, they can't send more than 12 people overseas without approval from 1) cabinet, 2) the Dáil, and 3) the UN Security Council. So Russia (and the other SC perm members) would have a veto over Irish particpation.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Probably not, because the same dynamics occur in countries that don't do that

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"loses bodycams overboard regularly" is inherently suspicious. I'm still for making corruption harder, even if imperfectly. And either way, isn't inherently worse for/maritime ecology, at worst it's wasteful spending, not an environmental problem.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Body cams prevent fraud, and stuff like fishing boats with illegal catches paying bribes to have CG not notice. I'm generally in favor of enforcement officials wearing bodycams.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Buoys and lighthouses that prevent shipwrecks prevent oil spills. "Maritime Infrastructure" and conservation/ecological protection aren't an either/or binary.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's the time of year you can still work in the old triangle joke.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"ReesMogg seems like a smart and reasonable person" isn't something I had on my 2026 card, but ugh, here we are.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's an academic version of this; students run a draft through Turnitin or another plagiarism detector, it clears, they edit it, and they hand it in and then their TA runs it through Turnitin and finds out it's very similar to the second-last draft.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This feels more like Oppositional Defiant Disorder than a political position, especially the not-liking elbows-up nationalism. That's just being mad you don't have anything to complain about.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That funding model isn't really an ordinary business plan; it's a method for turning money into prestige. Some rich people have always wanted that deal, and I suspect they always will.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reminds me of the Madrid-Munich-Milan fans who thought European football could never survive a good team in Paris. (PSG was also suspect on the FFP stuff, of course, but it was being framed as geo-structural)

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yep, it's about them get to dominate us, so not the other way around. Yes, it's bullshit, but no you didn't misunderstand. Also suggests maybe some of the lobbying is working.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jeanne Shaheen scored some hits on Lutnick in August over the booze stuff. She's welcome if she wants to swing by. With ya on the rest of them

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also might be related to saying "The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP" at Coachella.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Charlie, your previous posts about the curse of sectarian violence cycles made me think maybe you would step away from Kneecap.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@racheldressler.bsky.social doesn't post much here but maybe she'll see this

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hmm I have a followup question; is it less dignified and therefore less "royal" that he's not "resting in peace" ? And whoever commissioned this wanted that? Or this is just early-ish for gisant effigies and the conventions haven't been worked out yet?

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New to me but two guesses; 1) sculptor was showing off; this is much more dynamic than usual for an gisant effigy. 2) it's some reference to the short-boots/curt-hose nicknames. Low-cut shoe (with spurs) but long socks?

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OneSoccer @onesoccer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Niko Sigur to Toulouse FC, confirmed ✅ But also... what 😐 #CanMNT 🇨🇦

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 25/09/2026

That’s Gabibbo, and it was a WHOLE thing. @chrisvannini.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/188...

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(Published 2020)

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah the IMDB list is much more global and better for it. Heated Rivalry ranked in the 70s, but in a tier with Mad Men, Ted Lasso, and Downton Abbey. Interesting that neither Schitt's Creek or Hacks seems to be getting named on many ballots.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

didn't read as far as the sun-heading that says "Norway, Sweden and Finland round out the top 5 most respected countries."?

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 21/09/2026

Campaign for Putin, be a star in Washington? "Sports should not be a platform for normalizing crimes. We should stop pretending that sports exist in a separate bubble where no one knows anything and no one is responsible for anything,"

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Campaign for Putin, be a star in Washington?

Last week, offices across Washington were actively discussing the signing of the Lindsey Graham sanctions bill, which would significantly increase pressure on Russia. And, a bit unexpectedly, sports h...

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It doesn't need to be "true" if the base likes it and it generates donations

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Their stunting yesterday struck me a "off-topic" more than anything else.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Two thoughts: 1) good news! 2) upcoming breathless and bewildered CBC story "of course we had no idea that this might smell bad"

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I started here with "that can't possibly be a real person's name" but he seems to have a wikipedia page and actually be kinda alright.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wow, Scott wasn't known to me (probably for the reasons you say) but this was very good.

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Catherine 🇨🇦 🌎 @capeacadia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In case anyone needs a reminder of what a class act politician looks like… #USDemocracy

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

maybe i have someone in this thread blocked, I'm not seeing what this is about then

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Overindexed? sure. Can use sophisticated polisci vocab to explain the conflict? Mostly not. Are Canadians intuiting that PMMC's approach is both correct and necessary? I think so. I know no one in Chicoutimi, but I saw the recent election results there

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He didn't say "uniquely" to be sure, but on listening to the speech, yes, he thinks the USA is untrustworthy.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Terry Reintke of the Greens/EFA. Interesting because we often only see these pics as "gotcha" things after some creep gets into the group shot, but she seems into the alliance/association here all right

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

5c. CPC is also losing their traditional rep on military & defense, and on nationalism vs separatism. If they lose all the pillars of business, military, and nation, all they've got left is the racist dingbats, and they will find themselves with the SoCreds & the Whigs in the attic of history.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

5b. Harper also realizes the threat to the CPC from another angle. They trade on their rep as the party of business, and PMMC is eating their lunch on that. Harper needed to show he made the guest list at least.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

5a. Harper was there undermining Poilievre because he intuits the consequences of this contest is potentially devastating for the CPC. They've depended for a long time on "we have to" and optionality is a huge threat to that.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

4. Poilievre was wrong about judging this by it's immediate results of factory building. The immediate result was network building and proving that Canada has options, and that's a big win. Poilievre can lose twice on this bet, when the ports and refineries and factories actually open.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

3. Melanie Joly was wrong to say that this is fixing Canada's capital shortage. Between the banks and the pensions funds, there's lots of investable capital. But having allies and networks is worth it on its own terms.

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CanadianTom @canadiantom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

2. I agree with Avi Lewis that selling of revenue streams from airports is bad business. MAYBE worth it if it's a dealmaker for the network-building project, but it's not that great a thing to do.

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