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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

confidential to Normal Island in particular, today

tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I think we treat reading and writing, specifically, as learnable (as opposed to visual art and music, which get a lot of the same "innate talent" talk) though this might be a me-specific recollection, I have never been even decent at the latter two (though this never stops me from singing)

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I think we will someday miss having the MLS season end immediately before the college football playoffs, just for the timely hit of perspective on what a dysfunctional and confusing playoff system actually looks like

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I'm happy for the opportunity Wilfried Nancy has taken but Celtic IN PARTICULAR feels like hard mode because the fans are not used to having more than one other team to worry about

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Abe Kenmore @twitterlessabe.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Humanities students should understand some level of mathematics just like STEM majors should know how to write clearly

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I think @mattgurney.bsky.social got to the heart of the world's "USA Problem" "But every single person who departs is being replaced by someone who is totally fine with the new U.S. foreign policy. That will accelerate the process that’s already underway." www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

readtheline.ca

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'

Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

in retrospect we shouldn't have made so much fun of Ted Stevens actually at the time we shouldn't have made so much fun of him, he was pretty much correct if you compensate for "old person talking about thing invented after his prime"

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I would kill to have a public that understands the Internet merely as badly as Ted Stevens did.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

no no Steve it's ARYANISM, not *Arianism*

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

it is so funny we’re back at square one with the streaming services. brief moment of low cost/high budget tv was just the product of another VC cash pit.

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

the thing about middlemen is that everyone hates them but whenever they're removed they just reconstitute themselves because it turns out everyone also hates the cognitive load of dealing with all the individual providers of the vast variety of goods and services and content we want

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Madame is watching Person of Interest off and on after not finishing it the first time and I'm torn about whether to bring this up to her or leave it as a Fun Surprise

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I will only ever remember Varoufakis as the guy Valve hired to research the Steam marketplace so him going pro-gamer mode when it came to all the racism in the new NSS shouldn't be unexpected

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I am extremely sympathetic to the design of the post-LRT Ottawa transit system as a concept, even though it has made a number of people's individual commutes require more transfers than they used to its actual EXECUTION, thanks to resource constraints from Council, has been borderline unforgivable

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It's extremely funny that this person is getting really annoyed by reply limiting (something I personally also find kinda annoying, but which also exists on Twitter) while abusing "removed by author" (a unique blueskyism)

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

new explanation unlocked for @crusaderkings.com AI characters: "honestly they were just Like That, several centuries of hindsight + not having sustained decades of head trauma as a cultural expectation will necessarily be a superpower, sorry"

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Few games have as consistent of a "yeah, that game ruled" hit rate than MLS Cup, especially considering expectations. Another worthy installment tonight.

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I was too busy watching to notice these effects of Vancouver's subs in real time in this level of detail, which is why I'm just Some Guy and Kieran is someone you should follow to better understand the game (and someone I am now following to better understand the game)

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

he gets it hopefully the city gets it too

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Football Manager is more realistic about MLS than I thought, I can never pull off the Cup win in the first season after switching Vancouver to a ball-dominant 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 hybrid either

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

welp, live by the triple post and die by the triple post it's a game of inches and moments and Miami got them this time, but I'm looking forward to seeing just how Sorensen fits Muller and Gauls in the same XI next season

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

not going to check what r/MLS is saying about that Cubas tackle (or that giveaway for that matter)

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

whatever happens in the next hour Ralph Priso will be remembering that tackle for the rest of his wife

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

if this ends 11v11 it may be a minor miracle

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

if they aren't I am definitely irritated to high even on their behalf

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

if Miami keep giving Berhalter attacking set pieces I am absolutely not going to complain

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

never a penalty, but if the good guys can do more of that I'm optimistic about an equalizer

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

less than an ideal start for #VWFC obviously but they're definitely still in it and what has been ideal this season, right?

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Justin Trudeau messed this up/failed to expand on this when trying to describe Canada as "post-national" but "post-ethnic" would be more accurate (and Kai is right that this is or should be a pan-New World settler-colony ethos)

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

MLS Cup today features the longest road trip in the league and I deeply miss being young enough to think this would be an awesome idea happy trails, my dude, I'll look out for you on the telecast

“I'll explain,” said Tobyn Rootman, part of the Vancouver Albion supporters' group.

“So I'm flying with one of my best friends, Ben, who's the vice president of the supporters' group that I'm a part of. We are leaving Vancouver at 9:30 am on Friday. We go to Chicago. We've got a couple of hours in Chicago, then we go to Atlanta. And we arrive in Atlanta at about 11 pm ET. And then we were staying the night at the Atlanta airport. We've got a 6:30 am flight to Miami International Airport. So we get there at about 8:30 am, we go to our friend's hotel straight from the airport and drop our bags at about 11. Then we head to the stadium. We go straight back to the hotel, grab our bags, go straight to the Fort Lauderdale Airport, where we catch a 9 pm flight back to Atlanta, where we spend the night in the Atlanta airport again, and then get a 6:30 am flight the next morning to San Francisco and then a flight home.

“It cost us about CAD $500 round trip, and we're not paying for any hotels, so we're doing it on a budget... Both of us are students, but you've got to do what you've got to do to support your club. Especially in moments like these.”

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

we are going to have to be the cops, the troops, the courts, the prosecutors, the security services. imagine liberalism purely along this direction, and you can see the ideologies and institutions that will develop about it

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

the funniest remaining outcome is this happening to Canada, but I guess we'll see in three months

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 05/12/2025

giving Gretzky a pass on "makedonja" because he actually pronounced it correctly in Macedonian even if he wasn't trying to

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

this is really resonant with my thoughts on who actually COULD replace their failed romantic relationships with AI (which is a different question than "who will try")

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

not sure the former is left discourse exactly _am_ sure that the two are differently coded ways of ensuring absolutely nothing changes

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

we may have misunderstood the reason Apple decided to include F1 and MLS in their core streaming bundle next year

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The raccoons got all the early office holiday party bookings

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

maybe the simplest encapsulation of the difference between childhood and adulthood is that magic as a child is something that just happens and magic as an adult is something you need to be open to experiencing

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Otto DeFay @speedmariachi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Patriotism doesn’t mean white people saluting the flag, it means being being good enough to make people want to come here and strong enough to take care of everyone who does.

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

As someone who had to do this for real at age 7 (I assume in hindsight that the test was different for kids), export this to all the Anglo settler colonies IMO maybe there's no zealot like a convert but I struggle to understand the people born here who somehow don't get what this place is about

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

while I acknowledge that the conception of "the important parts of your job" that is actually important is the one belonging to the people that sign your paychecks/buy your products, who are often very easily misled, this nonetheless feels true of knowledge and creative workers in general

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We must subsidize our weird art freaks (laudatory) for the economy

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

When I read this piece I was struck by the similarity to the backlash against corporate DEI training/HR in general (frequently from the same people!) - even IF you might be directionally correct on the merits, the very fact you care so much about the protective measures is questionable in itself

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If I practiced criminal law I would be APOPLECTIC "waaaah these civil rights are really expensive can't we just hold the accused without bail in overcrowded jails until the understaffed courts and public prosecutors get around to them?"

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

oh thank Christ we're at least relitigating a new historical war for once

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I mean Chris is right about it being a "success" (the Santa Fe was incapacitated and essentially retreated) but it's kind of funny for *two* people to have a "Do you know who you're talking to?" moment in one exchange?

Twitter thread starting from Apr 25, 2025:

Chris Parry (@DrChrisParry): This just happened 43 years ago. [Image of a helicopter dropping a charge onto a submarine]

Chad (@chadpollard): How many depth charge attacks on a submarine have there been since 1945?

Chris Parry: The Swedes dropped some in the Cold War and others were dropped in the Falklands War. This was the only successful attack.

Bikain (@MarianoBicain, May 2): Successful attack? The Santa Fe got back to grytviken and moor at the dock. Did not sink her!

Chris Parry: Look bozo - you weren't there. So wind your neck in.

Bikain: My father was the commander submarine S21 ARA Santa Fe. I know the storie. Bozo? More respect please.

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

"social media quickly shapes a local consensus that feels like a universal consensus" is *extremely* well-put. beyond activist spaces, where i have little experience, this is a helpful and concise way to understand a huge range of problems that our political system is currently going through

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