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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 27/09/2026

They’ve got the golden egg factory shut down like a ship in harbour.

One of the SoftBank CEO’s golden goose powerpoint slides.
There is an AI image of a goose with a golden factory visible inside it like those old cross-section books. A conveyor belt is bringing golden eggs out of the factory to sit under the text.
The text reads: “The True Source of Value / Golden Egg factory inside the goose / What you see are the eggs / What produces them is the factory itself

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 23/06/2026

Here's a full-year one from 2025 www.xweather.com/annual-light...

A map of the world with lighting strike incidents indicated with a heatmap. It ranges from 0 per square kilometre to 256+. The highest-intensity region is in the US to the north of the Gulf of Mexico. Large parts of Brazil, the DRC and Indonesia also have high intensities, but not as widespread.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 03/02/2026

12 years of watching Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day

A photo of the movie Groundhog Day on a computer screen in a dark room. The screen is showing Phil’s inspiring Groundhog report from near the end of the film.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 12/12/2025

Changing up the way you write, but only a little bit, is cowardly. Go all the way. Here’s my favourite passage from Das Kapital transcribed with a slightly-modified version of the Traditional Mongolian Script.

A picture of a sheet of printer paper (Letter). It is entirely filled with Traditional Mongolian Script.
I cannot transcribe it here—I used a few made-up letters to make up for the missing sounds when transliterating German into that script.
It is the passage about capital being vampire-like dead labour, from Chapter 10.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 21/04/2025

Marx said that they are isolated from each other and *incorporated into Capital*

Screenshot from Chapter 11 of the North & Reitter translation of Capital:

“As independent persons, the workers are isolated persons. They enter into a relation with the capitalist but not with one another. They begin to cooperate only in the labor process, but by then, they have already ceased to belong to themselves. The moment they enter that process, they are incorporated into capital. As cooperating people, as parts of a laboring organism, they are merely one of capital’s particular modes of existence. The productive power that a worker develops when he performs social labor is therefore capital’s productive power. Labor’s’ social productive power develops without additional pay wherever workers are made to operate under the right conditions, and it is capital that has them operate under those conditions. Because labor’s social productive power doesn’t cost capital a thing, and also because the worker doesn’t start to develop such productive power until capital owns his labor, this power presents itself as belonging to capital by nature, as inherent in capital.”

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 20/04/2025

And he doubles down on it!

A screenshot of a reply I made to someone else in a Stancil thread, and Will's reply to me.

Me:

"Stancil is saying that you can't predict historical things in general, though he keeps moving the goalposts and jumping around, so it's a bit difficult to trace his argument to the start.

He believes plane crashes are unpredictable because you can't say exactly which people will die."

Willy Boy:

"No, I'm saying that it matters which people die, and since you can't predict that, history is unpredictable"

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 20/04/2025

How does that affect what I said in the reply you *didn't* quote-tweet (see attached image)? Are you claiming that statistics doesn't work for anything that isn't completely independent? Also, stop jumping around between replies, quote-tweets and vagueposts. It's annoying.

A portion of my previous reply to Will.

"Marxism isn't about predicting the result of a specific roll; it's about the overall distribution of those results."

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 20/04/2025

Sure. Here's my textbook. To paraphrase, the specific outcome isn't predictable, but the overall trends are. As for things being linked, that only matters in your incredibly zoomed-in example. Trying to construct a chain of causality is of course dependent, but overall trends are less so.

$A screenshot of my statistics textbook. Probability Probability is a mathematical tool used to study randomness. It deals with the chance (the likelihood) of an event occurring. For example, if you toss a fair coin four times, the outcomes may not be two heads and two tails. However, if you toss the same coin 4,000 times, the outcomes will be close to half heads and half tails. The expected theoretical probability of heads in any one toss is 12 or 0.5. Even though the outcomes of a few repetitions are uncertain, there is a regular pattern of outcomes when there are many repetitions. After reading about the English statistician Karl Pearson who tossed a coin 24,000 times with a result of 12,012 heads, one of the authors tossed a coin 2,000 times. The results were 996 heads. The fraction 996/2000 is equal to 0.498 which is very close to 0.5, the expected probability. The theory of probability began with the study of games of chance such as poker. Predictions take the form of probabilities. To predict the likelihood of an earthquake, of rain, or whether you will get an A in this course, we use probabilities. Doctors use probability to determine the chance of a vaccination causing the disease the vaccination is supposed to prevent. A stockbroker uses probability to determine the rate of return on a client's investments. You might use probability to decide to buy a lottery ticket or not. In your study of statistics, you will use the power of mathematics through probability calculations to analyze and interpret your data.$

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 03/04/2025

In between these two posts, he revealed that he sleeps next to the litter box (I assume his wife has the bath mat to remove litter from her feet). i.redd.it/z32p47a4frre...

An image of the bedroom of the man being discussed. Apart from a small bathroom mat, the plastic hardwood floor is bare. The comforterless bed has a nightstand and a security camera on one side, and a cat tree and litter box on the other. The cats’ food and water bowls are alarmingly close to the litter box. The end of the room the picture was taken from has another cat tree.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 22/12/2024

I imagine they're hiding that there's a coal mine under their house by doing this

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 12/01/2024

Found a guy who earnestly wants to restore the Qing.

A screenshot of a Wikipedia user's user page.
"My work on Wikipedia is currently focused on reverting vandalism, fixing up articles created by new users, adding hyperlinks, and fixing typos. "

Their About Me section states that they have experience in web development and photography, and are strongly pro-copyright.

In their info box on the right, they say that they are from Canada, in the Pacific time zone, and that their IQ is "Mensa-eligible".

They have a list of userboxes below their About Me:
"Beware! This user is a known talk page stalker."
"This user supports the Canadian Crown."
"This user supports the Conservative Party of Canada."
"This user supports the British Columbia Liberal Party."
"This user believes that evolution doesn't have to conflict with Christianity."
"This user believes in restoring the monarchy of China."
And a couple more boxes that are not interesting.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 23/12/2023

We're missing out on a more fun version

A screenshot of the Wiktionary definition of "mental". The third definition is shown.
3. (colloquial, UK, Ireland, Australia, new Zealand, comparable) Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way.
"That was a mental party last night."

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 18/11/2023

What do you mean? He did not change his post’s language from English, so no translate button.

A screenshot of this post being written. I have selected French as the language, so that it will offer to translate.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 18/11/2023

Because I selected German for that one.

A screenshot of this very post as written. At the bottom, next to the character count, it says German

A screenshot of this post being written, including the first screenshot. Now the language is English.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 11/11/2023

What the fuck is up with meme pages? Despite having "Reject Apartheid" in their description, like half of their posts are pro-Rhodesia. I'd be offended that this had been suggested if like half of Facebook's suggestions weren't already random boomer and/or bigoted shit.

A screenshot of a Suggested Post from Facebook.
Group: "Colonial South African Memes for God Fearing Teens"
Suggested for you • 15 hours ago
Text: "Finders keepers"
Meme: Two pictures. The first is of what looks like the only empty parking spot in a crowded lot. It is labelled "An uninhabited island in the middle of the pacific". The second picture shows that there's a small red car in the spot, labelled "the United Kingdom"
It has 395 likes/hahas/loves and other reactions, 9 comments and 36 shares.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 25/10/2023

I took this photo a couple years ago after unloading four snowmobiles from a trailer at work. They’d been on for less than ten minutes.

A picture of the smog from several snowmobiles forming a distinct layer just above the ground.
This picture was taken in a 0.064-square-kilometre cleared area at 9:41 am.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 19/09/2023

My mom revealed to me recently that she had never seen a domino before, and had thought for the past three years that I'd named my cat after the pizza chain

A picture of Domino standing on a cinderbrick wall. A thunderstorm approaches in the background as she stares determinedly into the foreground

A picture of dominoes. They are lying resolutely on a leather surface, tastefully lit from the side at a very low angle

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 17/09/2023

History repeats itself. I just saw someone who was *two* when this happened suggest people do this sort of thing ("make up our own sayings among the community") for chess.

A screenshot of a Reddit post from January 4th, 2013. It is heavily downvoted.
Title: "I came up with this quote just a few minutes ago. I thought /r/atheism would appreciate"
"Just to be clear, I'm not a professional 'quote maker'. I'm just an atheist teenager who greatly values his intelligence and scientific fact over any silly fiction book written 3,500 years ago. This being said, I am open to any and all criticism.
'In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.' - Aalewis
Eh?"

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 11/09/2023

Fun fact: I'm an old fart when it comes to some aspects of technology. I don't like streaming because it gives me less control over my music. I say this because... I have itunes data for music I listen to. Though the date added is wrong—that's the day I fucked up with the library file.

A screenshot from iTunes, showing the song "Do You Hear The People Sing?" from Les Misérables. Reading the table in the screenshot, you can see that I have listened to it 277 times.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 07/09/2023

I can’t have a bird as anything more than a derivative financial instrument, as my cat would not like it

A picture of me with my cat, Domino, in my lap. I am wearing a shirt for the Falcon Flyers, the Dubai Junior League Hockey Champions in 2001. Domino is looking at me lovingly.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 29/08/2023

Got a new passport photo taken. They wrote some info on the envelope to identify it. It’s a CANadian PASSport, so they wrote an affirming message:

A photo of a tiny passport photo-sized envelope. In pen, it reads: “Emily can pass”

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 21/08/2023

Odd interaction on the other site. Someone opposed nuclear power on the grounds that it requires mining. I pointed out that most renewable energy requires mining. I am apparently a mining shill because of this, and they blocked me when I asked how they intend to transition from fossil fuels.

A quote tweet of a reply, as well as a reply to the quote tweet.
I initially said: "What energy source with no mining required do you propose? Per unit of energy, nuclear power actually requires less mined material than wind or solar. This can be lowered even further by reusing spent fuel."

YQR Action! quote-tweeted: "Uh oh we've kicked the mining lobbyist hornets nest"

I replied: "Should we just keep on using fossil fuels, then? 80% of Saskatchewan's energy comes from that. 90% of Alberta's. I think that's bad. Because of the metals required, alternative energy sources necessitate mining. How do you propose we transition from fossil fuels without mining?

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 24/07/2023

If this site wants to algorithmically show me some post-1500 Occitan-language posts, I wholeheartedly welcome it

A screenshot of the Content Languages selection screen.
"Which languages would you like to see in your algorithmic feeds?"
I have checked Afrikaans, Dutch/Flemish, English, French, German, Interlingua, Interlingue Occidental, Luxembourgish, Occitan (post 1500) and Western Frisian.

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Émilie @emiliecote.ca · 12/09/2013

I tried the same. My computer let me, but Bluesky didn't. "Poorly formatted TID: 12 length"

A screenshot of the tweet I'm replying to, showing the error I mentioned in my reply from trying to reply to them.

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