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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We kind of saw this in Alberta when unifying the healthcare system meant Alberta Health Services gradually took over most of the ministry of health’s functions. It doesn’t solve everything, but the culture difference is huge and IMO positive.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Probably recognition that Xai can’t compete with the frontier labs on performance or with China on price, but because he can raise or borrow cash crazy cheap due to his cult they’re in a really strong position to compete on data centre buildout and serving inference

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Nothing ever happens“ thought taken to the logical conclusion. They can’t conceive of their own families reaping what they’ve sowed.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Carney talks a big game but the Major Projects office hasn’t even considered the MonctonSphere

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don't think our elites were ever that much better than they are now, but something was definitely lost when they stopped feeling obliged to pretend to be better than they were/are.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yeah, I mean a Rep is still worse because they’ll actively tighten the screws on us, but there’s no real reason to expect a Dem to lift a finger to loosen them. They’re not our enemies but the aren’t our friends either.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Open neck with jeans, could do a knit tie or something with trousers if you want to be a little more formal but you don’t have to.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Nice jacket. White OCBD or linen would look good. medium to light wash nice jeans would be great with that, probably like cream or stone chinos or trop if jeans aren’t formal enough and you don’t want to die in August. Medium gray is fine but lighter probably your friend if you’re willing to shop.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

But without the messy business of slaves living lives here. They want slaves they can just send home when convenient. Slavery As A Service

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I doubt all that much can be done about staff costs in the US. You could bring docs down to a degree, but nurses, etc., I think would prove to be really hard. You have to compete in a wealthier labour market than Canada or the UK, and our public systems are beset by staff shortages

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

75 years (grandparents): GF1: OBGYN, GM1: nurse, GF2: Ad exec, GM2: homemaker 100 years (great grandparents): GGF1: school teacher, GGM1: doctor, GGF2: produce wholesaler, GGM2: homemaker, GGF/GGM 3 and GGF/GGM 4: all dirt farmers

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

He hurt himself last night, so probably fewer than that

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The six Ks between him and Walter Johnson for a spot in the all time top 10 have to be motivating.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

TBH "Daniel Smith" is a great bit.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Man has so many takes he sometimes runs out of wrong ones.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Also, Apple's always selling the ecosystem more than any one product (barring iPhone). As long as their shows contribute to the prestige-y aura of the brand as a whole they're doing their job. "Critical/Awards darlings few people actually watch" are perfect for that.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Even for Chotiner this is brutal.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

No, because the investors would almost universally own their primary residence. No matter how you slice it, ~2/3 of households own the place where they live. That's most.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

R.I.P Jean-Luc Goddard, you would have loved the evolving visual language of Tik Tok

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

His book The World Atlas Of Coffee is great if you’re not into video.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Yeah, it's been a cool first six weeks but if he manages to be a good overall hitter with a contact rate inside the zone that starts with a 6 he'll be the first in the 25 years we've been tracking that.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

nursing, waiting tables, cutting hair. Jobs our society doesn’t much respect, that it thinks are for girls, and they’ll make up an ever larger share of the workforce because we still want a lot of what they do and they’re just not that susceptible to productivity gains. People will melt down.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What’s really going to mess with people, in an unfortunately extremely gendered way, is that LLMs might revolutionize knowledge work productivity the same way automation has revolutionized manufacturing, and the class that will be the least changed will be people-touching services. Teaching,

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Airport bars exist outside the sight of god. Do what you gotta do.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Didn’t know fetish content was the direction the magazine industry was going, but it does explain the frankly upsetting spam I’ve been receiving from Cat Fancy

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Is this why the latest email asking me to subscribe to Foreign Policy addressed me as “Worm”?

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Dallas is definitely the #1 comp, sadly. I just feel like “driving a King Ranch F-150 to your corporate law job” is powerfully Nashville. True that Edmonton isn’t an Atlanta though

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Disagree with Calgary, nothing more Nashville than being fake country. Otherwise dead on

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I’m glad I ran into Debt first among his books because I was able to clock his shit in about 20 pages. If I’d started with something outside my area he might have had me going for a while. That book is so bad though.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

They picked up a bunch of soft tossers as depth for some reason. Michael Plassmeyer, Josh Fleming and Chase Lee this year, after Eric Lauer in '25. Plus the likes of Fernando Perez and Nate Garkow getting run with other guys at the WBC. Only Jose Berrios looks like a problem.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

No it’s fine, I’ll simply take on a $882k mortgage on a $900k three bedroom in Halifax. No way that turns out badly!

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Right, the laptop jobs will go where the yuppies want to/can afford to live, and everything else follows. Same reason Texas keeps booming at the expense of California.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It’d be nice to have a politician with a modicum of vision doing that. I don’t think it’d convince everyone but I do think there’s an opportunity. I mean, I live here, I see a future for the province, but it’s not being pushed in the discourse.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

You’re right about diversification, but even then there are a lot of people here not well equipped to change. I think the oil patch was really one of the last holdouts of the world where someone without much formal education could just work their way into a solid middle class life.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A tough thing to deal with is that Alberta really hasn’t reckoned with global oil consumption is peaking, meaning prices are never going back to what they were. A lot of people here think it’s the feds holding us back from a return to the glory days of 2007, and that just isn’t true.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Yeah, the tariff shit has been a problem but TBH we’re pretty used to getting bent over by the US on trade. Even the annexation stuff could probably be moved past in time. Direct interference in our sovereignty is the kind of thing the relationship never comes back from.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

And Canada is now blue, Trump pulled Carney’s invitation

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Yeah, true. If you’re showered and with shoes on and you’re good enough for the plane. Too many people don’t even get that far though.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

You should treat others with respect. Dressing appropriately is an outward expression of that. Duffy, and the admin as a whole, treat people with contempt, so the ask to dress with respect just scans as hypocritical bullshit coming from him even though it’s basically reasonable out of context.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I remember walking out of the theatre thinking I’d finally seen the first major piece of popular art that really fully understood what was going on

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

1. Hell yeah, thank you 2. I guess Alan Roden's *just* graduated, but where would he slot in?

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Pitchers only really grow into their best stuff around the time they turn 37, everyone knows this.

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Rich Hill was probably there

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Tom, eh🇨🇦 @expo45.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Right, Vienna is almost exactly the same size as it was in 1910. It's grown by ~1/3 in the last 25 years, but that's just filling space that had been empty since the wars. Calgary, as an e.g., has more than tripled in the last 50 years. Just not the same set of problems at all.

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