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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, the Minnesota ore will get to Iowa how? And the finished steel product will get to market how? Usually enterprises such as this need proximate access to a deep-water port (Duluth, e.g.). Because steel and ore generally travel on...ships. Iowa may be a very nice place. But it's landlocked.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, this 'ad' is basically what ad people would call a 'rip-o-matic'. It's a concept- and communication-free junior-editor-gone-wild'.quick-cut of 'The Man Himself' intercut with jets on high and such, backed by a song they didn't pay for which intones 'Love me'. Also, anti-communism!

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Got it all. State of the world in 19 words conveying: a) US Incompetence v. Global rival, 2) Mil/Indus complex reliance, 3) Lax standards of late-stage capitalism, 4) Security threats therein, 5) Impotence of US currently, 6) frayed alliances... Could go on, but the post text sums it up.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thing about this - and even Trump oughta know - any visual media production is collaborative. Many skills, trades, etc. People listen, but often challenge 'the director's' whims professionally, to make something worth watching. So, anything where EP/Director/Writer/Star is 'Trump' will fail.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@markhurst.bsky.social , maybe time to have Faine back on the show and REALLY FREAK PEOPLE OUT. Just a suggestion. Great show, BTW.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Common sense: Should Alberta ever choose to exit Confederation, they must leave with the territory of which they consisted upon entrance. And that's not a lot - barely past 'Fort Edmonton'. But this must be the case, as a) ya leave with what ya brought and, b) to ensure contiguous CDN integrity.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking a lot about how Metalllica's IP lawyers basically sought to ruin a kid or 2's lives over downloading 'Enter Sandman' (or whatever crappy, overwrought song) on Napster 25 years ago. Then thinking about those lawyers, today, jockeying to invest in whatever AI startup they can. Principled!

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hard to tell what's real and what's 'marketing' but sending Harry Potter out there to warn of existential doom seems less like the former than the latter.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sapporo bought Sleeman (okay beer) which makes this very awkward for Guelph. One of the oldest CDN breweries is now a casualty iof the ongoing stupidity. Sleeman is likely a doomed brand in Canada (though they've risen from the grave before).

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a non-US observer, it seems it ought to be trivially simple to make these abominations emblematic of the greater rot. Why they do not is baffling.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Any 70+ person cut like that is deep into Kundalini or some sort of non-mainstream Ayurveda. Good for him.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One assumes he's speaking of the gentleman pictured below?

Jeffrey Epstein on his infamous island. He's in the forefront, wearing all white. Two steps behind him is current U.S. Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, wearing white shorts and a blue shirt. Assorted flunkies are at right and in the background.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

At the end of our street is a bridge that takes you to the shores of Lake Ontario. 4 min. walk. At the crest of the bridge, on a clear day, you can see the American side. Faintly, but you can see it. Even from there you can see that this guy is gutless and useless in the moment to be met.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So, we have WSJ, FT, Economist - all the LW rags - basically going 'WTAF?' Oh, and Fox News golf clapping. Lutnick nut licking. Voice of Capital ain't liking this. USA, get your special fella before he falls in a well and can't get out!

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

All the news is much, Only one thing comes to mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2FA...

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Pixies "Stormy Weather"

YouTube video by ShootToLuna

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

All this blah-blah about 'politeness' misses a crucial point: Canadians are largely polite to each other because we know that, if not, a murderous donnybrook is the likely consequence. It's a dark heart up here. Glad to have a distraction from hammerin' on each other, TBH. Enjoy yer RFKirrhea.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Could be wrong, but all assessments of Greer are that he's a tough, but thoroughly professional trade guy. Here, it seems he's being a 'good soldier', sent out bolster the WH bluster. Lutnick is apparently the one who blew shit up (with a little reacharound from the formerly-incarcerated Navarro).

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Modest proposal: Put the Tangerine Shitgibbon and Nutlick on the ice, fully dressed, at the Bell Centre and have them drop gloves with a coupla Junior A guys, one from QC,, the other other from SK. PPV. Whoever gets outta that with their face intact wins!

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

He's an idiot, for certain. But somehow he managed to get out of the Cantor-Fitzgerald offices before the planes hit. So, like all the weasels n; badgers in Admin47, he's a cunning MFer. Unlike weasels n' badgers though, when things get fast - as they can be - he'll be slow.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Probably the right response - this rodeo anyway - is 'What's a Hasan Piker? Is that a whaling implement? WTF are you on about anyway?'

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Given Jason Stanley's fairly thorough refutation of the attacks on Mr. Arday and its attendant ripping of the journalism involved, one might revel in Cofnas' attaining the 'FO' phase of his adventures. All in all, much to reflect on here. But only consequences will make any 'race realist' do so.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 20/08/2026

a lot of wolverine's badass appeal depends on you not knowing what a wolverine is

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Good. I hope they blow up. Singer's got one of the greatest voices going right now, lyrics are great. And slide punk needs to be a thing.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Real gut marketing reaction take here: Take the headline here, and run it (VO or text, doesn't matter)over a still image of every (R) pol in every district who must vote for this. Can they respond? No. Hammer home that these weird, sadistic freaks DGAF. The bill may go nowhere, but it's on table.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A well-worn sales/marketing axiom is 'Undersell, over-deliver'. Good rule of thumb, generally. What these guys are saying is worse than the reverse of that. And 'Join or die' is not very persuasive. Plus, if you look at the messaging there's lots of 'could', 'potential', 'predict' etc. Amateurs.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@gilduran.com has been de-platformed, by YouTube, can't fix it because de-platformed by the -free speech absolutist' Musk-owned X-Twitter. You can still hear him tho on @democracynow.org and a talk with @markhurst.bsky.social - both today. His is an important voice, right now. Tune in as you can.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Gonna have to be an adaption of Wallace Steven's '13 Ways of Looking At A Blackbird'. 2 stanzas a season with the 7th being the big climax that leaves 'em wanting more. That or Gilgamesh.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Prepared to be strictly corrected on this, but this research Mr. DeLong highlights- and big leap here - suggests that 'flow' is more important to human success than 'permanence'. If one thinks it through, it *should have* a tremendous effect on rational policy discourse/theory. In many areas.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Undergrad/Grad pre-devices: Stdnt" Just thought this micro-cassette might be helpf-' 'Prof: No!' UG/G after devices: Prof: 'I'm going to ask you to turn those off, please.' Stdnt: 1A! Talk to my lawyer mom! UG/G after Glasses: Prof: Need those? Or...? Stdnt: Cut, and Scene! Got all I need.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hey, 'Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky' (JFC), why not just give the goons what they really need: A backpack that springs 'dazzle tentacles' which can take down 8-10 targets with only 'minimal lethality'. Compliant Technologies is slacking on the Torment Nexus Agenda! Unpatriots!

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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Testing the new quote post regs! This whole thread is snarkish and cutting. But this one segment - last 2 words, in fact - stood out: 'the bookbinders'. These goons are basically buying books, scanning them, then 'Library of Alexandra-ing' them. Who else destroyed books on purpose? Just asking.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Bone spurs in food truck repels food truck fans.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The current media landscape is so fragmented, obfuscated and outright compromised that the absolute venality, incompetence, cowardice and corruption of One Special Boy cannot be clearly and directly reported or explicated to the citizens he somehow leads. Press needs a rethink. This cannot hold.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Is Danielle Smith a sociopath? Maybe not, but look into who she learned from. BC fires are a predictable outcome/effect of her 'advocacy for Alberta's interests'.

Image: Danielle Smith speaking at a podium with an oddly aggreeable Mark Carney in the BG

Sociopath? She did, after all, learn at the knee of some of Canada's most regressive academics (Bercuson, Morton, Knopf, Cooper) like Tom Flanagan. Having met the last, he could probably teach sociopathy.

BC fires are an effect of her 'advocacy for Alberta's interests'.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Spent way too much time wondering if Quora is a) an op, b) just a rage bait farm, c) some combo of a) and b). Could ask helpful Quora people, but that's like asking Satan's Infernal Stewards their opinion of the accommodations in Hades.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

2 ways to read this: 1) This dope suffers an acute lack of self-awareness. 2) He knows the jig is up and is trying create clips that he hopes somehow dis-implicate his complicity in the very thing he's decrying. Kalshi, gimme 97 on 1). (Have no idea on how that PM BS works! So 95-ish? Maybe?)

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Pretty sure 'Responsible AI' is brought to you by the same galaxy brains who brought us 'Ethical Oil' in response to the tar crud we Canadians mine in Alberta. Same turds, different piles.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

While a car dealership magnate, ideally, has no place in the august chamber, a son-in-law holding, nay, tantalizing, potentially egregious bits about him has no place in the people's house. The GOP is mob deep and this guy just kinda mookishly spits it all out. Wild.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I wonder if, when this floor-filler was released, people were surprised to learn it was Gay Techno? (j/k,) There were loads of absolutely and explicitly anthemic bangers of the sort at the time. ('Work It To The Bone' comes to mind.) It was basically a community-initiated genre.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Same (I think? Careful what you wish for, etc.) Ford Fordbrad is bad and if this blunts Ford Fordbrad, it's good. Q.E.D.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This entire report is filled with the 'Our mortal enemies are simultaneously anti-American masterminds who are also collapsing due to stepping on rakes in their rake filled hellhole!' stuff. And, yes it is dumb (Not the report or those interviewed, but that being reported on).

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

CEO make head hurt so much. 'Historically Accurate" 'Why does anyone take this guy seriously?' # Eleventy-Milion and Twelve.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Some additional considerations: 1)American oil reserves are <43 days from depletion. Declare oil a strategic asset, 2) Fertilizer? Strangled in Hormuz. Potash = Strategic, 3) Ban Tesla imports, 4) Electricity exports? Nah, strategic, 5) Exempt CA Wine, ban Kentucky bourbon...etc. Fight 'em.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Rep. Van Drew, we'll give ya fly-in 250 kliks north a' Dryden, drop ya down and throw ya a rake so you you can Show Us How It's Done. Also not sure any (R) politician wants to be yammering on about 'grooming'.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sounds like this is his moronic understanding of EMALS (Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems), deployed on USS Gerald Ford. The previous 'steam powered' catapults have many defenders in the Pentagon. This glossolalia seems a kind of 'explanation' of those circumstances. Not helping, tho.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This whole thread (laudatory) is proof of concept that William Goldman's Hollywood adage that 'No one knows anything' is, if nothing else, 'multi-disciplinary. 'Many people don't know that', he said, uttering something everybody knows. Doomed by the dumb (yes, there is a 'b'), are we.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

John Mills Cockell, the driving force in Syirnx (sorry, other guys) was a synth pioneer. Like Wendy Carlos and other visionaries of the time, he took the Moog and (to some extent) the Buchla into sonic spaces the creators of these new instruments likely didn't imagine.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Need a bunch of guerilla switchboard operators, a ton of landline dial phones and some network of like, Klondike-57354 numbers. It's the only way to get real truthful info these days.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Arthur Erickson, architect. He was probably 38-39 when he designed this beauty. And then did so much more. A giant.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

a) Nobody liked/wanted 'Project 2025' So they tried to hide it. b) This idiocy reminds everyone of a). c) This does sweet FA to rein in an incipient tech dystopia. d) Is what Ds do. Absolutely fail to meet the moment. You're running against an historically despised admin. And you do this? JFC.

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