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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 6h
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M. Robert Badinter: Here’s the first obvious point: in countries of freedom, abolition is almost the rule; in dictatorships, capital punishment is everywhere in use. This division of the world doesn’t result from just a coincidence. It shows a correlation. The true political signification of capital punishment is that it results from the idea that State has the right to take advantage of the citizen, till the possibility to suppress the citizen’s life. This is the way capital punishment comes within the framework of totalitarian regimes.


Here you will find, in the judicial reality, as Raymond Forni evoked, the true signification of capital punishment. In the judicial reality, what is capital punishment? It is twelve men and women, two days of hearings, theimpossibility to get to the bottom of the facts and the terrible duty to decide, in a few quarters of an hour, sometimes even in a few minutes, on
the so difficult question of guilt and, beyond this, on the life or the death of another human being.

Twelve persons, in a democracy, that have the right to say: this one shall live, that one shall die! I affirm it: this conception of justice cannot be the one of countries of freedom, precisely
because of its totalitarian significance.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD
Gul Dukat of Deep Space Nine gloweringGavin Newsome of California glowering.
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
mark carney is just going to quote tweet this saying "yeah, no shit"
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wordle 1,924 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
no electoral mandate?
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
not to teach the basics, but this literally looks like an ad for the NDP
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why be JK when you could be Margaret: www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research
Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the gender norms of the mongol horde are upheld in Britain by billionaire women
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Christi Belcourt (First Nations Canadian, born 1966) Messengers of Renewal, 2014 acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The drones from the sea, our age of silicon is ending
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
fundamentally, it appears very difficult for people to recognize 'hey it's good that the person i don't like is saying this' because they seem to understand it as 'this person is good'
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
is america okay
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Let them eat fire extinguishers
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jacob rees mogging the Tories
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The UK has a worse X problem than we ever have. And the government better recognize that quick.
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Lotr Orcs Orcos
ALT: Lotr Orcs Orcos
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't think there can be a convo about the trends of immigration in Canada in the last decade without talking about the South Asian rage farming that goes on on FB or Reddit
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Absolutely
Reasons why I'm polite to waiters - Because I realize they're human beings, trying to make a living, not my servants.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cf vouchers and housing. demand doesn’t necessarily produce supply WHICH IS WHY THE STATE PROVISIONS THE GOOD.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
thats numberwang
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
has mette frederiksen gone to bed yet
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
wow, those tories are really trying to galvanize their base *hand to ear* I'm sorry, can you repeat that
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Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Torn between laughing at Carney stunting, and hoping there's someone whispering in his ear to remind him he's mortal
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No notes.
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the junior senator from the swing state of Michigan tried to use the trucker protests to cajole canadian industries into the usa, and the man who's seeking to become the junior dem senator for michigan said that free trade with canada was a cancer
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
wait until the Americans discover what the rest of the world thinks the term "Yankee" covers geographically
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 17/09/2026
It’s important to remember that Hasan Piker isn’t in the business of getting people elected, or in the business of politics in general, he’s in the Hasan Piker business and that stock goes up whenever he does something that makes people talk about Hasan Piker
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
americans: we didn't give donald trump a mandate, he's just sitting behind the resolute desk for fun with majorities in both houses of congress because it's uwu
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would point out that the last paragraph is stupidly optimistic; there is no guarantee that the next American president will change position in regards to Canada
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
have we invented flying pigs
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i would suggest it's partially because we have an anemic media ecosystem that resists non-party-political dialogue
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He's right. The problem is that we have an economic system that relies on the goodwill of iowan farmers to not throw a populist hissy fit
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
no he's definitely a rational actor
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... how about the foreign policy of Canada will not be done via dictation from the US
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Republican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC News
A long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union.
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
stephen harper endorsing the actions of a liberal government doug ford basically endorsing an ndp mayor wtf is going on
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
lol
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
if they're leaving, that frees up those houses for those asylum seekers
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💀
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GEFILTE PHISHING
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*shrugs* *gesticulates contemptuously* *drapes sweater around neck*
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Ryan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Meet the Spartans understood the parody assignment
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