Reposted by Kent FellowsMicah @rincewind.run · 17hDiscworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures "If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd." 440474
Reposted by Kent FellowsMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If it's that the MCU was all a dream Tony Stark had as he lay bleeding out in the desert during the first 10 minutes of IRON MAN, I would respect the hell out of that. 815418
Reposted by Kent FellowsIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14480331972
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Worth noting: MacDonald's first attempt a establishing a Canadian Pacific Rail line STARTED in 1873 (when he and other officials were bribed as part the Pacific Scandal). Final construction wasn't completed until 1886. 13 years, not 4. Then, as now, the delays were political and regulatory. 1178
Reposted by Kent FellowsMegan MacKay🇨🇦 @mmmegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Claude never goes rogue and does something useful. Why can’t Claude go rogue and repaint my upstairs hallway 1141
Reposted by Kent FellowsDuane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There has been a lot of angst in Canada, and dismay in US, over Carney's comments about a possibility of a US military invasion of Canada. Here is the entire very short exchange. 156123
Reposted by Kent FellowsMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Me reading DUNE decades ago: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," haha, religious zealots are so weird Me now: Slack referring to itself as "me" in a notification is an obscenity and the people who programmed it to do that will not see heaven 522047
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Political parties should pick leaders the way Econ departments pick department heads: Anyone ambitious enough to want the job is disqualified and everyone else gets together and bullies the least objectionable person into agreeing to lead until someone better comes along or they burn out. 072
Reposted by Kent FellowsPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073662301
Reposted by Kent FellowsNot that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yes! My time has come to post this perfect SMBC. Today is a good day. 1376
Reposted by Kent FellowsBlake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Setting aside the fact that Belarus wouldn’t come close to having enough potash available for export to replace Canadian imports, imagine thinking relying on **Belarus** to grow your country’s food supply was a viable option! 🤦🏼♂️ 4944263
Reposted by Kent FellowsDuane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Denying Albertans who do desire an independent country from following a peaceful political process could lead to violence. Just as the PQ ended the FLQ path, the opposite could happen. Telling Albertans that you cannot leave creates an environment for a FLA. 2103
Reposted by Kent FellowsDuane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... This is a really bad and unhelpful column. I have many criticisms of the arguments for Alberta separatism and its leaders. But Alberta has a legal and political right to secede. Do you know what the alternative to a peaceful political process is?theglobeandmail.comOpinion: Why we should stop taking Alberta separatism seriouslyAlbertans are not a ‘people’ in a way that international law would recognize 6226
Reposted by Kent FellowsZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026To be clear, I do think a lot of old food seeming bad is also just people not realizing quite how poor even the recent past has gotten. Food feels expensive now but it's cheaper than any time in history other than the last couple of years. 1421423
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Not gonna lie, this one took me a second. Well Played. 020
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026As best I can tell there's only one star war in the film, which no one seems to have noticed until 1981 at the earliest. Even then, the original trilogy only included one Star War, so the series should not have been renamed to the plural until 1999. 040
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Once again suggesting my preferred approach: We should all be on GMT, and just adjust our schedules accordingly. 140
Reposted by Kent FellowsZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Written a while ago, not about anything in particular, but encouraging that people think it *is* because that means it'll have a life in the future. 426827
Reposted by Kent FellowsEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’ll take any excuse to recirculate this 41441307
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Is anyone else kind of surprised the EU is jumping right over assistant membership to associate membership? Not sure how they got their dean to approve that one. (This is a very funny joke about Academic hiring.) 2100
Reposted by Kent FellowsKevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cp-news...static.klipy.comMorpheus: Bring ItALT: Morpheus: Bring It 1275
Reposted by Kent FellowsCourtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Chaotic separation would be significantly costly” Report Lead Author Martha Hall Findlay says total cost of Alberta separattion could be close to $400B. She adds while even a smooth separation would be challenging, a chaotic scenario could be “devastating” podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b... 22416
Reposted by Kent FellowsKevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ok, here's the answer. There is a panel, which Jack Mintz chaired. www.alberta.ca/advisory-pan... The panel solicited reports written by a set of economists: open.alberta.ca/publications... The panel then provided an assessment of the reports: open.alberta.ca/dataset/a33f... All clear.alberta.caAdvisory Panel on the potential impacts of separationThe advisory panel provided an independent assessment of the University of Calgary School of Public Policy’s report on the potential impacts of Alberta's separation from Canada. 184
Reposted by Kent FellowsMauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Does anyone have a contact in or otherwise know something about Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in Bolivia? I have been trying to reach their librarians/archivists/historians about a manuscript preserved there. I have emailed every address I could find, to no response. Any leads apprciated! 31921
Reposted by Kent FellowsJohn Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 12/09/20262001: Grand Theft Auto 3 is going to make all our children violent psychopaths 2026: GTA 6 will make our young men more attuned to the needs of their female partners (extremely derogatory) The future is so stupid! 1428
Reposted by Kent FellowsAlan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Will no one think of the second derivative!!! 0121
Reposted by Kent FellowsMicah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026this is a prisoner’s dilemma where if you defect while your opponent cooperates you get hundreds of billions of dollars everyone’s gonna defect 1655575
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This thread is why Ron is one of my favorite economists. 1111
Reposted by Kent FellowsCHAISE @chaisenetwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One week until our Launch Register now to hear @heiditworek.bsky.social @profwhw.bsky.social and Jennifer Jill Fellows (host of @cyborggoddess.bsky.social) share their thoughts on AI and Trust. chaise.opened.ca#ai-and-trust...chaise.opened.caCHAISE – Centre for Humanities AI Scholarship and Education 123
Reposted by Kent FellowsRon Kneebone @ronkneebone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026After a summer hiatus, Rita Wilkins and I are back with our monthly edition of Social Policy Trends. This month, we report on how the risk of homelessness depends on where one lives. 1/2 spp.ucalgary.ca/sites/defaul...spp.ucalgary.ca 183
Reposted by Kent FellowsDuane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026An economist’s defence of trade retaliation by @gkfellows.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theline/... This is a really good piece. Almost like it was written by an economist (almost). I would also add that this is not just about trade, but about Trump's efforts to subjugate Canadaopen.substack.comG. Kent Fellows: An economist’s defence of trade retaliationEven Adam Smith knew that sometimes you have to punch the bully in the nose 15431
Reposted by Kent FellowsBlake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Excellent piece by @gkfellows.bsky.social No retaliation thinking is short-term, for 1-shot games, or conceding we have no power to alter repeated ones. Hear, hear to Kent's wise views! "We need to be strategic, we need to think long term, we need to retaliate. Adam Smith would expect no less." 0208
Reposted by Kent FellowsBrendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026And I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide. 1266
Reposted by Kent FellowsPEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Jean Chrétien: "It looks like they don't know what to do. When your big thing is to change the name of a lake, it's because you're running out of arguments. It is a very weak gesture, to be cheap and nasty. Lake Ontario is not suffering. It's a lake." #cdnpoli 511343489
Reposted by Kent FellowsMike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thinking about this exchange today 34181044489
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Important context for the intended audience of Trump's trade war bravado: Peru and Chile are two separate countries and neither of them are in Canada. 0318
Reposted by Kent FellowsStephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Okay, absolutely but also I would die for this chair. 57712
Reposted by Kent FellowsKarl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Speaking on behalf of FX people everywhere, we neither have the time nor the crayons to explain this to him. 48972164