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Kent Fellows

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Professional + Amateur + Immature Economist MPP Grad Program Director at the University of Calgary School of Public Policy (as yet, no one has ever called me Director Fellows though).

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h
Discworld 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."
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If 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.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Worth 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.
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Megan MacKay🇨🇦 @mmmegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Claude never goes rogue and does something useful. Why can’t Claude go rogue and repaint my upstairs hallway
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There 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.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Me 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
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Political 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.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder 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_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Fall Everyone
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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes! My time has come to post this perfect SMBC. Today is a good day.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Setting 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! 🤦🏼‍♂️
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Denying 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.
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.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?
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Opinion: Why we should stop taking Alberta separatism seriously
Albertans are not a ‘people’ in a way that international law would recognize
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To 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.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not gonna lie, this one took me a second. Well Played.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As 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.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Once again suggesting my preferred approach: We should all be on GMT, and just adjust our schedules accordingly.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Written 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.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ll take any excuse to recirculate this
TOLKIEN Vs. LEWIS: ALLEGORIES


TOLKIEN 

PROFESSOR TOLKIEN! IS IT TRUE THAT YOU WROTE YOUR NOVELS AS AN ALLEGORY FOR THE
FIRST WORLD WAR? 

NO. NEVER. ASK ME THAT AGAIN AND I WILL CALL THE POLICE.

LEWIS 

IF EVEN ONE PERSON READING THIS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE BIG LION IS JESUS, I WILL SET MYSELF
ON FIRE.

reparrishcomics
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mood
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xkcd.com/2654/
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Chemtrails
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is 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.)
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cp-news...
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Morpheus: Bring It
ALT: Morpheus: Bring It
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Courtney 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...
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Let them eat cash"
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ok, 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.
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Advisory Panel on the potential impacts of separation
The 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.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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DM request from The Food Professor reads: “CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE. Hi Rachel. Very sorry for the criticism you have received of late. I get the same treatment at times, not fun. I have posted two comments about your work but was intended as a joke, so hopefully you didn't take it personal. Although I don't agree with many of your comments, I did look at a few of your videos and was surprised by how balanced they were, at least more than I thought. I was not familiar with your work until perhaps a few months ago. Just letting you know, we need debates in our country, more than ever, and you deserve to be part of them. Don't give up. SC”Recent public post featuring a picture of me from the Food Professor reads:

“True story.
Back at Dalhousie this fall, teaching a graduate course on information and decision-making.
Told my students: "Diversify your information sources. Explore different perspectives, especially independent ones."
One student replied, "I do that all the time."
Me: "Great! Who's your favourite source?"
Student: "Rachel Gilmore.'
Me: "Excellent. I see we'll need an extra lecture on source legitimacy."”
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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Does 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!
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
2001: 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!
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Will no one think of the second derivative!!!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026
this is a prisoner’s dilemma where if you defect while your opponent cooperates you get hundreds of billions of dollars everyone’s gonna defect
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This thread is why Ron is one of my favorite economists.
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CHAISE @chaisenetwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One 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...
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CHAISE – Centre for Humanities AI Scholarship and Education
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Faïza @fayza.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
Credit : vinn_ayy (IG)
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Make a band edible: Cake
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Ron Kneebone @ronkneebone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
After 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...
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
An 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 Canada
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G. Kent Fellows: An economist’s defence of trade retaliation
Even Adam Smith knew that sometimes you have to punch the bully in the nose
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Excellent 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."
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Jean 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
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this exchange today
A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago: 
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago: 
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Important 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.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Okay, absolutely but also I would die for this chair.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Speaking on behalf of FX people everywhere, we neither have the time nor the crayons to explain this to him.
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