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Kent Fellows

@gkfellows.bsky.social
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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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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
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dante @dante.cool · 05/05/2026
HAN SOLO: Hell, I never would have flown a spaceship if it wasn't for the daring exploits of Ben Quadinaros, famed podracer... He inspired all of us kids back on Corellia. LEIA (NODDING): Yes, I also know and love Ben Quadinaros. The boy, Han... let's name the boy after him
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/10/2026
I'm so sorry.
Elon Musk spliced into the Brita Perry "I can excuse racism meme". 

Above is a tweet from Elon Musk that reads, "Zelensky has gone too far." 

The caption on the image itself reads, "I can excuse Putin mudering civilians but I draw the line at Ukraine bombing a Yandex data center."
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
For the record, since this story says media was denied access, I also tried to attend and as I was waiting in the hallway for an organizer (who said go away) I saw a certain scribbler from this very paper leaving the main room and was told he had an arrangement with the premier to hear her speak.
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
From an Econ perspective, the whole point of intellectual property law is to protect the incentives to invest in intellectual property be ensuring those who create new art and new innovations can benefit from it. An underappreciated danger is that AI erodes this protection.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJES...
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I would like to have seen Montana...xp.wmv
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This started off as a joke answer, and while I think I could probably come up with something better (there are tonnes of video game characters that come to mind), I'm sticking with it for now.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If the United States ever calms down: Vasily Borodin from "The Hunt for Red Ocober." We would go to see Montana together.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's a very short clip, but if you watch it pay attention to the way Blunt talks about Jackson. www.youtube.com/shorts/DM1DU...
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James Blunt averted WW3? 😱 #topgear #thegrandtour
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026
just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is is the opposite of Negative Semi-Definite?
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There ARE economies of scale in treating two at once. But as anyone who has owned two cats at the same time will tell you, there are also diseconomies of scope anytime you have two cats together. So the two effects cancel out.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As an Economist, I thought looking down at adjacent discipline's degrees was our thing!
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When I say it, it's ontic. When anyone else says it, it's epistemic.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
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
The federal government had to pay for the portion of the TCPL mainline crossing nothern Ontario, and then lease it back to TransCanada, as the costs of construction were prohibitivly high for private sector investment.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The speed at which both projects progressed was in large part due to concerns about American Economic Influence on Canada.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The TCPL mainline was completed exceptionally quickly, but the St. Laurent government had to force legislation through the house in 1956, which ultimatly led to it's defeat and the election of the Diefenbaker conservatives (ending 22 years of Liberal governance). The pipe was completed by 1958.
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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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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I figured it as a Math (US) vs Maths (UK) situation.
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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
Related: I would love more materials on AI Literacy for Luddites. I have both moral and methodological objections to useing most AI in my own work, but I similiarly recognize the importance of being literate in this area. (CC @cyborggoddess.bsky.social )
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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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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mad Men similiarly fell apart, which is at least thematically consistent as one of the core themes of the show was style over substance.
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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
For disambiguation, I feel the need to specify that the group chat is full of friends I met when we were all in elementary school, rather than being full of friends of mine currently in elementary school.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
H/T to my elementary school friends group chat for reminding me that this existed.
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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
If you'll permit me to be pedantic for a second: Quantity demand has fallen, due to a war induced price shock. This is not *technically* the same thing as a reduction in demand. However, the distinction may or may not invalidate your point.
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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.

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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Next you'll tell me I'm not allow to call Britain an Emeritus Member.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mood
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