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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If I read the new ICBC rules correctly, they've done away with the second road test but have brought in new rules that require young drivers to keep their Ns until they're 25?!? One passenger only until my daughter is 25? I'm all for road safety but that's effing crazy.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I can't find the video outside of Reddit, but Jesse Waters interviewed Doug Ford and said he was offended that Canadians wouldn't want to be the 51st state because everybody wants to be American. I imagine it's like thinking you're a perfect 10, asking a 6 out on a date and being told "eww, no."
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Don't believe AI CEOs have suddenly become concerned about the technology moving too fast. The call for "pacing the frontier" is driven by the fact that companies are hemorrhaging money, data centers are unpopular and becoming an election issue for Republicans, and concerns about a market crash.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
To all the commentators on here linking people to their blogs and substacks, I'm NOT going to sign up. Every time I subscribe, I'm bombarded by emails and constant requests for funding and shares. Make your content freely available and you'll get my views, clicks and shares. That's it.
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Mafalda @sc103.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium
Where will they get all that power?
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
One of the reasons the US is attacking Canada for its wildfires is that they can't acknowledge climate change. The GOP party line is that climate change is a liberal hoax, so whenever a wildfire burns it's because of mismanagement. They blamed California, they're blaming Canada.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Everybody is talking about "democratic socialists" like it's some kind of newfangled spinoff of communism. No idiots, a democratic socialist is every single politician you've ever had that cared about schools, health care, seniors, infrastructure, services, public safety, justice - you name it.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
MAGA: America is a not a racist country, we had a black president! ALSO MAGA: Fuck Obama, he was the worst president we ever had. He should be arrested and hanged for treason. That AI video of him and Michelle as apes was really funny. Also, Michelle is a man.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 08/06/2026
The Cure's Robert Smith perfectly sums up the difference between Americans and Brits.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
So here's the thing about this TPUSA women's leadership conference: conservatives hate women. They only like women when they stay in the box and role and they've been given by the patriarchy, under cover of religious beliefs. wls2026.com
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Women's Leadership Summit 2026
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/m... This IPO is theft, an upward redistribution of funds designed to rescue all of the underwater investors in X and Xai by forcing funds to invest. It shouldn't be legal. The market and its valuations are being managed to insulate the wealthy from economic trends.
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SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says
The analysts see a wide range of possibilities around xAI and find its "economic moat indeterminate."
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
As much as Trump's screws up and looks stupid, it's also pretty clear that he is also winning. He's winning the redistricting battle. He's winning the media battle by supporting media monopolies and shutting down neutral media like NPR and PBS.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Let's say Congress and the Senate rapidly earmark $400M for the ballroom, allowing construction to get underway this summer. With all the underground bunker stuff, it would be nothing short of amazing if it took less than two years to build, which means Trump would have less than a year to enjoy it.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc... This is just the tip of the iceberg, there's a massive disconnect between revenues and stock market valuations. We are vastly overcapitalizing tech and its CEOs, pumping way too much money into shares relative to performance.
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Michael Burry analyzed 1,000+ reports and found a $1.7 trillion 'earnings illusion' hiding in tech stocks
Many Americans own stocks through 401(k) plans or index funds, which are increasingly concentrated in major tech companies — so they could face significant losses if valuations were to normalize.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"My president gets results because people think he's so crazy he could actually nuke a city of 12 million," is not the flex you think it is.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If @microsoft.com changed the "To Do" tag in OneNote from a square to a circle for an April Fool's Day trick, that's legendary. Because I hate it. So, so much.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If you're keeping track, Trump's 10-point plan to steal the midterms is: 1. Pass SAVE Act and disenfranchise millions of low income (no passport) and female voters. 2. Pass SAVE Act and force states to share voter rolls, which will then be purged of democratic voters in swing ridings.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
www.reddit.com/r/politics/s... So what was the point of getting Greenland again? Trump's problem is that he thinks the rest of the world is as stupid and as short-term memoried as his braindead cult. He contradicts himself hourly. Evil, stupid, vain, greedy, with no principles at all.
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From the politics community on Reddit: US lifts sanctions on Russian oil
Explore this post and more from the politics community
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Where are the good billionaires? Why isn't George Soros offering to buy CNN or at least keep NPR and PBS afloat? Why doesn't the Gates Foundation or Buffet invest in democracy and combating misinformation? Are there any decent billionaires willing to stand up to fascism and tell the truth?
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I get that winning teams in a lot of sports always make a show of going to the White House regardless of who is in power. A few principled teams and players always bow out, but overall it's not inherently political. Sitting at the stands at a State of the Union, however, is political as hell.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It's heartbreaking watching #PunchTheMonkey be rejected by his mother, then rejected, terrified and abused by the rest of the tribe for reasons that aren't his fault. Now replace the PunchTheMonkey with LGBT+ kids. How do you feel about that?
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I haven't seen any post rules for any kind of State of the Union drinking game. It's probably too easy with Trump. 1. Anytime he says "like we've never seen before" take one drink. That alone would be enough to put anyone in the hospital.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Lots of ominous news from the Trump administration but some of the scarier stories are related to the media - reporters arrested, Bezos firing 1/3 of WP reporters, the deal to buy CNN, the treatment of Kaitlan Collins, etc. But one of the scariest stories is from Gallup: thehill.com/homenews/med...
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Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. The company said starting thi…
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Instead of jumping to conclusions about Tumbler Ridge, let's all just sit in our grief and horror for a while. Give blood. Make a donation. Put your politics away and give your agenda a rest. We can argue about guns, mental illness, trans rights, and everything else later when the facts come out.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01... With numbers this bad, you'd expect to see the stock price drop but it isn't. That's not a sign of a strong economy, it's a sign of a "fixed" one.
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Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
More than half its profit came from emissions credits as sales fell 8.6 percent.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Ice Agent 1: "Wow, people are really mad at us right now." Ice Agent 2: "We should go mace some people." www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Canada's economy could gain almost 7% in real GDP by removing trade barriers | CBC News
Canada’s economy could gain nearly seven per cent, or $210 billion, in real GDP by fully removing internal trade barriers between the country’s 13 provinces and territories, according to a report publ...
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump’s FCC goon demands talk shows give Republicans equal time
After years of President Donald Trump being the butt of jokes from late-night comedians, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr released an official public notice arguing that late-...
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
globalnews.ca/news/1162247... Maybe this makes all the sense in the world from a business perspective but the timing is ... Fortunately, we now have a competitor in my region. They're about to lose a lot of business here.
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GFL Environmental moves executive headquarters from Ontario to Florida | Globalnews.ca
The company says it's now based in Miami Beach, Fla., while its jurisdiction of incorporation remains in Canada in Ontario.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Trump's moves on Greenland are extremely dangerous for Canada. If NATO invokes Article 5, then Canada will essentially be at war with the US and America can use that to justify a preemptive invasion.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Just a reminder that Pierre Poilievre also threatened to politicize our central bank, firing the chair/governor for similar reasons to Trump wanting to fire Powell. It's the one position that must be apolitical to avoid the taint of currency/market manipulation. www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...
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The 'Sell America' market returns after DOJ's criminal probe of the Fed spooks investors
The U.S. dollar fell and market barometers for interest rates rose, both trends that run directly counter to the Trump administration’s affordability push.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Where are all the so-called "good" billionaires in this hour of need? Where is the money to save PBS and Sesame Street? Where is the money to buy CNN and MSNBC so they can be maintained as objective news sources? Where are the donations for progressive and Dem candidates to counter MAGA fascists?
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
A lot of Canadians want us to cut TFWs and foreign students and reduce immigration. Why not do the opposite - cut immigration and instead achieve immigration targets entirely through TFW and student programs? People with skills, experience, and the right work ethic? Something to consider.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
On the one hand, Marty Supreme looks like an interesting piece of entertainment - the kind of thing I'd enjoy. On the other, if going to see this movie in any ways enriches Kevin O'Leary or boosts his already overinflated ego, I have no choice but to avoid it. Horrible casting choice.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I don't have an X account anymore - has anybody done a deep dive into Canadian pundits to find out where they're really from?
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Technical question about those websites where cookie warnings/approvals pop up every single time - do they not see the cookie from the previous visit? Is it a new cookie every time? Does it not read my browser settings to accept cookies? Or is this just a "cover our ass" thing by websites?
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I'm sure most BCers would prefer a bottom slogan of "Sudden Stops." Seriously Alberta, if you miss your turnoff then pull over and wait for a gap or drive to the next turnoff. Also, our speed limits do apply to trucks. Even lifted ones with broken turn signals. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Bell: Alberta's new Strong and Free licence plate — Here it is!
Alberta has a new Strong and Free licence plate to be rolled out by the Premier Smith government and chosen in an online vote of Albertans.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Republican/Trump logic: "Don't vote for Mamdani, he will destroy New York!" Also: "If you vote for Mamdani, we will destroy New York!"
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
@davidebybc.bsky.social Do NOT run a tariff ad without clearing it with the PM or other provinces. Our goal should be to fly below the radar until the economy crashes or Congress either wakes up or goes blue. There's nothing to be gained poking the demented old man. We can't stand on our own yet.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A long time ago, Canada had stakes in its biggest companies - Petro Canada, Air Canada, CN, de Havilland, the Saskatchewan Wheat Board, etc. Provincial governments owned utilities and telecoms.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
One question that's been bugging me is who the hell starts a major renovation and construction project in mid-October? I know they'll tent the area at some point, but that's for finishing work. It's a lot tougher working through a cold, wet winter.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Watching all the furor over Trump's white house demolitions reminds me that 24 Sussex needs to be torn down and replaced 20 years ago - but governments have passed on doing what's necessary because they didn't want to be accused of wasting taxpayer money on a mansion.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This is the problem with media today - Noem's TSA video IS political, it's not just airports "saying it's political." This isn't an "alleged" situation. It is very clearly what it is - so call it that way. apnews.com/article/tsa-...
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Some airports refuse to play Noem video on shutdown impact, saying it's political
Airports around the country are saying they won’t play a video with a message from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdo...
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Can anyone explain why the market hasn't tanked due to Trump, his tariffs and our declining confidence in the state of the world? I assume it has something to do with monopolies, stock buybacks, retail investors outnumbered by funds and institutional investors that can afford to hold, etc.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
There are a lot of causes for Canada's housing crisis - high immigration, demographics, urbanization and people moving to cities, foreign buyers, money laundering, speculation, zoning, high construction financing costs, shortages of certain trades, the overall high cost of building, etc.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Typical Canadian conservative right now: "We want the federal government to invest in pipelines, stop immigration, meet our NATO commitments, protect the north, hire more doctors, build more housing, keep criminals in jail, force addicts into mandatory treatment AND we want to pay lower taxes!"
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Just so everybody is clear, Trump and company WANT people to protest ICE. And they will absolutely make sure any protest escalates by provoking protesters or seeding their own agents into the mix to start fires and loot so they can justify a permanent presence of military on the streets.
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TheyCallMeMitch @hobbitlover.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Every day it becomes more clear that MAGA is just a way for mediocre white men to recover the power they've lost to talented minorities and women. Instead of finding a place in the progressive, modern world, they're instead turning back the clock to a time when they top of the food chain.
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