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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Hey, @fadeinpro.com, FYI hard crash in 5.05 when I click 'proofread' on a fresh document. Tahoe 26.1. Edit>Writing Tools>Proofread, or Show Writing Tools>Proofread Works OK in other apps

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Whenever I see a craze like this I think about killer whales putting dead salmon on their heads as a fashion statement. It's the same thing.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

War is peace. Peace is war. Same as it ever was.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/06/2025

who needs state media when the private outlets will defend the empire to its dying breath?

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Dan McDonough @danluvsbeer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

My son once asked me, "Is today Father's Day?" And I said, "I don't know, do we do that?" And he said, "No, but I feel badly about it."

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Matthew Champion @matthewchampion.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

200 people spent millions on Trump’s memecoin and were rewarded with this dinner www.wired.com/story/a-heli...

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

An AI tragedy in three acts (the string I gave it is random)

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Once upon a time the most famous person in the world -- Christ, Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, the Pope -- was famous for being good at something. Now the two top ones are known for being an idiot and an asshole respectively. Yes, and you know who I mean too.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"It'll never just say, 'Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?'"

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Once again, the curse of our age is the Counterreformation of the Most Special Boys

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

*will not actually work for scale

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is the GOPs Brexit, which will simultaneously crater both them and the economy.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

As the spouse of a librarian, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE how much use libraries get. It's insane.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

When I was baby KGB agent we'd spend years digging tunnels, tapping phone lines & honey trapping civil servants to get 2% of what team trump incompetently send to a journalist.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.

All along, members of the Signal group were aware of the need for secrecy and operations security. In his text detailing aspects of the forthcoming attack on Houthi targets, Hegseth wrote to the group-which, at the time, included me we are currently clean on OPSEC:
Shane Harris contributed reporting.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 24/03/2025

In another blow to legacy media, I'm hearing that the Trump administration plans to remove The Atlantic from its war-plans group chat. The outlet will be replaced in the chat by the Gateway Pundit.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

the obsession with USAID and the US Institute of Peace (which studies peaceful transitions to democracy) are particularly instructive. they believe that all protesters are paid. what's the solution? dismantle the payment agencies which pay the protesters.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

silicon valley is especially vulnerable to this. the idea musk (and andreeson, and thiel) had was that a blue checkmark made someone famous rather than denoting that a person was already famous. they started selling them and immediately found out that they were valueless, and were confused.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

HMMM: So the administration reveals in a new court filing (ordered by Judge Bates) that Amy Gleason was actually hired by HHS as an "expert/consultant" on March 4, just a few days after the White House identified her as the administrator of DOGE.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Post your favourite Dr. Who. Wrong answers only.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Get you a woman who looks at you the way that execs look at backstory.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 13/03/2025

'Just say thank you': Lutnick says Canada is acting like Ukraine nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

Lutnick: Think about it. The biggest trading partner in the whole world that is vital to Canada’s existence says, “I’m unhappy,” and they respond negatively, you know why? Because for 20 years, 30 years, they’ve gotten away with it. It’s like Ukraine. They came in. You imagine coming into this country, sitting in the Oval Office, having received $300 billion in aid from U.S. and military and NATO and all the rest, and the first words out of your mouth aren’t thank you. Just say thank you. God knows, just say thank you. When the biggest client, the biggest trading partner, the most important counter-party you have, who really, really matters to you, the first thing you do is showing immeasurable respect. Say, “Thank you. I want to work it out with you. I want you to be happy.”

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 11/03/2025

This is starting to read like the transcript of a dictator screaming at a crowd in another language. And the real belligerence has wiped away anything initially funny about his whacky threats.

Donald J. Trump © @realDonaldTrump
Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on "Electricity" coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th. Also, Canada must immediately drop their Anti-American Farmer Tariff of 250% to 390% on various U.S. dairy products, which has long been considered outrageous. I will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity within the threatened area. This will allow the U.S to quickly do what has to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada. If other egregious, long time Tariffs are not likewise dropped by Canada, I will substantially increase, on April 2nd, the Tariffs on Cars coming into the U.S. which will, essentially, permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada. Those cars can easily be made in the USA! Also, Canada pays very little for National Security, relying on the United States for military protection. We are subsidizing Canada to the tune of more than
200 Billion Dollars a year. WHY??? This cannot continue. The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians' taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than 200 Billion Dollars a year. WHY??? This cannot continue. The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians' taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the World will be bigger, bett…

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Donald Trump being outplayed by <checks notes> Doug Ford and then whining about it is one of the funnier things that has ever happened in US-Canada relations.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The thing about speedrunning is that most of the time it doesn't work. It takes 1000x tries to successfully speedrun a level. I once tried to speedrun editing a film, ("let's go STRAIGHT to the fine cut!!"). That was a fucking sobering experience. Now do America.

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Ari Costello @aricostello.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

People forget how quickly things change when History happens. That the world might look completely different in two or three years is, well…, the way things normally would occur in times of crisis. What is sad is that this crisis was entirely manufactured by propaganda.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I hate everyone who has reduced me to watching Doug Ford on CNN. I shall never forgive this. I will be on my death bed muttering about this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcqe...

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Ontario premier threatens to ‘shut off electricity completely’ for US if trade war escalates

YouTube video by CNN

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acampors.bsky.social @acampors.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Saw this in nyc

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

When someone writes the definitive book about DOGE & Musk’s foray into politics, it absolutely has to be titled “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.”

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I don't follow $TSLA but I just checked in and holy shit... it's off more than 40% since the December high. The big chart looks nasty too... it took 3 years to recapture the 2021 high, and then immediately fell off a cliff.

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PutinIsAVirus @orbint.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The chances of Zaluzhny being approached in these last few days by US "officials" about leading a coup against Zelensky are.... Very far from 0 .... Had it happened, a "diplomatic" way of reacting for him could look something like this.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Dem brain on full display. Mistaking a dot on the map for the territory.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Live your life so that you don't have to wipe your phone every night

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

what is it with (wannabe) dictators and that haircut?

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 05/03/2025

If you're wondering about the vibe in Canada right now, I just got served this ad for a brewhouse that is just a portrait of the White House being burned down. No text, just a bigass picture of the White House burning and a link directly to their menu lolol

A gorgeous portrait of the White House entirely aflame, the smoke billowing and the flames lighting up the night sky. It sparks deep patriotic ferver. This is what democracy looks like.

Also there's a white button with blue text below the portrait. The text reads "Learn more" and if clicked it takes you to the menu of a local brewhouse.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We used to be a real internet. This is what you get when you click on an NPR link

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 28/02/2025

Impossible to stick this one out. Starmer will *have* to comment, and it can’t be in any way supportive of Trump.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.

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