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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

So let me get this straight... in an effort to differentiate themselves from Trump, the conservative strat is: 1) giving PM Carney a childish nickname 2) suggesting his election to leader of the Liberal party (and therefore PM) is illegitimate Is it just me, or is this EXACTLY what Trump would do?

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This year for Black History Month we had a massive war on DEI... And we can discuss how it's a "not everyone" thing, but realistically I can't recall seeing less BHM content at any other point in my adult life. Thanks to anyone who put effort into telling stories of Black experiences this year.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Watching a lot of ham-handed dismantling of DEI initiatives during Black History Month is a reminder that the path of progress is never a straight line. There's nothing noble about doing something because it's popular, rather than because it's right.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I wish people realized feeling uncomfortable isn’t a justification to harm people.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The US brain drain has to be coming, no? Funding for science is disrupted, anyone who isn’t a straight white dude has been effectively told they’re getting sidelined, and the entire federal workforce is now engaging in a weekly humiliation ritual. Time for other countries to offer a safe landing.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

No black person is shocked that “ending DEI” has turned into firing qualified black people, and replacing them with unqualified white people.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Everyone needs a library card. Seriously. The number of things you get access to, at no cost, from a decent public library system, towers over most $20-$50 a month subscriptions you can buy.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The problem with threats, is that they're still destructive, even if they're not followed through on. Relationships and trust tend to take much longer to build and repair than they do to damage.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Anything to distract from the news, even a deep dive on entrepreneurship in Austria. #pinkskyPost

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Our current moment makes a lot more sense when you realize that people who have always felt like things were happening FOR them, now feel like things are happening TO them. If you've never been in that situation, I have to image it's terrifying.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Fellow Canadians: If you need to invoke the existence of the charter of rights & freedoms (or other human rights legislation) to explain why a politician isn’t a threat… that’s really, really bad.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

For years we’ve read articles about the people who are angry that “woke ideology” was being “shoved down their throats” but, as always, it’s the ones complaining who start passing laws targeting small, vulnerable groups.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It's International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's worth reflecting on where societies go when we let hatred of the other, a desire for someone to blame, and baseless ancient bigotries, guide us as individuals and nations.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Imagine a world where we had Ontario had an extra $4.4 billion dollars to invest in healthcare and education... and all we'd have to trade for it is $200 apiece and buying beer & wine at the beer store & LCBO like we did for my entire life until this year.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A great and oddly prescient comic is Lazarus, by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark. It’s set in a future where nations are basically replaced by a global oligarchy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus...

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Lazarus (comics) - Wikipedia

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There’s an undercurrent of the “if it’s not open source it’s evil” vibe here, that imo fundamentally limits every open source project from consumer adoption. Bluesky is either going to grow out of that, or succumb to it.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There’s an odd thing happening right now where criticism is “political” but everything else is somehow not.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

When considering the attack on DEI happening in business and government, we should note that pretty much every immigrant, visible minority, woman, or LGBTQ+ person in an enviable professional position, has been called a DEI hire (or affirmative action hire) at least once.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

There can be disagreement about morals, but when your individual morals are too flexible, you become untrustworthy. Something that is unacceptable needs to be consistently unacceptable. You cannot embrace behaviour in friends and simultaneously use it as justification to choose your enemies.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

As more and more companies are cancelling DEI programs and commitments, it’s worth pointing out that in hospitals and doctors offices, there are still signs reminding people that abusive, aggressive and racist behaviour will not be tolerated. I saw one this morning at a major Toronto hospital.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

As a Canadian who has recently been soft-threatened with American annexation, TikTok is way more interesting to me today. I recognize this is petty.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

My hot take is that people blame advertising for trying to get people to buy things they don’t want, when in actually it’s the alliance between PR and news & lifestyle media that tries to create, codify, and amplify trends to justify continued existence & viewership.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Canada has always, always had a subset of people who move to the USA for opportunity (aka money) and always, always will. But you can't run a country based on the idea that you should reduce the social safety net, to appease people who will leave anyway. Let them go, we'll be fine.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

If I was a realtor, I’d be angry at Netflix. You could not ask for a more impactful anti-realtor campaign than 15 reality shows where a bunch of people in designer clothing do nothing, but are rich because real estate is expensive.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Canada could really benefit from having even one political leader that would put the country ahead of their party or personal ambitions.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I keep thinking about this. It’s just so disturbing that someone at Facebook is getting paid to brainstorm approved slurs against queer folks and immigrants and put them in a neat list to circulate. It’s their JOB

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I’m starting to wonder if Donald Trump will be the thing that unites Canada again - I haven’t seen such a large percentage of Canadians vocally unified about anything in the last 25 years.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It’s worth understanding the actual Overton window, vs your personal Overton window.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

When I was in grade school / high school, citing an internet source for an essay was a dicey proposition. The assumption was anything online was questionable. We’re going backward.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The best possible advertisement for congestion pricing is manhattanites posting pictures of empty intersections all damn week. Love it.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Last time around I just ignored US politics unless Canada was directly involved. It seems that’s not an option this time.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Here were my New Years Day observations. They feel relatively prescient. open.substack.com/pub/abenignc...

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The Presentist, 2025.

2025 is going to be wild.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It’s not that there’s anything wrong with Bluesky. It’s that building a new social graph from scratch feels like cosplaying a previous age of social media, at a time when we’ve all learned how damaging that age was. The social media equivalent of civil war re-enactors.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 15/06/2023

I used to think I had infinite capacity to process new information, conversations and emotional context. Then I got married and had a kid, in addition to a career. Suddenly I was humbled.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 13/06/2023

I really hope “[name] is really good at the [platform] algorithm” is just a weird temporary flavour of celebrity and not the future of human accomplishment.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 01/06/2023

PSA: keeping things that no one wants in your home until you die and someone else inevitably throws them out, doesn’t actually reduce waste.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 21/05/2023

Bloc Party’s debut was the best album of it’s era. Largely because it was the most original sounding.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

A revolution, a revelation, a revenant.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 15/05/2023

My toddler loves Cheerios (totally standard toddler thing) but he calls them “cheetos”. So now I worry the people at his daycare think I serve him cheese poofs for breakfast every day.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 12/05/2023

I aspire the know the happiness my two year old feels when he bites into a babybel cheese.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

One thing about owning a house that I wasn’t prepared for: when I’m gardening or watering out front, people just… talk to me? 10+ years of apartments did not prepare me for contextless small talk.

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