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@keithmclean3.bsky.social
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Public Librarian. History Junkie. Hobbyist Coder.

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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
They've been on that particular line of thought for a while. They are absolutely convinced that more carbon intensive options like coal in China and India could easily be replaced by Canadian LNG and oil. They event want Canada to be credited for those reductions. I'm not convinced.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I agree. It is impossible to unring the globalization bell at this point
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
They wouldn't be spending so much money on ad campaigns to lure us back if our dollars weren't missed.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It's very odd. Despite their struggles to feed their models enough information, they are creating an environment that's utterly hostile to further creation.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Exactly. Demski has been killing the Stamps and others for years.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is why I've always thought we should tie taxation levels to ongoing investments in the provincial economy.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Who is "the Left" in this pity party? The Left was wiped out. He lost to a two-time central banker who worked for his former boss while he was in government.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Kind of weird to characterize losing a free and fair election as theft.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is why I struggle with the narrative that Iran acquiring the bomb is inherently a disaster. It weakens American and Israeli hegemony in the region, but that seems long overdue given the results we've seen.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The fact that Americans struggle to understand why this is more than a trade dispute to Canadians is another reason I'm not visiting. They seem incapable of meaningful self-reflection.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I guess it makes sense if it's all mostly theatrics between them.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Regardless of Iran's rhetoric towards Israel, it's clear that the power asymmetry between them and the self-preservation instincts of the regime have precluded them from being a significant threat. America's conduct there has been far more disruptive to peace than Iran's sponsorship of terrorism.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A big problem for me was the transition from text to audio and/or video. I feel like that's substantial hurt my ability to grapple with substantial written content.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
He is so fucking stupid. "Mutually assured destruction" means everyone, including the planet, is annihilated.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
That's the obvious strategy. You widely disperse expertise and munitions throughout the population, and then you fight a war of attrition.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
How does the media continue to applaud Iran's restraint while simultaneously implying that they would act differently were they to acquire nuclear weapons?Unless their enemies put them on death ground, which would be unlikely if they were a nuclear power, I cannot see them every deploying them.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
And Ukraine giving up their weapons is looking like a grave mistake. They are the only thing that absolutely precludes invasion from outside forces.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
It's starting to feel like the only safeguard for a smaller country against the whims of the powerful is the acquisition of those weapons. North Korea is looking entirely correct in this regard.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Drives me crazy.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Trump bombing Iran without congressional approval was illegal and against international law, and this is what Carney has to say about it? Absolute pandering bullshit. Just embarrassing stuff.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
My bare minimum expectation from the Liberals is to keep us out of America's messes. I will never vote for those fucks again if we get dragged in.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Over a million people died because of the Iraq War and subsequent American occupation. We haven't learned a goddamn thing.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is a completely rational response by any power in opposition to the U.S. They've shown they are far too willing to instigate if not directly pursue regime changes throughout the world.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I absolutely agree.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
We need to completely abandon the idea that the U.S. is somehow a force of good in the world. That was a dubious claim to begin with, and Americans have jettisoned even their tepid commitment to that under Trump.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I'm curious as to why anyone thinks Iran wouldn't act in a way to avoid their own destruction. They are an aggressive regime in many ways, but they aren't suicidal from what I've seen.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Not a single Canadian soldier should be obliged to risk their lives to assist American in this mess. They can lie in it without us.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Almost everyone was saying that it's essentially impossible to stop Iran from acquiring these weapons if they were determined enough. I imagine their leadership is now very determined to acquire them to preclude regime change from afar.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I will activity fight against Canada being drawn into this madness. We shouldn't be obliged to fight with them when the blowback comes.
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Rakhi Pancholi @pancholirakhi.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
After years of advocacy, applications for the $200/month Canada Disability Benefit opened today. But the only provincial govt in Canada that will keep its citizens with disabilities from actually benefiting from it is the UCP. They are the only ones clawing it back. It’s cruel & shameful.
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 19/06/2025
This is the simplest way to understand Israel's approach to conflicts it is engaging in. There is effectively no frame for peace on any front, but rather a continued pursuit of degradation of threats—a managed security situation in perpetuity.
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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I haven’t chimed in on Israel-Iran bc the whole thing is just too depressing, but let’s be very clear: there is no good end-game here.
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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
basically yeah. my theory is that "knowing things" basically peaked in perceived coolness somewhere around 1970 and has been steadily declining ever since. being a nerd is definitionally about your relationship to trivia but trivia isn't actually the same as expertise
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I don't think Trump fully understands how precarious the path he's walking can become.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This has to happen to check the plagiarism engines.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I don't think we're prepared to face how enormously expensive managing forest fires will be in the future.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Stoked about vast regions of Canada already being on fire before June. I hate starting every fire season like this.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The idea that people other than yuppies might enjoy the lifestyle that comes with high density is lost on them.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Most public libraries and the systems that support them have some sort of electronic content system.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Looking at you venture capital. All they do is enshittify.
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TheGentYYC 🇨🇦 @thegentyyc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"We love you Canadians! So come down and take your chances with our new Gestapo!" Every single one of them can get F-ed. It's beyond having offended Canadians, it's no longer SAFE to go travel and they ALL know that. F-ing sociopaths. #ElbowsUp #cdnpoli
A bunch of America asshole senators around a podium
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It is hard to fire the politicians who have been elected.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This was a foregone conclusion. You can only alienate a huge number of people and stubbornly stick to a questionable strategy when you win.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We know what we did.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
AI is total trash.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I shouldn't, but I still find it wild that MAGA is cheering on the destruction of the very things that made America exemplary and capable of being more than their sordid history and glaring flaws. I will constantly go to bat for quality public education in an attempt to preclude this insanity.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It's only been around since the Magna Carta. It takes a while for ideas to circulate.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Even their ambassadors are misinformed fools.
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keithmclean3.bsky.social @keithmclean3.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
They may not believe in anthropogenic climate change, but their insurers do.
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