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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have to let AI taste fried chicken while having a beer or it won’t be aligned.

Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm really curious about the extent to which the PCQ has replaced the old ADQ (and perhaps CAQ), while the CAQ itself fully took on PLQ territory The whole Quebec City region is just fascinating, the way it consistently refuses to be part of either of the major voting coalitions

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Though I was able to dig up the 2022 version of this... generously put, polling for city council seems quite difficult web.archive.org/web/20250227...

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the condemned tells jokes about the hanging, it's gallows humor. When the executioner does, it's part of the humiliation of execution.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

background on cold pizza: www.nytimes.com/1998/07/23/w... (article also includes the phrase "The tempest in the tomato sauce")

Cold pizza has become a hot topic in the race that will decide who becomes the next Prime Minister of Japan.

It started when John F. Neuffer, a political analyst often quoted by the foreign news media here, described the front-runner, Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, as having ''all the pizazz of a cold pizza.'' Since then pizza jokes have abounded and pizza has had top billing in the Japanese press.

The Foreign Ministry, however, fails to see the humor.

''Unfortunately, Mr. Neuffer's 'cold pizza' is now too famous,'' said Mikie Kiyoi, director of the ministry's international press division. ''Of course, anyone can say what they want, but to have one country's prime ministerial candidate described as such is, well, sad.''

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s always v funny to watch regional/local elections and it’s still the mainstream left/right dominating as if it’s 2016

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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Leo chuckled. ”You mean the Chaos Emeralds?”

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can't remotely fathom a standard from this lol The operating principle across the board is "most gov'ts get 2nd terms, many get 3rd, some get 4th; most elections during the cycle are uncompetitive" except BC which is consistently competitive. AB we keep expecting to be competitive but it never is

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finally sitting down and wrapping my head around this

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah I recall finding a couple of years ago that Kansas and Nebraska were more college-educated that the median state and wondering if anything would become of that

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I realize this gives “increasingly nervous federalist: “ but I distinctly remember 2018 also feeling like a stalemate, and then at the end it just wasn’t (my guess is the CAQ gets the bandwagon again)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I guess “downtrodden-coded identities are the In-Group, privileged-coded identities are the Villainous Out-Group” is the operating principle

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Increasingly resigned to the conclusion that a ton of people, possibly most, on the left as well as right, believe only in friend-enemy distinctions rather than universalized principles

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh I see what’s happening, I think “うち” in this context means ”among which” (ie with the previous figure as the denominator) rather than “at home” So it follows the first figure is all accidents, suicides and otherwise

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Does this not say instead Collisions involving people, Suicides, and % suicides (2nd figure / 1st)?

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 20/09/2026

Canadian federalism is the provinces blaming Ottawa for things the provinces are responsible for and trusting that the voters won't know that

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 17/09/2026

Yes. People who work running media businesses report that micropayments just never make business sense. Subscriptions are so much more lucrative that it pretty much always makes more sense to chase a much smaller number of subscribers than micropayments. bsky.app/profile/josh...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you respond "paywall" to someone posting an article link, I'm going to block you in a heartbeat.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 16/09/2026

hey I heard you like sankey diagrams that show huge populations making terrible decisions

A very complicated Sankey diagram showing the usage of electricity in the United States. Or the left are sources of energy and on the right are consumers, so, for example, nuclear is on the left and residential is on the right. Petroleum dominates.

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IMHO the two ways that life in developed democracies has gotten worse is 1. People are spending less of their time on things they find meaningful due to compulsive Phone use 2. Housing costs too much in high opportunity areas Other issues are real and significant but also red herrings tbh

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This story is perfectly engineered to be hilarious to me, former political party staff What if we had our party leader standing for election in Spadina-Harbourfront do a video in Tagalog

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wave buttons are a bit sleeker than push buttons, but the icons are still confusing. A general ”open” button should not be represented with a wheelchair icon because then you just look around for the non-wheelchair option - opened lock, closed lock.

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wikipedia infobox brain and its consequences

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One thing I always say about polls about young people is that people overread exit polls about them as being fixed for two reasons. 1. There is always a new cohort of young people at each election 2. Young people are especially prone to being politically volatile

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I assume that at some point the European right wing will hear about Canada’s immigration targets

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's cool that all political parties like to go "I DON'T TRUST THE PUBLIC FACTS" when it's convenient to their narrative. We have reams of data from government and private sources, along with endless anecdotes of people negotiating down their rent over the last two years. but whatever man

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/09/2026

The reason we don't conclude that, despite the copious evidence and our alleged intelligence, is that we are burdened with a set of instincts developed in evolutionary prehistory, which tend to override our higher thought. A super-intelligent AI would not be similarly burdened!

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The essence of Chud Thought™️ is taking an extremely complex problem and reducing the dimensionality down to the level where there are bad guys who are responsible for the problem and good guys who are victimized by it despite being totally innocent.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And on the ground, it must feel like "nobody is listening to our concerns" (bc ofc individuals exercising their autonomy and chasing opportunity in cities isn't a problem to be solved). Of course, most countries try to prop up regional economies with public funds, it just structurally doesn't work

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(8/5, London) Somehow had never listened to Rach's 2nd symphony but it's iconic. Beautiful concert hall. £8 tickets for standing room, which I actually preferred (I get antsy and prefer being able to pace)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(6/12) So cool that Beethoven's iconoclastic statement breaking all the conventions of symphonies was about joy, purely and simply. Third movement drags on a bit though

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(5/2) More pianists should write their own pieces and improvise. Conservatories spit out competent pianists by the thousands and competitions feel like a crapshoot - you really get to know a musician when they write

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New York Soft Power is unavoidable

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Somewhat surprising views from the Lotte World Tower

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The GTX is incredibly cool, also extremely necessary since there are no express stopping patterns on the Metro (despite many having 50 stations!)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Really impressed that they put the whole network map on every station. (Not true of Tokyo, with its various networks, so no map shows everything.) I get why they show Line 2 as the central circle but really it should be an ellipse (cf Jug Cerovic's map: www.inat.fr/metro/seoul/)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(This is Seoul, which I never clarified) Ngl my main impression was how much more chic Korean Tim Horton's was and how chic they make Canada look

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Urbanist pilgrimmage to the stream that used to be a highway but they tore it down. On one hand, yes good on them for doing that, on the second hand it's *crazy* they ever had a highway so in the middle of everything, but on third hand Osaka still has highways covering up central waterways so

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(Again, catching up on months of travel posting) Korean food is amazing but also I already have it most weeks in Toronto "I don't want to overdo the carbs so I'll get the sausage" Turns out the sausage is also just filled with carbs

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Some more benign Japan stuff (including a joint tourism pitch from two prefectures that don't border each other - but what they have in common is that they are the two "literally who" prefectures of Kyushu)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Being able to deposit your baggage at the central station before boarding the airport express is pretty neat, but I think it'd just make me more worried

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh the one big revelation: umbrella-share. Haven't seen this in Japan

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Anyone else read Artemis Fowl as a kid and recall they mentioned the elevators of Taipei 101 in Book Five

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(Clearing out the backlog of travel photos I meant to post) It's clear being in Taiwan that Japan is viewed very favourably, but there was some straight-up nostalgia in the Railway Museum (the third photo is "how to identify enemy aircraft"??)

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Fucccck they got him with the Gun That Makes You Italian

Zohran Mamdani making a face that makes him kinda look like Robert De Niro

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