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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"does this also apply to a combine soldier from half life 2" is my "AI" news bullshit test

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 24/09/2026

this is truly the week of bc push alerts

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Privately, every major party and politician in this province has happily tell me that they went overboard on prioritizing Twitter in the past and that it's not particularly helpful to their campaigns in the present. And publicly, they can't break their fixation on it. It is what it is.

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 22/09/2026

I'm betting two, one with images, one with full text excerpts

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 22/09/2026

Take your bets now on how many parties will be caught using AI in their platform PDFs

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 22/09/2026

(want to know my secret hot take? only journalists, politicians and operatives complain about elections. most people are not impacted by them beyond voting day. they aren't out campaigning or reporting. they are just living lives like normal. it isn't disruptive! except the signs)

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 20/09/2026

I'm trying to think of a single person to have said "I'm not going anywhere" or similar, and them not already being on their way out the door. It's one of those phrases that should probably always be read to mean the exact opposite

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 19/09/2026

The image of her sighing theatrically and saying "I'll do it if I must. But only because it's an emergency."

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 19/09/2026

Thank God for the deadline to withdraw, I don't think I could take another week of this 😅

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 15/09/2026

Also, it's extremely maddening that media is taking AI doom, which again is a hypothetical pushed by a bunch of guys with AI psychosis, more seriously than climate change, something the actual public can actually see right in front of their faces every summer

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 15/09/2026

They're facing the same problem climate scientists do, except with dumbass dormroom thought experiments instead of rigorously-tested research

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 14/09/2026

Also worth noting that it's worthwhile supporting trans rights because it's the right thing to do. It's also politically savvy, because electoral politics is inherently coalitional, and you want trans people and their allies to be strongly in your coalition

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 14/09/2026

The economy is high-salience to everyone which is why it wins elections. Trans rights are high-salience to a group of people who skew younger and will make for good campaign volunteers if you can motivate them

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 14/09/2026

Focusing on trans issues in a just-asking-questions way doesn't appeal to the pro-trans voters because they see it for what it is: a slippery slope to full-on bigotry. It also doesn't appear to the large portion of the public who agrees with it, because the issue is low-salience for them.

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 14/09/2026

I'll propose Higgs's Theory, so named for the premier who lost an election because he didn't believe it: trans issues are high-salience to a relatively small part of the voting public, but that small part skews heavily pro-trans. Trans people and their allies outnumber the out-and-out bigots

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Ash Flanagan @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Unfortunately the most legitimate One Weird Trick humanity has ever created is vaccines

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now in Gunmetal Grey!

A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is a good example of what @ntusikov.bsky.social and I have been warning about for years: US tech companies are uniquely susceptible to extra-legal US government pressure (Google isn’t compelled to change Lake Ontario’s name.) Because of this, they represent a direct threat to Canadian autonomy.

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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

no one tell the Trump administration that "canola" is an abbreviation

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A monster, and nobody should weep. As an aside, we need more people to be tried at The Hague

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 28/08/2026

Unrelatedly, it used to be that if you said "Kennedy Stewart" three times in private conversation, you'd be stuck receiving his emails for the rest of your life, even though he no longer represented your riding

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 28/08/2026

A mild discomfort on political parties and candidates who put me on their mailing list just because I sent them an email

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 27/08/2026

BC political news right now

The aide telling George push that a second plane has crashed into the WTC

The aide telling George push that a second plane has crashed into the WTC again

The aide telling George push that a second plane has crashed into the WTC a third time

The aide telling George push that a second plane has crashed into the WTC a fourth time

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/08/2026

Trump is the rare national leader who is categorically incapable of making deals. he literally can't stop himself from betraying every counterparty or just wildly changing his position out of nowhere after the treaty has been signed bsky.app/profile/mger...

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 23/08/2026

Hey, so that "detailed list of last minute demands" screenshot in the US-Canada negotiations? It's an unsourced AI document. Stop sharing it

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This guy is so much less interesting than the media's bizarre obsession with writing the same story about him over and over

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 09/08/2026

Glad to see someone clear-eyed about the pandemic and its most likely natural origins. And in the pages of the Atlantic, no less! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Why MAGA Is So Obsessed With Fauci

In the aftermath of pandemics, people either try to forget them or find others to blame for them.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

THANK YOU www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

More important, the bat viruses that the grant paid the lab to study are so genetically distant from SARS-CoV-2 that they could not have produced it, a point that independent virologists have made repeatedly. That disposes of the specific charge that research that Fauci’s agency funded produced the virus. It did not.

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 08/08/2026

This headline reads a lot better if you don't realise "Will Gluck" is a name

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 06/08/2026

Weirdly, it's the complete opposite for me. When I ask "what was your intent with this", the devs I work with all go "oh my god I'll change that immediately" and I have to be like "no no, it's fine, I just want you to explain what your thinking is!"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

im never gonna talk shit about another editor unless i've seen the dailies and understand how bad the ingredients they were cooking with were. sometimes an awkward, fucked up scene is the editor heroically saving something that was botched on set bsky.app/profile/the1...

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 03/08/2026

I think Loomer really wants to be at odds with her peers, and this is one of the best issues for her to be at odds with them on. She sees her peers being pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine, and she instinctively wants to be the opposite

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026

This seems uncomplicated to me. Someone established a goal and commissioned a process that resulted in a criminal act. Agency always traces back to the font of human decision-making at the entry point to any process, including automated ones. Layers of automation may obscure, but not obviate, agency

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 31/07/2026

The market-centred zoonotic spillover explanation is such a slam-dunk smoking-gun almost-definitely-true theory at this point!

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 31/07/2026

Much like how someone's guilt might not be proven enough for court but still be proven enough for dinner table conversation, the market-centred zoonotic spillover should be considered proven for the general public, and really only scientists should be interested in debating it further

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The conspiracy she’s referring to here is a Slack chat among scientists in 2020 where they went, “it could be a lab leak, let’s look into it!”

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Some fucking asshole is claiming to be me in an effort to scam authors and academics, and accurately satirizing public media in the process

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Something that shouldn't need to be observed but apparently does is that the images and videos of Andrew Tate being put into handcuffs has instantly made being associated with him more scandalous for politicians even though the facts of the case haven't changed and he hasn't been convicted.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/07/2026

I wish the Tate brothers a very

Chance

Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 18/07/2026

Detangling my wired earbuds in front of a cat like I'm Indiana Jones about to switch the idol

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 17/07/2026

The only way to cover this is to say plainly, repeatedly, and pointedly: Trump is knowingly lying about what the intelligence says, about what happened, and he's doing it in an attempt to change election rules in his favor. This isn't analysis. It's demonstrably true.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Honest to god if I were one of those Kalshi perverts I would be reading Judith Butler to short the Iran War.

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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter

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Laef Kucheran @laef.ca · 14/07/2026

Not in small part because wearing a suit gives you confidence. You FEEL attractive and put-together wearing it, and that can carry over into how you talk and hold yourself

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