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oz yigit

@longword.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 programmer, photographer, dad of a scientist | functionalist humanist atheist | iaidō 五段 | novice haiku poet | OSS since 82 | bibliophile | he/him | i hate nazis

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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 4h
Yet, ironically enough, we still elected Danielle Smith and Doug Ford.
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Canada the 10th smartest country in the world, well ahead of U.S., study finds
Canada's "smartness score" puts it ahead of 18th-place United States, but trails other commonwealth countries and first-place Singapore.
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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 8h
Have you received Danielle Smith and the UCP’s $4 million propaganda brochure? It’s full of lies, and taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for it, never mind the $200 million referendum.
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 3h
that hellscape, where X stands not only as an abstract representation of a swastika, but also a manosphere eXtension. musk is poison.
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Norman Wilson (⚠️Ontario is not America) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to the so-called super-intelligent White House bot at america.gov: No. Official certified results do not show Donald J. Trump receiving 85 million or 87 million popular votes in 2024, and I cannot verify that a lower published total was caused by a “rigged” count.
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America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’ll know soon enough. Hope I’m wrong too.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Zero surprises here: www.instagram.com/p/Dd4peLpEpF...
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
fun fact: my degrees of separation from Karl Popper is two.
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
here are the signatures of the most dangerous and powerful sociopaths [prob psychopaths] on the planet: trump tech reich.
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
must-read thread
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
beautifully said by shaun benson
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That’s populist politics.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hear me out but Mark Carney should be given the Times Person Of Year and the Nobel Peace Prize. Also that really tall fella Eby, keep him in office, don’t vote him out, he’s alright. #cdnpoli
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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It looks like we may be headed for an early flu season, especially in the Western region, where test positivity is climbing quickly. www.forceofinfection.com/second-look-...
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Second look at flu
Early signs of flu increase in Pacific states
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“[ben] shapiro doesn’t talk fast because he thinks fast. he talks fast because his arguments die at normal speed.” — lucas bean
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Onion spot on again.
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oracle [shares] is one downgrade away from junk”[kyla scanlon] is the best thing i’ve heard this year!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/09/2026
anti-homeless sweeps of encampments, tent cities, and individual squats result in the systematic theft of everything the targeted people hold dear. don't fucking call the cops on your neighbors. www.tumblr.com/westernsunri...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
End Times Fascism is now an *international* bestseller. Folks, you made this happen and we are so grateful. @astra.bsky.social
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
not Onion. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians
In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
found in one of my folders. published by york u excalibur newspaper decades ago.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says
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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says
David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island Donald Trump offered to sell weapons to China while hosting its leader, Xi Jinping, last week, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday. David Perdue told Fox News on Sunday: “President Trump continues to say, hey, we sell arms to other people around the world. He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point.” Continue reading...
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Fool’s Expertise is particularly perilous when discussing catastrophe, which nearly tautologically involves long chains of causation that transcend domains: fully understanding one link does not imply understanding the chain.” must-read essay.
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
well, horowitz’s “susan ryeland” series (“magpie murders” et al.) has officially jumped the shark. we stopped watching the “marble hall murders” (masterpiece) after the first episode. mystery-in-a-mystery-in-a-book gimmick has become surprisingly tiresome. ymmv.
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
magical coin pipeline, unassembled, impossible to find it new. if you know, you know.
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
best band name seen this day: “Los Lobotomys” [david garfield]
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
theonion.com/i-appreciate...
theonion.com
I Appreciate The Muppets On A Much Deeper Level Than You
Dennis, Dennis, Dennis.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
youtu.be
MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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Natalka @natalkakyiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🇷🇺 Russia truly is a real-life Mordor filled with monsters. This is an incredibly honest look from the inside. Listen to Russian lawyer and blogger Ivan Mironov describe his country and his fellow Russians 🔽
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every day is a new Baudrillardian adventure
Donald Trump animatedly showing Chinese President Xi Jinping a painting of Donald Trump pumping his fist in Butler, as captured and shared by the Instagram @potus and @whitehouse accounts
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Norman Wilson (⚠️Ontario is not America) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A bucketful of Super High Intelligence Trump:
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Diane Marie 🇨🇦 @dianemarie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey, I voted today (stupid candy floss referendum). No to the Nine + Option 1.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I forget about this, then remember it when I walk past VPL. Gives me a kinda whistling-past-the-graveyard feel.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:
Netanyahu showing off a pager during his speech at the UN
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
miyazaki on war
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/09/2026
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down. trib.al/zW2vNhK
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Four wins Trump's people would rather you scroll past. One of them starts with a doorbell camera. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/he-told-of...
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He Told Off Trump’s ICE Chief. ICE Showed Up. So Did A Judge.
Also: Trump’s watchdog quit on 55,000 car buyers. Then Letitia James showed up. Plus the wind farm the regime tried to stop twice, and why a county’s Flock cameras are wearing trash bags.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 24/09/2026
Most people desire a firm foundation for morality. “Who wouldn’t like to point to something external that could silence Alex Jones—or at least the tireless sophomore at the back of every ethics class?” —Susan Neiman
nybooks.com
Is Morality Universal? | Susan Neiman
In The Diversity of Morals, Steven Lukes attempts to reconcile philosophical arguments that there is one morality despite cultural differences with empirical studies that suggest it’s all relative.
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“six months before the supposed ceasefire of october 25, the israeli military had dropped more bombs on gaza than had been dropped on london, dresden and hamburg together during world war II.” — susan neiman [“call it evil”]
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