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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Given how fragile Camadian federalism already is, this isn't really politically tenable. Getting all 10 provincial legislatures to unanimously sign on for that option isn't in the cards.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Alas, there's no Anglo equivalent for "Dehors, les pourris!"

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And a vanishingly narrow and singular concept of societal resilience.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The chestburster homage in Spaceballs.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm no expert on American demography. But I have seen American culture like the tv series "Cops". Have you seen it? It's a weekly vignette of happenstance encounters with the American working class.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will say: at some point in the last 5 years I got kind of good. Anyone in the Hamilton-Niagara region want to start a post-hardcore band of 45 year olds?

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My favourite part of Ace Combat 8's story so far is when the dead ace narrates Theve as a frigid white waste, a forgotten no man's land beyond remembering and history, and then you fly over Theve and it's literally a map of normal Toronto.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is an entire literature around this. The concept of "stealth learning" through games. Defamiliarize the context of a security problem in a game and you can prompt reflections that would be difficult to elicit with a more fastidiously realistic set up.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a fantastic piece on the contemporary resurgence of the raid (which makes my now two-year old dissertation feel increasingly irrelevant)

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A monk in 1502: "my hard earned talent for illumination whithers every time I reach for the antisemetic pamphlet of crude grotesques"

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After a year of regular dealings with Brussels, I've come to suspect that the most urgent response NATO could muster to a direct attack would be a salvo of "out of office" auto replies.

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The Jigsaw Senator @senatormeow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i haven't heard the song or read the article about not hearing the song

Norman Rockwell's painting Freedom of Speech

Freedom of Speech depicts a scene of a 1942 Arlington town meeting in which Jim Edgerton, the lone dissenter to the town selectmen's announced plans to build a new school, as the old one had burned down, was accorded the floor as a matter of protocol. Edgerton supported the rebuilding process but was concerned about the tax burden of the proposal, as his family farm had been ravaged by disease. A memory of this scene struck Rockwell as an excellent fit for illustrating "freedom of speech", and inspired him to use his Vermont neighbors as models for the entire Four Freedoms series.

The blue-collar speaker wears a plaid shirt and suede jacket, with dirty hands and a darker complexion than others in attendance. The other attendees are wearing white shirts, ties and jackets. One of the men in the painting is holding a document that reveals a subject of the meeting as "a discussion of the town's annual report". Edgerton's youth and workmanlike hands are fashioned with a worn and stained jacket, while the other attendees appear to be older and more neatly and formally dressed. According to Bruce Cole of The Wall Street Journal, Edgerton is shown "standing tall, his mouth open, his shining eyes transfixed, he speaks his mind, untrammeled and unafraid", and his face resembles Abraham Lincoln. According to Robert Scholes, the work shows audience members in rapt attention with admiration of the speaker, who resembles a Gary Cooper or Jimmy Stewart character in a Frank Capra film. According to John Updike, the work is painted without any painterly brushwork.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is already a parallel world Melbourne in Canada: Montreal.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The sad part is I'm not sure PS would act on any of that information, or even contemplate that it could.

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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

CF-188 HEP Phase VII in 2064, every RCAF hornet has been ship of Theseus'd twice over, the F-35 has been retired, the replacement program is mired in scandal

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The best criticism of the Build Canada Strong legislation is that it leans more on "give politicians discretion to skip our bad processes" than it does fixing the underlying bad processes, but no one wants to deal with the latter quagmire.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@aelkus.bsky.social we should never have hurt that Gorilla

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

FWIW, I worry less about any American intervention into Canada than I do chaos after the midterms that ends up causing a crisis

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t think tactical proficiency is a problem in the American military

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 21/09/2026

Not leaving.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Haggis is great. It should be eaten in non-Scottish contexts.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Awwww I love this. Me: 🇨🇦/🇮🇪 Parents: 🇮🇪/🇬🇧** Grandparents: 🇮🇪🇮🇪/🇬🇧🇬🇧 Great grandparents🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪/🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇮🇪 **are more divorced than any other two people on earth

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“This anti-establishment message doesn’t really hold water” “So you think the establishment is perfect all the time???” Probably the most annoying, regular interaction that happens all the time

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I return to my contention that the real benefit of Canadian federalism is that at any given moment there's always one province whose political situation can provide entertainment for everyone else.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gotta say, when this season started, I didn't anticipate having to emotionally choose between "Blue Jays don't go the playoffs" or "Blue Jays claw their broken corpses to the playoffs only to then likely watch their pitchers' arms fall off one by one."

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This, while also imparting "listens to dad" vibes. Notable this was also his standing in the Ford family.

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Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The BCCons business is extremely funny, so I support it. But it's also just the liveliest version of a tension we're seeing across the Canadian right. The basic shape of the problem is you can't pitch a tent big enough to contain the post-COVID far right and also win an election.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I suppose this is giving this post more attention than it deserves (though you do still see this sentiment around elsewhere) but this kind of rabid small-r republicanism is so empty and odd in a modern world where constitutional monarchies have clearly been part of the democratic club for a century.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All righty. 8 to go. Let's all die together.

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מיידלבאס ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @pharisee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the people of canada must know the painful suffering of sitting down for a four hour ryanair flight at six in the morning, only to find the rows both behind and in front of you occupied by a stag do who are already drunk

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah. "The scream into a paper bag" approach. I acerted myself from sending a scathing reply to a "reviewer 2" once by using this approach.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Right! There's a core claim here - that a war (the 2003 invasion of Iraq) which was supposed to increase stability in the region in fact destabilized it - that is very clearly right and a devastating indictment of W. Bush's foreign policy. But it gets washed out in this sort of exaggeration.

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm going to push further: there's a direct line from Sylvester Stallone, penning the script of Rambo III.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

luckily, this is all sound and fury signifying nothing, because French nuclear doctrine is renowned for its caution and restraint

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Les Paul Atreides @lordoforbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Don't love the city. But: Vancouver.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 18/09/2026

Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/09/2026

it's time to confront some harsh truths. some ideas that may shock and offend. notions that will be met with anger but must nonetheless be stated. for example: the tomtom club song is the weakest part of the stop making sense concert

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