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@michaelabuckley.bsky.social
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Toronto burger. A real person who should probably be doing something else.

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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Chad UKR stop oil activist
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I’m a convert to freezer cubes for leftovers. Unlabeled yoghurt tubs are just garbage you haven’t thrown out yet.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That sign can't stop me because I can't read.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is Scientology erasure.
The fan fiction that launched a thousand cults is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, or HPMOR. It is possibly the highest-impact single modern religious text, rivalled only by the Book of Mormon. Its influence may not yet have
peaked. It is the holy book of the first great internet cult.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The mythical weightlifter who skips arm day.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The sensory homunculus is a funny little guy too. But a day late for Hobbit Day. image.slideserve.com/450102/the-s...
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
worst person
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1 in 1000? 1 in 5?
The median age of this group was more than 77.
The vast majority - around 96% - had a death deemed "reasonably foreseeable", due to severe medical conditions such as cancer.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My first instinct is to back the outfitters. That's good money in communities with limited income diversity. Until this guy, and now I want burn him to the ground. Banning Americans from outfitter/guide licenses doesn't stop the income, and hurts him especially. Sounds like a win.
Burns described himself as a "Trump Republican." He compared the province's threat of restricting American access to New Brunswick’s fish and wildlife to something his president would do.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A basket to corral lids. Stacks of mostly the same size. Easy to see leftovers.
Stacks or glass containersA basket with sorted lidsFood you can see in the fridge.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
BC is without peer.
ABSOLUTE
CINEMA
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Meet the new face of the Hamilton Tiger Cats.
A tilcayo tiger cat, native to Bolivia.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/cats/scientists-name-a-new-cat-species-for-the-first-time-in-over-a-century
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy to hear it. And I guarantee more Canadians saw this map than that poll, while your ambassador kicks us in the nuts every week.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That you and the average American never saw or felt that doesn't surprise me. You guys are the big dogs.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What’s a poster to do on a 3-day suspension but compose a lore dump?
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Toronto coyotes are awfully casual these days.
Coyote chilling
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I mean the literal dictionary definition. Financial wealth is not the only use of that word. Historically, not even the most important.
Screenshot of Miriam Webster: 
“Especially: the stock of useful goods having economic value in existence at any one time
national wealth”
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have a proposal for the 50.
Portrait of HM in red.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's wild out there.
hailstone the size of a golfball.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Centrists vs Leftists redux.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This section is rank cakism. A truly high-walled trade agreement might be durable. But a semi-open, actively-negotiated trade regime requiring sync between three governments is just waiting for the solvent of money and corruption to dissolve it (again).
Canada, Mexico, and the United States cannot afford to become a "Fortress North America"
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This was interesting. It is rare for an American to recognize that 40 million Americans still isn’t enough to make autarky competitive.
North American integration is worth trying to save: the greater scale offered by one large USMCA consumer market permits companies to spread their fixed costs over more units of production.
Fundamental differences among the three countries allow for specialization based on what workers and companies in each do best.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Where does this break down?
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
4-panels.
- Excuse me everyone, sorry to interrupt
- I have sunshine on the other line
- I have to take this call
- ... (hikes off into the sunset)
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Honey Huan "translating" for Mao post-stroke.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I like this one.
Patch of informal “unicorn” battalion.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I should not know who Pete Buttigieg is. In a just world, the name Bari Weiss would mean as much to me as Nordic runes.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Funny.
Zukhov
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
TBF, this is pretty woke. Or dope. I get them confused.
Charles, in red.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Until Iran and Israel rocket to the top of the decarbonizing standings, Slava Ukraini.
Chad Ukrainian stop oil activist.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What is different here is that they can't be killed.
"You cannot kill me in a way that matters" in needlepoint.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sigh
Marvin the paranoid robot and Arthur
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Bruce cast himself in the movie. He looks at the camera and says: “If you want to drive, you have to kill”.
"move or die"
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Bruce McDonald made a whole movie about this feeling.
Roadkill movie poster.  "a rock'n'road movie about a girl who learns to drive".
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Doug Ford is a vandal.  Change my mind.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is hilarious. The Cons are starting to figure out that Canadians don't want to be led by lightweight university-politics losers.
“When you elect leaders who are completely and utterly unaccomplished prior to entering politics and who have entered politics in their 20s, you are going to be very vulnerable to running against somebody who has actually done something with their life.”

“And why [Andrew] Scheer is still sitting in the caucus is the same reason why Poilievre will end up sitting in the caucus after he’s done being leader: because he is unemployable in any other job,” Teneycke added.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Starfire telling truths.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Time for the meme again.
chad Ukraining stop-oil activist actually stops oil
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Is there anything so simultaneously grand and democratic as a hoser government campground?
Sunset through some flies.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
You can just use the subjunctive. They aren't afraid of grammar.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you tell a lot of lies, you get a reputation as a liar.
When NATO's American supreme commander tells him during this same period that the Americans are certain Russia will invade Ukraine, Bauer pushes back. 'The days of taking you at your word are over. You lied in 2003. Not a little bit - you lied big. If you want people to believe you, you're going to have to show them.'
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Somehow, Shumer returned.
list of muted words, with "Shumer" expired.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The same at Sherway Gardens. They renovated and took out all at the gardens!
Fountains at the old Sherway Gardens
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Canada similarly turned off the taps in the 1980s and our housing pool has also gone dry.
Government Involvement in Housing Supply, Canada, 1947-1985
Bar chart showing a marked drop in government participation in housing construction starting in 1981.

From https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/schl-cmhc/NH15-518-1987-eng.pdf
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I suppose, in practice. But it elides my deep nausea at the whole thing. A reeling vertigo as we circle the abyss.
Machine-learning  Quadrant cosmo quiz answer; 

The Kontextmaschine

patron saint: kontextmaschine
It's real, it's powerful, and you find the panic about it as tedious as the hype. You're not interested in whether AI is good or bad — you're interested in who captures the value, who loses their leverage, and which institutions are using it as a story to do what they were already doing. Same as it ever was.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.
David Byrne is a big suit
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Here is a postwar Calgary bungalow. The midday sun never touches a wall or the window.
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Shardik, by Richard Adams
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MichaelB @michaelabuckley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hair-shirt green isn’t just bad political economy, it is anti-human. Sterling and the Viridians are eloquent here.
But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.
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