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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 47m

To all the Americans asking how they can be allies to Canadians: this. This is how

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 4h

Yes and that's why I refuse to be drawn into debates about whether this or that Israeli person or policy is good or bad. The relevant question is, how do/should we deal with similar people and policies that are not Israeli?

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 4h

If protesting outside religious services is legal, and people want to continue protesting outside Jewish services, then the only symmetric response is escalation. Which brings us back to Phoebe's point but in this broader context: sure it's legal but is this really what we *as a society* want?

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 4h

To which I and other opponents of death-to-Jews sermons would say, but we don't wanna. We don't want more protests outside objectionable religious services, we want fewer. And this is a conflict between protester types and non-protester types, not pro-Palestine types and pro-Israel types.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 4h

"It's fine to protest both Regev and those people" is a respectable enough position, and certainly some people (not everyone) who think that people attending Regev services are fair targets for protests would think it acceptable to protest mosque services that platformed death-to-Jews speakers.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 4h

I find the question "Is Regev awful, y/n" interesting mostly in the broader context of platforming/protesting awful people who speak at religious services, because multiple Canadian mosques have platformed people, including imams, who have called for death to Jews, in those words, to no protests.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 23h

There's a voting station 1.5 blocks from me. I may or may not make the trek. (The NDP candidate will win with at least 60% of the vote, with or without me.)

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is there anything they're promising that they *couldn't* have done without calling an election? Besides all the things that they also won't be able to do if they win this election, that is.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've gone entire winters without turning on the heat - in Vancouver, mind - not because I'm made of particularly tough stuff but because I invested in a pair of heated socks, hands-down the best $100 I have ever spent on a single pair of socks.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You could also purchase the book from wherever ebooks are sold. This would go against the spirit of Canadian Library Month, but I'll allow it.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Apparently October is Canadian Library Month. There's never been a better time to borrow my award-winning Canadian novel, THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, from your local Canadian library! And if your library doesn't carry it, there's never been a better time to request it. www.overdrive.com/media/128041...

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eBook - The Middle of Nowhere

Everyone in Rupert, Ontario knows Bob Gillis as the quiet middle-aged man who runs the town's grocery store – and that's all. The first twenty years of Bob's life are a mystery even to his wife and ch...

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm waiting for that to happen in Canada but I'm not holding my breath. So far it's the third party that's going that route, and they have less chance than ever before of leading the country. But their dwindling membership appears to see [gestures vaguely] as a feature rather than a bug, so.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I actually find the bigotry easier to stomach than the smug ignorance. It offends me that we've ceded any cultural power at all, let alone this much, to people whose only contribution to the discussion is the repetition of slogans that they've received secondhand, and who are proud of this fact.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Homophobia isn't real because when you think about it, is anyone really afraid of sameness? I am very smart

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Professor Power @powerofacademe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that we are here trying to debunk what should be obvious ahistorical, irrational gobbledegook of figural Judaism is a symptom of how far along into epistemic collapse we already are.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But think of all the additional jobs that this will create!

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most of those are supply manged, which is a literal government sponsored and protected cartel designed to raise prices. Artificially increasing the price of milk and eggs then layering price controls on top because the price is too high is completely incoherent

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everything else (and there is a lot of everything else) aside: even the NDP has nothing to offer vegans

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(I'm all for broad education. I'm against the idea that the specific education that OP received/delivered is a necessary or sufficient component of good-personness)

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ChatGPT, tell me which members of the Trump administration studied history at the postsecondary level

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I don't see any of the people on my 'Nazis and fascists' blocklists talking about this issue!!!!!"

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The Canadian Jewish News @thecjn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fundraising campaigns for the Belleville police officer, who was seriously injured during the Yom Kippur attack and the synagogue he was protecting, continue to grow and surpass initial goals as donors around the world contribute. Read more: thecjn.ca/news/fundrai...

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Fundraisers for Belleville officer and synagogue surpass initial goals

The campaigns are helping support Const. Jeff Smith and fund security and building repairs at Sons of Jacob Synagogue.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remembrance Day is not a statutory holiday in Ontario. Schools hold assemblies, and many workplaces observe a minute of silence at 11:11.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Similarly, I've seen some red-triangle-and-watermelon accounts get all exercised about the fact that there are fewer bomb shelters in Arab towns than in Jewish ones, which - you mean fewer shelters to protect Arabs from the bombs that are a justified part of the resistance?

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My aging parents have a bathroom on the first floor, and added a built-in chair to their shower. Both have come in handy for: - me, when I had long COVID - younger niece when she had major surgery at age 12 (her house doesn't have ground-floor bathrooms) Parents, meanwhile, haven't needed either yet

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Motte/Bailey in play here is that the antizionists who wear "globalize the intifada" T-Shirts will revert to "oh so I'm not allowed to say that I do not particularly care for Ben Gvir????" as soon as you suggest that they're engaging in something other than principled critique of foreign affairs

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For the past week, I've heard a lot of people say "provincial and municipal elections happening at the same time is confusing, especially since I don't fully understand what a city is in control of." So, I did a four minute explainer piece to try and help www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqlh...

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What municipalities can and can’t do in B.C.

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Checking in on how Eby's opportunistic snap election against an opposition with no permanent leader is going

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(Though maybe 10,000 words aren't necessary, and the story isn't much more complicated than "rational people, particularly those who don't consider any traditional norms to be beyond question, are very good at rationalizating their desires, and what desire is stronger than yadda yadda yadda")

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(I had, however, observed that "rationalist" tends to signify "libertine", and I would read a 10,000-word piece about how and why this came to be. Perhaps naively, I had considered the two categories to be independent.)

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feeling very nostalgic for ten minutes ago, before I had heard of any of this.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, that's the market for this: modern-day hippies who avoid refined sugar but smoke a LOT of weed

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I guarantee that there is a market for this in Vancouver.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day 12 and a half years ago I saw the coolest ever iceberg. Never seen one like it since. Fellsfjara, Jökulsárlón, #Iceland

A six-foot (ish) high turquoise iceberg with a small friend on a black sand beach. Grey rainy day with some of the turquoise reflected in the blank sand, and long exposure smooth waves breaking.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This world is so alien to me, and I'm so glad. I too have the "bare nail look" and it costs me a lot less time and money than it costs these people. If anyone gives any thought to my nails, then I am blissfully unaware.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm morbidly curious as to who will step up to run *and inevitably win*. In the past we at least had representatives who were competent, because the riding nomination was competitive. Now, though? Who knows.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Once upon a time, I respected him. In retrospect, many of the signs that that was a mistake were there all along

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For sure. I'll see how the campaign plays out and who's running in my deep orange riding. Will it be worth getting dressed and crossing the street to vote on election day? We'll see!

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh for sure. Though in my case I do not consider the NDP my side. I can't imagine an election outcome that would make me very happy, but by the same token, I can't imagine one that would be all that disappointing

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Same, though mine (and I suspect yours) are tempered by the knowledge that the election may take us out of the frying pan and into, maybe not the fire so much as a different frying pan. But a change would at least be refreshing

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