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"look at this shiny new power tool! you all must use this new power tool!" ... "there's now a usage limit on your power tool"

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 13h

this is why we can't have nice things etc etc

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 19h

niche Calgary skeet: whoever designed the parkade at the Foothills hospital clearly hated everyone and everything with the force of a thousand dying suns.

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Air to Ground Message: UNDERSTOOD YOU LOST MY LUGGAGE. PLS ADVISE HOW I RECOVER IT Area: Somerville, NJ, USA Type: Boeing 777-300ER A: #a8e4ec80dc9 F: #f28ebf952bf

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

I'll be honest: I don't like Avi Lewis. I'm fairly sure I agree with him on policy about 90% of the time, but he rubs me the wrong way. It's also fairly clear he doesn't like Alberta, which doesn't help. none of this will stop me voting NDP but my point is that none of this surprises me.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

Doug Ford has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

Amazon: can you return it me: no Amazon: why me:

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

sometimes you get a package and you know it's going to be fucked before you even open it.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 26/09/2026

Danielle Smith polling lower than the separatist figureheads is *chef's kiss*.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good Evening. “Pierre Poilievre” was a four year psephological experiment conducted by the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Be right back, buying drones and fireworks that will spell out F U C K O F F across the night sky

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 25/09/2026

as a 25 year veteran of the tech industry, I can wholeheartedly say it only has itself to blame.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 25/09/2026

good lord what the fuck. were Meta's lawyers on drugs when they okayed this?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

I genuinely feel bad for Eliezer Yudkowsky and his partner over the very real terror they seem to feel about AI killing us all - but these are not well people and they need therapy, not insanely influential advisory roles at the top of government and industry. time.com/6266923/ai-e...

On March 16, my partner sent me this email. (She later gave me permission to excerpt it here.)
"Nina lost a tooth! In the usual way that children do, not out of carelessness! Seeing GPT4 blow away those standardized tests on the same day that Nina hit a childhood milestone brought an emotional surge that swept me off my feet for a minute. It's all going too fast. I worry that sharing this will heighten your own grief, but I'd rather be known to you than for each of us to suffer aloneỊạ
When the insider conversation is about the grief of seeing your daughter lose her first tooth, and thinking she's not going to get a chance to grow up, I believe we are past the point of playing political chess about a six-month moratorium.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

I have a lot of thoughts about this, OpenAI's part in it and the response to it. I am an idiot with opinions so I'm quite happy to have my mind changed on some of them. full disclosure: I would describe my views on AI as somewhere in the centre but I have no love for OpenAI et al.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

I will never understand furries, but I absolutely do not understand what his point is here. who gives two shits what consenting adult professionals get up to in their own time? are they flying planes in fursuits? no. so get your fucking nose out of people's private lives.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 23/09/2026

immigrants pay the same taxes and other deductions as anyone - including CPP! I know this because I'm an immigrant, although these days I'm also a citizen.

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Willie Jack's Favorite Uncle @dandantransient.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I love that some scientist was like, "i need a gillions of dollars worth of equipment to study how bats can swarm and not hit watch other," only to discover the secret is, bats are constantly running into each other like assholes

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 22/09/2026

"Pokemon's greed ruined my livelihood" dude I think you need to look in a mirror.

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I keep meeting smart informed Albertans who tell me they do not intend to vote, because they don’t want to legitimize the process, or because they know the premier is not bound by the results. But what if making us give up on voting is the whole point? My argument to vote - no matter the absurdity.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My personal rule is, always vote. Pick the least worst candidate. Pick the best referendum answer. The worst people don’t want you to vote. Vote

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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Setting aside the fact that Belarus wouldn’t come close to having enough potash available for export to replace Canadian imports, imagine thinking relying on **Belarus** to grow your country’s food supply was a viable option! 🤦🏼‍♂️

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 21/09/2026

my wild-ass theory: she's starting to feel pressure from the separatists in the UCP and this is her attempting to push back to remind them who's boss. a bold strategy Cotton, etc. etc. #cdnpoli #abpoli

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I understand the frustrations Alberta had after being abused for ten years by an out of touch federal government." That pot isn't going to stir itself, folks. #cdnpoli #abpoli

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 21/09/2026

we can laugh at the right wing dipshits being taken in by grifters all day long, but the left isn't immune and Lorenz is evidence of that.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 21/09/2026

why is it so hard for some Americans to understand that sometimes you just have to vote for the least worst option. why else do you think we voted for Trudeau multiple times.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 19/09/2026

I hereby revoke my consent to be confronted with Sankey diagrams.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 17/09/2026

20 year old me was a moron in so many ways. 44 year old me is still a moron in so many ways, but thankfully fewer of them. in all seriousness though, probably impressed. also confused at the now 22 year old who is taller than me.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 17/09/2026

Americans having a normal one again today I see.

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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Like, I don't care if Americans pinky-promise that it's never going to happen again and Trump was just an aberration. The fact that this COULD happen is clearly problematic, from a sovereignty perspective, and something we need to work to try and fix going forward.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 16/09/2026

your periodic reminder, should you need it, that Taylor Lorenz is full of shit. her entire career is social media. this is like asking my fuckin cats if they can be trusted with an open box of treats.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wow. Just wow. The Calgary-Shaw by-election was supposed to be a sleepy race and an easy win for the United Conservative Party but it ended up being a nail-biter with a surprise NDP win. daveberta.substack.com/p/wow-just-w...

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Wow! Just wow. NDP’s Kyle Campbell wins Calgary-Shaw by-election.

South Calgary voters backlash against Danielle Smith’s separation referendum

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

oh no the shot made my dog like trains and be really into 15th century history as his special interest

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 14/09/2026

I look at the discourse here about American politics and I'm just completely baffled as to why it's even a debate. I completely get the frustration and anger at some Democrats but in 99% of cases there is no "both lose" outcome regardless of how much there should be.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 11/09/2026

fuck, and I mean this strongly and firmly, off.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 11/09/2026

I am a massive fan of Nenshi with a burning hatred of the UCP and the billionaires often involved in this shit, but the message here worries me.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 11/09/2026

my current probably-unpopular-but-not-being-contrary-I-promise take is that reducing our reliance on the US also means making sure we have domestic datacentre capacity.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 11/09/2026

let's call it dry run number 2.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 10/09/2026

being educated is often a predictor of voting intent. a lot of tech workers are fairly well educated. the fact that people seem to think that tech workers are somehow right wing baffles me.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026

FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 09/09/2026

'President Trump is doing this to make sure again that we keep a level playing field, to deter retaliation and of course to protect American production," said the official, who spoke on the condition they not be named.' "not be named"? fucking cowards.

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 06/09/2026

re: bsky38.com and everything. I had a bit of sleep on it (4hrs) I'm trying my best not to take a lot of it personally, and I do not fault or hold ill content for anyone who doesn't want to use bsky38 or is talking about it in anger w/ AI. The world sucks and a lot of that is thanks to AI usage.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 05/09/2026

also behold - on the same installation! - this artisanal attempt at splicing. ladies and gentlemen that is ethernet.

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