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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

FWIW Britain didn’t either- the Parliament elected in 1935 governed for 10 years, until after VE Day

Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I mean, in this case I do see the point, largely because one of the pilots was a Quebec francophone, the CEO has been called out for this kind of thing before, and it wouldn't have been hard to read something off a teleprompter with sort-of-okay pronunciation.

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This seems much more sensible than waking up a hibernating groundhog to demonstrate that it cannot see its shadow.

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Hey @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social I was also going to point this out - this is potentially a very sinister and deniable form of police brutality

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Though with the larger cathedrals I guess I could be possible.

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The First World War took the lives of about 2,900 Toronto residents, or about two per cent of the city’s male population. This map owes a lot to the Canadian Great War Project, which was generous about sharing its research. /2 t.co/Z2HMqKg2dk

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Here is a working link to the original Poppy File map, which shows about 3,300 of Toronto's Second World War war dead at the household level. Click on a home to see details. The First World War map follows in the thread /1 t.co/4P9GUkl8m0

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The problem here is that it’s pretty clear that having punched Prince Andrew, who is such a repulsive person on so many levels, in the face is very unlikely to bring you into disrepute in the eyes of right-thinking members of society, so I’m not sure where this legal claim is likely to end up

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

And here I was just thinking that I couldn’t get enough of the US election-

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Pity the poor newsroom intern on this one: "We need something on Syrskyi's statement on Kursk!" "He doesn't seem to have said much. What am I supposed to do with ... " "Never mind, make it work. I'll be in meetings all morning."

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Victoria Day! The energy is a mildly illegal monarchist anarchist thing, also mostly a spring festival

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Oaxaca has a well-developed protest culture, up to a point

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

This *definitely* points to a Canadian/US cultural difference: you can work beside someone for years in this country without it ever coming up where, or if, they went to university, let alone it being a huge cultural signifier. @jbenton

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

I'm sort of fascinated that, given that the Taurus issue has become a major and controversial aspect of German foreign and defence policy, that Scholz hasn't ever tried to articulate or justify his government's actual position in public. Am I missing something?

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

I’m … missing something here.

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

The @nytimes's coverage of higher education seems to be founded immovably on the ideas that 1) there are three or four universities in the United States, none of them in New York itself, and that 2) readers have an unlimited appetite for controversies involving Harvard. /1

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Odd, the Sun didn't seem to have run a cartoon yesterday. Could have sworn I saw something.

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

I used to have a cat with this energy, more when she was younger tbh. She pulled it off way better

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

"I am kind of surprised that no politicians have woken up to this, because it's an easy low-hanging fruit for (them) to find some area in which bureaucrats are performing poorly, and berate them for it publicly.": @FurnessColin tx also @MoriartyLab

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Both on the left shoulder- I’ll know in the morning whether this was a mistake

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

"Let's fire all the site reliability engineers! What could go wrong?"

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

This approach to social needs tweaking.

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

So why spend more time in the kingdom of Melon, the treasonous man-child? It's a necessary question, and has been for a while. Here are some flawed rationalizations, for now: /1

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Does any Canadian podcast earn anything close to $10 million?

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

I don't usually share family-related stuff on here, but I'll make an exception for #1, our 17 y/o, who spent most of August in Ukraine working for a food NGO, @LVKitchen2014. I think the Canadian flag on their flag wall is the one he brought with him. Next up: @MountAllison.

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

At Cherry Beach, where two party boats tied together seem to have run aground

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Patrick Cain @patrickcain.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

Here's an unexpected wrinkle - Facebook won't let me link out to the Guardian.

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