Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One for every Russian battleship lost… 1132
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 177123722647
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Pope can’t resist his pizza. 514110081869
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The new four questions for an Eagles themed Passover just dropped 4662
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Republicans never actually believe that Republicans are in charge of anything, it’s one of their more baffling pathologies. 242263
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Megan McArdle believes that we would all benefit from more intellectual charity in the exciting cut and thrust of the blogosphere. There is indeed a plausible case for this. What there is not a plausible case for, in my opinion, is more intellectual charity towards Megan McArdle." I stand by this. 615715
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A raccoon - cat encounter in our backyard. Not our cat, we keep ours indoors. These Vancouver Island raccoons are rather small, and Tuxedo Boy here is a medium-large cat. 092
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776162112
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.apple.newsThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood ReporterThe Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing. 763616944
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The U.S. government contacted Quebec government, in an attempt to bypass Canada in trade talks. Quebec said no. Ingérence: Washington a approché Québec directement sur les tarifs douaniers pour court-circuiter Ottawa dans la guerre commerciale | TVA Nouvelles www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/09/25/w...tvanouvelles.ca 15829
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you aren't eating worms, what are you even doing 000
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦regcalgary.bsky.social @regcalgary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If incidents like this don't persuade us that society, meaning government, must take a robust and leading role in the regulation of #AI, then we're all culpable for the outcomes. As B.C. Premier Eby noted in the story, these companies and their founders are completely untrustworthy. 072
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026He married Diana Mitford (surprise, a Nazi!) in Joseph Goebbel’s offices, and invited (surprise!) literally Adolf Hitler. 1433029
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi. 51757246
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I would watch the heck out of a Columbo episode in which interviews 20 bears. 3216
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I often think about the speed camera chopping vigilante who returned to the scene of their crime on Parkside Drive multiple times but Toronto police didn’t catch them & it led to Doug Ford banning speed cameras for 16 million people & now speeding is at epidemic levels & people will die. 2331080
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026This may end up being the most consequential story I’ve written, or one of them. “How many AI data centers are actually functional” is the most obvious question of the bubble - and the most important answer to understand what’s going on - yet answering it with any specificity has taken years. 12842235
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is a clarion call to MAGA North to step up their misinformation and destruction, coordinated with the Alberta referendum. All based on obvious lies. A clear incident of foreign interference. Feds should call in Hoekstra for a dressing down. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caTrump says Canada is 'destroying itself' with immigration. Ministers say that's bogus | CBC NewsU.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Canadian immigration policies on Wednesday, saying the country is "destroying itself" by allowing "millions" of people into the country without proper securit... 1514664
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's called film "footage" because camera operators initially held the cameras with their feet. That changed after a film shoot in 1931, when an operator got a foot cramp and was forced to hold the camera in his hands. The "footage" he got that day was extraordinary. That man's name? Hans Cameraman. 612268385
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This was an informative read and also seems like a sensible, actionable recommendation. 010
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The NDP faced a day of snap election questions and arguably their top minister calling it quits. The Conservatives had a day of former rivals holding hands and the party as energized as its been in months. Elections aren't won on the first day, but it's one the opposition is happy with. 67410
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic. 984457966
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 23/09/2026The Belleville synagogue shooter was an antisemitic COVID conspiracist discharged from the army for refusing vaccines. It's wild that commentary on this shooting IMMEDIATELY went to anti-immigrant, Islamophobic bigotry. But THIS is the extremism that sent me an antisemitic death threat in 2022.globalnews.caBelleville gunman spouted COVID-19 conspiracies while in army, say sources | Globalnews.caThe Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022. 7322129
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Bethany Lindsay @bethanylindsay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My plan was to tally how many "crisis pregnancy centres" had lost charity status or beefed up disclosure of their anti-abortion stances since tighter restrictions were announced in 2024. Instead I discovered the Liberals had quietly abandoned this promise. theijf.org/article/otta...theijf.orgOttawa promised to crack down on anti-abortion ‘crisis pregnancy centres.’ Carney’s Liberals have abandoned that goalAbortion rights activist who lobbied for changes says surprise news is ‘such a shame’ 01614
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ok, “Don’t draw an X” is a wildly new voter instruction that overturns what we’ve spent a century telling people to do. I hope this is just one place in the 519 or millions of people are going to be voting wrong 4164
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🚨 SNAP ELECTION OFFICIALLY CALLED FOR OCTOBER 24 🚨 Conservatives and CentreBC will be holding a joint press conference soon Other further right members of the Conservative caucus have been told they won’t be able to run with them. THE POLITICS ARE POLITICKING MORE THAN THEY’VE EVER POLITICKED 1513743
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"the REDWOOD story can be seen as triumph or disaster, but surely it is neither; nor did it have a profound effect on events in, or relations with, Iran. But it is a story definitely worth reading" Gill Bennet reviews Ben Macintyre's Redwood: engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...engelsbergideas.comThe Cold War blind spots behind Iran's rift with the WestThe story of a KGB officer who fled revolutionary Tehran for Britain shows how misjudgements in Moscow, London and Washington deepened the Islamic Republic's suspicion of foreign powers. 000
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social · 22/09/20261/n: Because of record-breaking diesel prices, the Trump Admin is reportedly considering a diesel export ban. There is one part of the country that this would squeeze tremendously, risking physical shortages that would prevent people from heating their homes in winter: New England (PADD 1A). 1117969
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Making it impossible for anyone outside Canada to know what time it is here is an important part of reinforcing Canadian sovereignty. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 2836285
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Do I hear $25 a gallon? Who will bid $30 a gallon? 100
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 22/09/2026Performing self-care by not scrolling the usual trash Zionist accounts on the Bad Place and reading my brother's reporting instead.thestar.comInside the terrifying moments of the Belleville synagogue shooting: ‘Get on the floor’Police have not revealed a suspected motive for the shooting at the Sons of Jacob synagogue, which has left a police officer injured and the suspect clinging to life. 152
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Frederick William I settled for just parading the Potsdam Grenadiers through his bedroom when he was feeling down. 000
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And one of them isn't even a prophet of international relations 000
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026'Had I ever considered dual citizenship? If so, he could help. “My friends,” he said, “call me the Harriet Tubman of white people.”' 😳 000
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yes, we were all just paying way more for potash than we had to, because we are morons. Thank you for your attention to our imbecility. 010
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If they want this protein for their families, why weren't they eating more of it before? Did they just get The Good News About Protein yesterday or something? Hypothesis: they are switching from more to less expensive meat, because they can't afford it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_...en.wikipedia.orgGiffen good - Wikipedia 110
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A hopeful development, but Ukraine also needs platforms: "The limited availability of the Su-24M/MR Fencer swing-wing combat jets that currently launch Ukraine’s Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles are currently a limiting factor and there is no realistic means of replacing them." 000
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A work of art, including the finer points of (a) 60 Minutes, which was mutilated by conservative Republicans and (b) the cowboy hat, which for 50+ years has symbolized faux-self-reliance subsidized by an intricate web of government policies. 291292190
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We’ve already had fake AI-generated “neighbourhood” campaigns in Toronto. Now this. 66735
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026On What is Living and What is Dead in 20th century-style Fascism, with a warm thank-you to @nahlahayed.bsky.social for a serious follow-up conversation in Toronto.cbc.ca© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved. 0219
Philip Koop 🇨🇦 @philkoop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026h/t Stefan Korshak, this graph makes it clear who has raised diesel prices. 000
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I 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. 833257
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 20/09/2026Kerry Lynne-Findlay has lost another key member of the Conservative caucus as Kerry Lynne-Findaly is resigning as party leader 28610
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Fabian Hoffmann, PhD @frhoffmann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026🚀 With Russian ballistic missile production rising and far outpacing Europe's ability to supply interceptors, Ukraine has little choice but to try to interdict Russian ballistic missiles before they are launched. But can it do so? missilematters.substack.com/p/can-ukrain...missilematters.substack.comCan Ukraine Hunt Russian Mobile Missile Launchers?Why Ukraine's effort to interdict Russian Iskander-M launchers is difficult but not impossible 110423
Reposted by Philip Koop 🇨🇦Dr. Liz: Life in the Aftertimes @lgkatzphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is the most American thing I've ever seen. 3197
