RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Really sorry Bats, but Catwoman wins this round easily. 020
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Can't wait to see the new AI-generated images of all the food you don't serve 120
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Tech bros are constantly "inventing" trains and public bus service, so I am not terribly surprised they are getting around to "inventing" the public library 010
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Each time I lose the wager, I vow to myself that I will never fool myself in this way again, which of course is a lie. 041
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The idea that there is no absolute point, that speed and motion are always relative still twists my mind into knots. I understand it logically, but it goes against every intuitive concept I have. 010
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Not to mention the fact that Belarus only produces about half of what the US currently imports per year. Are they going to magically double their output? 020
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Smells like a business plan! A frosty, minty business plan 010
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026AI Boosterism and AI Doomerism are not two opposing narratives. They are the same narrative; two sides of the same coin, intentionally obscuring the fact that the current AI wave is NOT inevitable. 010
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026That is exactly right. The "inevitable" claim being pushed is meant to make people feel helpless. I am pleased to see the counter-idea of encouraging small personal actions getting significant traction. 0123
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bowls are AMAZING. Soup? Ice cream? Cereal? All failures without bowls, baby! Subscribe to my new podcast, Bowls, on Apple Music, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts 010
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"Violence work". This is my first time hearing that phrase. What a powerful, accurate and disturbing label 100
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Oh wow, instant memory unlock for me with the swim badges. I remember the pride at earning them, the texture of them, everything 000
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If you work on Wikipedia regularly, or want to start, you can get access to JSTOR and many other academic resources via the Wikipedia Library en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...en.wikipedia.orgWikipedia:The Wikipedia Library - Wikipedia 010
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Damn, leave some testosterone for the rest of us man! 000
Reposted by RhetoricX 🇨🇦🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I genuinely am begging people not to watch the new HP show. Like, also don't buy any branded stuff - she makes money off all that. But especially don't watch the damn show. 122876859
Reposted by RhetoricX 🇨🇦ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/08/2026The critical perspective on counter-arguments about Google and GNIS is that a society organized around blindly following automation and treating any information that is extruded by an information system as de facto authoritative is exactly the problem that critical tech scholars are raising about AI 419868
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I have been gradually deGoogling anyway, but this is a good push for me. I have switched from Google Maps to @comaps.app on my Android phone. Open source, smooth interface, uses @openstreetmap.bsky.social data 000
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026She is one of those rare celebrities where the more I learn about her, the more I admire her 000
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"The islands and bays are for sportsmen And Trump's rank hysteria renamed Lake 'America' He thinks that Lake Erie's too scary" Bit of a rough rhyme, but best I can do in these trying times 110
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The damage the USA has done to the relationship with Canada is generational. We "noisy Canadians" will not forget that Trump is the symptom, not the cause 040
Reposted by RhetoricX 🇨🇦Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This isn't the first time the USA has placed 50% tariffs on Canada. In 1890, the USA's Tariff Act was touted as a way to build up American industry, but the true goal was forcing the annexation of Canada. It backfired and made Canada stronger. This is the story. 📸 LoC 🧵1/10 13977587
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Igloo construction, zamboni driver, professional Maple Leafs lamentor (many Canadians do this as a hobby as well) Former professions that were once common but are no longer available include Tim Hortons fresh doughnut maker and F*ck Trudeau sticker manufacturer 000
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Yes, his qualifications are impressive. This thread is dealing with his concrete actions since becoming prime minister. If you care about the topic, it would be best to engage with the actual critiques instead of appealing to authority. 060
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026"Professor, you just revolutionized communications!" "What? But I was trying to rig the stock market!" 1210
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026So many well-intentioned anti-Trump Americans are delusional about the state of their country. They think all they need to do is get Trump out next election and elect a status quo, party-approved Democrat as president and everything will go back to "normal". 2151
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Carney was absolutely desperate to appease Trump and his cronies and we were only saved because Team Trump decided to demand a re-write of all Canadian law back to our Constitution because they don't like all this French language stuff we do. 010
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This what I think as well. Carney was fully ready to sign a terrible deal where we gave concessions to the US in exchange for them NOT doing bad things to us. It was like paying the mob "protection money". We were only saved from this by the US pushing so far that even Carney couldn't fold. 120
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We're done with elbows up. It's time for #GlovesOff 🇨🇦 010
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Carney has set the bar so low I almost think Stephen Harper would be better, and that is deeply unsettling to me 050
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026How in the world would he find ANYTHING his size in a thrift store? 110
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Once again, American reporting, even from an amazing organization like ProPublica, misses the point. The tarriffs are not the cause; they are a symptom. We Canadians are defending against an American government that has repeatedly and consistently threatened our sovereignty. 0122
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Ah yes, Scalzi, that guy who made his career "riffing on Star Trek". Old Man's Warbird, The Gorn Brigades, Starter Vulcan, Agent to the Starfleet, The Klingon Preservation Society, The Collapsing Enterprise... 090
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026OK but counterpoint: there ain't no burger in the world our boy T-Rex couldn't get his chompers around. Sources: panels 2 and 6 of every comic 3200
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 27/07/2026True, but APPARENTLY this is not what the host of the party is supposed to do. This is why I don't host many parties I guess 020
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 27/07/2026That's my introverted self's cue to latch on to the conversation and ignore everyone else at the party for the next two hours. 230
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Spoken like someone who has never actually experienced "no food at all" 020
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I voted Liberal, wanting an economically competent prime minister to calmly deflect Trump, start diversifying our economy away from the US, and not roll back LGBTQ rights or environmental policy. Instead we got the second coming of Harper, and I regret my vote every damn day 150
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This account has been consistently good, but this one may be the best yet 000
RhetoricX 🇨🇦 @rhetoricx.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Some major bias here! I bet you wouldn't criticise a sea otter doing the same traffic shenanigans. Let's make room for aquatic influencers of all body types! 030
