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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 29/09/2026

Breaking news: Sports Illustrated to rename themselves to Athletics Illustrated.

Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 29/09/2026

Wishing I had a parabolic mike, to listen in as my annoying neighbour talks to the lawn care guy while pointing at my trees.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 22/09/2026

My understanding was that people are allowed to protest on Parliament Hill for weeks before the police can do anything about it.

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Charlotte Prong @charlotteprong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

With $1.7 million you could rent $1400 apartments for 20 people for 5 years.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 15/09/2026

The only way you can take a republic country like the United States and turn it into an authoritarian country is by causing chaos on purpose and then saying, 'hey look, government is a mess. You need us, the authoritarian country, to rule you.' It's insane.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

"don't you care about fairness in sports?" No actually, I don't. Nobody does

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 12/09/2026

Ruin a movie by remembering Mel Gibson is in it. I’ll go first: Lethal Weapon 3.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 11/09/2026

If you want Indictments When there’s no Evidence That’s a morass

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 10/09/2026

Demanding you accept as true things you can plainly see are not is part of the authoritarian playbook. This is not a gaffe, by Johnson or the network or the camera operator. This is an intentional display of power and an implicit demand for submission. The proper response _is_ to laugh at them. 😂😂😂

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 03/09/2026

Well, that’s horrifying, but obvious once stated.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s pretty blackpilling that Republicans are actively trying their best to destroy the world and the biggest media outlets in the U.S. (in some cases owned by said Republicans) are making shit up about progressives instead of covering it. We need to replace that whole media ecosystem

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 19/08/2026

Canadian Armed Forces, are you thinking what I’m thinking?

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 13/08/2026

So thankful for all the people that give me pain. No idea how I’d remember my name without them.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

notable that he thinks his fiance getting abducted by ICE is something that happened to him, as opposed to her

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 04/08/2026

I can think of so many better ways to pass the time away than by working’ on the railroad.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026

AI is a normal tech. That means there are times when it is useful and times when it is pointless or actively harmful. One rule of thumb for chatbots is that they can only provide useful information to experts who have the discernment to ignore the defective output that LLMs *always* emit. 60/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/07/2026

Stop using Chrome, switch to Firefox: protonprivacy.substack.com/p/google-is-... So, once you're on your actual computer, using Firefox, how can you disenshittify your internet experience? 23/

protonprivacy.substack.com

Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good

The conflict of interest couldn't be more obvious

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 08/07/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there’s a difference between “don’t take any shit” and “never acknowledge that you might be wrong”.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 06/07/2026

Any high ranking #FIFA officials still in the USA, or have they all decamped to Mexico ahead of a game they intervened in on Donald Trump’s request, but which the #USMNT might still lose?

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 03/07/2026

This, but for Gilligan’s Island.

The “Dr. Sam Becket never returned home” screen shot from the end of the final episode of the original Quantum Leap.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Where are they hiding the 47 year old tradwives??

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 22/06/2026

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine Thank goodness my drinks are free Cause I’m ordering shots, just, like, so many shots For there’s something I need to unsee

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 18/06/2026

What if the intent with the Reflecting Pool was to make it a Soylent vat?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

If shitty people stopped getting away with so much shit, then shitty people, who currently notice that it’s very easy for shitty people to get away with so much shit, might instead notice it is no longer easy to get away with shit, and stop doing so many shitty things and getting away with it.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 14/06/2026

[520910 #-bright-spring-afternoon].

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 14/06/2026

Is correlation causation? A provocative new working paper explores whether it might be.

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Detroit Breakdown @detroitbreakdown.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 11/06/2026

I for one am excited for Trump’s new ballroom. It’s shocking to me that the country has not previously had a place where a couple hundred rich people could get together for dinner, drinks and dancing. /1

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 11/06/2026

Donald Trump, probably: “A lot of people don’t know, there’s a North and a South America. Two Americas. Did you know that? You didn’t know that. Think about it. The South had some good ideas, though. General Lee. Heck of a guy. Heck of a car too. The David Duke boys, what happened to them.”

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 07/06/2026

Petition to rename “The Last Supper” to “Sip, Sup, Saviour”.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 07/06/2026

Going to start calling blue “infra violet”, and orange “ultra red”.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 02/06/2026

If we’re being honest, this was inevitable. Surprised it took so long, really.

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Karen (yes, yes, I know 😈) @karkin64.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🏳️‍⚧️🌈😁😁😁

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 01/06/2026

Pronouncing dandelion “dan-DEE-lee-un” so people think I’m talking about growing an exotic flower, not a common weed.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

You don't have to overturn Citizens United to beat it. Corporations only exist because states charter them, so a state can decide spending in elections isn't a power they wield. Not regulation, redefinition. Hawaii made it law. Montana's gathering signatures. More states are watching.

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

The Novel Progressive Legal Theory That Could Undo Citizens United

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026

For generations, the American empire was the most powerful force on earth, and so we tended to assume that it was the most *durable* force on earth - surely anything so powerful *must* also be *eternal*? 1/

A detail from Dore's engraving depicting the drowning of the Leviathan - a great sea-serpent thrashing in a chaotic dark sea. The image has been altered: it has been hand-tinted. The sea serpent is wearing a MAGA hat. Drowning nearby are a beleagured Uncle Sam, an Android robot, and the Statue of Liberty.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 27/05/2026

For anyone rooting for the USA to completely lose any remaining relevance in the world, I can’t think of a better way forward than blocking all international flights into New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Seattle.

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Every day I am increasingly convinced that we need UBI immediately. While they are in office, lawmakers should be required to live - actually live, not pretend that it's a home - in the average housing in their district that their family can purchase on UBI.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Remember this the next time a Republican congressman from Oklahoma waves around a government report and says in his most affected redneck accent "they're using taxpayer money to study guinea pigs?"

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 20/05/2026

Whoever took this picture is currently being investigated by the DOJ for any pretext they can use to throw them in jail.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 13/05/2026

I feel so very bad for the downtrodden people who will no longer be able to attend sporting events for free by virtue of selling some of their season tickets above face value. Cry me a river. www.thestar.com/politics/new...

thestar.com

New Ontario law capping resale prices frustrates season ticket holders

The legislation makes it harder for seat holders to offset their costs by selling tickets to games they can't attend.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 12/05/2026

Found a dead raccoon in the yard yesterday. It’s starting to stink, and it’s covered in maggots, but the kids and dog are playing with it, because it’s novel. Wish there was something I could do about it, but it’s here now, just have to learn to live with it I guess.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I'm thinking now of Mother's Day and all the women, generation after generation, who work those 100 hour jobs, care for their family and receive often, both pitiful remuneration and very little respect. One day a year of performative appreciation falls short of what women deserve and need.

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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 05/05/2026

Breaking: President Trump is expected to qualify for every event in the next Olympic Games, according to a White House statement obtained by The AP.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"So we noticed that most professors are NOT voting for the party that's defunding higher education, canceling grants for political grievances, banning books, attacking entire fields, placing professors on 'watch lists,' and pushing pseudoscience." "Well, clearly that is the fault of universities."

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