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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 3h

I know people who did time/got sued into the ground for copyright infringement, and I’ve been thinking about them a lot lately. One Easy Trick to equalize things would make it so that corporate officers have skin in the game. Elon ought to be looking at prison for his CSAM machine.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 4h

It’s even stranger given he comes from dandies, not yokels. Personally, I don’t think I’d be so eager to bring up family if mine were slave owners who “pivoted” into sharecropping.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 8h

You get whiffs of that in the story anyway -- that line about him pulling out his pistol “just in case”. The way he comes off in this, and with his background (and with his mother…) I think in 2 years either he’s back in the same place, or he’s in the ground. I hope he gets some real help.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My primary mode of transportation is my (human-powered) bike. My secondary mode? My feet. The thing that’s ruining civilization is the death of reading comprehension and nuance. I don’t know what it is about this discussion that makes people turn off their brains, but it’s frustrating.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TPS issued about 160x more charges for driving causing harm/death against cars than “micro mobility” users. Toronto traffic counts tracked ~500M vehicles vs 4.5M bicycles over the same period (~111x). E-bikes make up about 10% of those bicycles. What type of bike do you think is injuring people?

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do you know what the best part of that argument is? It is absolutely true (and it’s true in the absolute) that cars cause more injuries and fatalities than e-bikes, but is it disproportionately more?

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know, I was there. If you think “we don’t regulate” vs “we regulate badly” is a useful hair to split, then I’m glad you cleared that up. I’m going to mute this now though.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We inspect cars. We regulate what is/isn’t street legal. Once in a blue moon we even pull licenses. We don’t do that with e-bikes, and we should — well, not the license part. If we did, we wouldn’t have what are functionally shitty e-motorcycles with vestigial pedals ripping down the sidewalk.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think you’ve misunderstood. I’m not defending drivers, I’m saying that we regulate them and have avenues for recourse, whether we use them or not. If you just want me to say drivers are dangerous assholes too, sure, stipulated.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yikes, and a *sensitive* outlier, at that.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t really want to get into an argument about which is worse. They can both be bad.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I haven’t got a clue, but I’m sure you’ll be happy to do the research and get back to me. My point wasn’t that cars are good, it’s that e-bikes are a cancer. I want people to earn their speed: by the time you can sustain 30km/h organically you’ve generally figured out how not to be a danger.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

… whatever your local laws permit? I don’t care about Vantucky.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t pay a lot of of attention to the school near me, but the lack of any bike infra + the traffic chaos at 9 and 3 suggests it’s uncommon there. Maybe it’s a city vs suburb split, but I have genuinely never seen an e-bike with a passenger that wasn’t a thermal bag. Real bike? Sure.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You sound like an outlier to me. You also sound like an American: 30km/h is a common limit here. We don’t do miles.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The “legit e-bike industry” doesn’t get to define regulatory distinctions. Every one of those classes is faster than the bike lane/route speed limits in my city, pedal assist is a joke, and the people these attract *don’t know how to ride safely at that speed*

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nothing beats having some wobbly food courier on a 60+ pound “bike” with vestigial pedals and a rusted-solid chain blast past you in a protected lane. Nuke these vendors from orbit.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And I don’t want to be a car apologist, but we train (poorly, but it’s there) and license drivers, and don’t permit cars in protected bike lanes or to drive on sidewalks.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reel it in. JFK might be a hero, but the Kennedy family sure as hell aren’t.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Publishers are hostile to men and masculinity”, claims man who has never read a book in his life. Everything covered in my K-12 education was written by a white guy, except the Count of Monte Cristo. Lee Child is omnipresent. Tom Clancy is publishing from beyond the grave. It’s just so dumb.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s incredible what he’s done to motivate even the beige-est, most milquetoast centrists. The radicalized wine moms are no joke.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Generation Kill doesn’t get anywhere near enough love for the ‘dress blues’ rant.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There really ought to be a name for that sort of thing. Maybe “the Masnick Consequence.”

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s me, Salm! With my famous Michael Jackson nose, and my weird putty cheek, and my one blown pupil, and my messed up iris. He looks like he’s making a skin suit and started with an eye mask.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Genius is never understood in its own time.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this is a very weird response to “people use calculators”

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

That’s not what I was responding to, but I don’t categorize addition under reasoning, no.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

god help me, but “[w]ithout writing a python function or something” is an arbitrary bar. most humans can’t manually calculate sqrt(2), or sin(2) or log(2).

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s strange how that sticks: I wasn’t directly affected, it was too early to grasp how much would happen next, I’m not sure I fully understood what I’d just seen — but I still remember that one moment with perfect clarity… almost like a car crash survivor or something.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I remember waking up before an afternoon shift and turning on CNN for some noise while I ate breakfast. The first tower was already on fire, but that was ‘just a fire’ — until the camera caught the second plane come in.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

1) It’s not a neutral policy, dummy. 2) The “dispute” is entirely American, ignoring GNIS and using the same name as the rest of the world isn’t controversial. This isn’t Palestine, it’s not a slippery slope. Stop being wilfully dumb.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You understand that they don’t give power over private companies, right? The president can direct USGS to update GNIS. He can’t direct Google to use it as-is, these sites don’t _have_ to do anything.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“For example, the FBI noted that an applicant may have paid for sex in a place where prostitution is legal, while some applicants may have been victims of sexual abuse involving animals.” I have a hard time believing that covers enough people to justify a rule change vs individual exceptions, but…

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

he died for your sins. mostly his own, but yours too.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I worked as a caddy for years, I knew the course like the back of my hand… but do they call me Kash the golfer? No. I’m a prolific author, with three books for children, but do they call me Kash the writer? No.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Man seeking entry to gated community cures his nagging cough.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Two for the price of one: One, Tzu, Three and Sung, Sung, or unsung Goddammit Terry.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

He’s going to the one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism: Transexual,Transylvania. Man I’m going to miss him.

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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

THATS RIGHT DOLLY 🥔

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine you were a Playboy editor and didn’t lead with “Somebody once told me that there’s a viral theory…”

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Clean hands, post …painting, imply prehensile anuses may also be canon.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You are, but whatever. No, it’s in their best interests to reduce the impact your temper tantrums can have. Go read Carney’s speech from Davos and tell me again what most foreign leaders think.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s current Canadian foreign policy. I don’t know why you think I want it: I’m frustrated, not gleeful.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I meant what I said, thanks. Sometimes people understand “do not touch”, and sometimes you need to go for their throat first. I don’t care about their elections: you threaten IP and big pharma, big tech, et al will start pulling senators’ chains so fast they’ll hear the sonic boom in South Africa.

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Donald Quiporne @whatdoesitmatter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You’re conflating that with irrelevance — don’t worry, we can’t ignore you any time soon — but we’re routing around the damage, and we won’t return to the old relationship.

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