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[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@Weird_Canadian In some ways we *are* better, in some ways worse than the US, and we are certainly weaker. But mostly, we're Canadian and want to stay that way. We want to do our own thing in the northern half of this continent. We did that well for many decades & need to get back on track.
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[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@lilchiva

[Ghost of Hellas @ghostofhellas]

Sappho. Artist: Charles (Auguste) Mengin. Date: 1877. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 230.7 × 151.1 cm. Collection: Manchester Art Gallery.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@JoelleAdler @ZvikaKlein You have a plan to deal with the West Palestinians, I suppose .

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

RIP Richard Posner - a staggeringly prolific and influential legal scholar.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

Pessimistic!

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Everything coming out of the US these days is steeped in decadence and collapse

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

.... https://t.co/l7mranBX5P

[Pamela Blevins @pblevins10]

British poets who died in WW1. Charles Hamilton Sorley (age 20), Wilfred Owen (25), Isaac Rosenberg, also an artist (27), Edward Thomas (39). Thomas and Robert Frost were close friends.

[Alicia E. Stallings @ae_stallings]

"The elves would be replaced with QR codes"

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@blablafishcakes @lspear412 @MollyRomping @cmwrawcliffe @SteadDonne @ISBI3 @amandaLG15 @anyotherleader1 @rickygervais Courtesy of AI, here are some recent publications employing the concept.

[Democritus Sr @DemocritusSr]

Edward Thomas, “In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) #ArmisticeDay

[Canada The Unknown Country @Canada_Unknown]

Remembrance Day ceremony at Toronto’s Old City Hall, 1937.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@constans I'm thinking of an electrician friend of mine. Attended Psychedelia U, made decent money restoring old houses.

[Naithan Jones @NaithanJones]

On its surface this looks silly and easy to make fun of but what data center builders are not clocking is:

in the minds of people who live in these places data centers represent massive wealth creation for someone who doesn’t live there. While they don’t get to directly participate. It *feels* like extraction.

These are working class people, some at the margins, so pushing back *feels* like taking power back. These are people who have been promised the run and the moon by new Casino projects, jobs and property values from a new highway overpass projects, all of which did nothing and in some cases harmed their community. They’re jaded and have heard it all

If data centers actually want to get their projects built in communities like this, hate to say it, but they are going to financially incentivize the people there. Do things for them *before* any shovels. Communicate that these benefits will continue as the project succeeds. Give each house hold some financial or quality of life incentive to support it. Not theoretical, tangible and presently available

Just my 2 cents

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@MarioNawfal I'm unfollowing you for that piece of supermarket checkout-tier vapidity.

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

I have seen two big ideologies fall apart in my lifetime: communism and neoliberalism. When you see what was believed by so many crumble into pieces twice, you are less likely to believe that we have now found (or will ever find) the ideology to outlast all others.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@WoodsApe @chicagotechmom God forbid we should learn from experience.

THE ONLY SOURCES OF TRUE KNOWLEDGE ARE PEER-REVIEWED STUDIES BY 1ST-, 2ND-, 3RD-, AND 4TH-TIER ACADEMICS.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@CharlesMLeahy @lefineder "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."
—Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@KosherChutzpah In the same way, Kuwait could expel you or me from Kuwait, because we're foreigners there. The Canadian government expelling me from Canada, or (assuming you're Israeli) the Israeli government expelling you from Israel would be entirely different, and surely you can see that.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@FormerlyFormer Apparently your name is Yóu Zhá Tián Tián Quān.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@ofreacharound Not a movie character, obviously, but a prime representative of Swingin' London.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@ofreacharound Allegedly Peter Asher.