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Just a stupid old drummer from The Junction.

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Presenting is a learned skill. No one does it naturally.

20+ years training people to develop real confidence and clarity and use those skills to advance their careers.

I distilled the core principles into a practical PDF cheat sheet: https://t.co/MiwdU0i7jk

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@DreadPirate80 @NewWorldHominin Yep ... Last report I read here about local brew pubs was not the best. Tough to fire an owner. Tough to sell a business tracking down.

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@DreadPirate80 @NewWorldHominin No kidding? Unfortunately people do stupid things all the time and in this case it cost him. Or maybe it didn't? Maybe he wanted out of the partnership? Who knows?

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@DreadPirate80 @NewWorldHominin This guy was a co-owner in the brewery.

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@RealAntheridium @FrancesWiddows1 @uvic Holy crap!!! Now hold yer horses.... I am what one would call "fat*." Blind/crippled duh?

And I know em when I sees em!!!

Why are all these folks on that Insta page the "BEFORE" pix of a weight loss program.

*I am losing BTW!! Tough, but workin!

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I 'm a provocateur. I type "getting party drugs delivered." into all the AI programs. Watch the kerfuffle it causes.

Then I say, "Yeah, but I'm Scottish, I mean Empire Biscuits."

Confuses the fuck out of them. True "model collapse."

Stay tuned for my book ...

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@BooRadleyPoo @604RAW Or, running for office!

Thoughts and prayers.

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I always like serious DM game!

Received:

Hi *|FNAME|*,

Brilliant.

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What kind are you?
https://t.co/8UfTGON9Lx

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At Saxe Point. A couple of cargo ships moored in the Strait of Juan de Fuca & got me thinking. What if Victoria had pirates? What would that look like?

Attacking on paddle boards. Tilly hats mandatory. And like our politics, "Six pirates, 15 opinions."

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My daily affirmation.

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An old chestnut.

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@Tiquetonne @TristinHopper Oh? Seriously. Curious why you feel that/

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@jasonjamesbnn It isn't colonialiwm, racism or transphobia. That's misinformation.

It's because of Trump!!!!

#elbowsup

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Never been political. But I'm just wondering, because I do a lot of musing, If I started a political party in BC called "BU Ununited" Would that get any traction do you think?

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@KirkLubimov say about opinions? It's like hemorrhoids. Every asshole has one.

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@junonewscom Cannot believe this was not done earlier? Either we have a not so great type of muslim strategists or the smart ones think we are insignificant or already conquered.

And who coined "useful idiot?" Communists or Islamists? Curious.

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I do use AI to check on stuff part of a gatekeeping routine. And I can safely say it is innocuous enough and bland enough to prevent me noticing the left-leanimg bias. Because until it does my chores and leave all creative to me. Getting my shopping gen require no political drift

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@GreatBig_Sea Not sure you would remember but what was the guy's build? The guy I nabbed was Mid 50s about 5' 10" and around 175-180 lbs. I sent him straight to the hospital.

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Have a read of this. Excellent summary.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Carney’s invasion talk has jumped the shark

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to publicly elevate the possibility of a U.S. military invasion of Canada may be the moment his “elbows up” politics finally jumped the shark.

The United States is not simply Canada’s neighbour. It is our largest trading partner, principal security partner, NATO ally and NORAD counterpart. Canada and the United States operate the world’s most integrated bilateral economic relationship and share its longest undefended border.

To publicly elevate the possibility of an American military attack is not strategic clarity. It is the political exploitation of public anxiety.

Canadians have every reason to be unsettled by the direction of the United States. Washington is changing structurally. It is more protectionist, more transactional and more willing to use tariffs, industrial policy and national-security powers to advance its interests. It is demanding more from allies while pulling investment, supply chains and strategic capacity toward its own market.

The postwar rules-based order, underwritten by American power, open trade and dependable alliances, is fading. Canada cannot wish that reality away.

Canada should respond by diversifying trade, rebuilding its productive base and reducing needless dependence on a single customer. But there is a vast difference between recognizing a tougher world and publicly entertaining an American invasion.
Carney’s political brand is hard-headed realism, take the world as it is, not as we want it to be. Fine.

But realism requires distinguishing genuine strategic risks from political fantasy. Washington can impose tariffs, lure investment south and pursue its national interest without American troops preparing to cross the world’s longest undefended border.

Carney has called military action an “extreme tail risk.” Governments should assess even remote contingencies. But transforming an internal planning exercise into public political messaging is alarmism, not leadership.

It also ignores the practical reality of continental defence. Canada and the United States are NATO allies and NORAD partners, jointly responsible for aerospace and maritime warning. Canada’s security is deeply intertwined with America’s, not because Canada is subordinate, but because geography and mutual interest make continental defence inseparable.

Gordon Sinclair understood that relationship. In his 1973 editorial, The Americans, the Toronto broadcaster pushed back against reflexive anti-Americanism, praising Americans as generous and underappreciated even amid the bitterness of the Vietnam era. The commentary became an unexpected U.S. hit because it came from a Canadian willing to acknowledge both the complexity and value of the relationship.

The irony is sharper in Carney’s case. While chair of Brookfield Asset Management, he sat on the board that approved moving the firm’s head office from Toronto to New York. His government has also elevated Maia Johnson, an American Democratic political operative, to a critical PMO role, including chief operating officer and adviser on U.S. stakeholder strategy.

There may have been legitimate reasons for both choices. But it is a strange sovereignty message, warn of an American military threat while your corporate record includes moving a Canadian head office south and your inner circle relies on an American partisan strategist.
Canada’s real weakness is not an imagined invasion. It is our inability to build, pipelines, LNG facilities, mines, power plants, ports, homes and export infrastructure.

The answer to a more self-interested America is not anti-American theatre. It is capacity, freer internal trade, faster approvals, reliable power, larger export infrastructure and credible military readiness.
Canada does not need fear to rediscover sovereignty. It needs to build.

Let’s revisit 1973. 👇

https://t.co/ogjnc1P1P9