Not a bad day for chaos watchers tomorrow. Yankees and Blue Jays tied for AL East. Guardians and Tigers tied for AL Central. One postseason spot open for either Mets or Reds.
— kat, ghost of helenruthsghost (@chaoskat.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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And speaking of sports:
On behalf of a proud nation, massive congratulations to Team Canada for an incredible run in the Rugby World Cup 🇨🇦 — Au nom d’une fière nation, je tiens à féliciter sincèrement l’équipe canadienne féminine pour son incroyable parcours à la Coupe du monde de rugby. 🇨🇦
— Mark Carney (@mark-carney.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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It’s only rapture if it’s from the rapture region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling heresy.
— Paul Prins (@paul.urbanmonastic.org) September 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It’s only Antifa if it’s from the Antibes region in France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling opposition.
— Brian Schmidt (@briancschmidt.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
it's not transphobia unless it's from Transylvania, otherwise it's just sparkling misogyny
— shelly [Big Bad Bæddel Borg]🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🐔 (@droctorock.bsky.social) September 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It's only autism if it comes from the Tylenol region of France otherwise it's just sparkling persuadoscience
— Oregon 🕎🎲 (@oregonthedm.bsky.social) September 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It’s only fascism if it originates in the traditional wheat-producing areas of Italy. Otherwise it’s just murderously sparkling authoritarianism.
— august.thoughtify.space (@august.thoughtify.space) September 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It’s only real Political Violence if it comes from the bottom up, otherwise it’s just sparkling realpolitik
— Weirdo In Residence (@long-sigh-studios.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
it’s only law enforcement if it’s enforcing laws. otherwise it’s just gang violence with a badge
— a good and normal boy (@myrrlyn.net) September 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Moving on:It's only an Oxford comma if it's written in the Oxfordshire region of England. Otherwise, it's just a serial comma.
— K. Vale Nagle (@kvalenagle.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Damnation, why did I only just see this *today*, Brian.
— Mike Sowden (@mikeachim.bsky.social) September 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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In the old days, you'd occasionally run into somebody totally normal who had one utterly insane belief, like a co-worker who just causally says he thinks the sun is alive. Social media is like if we extracted all of those individual bits of madness, cooked them into a stew and ate it for every meal.
— Jason K Pargin, author (@jasonkpargin.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I agree with both of these:
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Some odd news:
Morning walk
— Artologica aka Michele Banks (@artologica.net) September 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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The dawn of the post-literate societySad news that writer/photographer Kaleb Horton has died:
And the end of civilisation
...It was one of the most important revolutions in modern history — and yet no blood was spilled, no bombs were thrown and no monarch was beheaded.
Perhaps no great social transformation has ever been carried out so quietly. This one took place in armchairs, in libraries, in coffee houses and in clubs.
What happened was this: in the middle of the eighteenth century huge numbers of ordinary people began to read....
Now, we are living through the counter-revolution.
More than three hundred years after the reading revolution ushered in a new era of human knowledge, books are dying.
Numerous studies show that reading is in free-fall. Even the most pessimistic twentieth-century critics of the screen-age would have struggled to predict the scale of the present crisis.
In America, reading for pleasure has fallen by forty per cent in the last twenty years. In the UK, more than a third of adults say they have given up reading. ...
...in late 2024 the OECD published a report which found that literacy levels were “declining or stagnating” in most developed countries. Once upon a time a social scientist confronted with statistics like these might have guessed the cause was a societal crisis like a war or the collapse of the education system.
What happened was the smartphone, which was widely adopted in developed countries in the mid-2010s. Those years will be remembered as a watershed in human history.
Never before has there been a technology like the smartphone. Where previous entertainment technologies like cinema or television were intended to capture their audience’s attention for a period, the smartphone demands your entire life. Phones are designed to be hyper-addictive, hooking users on a diet of pointless notifications, inane short-form videos and social media rage bait.
The average person now spends seven hours a day staring at a screen.
...Without the knowledge and without the critical thinking skills instilled by print, many of the citizens of modern democracies find themselves as helpless and as credulous as medieval peasants — moved by irrational appeals and prone to mob thinking. The world after print increasingly resembles the world before print.
Superstitions and anti-democratic thinking flourish....
You are My People!Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.
— Dan Sheehan (@dansheehan.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Carney stuff:
Carney is learning his way around Question Period:
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And in the meantime, everyone else is having fun with it -- lots of posts showing "that hellhole" Portland's leafy green streets and coffee bars and Saturday cyclists.
And progressives are in despair with the weak-kneed Democratic response:grandpa has good days and bad days but increasingly it's only bad days. losing it. brains leaking out his ears.
— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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It's like sending the Smurfs against Sauron
— Fatal Funnel Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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You don't actually think tRump or his justice department will ever release the Epstein files, do you?
Everyone: “Release the Epstein files!” Fat Satan: “I hear you, loud and clear. I’ll release the Earhart files.”
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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He’s going to blow up the entire country to prevent the release of the Epstein files, isn’t he
— The Volatile Mermaid (@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Donald Trump is going to wage war on American cities over a fake crisis that isn’t happening involving a fake “terrorist organization” which doesn’t exist, so he can stop us from talking about the real child sex trafficking files he’s very much in.
— JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Animal Crackers
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OK, about Bill C-2* and the clip you posted.
Yet antoher sign that Lil'PP's approved role is to distract everyone while the Harper agenda gets implemented.
*"McCarthy Tétrault, a major Canadian law firm, has published an analysis of C-2 focused on how the bill proposes to expand the scope of law enforcement to access individuals’ online “subscriber information,” including their pseudonyms, personal information, unique online identifiers, user account numbers and services delivered to the client of an internet service provider.
Under Bill C-2, such information could be sought without a warrant or other judicial authorization, and law enforcement could compel even foreign telecoms to supply subscriber information and transmission data.
McCarthy Tétrault predicts “challenges to the law’s jurisdictional reach.”"
“In what seems a parallel to the United States’ actions, the legislation will make it possible for the minister to cancel immigration documents and deny access to refugee hearings.”
via TYEE
The aspect that concerns me is that these actions apparently won't require judicial approval. I know judges aren't perfect either, but the need to create a document to justify police actions does, in itself, demand that police adopt a logical and disciplined approach to the case. It prevents speculative "go fish" police behaviour
On a side note, the clip I posted under TrumpWatch now works.
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