Sunday, September 14, 2025

Sunday Funday: They're back! plus some Fear and loathing, Amazing stuff, Funny stuff, TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers


They're back!
Looking forward to the resumption of Parliament on Monday, are we? 
Well, yes -- but NOT to the toxic rhetoric that ruined Trudeau's prime ministership last year. 
Now that Poilievre and the CPC are trending downward in the polls, I expect we will see an "extinction burst" of hateful and insulting speeches - Poilievre is a one-trick pony in this regard, he dials everything up to 11 because that's all he knows how to do. Maybe after that, sometime after Carney survives his budget vote, Poilievre may actually lower the volume.

Polling Canada Federal Model Update: 🔴 LPC: 187 (+18) 🔵 CPC: 125 (-19) ⚜️ BQ: 21 (-1) 🟠 NDP: 9 (+2) 🟢 GPC: 1 (-) (Seat Changes With 2025 Federal Election) - September 13, 2025 - Full model article here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...

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— Polling Canada (@canadianpolling.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
And Canada's right wing no longer gets to think that "everyone supports us" - not after the Christie Pitts debacle on Saturday:

Headline “anti-immigrant protest chased out of Christie pits” 👏🏼 BRAVO TORONTO! No space for hate here 🇨🇦 ❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM

Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.

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— Shawn Micallef (@shawnmicallef.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Fear and loathing
The assassination of Charlie Kirk by a right-winger has given the right wing in both the US and Canada a profound understanding of their own vulnerability, in a way that all the other shootings have not. After health insurance CEO Brian Thompson was shot last December, his accused killer Luigi Mangione rapidly turned into a folk hero across the US, and it was only then that CEOs realized that their wealth would not insulate them. Now the same realization is hitting the right-wing loud mouths that pollute the public discourse.
Even Poilievre is shook up:

I understand Pierre Poilievre is having feelings of anxiety & insecurity but I have no sympathy or empathy for his false claims of insecurity as it is he who boils the oil, stirs the pot, fans the flames, & spews vitriol & venom so widely it may ultimately blowback on anybody #Cdnpoli

— Pat (@pat112.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Remember that "friendly sausage maker":
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Really looking forward to Ben's Global News show coming up, if this is already what he talks about on his radio show: And "influencers" aren't happy at all - its all fun until somebody loses an eye, then its a sport:
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Steven Miller is terrified:

I took a walk on what I consider the “dark side” of substack last night. Many conservatives are repeating the phrase that they (conservatives) are being “hunted”. And many of those posts and comments had phrases like “how much longer are we going to take it?” and “when are we going to fight back?” So I am cautioning all of my LGBTQ+ friends, my black friends, Hispanic and Latino friends, even white friends who are very politically active and vocal… be cautious as you move in the world in the coming days and weeks. We’ve been sitting on a powder keg. This may be the thing that blows it. Everyone be careful, watch your back, and look out for your own.

- Melissa Corrigan, she/her

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Apparently the Kirk shooter was something called a groyper, which I had to look up, and it’s a follower of Nick Fuentes so this appears to be a right wing version of the Biggie-Tupac feud.

— Randal Cooper (@fancycwabs.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM

🚨This is very informative if you want to better understand what likely motivated Charlie Kirk’s killer.

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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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People have been fired for posting about Charlie Kirk's death.

At least 15 people including journalists and teachers have been fired or suspended for criticising Charlie Kirk online, Reuters reports. Free speech for us, not for you. #NorthKoreaShit

— Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Yet today there was this:



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— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM

We're at a point now where a Fox News host can just casually suggests killing homeless people with a lethal injection on air and no one bats an eye but a MSNBC contributor gets fired for calling Charlie Kirk "divisive".

— Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) September 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Reminds me of this:

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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I guess Trump is one who is absolutely untouched by the whole thing:

trump can't even FAKE empathy. Like, ever. /headdesk

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— Witty Librarian Resistance (@paulwartenberg.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Amazing stuff
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Alberta, Canada New electric-powered locomotive designed for harsh winters unveiled near Edmonton New locomotive is first of its kind in Canada, Cando Rail & Terminals CEO says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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— Mark (@ferl67.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM

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— Brett McKay (@brettmckay.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
And this is impressive:

If you’ve ever visited California’s Monterey Bay and looked out over the immensity of the Pacific - well, I hear it’s lovely. But how many of its roughly 4 million visitors per year know that beyond the surf, they’re also in the presence of the second Grand Canyon of the United States? 1/

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— Mike Sowden (@mikeachim.bsky.social) August 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM

Here's a relief map of the sea floor - with the vertical scale exaggerated for clarity. But the Monterey Canyon really is on a *massive* scale: walls 1,700 metres (~1 mile) high & by the time it reaches the Pacific’s abyssal plain, it’s run out from California's coast for over 400 kilometres. 2/

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— Mike Sowden (@mikeachim.bsky.social) August 30, 2025 at 7:45 AM

Courtesy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and Scientific American, this is what they’d see if those thousands of vertical metres of ocean hiding it from view suddenly drained away: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgfk... But how did it get this way? 4/

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— Mike Sowden (@mikeachim.bsky.social) August 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM

The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It

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— Open Culture (@openculture.bsky.social) September 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Africa Just Broke the Internet — From data centres to fibre back bones, the continent is building it’s own Internet Infrastructure Eleven days ago it was reported that Africa did something Silicon Valley never thought possible: it built its own internet. That’s 1.4 billion people no longer trapped inside America’s algorithm — no longer force-fed a worldview steeped in colonialism, bias, and erasure. For two decades, Big Tech treated Africa like a digital goldmine to be plundered. Now the mine is closed, and the gate is locked. This isn’t just a tech story. It’s a tectonic shift. The U.S. has long held the power to shape global narratives through the internet — deciding what gets amplified, what gets buried, and whose history “counts.” Africa’s move shatters that monopoly. And here’s what should keep Silicon Valley CEOs awake at night: Africa may be the first domino. Other nations, tired of being data colonies, could follow. Imagine a world where regional internets rise up, each rejecting the dominance of U.S. tech. The age of one global internet, owned and engineered by a handful of American billionaires, might just be over.

- Mslotuslady0

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Africa also wants respect:

We’ve been lied to our whole lives. The maps we grew up with shrink Africa down, making it look so much smaller than it really is. The truth: Africa is massive. You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and most of Europe inside it—and still have room left over.

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— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) August 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Funny stuff

2025, go home. You're drunk.

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— Jerry Newmark (@jerryn13.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Wi-Fi going down is the perfect reminder to connect with the people around me. Too bad they’re all in other rooms waiting for the Wi-Fi to come back. 😀

- Brad Davenport

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‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

— Merriam-Webster (@merriam-webster.com) September 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Animal Crackers

IYKYK right ?

- Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈

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This only happens to you once

- James Lucas

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Sleeping sperm whales.

- Carlita Shaw

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4 comments:

Northern PoV said...

Absolutely amazing article on the African Internet!
Thanks

7:06 am
Cathie from Canada said...

Yes what is happening in Africa now is exciting.

9:35 am
Cap said...

I find it interesting that American liberals are painting Kirk's alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, as a neo-Nazi groyper and Kirk's killing as MAGA inter-faction violence. In the many Bluesky posts pushing this idea, I've seen no evidence to back it up.

Meanwhile, MAGA has written the alleged killer off as a radicalized leftist. They say he's from a conservative family but that his own views are very different. His family claimed that he said Kirk's views were hateful. Today, the Utah governor confirmed earlier speculation that the suspect was in a gay relationship with a trans-identifying boyfriend, and that the boyfriend was providing police with additional information. https://youtu.be/4g25ihkEfng?si=xPDVmlwU7pqowW54

So, was Robinson allegedly taking out a Nick Fuentes rival or white-knighting for his partner? I guess we'll find out more as this unfolds, but for now Robinson isn't cooperating with police and claims about his motives remain speculation.

1:40 pm
Northern PoV said...

Watching the Kirk imbroglio makes me think about what happened 60 years, far away and thinking it could happen here in North America now but with newly improved (Israeli-tested) algorithms for identifying targets. From Counterpunch/Vltchek:

"After the 1965 coup backed by the US, Australia and Europe, some 2-3 million Indonesians died, in fact were slaughtered mercilessly in an unbridled orgy of terror: teachers, intellectuals, artists, unionists, and Communists vanished. The US Embassy in Jakarta provided a detailed list of those who were supposed to be liquidated. The army, which was generously paid by the West and backed by the countless brainwashed religious cadres of all faiths, showed unprecedented zeal, killing and imprisoning almost everyone capable of thinking. Books were burned and film studios and theatres closed down."

9:37 am

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