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The Dishonest Online Campaign to Support Alberta Separatism | The Tyee A research group raises red flags about foreign interference in the province’s independence referendum.

Danielle Smith decided to open Pandora's Box in order to keep her separatist supporters at bay. Now the rest of us have to contend with the forces that she unleashed. #abpoli #cdnpoli
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The UCP are doing everything in their power to rig the game in favour of the separatists. They do not believe in democracy and care only about staying in power, rather than the welfare of the province or its citizens.

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

The cover is a large spaceship in space above a green planet, caught at just the moment when a setting or rising sun will cause lens flare.

JR Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovksy. I'm late to the party but, yes, this is excellent. The joy of good SF is an author with such imagination that you leave the book feeling your mind has been expanded. 600 pages is a lot but that said I read the last 150 in one sitting, I was so gripped.

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Doug Wilson, pastor, spiritual leader of Peth Hegseth:

"We know Jesus was not a socialist because he could feed people."

Our 2021 DST vote is being tossed aside because ‘Dani the Decider’ knows best. This is exactly how the October referenda will go. Why hold a vote if the outcome is already decided? Save the money. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

PV providing 589 watts, 345 baseload usage, battery charging at 244 watts.

By 8:15am today solar was generating 70% more than our baseload usage.

On a cloudy day, in England, in April!

Dani the Decider has decided and you’re getting permanent daylight savings time whether you like it or not! - Alberta Politics “Albertans have very strong opinions about daylight saving time and the results of the referendum show that, right now, Albertans prefer to continue changing their clocks,” Nate Glubish, then the mini...

Dani the Decider has decided and you’re getting permanent daylight savings time whether you like it or not! You thought there was no right or wrong answer on DST? Turns out there is when Danielle Smith is in charge. albertapolitics.ca/2026/04/dani...

Ya, I recently had the chance to vote with my consumer choice. Guess who barely got a glance as I shopped for a replacement vehicle? Anything made by the big 3 in the US. FTGs. I saw the same whiny BS from them in the 70s when they couldn't compete on price and quality with Japanese imports.

Who profits the most from Trump's #IranWarFiasco
Trump is making Russia & China GREAT!
The world now sees him as "untrustworthy & chaotic, if not insane"
He has embarrassed US all & rendered America impotent as a force for good
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Canada Post reports record loss of $1.57B in 2025 | CBC News Canada's national mail carrier has released its latest financial report, detailing a whopping $1.57 billion in losses last year before tax.

Essential public services should not be evaluated in terms of #profit. Take this loss & divided by population, it’s not much. Innovate, diversify offerings —maybe a sovereign cloud; email seems like a no brainer & would serve Canadians better than more Carney cuts. #NationalSecurity #CdnPoli #RTS

If the project to make Lebanon great holds the same promise as MAGA, they should run away. MAGA has been an unmitigated disaster for the US.

The prosperity gospel aligns extremely well with late stage capitalism. I'm sure they'll be careful to reinforce the idea that a pillar of free enterprise in the US is a version of Christianity that would not be recognizable to most people a few years ago.

ETTD.

The beginning of the end of the petro dollar.

Tim Curry Breaks Down His Most Iconic Roles YouTube video by The Academy

Aww, this such a great little video. #TimCurry, while not in the greatest of health, is still such a wonderful storyteller as he reflects on some of his most iconic roles.

Happy 80th birthday to a legend.

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Smith says that she wants to redraw the maps to ensure that rural gets the representation it deserves because rural constituencies are complex & too big.

This compares the majority report & the minority report.

It's the cities that get carved up, rural barely moves.

Bulgaria's former president Radev tops parliamentary vote Rumen Radev has said he wants to rid the Balkan nation of its 'oligarchic governance model.' Projections from polling agencies put his Progressive Bulgaria grouping at some 44%, which would give him an absolute majority of at least 129 seats in the 240-seat parliament. Official final results are expected no earlier than Monday.

Bulgaria's former president Radev tops parliamentary vote

What happened to Jesse Brown? I haven't listened to Canadaland for years, but he seemed reasonable then. He appears to have gone off the deep end in the intervening years.

As a reminder, the "madman" strategy did not work for Nixon in Vietnam. I did not work then. It has never worked. It won't work now.

That Trump truly is a madman will not change Iran's response. Trump's madness should change Congress and lead to impeachment, but it won't bc the GOP are cowards

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

ROSIE: It does sound a little bit like you're in denial that the majority has happened.

SCHEER: If anyone's in denial, it's the government that is refusing to accept the results of the last general election.

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

A massive hailstorm hit parts of São Paulo, Brazil yesterday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. In Piedade, it was on another level, with hail piling up and causing damage, especially to lightweight roofing sheets.

it must suck to be an AI researcher, especially one who is trying in good faith to find the least disruptive applications of this technology but its rollout has been so malignant, chaotic, and borderline anti-human that i dont think it will ever be received well, now and in the future

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

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I, Claudius: When Television Trusted the Audience YouTube video by The Television Show

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I, Claudius is often described as “stagey”

and that is precisely its strength.

Broadcast by the BBC in 1976,

the series rejects spectacle in favour of performance,

treating television as an extension of theatre

rather than cinema.
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One of my all time favorite TV shows. Saw it when it first aired. Have watched it a number of times since.