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Timing seems right for a repeat performance. time.com/article/2026...

He did his post-secondary degrees in Kingston! Pretty sure he was a student of mine for his third year experimental optics course.

Irritable Male Syndrome (IMS) Is An Actual Condition — And It Could Explain A Lot While not a clinical diagnosis, experts say it’s an accurate description of a cluster of symptoms that often appears in aging men.

I don't understand why these kinds of articles piss me off so much these days...

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In Canada the Draft is called conscription. The poster kind of speaks for itself. We have a major right wing Canadian University here in Kingston called Queen’s (the Harvard of the north they like to call it). Many of the asshole students there come from money and tended to support the war (as did lots of folks, young and old, in the city). The poster was a bit of a wake up call that fighting a war means dying. And if you don’t care about some Iraqi’s death then also be aware that your sons and daughters may well get called to serve. It was pretty hard for the assholes to go on supportiong the war once they’d been seen by their friends to be preparing to dodge or at least whine about conscription. The line ups at the recruiting office supposedly did happen (because of the poster). I didn’t see them. As in the previoous cases the police investigated but could find no law to have been broken. The phone number this time was for the local newspaper. There was an article in Profane Existence about this poster that led to a few American versions along the same lines. Unfortunately this “hoax” was upstaged in the media by a flagburning at a demo that we did. Believe it or not the burning of the Canadian and American flags was denounced on national tv during a hockey game (!) by none other than Kingston native, Don Cherry. This was big news in the land of ice.

During the first Gulf War we used these fake posters announcing that folks would be required to register for conscription (Canadian for the draft) to make people think about the potential (but unlikely for white, rich folks) personal costs of warmongery. sniggle.net/draft.php

Teaching old cops new tricks…

ex Kingston cop Gord Boulton just hopes it won’t be near his rural community. “If you’re going to put a train somewhere, put it where the train system already is and don’t put it through the middle of Mother Nature and destroy it. We’ve destroyed Mother Nature enough.”

Gotta wonder if this is one of the cops who busted us in Kingston for resisting deforestation in Temagami in 1990… www.cp24.com/news/canada/...

Title?
Leave it to Beavers?
Dam it all?

King Charles yields to the legal process even though his brother may end up in jail due to it

#BetterKings

“I have learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office. What now follows is the full, fair and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities. In this, as I have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and cooperation,” Charles said in a statement issued by Buckingham Palace on Thursday.

I always worried that #NoKings let Trump off the hook a bit. He is so much worse than yer typical modern king. globalnews.ca/news/1167388...

2002

Costarring Glen Glose and Mila Munis.

That was not my experience when living in DR Congo, Sudan or Mali, but things were different when traveling to South Africa, Kenya and other more touristic/business friendly countries.

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

John Fund: Winners and losers in the Kavanaugh confirmation fight In assessing who comes out ahead or behind after the Kavanaugh firestorm, let’s acknowledge that in some ways we don’t know: the midterm elections a month from now have become more chaotic and uncerta...

For comparison purposes, I'll just leave this here: John Fund on "winner and losers in the Kavanaugh confirmation fight." www.foxnews.com/opinion/john...

The ribbon is more subtle for sure but that is not necessarily a bad thing, and wearable everywhere, all the time!

There is this excellent t-shirt. pmpress.org/index.php?l=... And I wear it as often as I can but it is not really daily wear! I did find occasion to wear it to work once, when doing a house-building project with my students, but otherwise it only gets seen at the grocery story or at demos.

As the mayor, I'll be standing up for Jewish New Yorkers and I'll be meeting them wherever they are across the five boroughs, whether that's in their synagogues and temples or at their homes or at the subway platform. Because ultimately we need to focus on delivering on their concerns.

Swalwell: “I don’t associate myself with what he [Mamdani] has said about the Jewish people.”

Mamdani: (see photo/alt text)

One day, I can imagine all that tension melting away due to some theoretical shiatsu, just like this: physicsworld.com/a/conflictin...

I asked

One Million Rising: One Million Trained, Millions More Empowered · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and ...

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I am Canadian. The funny thing about “having to decide” is that we never get asked to. That’s the point with kings. And that’s why the US protests were given that title.

No kings?

Trooping the Colour - Wikipedia

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Exactly the point but with the examples provided in the post: blocking a door isn't violence, shooting someone with a rubber bullet is.

Listen to this first hand account for another example. Were an LEO in LA to face this level of physical danger from a protestor you would not need to scour bsky to find the story. bsky.app/profile/jima...