A useful manifesto that I keep nailing up to the walls:

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This jet can't land at Northern community airports anyhow:

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RE: https://disabled.social/@MikeImBack/116420391595617233

I'd like to share a few fun facts about this $30M private jet. . . . it would require a 50% runway length extension to takeoff from Toronto City Center Island Airport. It can't operate on the gravel runways in Northern communities like […]

By using a device ISS was using, we would save money on certifying the hardware. Every piece of equipment flown has to go through a series of testing. That testing takes time and money. The operations software on the tablet was developed in Windows for ISS, so we needed a windows tablet.

Steadfast agreement, that movie can go to heck

Colin James on stage with four spotlights shining through fog

Colin James, Ottawa, July 2002

Screenshot of the film, showing an immortal snoozing Paul Rudd in an airline seat with a snoozing lady leaning on his shoulder. Caption reads: "Seatbelts."

On Tuesday, Mar 24th we're watching Death Of A Unicorn (2025, 1:47)!

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Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

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Screenshot of the Muppet Show, where all the Muppets are in little boxes, just like my friends are on zoom.

Voting has opened for which movie we're watching on Tuesday, Mar 24th!

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The purpose of a visible police sniper is always to sow fear and justify the expansion of the police budget.

I got the one from the month of my birth and it had a short story from Vonnegut in it! A perfect birthday gift for a loved one.

Still?

Nice.

Screenshot of the film, showing John Candy in army fatigues, looking in to the camera and holding a rifle, with a marching band in the background. Caption reads: "We salute first a patriot who always professed and promoted"

On Tuesday, Feb 24th we're watching John Candy: I Like Me!

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Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Screenshot of the film, showing Bill Murray, seated, looking at a filmmaker's clapboard in front of his face. Caption reads: "Be care... Hey, be careful with that thing."

On Tuesday, Feb 24th we're watching John Candy: I Like Me!

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Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

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We overcame the rock fingering scandal to win gold in curling, that's all that mattered

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Screenshot of the Muppet Show, where all the Muppets are in little boxes, just like my friends are on zoom.

Voting has opened for which movie we're watching on Tuesday, Feb 24th!

Submit your votes now at http://cinema.tion.ca and check back after 5pm on Tuesday to join in.

Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Thanks to blackberries, it's the executive communication style of the time, and a status signifier.

Some of the symbols (i.e. the equals signs) are a technical artefact of filtering the messages through too many e-discovery tools, but I think you're mostly picking up on the deliberate signaling.

Maybe he'll remember that blog he hasn't updated since 2022

Please at least let us know when he breaks down and shows up on Mastodon

people: if we had everything we need crime would almost disappear

rich people: that can't be true because i have everything i could possibly want and i still do crime

people: that's a you issue

Screenshot of the film, showing a white pre-teen boy with mid-length brown hair and glasses, sitting in a treehouse. Caption reads: "Didn't I just say I was French?"

On Tuesday, Jan 13th we're watching Stand By Me (1986, 1:29)!

The zoom and download links are now posted at http://cinema.tion.ca for you to join in.

Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Screenshot of the film, showing a white pre-teen boy with short blond hair sitting in a treehouse. Caption reads: "Hey, how do you know a Frenchman's been in your backyard?"

On Tuesday, Jan 13th we're watching Stand By Me (1986, 1:29)!

Check back at http://cinema.tion.ca after 6:00pm on Tuesday to join in.

Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

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Voting for #cinema_tion_ca has closed! Here's our transparency link: https://jcszamosi.github.io/MovieNight/

Yeah, it really sucks.

Congress also "approved" the use of the military against "terrorists" in addition to war, and that's why they're now talking so much about "narco-terrorists."

That 2001 law only included the "terrorists" "responsible for 9/11" but they usually gloss over that technicality.

Their pretense in this case is that the US military only went to Venezuela as bodyguards for the FBI in executing a judicially-approved arrest warrant, and that this type of "protecting US personnel" is a listed exception to the "approval" rule.

Unfortunately, the theory that "acts of war require congressional approval" has dozens of loopholes, and the US regularly adopts their own quirky definitions for words like "war" and "approval."