Andy Chalk
@andychalk.bsky.social
The last of the V8s. PC Gamer news by day, angry about Canadian politics by night. Email me at andy.chalk@pcgamer.com. Got a tip? http://pcgamer.com/tips/
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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America will ban this before the end of summer '26
"Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a new protein-based gel that can restore tooth enamel by mimicking the body’s natural growth processes."
Goodbye, Cavities? Scientists Just Found a Way to Regrow Tooth Enamel
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a new protein-based gel that can restore tooth enamel by mimicking the body’s natural growth processes. A newly developed material has been us...
scitechdaily.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
America will ban this before the end of summer '26
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If the Twitter/X meltdown over Eurogamer's Arc Raiders review contains anything useful, it's a reminder that the average scroller does not think that hard about things outside themselves.
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
If the Twitter/X meltdown over Eurogamer's Arc Raiders review contains anything useful, it's a reminder that the average scroller does not think that hard about things outside themselves.
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6/ You can help us identify the rest. If you know about any of these individuals, please contact us directly so we can engage in a verification process.
White Nationalist Networking: Help us Identify the Organizers and Guests
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
6/ You can help us identify the rest. If you know about any of these individuals, please contact us directly so we can engage in a verification process.
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Canada has lost its measles elimination status.
A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.
A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Canada has lost its measles elimination status.
A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.
A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.
And that's the way it goes
Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy for his role in securing funding for his 2007 presidential campaign.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to be released from prison
Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy for his role in securing funding for his 2007 presidential campaign.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
And that's the way it goes
oh no
THE DAWN CAME LATE, AND THE BREAKFAST HAD TO WAIT
WHEN THE GALES OF NOVEMBER CAME SLASHIN'
WHEN AFTERNOON CAME, IT WAS FREEZING RAIN
IN THE FACE OF A HURRICANE WEST WIND
THE DAWN CAME LATE, AND THE BREAKFAST HAD TO WAIT
WHEN THE GALES OF NOVEMBER CAME SLASHIN'
WHEN AFTERNOON CAME, IT WAS FREEZING RAIN
IN THE FACE OF A HURRICANE WEST WIND
50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
oh no
THE DAWN CAME LATE, AND THE BREAKFAST HAD TO WAIT
WHEN THE GALES OF NOVEMBER CAME SLASHIN'
WHEN AFTERNOON CAME, IT WAS FREEZING RAIN
IN THE FACE OF A HURRICANE WEST WIND
THE DAWN CAME LATE, AND THE BREAKFAST HAD TO WAIT
WHEN THE GALES OF NOVEMBER CAME SLASHIN'
WHEN AFTERNOON CAME, IT WAS FREEZING RAIN
IN THE FACE OF A HURRICANE WEST WIND
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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
I was playing Arc Raiders tonight and I left a match before I was ready to go because two guys were holding an elevator for me and I was like "damn I don't want to be rude here," so I bailed with them.
This is my favourite thing about Arc Raiders.
This is my favourite thing about Arc Raiders.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I was playing Arc Raiders tonight and I left a match before I was ready to go because two guys were holding an elevator for me and I was like "damn I don't want to be rude here," so I bailed with them.
This is my favourite thing about Arc Raiders.
This is my favourite thing about Arc Raiders.
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The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
Anyway if anyone out there can explain to me how Canada had a choice about which party came into power in the last election beyond LPC/CPC I'd love to hear it. Telling me that "we don't vote for a PM" and then blocking me when I reply that I'm aware of this nuance in our system is not cutting it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Anyway if anyone out there can explain to me how Canada had a choice about which party came into power in the last election beyond LPC/CPC I'd love to hear it. Telling me that "we don't vote for a PM" and then blocking me when I reply that I'm aware of this nuance in our system is not cutting it.
Progressives sure are a tightly wound bunch
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Progressives sure are a tightly wound bunch
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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We call on BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans to drop their ~$81.54M stake in Tesla. Far worse than Tesla’s litany of labour + safety issues, its CEO and 13% owner is a raging fascist threatening the US, Canada, and others. Pensions will be worthless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy. 1/x
Elon Musk's speech in Germany raises concerns about his increased political meddling abroad | CBC News
Elon Musk's comments at a rally for Germany's far-right AfD party last weekend have raised concerns about the billionaire’s escalating political interference in foreign countries — including Canada.
www.cbc.ca
February 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
We call on BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans to drop their ~$81.54M stake in Tesla. Far worse than Tesla’s litany of labour + safety issues, its CEO and 13% owner is a raging fascist threatening the US, Canada, and others. Pensions will be worthless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy. 1/x
I didn't get an answer, but one dude got mad and blocked me, so that's kind of a win.
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I didn't get an answer, but one dude got mad and blocked me, so that's kind of a win.
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omg.
Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
omg.
Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I'd really love to read something like this
There's a little bit of economics underlying Musk's trillion dollar payday. Let's try to make sense of it all by serving up a main course of the Economics of Superstars, with a side of Principal -Agent problems, and a healthy helping of Political Economy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWxM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWxM...
Elon Musk 'worse for Tesla than any other CEO' after $1 trillion deal | Justin Wolfers
Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan Justin Wolfers tells Times Radio's Fergus Macphee what the unprecedented $1 trillion pay deal Elon Musk has agreed actually…
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I'd really love to read something like this
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Trump is on track to turn North America’s once-dominant auto industry into a backwater, where a few companies churn out inferior, dirty cars for a captive consumer base that has no choice but to buy them.
Unless Canada quickly unties itself from the U.S., we’ll be in the same automotive mess.
Unless Canada quickly unties itself from the U.S., we’ll be in the same automotive mess.
Trump is turning America’s auto industry into a global backwater. Canada must now go its own way
North America’s once dominant auto industry may turn into a place where a couple of car companies churn out inferior, dirty vehicles for a captive consumer base that has no choice but to buy them
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Trump is on track to turn North America’s once-dominant auto industry into a backwater, where a few companies churn out inferior, dirty cars for a captive consumer base that has no choice but to buy them.
Unless Canada quickly unties itself from the U.S., we’ll be in the same automotive mess.
Unless Canada quickly unties itself from the U.S., we’ll be in the same automotive mess.
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Now do universities and colleges
Let's work together across party lines to defend the forestry sector. Because when forestry is strong, Canada is strong.
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Now do universities and colleges
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Talked at length with Beshara Doumani about how olive harvest season has turned from a celebratory time to a time of strife and bloodshed because the attacks by settlers in the West Bank.
As he put it, they want to create “a million little Gazas.”
www.merip.org/2025/11/the-...
As he put it, they want to create “a million little Gazas.”
www.merip.org/2025/11/the-...
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Talked at length with Beshara Doumani about how olive harvest season has turned from a celebratory time to a time of strife and bloodshed because the attacks by settlers in the West Bank.
As he put it, they want to create “a million little Gazas.”
www.merip.org/2025/11/the-...
As he put it, they want to create “a million little Gazas.”
www.merip.org/2025/11/the-...
Pretty sure I killed these dudes in Max Payne 3
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Pretty sure I killed these dudes in Max Payne 3
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wait until you see what happens after the 3rd vote
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
wait until you see what happens after the 3rd vote