tisane al-gaib
@dallaninvictus.bsky.social
Canadian tech/regulatory lawyer and recovering goth. Feed may contain current events, tech unrelated to my job, soccer (Whitecaps/Canada/Spurs), and assorted geekery.
YYC -> YEG -> YOW
Previously: same @ on bird app
YYC -> YEG -> YOW
Previously: same @ on bird app
confidential to Normal Island in particular, today
you cannot have the lifestyle the liberal world order enables at the costs it has allowed without the compromise of having to live peacefully and trade fairly with people who aren't like you
December 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
confidential to Normal Island in particular, today
I think we treat reading and writing, specifically, as learnable (as opposed to visual art and music, which get a lot of the same "innate talent" talk)
though this might be a me-specific recollection, I have never been even decent at the latter two (though this never stops me from singing)
though this might be a me-specific recollection, I have never been even decent at the latter two (though this never stops me from singing)
I maintain that a major difference between the humanities and math/sciences is we treat the latter as an innate skillset and we treat the humanities as learnable.
Also the people IME have the most contempt for the humanities are the ones who struggle to write a simple paragraph.
Also the people IME have the most contempt for the humanities are the ones who struggle to write a simple paragraph.
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I think we treat reading and writing, specifically, as learnable (as opposed to visual art and music, which get a lot of the same "innate talent" talk)
though this might be a me-specific recollection, I have never been even decent at the latter two (though this never stops me from singing)
though this might be a me-specific recollection, I have never been even decent at the latter two (though this never stops me from singing)
I think we will someday miss having the MLS season end immediately before the college football playoffs, just for the timely hit of perspective on what a dysfunctional and confusing playoff system actually looks like
December 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I think we will someday miss having the MLS season end immediately before the college football playoffs, just for the timely hit of perspective on what a dysfunctional and confusing playoff system actually looks like
I'm happy for the opportunity Wilfried Nancy has taken but Celtic IN PARTICULAR feels like hard mode because the fans are not used to having more than one other team to worry about
Recently subscribed to Apple TV bc of MLS, and have been finally catching up on season 1 of Onside. In ep 2 Nancy says “I don’t really like expectations” which is in a way funnily ironic given he is now coaching a team that is 50% expectation of dominance and 50% hatred of the English
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm happy for the opportunity Wilfried Nancy has taken but Celtic IN PARTICULAR feels like hard mode because the fans are not used to having more than one other team to worry about
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Humanities students should understand some level of mathematics just like STEM majors should know how to write clearly
December 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Humanities students should understand some level of mathematics just like STEM majors should know how to write clearly
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I think @mattgurney.bsky.social got to the heart of the world's "USA Problem"
"But every single person who departs is being replaced by someone who is totally fine with the new U.S. foreign policy. That will accelerate the process that’s already underway."
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
"But every single person who departs is being replaced by someone who is totally fine with the new U.S. foreign policy. That will accelerate the process that’s already underway."
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
www.readtheline.ca
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I think @mattgurney.bsky.social got to the heart of the world's "USA Problem"
"But every single person who departs is being replaced by someone who is totally fine with the new U.S. foreign policy. That will accelerate the process that’s already underway."
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
"But every single person who departs is being replaced by someone who is totally fine with the new U.S. foreign policy. That will accelerate the process that’s already underway."
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
in retrospect we shouldn't have made so much fun of Ted Stevens
actually at the time we shouldn't have made so much fun of him, he was pretty much correct if you compensate for "old person talking about thing invented after his prime"
actually at the time we shouldn't have made so much fun of him, he was pretty much correct if you compensate for "old person talking about thing invented after his prime"
Periodic reminder that public understanding of computers and the Internet peaked roughly contemporaneously to the "series of tubes" incident.
Yes, *that* was peak public understanding of infotech.
Yes, *that* was peak public understanding of infotech.
Only getting worse generationally. Non-swe types don’t even know what files and folders are. Everything is an app on a touch screen.
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
in retrospect we shouldn't have made so much fun of Ted Stevens
actually at the time we shouldn't have made so much fun of him, he was pretty much correct if you compensate for "old person talking about thing invented after his prime"
actually at the time we shouldn't have made so much fun of him, he was pretty much correct if you compensate for "old person talking about thing invented after his prime"
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I would kill to have a public that understands the Internet merely as badly as Ted Stevens did.
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I would kill to have a public that understands the Internet merely as badly as Ted Stevens did.
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no no Steve it's ARYANISM, not *Arianism*
ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
no no Steve it's ARYANISM, not *Arianism*
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it is so funny we’re back at square one with the streaming services. brief moment of low cost/high budget tv was just the product of another VC cash pit.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
it is so funny we’re back at square one with the streaming services. brief moment of low cost/high budget tv was just the product of another VC cash pit.
the thing about middlemen is that everyone hates them but whenever they're removed they just reconstitute themselves because it turns out everyone also hates the cognitive load of dealing with all the individual providers of the vast variety of goods and services and content we want
at least uber forced the cab companies to use a mobile app and stop scamming tourists. i honestly dont know what we accomplished here with streaming. distributed IP just means im paying more for extra services with less scale.
December 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
the thing about middlemen is that everyone hates them but whenever they're removed they just reconstitute themselves because it turns out everyone also hates the cognitive load of dealing with all the individual providers of the vast variety of goods and services and content we want
Madame is watching Person of Interest off and on after not finishing it the first time and I'm torn about whether to bring this up to her or leave it as a Fun Surprise
I hope he brings the acting chops he used in the series finale of Person of Interest, where the writers hated him so much his character was shot to death before a cruise missle blew him up.
Jim Caviezel to play Jair Bolsonaro in ‘heroic’ biopic
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Madame is watching Person of Interest off and on after not finishing it the first time and I'm torn about whether to bring this up to her or leave it as a Fun Surprise
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I will only ever remember Varoufakis as the guy Valve hired to research the Steam marketplace so him going pro-gamer mode when it came to all the racism in the new NSS shouldn't be unexpected
Why is he like this? Does he wake up and go: "My vatnik brain compels me to lick the yummy boot of murder and oppression"
December 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I will only ever remember Varoufakis as the guy Valve hired to research the Steam marketplace so him going pro-gamer mode when it came to all the racism in the new NSS shouldn't be unexpected
I am extremely sympathetic to the design of the post-LRT Ottawa transit system as a concept, even though it has made a number of people's individual commutes require more transfers than they used to
its actual EXECUTION, thanks to resource constraints from Council, has been borderline unforgivable
its actual EXECUTION, thanks to resource constraints from Council, has been borderline unforgivable
It used to be quite good but in a way that wouldn't scale
and the unified city government was never going to spend enough to properly scale it, especially once the first mayor who tried promptly lost an election before being able to get shovels in the ground
hilarity has ensued
and the unified city government was never going to spend enough to properly scale it, especially once the first mayor who tried promptly lost an election before being able to get shovels in the ground
hilarity has ensued
December 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I am extremely sympathetic to the design of the post-LRT Ottawa transit system as a concept, even though it has made a number of people's individual commutes require more transfers than they used to
its actual EXECUTION, thanks to resource constraints from Council, has been borderline unforgivable
its actual EXECUTION, thanks to resource constraints from Council, has been borderline unforgivable
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It's extremely funny that this person is getting really annoyed by reply limiting (something I personally also find kinda annoying, but which also exists on Twitter) while abusing "removed by author" (a unique blueskyism)
Helen, the comments aren't closed to *you*. They're just closed for quality control purposes to followers, though I am surprised you didn't figure that out given the quality of the average Bluesky response that hits the Discover feed. It is fascinating how deeply offended you seem by this setting?
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It's extremely funny that this person is getting really annoyed by reply limiting (something I personally also find kinda annoying, but which also exists on Twitter) while abusing "removed by author" (a unique blueskyism)
always a surprise when the answer to "hey, what happened to that interesting show that I read about being made?" is "the producer was arrested for fraud shortly before the planned release and his business partner sued him"
RIP to "Glow & Darkness" I guess
alejandrogroemmers.com/en/a-judge-o...
RIP to "Glow & Darkness" I guess
alejandrogroemmers.com/en/a-judge-o...
A judge orders José Luis Moreno to return 35 million to his partner in the production of a series - EL PAIS - Alejandro G. Roemmers
A Madrid court has upheld Argentine businessman Alejandro G. Roemmers’ lawsuit against the ventriloquist for breach of contract in a series about the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Mas ande otro criollo pasa Martín Fierro ha de pasar, Nada la hace recular Ni las fantasmas lo espantan; Y dende que todos cantan Yo […]
alejandrogroemmers.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
always a surprise when the answer to "hey, what happened to that interesting show that I read about being made?" is "the producer was arrested for fraud shortly before the planned release and his business partner sued him"
RIP to "Glow & Darkness" I guess
alejandrogroemmers.com/en/a-judge-o...
RIP to "Glow & Darkness" I guess
alejandrogroemmers.com/en/a-judge-o...
new explanation unlocked for @crusaderkings.com AI characters: "honestly they were just Like That, several centuries of hindsight + not having sustained decades of head trauma as a cultural expectation will necessarily be a superpower, sorry"
Just heard @patrickwyman.bsky.social describe the Middle Ages as “a time where CTE was prevalent among the decisionmaking class” and it really unlocked something for me
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
new explanation unlocked for @crusaderkings.com AI characters: "honestly they were just Like That, several centuries of hindsight + not having sustained decades of head trauma as a cultural expectation will necessarily be a superpower, sorry"
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Few games have as consistent of a "yeah, that game ruled" hit rate than MLS Cup, especially considering expectations. Another worthy installment tonight.
December 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Few games have as consistent of a "yeah, that game ruled" hit rate than MLS Cup, especially considering expectations. Another worthy installment tonight.
I was too busy watching to notice these effects of Vancouver's subs in real time in this level of detail, which is why I'm just Some Guy and Kieran is someone you should follow to better understand the game (and someone I am now following to better understand the game)
Vancouver just had nothing since doing Gauld for Ahmed. He was the stability to get you into the final third and the second guy for the press. No second guy now, and can't sustain anything final third. Think this is curtains.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I was too busy watching to notice these effects of Vancouver's subs in real time in this level of detail, which is why I'm just Some Guy and Kieran is someone you should follow to better understand the game (and someone I am now following to better understand the game)
he gets it
hopefully the city gets it too
hopefully the city gets it too
Vancouver Whitecaps head coach Jesper Sørensen:
“Today we cry, but it is proud tears.
The tears have to be proud because we have excited people in Vancouver, we have created something that people want to watch.”
“Today we cry, but it is proud tears.
The tears have to be proud because we have excited people in Vancouver, we have created something that people want to watch.”
December 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
he gets it
hopefully the city gets it too
hopefully the city gets it too
Football Manager is more realistic about MLS than I thought, I can never pull off the Cup win in the first season after switching Vancouver to a ball-dominant 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 hybrid either
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Football Manager is more realistic about MLS than I thought, I can never pull off the Cup win in the first season after switching Vancouver to a ball-dominant 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 hybrid either
welp, live by the triple post and die by the triple post
it's a game of inches and moments and Miami got them this time, but I'm looking forward to seeing just how Sorensen fits Muller and Gauls in the same XI next season
it's a game of inches and moments and Miami got them this time, but I'm looking forward to seeing just how Sorensen fits Muller and Gauls in the same XI next season
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
welp, live by the triple post and die by the triple post
it's a game of inches and moments and Miami got them this time, but I'm looking forward to seeing just how Sorensen fits Muller and Gauls in the same XI next season
it's a game of inches and moments and Miami got them this time, but I'm looking forward to seeing just how Sorensen fits Muller and Gauls in the same XI next season
not going to check what r/MLS is saying about that Cubas tackle (or that giveaway for that matter)
December 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
not going to check what r/MLS is saying about that Cubas tackle (or that giveaway for that matter)
whatever happens in the next hour Ralph Priso will be remembering that tackle for the rest of his wife
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
whatever happens in the next hour Ralph Priso will be remembering that tackle for the rest of his wife