Gnocchi Thompson
@gordondouglas.bsky.social
The cheeriest of Ottawa's famously cheerful local populace.
I hope you like bad tweets.
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I hope you like bad tweets.
Cohost on The Rhetorizer, A Show About Books.
Season 2, Noir:
https://pca.st/episode/4a17f31a-2404-4b22-8674-e4f480cb5f26
ashowaboutbooks@gmail.com
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god and that's another thing bsky.app/profile/ordi...
Even the ad targeting was basically a zero sum arms race with minimal or negative utility for both brands and consumers. We basically constructed a system that was bad for users and bad for buyers but created a simulacrum of consumer rationality that was attractive to executives.
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
god and that's another thing bsky.app/profile/ordi...
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well maybe it destroyed journalism, and education, and massively fueled global fascism and various genocides, and caused an epidemic of loneliness and collapsing birthrates, but at least companies could sell targeted ads
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
well maybe it destroyed journalism, and education, and massively fueled global fascism and various genocides, and caused an epidemic of loneliness and collapsing birthrates, but at least companies could sell targeted ads
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I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation
This government must have someone with an equally stupid face who can negotiate bribes with the various stakeholders whose kids play on the st Michael's lacrosse team with the sons of pc insiders. Why are they sticking with piccinni's stupid face?
#StarExclusive: Low-scoring applicants averaged the highest payouts from Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund
Low-scoring applicants averaged the highest payouts from Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund
Groups with the worst-ranked applications seeking money from Premier Doug Ford's $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund got, on average, the biggest payouts, according to a Star analysis.
www.thestar.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This government must have someone with an equally stupid face who can negotiate bribes with the various stakeholders whose kids play on the st Michael's lacrosse team with the sons of pc insiders. Why are they sticking with piccinni's stupid face?
Habs probably had 4:40 minutes of possession in that ot. Wild stuff!
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Habs probably had 4:40 minutes of possession in that ot. Wild stuff!
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to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
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can bad prose be sexually transmitted
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
can bad prose be sexually transmitted
Top 5 movie genres
- 2-3 stupid people hatch a perfect plan to get rich without hurting anyone
-the shittiest cop in the world is assigned to solve a heinous crime
- the Muppets
- the sweet smell of success
- man attempts and fails to conquer nature, dies
- 2-3 stupid people hatch a perfect plan to get rich without hurting anyone
-the shittiest cop in the world is assigned to solve a heinous crime
- the Muppets
- the sweet smell of success
- man attempts and fails to conquer nature, dies
Top 5 movie genres are:
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
Top 5 movie genres are:
Breathtakingly beautiful magic realism that represents grief
Buncha fuckin losers decide to become a family instead of going to therapy
Yikes a ghost! Oh it's just sad.
Bright colours, singing, dancing, gay subtext/text
Whatever the fuck Star Trek First Contact is
Breathtakingly beautiful magic realism that represents grief
Buncha fuckin losers decide to become a family instead of going to therapy
Yikes a ghost! Oh it's just sad.
Bright colours, singing, dancing, gay subtext/text
Whatever the fuck Star Trek First Contact is
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Top 5 movie genres
- 2-3 stupid people hatch a perfect plan to get rich without hurting anyone
-the shittiest cop in the world is assigned to solve a heinous crime
- the Muppets
- the sweet smell of success
- man attempts and fails to conquer nature, dies
- 2-3 stupid people hatch a perfect plan to get rich without hurting anyone
-the shittiest cop in the world is assigned to solve a heinous crime
- the Muppets
- the sweet smell of success
- man attempts and fails to conquer nature, dies
The oil sector in this country is like an inch away from arguing that if the government doesnt transfer billions of dollars directly into their owners' bank accounts for nothing, they'll leave.
You’re the ones who have to come up with the actual plan, dipshit.
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The oil sector in this country is like an inch away from arguing that if the government doesnt transfer billions of dollars directly into their owners' bank accounts for nothing, they'll leave.
Postmedia really is one of the worst companies in canada. An organization of screeching conservatives with no standards who whine bitterly about government spending on social programs while raking in corporate welfare from multiple levels kf government.
BREAKING: Secret Skills Development Fund data obtained by @thestar.com reveals Labour Minister David Piccini doled out millions to low-scoring applicants. E.G. owner of @TheTorontoSun and the @nationalpost got $1M despite a 41.68% score.
#onpoli
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
#onpoli
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/secret-data-reveals-which-low-scoring-ap[…]om-the-ford/article_8e6b59ef-8352-43cc-9434-c9d9c04bb65d.html
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Postmedia really is one of the worst companies in canada. An organization of screeching conservatives with no standards who whine bitterly about government spending on social programs while raking in corporate welfare from multiple levels kf government.
Habs powerplay last night had more missed connections than Craigslist.
Wonder if its some combination of too many passers (Hutson/Demidov aren't major shooting threats) and possibly being given brain galaxy schemes. At one point they had two players below the goal line half way to the boards.
Wonder if its some combination of too many passers (Hutson/Demidov aren't major shooting threats) and possibly being given brain galaxy schemes. At one point they had two players below the goal line half way to the boards.
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Habs powerplay last night had more missed connections than Craigslist.
Wonder if its some combination of too many passers (Hutson/Demidov aren't major shooting threats) and possibly being given brain galaxy schemes. At one point they had two players below the goal line half way to the boards.
Wonder if its some combination of too many passers (Hutson/Demidov aren't major shooting threats) and possibly being given brain galaxy schemes. At one point they had two players below the goal line half way to the boards.
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Time for that old Marie Curie music
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Time for that old Marie Curie music
One of those "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out" kind of games between Montreal and Boston tonight.
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
One of those "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out" kind of games between Montreal and Boston tonight.
Not to dunk on qt because he's not the worst offender, but its gotten to where anyone can say just anything about planning regardless of how it's practiced and people will go OH MY GOD.
Feels like the social media urbanists would be very surprised to hear about how public planners actually work.
Feels like the social media urbanists would be very surprised to hear about how public planners actually work.
Despite planning dogma, “stable residential neighbourhoods” aren’t
Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Not to dunk on qt because he's not the worst offender, but its gotten to where anyone can say just anything about planning regardless of how it's practiced and people will go OH MY GOD.
Feels like the social media urbanists would be very surprised to hear about how public planners actually work.
Feels like the social media urbanists would be very surprised to hear about how public planners actually work.
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*shakily removing glasses*
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
*shakily removing glasses*
There's no correct answer to the question "what's your favourite ai?"
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
There's no correct answer to the question "what's your favourite ai?"
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Currently photoshopping this to make Jozy look like Vlad Jr while poor M’s fans grasp at “but he’s a catcher” shaped straws.
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Currently photoshopping this to make Jozy look like Vlad Jr while poor M’s fans grasp at “but he’s a catcher” shaped straws.
There goes newhook for at least 6 weeks.
Rotten luck tonight against the Stars, who are getting outplayed but have a ppg and another goal on a play where the Habs were down a stick and then a man after a shot block.
Rotten luck tonight against the Stars, who are getting outplayed but have a ppg and another goal on a play where the Habs were down a stick and then a man after a shot block.
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
There goes newhook for at least 6 weeks.
Rotten luck tonight against the Stars, who are getting outplayed but have a ppg and another goal on a play where the Habs were down a stick and then a man after a shot block.
Rotten luck tonight against the Stars, who are getting outplayed but have a ppg and another goal on a play where the Habs were down a stick and then a man after a shot block.
Our political class seems to be a suicide cult
📣Today, the Government of Canada declared the Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas (#LNG) project to be of national interest.
Projects like Ksi Lisims, which will come online when global supply is expected to outpace demand, pose economic and climate risks.
🧵1/6
#CdnPoli
Projects like Ksi Lisims, which will come online when global supply is expected to outpace demand, pose economic and climate risks.
🧵1/6
#CdnPoli
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Our political class seems to be a suicide cult
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it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
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every Tesla recall starts overseas, and then eventually comes to the US after a matter of days or weeks... it's one of the best ways to measure the decline and fall of this country's regulatory capacity/credibility
Tesla is recalling over 10,000 Powerwall 2 batteries due to burn risks
Tesla is recalling over 10,000 Powerwall 2 batteries due to burn risks
The company has remotely discharged nearly all the affected units so they’re safe and will replace them for free.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
every Tesla recall starts overseas, and then eventually comes to the US after a matter of days or weeks... it's one of the best ways to measure the decline and fall of this country's regulatory capacity/credibility
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Another selection of the best dril's replies on Threads:
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November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Another selection of the best dril's replies on Threads:
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jeb bush’s comms director and obama’s eighth best speechwriter snickering in between union busting disputes
1. @jonfavs.bsky.social dared me to post this here.
2. sometimes fighting smart is more important than shouting FIGHT HARDER into the ether!
xoxoxo
2. sometimes fighting smart is more important than shouting FIGHT HARDER into the ether!
xoxoxo
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
jeb bush’s comms director and obama’s eighth best speechwriter snickering in between union busting disputes
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They've spent years courting people whose main mode of thinking is conspiratorial, and now they're trying to openly cover up an actual, honest-to-god conspiracy by appealing to...conspiratorial thinkers. I don't hate the symmetry
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
They've spent years courting people whose main mode of thinking is conspiratorial, and now they're trying to openly cover up an actual, honest-to-god conspiracy by appealing to...conspiratorial thinkers. I don't hate the symmetry
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lol at the replies saying it must be a russian bot farm stirring up resentment. have you ever lived in a city where they tried to expand public transportation to a Nice Part of Town
"The more-than-300 comments responding to that anonymous post are full of mothers looking for property in New Jersey or Florida, predicting that Mamdani’s promise to make buses free will lead criminals to rape and kill innocent passengers."
LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
Upper East Side Moms Are Melting Down Over Mamdani
A 35,000-person Facebook group devolved into panic and infighting after the mayoral election.
www.thecut.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
lol at the replies saying it must be a russian bot farm stirring up resentment. have you ever lived in a city where they tried to expand public transportation to a Nice Part of Town