Gerrit Theule
@gtheule.bsky.social
General layabout and nogoodnik. Occasional cat chair and meme.
A whole bunch of people are about to learn the words “Posse Comitatus” for the first time and while I’d love to say I’m here for it, holy shit, man.
June 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A whole bunch of people are about to learn the words “Posse Comitatus” for the first time and while I’d love to say I’m here for it, holy shit, man.
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Also holy shit the Mariners Pride Month video is SO good
Baseball Is For Everyone: Mariners Celebrate Pride Month
YouTube video by Seattle Mariners
youtu.be
June 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Also holy shit the Mariners Pride Month video is SO good
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Craig Street Cats is closing and has sent out this appeal. We already have three lovely felines or else I would be all over this!
May 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Craig Street Cats is closing and has sent out this appeal. We already have three lovely felines or else I would be all over this!
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So happy to be able to give an award that furthers student experience and access to justice in the community! #A2J
news.umanitoba.ca/mary-charlet...
news.umanitoba.ca/mary-charlet...
Mary-Charlet Lathlin receives inaugural Wolseley Law LLP Award for Student Clinical Excellence
The Faculty of Law's Director of Clinics, Elizabeth McCandless announced Thursday, April 10, 2025, that Mary-Charlet Lathlin (3L) was the recipient of the inaugural Wolseley Law LLP Award for Stu
news.umanitoba.ca
May 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
So happy to be able to give an award that furthers student experience and access to justice in the community! #A2J
news.umanitoba.ca/mary-charlet...
news.umanitoba.ca/mary-charlet...
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Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.
May 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.
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The discourse here is cursed because people are only able to see AI through an ideological lens. For example, if you acknowledge a use case for LLM's, you are validating AI bros, so you have to deny that use cases exist. The definitions don't matter because it's not actually about the AI.
May 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The discourse here is cursed because people are only able to see AI through an ideological lens. For example, if you acknowledge a use case for LLM's, you are validating AI bros, so you have to deny that use cases exist. The definitions don't matter because it's not actually about the AI.
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This is about all of us. Never forget that.
May 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is about all of us. Never forget that.
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NEW: Supreme Court denies leave for appeal, meaning the decision of the Court of Appeal stands - case remitted for rehearing.
My piece from last fall: www.tvo.org/article/what...
My piece from last fall: www.tvo.org/article/what...
May 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
NEW: Supreme Court denies leave for appeal, meaning the decision of the Court of Appeal stands - case remitted for rehearing.
My piece from last fall: www.tvo.org/article/what...
My piece from last fall: www.tvo.org/article/what...
Proud of my eldest on his first election - he got out and voted!
April 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Proud of my eldest on his first election - he got out and voted!
That’s a bonkers number
Khan won 50.4 per cent of the available points.
Wally Daudrich won 49.6 per cent.
Wally Daudrich won 49.6 per cent.
April 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
That’s a bonkers number
I may have jumped the gun on Indie Bookstore Day, but I stand by my choice. @mcnallyrobinson.com and Zilla Jones are a great combo!
April 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I may have jumped the gun on Indie Bookstore Day, but I stand by my choice. @mcnallyrobinson.com and Zilla Jones are a great combo!
How many syllables does Mark Scheifele’ last name have? Asking for a broadcast team.
April 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
How many syllables does Mark Scheifele’ last name have? Asking for a broadcast team.
Really happy to see folks out and voting yesterday!
In hindsight though, maybe putting the first day of advance voting on a stat holiday wasn’t ideal from a confluence of people excited/impatient to get out to vote day 1, combined with “literally everyone’s off work” poll place lineups perspective.
In hindsight though, maybe putting the first day of advance voting on a stat holiday wasn’t ideal from a confluence of people excited/impatient to get out to vote day 1, combined with “literally everyone’s off work” poll place lineups perspective.
April 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Really happy to see folks out and voting yesterday!
In hindsight though, maybe putting the first day of advance voting on a stat holiday wasn’t ideal from a confluence of people excited/impatient to get out to vote day 1, combined with “literally everyone’s off work” poll place lineups perspective.
In hindsight though, maybe putting the first day of advance voting on a stat holiday wasn’t ideal from a confluence of people excited/impatient to get out to vote day 1, combined with “literally everyone’s off work” poll place lineups perspective.
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Alien life? Planet K2-18b has dimethyl sulfide in its atmsophere. On Earth that comes from marine microorganisms. Not proof, but as Spock would say, fascinating.
Artist's image: Joseph Olmsted
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.12267 @nasawebb.extwitter.link
Artist's image: Joseph Olmsted
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.12267 @nasawebb.extwitter.link
April 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Alien life? Planet K2-18b has dimethyl sulfide in its atmsophere. On Earth that comes from marine microorganisms. Not proof, but as Spock would say, fascinating.
Artist's image: Joseph Olmsted
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.12267 @nasawebb.extwitter.link
Artist's image: Joseph Olmsted
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.12267 @nasawebb.extwitter.link
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April 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Venn diagram of people who are in the threads about this story who were outraged at Rachel Gilmore’s silencing but who also can’t understand that CBC’s senior Parliamentary Bureau reporter knows every staffer from every party in an Ottawa politico bar as though that isn’t her job is bonkers
Wow this is a super fucking gross move
And then they talked about it within earshot of a press gallery journalist?!? Dumb as hell
You’re so far ahead!! Why go so slow!! It’s just icky
And then they talked about it within earshot of a press gallery journalist?!? Dumb as hell
You’re so far ahead!! Why go so slow!! It’s just icky
April 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The Venn diagram of people who are in the threads about this story who were outraged at Rachel Gilmore’s silencing but who also can’t understand that CBC’s senior Parliamentary Bureau reporter knows every staffer from every party in an Ottawa politico bar as though that isn’t her job is bonkers
This whole thread is great, if societally sad. A must read.
The morning after the election, I had a panicked thought: “My threat model is wrong.”
I’d been giving privacy advice for years, but my counsel would not protect against an authoritarian president seeking revenge against political enemies.
Tyranny was going to require a new threat model.
I’d been giving privacy advice for years, but my counsel would not protect against an authoritarian president seeking revenge against political enemies.
Tyranny was going to require a new threat model.
April 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This whole thread is great, if societally sad. A must read.
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Big Oil is using the #TariffWar to push for the elimination of virtually all environmental oversight & regulation.
This is a largely American-owned industry. This would make Canada MORE vulnerable to the US, not less.
How very #MapleMAGA of him.
cultmtl.com/2025/04/pier... @cultmtl.bsky.social
This is a largely American-owned industry. This would make Canada MORE vulnerable to the US, not less.
How very #MapleMAGA of him.
cultmtl.com/2025/04/pier... @cultmtl.bsky.social
Pierre Poilievre is Big Oil’s useful idiot
With an inner circle stacked with fossil fuel lobbyists, it’s no wonder that Pierre Poilievre voted against the environment 400 times.
cultmtl.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Big Oil is using the #TariffWar to push for the elimination of virtually all environmental oversight & regulation.
This is a largely American-owned industry. This would make Canada MORE vulnerable to the US, not less.
How very #MapleMAGA of him.
cultmtl.com/2025/04/pier... @cultmtl.bsky.social
This is a largely American-owned industry. This would make Canada MORE vulnerable to the US, not less.
How very #MapleMAGA of him.
cultmtl.com/2025/04/pier... @cultmtl.bsky.social
As many of you know, I am the vice-chair of the Alzheimer's Society of MB. I'm asking you to please support us in our journey to fight dementia and support families affected, by pledging some support for the IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s
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IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer's - Manitoba
Welcome to My Personal Page
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April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
As many of you know, I am the vice-chair of the Alzheimer's Society of MB. I'm asking you to please support us in our journey to fight dementia and support families affected, by pledging some support for the IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s
secure.alzheimer.mb.ca/site/TR/Walk...
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It’s one of the most interesting things in Canadian politics. They lost 2021 by going too centre (or at least not overtly right) for their SoCon base and will lose 2025 by being too Trump. The wilder the right gets the less likely we’ll see a Con govt when ballots actually get counted going forward
I really would like Canada's version of Trump (Poilievre) and Miller (Byrne) gone.
If you blow a 25 point lead I am guessing the knives will come out.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
If you blow a 25 point lead I am guessing the knives will come out.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Liberals hold six-point lead over Conservatives: Leger poll
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have pushed further ahead of the Conservatives in voter support and almost half of Canadians surveyed think they'll win the election, a new poll suggests.
www.thestar.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It’s one of the most interesting things in Canadian politics. They lost 2021 by going too centre (or at least not overtly right) for their SoCon base and will lose 2025 by being too Trump. The wilder the right gets the less likely we’ll see a Con govt when ballots actually get counted going forward
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The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate:
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
March 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate:
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
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We were just there in the fall and it’s a phenomenal setup.
BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
www.reuters.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We were just there in the fall and it’s a phenomenal setup.