Larry Livermore
larrylivermore.bsky.social
Larry Livermore
@larrylivermore.bsky.social
Author of Spy Rock Memories and How To Ru(i)n A Record Label. Montreal Anglophone striving to become adept (or at least less inept) in français and 中文.
Unless Unlucky Pierre shows up at Nardwuar HQ and tops this performance, the election is done and dusted. Great work, Nardwuar, and you too, Mark!

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Nardwuar vs. Prime Minister Mark Carney
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April 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Fighting a trade war with China is almost as idiotic as fighting a shooting war, and like a shooting war, will have only two likely outcomes: the US loses, and loses badly, or, unable to accept defeat, the US goes nuclear and everybody loses.
April 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Do I have any regrets about moving to Canada? Not at all. Do I wish I'd done it sooner? Actually, yeah.

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Oh, Canada?
During my years in California I used to listen compulsively – nowadays you might call it hate-listening – to a talk show host who constantly infuriated me. He wasn’t a bad guy. Just insufferable. M…
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February 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Now might be a good time for those abolish-the-government folks to explain who’s going to be in charge of air traffic control.
January 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I’m not a big TikTok user - in fact I rarely look at it - but this rush to ban it reeks of hysteria, xenophobia, and a 1950s-style reds-under-the-bed closing of the American mind.
January 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
What was that flash of light and crashing boom?

Why, a New Year’s Eve thunderstorm, of course. Pretty awesome.
January 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
All right, this is like the best movie I’ve seen since I don’t even remember when, and if both the film and young Chalamet don’t both win Oscars, somebody is out of their ever-loving mind. Or just hates boomers, maybe.
January 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
🇨🇦 politics: Freeland comes out looking better than Trudeau, but that’s not hard. PM is massively out of his depth, especially in dealing with threats from the downstairs neighbours. He has to go, but how can that happen without opening the door to a far-right government? Rock, meet hard place.
December 16, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Back when I was a regular at The Other Place, I was judicious about who I followed. Either I knew you personally or you were doing something fantastic. Here I’m following everyone, figuring I can delete you later if you start saying flamboyantly awful things. So far so good, and no deletions needed!
November 27, 2024 at 7:06 PM
When I met Bill Clinton in 1967, he showed me this picture, told me it was his proudest possession, and that he planned to follow JFK into politics one day. I was happy to see it pop up on Twitter today because I’d been starting to wonder if I’d imagined the whole thing.
November 24, 2024 at 7:48 AM
It's beginning to look a little wintry out there!

Still no snow in sight, though.
November 17, 2024 at 7:43 PM
High above Montreal (the airplane, not me, silly!). I wanted to add that I have a good feeling about this Bluesky thing. Maybe this can be the one social media app that's actually social, and doesn't drive people to unleash mayhem on one another. To that end I plan to avoid any and all arguments.
November 17, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Hanfu cosplay in Beijing's Beihai Park.
November 15, 2024 at 10:23 PM
The sky was on fire for a moment, followed by the first sullen blast of (almost) winter.
November 15, 2024 at 5:06 AM
So now this is supposed to be the ne plus ultra of social media? We shall see. Me, I still haven’t gotten over the demise of Friendster.
November 15, 2024 at 2:17 AM