Laurent Carbonneau
@laurentdcar.bsky.social
innovation and industrial policy | director of policy and research at the council of canadian innovators | formerly PSE policy, NDP staffer, early modern intellectual history
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No, you cannot fool me. You are not carrying any suitable soul gems.
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
No, you cannot fool me. You are not carrying any suitable soul gems.
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Failure to retain promising companies and attract global talent has thrown the UK’s science and technology sector into a crisis, a UK Parliament committee has warned. cen.acs.org/policy/uk-sc... #chemsky 🧪
UK committee raises alarm over science business exodus
Report calls for government reforms to investment and visa rules before sector ‘bleeds to death’
cen.acs.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Failure to retain promising companies and attract global talent has thrown the UK’s science and technology sector into a crisis, a UK Parliament committee has warned. cen.acs.org/policy/uk-sc... #chemsky 🧪
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Green Line test never lies 😭
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Green Line test never lies 😭
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*Barack Obama voice* Are you gonna eat that?
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
*Barack Obama voice* Are you gonna eat that?
She looks like Jared Kushner bro
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
She looks like Jared Kushner bro
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I'd like a beaker of sweet cider and a big pastie, a shrimp one; after that I think I'd go for a piece of hot preserved plum crumble, with sweet nutmeg cream poured all over it.
November 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'd like a beaker of sweet cider and a big pastie, a shrimp one; after that I think I'd go for a piece of hot preserved plum crumble, with sweet nutmeg cream poured all over it.
Documentarians are people who eat pdfs
November 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Documentarians are people who eat pdfs
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imagine the first caveman who realized he could paint his clan rival as a weak, inferior gatherer of berries while drawing himself as the stronger and more bountiful provider of reindeer meat and hides
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
imagine the first caveman who realized he could paint his clan rival as a weak, inferior gatherer of berries while drawing himself as the stronger and more bountiful provider of reindeer meat and hides
I know the conventions are what they are but I think this is actually what you would call "answering" a question rather than "raising" one
Just in: Jeffrey Epstein said that Donald Trump 'spent hours at my house' with a woman later identified as a victim of sex trafficking, according to emails that raise fresh questions about the relationship between the late paedophile and the US president on.ft.com/3LXOdTm
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I know the conventions are what they are but I think this is actually what you would call "answering" a question rather than "raising" one
wreck of the edmund fitzgerald is a wikipedia song, which is probably why bluesky millenials like it so much
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
wreck of the edmund fitzgerald is a wikipedia song, which is probably why bluesky millenials like it so much
Some of us think there is nothing cooler than a muddy guy with a musket. russet coated captains, things of that nature
its so fucking funny to me how no one on earth cares about like early modern europe, and its entirely because the aesthetic is too shite. everyone knows what a roman or a napoleonic soldier looks like but then you get to idk the german confessional period and everyones a muddy guy with a musket
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Some of us think there is nothing cooler than a muddy guy with a musket. russet coated captains, things of that nature
Few.
Spears include spears and halberds.
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Few.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU: You know, I was something of a "dark horse" myself when I led the Liberal Party of Canada to a dramatic come-from-behind victory in 2015 over Stephen Harper's Conservatives and Tom Mulcair's NDP, forming the first Liberal majority government since 2000
KATY PERRY: cool
KATY PERRY: cool
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
JUSTIN TRUDEAU: You know, I was something of a "dark horse" myself when I led the Liberal Party of Canada to a dramatic come-from-behind victory in 2015 over Stephen Harper's Conservatives and Tom Mulcair's NDP, forming the first Liberal majority government since 2000
KATY PERRY: cool
KATY PERRY: cool
Started watching blade 2 and said in the first couple of minutes "man I wouldn't even mind if they did the vampire nightclub thing again" and man was I not disappointed
November 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Started watching blade 2 and said in the first couple of minutes "man I wouldn't even mind if they did the vampire nightclub thing again" and man was I not disappointed
Explaining my "John Yogurty" costume concept to my wife to new levels of bemusement
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Explaining my "John Yogurty" costume concept to my wife to new levels of bemusement
I don't really understand the pro-Lansdowne 2.0 case in any way that doesn't just boil down to the sunk cost fallacy tbh
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I don't really understand the pro-Lansdowne 2.0 case in any way that doesn't just boil down to the sunk cost fallacy tbh
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I've agreed to join your cause.
October 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I've agreed to join your cause.
I don't understand why people indulge themselves in this. It's not funny. It's not cute. It obviously helps normalize the idea. So much damage has been done by media people wanting to feel a little frisson of naughtiness over the last decade.
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
Trump 2028
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
econ.st
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't understand why people indulge themselves in this. It's not funny. It's not cute. It obviously helps normalize the idea. So much damage has been done by media people wanting to feel a little frisson of naughtiness over the last decade.
Interesting Ottawa thought exercise - Jim Watson loved parts of the job (the parts where he wasn't being criticized for making decisions), Mark Sutcliffe seems to me to be very checked out
An important point I've had to raise with a surprising number of people. One of the biggest drivers of success or failure for a mayoralty is whether the person actually wants to be Mayor, or just wants a title or something to run for. It's "the second toughest job" in politics. Not for tourists.
Andrew Cuomo is a bad man pulling on a dangerous thread because he wants to win a job he doesn’t actually want to do in a place he hates
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Interesting Ottawa thought exercise - Jim Watson loved parts of the job (the parts where he wasn't being criticized for making decisions), Mark Sutcliffe seems to me to be very checked out
There is nothing like sticking your head under the bath tap and blasting it with cold water on a hot day. being bald rocks
I legitimately think that if there was an inexpensive pill you could take with zero side effects that totally reversed male pattern baldness, I'd still keep shaving my head bald.
It's just a lot less hassle.
It's just a lot less hassle.
October 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There is nothing like sticking your head under the bath tap and blasting it with cold water on a hot day. being bald rocks
Happy launch day to CCI's new report, Building at Scale, about how innovation can help solve Canada's housing crisis!
We have to break out of the vicious cycle - unaffordability and low productivity in construction - by going from artisanal to industrial
www.canadianinnovators.org/content/buil...
We have to break out of the vicious cycle - unaffordability and low productivity in construction - by going from artisanal to industrial
www.canadianinnovators.org/content/buil...
Building At Scale: A CCI Policy Report on Innovation & Canada’s Housing Crisis
www.canadianinnovators.org
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Happy launch day to CCI's new report, Building at Scale, about how innovation can help solve Canada's housing crisis!
We have to break out of the vicious cycle - unaffordability and low productivity in construction - by going from artisanal to industrial
www.canadianinnovators.org/content/buil...
We have to break out of the vicious cycle - unaffordability and low productivity in construction - by going from artisanal to industrial
www.canadianinnovators.org/content/buil...
i have a black walnut tree in my new backyard and i thought, oh how fun, im going to collect and process all these black walnuts. lessons learned!
October 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
i have a black walnut tree in my new backyard and i thought, oh how fun, im going to collect and process all these black walnuts. lessons learned!
frantically googling
You need to know... where is Dagoth Ur? what are Dagoth Ur's plans? who are Dagoth Ur's servants? who is Dagoth Ur? what are Dagoth Ur's powers? what is known about Dagoth Ur's defenses? how can I prepare for battle against Dagoth Ur? who can help?
October 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
frantically googling
My unironic pitch that makes people mad: turn the central experimental farm into a dense, transit oriented missing middle neighbourhood
Tewin at full scale would be about 100,000 people -- that's like a whole new Barrhaven East.
Ottawa taxpayers simply can't afford that type of growth.
Ottawa taxpayers simply can't afford that type of growth.
Ottawa’s bitter fight over the Tewin development | The Narwhal
A housing megaproject by developer Taggart Group and the Algonquins of Ontario has Ottawa councillors and residents divided over claims of reconciliation and sustainability
https://thenarwhal.ca/ottawa-tewin-development-taggart-algonquins/?utm_source=The+Narwhal&utm_campaign=564a9b436e-Oct+23%2C+2025+—+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f6a05fddb8-564a9b436e-109049142&mc_cid=564a9b436e&mc_eid=69bb4b0f07
October 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
My unironic pitch that makes people mad: turn the central experimental farm into a dense, transit oriented missing middle neighbourhood
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October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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