Martin Grasdal 🍁
@mgrasdal.bsky.social
Old IT guy, nearing retirement. Living proof that a degree in Engl. Lit & Philosophy is far from useless. Lover of fiction (including sci-fi & fantasy), history, classics, etc,. Classical music lover.
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Pastor Chuck Baldwin, served as the national chaplain for the Oath Keepers. He was a prominent figure in the "Patriot" movement, aligning closely with O.K. founder Stewart Rhodes, and often spoke at events advocating for the formation of local militias to combat perceived federal gov. overreach.
February 14, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Pastor Chuck Baldwin, served as the national chaplain for the Oath Keepers. He was a prominent figure in the "Patriot" movement, aligning closely with O.K. founder Stewart Rhodes, and often spoke at events advocating for the formation of local militias to combat perceived federal gov. overreach.
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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study suggests www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Love this. Association study. Still, #TeamReading!
Keep reading, writing and learning!
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Love this. Association study. Still, #TeamReading!
Keep reading, writing and learning!
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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study suggests
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study suggests www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Love this. Association study. Still, #TeamReading!
Keep reading, writing and learning!
📚📖❤️
Love this. Association study. Still, #TeamReading!
Keep reading, writing and learning!
📚📖❤️
What?
"Helicopter pilots were wounded pretty badly in the legs landing on the couple of machine gunners seemed to have make it through a thicket of bombs. But they were taken out rapidly by our snipers who stationed on platforms. Hellu-- actually unbelievable, helicopter platforms all the way the line"
February 14, 2026 at 5:38 AM
What?
Really? Only the delusional Smith who played possibly the most significant role in encouraging and enabling the moron separatists is the only who can have the biggest impact in dealing with this crisis. Strangely, he might be right. She could resign, she could deal with the nutcases in the UCP.
February 14, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Really? Only the delusional Smith who played possibly the most significant role in encouraging and enabling the moron separatists is the only who can have the biggest impact in dealing with this crisis. Strangely, he might be right. She could resign, she could deal with the nutcases in the UCP.
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In Trump's grand bargain with the techbros, the construction of the Chinese style surveillance state in the US has been contracted out to Peter Thiel. He will make hundreds of billions off of it, but more importantly, will exercise immense unchecked power.
February 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
In Trump's grand bargain with the techbros, the construction of the Chinese style surveillance state in the US has been contracted out to Peter Thiel. He will make hundreds of billions off of it, but more importantly, will exercise immense unchecked power.
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MISLEADING: A new academic paper by @qmul.bsky.social has attracted significant media attention by claiming that EVs & heat pumps deliver no proven carbon savings in UK ahead of 2030 clean power target - and should therefore be postponed.
Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵
Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵
February 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
MISLEADING: A new academic paper by @qmul.bsky.social has attracted significant media attention by claiming that EVs & heat pumps deliver no proven carbon savings in UK ahead of 2030 clean power target - and should therefore be postponed.
Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵
Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵
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Whatever became of those ‘triage liaison’ docs who were supposed to ease the crisis in Alberta’s big-city ERs? albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/what...
Whatever became of those ‘triage liaison’ docs who were supposed to ease the crisis in Alberta’s big-city Emergency Rooms? - Alberta Politics
Whatever became of those elusive “triage liaison” docs who were supposed to be a Band-Aid on the crisis in Alberta’s big-city Emergency Rooms while the United Conservative Party Government figured out...
albertapolitics.ca
February 13, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Whatever became of those ‘triage liaison’ docs who were supposed to ease the crisis in Alberta’s big-city ERs? albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/what...
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Hennepin County Attorney's Office
February 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Hennepin County Attorney's Office
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Peter Mandelson Sold Off Britain to the Super-Rich
The real life of the British state is conducted elsewhere, beyond the theatre of parliament, in private rooms where wealth and power recognize one another without introduction
It’s shocking because it’s so familiar
The real life of the British state is conducted elsewhere, beyond the theatre of parliament, in private rooms where wealth and power recognize one another without introduction
It’s shocking because it’s so familiar
Peter Mandelson Sold Off Britain to the Super-Rich. He’s Not the Only One | James Schneider
Mandelson - minister, fixer, envoy, consultant, intermediary between cabinet and capital - isn’t an aberration of our political system. He’s its most perfect expression, writes James Schneider.
novaramedia.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Peter Mandelson Sold Off Britain to the Super-Rich
The real life of the British state is conducted elsewhere, beyond the theatre of parliament, in private rooms where wealth and power recognize one another without introduction
It’s shocking because it’s so familiar
The real life of the British state is conducted elsewhere, beyond the theatre of parliament, in private rooms where wealth and power recognize one another without introduction
It’s shocking because it’s so familiar
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Contrast of Forms, by Fernand Léger, 1913, (rotated) 📸 by Mike Segar
February 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Contrast of Forms, by Fernand Léger, 1913, (rotated) 📸 by Mike Segar
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Should I stay or should I go? ♪♫ Now Alberta separatists are upset that us woke folk might want to leave! albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/shou...
Should I stay or should I go? ♪♫ Now Alberta separatists are upset that us woke folk might want to leave! - Alberta Politics
A recent Angus Reid Institute poll that suggests three quarters of the significant majority of Albertans who want no part of Alberta separation would leave the province if Alberta separated from Canad...
albertapolitics.ca
February 12, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Should I stay or should I go? ♪♫ Now Alberta separatists are upset that us woke folk might want to leave! albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/shou...
The #1 political enemy are men who believe women are the enemy. FTG.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
The #1 political enemy are men who believe women are the enemy. FTG.
An apt description of these morons running off to MAGA world to have clandestine conversations with the enemies of Canada: "traitor tots".
Should I stay or should I go? ♪♫ Now Alberta separatists are upset that us woke folk might want to leave! albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/shou...
Should I stay or should I go? ♪♫ Now Alberta separatists are upset that us woke folk might want to leave! - Alberta Politics
A recent Angus Reid Institute poll that suggests three quarters of the significant majority of Albertans who want no part of Alberta separation would leave the province if Alberta separated from Canad...
albertapolitics.ca
February 12, 2026 at 6:28 AM
An apt description of these morons running off to MAGA world to have clandestine conversations with the enemies of Canada: "traitor tots".
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Enten: "If Canadians really don't like Donald Trump, how do Americans feel about Canada? Well, they actually like Canada! ... even among Republicans, it's +30 ... Canada -- more popular than Donald Trump in Trump's own country"
February 11, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Enten: "If Canadians really don't like Donald Trump, how do Americans feel about Canada? Well, they actually like Canada! ... even among Republicans, it's +30 ... Canada -- more popular than Donald Trump in Trump's own country"
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Conservatives spent over a decade feeding the insatiable appetite in Alberta for anger and alienation towards Ottawa.
Now, like Jason Kenney, they need to step up and slay the beast they helped create before it does even more damage. #cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/11/o...
Now, like Jason Kenney, they need to step up and slay the beast they helped create before it does even more damage. #cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/11/o...
Conservatives built the Alberta separatist movement. Now they have to break it
Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney spent years whipping voters into a frenzy against Ottawa. Now, at least, he's doing something to put out the fire he helped start. Will any of his Conservative coll...
www.nationalobserver.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Conservatives spent over a decade feeding the insatiable appetite in Alberta for anger and alienation towards Ottawa.
Now, like Jason Kenney, they need to step up and slay the beast they helped create before it does even more damage. #cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/11/o...
Now, like Jason Kenney, they need to step up and slay the beast they helped create before it does even more damage. #cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/11/o...
Lol
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Lol
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i think i'm going to take a 1 or 2 week break from Bluesky, in light of recent news
February 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
i think i'm going to take a 1 or 2 week break from Bluesky, in light of recent news
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Misrepresentation and manipulation of BLS data appears to be a modus operandi of this regime, and it all seems to link to suspicious trades on the eve of BLS announcements.
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Misrepresentation and manipulation of BLS data appears to be a modus operandi of this regime, and it all seems to link to suspicious trades on the eve of BLS announcements.
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“Additionally, we find it deplorable that some established palaeontological organizations are not taking firm action to protect their members... As such, executive committee members from organizations that are not issuing public bans to these individuals are also banned from our events."
February 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
“Additionally, we find it deplorable that some established palaeontological organizations are not taking firm action to protect their members... As such, executive committee members from organizations that are not issuing public bans to these individuals are also banned from our events."
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nonce nonces nonces nonce
Epstein bankrolled the “principal home and funding source” for bitcoin
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Files cast light on Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to cryptocurrency
Newly released documents detail convicted sex offender’s early backing of bitcoin and Coinbase
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 AM
nonce nonces nonces nonce
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I am pretty used to corporate self-interest, but even I'm shocked by what Ellen Ioanes dug up about the Board of Peace and its designs in Gaza.
prospect.org/2026/02/09/b...
prospect.org/2026/02/09/b...
Board of Peace Is a Board of Profits - The American Prospect
Corporate interests dominate the organization planning the reconstruction of Gaza.
prospect.org
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I am pretty used to corporate self-interest, but even I'm shocked by what Ellen Ioanes dug up about the Board of Peace and its designs in Gaza.
prospect.org/2026/02/09/b...
prospect.org/2026/02/09/b...
Where do these quislings and low-information voters get their information from? Primarily alternative media sources and events hosted by the Alberta Prosperity Project. Not surprised by the number of quislings who get their info from friends and family, given this is AB, after all.
February 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Where do these quislings and low-information voters get their information from? Primarily alternative media sources and events hosted by the Alberta Prosperity Project. Not surprised by the number of quislings who get their info from friends and family, given this is AB, after all.
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the idea of human superfluousness - which she meant both economically and sociologically - was at the absolute core of arendt’s theories on totalitarianism and i’ve always thought it was essential for understanding the social and psychological forces of this neo-totalitarian era.
Been thinking how much some bits of MAGA match up with Russia’s use of the culturally and economically surplus manpower of 40-something men from the provinces as cannon fodder in Ukraine
his email to me said that i have "no value" and i am pretty much convinced that it was projection. i almost feel bad for him.
February 9, 2026 at 10:40 AM
the idea of human superfluousness - which she meant both economically and sociologically - was at the absolute core of arendt’s theories on totalitarianism and i’ve always thought it was essential for understanding the social and psychological forces of this neo-totalitarian era.
This drug-addled lunatic (quite literally) claimed he would build a self-growing city on the moon. Why does anyone take whatever he has to say seriously?
February 9, 2026 at 5:31 AM
This drug-addled lunatic (quite literally) claimed he would build a self-growing city on the moon. Why does anyone take whatever he has to say seriously?