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At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
February 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM
At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
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Elites think they’re immune to bad information environments and that makes them even more susceptible, it’s the Bill Ackman problem. I also suspect that it’s the reason you see elites capitulating to Trump while opinion shifts rapidly.
February 13, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Elites think they’re immune to bad information environments and that makes them even more susceptible, it’s the Bill Ackman problem. I also suspect that it’s the reason you see elites capitulating to Trump while opinion shifts rapidly.
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If you care at all about the future of Halifax, about transit or about equity, please read this!!
My Council blog from the last two weeks of budgeting. Austerity by surprise? Council will be considering major cuts on March 4. samaustin.ca/council-upda...
Council Update: Austerity or Not? - Sam Austin
Council’s budget deliberations are well underway at City Hall. February is the busiest time of the year for Councillors as budget meetings fill up several additional days each week. So far, Council ha...
samaustin.ca
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
If you care at all about the future of Halifax, about transit or about equity, please read this!!
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I hate every voter
February 14, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I hate every voter
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Also just darkly funny that Meta thought people would be less concerned about secret surveillance glasses during a time of political unrest. How's that been working out
February 13, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Also just darkly funny that Meta thought people would be less concerned about secret surveillance glasses during a time of political unrest. How's that been working out
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Once you start thinking about urban geometry, you can never stop seeing local government as being decades upon decades of this.
February 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Once you start thinking about urban geometry, you can never stop seeing local government as being decades upon decades of this.
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This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
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I feel like every two years we act surprised that young, fit people living communally while high on endorphins want to have lots of sex. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Love in a cold climate: Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days
Free condoms for competitors at the Winter Olympics have run out within a record-breaking three days
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I feel like every two years we act surprised that young, fit people living communally while high on endorphins want to have lots of sex. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
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Meta should be destroyed and the earth should be salted where it once grew.
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Meta should be destroyed and the earth should be salted where it once grew.
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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A very nasty bit of slight-of-hand is that they now completely ignore the actual question of "security" or "enforcement" and have adopted fully the Trump/Vance grievances about TPS and asylum. The narrative isn't about the border anymore or "legality", it's about undesirable racial populations.
really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM
A very nasty bit of slight-of-hand is that they now completely ignore the actual question of "security" or "enforcement" and have adopted fully the Trump/Vance grievances about TPS and asylum. The narrative isn't about the border anymore or "legality", it's about undesirable racial populations.
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Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
This draft guidance reproduces Cass insisting that clinicians must be involved in decisions about *social transition* which actually should be none of their damn business
They take the line that this "non-directive" intervention should force things to be "keeping options open and flexible"...
They take the line that this "non-directive" intervention should force things to be "keeping options open and flexible"...
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
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IOC is such a corrupt organization of scumbaggery
February 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
IOC is such a corrupt organization of scumbaggery
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Tends to happen when a handmaiden of autocracy is installed as your editor in chief
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Tends to happen when a handmaiden of autocracy is installed as your editor in chief
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Raise your hand if youve been using ffmpeg since college and had no idea that it stood for fast forward moving picture expert group [the file format standardized by the group, not the group itself]
I didn't expect the Jeffrey Epstein story to contain assistant editor workflow gore but lmao
February 12, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Raise your hand if youve been using ffmpeg since college and had no idea that it stood for fast forward moving picture expert group [the file format standardized by the group, not the group itself]
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The fate of the Republic hinges on what ffmpeg preset this dumbass who was converting the screen recording was using bsky.app/profile/adje...
Fast Forward Moving Picture Expert Group
When expanding the acronym confuses you more.
When expanding the acronym confuses you more.
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 AM
The fate of the Republic hinges on what ffmpeg preset this dumbass who was converting the screen recording was using bsky.app/profile/adje...
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we're not doing the stuff in the image anymore, we're leaving "actually anti-social behavior is fine" in the dustbin of woke 1
People should put down their phones and pay attention in freshman social studies
February 11, 2026 at 9:13 PM
we're not doing the stuff in the image anymore, we're leaving "actually anti-social behavior is fine" in the dustbin of woke 1
just think: if more people understood the economics of supply and demand, we could charge appropriate parking rates on the peninsula *and* increase support for building more housing!
Just a note on the lede of this story. Gabrielle can't find parking because it's priced too low, so people are incentivized to use it, which means they are, which means no spot for Gabby.
Circling the block: What's the parking situation in downtown Halifax and Dartmouth? www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
February 11, 2026 at 2:14 PM
just think: if more people understood the economics of supply and demand, we could charge appropriate parking rates on the peninsula *and* increase support for building more housing!
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Just a note on the lede of this story. Gabrielle can't find parking because it's priced too low, so people are incentivized to use it, which means they are, which means no spot for Gabby.
Circling the block: What's the parking situation in downtown Halifax and Dartmouth? www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Circling the block: What's the parking situation in downtown Halifax and Dartmouth?
How Halifax Works explores parking frustrations and changes on the way
www.saltwire.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Just a note on the lede of this story. Gabrielle can't find parking because it's priced too low, so people are incentivized to use it, which means they are, which means no spot for Gabby.
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“There’s limited street parking, and the [waterfront area] development was permitted by the city to not provide enough parking for the number of restaurants”
It’s really too bad that street parking is the only option in downtown Halifax and not a single parkade or lot exists - oh wait!
It’s really too bad that street parking is the only option in downtown Halifax and not a single parkade or lot exists - oh wait!
February 11, 2026 at 11:48 AM
“There’s limited street parking, and the [waterfront area] development was permitted by the city to not provide enough parking for the number of restaurants”
It’s really too bad that street parking is the only option in downtown Halifax and not a single parkade or lot exists - oh wait!
It’s really too bad that street parking is the only option in downtown Halifax and not a single parkade or lot exists - oh wait!
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Love to see guys like Lutnick who never stop name-dropping (or shut up in general) emerge after days of seclusion to be like “Forgive me but I’m struggling to recall how many times I was in the company of this man… Empstein, I think you said his name was?”
February 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Love to see guys like Lutnick who never stop name-dropping (or shut up in general) emerge after days of seclusion to be like “Forgive me but I’m struggling to recall how many times I was in the company of this man… Empstein, I think you said his name was?”
holy crap Hendsbee (!!) from the top rope
Hendsbee said he said to the provincial MLAs: “stay out of our bus lanes and bike lanes please” and that he asked them for cameras.
He said the bus lanes should be transit and emergency vehicles only. He doesn’t support HOV.
He said the bus lanes should be transit and emergency vehicles only. He doesn’t support HOV.
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM
holy crap Hendsbee (!!) from the top rope
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After "this out of touch liberal multiculturalism will fail" didn't pan out - BB's show set ratings records and is the most talked-about part of the super bowl - they are desperately pivoting to a blatant lie that "it was successful because it wasn't political"
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
After "this out of touch liberal multiculturalism will fail" didn't pan out - BB's show set ratings records and is the most talked-about part of the super bowl - they are desperately pivoting to a blatant lie that "it was successful because it wasn't political"