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Mr. Angus, respectfully, why are you doing this? You know there's no legal means to revoke Musk's citizenship, and that changing the law to do so would breach the Charter—because you and your party rightly voted against it a decade ago. Those signing the petition may not know better, but you do.
From the speech in the House of Commons by Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe (Pierrefonds—Dollard, NDP), Hansard vol 147 no 98, 41st Parl, 2d session (Friday, June 6, 2014), Debate on Bill C-24, Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act: "We also want to remove clause 8 of the bill on the revocation of citizenship, which did not exist before. Bill C-24 gives the minister the discretionary power to revoke people's citizenship without giving them the right to appeal. That is extremely worrisome. Again, experts are unanimous on this. There are major problems with this aspect of the bill. Ms. Macklin, the representative of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers and a professor at the University of Toronto, had this to say: I would remove citizenship revocation. It's unconstitutional. I think our criminal justice system is perfectly adequate to handle crimes, criminal offences, and it does so just fine."
February 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Even that may be giving him too much credit, imho.
Threads post from me, https://www.threads.net/@alejandro.manevich/post/CzJ7CdtvjZo, Nov 2, 2023, quote-posting @ngrossman81 (Prof. Nicholas Grossman, U Illinois): I did not think it was possible for Dershowitz to sink any lower. This is an unspeakably vile statement, and Dershowitz is a disgrace to his profession, to his institution (Harvard), and to the Jewish people. There is no moral difference between his statement and those of Hamas that all Israelis are legitimate targets. Absolutely reprehensible. https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1720091627619078256 [Quoted post:] Hard no to Alan Dershowitz, Congressman Brian Mast, and anyone else asserting the blatantly false claim that all Palestinians are Hamas, or making horrific, bin Laden-style arguments that there's no such thing as civilians. Those claims are factually and morally wrong. Badly wrong.
January 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
They will never, ever log off
A classic tweet from @dril, September 16, 2012: "who the fuck is scraeming "LOG OFF" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off"
January 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This long-deleted tweet from him sums up his thinking pretty well imo (source: freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/complexity...):
Text of deleted tweet from David Klion (https://twitter.com/davidklion/status/1008918277203120129), originally posted June 18, 2018: "It’s incredible how many years I wasted associating complexity and ambiguity with intelligence. Turns out the right answer is usually pretty simple, and complexity and ambiguity are how terrible people live with themselves."
January 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I looked at the replies to your original post and thought, hm, not seeing much stupid, not really seeing much at all. Then I realized: blocking works! Block enough stupid replies and eventually the signal to noise ratio noticeably improves!
My Clearsky profile, showing I've blocked 1,945 accounts
January 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Disqualified! Order has been restored to the universe as Jesse reclaims his rightful 👑
Today's Clearsky leaderboard showing @jessesingal.com once again at #1, with 77,336 accounts blocking him, and the impostor @exp4-leiarcaica.bsky.social nowhere to be found.
December 24, 2024 at 4:54 PM
I know sfa about coding, alas but I did get the sense from the responses to the initial post that he had set up some program to automate blocking of his own account?
Screenshot of some code apparently involving blocking on Bluesky, attached to Dec 21, 2024 post by @exp4-leiarcaica.bsky.social Responses by @jeanmachine.dev to initial post by @exp4-leiarcaica.bsky.social: wtf did you do wait wtf how on - this is so funny [plus embedded photo of additional code]
December 23, 2024 at 6:48 PM
@jessesingal.com Someone is going after your record! I suspect steroid use. Not validating this until I see the result of the doping tests.
Profile page for @exp4-leiarcaica.bsky.social with three posts: 12 hours ago: From op: hihi 👉👈 (with screenshot of Clearsky leaderboard showing their account at #1, blocked by 231,650 accounts) Response from @rynr.dev: Congrats on #1 Response from op: I have 2~24 hours of achievement until the account goes down Continuation of profile page for @exp4-leiarcaica.bsky.social with posts: 15 hours ago: From op: lol (with screenshots of code) Clearsky leaderboard showing @exp4-leiarcaica.bsky.social as most blocked account with 231,702 Clearsky leaderboard for last 24 hours showing @exp4-leiarcaica.bsky.social as most blocked account with 231,702
December 23, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Am I the only one seeing this?
Screenshot of the above quote-post from @jessesingal.com, with the quoted post hidden and labeled as "Rude" by the Bluesky Moderation Service.
December 20, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Every time I try to be more forgiving about blocking, I end up returning to the @mattyglesias.bsky.social approach. If I think someone's rude, or annoying, or going on and on about something I don't want to listen to: sorry! My attention and patience are limited. Nothing personal, it's just curation
Tweet thread from Matthew Yglesias, January 29, 2023: Reminder: If you’re not someone I follow, I will block you on a hair trigger for extremely minor acts of rudeness. You’ll be saying to yourself “that wasn’t hate speech, that wasn’t harassment, why am I blocked?” The answer is “it was a tiny bit annoying." Imagine you a stranger who wandered up to me at a party and then said “____” to me. If I’d want to walk away from the conversation with you, that’s a block. Because guess what: You *are* a stranger who wandered into my mentions and started talking to me. If you want to be rude or annoying that’s your right, but I’m blocking.
December 16, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Usual disclaimer: this is not legal advice, etc. But ffs, how much clearer could they be? POSTS ARE PUBLIC. bsky.social/about/suppor...
Excerpt from Bluesky App Privacy Policy (last updated May 22, 2024) Overview Profiles and Posts Are Public. The Bluesky App is a microblogging service for public conversation, so any information you add to your public profile and the information you post on the Bluesky App is public. Excerpt from Bluesky App Privacy Policy (last updated May 22, 2024) 1. PROFILES AND POSTS ARE PUBLIC If you create an account on the Bluesky App, any information you add to your public profile and the information you post on the Bluesky App will be public. Excerpt from Bluesky App Privacy Policy (last updated May 22, 2024) iii. Your Posts. The Bluesky App is a microblogging service that lets you post content and comment on other users’ posts. We collect your posts. Your posts and comments are public, so exercise care when deciding what to share. Excerpt from Bluesky App Privacy Policy (last updated May 22, 2024) The categories of third parties with whom we may share personal information are described below. Your Posts and Public Profile. As noted above, the Bluesky App is a microblogging service. Your posts and profile are public.
December 14, 2024 at 10:54 PM
The debate over block evading is surpassingly ridiculous even by internet drama standards. On its own, block evading isn't harassment by any reasonable definition; at worst, it's impolite. Not to mention its opponents are selective in their opposition: screenshots are only bad when Bad People do it.
Bart Simpson chalkboard meme, with the words "Block evading is not harassment" written repeatedly. Credit: https://www.ranzey.com/generators/bart/
December 14, 2024 at 7:47 PM
This reminds me of a 2016 Ontario criminal case, which made local headlines at the time. The Crown prosecuted a man for harassment for being a royal pain on 🐦, including by evading a block. The judge wasn't having it, noting that it's unreasonable to expect privacy in a public medium.
Ms. Reilly wrote to Twitter that Mr. Elliott stalked her and eavesdropped on Twitter. She also tweeted to him on September 11, right after the Cadillac Lounge incident: “Making this request again publicly-stop reading my feed and alluding to it with your tweets.” Her fear that he might have been at the Cadillac Lounge and that he could escalate to offline and real-life harassment (though she had no idea what he would do) is based on her view that there is privacy in Twitter and that one account holder can dictate what another account holder tweets. But on the whole of this evidence, relating to both her and Ms. Guthrie, Twitter is not private, by definition and in its essence. On this evidentiary record, asking a person to stop reading one’s feed from a freely chosen open account is not reasonable. Nor is it reasonable to ask someone to stop alluding to one’s tweets. To subscribe to Twitter and keep your account open is to waive your right to privacy in your tweets. Arranging a meeting or social event using tweets other than direct messages is like inviting strangers into your home or onto your phone line while you talk to your friends. Blocking only goes so far, as long as you choose to remain open.
December 14, 2024 at 5:10 AM
For those who still drop in to the other place from time to time, this thread is a marvel: x.com/AdamCSharp/s...
Tweet from Adam Sharp, @AdamCSharp, Mar 13, 2023: A thread of my favourite Hungarian phrases, starting with this one… In Hungary, instead of saying “my bosses gave me too much work to do” you can use the poetic phrase bekergettek tátott szájjal a faszerdőbe. It means “they chased me into the dick-forest with a wide-open mouth”
December 13, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular: I've recently found myself thinking a lot about the conclusion to this 2021 Freddie deBoer essay. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/that-one-s...
But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s the activist class, the Twitter-obsessed class, the collegiate class, the vengeful “progressive” NPCs that have poisoned the well by normalizing attempts to destroy people they disagree with. No one is saying you shouldn’t advocate for your values. You absolutely should be vocal and passionate, and you are free to invoke moral language, and you certainly don’t have to personally like the people you disagree with. But you don’t get to threaten people’s lives, which is very common in some social media spaces, and you don’t get to silence anyone, and you don’t get to dox anyone, and it’s profoundly fucked up to try and separate someone from their job in a world where you have to work to eat. That can never be an authentically progressive or left-wing action, I don’t care how righteous you think your movement is. There’s no excuse for that behavior, especially given that the people who are guilty of this are almost all perfectly empowered and socioeconomically secure. You can’t run a political party under these conditions, or a social movement, and we shouldn’t have to. Advocate for your values, do the work, build the coalition through persuasion, accept that people will always disagree with you and that this is a healthy condition, and stop pretending that you are the subaltern when you’re really a whole industry of A students who went to elite colleges and have never known what it’s like to not be listened to and taken seriously. To put it simply, grow up. And stop trying to destroy people. Like you yourselves keep saying, canceling doesn’t reliably work, so why bother? Judging by the utter lack of meaningful change since last summer, neither have the protests or riots. That’s not a nice thing to say, but it’s reality, and if you are sincere about helping those you claim to speak for, your first duty is to efficacy. So maybe time to try something else.
December 13, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Revenue Canada updated the page yesterday and ... it isn't an improvement.

HANUKKAH TREES ARE NOT A THING HANUKKAH BUSHES ARE NOT A THING WHAT THE ACTUAL FUDDLE DUDDLE IS GOING ON omg 😵‍💫
Screenshot of the Revenue Canada "GST/HST break" webpage popup message for details & examples of the category "Christmas and similar decorative trees", listing the following examples that qualify: ✅ Natural trees ✅ Artificial trees ✅ Hanukkah trees or bushes
December 12, 2024 at 2:44 PM
And the updated leaderboard makes it official. @jessesingal.com is the new champ! 🏆
Clearsky leaderboard showing @jessesingal.com at #1 with 55,863 accounts blocking him, and @brianna.bsky.social at #2 with 55,558 accounts blocking her
December 10, 2024 at 12:25 AM
JESSE TAKES THE LEAD!!!🥇🔥🔥🔥✊✊🎉🎆🐐
Clearsky profile of @jessesingal.com showing him blocked by 55,502 people Clearsky profile of @brianna.bsky.social showing her blocked by 55,493 people
December 9, 2024 at 8:46 PM
So close!
Clearsky profile of @brianna.bsky.social showing her blocked by 55,397 people Clearsky profile of @jessesingal.com showing him blocked by 54,556 people
December 9, 2024 at 6:49 PM
I always found that tweeting brought out his most abrasive and intolerant side. It's true of a lot of people, alas. At least you and I are in august company on his blocklist!
Clip of Clearsky profile of @kenwhite.bsky.social, showing him blocking me, @helenlewis.bsky.social, and @cliffordbanes.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 2:07 PM
You're fewer than 2,500 blocks behind and you've done it in just your first weekend! Not to mention that Ms. Wu has the added advantage of infuriating the 🍉 contingent with her pro-Israel stance. I have faith in you, Jesse. Give it another day or two and I think you'll take the lead. 🥇
Clearsky profile of @jessesingal.com showing him blocked by 52,855 people Clearsky profile of @brianna.bsky.social showing her blocked by 55,252 people
December 9, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Just over 30 hours since his first post, and Jesse has moved into second place!🥈Remember, this is good! Get the haters to remove themselves, so they have nothing more to complain about , and the rest of us don't have to hear from them. Everyone benefits!
Clearsky profile of @jessesingal.com showing him blocked by 43,520 people
December 7, 2024 at 10:23 PM
And it's now 24 hours since his first post, and Jesse has become the #3 most blocked account! Congratulations 🎉🥳
Clearsky profile of @jessesingal.com showing him blocked by 38,835 people.
December 7, 2024 at 4:00 PM
One hour!
Clearsky profile of @jessesingal.com showing him blocked by 37,956 people
December 7, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Bwahahahaha!
My Clearsky profile, showing me blocked by 479 people.
December 7, 2024 at 2:33 PM