Average Rando (not) on twitter
@averagerando.bsky.social
Left/Green politics, partially recovering tech worker, feminist, father of adult 🏳️🌈, 🏳️⚧️, cis, straight children. Thinks nobody should kill anyone, actually.
Just saw this scary sentence in a story regarding Warner sale: “Larry Ellisons’s good relationship with President Trump is also a serious competitive edge considering the administration’s fraught relationship with the media industry overall”
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Just saw this scary sentence in a story regarding Warner sale: “Larry Ellisons’s good relationship with President Trump is also a serious competitive edge considering the administration’s fraught relationship with the media industry overall”
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Polls show increasing support (over 70 percent) for immigration restriction.These racist policies have been justified under the false austerity logic of "not enough resources". As billionaires & banks & bosses make record profits - largely on the backs of migrant labour!!!
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Polls show increasing support (over 70 percent) for immigration restriction.These racist policies have been justified under the false austerity logic of "not enough resources". As billionaires & banks & bosses make record profits - largely on the backs of migrant labour!!!
The irony
They stole nine of my books. Nine! But why not Doppelganger? Not good enough for these mass doppelganger machines?
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The irony
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One of the strategic failures of #OttCity Road Safety Action Plan is the lack of communications about where speed camera revenues are spent.
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
One of the strategic failures of #OttCity Road Safety Action Plan is the lack of communications about where speed camera revenues are spent.
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
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You should build bike lanes for people who are not currently biking and build housing for people who don't currently live in your neighborhood.
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You should build bike lanes for people who are not currently biking and build housing for people who don't currently live in your neighborhood.
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My first blog post in a while. Carney and Canada have abandoned the 1.5 and 2 degree targets.
I'm going to try to get a few out in the run up to COP 30.
I'm going to try to get a few out in the run up to COP 30.
Canada has abandoned the 1.5 and 2 degree targets
What does it mean to abandon something? It means to “cease to support or look after (someone); desert,” to “give up completely (a course of action, a practice, or a way of thinking)” or to “discont…
feeltheheat.blog
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
My first blog post in a while. Carney and Canada have abandoned the 1.5 and 2 degree targets.
I'm going to try to get a few out in the run up to COP 30.
I'm going to try to get a few out in the run up to COP 30.
Even funnier that this is peak Streisand Syndrome. I doubt this would have caused nearly the splash of he hadn’t spent the last two days desperately trying to prove her wrong. Which of course is proving her right.
incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Even funnier that this is peak Streisand Syndrome. I doubt this would have caused nearly the splash of he hadn’t spent the last two days desperately trying to prove her wrong. Which of course is proving her right.
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ridiculous. Bill Gates getting cold feet is not a shift in the scientific concensus.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
ridiculous. Bill Gates getting cold feet is not a shift in the scientific concensus.
This. Corporations are a fiction that we allow to exist for reasons (whether good or bad is irrelevant). If one harms society, society should not hesitate to remove it.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This. Corporations are a fiction that we allow to exist for reasons (whether good or bad is irrelevant). If one harms society, society should not hesitate to remove it.
For reasons of self-flagellation I was just watching the Tesla shareholder meeting. Can confirm that it’s a cult.
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
For reasons of self-flagellation I was just watching the Tesla shareholder meeting. Can confirm that it’s a cult.
Not only NYT of course, but this x100
There's been a real erosion of local news, but at the same time while NYT doesn't publish lies, they do publish things fully decontextualized leading you to come to false conclusions. A whole story can be made up of nothing but true statements and still lead you to believe a lie.
November 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Not only NYT of course, but this x100
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"Any conversation about Bill Gates and climate should begin by acknowledging that he’s been wrong about it over and over again" - @billmckibben.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
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#climatecrisis
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It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time
billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...
Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything
billmckibben.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Any conversation about Bill Gates and climate should begin by acknowledging that he’s been wrong about it over and over again" - @billmckibben.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
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#climatecrisis
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that the US needs to be isolated and all countries need to remove all reliance on them and their economy.
The rules have changed: "US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules. Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S." www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the US needs to be isolated and all countries need to remove all reliance on them and their economy.
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Mike “I don’t know anything about it” Johnson. Nice legacy.
Raju: Last week, you were very critical of Biden, you said he didn’t even know who was pardoning. On 60 minutes, Trump admitted not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire guilty of money laundering. Is that also concerning?
Johnson: I don’t know anything about it.
Johnson: I don’t know anything about it.
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Mike “I don’t know anything about it” Johnson. Nice legacy.
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I remember growing up in a conservative household I was told about how in communist dictatorships, the people starve while the leaders build opulent palaces and ballrooms. Anyway, not sure why I brought that up.
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I remember growing up in a conservative household I was told about how in communist dictatorships, the people starve while the leaders build opulent palaces and ballrooms. Anyway, not sure why I brought that up.
This isn’t it. If you’re having a disagreement with someone who is clearly NOT Russian (which I think is rather obvious in my case), why would you say something like this. Nothing I said was idiotic or pro Russian in any way. WTF??
October 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This isn’t it. If you’re having a disagreement with someone who is clearly NOT Russian (which I think is rather obvious in my case), why would you say something like this. Nothing I said was idiotic or pro Russian in any way. WTF??
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All this Reagan talk reminds me of a funny chart.
October 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
All this Reagan talk reminds me of a funny chart.
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🚨 We are calling for bold, meaningful financial reforms to safeguard global financial stability and avoid the risk of future systemic collapse.
🔗 Read the full statement: www.tragedyofthehorizon.org
🔗 Read the full statement: www.tragedyofthehorizon.org
Tragedy of the Horizon
Today marks ten years since then-Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney delivered his landmark “Tragedy of the Horizon” speech at Lloyd’s of London. Its premise was clear and sobering: climate ch...
www.tragedyofthehorizon.org
September 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I just wanted to remind people that boycotts definitely do NOT work 🙄. “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed …after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.” Lol, I’ll-timed. Sure, Disney.
September 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I just wanted to remind people that boycotts definitely do NOT work 🙄. “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed …after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.” Lol, I’ll-timed. Sure, Disney.
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Will *you* speak your mind? Or tomorrow, at least turn up? For peace, for justice, for climate? Sat Sep 20, across Canada & USA – GoodWork.ca/920447
September 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Will *you* speak your mind? Or tomorrow, at least turn up? For peace, for justice, for climate? Sat Sep 20, across Canada & USA – GoodWork.ca/920447
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"I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you chose to live."
Pastor Howard-John Wesley
Pastor Howard-John Wesley
September 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
"I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you chose to live."
Pastor Howard-John Wesley
Pastor Howard-John Wesley
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“…but some of us will still carry on the light.”
September 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“…but some of us will still carry on the light.”
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The Dangerous Targeting of a Canadian Journalist via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
The Dangerous Targeting of a Canadian Journalist | The Tyee
After the murder of Charlie Kirk, conservatives piled on Rachel Gilmore for expressing a well-founded fear. Then came violent threats.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The Dangerous Targeting of a Canadian Journalist via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...