bityz.bsky.social
@bityz.bsky.social
An old man who still thinks he's young, still thinks he's an academic, and still loves the world and all of its strange little bits.

Meaning derived from bytes is entirely the construction of the reader and may not represent the intent of the author.
Pinned
The Insurrection act will be invoked in the U.S. somewhere between July 2025 and July 2026 depending on the opportunity/excuse.
Medical ontology is thing: e.g. bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Maybe Ukraine could say:

We will accept the proposal to cede land to Russia if our citizens vote for it. To vote, they need security and infrastructure. We propose that Russia leave Ukraine, Trump be the chair of a redevelopment board, and once we are rebuilt, democracy will decide.
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The US president,who has long financial ties with Russia, laundered money for Russian oligarchs, received election help from Russia after asking for it directly on TV, is now threatening Ukraine in order to help Russia take over portions of it.

Trump is acting on behalf of Russia.
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
School kids attacked. Teachers tried to fight off bear. One male teacher took the brunt of it.

2 in critical condition after ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
2 in critical condition after grizzly bear attack involving students in Bella Coola: officials | CBC News
Two people are in critical condition and two others are seriously injured after a reported grizzly bear attack in Bella Coola on British Columbia’s Central Coast, according to emergency officials.
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The American Coast Guard action makes me feel unsafe too.
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.

Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
America time to change the lyrics of The Star Spangled Banner. You are not free to discuss certain concepts in certain venues.

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the GOP and the home of the knaves?
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Hey #Alberta "destruction of evidence" means this money wasn't "wasted". It was laundered, folded, and put neatly back into politicians' pockets.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta's bid to privatize lab services wasted more than $100M: auditor general | CBC News
Alberta's auditor general has released a report detailing numerous failures in process and lack of due diligence by the province in its attempt to privatize community lab services.
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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I remember a time, a long, long time ago now, when I used to go entire seconds without hearing something about the President of the United States of America.
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
#stack254 4/5
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November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
European Goldfinches are so pretty. (Sorry North American Goldfinches)
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Finally did one properly
(It must have been an easy one)
#stack253 5/5
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November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The Senate Republicans and Trump are all suddenly fine with releasing the Epstein files.

This means they already have the narrative crafted and the documents cleaned up.

The Democrats need to be ready to take charge of the narrative.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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For all the men who have trouble understanding this I offer this quick key to being human:
1. You can find a woman attractive without wanting to fuck her
2. You can find a man to be attractive without wanting to fuck him.
3. You can find a child to be delightful with out wanting to fuck them.
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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This is why the progressive left in Canada needs to care a hell of a lot more about national security and defense than they currently do.

We purport to care about health care. We need to be serious about the full range of threats to public services.
🧵1/ Europe is experiencing a hybrid war. Russia is targeting not only military and commercial infrastructure and security systems but our health systems. In our new paper in the European Journal of Public Health, @charlottemar.bsky.social & I spell out the implications
@eupha.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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🧵1/ Europe is experiencing a hybrid war. Russia is targeting not only military and commercial infrastructure and security systems but our health systems. In our new paper in the European Journal of Public Health, @charlottemar.bsky.social & I spell out the implications
@eupha.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
What the fuck? This sounds horribly American. And wrong.
Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk was detained by 🇨🇦 customs agents and, for four hours, was asked a series of questions about his participation in the conference, his involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and his position on Israel. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Border officers detain well-known legal scholar travelling to conference on Palestine | CBC News
A prominent academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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John Mitchell was the Attorney General under Richard Nixon.

Mitchell went to jail for doing what Nixon told him to do.

This may be something the Attorney General under Trump, Pam Bondi, should consider.
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Found it!
July 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM