Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉
@bjornar1.bsky.social
Retired graduate student in international relations. Software engineer in training. Chronic idealist and hopeless cynic. Anticolonialist. Chaotic good. Mostly human (unconfirmed). He/him/"oy, you there!". Norwegian expat. Toronto, Ontario.
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Work truck. Wank truck.
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Work truck. Wank truck.
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Curved corridors to limit a shooter’s sight lines. Bullet-proof glass. Concrete “bump outs” in hallways to provide hiding places. This is the sad new architecture of American high schools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXeM...
Fruitport designs $48M high school with places to hide from mass shooters
YouTube video by 13 ON YOUR SIDE
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November 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Curved corridors to limit a shooter’s sight lines. Bullet-proof glass. Concrete “bump outs” in hallways to provide hiding places. This is the sad new architecture of American high schools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXeM...
This remains one of my favourite memes.
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This remains one of my favourite memes.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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When "something I have done before" turns into an undifferentiated "press the bullshit button, receive slop," you miss out on *the* engine that creates expertise and mastery.
Calculators don't do this. You still have to know how to solve the problem, for them to work.
Calculators don't do this. You still have to know how to solve the problem, for them to work.
June 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
When "something I have done before" turns into an undifferentiated "press the bullshit button, receive slop," you miss out on *the* engine that creates expertise and mastery.
Calculators don't do this. You still have to know how to solve the problem, for them to work.
Calculators don't do this. You still have to know how to solve the problem, for them to work.
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It would be nice if the people in charge of the Bank of Canada didn't have brains so melted by finance-speak that they think we can "productivity" our way out of an affordability crisis that in huge part was created by decades of not building enough affordable housing.
Bank of Canada deputy governor says country's affordability crisis is linked to productivity
Canada's affordability crisis is really a productivity problem, according to the Bank of Canada. Find out more
financialpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It would be nice if the people in charge of the Bank of Canada didn't have brains so melted by finance-speak that they think we can "productivity" our way out of an affordability crisis that in huge part was created by decades of not building enough affordable housing.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
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"Quiet, piggy!"
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"Quiet, piggy!"
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Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
TORONTO - With newly released files from notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein implicating President Trump in a world of elite, amoral power players, Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary has formally...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
I do not always sleep with my sources, but when I do, I prefer men with brain worms.
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I do not always sleep with my sources, but when I do, I prefer men with brain worms.
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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Rabbi here.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
Genuinely curious as to why Wu and others who argue along these lines are surprised that pro-Israel politics are on the back-foot in the United States.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Rabbi here.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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Wild how I drew this 4 years ago as satire and now it’s the average tweet from a sitting president
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Wild how I drew this 4 years ago as satire and now it’s the average tweet from a sitting president
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As it’s Sunday, take a moment to imagine how good life would be if your neighbourhood was built for people.
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
As it’s Sunday, take a moment to imagine how good life would be if your neighbourhood was built for people.
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Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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This isn't even satire.
![EVANGELICALS BE LIKE: "Oh Lord, please let our pedophile get away with it... but what even is a pedophile? Isn't childhood just a social construct? Remember Mary? - [everyone praying over trump] @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxm3v43kiuo4gdun45a4zivh/bafkreihywvutnt5itswtjcoivpakqd5rwriupx3sc3hejk7bh2f5fgcijy@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This isn't even satire.
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
Oh, I thought it was raising questions about "what counts as pedophila anyway and is it really that bad if she looks 15". At least, that seems to be the line of questioning on Fox 🤮
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Oh, I thought it was raising questions about "what counts as pedophila anyway and is it really that bad if she looks 15". At least, that seems to be the line of questioning on Fox 🤮