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If you like the history pods and writing I do, you'd better pray everything you like is completed before Total War Warhammer 40k comes out, because you're sure as shit not getting anything for a while afterward
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If you like the history pods and writing I do, you'd better pray everything you like is completed before Total War Warhammer 40k comes out, because you're sure as shit not getting anything for a while afterward
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tfw you're professionally incapacitated
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
tfw you're professionally incapacitated
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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Xbox 360 Dollars Per Year
October 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Xbox 360 Dollars Per Year
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BC folks! Outstanding piece here by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, co-ED of @bcpolicy.bsky.social.
BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures.
Read on 👇
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures.
Read on 👇
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Opinion: B.C. has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
Experience from early 2000s shows that underfunding public services and failing to address poverty leads to higher economic and social costs
vancouversun.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
BC folks! Outstanding piece here by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, co-ED of @bcpolicy.bsky.social.
BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures.
Read on 👇
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures.
Read on 👇
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
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For those who are cancelling all their subscriptions and now have nothing to do with their lives, may I suggest Caves of Qud?
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
For those who are cancelling all their subscriptions and now have nothing to do with their lives, may I suggest Caves of Qud?
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none of these guys actually read sci fi
June 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
none of these guys actually read sci fi
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King Charles' recent visit to Canada:
May 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
King Charles' recent visit to Canada:
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Top Canadian stories today are the King and the level of sovereignty he can help the country afford amidst turmoil in the United States, and the latest on the Hudson's Bay Company. 1776 has nothing on 2025
May 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Top Canadian stories today are the King and the level of sovereignty he can help the country afford amidst turmoil in the United States, and the latest on the Hudson's Bay Company. 1776 has nothing on 2025
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Wholly agree with this. LLMs are an extraordinary technical achievement, but they're like dynamite: You can use them for a bunch of different things, but you might not like the collateral damage when you use them for tasks they're not suited to.
LLMs are basically massive high-dimension word association lookup tables (over simplifying a bit). They’re most interesting, to me, as an analytical tool for how natural languages work, but obviously that’s not how they’re marketed or used at all
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Wholly agree with this. LLMs are an extraordinary technical achievement, but they're like dynamite: You can use them for a bunch of different things, but you might not like the collateral damage when you use them for tasks they're not suited to.
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can i do a referendum making it illegal for people to say "western alienation" when they aren't actually referring to the most heavily populated and most western part of the country
May 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
can i do a referendum making it illegal for people to say "western alienation" when they aren't actually referring to the most heavily populated and most western part of the country
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Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election
April 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election
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I have just finished The Dawn Of Everything and I highly recommend it if you're interested in the structure of society or how we look at history. It's a commitment (525 pages and reasonably dense) but it's eye-opening. And gives you hope for the future - there are *other* ways of doing things.
April 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I have just finished The Dawn Of Everything and I highly recommend it if you're interested in the structure of society or how we look at history. It's a commitment (525 pages and reasonably dense) but it's eye-opening. And gives you hope for the future - there are *other* ways of doing things.
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sometimes i worry if being terminally online is bad but then i see posts like this and i realize it's all worth it
April 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
sometimes i worry if being terminally online is bad but then i see posts like this and i realize it's all worth it
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if you've ever wondered why
-the administration keeps passing laws abusive to children
-generations of christians have embraced authoritarians so fulsomely
-US policy towards Israel is so weird
-and more,
look no further than
MY BOOK
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
-the administration keeps passing laws abusive to children
-generations of christians have embraced authoritarians so fulsomely
-US policy towards Israel is so weird
-and more,
look no further than
MY BOOK
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
bookshop.org
April 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
if you've ever wondered why
-the administration keeps passing laws abusive to children
-generations of christians have embraced authoritarians so fulsomely
-US policy towards Israel is so weird
-and more,
look no further than
MY BOOK
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
-the administration keeps passing laws abusive to children
-generations of christians have embraced authoritarians so fulsomely
-US policy towards Israel is so weird
-and more,
look no further than
MY BOOK
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
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just added another 25 crowd-sourced locations to this passion project of mine, mapping change tables in Vancouver! if you have friends with babies or toddlers, please pass it on: vancouverchangetables.com
Vancouver Change Tables Map
vancouverchangetables.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
just added another 25 crowd-sourced locations to this passion project of mine, mapping change tables in Vancouver! if you have friends with babies or toddlers, please pass it on: vancouverchangetables.com
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Read the full story: First Nations offer to buy ‘iconic’ Hudson’s Bay store chain for tobacco, blanket
First Nations offer to buy ‘iconic’ Hudson’s Bay store chain for tobacco, blanket
A coalition of First Nations has offered to purchase the struggling Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) with a deal reminiscent of the retailer’s own early transactions: a blanket and some tobacco. “Seems l...
walkingeaglenews.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Read the full story: First Nations offer to buy ‘iconic’ Hudson’s Bay store chain for tobacco, blanket
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Wednesday’s NYT crossword is too clever by half, which is actually my favourite kind of clever. I want to print a copy for everyone I know, just to watch most of them get frustrated and quit well before realizing how masterfully constructed it is
February 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Wednesday’s NYT crossword is too clever by half, which is actually my favourite kind of clever. I want to print a copy for everyone I know, just to watch most of them get frustrated and quit well before realizing how masterfully constructed it is
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Programmers love Factorio because playing this game is the only way they can experience the Pure Joy of Recreational Programming without the Corporate Bullshit and Unnecessary Complexity Slop forced on them constantly for no reason.
November 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Programmers love Factorio because playing this game is the only way they can experience the Pure Joy of Recreational Programming without the Corporate Bullshit and Unnecessary Complexity Slop forced on them constantly for no reason.
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Looking back at a decade of tech innovations
2013: Blockchain! It's a like a database, but slower and worse!
2016: VR! It's like monitors, but slower and worse!
2021: NFTs! It's like pictures, but slower and worse!
2023: AI! It's like algorithms, but slower and worse!
2013: Blockchain! It's a like a database, but slower and worse!
2016: VR! It's like monitors, but slower and worse!
2021: NFTs! It's like pictures, but slower and worse!
2023: AI! It's like algorithms, but slower and worse!
January 7, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Looking back at a decade of tech innovations
2013: Blockchain! It's a like a database, but slower and worse!
2016: VR! It's like monitors, but slower and worse!
2021: NFTs! It's like pictures, but slower and worse!
2023: AI! It's like algorithms, but slower and worse!
2013: Blockchain! It's a like a database, but slower and worse!
2016: VR! It's like monitors, but slower and worse!
2021: NFTs! It's like pictures, but slower and worse!
2023: AI! It's like algorithms, but slower and worse!