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Nathan Carr
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Government Relations Consultant.
False spring is the worst season in Ottawa.
March 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Can anyone recommend a good pirate IPTV service so I can cut all my American streaming services.

Don't even @ me about legality - inter arma enim silent leges.
March 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Deeply disappointed that there's no Liberal leadership candidate who is willing to stand up and say NO to clankers, NO to the AI automaton menace, and NO to Cyberstan sympathizers.
February 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Ken Dryden is always worth a read. He nails it again with this piece in the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Canada Is Taking Trump Seriously and Personally
Sometimes sporting events really are bigger than the game itself.
www.theatlantic.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This is honestly one of the best bits of television in a while.

Sometimes hard to tell if it *is* a bit.

youtu.be/vfyzGYZ12Sg?...
Ruby Dhalla learns on CBC's Power & Politics she's been disqualified | Power & Politics
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
February 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
February 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Challenge accepted apparently.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2B8smhy/
February 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Reposted by Nathan Carr
Thoughts and prayers tonight for the parked cars, trees, and street level fixtures of downtown Philadelphia.
February 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
They better start greasing the traffic poles in Philly tonight. Gonna be wild.
February 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Import Substitution Destabilization.
January 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Very, very right.
January 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Reposted by Nathan Carr
Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia just accomplished something huge: they overcame Amazon's union-busting tactics and voted to form the store's first union in over four decades.

Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.
Whole Foods Workers Win First-Ever Union, Defying Amazon (Updated)
Workers in Philadelphia say they’re tired of being treated like robots.
inthesetimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Reposted by Nathan Carr
Ontario passes bill allowing bike paths that lead to walls with tunnels painted on them
Ontario passes bill allowing bike paths that lead to walls with tunnels painted on them
TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford's government successfully passed a bill today allowing municipalities to create bike paths throughout the province so long as they lead to a wall with the image of a tunnel...
thebeaverton.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Accurate
January 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Turner was right.

youtu.be/MzgVGjvVmqc?...
John Turner and Brian Mulroney during the 1984 Canadian Federal Election Debate.
YouTube video by TheBoyInPurple
youtu.be
January 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Reposted by Nathan Carr
Among the many, many virtues of Max Read's always excellent The Year in Weird and Stupid Futures feature is how it carries on the part of the Gawker Voice that so many people experienced as scabrous snark but which was just stating things clearly and plainly
maxread.substack.com/p/2024-the-y...
December 27, 2024 at 8:34 PM
me going into 2025, vs starting 2024
December 21, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Printing this out and framing it for posterity.
December 17, 2024 at 11:45 AM
I felt a great disturbance across Github, as if millions of lines of code suddenly cried out in terror...
December 13, 2024 at 9:57 PM
The New Year is a magical place where things you don't want to deal with can be deferred, and problems you don't want to deal with can be sent, to be solved by future you and future colleagues. Cheers to the New Year - the cause of and solution to all of December's challenges.
December 12, 2024 at 12:08 PM
This remains to be the dumbest internet fight of the last decade.
WordPress must stop blocking WP Engine, a judge has ruled. Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg also have to quit interfering with WP Engine’s ACF plugin www.theverge.com/2024/12/10/2...
WordPress must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules
A win for WP Engine.
www.theverge.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:56 AM
If you think i'm dumb enough to point my DNS to this new hellsite for verification you've got another thing coming. It's hard enough getting corporate DNS control/ record updates when i'm getting paid.
December 5, 2024 at 11:53 PM