Nathan Carr
@carrnr.bsky.social
Government Relations Consultant.
False spring is the worst season in Ottawa.
March 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
False spring is the worst season in Ottawa.
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.
Don't even @ me about legality - inter arma enim silent leges.
March 4, 2025 at 7:51 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.
Don't even @ me about legality - inter arma enim silent leges.
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
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.
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
Ken Dryden is always worth a read. He nails it again with this piece in the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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?...
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
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?...
Sometimes hard to tell if it *is* a bit.
youtu.be/vfyzGYZ12Sg?...
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
Thoughts and prayers tonight for the parked cars, trees, and street level fixtures of downtown Philadelphia.
They better start greasing the traffic poles in Philly tonight. Gonna be wild.
February 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
They better start greasing the traffic poles in Philly tonight. Gonna be wild.
We're going to need to build our way out of this problem.
Sean Strickland: Time to Build Access to New Markets, Now - Canada's Building Trades Unions
Sean Strickland, Executive Director of Canada’s Building Trades Unions issued the following statement this afternoon: Donald Trump’s disastrous tariffs are now a reality. While Canada has not chosen t...
www.buildingtrades.ca
February 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We're going to need to build our way out of this problem.
While we're standing up our BlueSky Platform:
STATEMENT ON TRUMP IMPOSITION OF 25% TARIFFS ON CANADA - Canada's Building Trades Unions
Canada’s Building Trades Unions stand ready to fight for jobs, workers, and all Canadians in the face of President Trump’s 25% tariff that will be imposed on Canada as of Tuesday. This decision will r...
www.buildingtrades.ca
February 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
While we're standing up our BlueSky Platform:
Import Substitution Destabilization.
January 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Import Substitution Destabilization.
Very, very right.
January 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Very, very right.
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.
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
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.
Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.
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
Ontario passes bill allowing bike paths that lead to walls with tunnels painted on them
Accurate
Shovelling snow found to be number 1 cause of Canadians muttering ‘fuck this fucking shit’ over and over
Shovelling snow found to be number 1 cause of Canadians muttering 'fuck this fucking shit' over and over
OTTAWA - A new study indicates that the biggest cause of Canadians repeatedly exclaiming 'fuck this fucking shit' is shovelling snow.
www.thebeaverton.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Accurate
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...
maxread.substack.com/p/2024-the-y...
December 27, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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...
maxread.substack.com/p/2024-the-y...
me going into 2025, vs starting 2024
December 21, 2024 at 9:25 PM
me going into 2025, vs starting 2024
Fantastic work Helldivers!
Invasive 'murder hornets' are wiped out in the US, officials say
The world’s largest hornet has been declared eradicated in the U.S. The invasive northern giant hornet is also known as the “murder hornet” for its dangerous sting and its ability to slaughter a honey...
apnews.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Fantastic work Helldivers!
Printing this out and framing it for posterity.
December 17, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Printing this out and framing it for posterity.
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
I felt a great disturbance across Github, as if millions of lines of code suddenly cried out in terror...
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
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.
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
This remains to be the dumbest internet fight of the last decade.
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
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.