Jamieson Roberts
@jamiesonroberts.bsky.social
Father, geek, gamer, beer aficionado, coffee enthusiast, and sci-fi junky. Full time code monkey aka web developer. #ldnont • Joined in 2023
https://jamiesonroberts.com
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Funny not funny that the price of house that we can reasonably afford hasnt changed in just over 7 years despite our incomes generally increasing. Houses in our city have gone from just beyond our reach to averaging double. I hate it here.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Funny not funny that the price of house that we can reasonably afford hasnt changed in just over 7 years despite our incomes generally increasing. Houses in our city have gone from just beyond our reach to averaging double. I hate it here.
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Rachel Gilmore: "Thanks to a confluence of factors—including the advent of social media, incompetent moderation from tech giants and manosphere influencers creation of soft entry points for a more radical ideology—anti-feminist ideology is experiencing a resurgence."
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Rachel Gilmore: "Thanks to a confluence of factors—including the advent of social media, incompetent moderation from tech giants and manosphere influencers creation of soft entry points for a more radical ideology—anti-feminist ideology is experiencing a resurgence."
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Rachel Gilmore on the anti-DEI movement: "I think that to attack these notions is a dog whistle to the worst elements of society that are seeing a slide towards a more fascistic world. And every politician who engages in that should be ashamed of themselves."
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Rachel Gilmore on the anti-DEI movement: "I think that to attack these notions is a dog whistle to the worst elements of society that are seeing a slide towards a more fascistic world. And every politician who engages in that should be ashamed of themselves."
This is the modern day version of salting the earth of Cathage, a place where things still don’t grow.
This is just the mild part of genocide, saying to all Palestinians that their way of life is gone like they should be.
This is just the mild part of genocide, saying to all Palestinians that their way of life is gone like they should be.
Video footage shows Israeli bulldozers forcibly uprooting hundreds of Palestinian olive trees in Qaryut, a village south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
December 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is the modern day version of salting the earth of Cathage, a place where things still don’t grow.
This is just the mild part of genocide, saying to all Palestinians that their way of life is gone like they should be.
This is just the mild part of genocide, saying to all Palestinians that their way of life is gone like they should be.
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it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
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This is the opposite of what we need 😩 innovation, competition, and economic growth can happen within the confines of stopping climate change for crying out loud!!!
“The new measures — if approved in a confidence vote that could come as early as next week — would allow a cabinet minister to exempt the testing of any product or service from almost any law, in order to encourage innovation, competitiveness or economic growth.”
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
Althia Raj: Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers
Sneaking a change of this magnitude into a 600-page bill that will not get parliamentary scrutiny raises a red flag, Althia Raj writes.
www.thestar.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is the opposite of what we need 😩 innovation, competition, and economic growth can happen within the confines of stopping climate change for crying out loud!!!
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Whenever I see a creator getting piled on for using (or being suspected of using) AI, all I can think about is how we're willfully making the destruction of our industry as painless and convenient as possible for billionaires and VC firms.
My literal 14 year old niece has complained about people demanding to know if her art is AI.
At some point people need to stop and take stock of the harm they are doing by pointing fingers without reasonable proof.
At some point people need to stop and take stock of the harm they are doing by pointing fingers without reasonable proof.
If you consistently ask artists if their work is generative AI, you're actually being more discouraging than generative AI is.
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Whenever I see a creator getting piled on for using (or being suspected of using) AI, all I can think about is how we're willfully making the destruction of our industry as painless and convenient as possible for billionaires and VC firms.
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City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
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When you post your #SpotifyWrapped, you’re not just doing free advertising for a company that exploits artists, recruits for ICE, and invests in AI war machines.
You’re actively celebrating the fact that you’re being surveilled and participating in your own surveillance.
Maybe … don’t do that?
You’re actively celebrating the fact that you’re being surveilled and participating in your own surveillance.
Maybe … don’t do that?
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When you post your #SpotifyWrapped, you’re not just doing free advertising for a company that exploits artists, recruits for ICE, and invests in AI war machines.
You’re actively celebrating the fact that you’re being surveilled and participating in your own surveillance.
Maybe … don’t do that?
You’re actively celebrating the fact that you’re being surveilled and participating in your own surveillance.
Maybe … don’t do that?
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Do you put your sleep playlist on around the same time every night except the night there was a late night civil disobedience action in your town? Gotcha.
Do you listen to kids music for the same 15 minutes every day? I know when you take your kids to school.
Breakup playlist? I can assume…
Do you listen to kids music for the same 15 minutes every day? I know when you take your kids to school.
Breakup playlist? I can assume…
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Do you put your sleep playlist on around the same time every night except the night there was a late night civil disobedience action in your town? Gotcha.
Do you listen to kids music for the same 15 minutes every day? I know when you take your kids to school.
Breakup playlist? I can assume…
Do you listen to kids music for the same 15 minutes every day? I know when you take your kids to school.
Breakup playlist? I can assume…
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When I say Spotify is Surveillance, I don’t just mean it’s creepy that they are tracking what music you listen to and using that data to serve ads.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When I say Spotify is Surveillance, I don’t just mean it’s creepy that they are tracking what music you listen to and using that data to serve ads.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
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Ok, but: Smith and Ford are both trying to limit health care in direct or indirect ways, UPC’s have brought up abortion bans, and both premiers absolutely refuse to protect the earth.
We aren’t better, Canada. We are also failing to make our governments work for us and not megacorps.
We aren’t better, Canada. We are also failing to make our governments work for us and not megacorps.
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Ok, but: Smith and Ford are both trying to limit health care in direct or indirect ways, UPC’s have brought up abortion bans, and both premiers absolutely refuse to protect the earth.
We aren’t better, Canada. We are also failing to make our governments work for us and not megacorps.
We aren’t better, Canada. We are also failing to make our governments work for us and not megacorps.
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If you want people to spend more, pay them more.
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you want people to spend more, pay them more.
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Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' and says the execs pushing it aren't 'fully-rounded humans'
Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' and says the execs pushing it aren't 'fully-rounded humans'
Dan Houser probably won't be asking ChatGPT for help with his next game.
www.pcgamer.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' and says the execs pushing it aren't 'fully-rounded humans'
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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It’s tree time. (We were passing by on our way home 🤣) #ldnont #ldnontbike
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It’s tree time. (We were passing by on our way home 🤣) #ldnont #ldnontbike
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Unrelated to anything right now, I’m happy to report that I discovered MUCH bike parking at the newly refurbished plaza at NE corner of Baseline and Wellington #ldnont #ldnontbike. Not perfect, but plentiful. One wave rack was even installed correctly to allow bikes on both sides!!
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Unrelated to anything right now, I’m happy to report that I discovered MUCH bike parking at the newly refurbished plaza at NE corner of Baseline and Wellington #ldnont #ldnontbike. Not perfect, but plentiful. One wave rack was even installed correctly to allow bikes on both sides!!
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No it fucking won't.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
No it fucking won't.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
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I should add that that last bit is because she’s expressed a desire in getting better. But we also tell her all the time that we just enjoy her doodles. They can be enjoyed even if they aren’t “perfect”.
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I should add that that last bit is because she’s expressed a desire in getting better. But we also tell her all the time that we just enjoy her doodles. They can be enjoyed even if they aren’t “perfect”.
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Instilling this in my kid so hard.
“I’m just doodling”
“Awesome! That’s how you get better.”
“I’m just doodling”
“Awesome! That’s how you get better.”
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Instilling this in my kid so hard.
“I’m just doodling”
“Awesome! That’s how you get better.”
“I’m just doodling”
“Awesome! That’s how you get better.”
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This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
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I'm not interested in "I told you so."
A lot of people voted Liberal because they were terrified of Poilievre and his gang. I get that.
But Carney's who we got, he's being a weak leader, pushing policies that are harming the vast majority of us and it's time to just admit he sucks and push back.
A lot of people voted Liberal because they were terrified of Poilievre and his gang. I get that.
But Carney's who we got, he's being a weak leader, pushing policies that are harming the vast majority of us and it's time to just admit he sucks and push back.
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
rime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm not interested in "I told you so."
A lot of people voted Liberal because they were terrified of Poilievre and his gang. I get that.
But Carney's who we got, he's being a weak leader, pushing policies that are harming the vast majority of us and it's time to just admit he sucks and push back.
A lot of people voted Liberal because they were terrified of Poilievre and his gang. I get that.
But Carney's who we got, he's being a weak leader, pushing policies that are harming the vast majority of us and it's time to just admit he sucks and push back.
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Super cool that we've got a deal for a path towards a pipeline that's tied to a carbon capture project, as if that makes it okay
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Super cool that we've got a deal for a path towards a pipeline that's tied to a carbon capture project, as if that makes it okay
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
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Genuinely feels like there's been a coup within the Liberal party thanks to Carney and his bros.
Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.
Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.
Super cool that we've got a deal for a path towards a pipeline that's tied to a carbon capture project, as if that makes it okay
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Genuinely feels like there's been a coup within the Liberal party thanks to Carney and his bros.
Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.
Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.