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Nick Heer
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Canada’s NDP is fundraising on the backs of a U.S. mayoral win.
Screenshot of an email from the NDP, the text of which reads: Zohran's historic win in New York is a win for everyone who's hungry for politics with substance and courage. His victory is part of a pattern: movements built on big, practical, popular ideas are breaking through around the world. The federal NDP can be next. Think about what he was up against: an outsider taking on the establishment, tens of millions in super PAC money, a drumbeat of "too radical, can't win." We've seen this playbook forever-powerful interests insisting that common-sense solutions are somehow fringe, while their allies in corporate media use polls and op-eds to convince people that what they're seeing with their own eyes isn't real. In New York, we even saw "polls" waved around to claim Zohran's core ideas weren't popular-at the exact moment those ideas were driving one of the biggest upsets in recent history. That's how the political establishment works: it tries to talk people out of their own lived reality.
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Look, I love @techmeme.com as much as anyone, but are we learning anything when they aggregate and link to a fringe conspiracy blog like Zero Hedge? www.techmeme.com/250917/p45#a...
Screenshot of a Zero Hedge article entitled "There's Something Odd About Meta's New Ray-Ban AR Glasses…" containing a bizarre theory about how oversized black-rimmed glasses are a "status symbol within the Democratic Party".
September 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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No, thanks.
Screenshot of the Wall Street Journal offering “a visual breakdown of the Trump birthday letter to Epstein”.
September 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Minolta XD-7, Minolta 50mm f1.7 and Tokina 100–300mm f5.6
Cinestill 800T
Develop, scan, and processing by Neat Film Lab
A photo of Calgary’s Chinatown at dusk with lanterns hanging above buildings with glowing windows. A photo of Air Force One in flight, preparing to land, as it passes over a Canadian flag on a building A photo of the Calgary Stampede midway attractions as the sun sets behind the high-rise buildings in the background. A tranquil photo of people rafting a small river at sunset.
September 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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How about the murders though?
Screenshot of this segment of the quoted article: A North Korean boat appeared out of the dark. Flashlights from the bow swept over the water. Fearing that they had been spotted, the SEALs opened fire. Within seconds, everyone on the North Korean boat was dead. The SEALs retreated into the sea without planting the listening device. The 2019 operation has never been publicly acknowledged, or even hinted at, by the United States or North Korea. The details remain classified and are being reported here for the first time. The Trump administration did not notify key members of Congress who oversee intelligence operations, before or after the mission. The lack of notification may have violated the law. The White House declined to comment.
September 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Screenshot of a Maureen Dowd column in the New York Times, headlined “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk”
September 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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It is very weird to me that blackletter continues to have Nazi connotations when it was banned by them, not chosen as the “official font”.

(I just really like blackletter, okay?)
Screenshot of a post by Matt Novak containing an embedded video with blackletter text reading “Save America”. Novak’s post says “I’m sure the typeface at the end there isn’t meant to evoke anything Nazi-like. Screenshot of replies reading, in part: “Fraktur-style typeface so commonplace in [Nazi] period propaganda... Purely coincidental choice, for sure, yeah right...” And “It was the official font of Nazi Germany. Legally.”
August 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I disagree. In the current fiscal year, the City of Calgary has budgeted $204 million on “streets” (maintenance, except on two provincial roads) and $59 million on “sidewalks and pathways”. Yet according to the Sprawl article, only 2% of commuters cycle. On a usable basis, that would be a cut.
July 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Is that because he wants to do the bullshitting himself?
Screenshot of the attached article, reading: Musk felt Yaccarino was not being fully transparent about the company's status with advertisers, and put a gloss on reality. He wanted her to more quickly restore the business to financial health. "He did not dig her style as a shiny, flashy Madison Avenue executive," said one person who worked with them both. "He wants to have an authentic conversation and not be bullshitted." The last sentence is highlighted.
July 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Given CNN’s current coverage, we are days away from graphics like these.
June 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Truly one of the dumbest mainstream commentators. That people take him seriously is astonishing to me. Can’t even follow his own advice of being unable to write coherently about immigration and so he may as well shut up.
Screenshot of pinned (!) Matt Yglesias tweet from five days ago (!) reading "Self-criticism corner: By suggesting it is bad to increase the salience of immigration, I have generated meta-discourse that has only further increased the salience. No more posts about this from me ever!" Screenshot of Matt Yglesias tweet from today (!) reading: "I am sort of open to the idea that we should be a country with a national ID card system and a rule that you're expected to have your papers on you at all times in case your citizenship is challenged. But if that's what conservatives want, we need to create the card."
April 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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It turns out this needs to have the cadence and format of an idiom to work. I tried with seven random words and it didn’t. Anyway, here is my contribution.
Screenshot of a Google AI summary reading: "The saying "two beavers in the pants are better than one in a trench coat" is a humorous, slangy way of suggesting that having two people of the same sex in a relationship is better than being single, or potentially better than being with someone you don't find as appealing. It's a playful, lighthearted expression, and the "beavers" and "trench coat" imagery are used in a non-literal, suggestive way."
April 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I’m guessing this works like the bat signal for Derek Guy.
Screenshot of a photo of Nayib Bukele, zoomed to show his pants floating above his shoes.
April 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Veering quickly into “dear leader” territory with stuff like this. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/a...
Screenshot from the linked article: “Asked about the anecdote, Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, did not directly address it but said that the president "is a virtuoso and his musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when others often paint in pale pastels."”
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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It’s writing like this that makes me very happy I subscribe and also horrified and a bit sick.
February 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Why does anyone live here?
Screenshot of Carrot weather app showing weekly forecast going from 12°C to –26°C.
January 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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A different way to say "not completely wrong" in this context is "entirely correct". https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/heinz-ketchup-usa-bottles-1.7444163
Screenshot of a CBC News article showing the following text: “Last week, Trudeau urged consumers to seek out Canadian-made products to avoid U.S. imports. "The example from last time was Heinz's ketchup being replaced by French's ketchup because French's was still using Canadian tomatoes in its ketchup," he said. While Trudeau's statement was not completely wrong — it is true that Kraft Heinz was not making ketchup in Canada from 2015 to 2020, and he was speaking about the past - the company said it was misleading, since it has moved its production back to Canada.”
January 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Monogram's Finca Milan is nuts. If you like bright and fruity coffees and can obtain this, I highly recommend it. The watermelon flavour is so pronounced it tastes almost impossible.
Photo of a lilac-coloured bag of coffee. The label reads “Monogram, Finca Milan. FLAVOURS: Watermelon, Strawberry, Hibiscus ORIGIN: Pereira, Colombia VARIETY: Caturra PROCESS: Anaerobic Nitrogen Fermentation”
January 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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What's the actual reason Meta is moving U.S. moderators to Texas?
Screenshot of a Threads post by Mark Zuckerberg, reading: “5/ Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.”
January 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Is his whole thing being *so close* to getting it but always whiffing?
Screenshot of a Matt Yglesias quote: “I thought Joe Biden was going to prove his doubters wrong at the big debate. I know that ever since that humiliation the whole world thinks the entire media was in on a massive coverup, but the fact is many of us (and seemingly many members of his team) genuinely thought the situation was better than it was. In a lot of ways it's more embarrassing to have been gullible and wrong when so many people with no sources and no inside info could see it clearly, but that's what happened - I was just wrong about one of the big questions of the year.”
January 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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New favourite Amazon product genre: “Certainly! Here".
Screenshot of an Amazon page with a product titled "Certainly! Here's a sample breakdown of potential contents for the cookbook: Palate Poetry: Epicurean Elixirs and Culinary Chronicles Kindle Edition" Screenshot of an Amazon page with a product titled "Certainly! Here's a short introduction for your kids' book about jokes:: Here are ten knock-knock bunny jokes for kids aged 4-8: Kindle Edition" Screenshot of an Amazon page with a product titled "Certainly! Here's a Revised Title for The Product: Versatile Handwoven Basket for Shopping, Picnics, Pets, and More!" Screenshot of an Amazon page with a product titled "Certainly! Here are 10 jokes about friends for you: Kindle Edition"
December 13, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Correction: I looked at OpenTable this morning and Siri hallucinated from that a reservation I did not make, and suggested I add it to my calendar — which I did not see because I use Fantastical — and then suggested I mute notifications. My phone is haunted.
Screenshot of the calendar application showing a suggested event I did not create.
December 5, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Siri Suggestions on my iPhone full-on hallucinated an event. I don't think this is under the Apple Intelligence umbrella, but no such reservation exists. I was looking at OpenTable earlier on my Mac's web browser, and maybe that triggered something? Bizarre.
Screenshot of a Siri Suggestion notification to turn on Do Not Disturb until the end of my non-existent reservation at Bar Gigi at 8:30 in the morning.
December 5, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Did you lose your rutabaga in Calgary today?
A photo of a (very large!) rutabaga sitting on a park wall.
December 5, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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Oh? Not what you expected from a no-bullshit, non-politician!!
The New York Times: “Trump Disavowed Project 2025 During the Campaign. Not Anymore.”
November 30, 2024 at 12:56 AM