Philip Koop 🇨🇦
@philkoop.bsky.social
Computer programming / financial risk management.
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Ukrainian infantry fighting house-to-house or in trenches against 3 or 4 or 5:1 odds is fragile and risky
Going to school in a Ukrainian playground is fragile and risky
Traveling to Europe on Zelenskyy's plane is fragile and risky
Going to school in a Ukrainian playground is fragile and risky
Traveling to Europe on Zelenskyy's plane is fragile and risky
Reparations loan is 'very fragile' and risky, Euroclear warns
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/6n0M
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/6n0M
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Ukrainian infantry fighting house-to-house or in trenches against 3 or 4 or 5:1 odds is fragile and risky
Going to school in a Ukrainian playground is fragile and risky
Traveling to Europe on Zelenskyy's plane is fragile and risky
Going to school in a Ukrainian playground is fragile and risky
Traveling to Europe on Zelenskyy's plane is fragile and risky
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National service for capitalism. Amongst our weapons: fear, surprise, and the "cold shoulder".
Friday 'stack, on viral governance and the anti-Gresham's Law backofmind.substack.com/p/the-cold-s...
the cold shoulder
viral compliance and trust
backofmind.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
National service for capitalism. Amongst our weapons: fear, surprise, and the "cold shoulder".
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The Ford government is just malevolently stupid. Making up a rule that only medical students who went to high school in Ontario get priority placements is just so relentlessly dumb and drives away the future doctors we need.
Ontario judge grants international medical school grads a temporary lifeline
Ontario judge extends applications for grads who would have been excluded from first round of matching for residency under a controversial new rule.
www.thestar.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The Ford government is just malevolently stupid. Making up a rule that only medical students who went to high school in Ontario get priority placements is just so relentlessly dumb and drives away the future doctors we need.
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The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
Much like the rest of her writing, really.
Miller is asking the most important questions about her misconduct and her answers are all completely incoherent non-sequiturs, like she can't even understand why anybody would have a problem with this
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Much like the rest of her writing, really.
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𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘬, by Marian Kamensky
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘬, by Marian Kamensky
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My friend works on a Great Lakes freighter and was born just hours after the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. He wrote something about it on his site (where he often writes about life on the big freshwater lakers).
The Mighty Fitz & Me -
“The lake [Superior] is huge and cold and blue and treacherous. It can sink freighters, drown people. In a wind the waves roll in with the crash of oceans.” Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye Approximately...
www.nicktabone.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My friend works on a Great Lakes freighter and was born just hours after the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. He wrote something about it on his site (where he often writes about life on the big freshwater lakers).
But wait, the Venetian patrician also only had to visit five shops? Or have his slave visit five shops, whatever, you know what I mean.
there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
But wait, the Venetian patrician also only had to visit five shops? Or have his slave visit five shops, whatever, you know what I mean.
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i don't think it's a surprise that the guru of the modern Quebec nationalist movement is referred to by French media as "Eric Zemmour with a human face"
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
i don't think it's a surprise that the guru of the modern Quebec nationalist movement is referred to by French media as "Eric Zemmour with a human face"
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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The Americans elected a megalomaniac with a planet-sized ego and the emotional regulation of a toddler. **Everything we do**, short of total submission to an ever-shifting set of rules, might upset the Americans, so we should do the stuff that allows us to sleep at night.
Canada always worried about what "might upset the Americans", when it needs to be worried about what "might encourage the Americans".
I’m just saying it would be neat if the leadership of a country of 40 million had more of a sense of their own independence than that of a mid-tier American university.
December 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The Americans elected a megalomaniac with a planet-sized ego and the emotional regulation of a toddler. **Everything we do**, short of total submission to an ever-shifting set of rules, might upset the Americans, so we should do the stuff that allows us to sleep at night.
When u campaign on elbows up and govern on pants down
Hard to overstate the extent to which this is not what anyone voted for
Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.
A leaked briefing document gives the full picture behind the government’s talking points.
www.readthemaple.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
When u campaign on elbows up and govern on pants down
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They're not conservative. They have no consistent judicial philosophy. They're simply partisans. The only check on their rabid loyalty to the Republican party is their commitment to outright plutocracy.
This is really important. The problem with the Roberts Court is not that they are conservative. It's that they are bad judges.
It's not just liberal judges they're doing this to. They're doing this to plenty of conservative judges too; judges who actually spent weeks and weeks poring over the details and with their arms deep in the guts of thousands of pages of documents and days of testimony.
Those judges are pissed.
Those judges are pissed.
December 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
They're not conservative. They have no consistent judicial philosophy. They're simply partisans. The only check on their rabid loyalty to the Republican party is their commitment to outright plutocracy.
Cheeseburger and beer, the old reward trick.
Anyway, "the statue of limitations" is perfectly legitimate, it's a character in Don Giovanni.
Anyway, "the statue of limitations" is perfectly legitimate, it's a character in Don Giovanni.
Lunch break at 2pm after completing day 6 of 8 of reading aloud the page proofs of my book with a friend. My brain has liquified. Typical typos caught today: Untied States, statue instead of statute.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Cheeseburger and beer, the old reward trick.
Anyway, "the statue of limitations" is perfectly legitimate, it's a character in Don Giovanni.
Anyway, "the statue of limitations" is perfectly legitimate, it's a character in Don Giovanni.
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from my FB feed
December 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
from my FB feed
Conservative elites always assume that class trumps ideology, and maybe it does; but misogyny trumps class.
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Conservative elites always assume that class trumps ideology, and maybe it does; but misogyny trumps class.
Have you ever been experienced?
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Have you ever been experienced?
Don't burn your floors before you double -cross them.
Seven new AHS CEOs have been fired and replaced by seven others who have also been fired. Recall petitions have been issued against all MLAs, as well as several non-MLAs. The Notwithstanding Clause has been used to overturn Santa. Every MLA has crossed the floor twice.
Welcome to #ableg.
Welcome to #ableg.
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Don't burn your floors before you double -cross them.
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Seven new AHS CEOs have been fired and replaced by seven others who have also been fired. Recall petitions have been issued against all MLAs, as well as several non-MLAs. The Notwithstanding Clause has been used to overturn Santa. Every MLA has crossed the floor twice.
Welcome to #ableg.
Welcome to #ableg.
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Seven new AHS CEOs have been fired and replaced by seven others who have also been fired. Recall petitions have been issued against all MLAs, as well as several non-MLAs. The Notwithstanding Clause has been used to overturn Santa. Every MLA has crossed the floor twice.
Welcome to #ableg.
Welcome to #ableg.
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The BC Conservative Party just announced they have removed John Rustad as their party leader.
Comes hours after Rustad said he was staying on despite 20 MLAs calling for his removal, arguing there was no mechanism for the party to turf him as leader after winning his leadership review.
Comes hours after Rustad said he was staying on despite 20 MLAs calling for his removal, arguing there was no mechanism for the party to turf him as leader after winning his leadership review.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The BC Conservative Party just announced they have removed John Rustad as their party leader.
Comes hours after Rustad said he was staying on despite 20 MLAs calling for his removal, arguing there was no mechanism for the party to turf him as leader after winning his leadership review.
Comes hours after Rustad said he was staying on despite 20 MLAs calling for his removal, arguing there was no mechanism for the party to turf him as leader after winning his leadership review.
Historically, ambitious Canadians have tended to become Americans and this applies just as much to grifters as to persons of talent. Perhaps more so.
Thinking about Olivia Nuzzi, there've been a bunch of people like her (any gender) that kinda rose up over the years in the media life. Can imagine a continued trajectory like hers, but in Canada there's not much $ to be made doing so they disappear into other things, occasionally popping up again.
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Historically, ambitious Canadians have tended to become Americans and this applies just as much to grifters as to persons of talent. Perhaps more so.
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The Pardon is a relic of the kingly past & needs to be Amendment-ed away.
December 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Pardon is a relic of the kingly past & needs to be Amendment-ed away.
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The United States and Canada have some unbelievably beautiful national parks, and if you want to visit them as an international tourist next year, one country will charge you extra, while the other will offer free admission.
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The United States and Canada have some unbelievably beautiful national parks, and if you want to visit them as an international tourist next year, one country will charge you extra, while the other will offer free admission.