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Greg Pyle
@pikewrangler.bsky.social
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Writer of words, pedaler of bikes, paddler of canoes, and walker of overgrown trails. Part-time fish whisperer. Full-time opinionist. Recovering academic scientist. 🇨🇦
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Cheers from Thunder Bay, a Canadian town whee I saw your post.
September 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Land of the free, and the home of the brave. Lol!
Cartoon of an American military tank, where the first soldier asks, “What’s our mission? Terrorists? Isis? Cartel members? Russia? China?” The other replies, “Los Angeles garment workers, busboys, maids, kitchen staff, and handymen.”
June 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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"As Thomas Jefferson said, information is the foundation of democracy. He meant factual information." --Richard Stengel, Information Wars
June 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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There’s something profound about an ancient philosopher reflecting on the fleeting nature of time.
May 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Good luck, Alberta. Let me know if you need help packing.
Map of Alberta showing that the vast majority of the province is Treaty land, unavailable to Smith’s silly secessionist ambitions.
May 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Dated, but still relevant.
An infographic entitled, “Alberta Separation for Dummies”
April 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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At that discount, I hope they recouped the cost of the sale sticker!
Item tag in a department store listing a fondue plate at its normal price of $7.99, which has a red sticker beside it listing it on sale for $7.98. What a deal!
April 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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"It takes trickery to win popular approval; and you must make yourself like unto them; they will withhold their approval if they do not recognise you as one of themselves. However, what you think of yourself is much more to the point than what others think of you. The favour of ignoble men can be won only by ignoble means." (Lucius Annaeus Seneca and A to Z Classics, Seneca's Letters From a Stoic)
April 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Political cartoons are one of the most underappreciated art forms.
Forest Trump sitting on a park bench with a box of chocolates on his lap. Speech bubble says, "Tariff threats are like a box of chocolates. Your trading partners never know what they're going to get."
April 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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It doesn’t feel like spring out there.
A view from an ice spackled window overlooking a driveway with two cars enduring a blustery snowstorm.
April 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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From fascism expert and soon-to-be University of Toronto professor Jason Stanley. 🇨🇦
"Fascist politicians know that their supporters will turn a blind eye to their own, true corruption since in their own case it is just a matter of members of the chosen nation taking what is rightfully theirs." (Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works)
March 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The federal 🇨🇦 election has been called. Beware of scams.

www.canadianresearchinsightscouncil.ca/alert-erg-na...
Screenshot of an unsolicited text message asking for a response indicating voter intention in the upcoming Canadian federal election.
March 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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"What happens when conspiracy theories become the coin of politics, and mainstream media and educational institutions are discredited, is that citizens no longer have a common reality that can serve as background for democratic deliberation." (Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works)
March 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Enjoying some good curling at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Nova Scotia is leading Alberta in the fifth; 4-2.
February 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Accelerationism. Sounds about right.
"AMERICA’S EXTREMISTS TODAY subscribe to an idea known as accelerationism: the apocalyptic belief that modern society is irredeemable and that its end must be hastened, so that a new order can be brought into being." (Barbara F. Walter;, How Civil Wars Start)
February 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Everything old is new again.
"I think that the reasoning of Posidonius is better: he holds that riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on so that they are ready to do evil." (Lucius Annaeus Seneca and A to Z Classics, Seneca's Letters From a Stoic)
January 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Not all political discourse has to be rude, vile, and hate-inducing. Here's Elizabeth May showing how it can, and should, be done.

#cdnpoli
January 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Amsterdam
A paid parking lot, including a kiosk, occupying the space of about four or five regular car parking spots, about half full with dozens of bicycles.
December 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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December 30, 2024 at 6:04 AM
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“MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”

Lol!

Nothing like a good old evangelical Christmas message, straight from their messiah’s fingertips.
December 25, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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Just started reading "Small Things Like These," by Claire Keegan.

Sometimes I love books just for the beauty of the writing. This is one of those books. 💙📚

#Reading
#AmReading
Book cover for "Small Things Like These," including insets that say "Winner of the Orwell Prize" and shortlisted for "The Booker Prize."
April 11, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Happy #NationalPetDay.

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." - Roger Caras
Black dog with a red collar, shown from the side, posing for the camera, standing on smoothed boulders amidst tufts of low, leafless scrub brush.
April 11, 2024 at 5:35 PM