Renée
@reneestephen.bsky.social
Free esprit de l'escalier.
Salty posts from a salty island.
Salty posts from a salty island.
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Classical mythology is just soap operas + time
I'm still so mad at the NDP for letting things get so bad wrt leadership, organization, and strategy -- even, when they were effective-ish, doing dental care in the worst most reversible way possible!? -- that I don't *want* to get involved federally again, yet.
But I also think I should?
But I also think I should?
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'm still so mad at the NDP for letting things get so bad wrt leadership, organization, and strategy -- even, when they were effective-ish, doing dental care in the worst most reversible way possible!? -- that I don't *want* to get involved federally again, yet.
But I also think I should?
But I also think I should?
If you aren't a subscribe to Loonie Politics I highly recommend it. Dale knocks it out of the park every time (now if only Carney was a subscriber.)
For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column on how the budget won't do any good if Carney doesn't give corporate Canada a kick in the ass to stop being lazy and just waiting for an American payday, and actually do some hard work #cdnpoli
Carney needs to be clear that we need an economic culture change - Loonie Politics
We can’t just cut more taxes or deregulate more and expect that to kickstart our struggling economy.
looniepolitics.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you aren't a subscribe to Loonie Politics I highly recommend it. Dale knocks it out of the park every time (now if only Carney was a subscriber.)
Tax breaks for companies encourage dividends and buybacks. If companies don't receive tax breaks they have an incentive to increase expenses (which lowers tax burden) by investing in improving the business, employee training, and other good things that benefit both the company and society.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Tax breaks for companies encourage dividends and buybacks. If companies don't receive tax breaks they have an incentive to increase expenses (which lowers tax burden) by investing in improving the business, employee training, and other good things that benefit both the company and society.
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I LAUGH EVERY TIME
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I LAUGH EVERY TIME
Day 6 of waking up at after 5h sleep for no reason and not being able to get back to sleep and I am... not okay. 🫤
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Day 6 of waking up at after 5h sleep for no reason and not being able to get back to sleep and I am... not okay. 🫤
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif
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What's going on with CPP Investments? #canada #cdnpoli #canadian #canadianpolitics #frankdomenic🍁
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
What's going on with CPP Investments? #canada #cdnpoli #canadian #canadianpolitics #frankdomenic🍁
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i’m a thin-skinned libertarian cryptofascist who melts down at the slightest whiff of criticism from the user base of my website. time to add a ‘dislike post’ button and take a big sip of coffee,
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i’m a thin-skinned libertarian cryptofascist who melts down at the slightest whiff of criticism from the user base of my website. time to add a ‘dislike post’ button and take a big sip of coffee,
Classical mythology is just soap operas + time
October 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Classical mythology is just soap operas + time
Working with brilliant people is such a blessing and such a curse.
Pro: I learn cool new things ALL THE TIME
Con: There are few laurals to rest on and I feel wildly inadequate A LOT. What would be a great performance anywhere else is solidly average in comparison, and sometimes that's exhausting.
Pro: I learn cool new things ALL THE TIME
Con: There are few laurals to rest on and I feel wildly inadequate A LOT. What would be a great performance anywhere else is solidly average in comparison, and sometimes that's exhausting.
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Working with brilliant people is such a blessing and such a curse.
Pro: I learn cool new things ALL THE TIME
Con: There are few laurals to rest on and I feel wildly inadequate A LOT. What would be a great performance anywhere else is solidly average in comparison, and sometimes that's exhausting.
Pro: I learn cool new things ALL THE TIME
Con: There are few laurals to rest on and I feel wildly inadequate A LOT. What would be a great performance anywhere else is solidly average in comparison, and sometimes that's exhausting.
I did a task today that requires a significant amount of waiting time after it before I can do the follow up task and this is ADHD discrimination
October 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I did a task today that requires a significant amount of waiting time after it before I can do the follow up task and this is ADHD discrimination
"Protestors are doing it wrong! You're having too much fun and sapping energy from more effective organizing!"
1. Disaffected moral superiority also saps energy.
2. Engagement is not a gas tank. It doesn't run dry eventually. Action begets action.
Shut up. Let people protest.
1. Disaffected moral superiority also saps energy.
2. Engagement is not a gas tank. It doesn't run dry eventually. Action begets action.
Shut up. Let people protest.
October 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"Protestors are doing it wrong! You're having too much fun and sapping energy from more effective organizing!"
1. Disaffected moral superiority also saps energy.
2. Engagement is not a gas tank. It doesn't run dry eventually. Action begets action.
Shut up. Let people protest.
1. Disaffected moral superiority also saps energy.
2. Engagement is not a gas tank. It doesn't run dry eventually. Action begets action.
Shut up. Let people protest.
I have a perfectly good and exciting book I could be reading right now
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I have a perfectly good and exciting book I could be reading right now
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You know how local media is getting decimated as disinformation floods in?
Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.
Check it out:
Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.
Check it out:
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You know how local media is getting decimated as disinformation floods in?
Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.
Check it out:
Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.
Check it out:
I have once again pushed it too far, and left the deck cushions on for just a day too long.
And now it's pouring.
And now it's pouring.
October 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I have once again pushed it too far, and left the deck cushions on for just a day too long.
And now it's pouring.
And now it's pouring.
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New column from me at @xtramagazine.com: The premiers violating your Charter rights don't want the courts to weigh in #canqueer #cdnpoli
The premiers violating your Charter rights don’t want the courts to weigh in | Xtra Magazine
When it comes to the Notwithstanding Clause, premiers opposed to the federal government’s factum are showing their true colours
xtramagazine.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New column from me at @xtramagazine.com: The premiers violating your Charter rights don't want the courts to weigh in #canqueer #cdnpoli
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we're not going to have a good, sustainable social media site as long as it is made or run by tech people. that is why I am building my own out of water, small rocks, moss, snails, brightly colored shrimp, one of those sucking fish, a mermaid statue. I'll be honest, this may actually be an aquarium.
October 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
we're not going to have a good, sustainable social media site as long as it is made or run by tech people. that is why I am building my own out of water, small rocks, moss, snails, brightly colored shrimp, one of those sucking fish, a mermaid statue. I'll be honest, this may actually be an aquarium.
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”The pain of being able to touch someone who is no longer there is unbearable. And when the second death comes, the death of body, there is almost a sense of relief, and along with that, of course, the shame of feeling it.“
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How to die
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October 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
”The pain of being able to touch someone who is no longer there is unbearable. And when the second death comes, the death of body, there is almost a sense of relief, and along with that, of course, the shame of feeling it.“
buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
Okay, so it was supposed to rain a bit, the first real rain of the season. But how it's full-on storming out?? I was NOT PREPARED for SURPRISE GALE.
Welp.
youtu.be/ebVNpk7wxWQ?...
Welp.
youtu.be/ebVNpk7wxWQ?...
Autumn's Here
YouTube video by Hawksley Workman - Topic
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October 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Okay, so it was supposed to rain a bit, the first real rain of the season. But how it's full-on storming out?? I was NOT PREPARED for SURPRISE GALE.
Welp.
youtu.be/ebVNpk7wxWQ?...
Welp.
youtu.be/ebVNpk7wxWQ?...
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I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
Woody Guthrie/Sonny Terry - All you fascists bound to lose
YouTube video by fulanodetal4
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September 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
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3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
I didn't get enough sleep last night so I spent all day absolutely ass-draggingly exhausted. Until the sun went down. Now I have HUMAN ZOOMIES
Why am I like this.
Why am I like this.
September 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I didn't get enough sleep last night so I spent all day absolutely ass-draggingly exhausted. Until the sun went down. Now I have HUMAN ZOOMIES
Why am I like this.
Why am I like this.
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Hey brain why did you wake us up at 6:30am for no reason? Why? Whyyyyy
September 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hey brain why did you wake us up at 6:30am for no reason? Why? Whyyyyy