Don Macfarlane
@revmod.bsky.social
p.s. I am not a crackpot
he/him, Treaty Six territory
he/him, Treaty Six territory
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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Yep, here's your problem
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
gizmodo.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Yep, here's your problem
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
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Feels like when I went to work it was Fall and when I got home it was Winter. Which given it is November 18 in Calgary I can live with it, but felt like a switch flipped.
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Feels like when I went to work it was Fall and when I got home it was Winter. Which given it is November 18 in Calgary I can live with it, but felt like a switch flipped.
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Oh no. If this goes through it might become morally and socially unacceptable to watch Harry Potter.
Paramount Bid for WB Discovery Backed by Saudis, Qatar and Abu Dhabi
https://www.fxoxo.com/239531/
Paramount Bid for WB Discovery Backed by Saudis, Qatar and Abu Dhabi by NoCulture3505
https://www.fxoxo.com/239531/
Paramount Bid for WB Discovery Backed by Saudis, Qatar and Abu Dhabi by NoCulture3505
Paramount Bid for WB Discovery Backed by Saudis, Qatar and Abu Dhabi
Paramount Bid for WB Discovery Backed by Saudis, Qatar and Abu Dhabiby NoCulture3505
www.fxoxo.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Oh no. If this goes through it might become morally and socially unacceptable to watch Harry Potter.
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In retrospect it’s pretty fucking terrible for my mental health that the sun starts setting at 4 pm every year right when the baseball season ends.
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
In retrospect it’s pretty fucking terrible for my mental health that the sun starts setting at 4 pm every year right when the baseball season ends.
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Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on trio of transgender laws
The Alberta government has invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause for the second time in less than a month in this case to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.
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@naheednenshi.bsky.social, leader of the Alberta NDP, condemns the government's use of the notwithstanding clause in Bill 9.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
@naheednenshi.bsky.social, leader of the Alberta NDP, condemns the government's use of the notwithstanding clause in Bill 9.
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The UCP has invoked the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively. Again. This time to strip the Charter rights of trans children and adults.
This is sadly and entirely predictable from a populist government bent on removing checks on its power. 🧵
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/populism-f...
This is sadly and entirely predictable from a populist government bent on removing checks on its power. 🧵
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/populism-f...
Populism, freedom, and democracy in Alberta (and beyond)
Lessons from my grade fiver's homework assignment
drjaredwesley.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The UCP has invoked the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively. Again. This time to strip the Charter rights of trans children and adults.
This is sadly and entirely predictable from a populist government bent on removing checks on its power. 🧵
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/populism-f...
This is sadly and entirely predictable from a populist government bent on removing checks on its power. 🧵
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/populism-f...
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Jamal Khashoggi was a WaPo columnist when he was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at the direction of the Saudi government. The entire world condemned it, except Trump. This wasn’t “things happen.” It was a state-sanctioned assassination for exercising free speech.
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Jamal Khashoggi was a WaPo columnist when he was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at the direction of the Saudi government. The entire world condemned it, except Trump. This wasn’t “things happen.” It was a state-sanctioned assassination for exercising free speech.
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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While Canadian politicians are still caught up in their AI love affair, panic is rippling through the industry.
Tech expert @scanthehorizon.bsky.social writes that the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canadians.
breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-ma...
Tech expert @scanthehorizon.bsky.social writes that the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canadians.
breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-ma...
The AI bubble may be about to burst. Mark Carney must not bail out its Tech Barons ⋆ The Breach
While billionaires bet against the hyped up multi-trillion-dollar AI market, Canada’s government is doubling down
breachmedia.ca
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
While Canadian politicians are still caught up in their AI love affair, panic is rippling through the industry.
Tech expert @scanthehorizon.bsky.social writes that the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canadians.
breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-ma...
Tech expert @scanthehorizon.bsky.social writes that the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canadians.
breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-ma...
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Yeah I mean child rapists can have all kinds of jobs, maybe very big important jobs too, troubling, someone should look into that
Bovino: "How does that governor know what the criminal record is of that individual hanging Christmas lights? Oftentimes these so-called 'hard workers' have significant criminal histories such as child rape. Does Gov. Stein want those individuals in his house next to his family?"
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Yeah I mean child rapists can have all kinds of jobs, maybe very big important jobs too, troubling, someone should look into that
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When is it going to be enough, America?
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
When is it going to be enough, America?
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🚨 Kudos to Mary Bruce from ABC News for having the guts to ask the porcine POTUS about his family profiteering from his presidency & asking Saudi crown prince about orchestrating the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. 👏
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🚨 Kudos to Mary Bruce from ABC News for having the guts to ask the porcine POTUS about his family profiteering from his presidency & asking Saudi crown prince about orchestrating the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. 👏
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ESPN picking this guy and Stephen A as their official representatives to the rest of the world is a choice indeed
It's astounding how consistent this is:
Every photo of Pat McAfee makes him look like the only guy in the movie theater who doesn't understand the big plot twist
Every photo of Pat McAfee makes him look like the only guy in the movie theater who doesn't understand the big plot twist
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
ESPN picking this guy and Stephen A as their official representatives to the rest of the world is a choice indeed
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pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
88 Days: The Unraveling of Claudine Gay’s Harvard Presidency | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned on Jan. 2, ending her tenure as the University's 30th president after it was clear the Harvard Corporation lost confidence in Gay's ability to lead amid mountin...
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
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The temporary president says disgusting and hateful things for a living, so it’s quite something to see that he still has the ability to find new levels of indecency.
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The temporary president says disgusting and hateful things for a living, so it’s quite something to see that he still has the ability to find new levels of indecency.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
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Let’s see if the “personal liberties and free markets” editorial board of the Washington Post will actually take Trump to task over his comments excusing the murder of one its own columnists.
Given that they’ve purged me and all their opinion writers who actually care about human rights.
Given that they’ve purged me and all their opinion writers who actually care about human rights.
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Let’s see if the “personal liberties and free markets” editorial board of the Washington Post will actually take Trump to task over his comments excusing the murder of one its own columnists.
Given that they’ve purged me and all their opinion writers who actually care about human rights.
Given that they’ve purged me and all their opinion writers who actually care about human rights.
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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Bingo.
And imagine the Democratic politician who said this did so as he sat next to the podcaster's assassin whom he reminded everyone was his close personal friend
And imagine the Democratic politician who said this did so as he sat next to the podcaster's assassin whom he reminded everyone was his close personal friend
Imagine if a Democratic politician said “a lot of people didn’t like him” with respect to that assassinated podcaster. Seriously.
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Bingo.
And imagine the Democratic politician who said this did so as he sat next to the podcaster's assassin whom he reminded everyone was his close personal friend
And imagine the Democratic politician who said this did so as he sat next to the podcaster's assassin whom he reminded everyone was his close personal friend
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just a bottomless pit of monstrous sentiment. a void of a human being. we are all fouled for even listening to him once
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
just a bottomless pit of monstrous sentiment. a void of a human being. we are all fouled for even listening to him once
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me